Since Wang Bin stationed the two patrol battalions in Xinmin Mansion, Wang Bin was thinking that now that the patrol battalion has arrived in Xinmin Mansion, he should not let himself be in charge of all the consumption during the stationing period!

You must know that you have these four patrol battalions but they are all military salaries issued by the small treasury that you have been using, and these four patrol battalions eat, drink, and Lazar, plus some daily consumption and monthly military salaries, which is a big burden for Wang Bin.

In a single month, he had to pay seven or eight thousand taels of silver, and although it was said that there were money from the arms deal with Japan and Russia, some of these funds were to be invested in the arsenal, as well as the yarn factory and the ash yard under his own name, and he had recently been replacing all the roads around Jinzhou with cement roads, which was a big expense.

In the past, when the cement road was not built, it could still be supported, but after the cement road began to be built, it had begun to make ends meet, and seeing the silver in the small treasury slowly decreasing, Wang Bin's heart was also a little painful.

Although the money in the small treasury can still withstand consumption, but it is always consumed, but there is no additional input, and one day this small treasury will be consumed, so Wang Bin has to find a way to add some additional funds.

As for now, there are exactly two battalions of patrol battalions in Xinmin Mansion, so it is better to let Zengqi be responsible for the daily consumption of these two patrol battalions.

In other aspects, it is better to play the upper way, and maybe the imperial court will subsidize some as appropriate.

In this way, it will be able to make up for the shortfall in monthly consumption more or less.

So after making up his mind, Wang Bin asked Yu Zhu to express this intention after leading the troops to Xinmin Mansion.

As for other aspects, Wang Bin is on a setback, in short, he said that after the formation of the fifth town, he reorganized four patrol battalions, but he suffered from no funds, so he hoped that the imperial court could subsidize some military spending.

As soon as this piece of music was handed to the capital, it reached Yuan Shikai's hands, and Yuan Shikai was discussing this matter in the capital at this moment.

"Ladies and gentlemen, what do you want to say after reading this recital?"

Yuan Shikai said to the few Beiyang bigwigs sitting below.

Yuan Shikai revealed a trace of dissatisfaction in his words, in fact, Yuan Shikai could decide the matter of paying Wang Bin's military salary alone, but this time he called a few of them over, and he was a little dissatisfied at first glance.

Why did Wang Bin still be able to train four patrol battalions when he was training the Fifth Town, and Duan Qirui and the others still had a certain gap in making up for the soldiers under them, not to mention the formation and training of additional new troops.

Since the expansion of the Beiyang Army, Wang Bin's expansion speed is the fastest, the establishment of the fifth town only took one or two months to complete, and the more important thing is the reorganization of the patrol battalion, Wang Bin did not ask Yuan Shikai for a penny, this time it was really because he could not bear the military expenses to ask Yuan Shikai for some military salaries.

Relatively compared with other towns, the training speed is far inferior to Wang Bin, you must know that the military expenditure of this training is the same amount in each town, but the speed of the army is far inferior to Wang Bin, which caused Yuan Shikai to be dissatisfied.

Duan Qirui and the others below naturally heard some of Yuan Shikai's dissatisfaction.

But Yuan Shikai didn't say anything bad, after all, many bigwigs in Beiyang now know that military training has always been Wang Bin's strength, and in the entire Beiyang body, Wang Bin said that his training is the second, and absolutely no one dares to grab the first!

It can be said that the reason why Wang Bin's speed of training troops is so fast is that on the one hand, he has the ability to train troops first-hand, and the other point is that Wang Bin's reputation in the territory of Jinzhou is also very good.

After Yuan Shikai expressed his dissatisfaction, he continued to speak: "Now that Wang Bin has trained these four additional patrol battalions in Jinzhou, there is naturally great pressure on the expenditure of military spending, you have all seen this setback, how to say that there are more than 2,000 people in these four patrol battalions, and the military salary allocated to the fifth town every month alone is not enough, so how can you solve the problem of military spending?" ”

As soon as Yuan Shikai's sentence came out, the following bigwigs knew that the adults had decided to allocate funds for the four patrol battalions under Wang Bin, and they also supported Wang Bin's army expansion, after all, Wang Bin still had the position of the Minister of Military Training outside the Guan, so no one would say anything about this Wang Bin's training of additional troops outside the Guan.

In fact, the most important thing is that Yuan Shikai believes that although this patrol battalion does not belong to the Beiyang system, but belongs to the army under Wang Bin, the minister of military training outside the Guan, but in Yuan Shikai's opinion, as long as this patrol battalion is controlled by Wang Bin, it is the system of Beiyang.

That's why he had the idea of allocating military funds to these four patrol battalions, if these four patrol battalions did not belong to Wang Bin, the ghost would be so kind to allocate military funds.

After Yuan Shikai finished speaking, Wang Shizhen was the first to speak: "My lord, this thin military expenditure department agrees, but this can't let us allocate military expenses!" You must know that these four patrol battalions are responsible for suppressing the border of western Liaoning, and this Shengjing General Zengqi should also say that he can't always let us pay for this military expenditure. ”

Wang Shizhen's words also have some truth, these four patrol battalions were originally organized and trained by Wang Bin out of the pressure of Liaoxi, and it should be interesting to say what he said about the money increase, but the money in Beiyang still has to support the Beiyang army, once the patrol battalion under Wang Bin gets more money, it means that his military expenses will be less, and this is a matter of self-interest, which must not be so-so.

After Wang Shizhen finished speaking, Duan Qirui on the side also said: "Yes, my lord, this appropriation is agreed, but it can't be allocated too much, our annual military spending in Beiyang is also limited, and I am afraid that some people will have opinions." ”

Duan Qirui's words also spoke the hearts of other bigwigs, this military budget was originally fixed, and the military expenses of each town were basically the same, and now they have to deduct a little more, and anyone will feel a little uncomfortable.

For the words of Duan Qirui and others, Yuan Shikai had already expected it, but in fact, he himself was not prepared to allocate too much military spending to Wang Bin.

The main reason is that since Wang Bin has already handed over the fold, if his friend has nothing to say, he always feels that he deliberately does not want to allocate this military expenditure.

So Yuan Shikai said after Duan Qirui finished speaking: "Although this patrol battalion lacks military funds now, this official can't allocate too much, but since Wang Bin has already handed over the fold, it will always make people feel chilling if they don't approve some of them." ”

"In this way, this officer will allocate an additional three thousand taels of military expenditure allocated to us from the household department, and then allocate five hundred taels per town from our own military expenditure, so that five thousand taels will be enough for the expenses of the four patrol battalions."

After Yuan Shikai set the tone, no one objected anymore, anyway, he only allocated 500 taels less military expenses every month, and he and others could still afford it.

As a result, the military expenditure allocated to the patrol battalion under Wang Bin was thus determined.