Yi Kuang lived in the three eastern provinces for a while, and Song Biao personally accompanied him to Liaozhong, where Song Biao's Northeast New Army was divided into multiple ways to encircle and suppress bandits, and there happened to be a wave of bandits surrounded in the mountains, and Song Biao specially invited Yi Kuang to visit and fight.

Song Biao was not worried about revealing his strength, on the contrary, strength was the key to becoming the governor of the three eastern provinces, and Russia's recommendation and the acquiescence of other countries were secondary.

Song Biao obviously did not take the Manchu court seriously and did not support him in pursuing a new policy, and he still wanted to carry out a new policy.

After sending Prince Qing Yikuang out of Liaozhong, Song Biao returned to Shenyang to deploy the new policy, and purchased the title deed opposite the Fengtian Palace, which was later Zhang Dashuai's Mansion and nearby locations, and built the Governor's Mansion of the Three Eastern Provinces and the Political Axe Office of Fengtian Province, which was for long-term planning, and is now uniformly called the Yamen of the Governor of the Three Eastern Provinces.

In addition, he concentrated on the purchase of land in an area on the south side of the Hunhe River, that is, from Hunhebao to Yangguantun, according to his plan, he was preparing to set up a new industrial zone in this area to attract investment and attract factories.

With the capital advantage in his hand, he asked Rongxingqiao, which returned to the Kanto, to negotiate with the British foreign firm, purchase the wharf and surrounding areas of the Yingkou trade port, and also prepared to set up a new industrial zone, as a condition of the transaction, he promised to support the development of Yingkou and the trade rights of British businessmen in this place.

Song Biao hoarded enough grain in his hands, which was enough for him to stabilize the people in the Fengtian area in a short period of time, and with the transport regiments, militia brigades and horse gangs in his hands, he transported the grain to various counties and towns, and borrowed grain from the tun and village on the spot.

In the hardest-hit areas of Shenyang, Liaoyang, and Liaozhong, he also opened porridge farms to provide relief to the victims.

If he can ask the Qing Dynasty for something, he will definitely not be soft, and without saying a word, he asked the Manchu court for 100,000 quintals of grain for further relief of the victims, and sent this matter to Zhao Erxun, who had a very poor relationship with him.

Zhao Erxun is the Yin of Fengtianfu, and this matter was originally the civil affairs he should be responsible for.

Song Biao personally negotiated the terms with Grand Duke Mikhail and Commander-in-Chief Kuropatkin, and as he predicted, the Russian army was now eager to withdraw immediately to suppress the insurgency.

Whether it was Grand Duke Mikhail, Commander-in-Chief Kuropatkin, and Colonel Sheyenisky, who confirmed that he would remain in the leased area of the Liaodong Peninsula and serve as the governor of the Kwantung Prefecture, everyone trusted Song Biao very much, and was sure that Song Biao would effectively protect Russian interests in the three eastern provinces and secretly resist the infiltration of the British alliance in the three eastern provinces.

The two sides soon signed a number of agreements, some of which were overtly and covertly, with the explicit being the formal terms of the withdrawal of the army, the implicit being the four clauses promised by Russia, and the even more implicit without any paper agreement was that the surplus military supplies that Russia had seized and had been difficult to transport back to China would be disposed of at a low price to Song Biao's Northeast New Army.

Russia would still retain a cavalry brigade and an infantry regiment in Shenyang, under the name of Song Biao's Northeast New Army, with Brigadier General Brusilov as the direct commander, and in principle still under Song Biao's deployment.

Maybe it's just in principle, after all, you have to keep a hand.

Song Biao didn't care about this little problem, even if Russia kept two hands, he had a way to deal with it.

In 1905, Song Biao made all the preparations and seized the more than 4,000 bandits who had returned from the suppression of bandits in Liaozhong County, ready to enter the city at any time.

On the morning of December 12, Song Biao asked Zhao Tingzhu and others to lead the troops across the entire Shenyang City and then return to the Tanglin Wei Camp Area.

Song Biao was waiting for news from Zhao Tingzhu in the office, and suddenly saw Jiang Fangzhen coming back, he was in a very good mood, and he always felt that it was double happiness.

Jiang Fangzhen walked to the door and saluted: "Military seat, staff adjutant Jiang Fangzhen has returned from completing his mission." ”

Song Biao looked up at Jiang Fangzhen and said with a smile: "You came back just in time, come, sit down." ”

Saying this, Song Biao asked the others to go out temporarily at the same time, and even Shu Fangde didn't stay.

When the others left the office, Jiang Fangzhen took out a newspaper clipping and a stack of letters from the brown leather Russian-style map bag he was carrying, handed them to Song Biao, and then sat down and said: "This time, I have come into contact with a lot of people in Yueben, including some very radical revolutionaries, many representatives of international students, and some political leaders in Yueben. Nowadays, there is a craze for studying you, and there are often newspapers reporting on your situation, almost not even missing some details, and I have specially cut some reports with representative surnames for you to see. I heard that I am the main adjutant of staff beside you, and some dignitaries of this book have also warmly invited me to participate in various meetings, generally supporting you as the governor of the three eastern provinces, and are willing to turn hostility into friendship, and are willing to establish closer cooperation with you. The military side sent General Yoshimasa Oshima and Cabinet Minister Nakahara Keihara to send letters to you, and some revolutionaries in the Sayben also sent me to convey more letters, especially Mr. Sun Yat-sen's letters, but when I talked with him, I felt that Mr. Sun seemed to have placed too many expectations on you, and hoped to meet you in person to persuade you to support the anti-Qing revolution. ”

"Oh!"

Song Biao asked Jiang Fangzhen again: "What did Chen Tianhua say over there?" ”

Jiang Fangzhen replied: "Because of the negotiations between the Qing political axe and the Qing Dynasty, I hope that the Chinese students studying in the country will be strictly managed and prohibited from engaging in the revolutionary movement against the Qing Dynasty. The situation seemed to be very chaotic, and Chen Tianhua seemed very depressed, even pessimistic, but I persuaded him to work on our side, and he agreed, and looked for suitable candidates among the international students to run the newspaper together. ”

Song Biao nodded slightly, and said: "You wait and send an open telegram to the students in my name as soon as possible, suggesting that they unify their opinions and insist on continuing to study abroad, first of all, they must learn modern knowledge, and only in this way can they return to China to establish a new modern China." ”

Jiang Fangzhen snorted, but reminded: "Junzao, to be honest, your reputation on the side of international students is not very good." ”

Song Biao laughed and said: "No matter what, it's best to publish it directly in the newspaper of the book, they are all adults, and it is up to them to think and justify whether they are good or bad." ”

Jiang Fangzhen nodded slightly, and said: "I also gave a lot of explanations about why we had to resist the Yue army during the period, after all, they are still relatively radical Chinese people, and their ideas are not very rational, but they can still listen to our thoughts." ”

Song Biao didn't really care if these international students could understand his thoughts, so he took out these letters first, picked out Mr. Sun's letters in a circle, and read them carefully.

Sure enough, as Jiang Fangzhen said, he basically instigated Song Biao to rebel against the revolution, declaring that if Song Biao was willing to raise troops to revolution, he would be regarded as the father of the Chinese revolution and start the tide of the Chinese revolution, and everyone admired .......

After looking at it before and after, Song Biao almost didn't find too nutritious words, as for the spirit of nationality and civil rights advocated by Mr. Sun, if you listen to it too much, you will be aesthetically tired, anyway, for so many years in the Republic of China, these are just bullshit.

He could only sigh and set the letter aside.

Jiang Fangzhen said: "This gentleman has really promised a lot, and he wants to ask you to be the military commander of revolutionary China or something." ”

Song Biao said: "Let him go, the avenue is facing the sky, and each one goes." Since he wrote a letter, he still has to reply to it, you can write one for me, don't say it too badly, just say that I think construction is more important than destruction. ”

Jiang Fangzhen nodded silently.

Song Biao picked out the letters of Oshima Yoshimasa and others again, and Jiang Fangzhen translated them and read them, which was nothing more than the same thing, Jiang Fangzhen had already negotiated with the Yue Ben side, demanding that Yu Ben stop all illegal arms trade in the three eastern provinces and regions, and not support the bandits in the area.

He had agreed, at least on the surface, and was willing to continue supplying ammunition and weapons to the Northeast New Army at a relatively low price, but had offered to buy dozens of mortars.

It is said that the intelligence work in this area has always been very meticulous, and it is already known that the Russian army transferred the Changling Arsenal to Song Biao at a low price.

Song Biao didn't have the idea of selling this kind of mortar to Yue Ben, let Yue himself think about it slowly, many things seem very simple, and it will take several years of exploration to really build them.

As for the letters of the representatives of the international students, they are generally not much different from Mr. Sun, and they are all trying to encourage Song Biao to carry out the revolution.

Although after reading it, I felt that these people were all at the level of half a bottle, and they thought they understood everything if they understood a little thing, Song Biao still planned to reply to the letter one by one, suggesting that they learn more knowledge, think more deeply, and don't stop the analysis of the problem on the surface.

Due to the complicated situation on the side of the international students, and the fact that his identity had been exposed, Jiang Fangzhen was not in a hurry to establish organizations such as the Xinhua Society and the Chinese Revolutionary Party in Yueben, but he personally temporarily joined Sun Yat-sen's revolutionary organization, and had more contacts with the Liberation Society, and developed several downlines as communication channels.

The ideology of the Restoration Society is basically the same as Song Biao's concept of the Chinese Revolutionary Association, which must be contacted, Jiang Fangzhen also knows the important surnames here, and has a lot of contacts with Zhang Binglin, Cai Yuanpei and others during this period, and also sent back letters to Song Biao for the two.

Song Biao was talking to Jiang Fangzhen about these things, Shu Fangde also hurried in, he was very happy to see Jiang Fangzhen, and reported to Song Biao: "Military seat, our four infantry regiments, one cavalry regiment, one artillery regiment, and transportation brigade have officially entered the city, and more than 4,000 beards are paraded through the streets. We are the direct display of strength with clear guns, swords, and bright horses, and Zhao Erxun is estimated to be scared enough. ”

Song Biao laughed, Shu Fangde was responsible for and organizing the demonstration, all the soldiers changed into new military uniforms outside the city, and specially stepped up the training of the array on the spot in Liaozhong County, and must enter the city in an orderly manner according to Song Biao's requirements.

Song Biao's new army uniform customized in France did not arrive, otherwise, he also planned to participate in this demonstration, and gave Zhao Erxun a little color to see, if there is no diamond, don't do porcelain work, I want to have a hard fight with him Song Biao, go home and make some troops.

It is said that at the end of the Qing Dynasty, it was already a party to the governors of various places, and Song Biao was definitely the most powerful in the three eastern provinces, and the Manchu court fundamentally lost its actual control over the three eastern provinces.

After listening to Shu Fangde's report, Song Biao sat in the chair and thought for a moment, and then said to the two staff adjutants: "This is far from enough, I think that next year I will find another time, find a good opportunity, a good reason, seize Zhao Erxun's troops and fight hard, and directly overturn." Kill the chicken and show it to the monkey, so that those who don't know each other can see clearly, there is no future for following Zhao Erxun and these garrison generals, and if you do it with them, you can't get along with me, and if you can't get along with me, you will die. ”

Shu Fangde thought for a moment and asked, "Junzao, is it a little too much?" ”

Song Biao said: "Find enough reasons, if you really can't arrange it, prepare slowly, don't worry." ”

Shu Fangde agreed and said, "Okay, I'll make a little arrangement from now on, and give them a little color when the opportunity is right." ”

Song Biao smiled evilly, and continued to ponder this matter in his heart.

At this time, Xue Changqing, Zhao Tingzhu, and Zhang Yahu were leading their troops to show off their might across the entire Shenyang City, as Shu Fangde said, it was really a clear gun and a clear knife, a bright horse and a clear cannon to intimidate Zhao Erxun, and everyone in the entire Shenyang City could see it clearly, so that everyone could understand what kind of troops Song Biao's Northeast New Army was.

After two months of preparation, more than 100 machine guns, 200 artillery pieces, 6,000 Oriental horses were arranged to open the battle in front, 4,000 horses were pulled by the Don River, all soldiers changed into new military uniforms and military boots, and the bottom of the military boots was all covered with iron palms one centimeter thick, and the shiny ones were wiped in strict accordance with the requirements.

Song Biao paid 1.2 million foreign yuan for this, because it was ordered from Russia urgently, the average price of each set of military uniforms was more than 20 foreign yuan, and the most expensive cavalry dress was 60 foreign yuan per set, and there were many other expenses.

When such an army passed through the main road in Fengtian City, the sound of the neat iron palms slamming on the ground was as amazing as thunder, completely scaring Zhao Erxun and the citizens of Fengtian City.

The person leading the troops at the front was Zhao Tingzhu, wearing a blue-black senior general's uniform, riding a pure white Anglo-Arab military horse, erecting the Chashik saber in his hand, and looking straight ahead with a grim expression.

Behind him was a cavalry team of 6,000 people, all of whom were sitting with sabers in their hands, carrying rifles on their backs, and riding Anglo-Normandy Oriental horses captured from the Yue army.

Before, I just heard that the Northeast New Army was very powerful, and I said that I had hundreds of thousands of casualties all the way, but I didn't know what it really looked like, but now I have seen it, Zhao Erxun's legs and feet are weak when he looks outside the yamen of General Shengjing.

Waiting for the army to circle around half a circle and then cross through, back to the Tanglin Wei military camp, Song Biao personally presided over the triumphant return to the division, and also held a six-table banquet in the office to welcome the triumphant return of the soldiers.

There were too many bandits in Liaozhong, and the new army in the northeast directly adopted a three-sided encirclement formation to encircle the main bandit areas, forced the bandits to retreat unilaterally, and then pursued them with cavalry.

After three months of fighting, 62 bandits were cleared, more than 2,400 bandits were killed, and more than 6,000 were captured.

Bandits like Du Lisan and Long Huozi are all large troops of thousands of people, using both this rifle and Russian rifles, and they are very fierce in frontal combat, although they have also caused a lot of casualties to Song Biao's Northeast New Army, but the role of training soldiers and generals is also obvious.

This is where Song Biao is most happy.

Later, he swept away the bandits in Xinminfu, Montenegro, and Fuxin, and then went south to Jinzhou, then Anshan and Benxi, and gradually swept away the entire northeast bandit area in three years.

Before further sending troops, the most important thing is, of course, to continue to recruit troops, continue to collect bandits and geographical information in various localities, and prepare for a large-scale anti-bandit campaign; at the same time, it is also necessary to encourage the masses to participate, mobilize the strength of the masses, and take advantage of the opportunity of clearing out bandits in the three eastern provinces to establish contacts and grass-roots organizations in various localities.

It's just that Song Biao didn't expect to poke a hornet's nest this time, he originally scares Zhao Erxun in a soldier-like style, and he didn't go there in person, he made so much money during the Russian War, and it is nothing to have the luxury of holding a military parade at a time, and it is a big deal to save some in the future.

He is just the kind of young soldier-style recklessness and abuse, and he doesn't take it too seriously.

(To be continued)