Under the vigorous implementation of Yuan Shikai, Zhang Zhidong and other Han ministers, China in the late Qing Dynasty was changing at a speed unimaginable in the past thousand years, especially after the official abolition of the imperial examination, which also announced that China had officially entered a new era.

In 1905, although Japan and Russia in the northeast were still engaged in a brutal war of attrition, and many people in China still had public opinion about it, the Russo-Japanese War in the northeast did not affect China's New Deal reform, on the contrary, it further stimulated the domestic New Deal reform.

Under the background of the implementation of the New Deal in all provinces in China, Zhao Dongyun, who took office as General Shengjing, was naturally no exception, and promulgated many measures for the reform of the New Deal as soon as he took office.

In order to develop the economy, he successively set up the Finance Bureau, the Salt Bureau, the Agriculture and Forestry Bureau, the Mining Bureau, the Industry and Commerce Bureau, and the Fengtian Guanyin.

Subsequently, in order to cooperate with the economic reform, he successively rectified the affairs of the five ministries in Shengjing and prepared for the subsequent further dismantling of administrative organs.

Parallel to the economic reform is an extremely important military reform!

In mid-May, Zhao Dongyun set up a patrol police bureau, the general office is Wang Zhixin, the year before last he had been with Zhao Bingjun in Tianjin to organize a patrol police, not only has rich experience but also is a serious Beiyang people, see Zhao Dongyun after the Shengjing general and also have to handle the patrol police, so he took Zhao Chenliang's way to recommend himself, Zhao Dongyun saw that his ability was not bad, so he accepted his contribution and appointed as the general office of the patrol police bureau.

The meeting office was served by Zhu Qiling, who is also the adopted son of Xu Shichang from the old Beiyang faction, and Zhu Qiling was able to come to the Fengtian Patrol Police Station to serve as the meeting office, or as a result of Xu Shichang's personal recommendation, Xu Shichang's face Zhao Dongyun naturally did not retreat, so he asked him to come over to serve as the meeting office.

After the establishment of the patrol police bureau, Zhao Dongyun ordered all kinds of chaotic eight-banner troops, defense troops, robbery hunting battalions, county teams, and other old-style military forces in Fengtian Province to be merged into the patrol police bureau for rectification and training, and all the old and weak were abolished without mercy.

In order to avoid the appearance of such a big tail as group training in the locality, Zhao Dongyun specially came down to patrol police officers in various places to be uniformly organized and dispatched by the patrol police bureaus, and the required funds and equipment were also uniformly assigned and distributed by the patrol police bureaus.

In order to alleviate the financial pressure, the patrol police under the jurisdiction of the patrol police bureau have relatively relaxed conditions when recruiting soldiers, and the salary will also be reduced, and the equipment is temporarily based on the inventory in Mukden Province and the old guns confiscated, and the main models are mainly single-loaded old Mauser and Martini rifles, and the other messy models are not used anymore.

In addition, this patrol police may seem like the police of later generations, but in fact it is not, the patrol police in the late Qing Dynasty were actually an auxiliary military force, mainly dealing with the people in the jurisdiction and bandits.

If the Third Town and Jinzhou Patrol Battalion are field troops, then this patrol is a local garrison army.

The main purpose of organizing and training patrol police is not to obtain a few thousand patrol officers, but to rectify a large number of old troops in Fengtian Province, so as to free up the funds for these old armies, and then Zhao Dongyun can organize and train new troops.

First of all, he reported to the imperial court, saying that in response to the call of the provinces across the country to train the new army, he was expected to prepare to train two towns, but Fengtian was barren and had no money and no food, so he was ready to make two mixed forces first.

"The Jin battalion can be changed to the first mixed association of Fengtian without much movement, and the original department of the Fengying can be reorganized into a battalion of cavalry, two battalions of the infantry team, and a team of artillery, and it is planned to transfer a battalion of the infantry team of the third town, a team of artillery, and then a battalion of the newly recruited infantry team, a team of artillery, and a team of engineering, baggage, and military music, which can be formed into a mixed association."

It can be said that it is not easy for Zhao Dongyun to engage in two Fengtian mixed associations, the first mixed association is naturally no problem, but the second mixed association is more difficult.

First of all, the reorganization of the Fengtian Patrol Battalion is also more troublesome, although the original troops of this Fengtian Patrol Battalion are not very good, but it is also an army that Zengqi has spent a lot of effort to make, and it is still possible to fight bandits, so it cannot be abolished like other old armies.

According to Zhao Dongyun's plan, there were a total of four roads before this Fengtian patrol battalion, but one of them was Zhang Zuolin who has now been killed by Zhao Dongyun, and one of the remaining three roads is an empty shelf, so in fact, there is only Feng Delin all the way, and the one led by Zeng Qi himself adds up to about 3,000 people.

A cavalry battalion could be set up by drawing Feng Delin's horse team from it, and then the remaining infantry team under Feng Delin and the infantry team on the other road were reorganized, and they were barely able to make up two infantry battalions.

In addition, the Fengtian Patrol Battalion originally had eight artillery pieces, although they were all old and retired guns, but they could barely be pulled out to make an artillery team to use first, and then replace them with new guns one after another.

In this way, a cavalry battalion, two infantry battalions, and an artillery team can be reorganized from the Fengtian patrol battalion, of course, they alone cannot form much combat effectiveness, in order to make this mixed alliance into an army, Zhao Dongyun plans to transfer an infantry battalion and an artillery team from his third town, so that he can rely on this infantry battalion and artillery team to form a core combat strength, and then slowly train and recruit new infantry battalions in the future, and it is expected that by the second half of the year, he will be able to barely get this Fengtian second mixed association out.

"Brother Xu, I'll ask you for this second mixed association!" Zhao Dongyun held Xu Bangjie's hand and said in a cautious voice.

"Don't worry, my lord, I, Xu Bangjie, will not let you down, as long as the funds are sufficient, I will be able to train a strong army for you in half a year at most!" Xu Bangjie looked at Zhao Dongyun, who was much younger than himself, although he sighed in his heart that everything was impermanent, in 1901, both of them were still the commanders of the Wuwei Right Army, but the opportunities for the two of them in the next few years can be described as very different.

In 1902, he had Duan Qirui and Zhao Dongyun's strong push, but he failed to become one of the leaders of the Third Association, and in 1903, the Third Town was established, and Zhao Dongyun once again wanted to recruit him to come over and serve as the leader of the Fifth Association, but he was robbed of the position by Wang Zhanyuan.

Zhao Dongyun has actually always wanted to push him to the top, but he has not been able to succeed, as for the reason why he wants to win him over, it is not because of how well he trains the army to fight, but because Xu Bangjie is the backbone of Zhao Dongyun's faction!

In 1901, the two of them were brothers, and they maintained a good relationship in the following years, especially after Zhao Dongyun led the army to Jinzhou, Xu Bangjie, who stayed in Baoding, sent a secret message to Zhao Dongyun almost as soon as something big happened. And he has also been suppressed because of Zhao Dongyun, otherwise with his deep information in Beiyang, it is estimated that he can become the commander of the Association earlier than Zhao Dongyun, why not Cao Kun and Wang Zhanyuan, these juniors have become commanders, and he is still a commander.

is the so-called reciprocating the peach, no matter what his ability is, Zhao Dongyun wants to praise him!

So this time he personally sent a telegram to Yuan Shikai to ask for someone, saying that he lacked a general under his command to command the Fengtian Second Mixed Association, and asked Yuan Shikai to release him, Yuan Shikai naturally would not object to these things, and transferred him to Fengtianhou with a stroke of the pen, so that Zhao Dongyun would promote him to the commander of the Fengtian Second Mixed Association.

In today's Beiyang, there are already many people who will privately say what 'Su faction' and 'Zhao faction', and it can be seen from these titles that this is the internal faction of Beiyang led by Zhao Dongyun. Just as Duan Qirui is from Anhui and is called Anhui, Feng Guozhang is from Zhili and is called Zhili, Zhang Zuolin is from Fengtian and is called Feng, and Zhao Dongyun is from Xuzhou, Jiangsu, and his faction will naturally be called Su.

Therefore, according to the current development, Zhao Dongyun and others who occupy the northeast in the future will not be called the Feng system, but will be called the 'Soviet system'.

And who is not obvious in the Soviet system now, Chen Guangyuan, the leader of the Fifth Association in the third town, and the various standard commanders, Meng Enyuan and his subordinates in the Fengtian First Mixed Association, Xu Bangjie and other personnel in the Fengtian Second Mixed Association, and Zhao E, Lin Yongquan, Zhao Dongping and others in the civil officials.

These are all in Fengtian, but as one of the internal factions in Beiyang, in fact, the Soviet faction still has a lot of people in Baoding and other troops in Beiyang, such as Cao Kun, this person was very close to Wang Yingkai in his early years, but after Xin Chounian, he often mixed up with Zhao Dongyun, although this person stayed in Baoding for a long time and seemed to have nothing to do with Zhao Dongyun, but other Beiyang people, and even in the eyes of Yuan Shikai, this Cao Kun is a member of Zhao Dongyun's faction.

Then there are many young officers in the Beiyang Army, especially those officers who returned from studying abroad, most of them formed the Shaozhuang faction in Beiyang led by Zhao Dongyun, and these people are also 'Soviet' in the eyes of others

However, there are also civil officials, if Zhao Dongyun's number one descendant is Lin Yongquan, then the civil official who has a close relationship with Zhao Dongyun in the eyes of outsiders is actually Zhou Xuexi!

Although these two people don't have much personal relationship, you can see how close the foreign affairs industry engaged in by Zhou Xuexi is with Fuyuan Yarn Factory, this Zhou Xuexi and Zhao Dongyun are also wearing the same pants, Tianjin Guanyin has loaned at least one million taels of silver to Fuyuan Yarn Factory, who is the second largest shareholder of Fuyuan Ash Factory? It's Zhou Xuexi.

Moreover, since the beginning of this year, Fuyuan Yarn Factory has been preparing for the Luanzhou Coal Mine with Zhou Xuexi, which is a big business with an expected capital investment of up to 6 million taels of silver.

It can be said that in the economic field, the cooperation between Zhou Xuexi and Zhao Dongyun is very close, so although the two of them don't even meet much, it does not hinder their alliance, so in the eyes of outsiders, this Zhou Xuexi is actually Soviet.

The above people are headed by Zhao Dongyun and centered on the third town, forming the Zhao Dongyun faction within Beiyang, or the Su faction.