"In the newly built machine gun battalion, there will be four battalions, and in the early stage, we will first organize and train three battalions, and then train the fourth battalion after the first three battalions are slightly completed.

Among the first three battalions, the first battalion must be formed after two months, followed by the second and third battalions, which can be postponed until the end of the year, and the fourth battalion will be set up after the first battalion is formed, and it is expected that it will be formed early next year.

That is to say, it is expected that by the beginning of next year, we will train the fourth battalion of machine gun teams for Lord Duxian! After Zhao Dongyun said this, he looked at everyone again.

"In order to make the battalions as effective as possible, the commanders of each department will also try to use the old man!" After saying this, Zhao Dongyun could already see the expectant eyes of his subordinates, and at this time, he naturally would not do anything to make a fool of himself to tease the patience of his generals.

Immediately said: "I still serve as the commander of the new machine gun battalion, Lin Yongquan serves as the battalion assistant and the general office of the battalion affairs section, Zhao Dongping serves as the general office of the ordnance section, and Kong Weibei serves as the general office of the law enforcement section!" ”

"The first battalion management belt is served by Qin Lin, the former leader of the former team."

"The second battalion management belt is served by Pei Lianying, the former leader of the left team."

"The third battalion is in charge of Lan Tongmai, the former leader of the rear team."

Zhao Dongyun did not delay for too long, and soon said the candidates for the commanders of each department, and the above commanders were actually old men from the machine gun battalion, except for Lin Yongquan and Zhao Dongping, the remaining four people were actually the original four team leaders, and this promotion was to promote them all, which can be said to be beneficial to everyone.

In addition, if you look closely at the above appointments, then you will find a very strange situation, that is, there is a newly built machine gun battalion on top of the following machine gun battalions, and this new machine gun battalion has set up positions such as the battalion affairs section, the ordnance section, and the law enforcement section in the name of the battalion, which is actually very unusual.

If someone has a richer imagination, then basically they can see that the battalion of this so-called newly-built machine-gun battalion is very similar to the newly-built army of Yuan Shikai back then, except that one is called the 'battalion office' and the other is called the 'battalion affairs section'.

The most important point is that Yuan Shikai asked him to form three new machine gun battalions on the one hand, and although he was given the authority to supervise the machine gun affairs, he was also only given the title of commander of the new machine gun battalion.

That is to say, if Zhao Dongyun wants to directly train the machine gun battalion under his subordinates, then he can only rely on the newly built machine gun battalion, so that he can not avoid expanding the battalion organization of the new machine gun battalion to deal with many affairs, and Zhao Dongyun also has no power to change the official name of the 'new machine gun battalion', you must know that the five words 'new machine gun battalion' are the official number recognized by the above, just like the 'Wuwei Right Army' and 'Wuwei Right Army Vanguard', this name cannot be changed indiscriminately.

That's why it's an embarrassing thing in today's camp!

There are many subordinate troops, and some institutions must be added to the newly built machine gun battalion to manage camp affairs, such as camp affairs, ordnance, and law enforcement, but in order to distinguish it from the battalion office and law enforcement department of the armed guard right army and the standing army, it is renamed the battalion affairs section, ordnance section, and law enforcement section.

In addition, Zhao Dongyun has only a few subordinates, and he is not Yuan Shikai who can recruit talents in a big way, so he can only promote his original subordinates on the spot and entrust them with important tasks.

The others said that they had expected it for a long time, and although they all had happy faces, it was not too much of a situation, but when Zhao Dongping, a young man who was only eighteen years old, heard that his cousin had appointed him as the general office of the Ordnance Section, his face instantly became out of shape.

"I, thank you, third brother, I will not let you down!" Zhao Dongping was so excited that he even forgot the official title of officialdom.

In the face of his cousin's excitement, Zhao Dongyun waved his hand to signal him to calm down, the reason why he appointed Zhao Dongping, a young cousin, as the general office of the Ordnance Section, was actually selfish, on the one hand, he wanted to promote his cousin to assist him, he Zhao Dongyun in the Beiyang Army has no trustworthy relatives and brothers to help, if he can pull this cousin up, he can also give him some help in the future, whether it is to play rebellion or fight for power, it is more convenient to have his own brother to help.

In addition, there is another reason that he plans to do some personal things in this arms purchase! This time there is a lot of arms purchases, and it is an international practice to give kickbacks to military purchases, and arranging for Zhao Dongping to take back the buckles is basically equivalent to Zhao Dongyun taking back the buckles himself, and this can only be regarded as a small matter, the real thing is that Zhao Dongyun still wants to get involved in the arms business.

Due to the lack of large-scale arsenals under Yuan Shikai, the Beiyang army has been forced to import a large number of weapons over the years, which contains countless business opportunities, whether it is to be a second-way dealer to dump arms or simply build their own factory to produce arms, as long as it can be bigger, it will be of great benefit to Zhao Dongyun's future development.

In fact, when he bought a machine gun for the first time last year, he had the idea of getting involved in the arms business, but at that time he only wanted to be an arms dealer, import and export arms, and get some kickbacks.

However, when he was appointed by Yuan Shikai as the superintendent of the machine gun, he saw that he had a large order of more than 100,000 taels of silver under his hand, and said that it was fake, so he began to think about how to make a profit from it, and it was obviously not good to be a second-way dealer, because Yuan Shikai generally sold arms and directly found foreign foreign companies, and he Zhao Dongyun could not get a large number of artillery or rifles from foreigners.

Zhao Dongyun thought about it and still felt that there was no future for being a second-class dealer, and the only way to go to power was to make arms and buy them by himself, because then he would not only make money, but also rely on arms to become capital for promotion.

It's just that it's not easy to make munitions, and the money to be invested is not a small amount, although Zhao Dongyun is just a small new army officer, and his monthly salary is only a few hundred taels of silver, but his family is rich!

Although the Zhao family is not a wealthy family, it is not a problem to gather the strength of the entire family and come up with a hundred thousand taels of silver.

Relying on this money, and then asking Zhou Xuexi to borrow some money, and then deducting 10,000 or 20,000 yuan from the funds for running the machine gun unit this time, Zhao Dongyun felt that he could barely make up 200,000 taels, and it was estimated that he would be able to run a small workshop-style arsenal at that time.

Of course, Zhao Dongyun didn't expect to rely on this money to bring in a complete set of machinery and equipment for the manufacture of rifles, bullets, and smokeless gunpowder, but he only wanted to get one of them, such as bullets, grenades, and mortars that he was very much looking forward to.

In fact, Zhao Dongyun was still too optimistic at this time, he always felt that during the Anti-Japanese War in later generations, the handicraft workshops could make rifles and shells, and he could make something out of hundreds of thousands of taels of silver, but he would know that only a smokeless gunpowder production line with a daily output of 300 pounds would cost 1440,000 taels in this year, and if you want to make rifles and bullets, you can't even buy equipment without hundreds of thousands of taels of silver.

In fact, the equipment is just a trivial matter, the key is that he has no talent!

Equipment, you can buy it if you have money, borrow it if you don't have enough, cheat if you can't borrow it, rob it if you can't cheat it, you can always get it, but it's really hard to solve this thing in a big China, there are only a few people who know how to turn on the equipment, he Zhao Dongyun wants to go there to invite someone?

These problems are numb when I think about them, of course, the construction of the arsenal is just Zhao Dongyun's idea, far from the time of implementation, those things are still a headache in the future, and now there is no need to deal with these.

Now that Zhao Dongping is in the position of the Ordnance Section, the main reason is to let him deal more with foreigners, establish channels, and get a kickback when the time comes, and become a second-tier dealer or something.

Finally, if you really want to build an arsenal, it can be more convenient to buy machine equipment!

The idea of the arsenal can only be regarded as Zhao Dongyun's current lofty ideal, so let's not mention it for the time being.

After appointing the chief officers of the ministries, he asked his subordinates to start recruiting soldiers in various prefectures and counties in Zhili, and at this time Zhao Dongyun didn't know whether to complain or praise Beiyang's recruitment system.

The recruitment and training of soldiers in the various units in Beiyang have not yet completed real unification; the Wuwei Right Army has its own recruitment and training system, the standing army also has its own set, the vanguard and the self-improvement army also have their own work, and even the left and right towns in the standing army are also irrelevant, so it can be said that there are as many chaotic as they are.

Now that Zhao Dongyun wants to set up a machine gun team, he also has to recruit troops himself and then train them himself, and Yuan Shikai will not directly allocate thousands of recruits to him.

It can be said that this system of independent recruitment is the biggest drawback of the various Beiyang warlords breaking away from Yuan Shikai's control in the future!

Of course, complaining is complaining, but Zhao Dongyun is still unwilling to change the current system of independent recruitment and training, unless he doesn't want to go from being out of Yuan Shikai's control to becoming independent.

And he believes that he is definitely not the only one who has the same idea, otherwise there are so many elites in Beiyang, and none of them will see this problem?

They can definitely see the impossible, but they just don't say it, and they don't even let others say it, why? Isn't it that one day you will be able to climb to the top of power independently and rely on your army!

Yuan Shikai may also know, but he has absolute confidence to control the military leaders under him, and he also has this ability, so he may not know it in order to win over his generals.

The real reason is not something that Zhao Dongyun can guess.

When Zhao Dongyun sent people to recruit soldiers and buy ordnance, and those subordinates were busy, Zhao Dongyun was finally a little free.

The matter of organizing and training the machine gun unit is on the right track, and the rest is to go step by step according to the plan, and there is no need to rush if you are not in a hurry, at this time, Zhao Dongyun can also focus on other directions, such as the development of his own industry.

Zhao Dongyun, like most bureaucrats in this year, became an official himself and then there were other people in the family who were in business, but unlike other families, in the second room of the Zhao family where Zhao Dongyun was located, in addition to him, the head of the family, his mother did not understand business, and the younger brother below was too young, so he had to take care of the affairs of this middle industry himself.

So taking advantage of the fact that he was a little free these days, he called Zhao Chenbin, the general manager of Fuyuan Yarn Factory, and prepared to talk to him about the expansion of the yarn factory!