In the months from the end of 1906 to the beginning of 1907, after Zhao Dongyun returned to Fengtian outside the Guanwai, he focused his main energies on the rectification of the internal areas, militarily filled the three divisions and five brigades, and used the limited strength to deploy the three eastern provinces, reorganized the patrol police force into 12 patrol police regiments of nearly 20,000 people, and at the same time exterminated a large number of bandits in the three eastern provinces, so as to increase the actual combat experience of the troops and at the same time eliminate local banditry.

In terms of administrative affairs, he set up the three eastern provinces to inspect the embassy, and while cutting and merging a large number of administrative organs, he also established a number of new-style administrative organs in accordance with the current situation, thus laying the foundation for the modern military and administrative organs of the three eastern provinces, with the three eastern provinces patrolling the embassy as the head, the army headquarters and the government affairs of the three eastern provinces standing side by side, and then the secretariat acting as the center and the supervision office acting as judicial supervision, forming an administrative system composed of the military, civilian officials, the center, and the judiciary.

Economically, Zhao Dongyun established the Fengtian Bank, launched the Fengtian silver dollar and Fengtian banknotes, and vigorously supported the private financial industry and promoted the traditional ticket number and money bank to carry out modern banking reform.

In terms of industry and commerce, in addition to continuing to develop the Huludao Industrial Zone, he also prepared for the Yingkou Industrial Zone, shouted the slogan of building a 'world-class soybean industrial base', based on a large number of potatoes in Northeast China, in-depth development of the soybean processing industry, and exported the two main soybean processing products: soybean flour and soybean oil to Japan and Europe, in exchange for extremely valuable foreign exchange earnings for the three eastern provinces.

In addition to the in-depth development of the soybean industry, Zhao Dongyun will naturally not say to give up or despise other industries, such as the textile industry, this industry has been the three eastern provinces in the past two years to support the industrial project, the industrial and commercial bureau has formulated two major goals, one is to focus on the development of the silk industry in Andong, although the silk industry in the Andong region is not as large as the scale of Zhejiang and Jiangsu in the south, but it is barely able to get by in the northern region, Moreover, raw silk is one of the few products in contemporary China that can be exported in large quantities to earn foreign exchange, so regardless of the size of the scale, it will be developed first, and then it will make as much foreign exchange as it can get.

The second is to focus on the development of the cotton textile industry with Huludao Industrial Zone as the core, including spinning, weaving, dyeing and a series of cotton textile products, but the pressure on the cotton industry is relatively large, they not only have to compete with Japan, Britain and other foreign cloths, but also compete with the southern domestic textile industry represented by Nantong native cloth in the south.

In addition to these two major industries, there are also papermaking, flour, winemaking, mining, machinery, chemical and other industries, but these are not large, and they cannot become the economic pillars of the three eastern provinces for the time being.

Today's three eastern provinces are not the base of heavy industry in later generations, but a very typical agricultural economic area, and their main products are actually not steel and coal, but wheat and soybeans, and the development of industry is actually mainly dependent on these two agricultural products.

It's not that Zhao Dongyun doesn't want to get out a few super-large steel factories and engage in heavy industry, but the problem is that he has no money to invest, even if he has money to invest when he takes a step back, who will he sell the trained steel to?

It is impossible to say that Zhao Dongyun opened his mouth and waved his hand to build a large number of factories, and then these factories would be able to produce products for him to manufacture taxes, and the products produced by these factories must have a market.

Take the cloth that people are most familiar with, the cloth produced is not sold by saying that it can be sold, and you have to compete with foreign cloth and the cloth of other domestic merchants.

Speaking of steel, this year's domestic steel consumption is mainly concentrated in two aspects, one is the railway, the other is the military industry, as for other civilian steel consumption is almost negligible, the military industry does not use much, the subsidiary steel plant of Fuyuan Machinery Factory, that is, Tangshan Iron and Steel Plant can fully meet the steel consumption of Fuyuan Machinery Factory, the reason why Fuyuan Machinery Factory, also needs to import a lot of steel materials, that is because these materials that need to be imported are high-quality alloy steel, such as gun barrel materials, None of the domestic steelworks, including the Tangshan Iron and Steel Plant, are able to refine these cannon barrel steels.

In terms of the rails required for the railway, there are not many railways built in China at present, the rails of the Beijing-Hanzhou Railway and the Guangdong-Hanzhou Railway in the south are all taken over by the Hanyang Iron and Steel Plant, while the Beijing-Zhangjiakou Railway in the north and the two straight-line railways in the three eastern provinces are occupied by the Tangshan Iron and Steel Plant.

In terms of private iron, the situation in the northeast is relatively good, and Zhao Dongyun's vigorous development of Huludao Republic Zone and Yingkou Industrial Zone require a lot of steel consumption, but these amounts Tangshan Iron and Steel Plant has been able to meet.

Tangshan Iron and Steel Plant, that is, the subsidiary steel plant of Fuyuanji Factory, the scale of investment is not small, after several years of investment, Fuyuanji Factory, and the cumulative investment of more than 3 million taels of silver, although the production capacity is not as good as Hanyang Iron and Steel Plant, but it is also the second largest steel plant in China.

Although the plant is built as a subsidiary steel plant of the Fuyuanji Factory, its steel output is too large, and the Fuyuanji Factory, most of which is still digested by the rails required by the Beijing-Zhangjiakou Railway and several railways in the three eastern provinces.

Therefore, in the case that the market is not large and there is already a Tangshan Iron and Steel Plant, Zhao Dongyun can no longer invest millions of taels of silver to build a steel plant and compete with Tangshan Iron and Steel Plant, so at present, the steel industry is not Zhao Dongyun's priority development industry.

Of course, not giving priority to the development of steel does not mean that Zhao Dongyun will not develop other heavy industries, such as the coal industry, he is very supportive, why? Because there is a market for this coal dug out, now the industry at home and abroad can be said to be the steam industry, the train operation needs coal, the factory operation needs coal, the ship operation also needs coal, the domestic coal market has been continuously expanding, even if there are several large coal plants in Tangshan, but Zhao Dongyun still decided to develop coal on a large scale in Fengtian, ready to supply Huludao Industrial Zone and the future Yingkou Industrial Zone.

Its key development is Fushun, during the Russo-Japanese War, Fushun due to the production of a large amount of coal, its coal is widely used in the Russian army, and the Russian army is also stationed in Fushun quite a lot of troops, because the Liaoyang front line Japanese army has not been able to make a breakthrough, so this Fushun has been under the control of the Russian army. After the end of the Russo-Japanese War, the Russian army withdrew, and the mines in Fushun resumed normal operation, and Zhao Dongyun also set up the 'Fushun Mining Bureau' in Fushun to fully manage the coal mine production in the area.

And the introduction of Beiyang Luanzhou Mining Company, that is, one of the two predecessors of the famous Kailuan Coal Mine in history, but the company is not the same as history, the company is government-run in history, but due to the addition of Fuyuan Company, the company has become a commercial enterprise, but like many commercial enterprises, there is a clause that 'foreigners are not allowed to participate directly or indirectly'. This mining company was mainly founded by the joint venture of Tianjin Guanyin and Fuyuan Company sponsored by Zhou Xuexi.

In addition to introducing the Luanzhou Mining Company to set up a branch in Fushun, Zhao Dongyun also instructed the Mining Office under the Ministry of Industry and Commerce to invest in the establishment of the Fushun Coal Mine together with Fuyuan Company and several other businessmen, and directly annexed and acquired several original small coal mining companies in Fushun, such as the Huaxingli Company hosted by Wang Chengxiao.

Even in order to develop Fushun's coal, the Fengtian Railway Company also invested in the construction of a branch railway from Fengtian to Fushun.

If Zhao Dongyun only has limited support for the coal industry, then it can be regarded as full support for the military industry.

Because Zhao Dongyun, like Yuan Shikai back then, wanted to set up an arsenal but had no money in his hand, and wanted to set up an arsenal of the same scale as the Fuyuan Machinery Factory, the hardware investment for the purchase of equipment alone would cost at least three or five million taels of silver, and the Finance Bureau of the three eastern provinces could not even come up with the four million military expenses needed to expand the army.

At that time, if the Fuyuan Machinery Factory had not been engaged in commercial operations and had introduced a large amount of northern capital to do it together, this arsenal with assets of more than 10 million taels of silver would not have been able to be built by Beiyang or Zhao Dongyun alone.

Therefore, he used administrative means to force the Fuyuan Machinery Factory to withdraw funds and personnel to set up a branch factory in Shenyang, but the investment in the establishment of the branch factory was often more than millions, and the Fuyuan Machinery Factory couldn't come up with so much cash for a while, and Zhao Dongyun asked the Fengtian Bank to provide them with loan support, and also matched up to find powerful businesses to join forces.

In the end, the investment ratio of Fuyuan Machinery Qì Factory accounted for 60% of the shares, and other businesses accounted for 40% of the shares.

It took a lot of effort to put up a shelf in the Shenyang Arsenal, and it has now entered the stage of building a plant and installing a small amount of equipment, and more equipment has been placed in the United Kingdom, Germany and even the United States, and it will be shipped to China for installation and commissioning in the next few months, and it is expected that it will be able to conduct small-scale trial production at the beginning of next year.

In addition to the Shenyang Arsenal under preparation, Zhao Dongyun also set up three repair institutes within the army, namely the Harbin Repair Institute, the Jinzhou Repair Institute, and the Shenyang Repair Institute. These three repair institutes have accepted some of the old equipment and personnel of some government-run arsenals and other enterprises in the northeast region before the former Qing Dynasty, and the technology and scale are naturally not very large, but the repair and repair of firearms is still not a big problem, and it is impossible to take the rifle to the Fuyuan Machinery Factory to repair it.

While Zhao Dongyun was developing industry and commerce in the northeast and expanding the army, Duan Qirui and Wang Shizhen's troops were now fighting in the Liangjiang and Huguang regions and the Southern Federation.