But this nonsense sentence clearly reveals what Yuan Shikai meant, that is, he can train the Fengtian Standing Army, but he can't dig the corner of my Beiyang!

In the face of Zhao Dongyun and Yuan Shikai's Qi Qi opposition, the princes of the imperial court naturally dispelled the idea of integrating the two together, anyway, they just had the mentality of giving it a try, they could become the best, and it didn't matter if they didn't succeed, anyway, this Jinzhou patrol battalion was not in the hands of the princes of the imperial court!

But Zeng Qi still didn't give up, the reason why Zeng Qi was bent on building a new army was not that he wanted to be a big warlord like Yuan Shikai and Zhao Dongyun, he was really scared by Geng Zinian.

At that time, he was beaten by the Russians, and he lost the entire Northeast and suffered heavy losses, although he was not removed from his post and investigated by relying on his various activities, but he also became an 'acting'.

Now that Japan and Russia are fighting on the side, what he is most afraid of is that Japan and Russia will cross the Liao River that day and then wave their troops westward, if he can't stop it at that time, it is estimated that it will not be his own political life that will end, but his own small life will come to an end!

A few years ago, he wanted to strengthen the combat effectiveness of the army in Fengtian Province, and in the early stage, he adopted the method of appeasing bandits, for example, recruiting Zhang Zuolin was the product of this strategy, but since he saw the third town under Zhao Dongyun, he wanted to train the new army.

At the beginning, he supported Zhao Dongyun to organize and train the Jinzhou patrol battalion because of this, but as time passed, he was not satisfied with only one Jinzhou patrol battalion that nominally belonged to Fengtian, but hoped to train more new troops, so he wanted to concentrate on the Fengtian standing army.

However, it is not so easy to organize and train the Fengtian Standing Army, so he wants to integrate the Jinzhou Patrol Battalion and then lay the foundation for the Fengtian Standing Army, but in the early operation, Zeng Qi has always underestimated Zhao Dongyun and Yuan Shikai's desire for military power and attaches importance to Cheng Dù, which leads to the current situation.

However, although it was said that the last mention failed, Zeng Qi didn't mind it, because he figured out one thing at this time, what was the most important thing for him?

That is, more new troops are needed in the province of Mukden!

As long as he is the general of Shengjing, then the new army organized and trained in Fengtian Province belongs to him in name, and what he wants is this name, this name already represents political achievements, and if there are more new troops in Fengtian Province, it will be able to resist for a longer time when Japan and Russia march into Liaoxi in the future, and it doesn't matter to him who leads the army.

Based on this situation, he made a situation that Zhao Dongyun never expected!

On July 20th, Zengqi sent someone to Jinzhou with a private letter, which said that it was the general trend to prepare for the Fengtian Standing Army, and that it was necessary to run the Fengtian Supervision and Training Office first, and bluntly invited Zhao Dongyun to serve as the general office of the Fengtian Supervision and Training Office!

This shouldn't be, Zhao Dongyun was a little puzzled by Zengqi's moves, you must know that a few days ago he scolded Zengqi for being mediocre and incompetent in the telegram to the training office, this Zengqi was not angry but invited him to serve as the general office of the Fengtian Supervision and Training Office?

Zhao Dongyun put down the letter, although he still couldn't guess what Zeng Qi thought, but he was moved by this invitation!

In the winter of last year, the imperial court set up a military training office with the Beiyang Military and Political Department as the team, and then Yuan Shikai renamed the remaining institutions and personnel of the Beiyang Military and Political Department as the Beiyang Supervision and Training Office, and then all provinces followed suit and set up supervision and training offices or supervision offices, which was an important measure for the Qing court to promote the formation and training of the new army throughout the country.

As the organ that governs and reorganizes the new army in the province, the actual power of the provincial supervision office is very large, but this supervision is generally concurrently held by the governor and the governor, and generally it does not care about specific affairs, and the affairs generally fall to the general office.

That is to say, under normal circumstances, it is the 'general office' that is in charge of all the rights of this institution and even the new army of the province, and now Zengqi has taken out the position of the general office, almost directly saying that I handed over the new army of the province to you.

Although there are not many new troops in Fengtian, the only Jinzhou patrol battalion is only nominally belonging to Fengtian, and the so-called Fengtian Supervision and Training Office estimates that there is not even a person now, no matter how you look at it, Zeng Qi just took out an empty title to Zhao Dongyun.

However, things can't be looked at this way, what is Zengqi giving? What he gave to Zhao Dongyun was nominal and follow-up financial support, nominal and military spending, these two things are simply dreamed of for a warlord who dreams of expanding his army!

It's just that this position of the general office looks so wonderful, Zhao Dongyun has to wonder if there is any ulterior secret about Zengqi's move!

I have to say that even if he lived for decades in his previous life, he has been mixed in the high-level of Beiyang for several years in this life, but his political sensitivity is still far less than that of Yuan Shikai and Zeng Qi, who have played officialdom for decades.

Zengqi's move is of great benefit to Zhao Dongyun, but in fact, the disadvantages are also a basket, first of all, after Zhao Dongyun went to be the head of the Fengtian Supervision and Training Office? What will Yuan Shikai think? Will you think that Zhao Dongyun has left Beiyang to find another owner, in addition, he wants to be the general office, and he will be in charge of the military affairs of Fengtian Province in the future, and at the same time, can he continue to be the commander of the third town?

If other Beiyang bigwigs use this as an excuse to try to seize his position as the commander of the third town, it will be more than worth the loss, don't think that Zhao Dongyun's position of the third town is very stable now, but in fact, a large number of people in Beiyang are staring at those positions, and the position of the third town under Zhao Dongyun's ass is naturally under the watchful eye of the people below.

Nowadays, there are many people in Beiyang who have the qualifications to be in control, Feng Guozhang and Wang Shizhen will not talk about it, and a few others are also thinking about a control addiction, such as Zhang Huaizhi, Wu Fengling, Zhao Guoxian, Cao Kun, Wang Zhanyuan and others. In addition, Chen Guangyuan under Zhao Dongyun actually has the qualifications to continue to rise!

Regarding Zengqi's big change, Zhao Dongyun did not give him any reply at the first time, but suppressed the matter first, anyway, the Fengtian Standing Army and the Fengtian Supervision and Training Office could not be done in a day or two, and he had enough time to consider the gains and losses of this matter.

And before that, he has to solve Zhang Zuolin first!

When Zhao Dongyun dealt with Yuan Shikai, the imperial court and Zengqi because of the Jinzhou patrol battalion, Fengtian standing army and other affairs, a group of his subordinates were not idle, and the others continued to train the third town and expand the Jinzhou patrol battalion Not to mention for the time being, but said that Kong Guanbei led a 3,000-strong army to march into Xinminfu.

After Kong Weibei led more than 3,000 troops to attack Xinmin Mansion, Hua Zhenji's forward troops took advantage of the mobility of cavalry to quickly block several coat directions of Xinmin Mansion, and during the blockade period, they fought with Jin Wanfu and Wang Xiaobraid's cavalry bandits many times, killing and wounding at least hundreds of bandits.

As for Zhang Zuolin's thousands of people, they have never moved, have not taken the initiative to break through and flee, nor have they sent troops to resist, but have been cowering in their nests.

Zhao Dongyun understands Zhang Zuolin's approach, he wants to escape unless he doesn't want the thousands of troops, otherwise under Hua Zhenji's cavalry blockade, his troops will not be able to escape at all, and it is even more unreliable to resist forward, and the only remaining option is to use the fortifications of the nest to resist stubbornly.

Of course, Zhang Zuolin has another way, that is, he tries to surrender, to be honest, Zhang Zuolin has no intention of rebelling from the beginning to the end, the so-called surrender and rebellion is just Zhao Dongyun's one-sided words.

In the face of Zhang Zuolin's surrender, Zhao Dongyun was not interested, to be honest, he didn't have a good impression of Zhang Zuolin, which had nothing to do with the original history, but Zhang Zuolin's behavior in the past half a year made him very unhappy, this person had too many means, he actually used himself as a knife to play the trick of killing people with a knife, and his ambition was too great, he wanted to surrender and even wanted to maintain his independent establishment and territory, and he didn't want to think that he Zhao Dongyun was not Zengqi.

Although the troops under him Zhao Dongyun are considered to be an independent faction in the Beiyang system, his own control over the Third Town and the Jinzhou Patrol Battalion is very strong!

Among them, the very important rights of recruitment, financial power and the appointment of officers are all controlled by Zhao Dongyun, and the education department of the third town is fully responsible for the recruitment and training of recruits, not only to bear the needs of recruits in the third town, but also to undertake the recruitment and training of recruits for the Jinzhou patrol battalion.

At the same time, the quartermaster department is also directly responsible for the payment of salaries to the soldiers of various departments, and other Beiyang troops are generally the commanders of the troops who take the silver back and send it themselves, but in the third town and the Jinzhou patrol battalion, it is directly sent by the quartermaster department, and the commander of the army is not handled, and sometimes Zhao Dongyun will squeeze out time to personally visit the salary of the troops to preside over the payment, in order to let the soldiers know: It is me Zhao Dongyun who raises you!

The same is true for ordnance, where the Ordnance Section is responsible for coordinating the supply of ordnance and ammunition for the whole army, and departments cannot directly purchase ordnance.

In terms of the appointment of officers, he is personally responsible for the appointments above the basic management belt, and his subordinates only have the right to build and appoint.

This kind of control is actually stricter than Yuan Shikai's control of the Beiyang New Army, Yuan Shikai's control of the towns in Beiyang basically relies on the control of the commander of the army, relying on personal prestige and the art of balance, but there is a lack of institutional constraints. However, Zhao Dongyun's control of the Third Town and the Jinzhou Patrol Battalion was based on institutional control, and his personal prestige and control skills were only auxiliary.

In this case, Zhao Dongyun was able to firmly control the third town and the Jinzhou patrol battalion, but now that Zhang Zuolin said that he wanted to surrender, he still wanted to maintain an independent establishment and many powers, which was impossible.

It's not impossible to surrender to Cheng, after breaking up the people and reorganizing, as for Zhang Zuolin, it will basically be the end of the day when you give you a pipe belt, don't expect to continue to be the king of Xinminfu.

"Big brother, this Zhao Dongyun is really too deceitful, we are all going to surrender, but what about them, they still want us to surrender unconditionally, this is absolutely unacceptable!" Zhang Zuoxiang said so fiercely, and Tang Yulin next to him also said: "It's a big deal, we also fight with them, and there are only more than 2,000 people under Kong Weibei, and more than 1,000 of us don't believe that it doesn't hurt him, as long as he hurts him, they will talk to us well!" ”

Zhang Zuolin also frowned: "Now I can only do this, fight for a while, and let Zhao Dongyun know that we are not soft persimmons!" ”

After a group of people agreed, they all came out with excitement on their faces and shouted that they wanted to have a big fight with Kong Guanbei's people, but not long after they went out, Tang Yulin was walking side by side with Wang Liyou, and Wang Liyou sighed and said: "It's not easy to talk about it like beating Kong Guanbei!" ”

Tang Yulin said: "It's just that if we don't fight for a while, how can the Kong Guanbei outside value us, and how can they offer a price to appease?" ”

It's just that they don't know that whether it's Zhao Dongyun or Kong Guanbei, they haven't thought about offering any price!