Like all contemporary armies, the Third Mixed Association also has its own small treasury, and I don't know how the small treasury of other troops accumulated, but Zhao Dongyun, the small treasury of the Third Mixed Association, was accumulated by relying on kickbacks for ordnance procurement, but before this was only a small amount of money, and the bulk of it came from the opening fee, ammunition replenishment fee, and barracks construction fee of the garrison in Jinzhou, and Zhao Dongyun got about 600,000 taels of silver from the Qing court's household department alone.

Later, Zhao Dongyun did not spend lavishly, and the expenses were not much, except for the cost of replenishing ammunition, there was still about half left.

However, this money cannot be used lightly, the troops in these years are quite independent, and the food and salary cannot be guaranteed all year round, even if the six towns of Beiyang in history are Yuan Shikai's descendants, they can't receive sufficient funds every month, and shortages and delays are common things, so Zhao Dongyun must set aside a part of the funds for emergencies.

In addition, he was counting on the money to add a new arsenal to himself.

As for the funds needed for the expansion of the army, the maintenance funds mainly come from the misappropriation of the funds of the Jinzhou patrol battalion and the defense assistance funds allocated by Fengtian, and the cost of purchasing ordnance in the training places can only be found slowly.

Anyway, the war didn't break out so quickly, and the Third Mixed Association had a lot of old guns, more than 1,000 Mauser single-shot rifles from the 1871 series alone, and many other Martini rifles, most of which were used by the Third Mixed Association before.

With the gradual replacement of the Fuyuanzao Type 88 rifles by the Third Mixed Association, these old single-loading rifles were not directly thrown away, but were still stocked, on the one hand, to train new soldiers, and on the other hand, to stock them for backup.

In addition to the old guns in the inventory of the Third Mixed Association, more than 1,000 old guns of various types were also obtained in the process of reorganizing the Jinzhou patrol battalion.

Therefore, although the new type of quick robbery is still insufficient in the third mixed association, there are many old guns, and it is enough to train the newly expanded troops in the early stage.

"I don't know what to call this new label?" Although the expansion of the army has been decided, Lin Yongquan still can't decide on these general directions, but seeing that the recruits recruited from Zhili have arrived, and the original soldiers of the old army have also been trained, it won't take long to be integrated into an infantry standard, and it can't always be without a name.

Zhao Dongyun said: "It is naturally not possible to continue to use the name of the Jinzhou Patrol Battalion, but we can't let the Jinzhou Patrol Battalion become an empty shelf, otherwise the people above are afraid that they will have opinions after reading it. ”

"Supplemental mark?" This term is very fresh, and Lin Yongquan heard it for the first time: "I don't know what the charter is?" ”

Zhao Dongyun looked up at Lin Yongquan, he usually thinks that this person is smarter, why is his consciousness so low today, and he immediately said with a slight dissatisfaction: "As the name suggests, replenish the combat power for the reserve!" ”

After thinking about it, he said, "You take care of this supplementary standard first!" ”

Although Lin Yongquan's appearance today is a little dull, he is Zhao Dongyun's henchman anyway, and it is more reassuring to hand over the supplementary bid to him to control Zhao Dongyun.

In addition, although there are many officers in the Third Mixed Association, there are not many officers who can find an officer who can serve as a standard commander, and even fewer people can make Zhao Dongyun trust, Pei Lianying, the commander of the tenth standard, is considered one, but because Zhao Dongyun is also the tenth standard, Pei Lianying is actually responsible for the affairs of the tenth standard, and Zhao Dongyun also plans to hand over the tenth standard to him in the later stage.

Except for Pei Lianying, the qualifications and abilities of several other battalion officers and assistants are slightly insufficient, so although Lin Yongquan has always been Zhao Dongyun's deputy, dealing with sundries, and has not served as the commander of the army, Zhao Dongyun can only let him try.

Zhao Dongyun took the Jinzhou patrol battalion from the bottom of the kettle, so as to compile a supplementary target to carry out a very low-key matter, and Zhao Dongyun did not completely abolish the Jinzhou patrol battalion, so that the local officials in Jinzhou and the people sent by Fengtian Zengqi felt very relieved to see it, and did not know that most of the military funds they gave had been embezzled by Zhao Dongyun.

The training work of the supplementary standard is very low-key, and outsiders don't even know that Zhao Dongyun has expanded the army, but it has caused a great impact within the Third Mixed Association, why, because the newly formed Jinzhou patrol battalion and supplementary standard have a total of three battalions, which represent the positions of a commander, a gang commander, three pipe belts, three gang belts, and twelve team officers.

There are few people in the Jinzhou Patrol Battalion who are willing to go, and those officers are not even willing to go over to be in charge, because the Jinzhou Patrol Battalion and the Beiyang New Army are different systems, and now this Jinzhou Patrol Battalion is under the jurisdiction of Zhao Dongyun, but what about after the third mixed coordination is gone? This Jinzhou patrol battalion will have to be re-managed by Fengtian.

In this way, those Beiyang officers were willing to serve, but in the end, there was no way, Zhao Dongyun could only select a few people from a few team officers and platoon commanders who were willing to serve in the past, and the pipe belt of the Jinzhou patrol battalion was served by the rear team officers of the third battalion of the former ninth standard.

Compared to the Jinzhou patrol battalion, no one wants to go, but the supplementary standard is that many people want to go, although this unit does not belong to the official establishment of Beiyang, but it is a supernumerary unit of the Third Mixed Association, which is still considered to be in the Beiyang system, plus the transfer is generally promoted and appointed in the past, so a lot of middle and low-level officers aim at the position of the two battalion officers.

In the end, Lin Yongquan concurrently served as the commander of the supplementary standard, Qin Longbiao, the former third battalion of the tenth standard, was transferred to the supplementary standard commander, Yu Yuanqin, the former team officer of the second battalion of the tenth standard, was transferred to the first battalion of the supplementary standard, and Yang Jiayi, the former commander of the right team of the second battalion of the ninth standard, was transferred to the second battalion of the supplementary standard, and the rest of the gang and team officers were not mentioned for the time being.

In order to compile this supplementary standard, the Third Mixed Association was busy with this matter almost throughout late July and early August, in addition to Zhao Dongyun, Lin Yongquan and other directly related personnel, even Chen Guangyuan, who had little connection, was also busy for this. Zhao Dongyun took a fancy to his ability to reorganize the old army, and almost handed over the early reorganization of the Jinzhou patrol battalion to him.

It can be said that Chen Guangyuan first reorganized the Jinzhou patrol battalion, and then there was a matter of organizing and supplementing the standard, and because there were more soldiers of the old army left, at the request of Lin Yongquan, Chen Guangyuan also went to the supplementary standard and the Jinzhou patrol battalion when he had nothing to do, and helped Lin Yongquan rectify the soldiers of the old army.

In late August, Zeng Qi heard that the reorganization of the Jinzhou patrol battalion had been quite effective, saying that after training the new army for 500 years, he praised Zhao Dongyun greatly and asked Zhao Dongyun to send officers of the new army to train another Fengtian patrol battalion for him, that is, Zhang Zuolin's patrol horse infantry guerrilla force.

Hearing the news, Zhao Dongyun couldn't smile bitterly, and went to help Zhang Zuolin train by himself? Just kidding!

Zhang Zuolin, a famous warlord in later generations, is now just a small bandit, last year was incorporated into the official army by Zengqi, from bandits to official bandits, this year with the establishment of the Jinzhou patrol battalion of the spring breeze, Zhang Zuolin's department and the Xinmin Mansion patrol battalion were combined into the Fengtian patrol battalion Mabu guerrillas, and also unashamedly said that they would follow the example of the Beiyang Standing Army and reorganize into a new army.

After more than a month passed, it is estimated that he knew that it was impossible to train a new army by relying on bandits, and after seeing that Zhao Dongyun had trained a battalion of more than 500 new troops by Zhao Dongyun in the Jinzhou patrol battalion, he also had the idea of asking Zhao Dongyun to help him train the new army.

However, in Zhao Dongyun's opinion, this kind of thing is purely idle, he is not Zengqi's subordinate, although he Zhao Dongyun took a part of Fengtian's co-pay silver, but this is not what Zhao Dongyun begged for, he Zengqi had to give. To put it bluntly, don't look at Zengqi as General Shengjing, but Zhao Dongyun didn't take him seriously.

Now that there is a huge China, only Yuan Shikai is qualified to criticize Zhao Dongyun, and Zhao Dongyun ignores the others!

Zeng Qi asked him to send someone to Zhang Zuolin to train his troops, if it was clear that he wanted to hand over Zhang Zuolin's troops to him for reorganization and control, then Zhao Dongyun would definitely welcome him with both hands, and immediately incorporated Zhang Zuolin's department, but no, what Zeng Qi wanted him to send someone to help Zhang Zuolin train his troops.

This kind of thing is good for others, and in the long run, it is even harmful to oneself and others!

So Zhao Dongyun didn't give Zeng Qi any face, and directly refused with reasons such as the shortage of officials, originally this matter was over, Zeng Qi couldn't force him to help Zhang Zuolin train the army, but what he didn't expect was that there was a follow-up to this matter!

In late August, Zhao Dongyun, who had just returned to his daughter township after inspecting military affairs in Songshan Town, heard a report from his subordinates, saying that Zhang Zuolin asked to see him!

"How could the bandit leader come to see him?" Zhao Dongyun was a little puzzled, you must know that he had no contact with Zhang Zuolin, Zhang Zuolin in later generations may be a big warlord, but now in 1903, he is just a bandit leader with only a few hundred people under his hands, and in Zhao Dongyun's heart, he is one of the people who can be ignored.

Because he is in the core of Beiyang, there are a lot of big warlords in later generations, so Zhao Dongyun has long lost his curiosity about those so-called historical celebrities, although he has heard of Zhang Zuolin after coming to Jinzhou, but Zhao Dongyun has not paid much attention to him, and he has no leisure to pay attention to a small role when he is busy expanding military warfare.

Zhao Dongyun didn't bother to guess why Zhang Zuolin came to see him, because he didn't plan to see him at all, if a random cat or dog wanted to see him, he would have to go to see him, he would have to be busy, so he waved his hand directly: "Just say I'm busy, let Dongping send him away!" ”

After learning that Zhao Dongyun didn't see him, Zhang Zuolin's face was full of disappointment, but he didn't dare to be presumptuous when he looked at the headquarters of the Third Mixed Association, and finally followed Zhao Dongping's steps out, but he still didn't give up, and said to Zhao Dongping: "Section Chief Zhao, I will be the east of Zhenyi Building at night, please be sure to appreciate Section Chief Zhao!" ”

As he spoke, a silver ticket had already appeared in the palm of his hand!

Zhao Dongping's eyes were very good, and he saw at a glance that the amount on the silver ticket was five hundred taels of silver, and immediately accepted it quietly, and said, "Then nag Zhang Guan to take a meal!" ”