In mid-May, Yuan Shikai officially reported the 'Beiyang Training Battalion Salary Seal' to the Qing court, which stipulated that the new army was divided into three types: the standing army, the reserve army, and the reserve army, and the latter two were the names of the reserve army, not to mention for the time being, and the standing army was divided into two towns per army, each town had jurisdiction over two infantry associations, each association had jurisdiction over two standards, each standard had jurisdiction over three battalions, each battalion had jurisdiction over four teams, each team had jurisdiction over three platoons, each platoon had jurisdiction over three sheds, and each shed had 14 soldiers. Each town has an artillery corps, three battalions, a horse corps, four battalions, an engineering battalion, and a baggage battalion, making a total of twenty-one battalions under the jurisdiction of each town, and the total number of men in each town is more than 13,000 people, including combatants and long-term husbands.

The establishment of the Beiyang Standing Army can be said to be another leap in the history of the development of the Chinese Army; if the new army is a precedent for China's modern army, then the Beiyang Standing Army is the foundation of the new army, which has completely laid the foundation for the establishment of China's modern army.

The four-sided division of the Beiyang Standing Army made by Yuan Shikai not only became the establishment of the new army in the late Qing Dynasty, but also the standard establishment of the Republic of China for decades, and it was not until the later stage of the Anti-Japanese War that it was replaced by the American-style establishment and the Soviet-style establishment.

At the same time as the official report to the establishment of the Beiyang Standing Army, Yuan Shikai also asked for the establishment of the Military and Political Department in Zhili, and this is the origin of the Beiyang Military and Political Division.

As soon as the Beiyang Military and Political Department was established, Yuan Shikai transferred many of his core subordinates to serve in it, including Duan Qirui, Feng Guozhang, and Liu Yongqing.

However, in addition to these bigwigs, some middle-level officers were also transferred to the Beiyang Military and Political Department, and Zhao Dongyun was one of them.

A few days ago, he had already learned through various channels that Yuan Shikai was going to appoint himself as the assistant of the Coaching Office of the Military and Political Department, and to be honest, Zhao Dongyun was quite disgusted with this position, because it was a deputy position with no real power.

However, when he saw the letter of appointment in his hand, he couldn't help but sigh that things were once again beyond his expectations!

It is true that Yuan Shikai wants to appoint him as the assistant director of the coaching office, but the appointment letter has not yet finished speaking, and a few words have been added to the end' to supervise the machine gun matter, which is not counted, and there is also "the commander of the new machine gun battalion" in the back.

In other words, his assistant is not a deputy with no rights as he imagined, but can supervise all the positions of real power related to machine guns, not to mention that Yuan Shikai also retains his newly built machine gun battalion.

If Zhao Dongyun is shameless, he can completely claim to be the commander-in-chief of the machine gun of the Beiyang Army, just like Duan Qirui, although he has no name, he also claims to be the commander of the artillery of the Beiyang Army.

Of course, now there are only about 20 machine guns in one machine gun battalion in the entire Beiyang Army, and the gold content of the title of machine gun commander is too low, so don't mention it.

At the same time as appointing him as the assistant director of the coaching office, he was also removed from the post of commander of the second battalion of the right wing of the Wuwei Right Army, and this command position was directly handed over to Li Zejun, the assistant of the second battalion.

It was a matter of course that he was dismissed, after all, it was impossible for Yuan Shikai to let him supervise the machine gun affairs on the one hand, and at the same time let him lead the troops below. But he was very curious, this Li Zejun was able to ascend to the sky in one step and directly become the acting commander, this promotion speed is faster than his own, and he doesn't know who is supporting him behind him!

Looking at the letter of appointment in his hand, Zhao Dongyun couldn't help but ponder again, if the first battalion is brought to the assistant of the coach who has no real power, it will naturally be a big loss, but if this assistant can have real power, for example, if he can 'supervise the machine gun matter' and also serve as the commander of the new machine gun battalion, then he will make a lot of money.

He can also guess the reason why Yuan Shikai appointed him as the assistant of the coaching office, that is, Yuan Shikai is already preparing to train machine gun troops on a large scale in the entire Beiyang system, not that it is limited to the previous small fights, and according to the thinking habits of specialization, Yuan Shikai wants to run machine guns, so he naturally thinks of Zhao Dongyun.

This gave Zhao Dongyun a position as an assistant in the coaching office, just so that Zhao Dongyun could train the machine gun unit more conveniently.

In other words, in this letter of appointment, the important thing is not the word assistant, but the five words "supervising the machine gun matter".

In addition, there is actually another very important message in this appointment, that is, Zhao Dongyun's 'supervising machine gun matter' involves the entire Beiyang system, including the Wuwei Right Army, the vanguard of the Wuwei Right Army, the Ziqiang Army, and the Beiyang Standing Army, that is to say, this 'supervising machine gun matter' suddenly made Zhao Dongyun's height from the grassroots to the high-level, and it can even be said that Zhao Dongyun put a few toes into the threshold of the Beiyang high-level.

Although this meaning does not have much practical significance, and it is impossible for Zhao Dongyun to say that he suddenly jumped to the status of Duan Qirui and Wang Yingkai because of a machine gun, this is at least a good start, indicating that he has been accepted by Yuan Shikai and gradually introduced into the core system of Beiyang.

According to the current posture of Beiyang's army expansion, his future promotion speed should not be slow, who dares to say that he can't climb to the height of Duan Qirui and Wang Yingkai?

After receiving the letter of appointment, Zhao Dongyun and Li Zejun quickly completed the handover, but they had not left Guangzong, and Yuan Shikai sent him another award.

At the end of April, Zhao Dongyun exterminated the Guangzong rebellion and captured Jing Tingbin alive, which was a solid achievement, for which Yuan Shikai personally played for him and Duan Qirui and others to ask for credit: stay straight to supplement the use of Dao Duan Qirui, this time sent an order to lead the Wuwei Right Army, etc., to Guangzong to suppress the rebels, the Dao ...... There are a lot of things to say, but this is all about Duan Qirui, saying that how he bravely exterminated the people of Shunde Mansion has nothing to do with Zhao Dongyun.

Ladies and gentlemen, although Duan Qirui led the army to the south this time, the battle was fought by Zhao Dongyun, why did Yuan Shikai keep talking about Duan Qirui and not mentioning Zhao Dongyun.

Because the person in charge of the suppression of bandits this time is Duan Qirui, strictly speaking, Duan Qirui ordered Zhao Dongyun to go to Guangzong to suppress the bandits, so Zhao Dongyun's credit for destroying the Guangzong civil rebellion is also his credit, to put it bluntly, Zhao Dongyun's credit is his credit.

Of course, the Beiyang system in recent years has not yet wiped out the military exploits of lower-level officers, so after finishing talking about Duan Qirui, Yuan Shikai said: "I left Zhao Dongyun in Zhizhizhou, led the troops deep into Guangzong, broke the rebel army with thousands of soldiers, and captured Jing Tingbin alive, which is also very great." Although it was only a short sentence, it also gave Zhao Dongyun enough face.

After talking about the hard work and merits of your subordinates, Yuan Shikai opened his mouth for his subordinates at the back of the chapter: "He Wu Yang pleads to Tian's grace to leave the second-grade Dao title directly to supplement the Dao Duan Qirui, reward the flower feather and add the Yong number; The fourth-rank rank stayed in Zhizhizhou Zhao Dongyun, and the third-rank rank prefect stayed in Zhizhi to supplement the ......" followed by a bunch of other people's rewards, but it has little to do with Zhao Dongyun, so it is omitted here.

In the face of Yuan Shikai's personal pen-to-pen invitation excerpt, the Qing court's efficiency was still very high, and it didn't take a few days to get it right.

So when Zhao Dongyun just received the appointment of the assistant superintendent of the machine gun matter in the coaching office, he was promoted the next day, and the post of the former superintendent of the machine gun matter can only be regarded as a change in dispatch, not a promotion. And this time it can be regarded as an official promotion, from the fourth rank to the third grade.

Now, his official rank has become: the rank prefect stays in the direct subordinate to make up for it, and the official name of the dispatch is a little longer, it is: the assistant superintendent of the training office of the Beiyang Military and Political Department and the commander of the new machine gun battalion.

After bidding farewell to Zhao E, Li Zejun and a group of officers of the second battalion, Zhao Dongyun left Guangzong with the machine gun battalion and prepared to go north to Baoding to take up his post.

You must know that this machine gun battalion is an important bargaining chip for Zhao Dongyun's promotion and fortune, and it will be easily ceded to others, and he even disregarded Duan Qirui's face and insisted on bringing back all the four teams of the machine gun battalion, the reason used is that the training days of the machine gun battalion are short, and in addition, it is necessary to use the new machine gun battalion as the basis to train the machine gun officers and soldiers needed by various armies, and the task is very heavy and there must be no shortage of people.

Moreover, although there are still many Boxers and Lianzhuang in Shunde Prefecture, there are no large-scale rebels, and a small number of rebels cannot afford to turn up the storm under the suppression of the Qing army.

At Zhao Dongyun's insistence, Duan Qirui could only give up the practice of leaving two machine gun units, but the machine gun post that accompanied Duan Qirui to Shunde Mansion said that he would not return Zhao Dongyun, although Zhao Dongyun was dissatisfied with this, he didn't care too much, and the two machine guns should be given to Duan Qirui as a favor.

In addition to the machine gun battalion and Zhao Dongping who went north with Zhao Dongyun, there was also the nun Fang Ruolian!

After staying in Guangzong for so long, Zhao Dongyun used many excuses to leave Fang Ruolian in the residence where he lived at first, and since he caught Jing Tingbin, Zhao Dongyun, who was a little idle, spent a lot of time on her, women, even nuns can't stand coaxing.

Before leaving, Zhao Dongyun once again shamelessly launched a coaxing trick, saying that there was no cathedral or anything like that in the small place of Guangzong Shunde, and he could escort her to Baoding, where there was a large-scale Catholic church. In fact, this is very unconvincing, but the content of this is not important, the important thing is that when he said this, Zhao Dongyun took her little hand and said it.

At that time, Fang Ruolian didn't know what she was thinking, maybe it was because of Zhao Dongyun's earnest look, maybe her little hand was caught, she didn't let go if she didn't agree to Zhao Dongyun, or because she had been together for a long time, she was used to Zhao Dongyun's storage.

No matter what the reason, Fang Ruolian did not refuse Zhao Dongyun's proposal, of course, Fang Ruolian can still proudly say to God that she did not fall into Zhao Dongyun's warm offensive, because she never promised to go to Baoding with him, she just didn't object!

There is a big difference between agreeing and not disagreeing for her!

Everyone went all the way north along the road they came, and when they came, it took a full month to walk hundreds of miles, this time Zhao Dongyun led the machine gun battalion to arrive in Shijiazhuang from Guangzong in only a few days, and then took the train in Shijiazhuang and went straight to Baoding.

In Baoding, there is a coach assistant supervising the machine gun matter waiting for him!