Zhao Erxun actually hated Song Biao, this kind of deep hatred that was almost humiliating was hidden in the depths of his heart, tormenting Zhao Erxun's old and long-experienced heart, before there was no official shortage of the governor of the three eastern provinces, Shengjing was the capital of the Qing Empire, and he, the general of Shengjing, almost controlled the power of the northeast, and now there is the governor of the three eastern provinces, just like the relationship between the general of Fuzhou and the governor of Fujian and Zhejiang, General Shengjing can only be reduced to a foil.

Song Biao was the governor of the three eastern provinces, and the governor of the three eastern provinces and other places was also in charge of the general of the three provinces, the governor of Fengtian, and the title of Shangshu.

Zhao Erxun is a co-organizer of the university scholar and the general of Shengjing and other places, Fengtianfu Yin, can be said to be the governor with the highest rank and the most real power, but the governor is the governor, and he is not as good as the governor after all.

Until the Guangxu period, the Manchu Qing court in the northeast still did not set up three provinces governors, to Sheng Jing general, Jilin general, Heilongjiang general and governor, the three garrison generals are currently Zhao Erxun, clan Qinggui, Cheng Dequan, after the Eight-Nation Alliance, with the Russian invasion of the Northeast, the three garrison generals in the Northeast have been described as fictitious, Heilongjiang generals, Jilin generals are acting for five consecutive years, never in office, the Manchu court has lost actual jurisdiction over the Northeast, before that, The actual jurisdiction of the Manchus over the Northeast was only to prevent Han Chinese from entering the customs.

After the Russo-Japanese War, with Russia's successive victories in the army, Zhang Zhidong, Yuan Shikai and others have seen very clearly that the Manchu Qing court's complete loss of control and jurisdiction over the Northeast is a matter of immediate importance, and no one can control the situation in the Northeast except Song Biao.

Zhao Erxun generally has such a judgment, but he hopes that the imperial court can be wiser, appoint him as the governor of the three eastern provinces, serve the imperial court with his heart, and at the same time appoint Song Biao as the general of Heilongjiang or Jilin, and let him come forward to encircle Song Biao to serve the imperial court, which is roughly enough, and it is really impossible to let a person like Song Biao directly become the governor of the three eastern provinces.

Therefore, he hated Song Biao from the bottom of his heart.

Zhao Erxun cautiously hid the hatred in his heart, continued to be polite with Song Biao, and talked about the withdrawal of Russian troops, and then asked Song Biao with great curiosity: "Everyone said that there are thirty or forty thousand elite divisions under the command of the governor, I don't know how the barracks are so empty?" ”

Song Biao did not hide it, and said: "Some of them are still scattered in various places to supervise training, and more than 10,000 people stationed in the local area have been transferred to Liaozhong to suppress bandits. There are many bandits in Liaozhong, and if they are not cleared sooner, Fengtian Province will never be peaceful. ”

Zhao Erxun was slightly startled, and said: "Lord Song, now is the time for the imperial court to employ people, these bandits are just forced by life, if they can send people to recruit peace, they will definitely be able to form an army and serve the imperial court, why rush to clear it and waste national strength?" ”

Song Biao thought for a while and replied: "There is a lot of fertile land that can be cultivated in the three eastern provinces, and a family can be fed everywhere, how many of these bandits are forced by life, in fact, it is because the imperial court has no actual control over the three eastern provinces over the years, and Russia has been rampant in the three provinces in recent years, and the garrison generals of the three provinces and the prefects and counties in various places are all in vain, which has led to the rampant thieves in the three provinces. I have thought about it, and I plan to use two years to wipe out bandits in various parts of the three eastern provinces, crack down hard, and kill them all on the spot, so as to prevent future troubles. In troubled times, if there are dozens of people in the hands of others, they will recruit An, which will only make more bandits rampant and domineering, without scruples. Regarding this matter, I have made up my mind that I will definitely return a stable world to the people of the three provinces. ”

Zhao Erxun was surprised, and could only persuade: "Now that the three provinces are in turmoil, the governor Yamen may not have the strength to spare, if the money and food are insufficient, then I am afraid that the army will be in chaos. ”

Song Biao thought for a while and asked, "Then you just sit and wait for those beards to plague the people, Lord Zhao, as a general stationed in Fengtian, really has the mind of a general." I can't bear it, and if you don't agree, just watch from the sidelines and watch my jokes. ”

Zhao Erxun was told about the central matter, and hurriedly said: "Why did Lord Song come out before?" How can this official be such an unbearable person, a saint, a man can't win his ambition, why ...... doctor! ”

Song Biao waved his hand unhappily and said, "Don't be a saint, I am a member of the army, and my words are hard to chase." I am an officer and soldier, and bandits are thieves, so there is no reason not to fight. ”

Zhao Erxun, who was interrupted from speaking, was furious, and he couldn't wait to immediately play Song Biao, a stupid person like Song Biao who did not know the number of etiquette, did not hesitate to use the people's strength, and was not subject to the Holy Religion, so that the court could see the true face of Song Biao and his person.

If you can't win the ambition, why should you be a doctor?

Zhao Erxun raised his sleeves angrily and said, "Since Lord Song neglected the official and thought that he could settle the affairs of the three provinces, the official could only leave." ”

Song Biao waved his hand again and said, "Thank you, thank you for coming to report, since you are leaving, I won't send it." ”

He didn't want to have too many conflicts with Zhao Erxun, so he could reorganize his military strength with peace of mind and gather enough strength to fight Yanjing in one wave, but he didn't know why, when he saw Zhao Erxun, he was dissatisfied, and the more he listened to the nonsense of this self-righteous old bureaucrat, he wanted to go over and slap him a few times.

Just waiting for Zhao Erxun to break out of the barracks angrily, Shu Fangde couldn't help but remind Song Biao with some confusion: "My lord, I have quarreled with Zhao Erxun before I officially took office, I'm afraid it's not right?" ”

Song Biao thought for a while and said: "Look at him like this, it is better to turn his face sooner or later, it is better to turn his face early than to turn his face late, you send someone to inform Zhao Tingzhu and them, give me some face, and I want to catch all those bandit leaders for me, even the corpses must be dug out, I will pull them out together and parade through the streets in Shenyang City, arrest him with a thousand bandits, and tie them up in the streets together." By the way, his large army of more than 10,000 people appeared in the city, let's speak with strength. But pay attention to military uniforms, when the time comes, you can't wear the military uniforms of the Russian army, and you can't wear the military. ”

Shu Fangde was a little overwhelmed and asked, "What kind of military uniform are you wearing?" ”

Song Biao said: "We also need to have our own military uniforms now." In this way, the blue-gray army coats of the Morly Morse cavalry regiment appeared relatively rarely on our side, and at the end of last year, I remember that we unexpectedly received a batch, and the logistics of the Russian army were indeed too chaotic at that time. You go and find a few pieces of that kind of military coat, and I will change it again on this basis, and then you will distribute it to the troops as a standard style of spring and autumn clothing. This is an important matter, and we need to ask General Madenidov to help solve it. ”

Shu Fangde nodded, and immediately went to the arsenal camp to look for those cavalry coats.

The military uniforms of the Russian Empire were varied, but the common surname was still based on the M1881 type compulsory army coat, using gray tweed, and the blue-gray tweed of the Morley Morse cavalry regiment was rare.

When Shu Fangde went to look for a model uniform, Song Biao also thought about it for a while, and decided to adopt some completely different military uniform design ideas from the Russian army, cutting on the basis of the Russian army's tweed coat, shortening the long hem into a mid-length version, and the standard is that the hem is located between the waist and the knee, which is similar to an informal pulushbok-style short coat military uniform that is more common in the Cossack Barkranov cavalry, and the cut length is more suitable for horseback riding.

The military cap is a French cylinder hat made of tweed material, representing the Northeast New Army with three guns, and the ceremonial military boots are unified with black tall military boots.

Good military uniforms can make soldiers have a sense of pride, in order to attract more young people to join the army, the investment in ceremonial military uniforms is definitely worth it, as for the regular training, there are a lot of military M1886 military uniforms hoarded in the hands, enough to be used for training uniforms, and this aspect can be saved.

After Shu Fangde found a set of gray-blue military coats, Song Biao redesigned it on the basis of this set of standards, sparing no expense to improve the ceremonial appearance of the army, and then looking for suitable tailor OEM samples in Harbin, and finally customizing them in large quantities in Russia, striving to complete the order of 10,000 pieces within two months.

In the eyes of Zhao Erxun, an old antique, Song Biao is just a person who was born in the military, and he studied Yangyi military science in Russia, and he is not familiar with literature, history and classics, nor has experience and knowledge, so he is definitely not suitable for governing the Northeast, at most he can engage in military affairs.

If you want to say that Song Biao can engage in the military, everyone is unanimously recognized, and even he himself said that Song Biao is "the god general of China".

The Qing Dynasty stipulated that the governor would govern the civil and military forces and govern the military and the people; The governor is in charge of the correctional and criminal administration.

The Qing Dynasty promoted Zhao Erxun to the co-organizer of the university scholar and the general of Fengtian and other places, and the Yin of Fengtian Mansion, which was to let Zhao Erxun deal with the education and criminal administration of Fengtian Province, assist the civil and military affairs, and use the military power of Shengjing to control the old army, and guard against and contain Song Biao.

Qing Zheng Axe thought that he had played a good chess hand, but he did not expect that the subsequent battle between these two people in the three eastern provinces would almost overturn the entire Qing Zheng Axe.

From the point of view of the bureaucratic system of the Qing political axe, the three eastern provinces at this time were completely blank, and there were not many officials in the first place, after the Sino-Japanese War, the intervention of the three countries to return to Liao, the Boxer Rebellion, the Eight-Nation Alliance, Russia's strong occupation of the northeast and the Russo-Russian War, the officials who could run in various places have long been gone.

Heilongjiang and Jilin provinces have even more prefectures but no counties, only prefectures and no county administrations, and the local prefects have not even actually taken office; after the Boxer Rebellion, the Heilongjiang generals, who are equivalent to the governors of Heilongjiang, have not taken office until this year.

The governor is like this, and there is even more blankness below.

The situation in Jilin was even worse than in Heilongjiang, and the Qing Dynasty did not even send garrison generals.

As for the deputy commanders, assistant leaders, assistant leaders, and guards in various parts of the three eastern provinces, they are a group of paper people, and these Eight Banner Battalions can't even get together the soldiers who eat empty salaries in the Guangxu period.

This was the case in the three eastern provinces in 1905, only Liaoning Province was in a better situation, Heilongjiang and Jilin Province were two aegrotic worlds, the total population of the three provinces was only 15 million, and most of them were concentrated in Liaoning Province.

This is the three eastern provinces that Song Biao wants to manage, like a blank piece of paper waiting for him to paint, and before the Qing Dynasty officially issued the official uniform and appointment documents, he rolled up his sleeves and prepared to do a big job and start his new policy in the three eastern provinces.

(To be continued)