After Zhao Dongping sent Zhang Zuolin away, he took another look at the silver ticket of five hundred taels of silver in his hand, and his face showed doubt: "This Zhang Zuolin is generous, and it is five hundred taels as soon as he makes a move!" ”

He muttered to himself and immediately re-entered the inner courtyard, and after a short time, he was standing in front of Zhao Dongyun, and the five hundred taels of silver had already been placed on Zhao Dongyun's table.

Although Zhao Dongping is young, and he usually doesn't mind receiving some of the benefits from others, for example, someone usually asks him to introduce him in order to see Zhao Dongyun, and for example, someone wants to ask for an official promotion, and asks Zhao Dongping to go to the door, in this case, Zhao Dongping depends on the situation, if it is a request to see or something like that, he usually collects money to do things, and he refuses to ask for an official promotion and the like. Because decisions related to personnel have always been arbitrary by Zhao Dongyun, he, Zhao Dongping, can't influence Zhao Dongyun's decision.

Now this Zhang Zuolin is so generous, he has even sold five hundred taels of silver without saying anything, if there is no major event in it, he will not believe that Zhao Dongping will be killed, so he did not hesitate to turn around and report to Zhao Dongyun, the focus of the report is not the five hundred taels of silver, but Zhang Zuolin seems to have a plan!

Zhao Dongyun looked at the silver ticket of five hundred taels of silver, and thought thoughtfully: "Since you have come to the door, you will go and meet him and see what the situation is!" ”

I have to say that Zhang Zuolin's five hundred taels of silver aroused Zhao Dongyun's curiosity!

After getting the permission of his cousin, Zhao Dongping entered Jinzhou City that night, Jinzhou City is not a big city in later generations, and it is naturally not much big today in 1903.

Zhen Yilou, listen to the name to know that it is the place of Fengyue, but although the name sounds good, but the inside is a little bland, when Zhao Dongping was in Baoding, he often followed Zhao Dongyun to Chongyulou, which opened his eyes more, and his vision was naturally higher, but this small place in Jinzhou is neither a commercial center nor a political center, so it is naturally impossible to expect it to have those high-style Fengyue places.

However, the people of the time, especially the military and political officials, do not like to talk about things in the restaurant, but like to talk about the world with a smile while holding a beauty in the place of the wind and the moon, which is like this in China, and the North Korea next door is also like this, the military and political dignitaries, whether they are revolutionaries or high-ranking officials, want to drill into the boudoir of prostitutes, and the opposite day is even worse, basically everything must be accompanied by a geisha, and if the officers after the Meiji Restoration do not prostitute themselves, it is simply intolerable and will be rejected by most officers.

It is also a fine tradition of Confucianism to like to talk about military affairs in Fengyue places, regardless of national boundaries and nationalities.

The customs of the world are like this, Zhao Dongyun and others are naturally no exception, when he was in Baoding, he often feasted his colleagues in Chongyulou, otherwise he would not have become the boss in the hearts of a group of Beiyang young Zhuang officers.

Zhao Dongping followed Zhao Dongyun to Chongyu Building a lot, and now that he saw the style of this Zhen Yilou, he was naturally a little unhappy, and thought in his heart, this Zhang Zuolin is really a rough bun, and he can't even find a place to talk about things.

Although Jinzhou does not have a noble place like Chongyulou, there are also a few good courtyards, the so-called wealth is not enough but more than beautiful, Zhao Dongping and people contact and drink generally go to those places. Obviously, those small doors and courtyards are places that Zhang Zuolin can't find.

Zhang Zuolin naturally found that Zhao Dongping's face was a little ugly since he entered the door, but he couldn't figure out what annoyed him for a while, so he could only greet Zhao Dongping with a smile and sit down.

The age difference between the two is not too big, Zhang Zuolin, who was born in 1875, is only twenty-eight years old this year, and Zhao Dongping is only nineteen years old although he is younger, but Zhao Dongping also learned from his cousin Zhao Dongyun.

However, the status of the two is quite different, Zhang Zuolin was born in a poor family, although he went to private school for a few months, but in the hearts of many people, he is illiterate, although there are heroes who do not ask about their origins, but the key is that he Zhang Zuolin is not a hero, he is just a bandit who has been appeased, and there are only hundreds of bandits under him, although he has the title of pipe belt, but in Zhao Dongping's heart, it is not as important as any officer in the Beiyang system.

And Zhao Dongping, although he is not from a high-ranking official family, but he is also a child of the gentry, although he was not admitted to Xiucai, but he also passed the county examination, participated in the government examination, and is also familiar with foreign affairs, not only French is very smooth, but also in order to deal with Japan's and German foreign firms, he has taught himself German and Japanese, of course, he is not proficient, he can only say a few words casually. Zhao Dongping is also the chief of the ordnance section of the Third Mixed Association, in charge of the weapons and equipment affairs of the Third Mixed Association, and in the Third Mixed Association, the importance is even higher than that of ordinary pipe belts.

Of course, none of this is important, the important thing is that Zhang Zuolin obviously has something to ask him for today!

So although Zhao Dongping was a guest and he was young, he sat unceremoniously in the first place as soon as he came in, while Zhang Zuolin sat opposite.

Not long after, four Gigabytes wearing rouge and heavy makeup walked in, although in Zhao Dongping's opinion, these women were vulgar, but two women spoke very skillfully, and for a while they also stirred up the atmosphere in the room, in this case, Zhao Dongping was naturally relieved of the dissatisfaction in his heart, and drank with Zhang Zuolin.

It's just that most of this wine has been drunk, and the two of them are talking about brothers, but the two still haven't talked about anything serious, Zhang Zuolin doesn't say it, Zhao Dongping naturally doesn't care, wait, this Zhang Zuolin has to say it after all, otherwise his five hundred taels of silver will be wasted.

Sure enough, after drinking several cups, Zhang Zuolin said slowly: "Dissatisfied with Brother Zhao, I, Zhang Zuolin, have no other ability, that is, there are hundreds of brothers who can afford it, so I can eat a piece of imperial food!"

It's just that this official army eats imperial food, and the guy who doesn't have it in his hand can't do it! ”

Watching Zhang Zuolin say this, Zhao Dongping vaguely felt that Zhang Zuolin was about to start talking about business, did he mean that he wanted to buy ordnance?

This may not be small, the third mixed association has been in Jinzhou for more than two months since June, and after coming to Jinzhou, it is natural to send a large number of reconnaissance cavalry to the surrounding area to conduct reconnaissance, on the one hand, it is to draw a military map, speaking of which are all complaining about some, before coming to Jinzhou, the map of Liaodong in Zhao Dongyun's hand was actually drawn during the Xianfeng period, and it belongs to the kind of 'freehand', well, it is a few zigzag lines representing the channel, and then there are several beautifully depicted cities on the map, Nima is Jinzhou alone, The two cities of Mukden take up most of the map.

If anyone can see the terrain of Liaodong from this map, Zhao Dongyun can only say: Brother, you are awesome!

Later, Zhao Dongyun had to send people to Tianjin and even Shanghai and other places to ask for foreigners, especially the civilian maps published by the Japanese himself, which led to a large number of maps in Zhao Dongyun's hands, which were actually civilian maps drawn by foreigners. However, these civilians can only see the approximately, and the detailed terrain cannot be seen, so the first thing Zhao Dongyun did after arriving in Jinzhou was to send reconnaissance personnel to draw a detailed military map of the surrounding area of Jinzhou.

When collecting topographical information, it was natural to collect a large amount of other information from the three eastern provinces, especially the information of bandits in the northeast.

Everyone knows that there are many bandits in the Northeast, and there is no need to talk about the destruction of bandits in later generations from the origin of the Northeast bandits in the Xianfeng period, as long as you know that now in 1903, there are probably a few bandits in the Northeast, first of all, Feng Delin (also known as Feng Linge), this person is more powerful around the Gengzi year, and the bandits under him are thousands of people at most, and the usual backbone is five or six hundred, this person does not say that the people in the Liaohe River Basin are harmed, and he also likes to be a horse boy for the day. If there is nothing to do, he picked up the railroad of the Russians, so he was arrested by the Russians some time ago, but this year he was rescued by the Japanese "himself" Wang Xiaobraid "bribed the Chinese generals, and now he has returned to the old territory to convene the old department, and soon pulled up a team of hundreds of bandits, and he was very active in the Russo-Japanese War in the future, well, there is also a Jin Wanfu, and there are hundreds of people under his hands, but this person has a close relationship with Feng Delin, and it can be regarded as a branch of Feng Delin's forces, so it will not be listed separately.

Then there is Du Lisan, this person has a good reputation in later generations because of his achievements in fighting Russia, but burning, killing and looting is the number one bandit in the Northeast, and he is called ' Liaoxi giant bandits' is the only one, this person has a lot of subordinates, and his strength is not weaker than Feng Delin, but this person is too conservative and inflexible, after the Russo-Japanese War, even Feng Delin accepted to be a man with his tail between his legs, but you are still in the name of a giant bandit in Liaoning, this is not looking for death, so in 1907 it was destroyed by Zhang Zuolin and the imperial court officials and soldiers.

There is also Zhang Zuolin, the original strength was not much, but after being appeased, it developed rapidly, and the Mabu guerrillas of the Fengtian patrol battalion under his command have grown to more than 500 people, this person is relatively smart, on the one hand, he continues to recruit weak bandits, on the one hand, he is to give to the imperial court, and on the other hand, he is also to expand his strength, but although this person is in the name of the official army, he is still a bandit, in addition to collecting local security fees, he also privately sets up checkpoints to collect the purchase fees of transit business ships, otherwise he will not be called 'official bandits'.

The strength of the bandits to which the above three people belong is the largest bandit force in the Northeast from the year of Gengzi to the Russo-Japanese War, and their means of survival are also relatively formal, and they have broken away from the lowest-level robbery and kidnapping tickets (occasionally there will be), but have developed into civilian armed forces with base areas, using security fees and other items to collect taxes in the base areas (this figure is generally several times the national tax), and at the same time collect road fees from passing merchant ships, and use these funds to recruit troops and horses and purchase ordnance.

If their size were to be expanded many times, they would be completely independent kingdoms, and they would be no different from the Soviet districts of later generations.