Since May 1905, that is, after Zhao Dongyun took office as General Shengjing and carried out the New Deal reform, Fengtian has emerged with a new look that has never been seen before, and in just half a year, it has already made earth-shaking changes in Fengtian.

Because the eastern Liaoning region is still in the war zone, there are relatively few reforms, and most of them are concentrated in the reform of people's livelihood and education, and there is not much development in industry and commerce, but in the western Liaoning region, there are great changes.

Liaoxi is the actual control area of Zhao Dongyun, and Zhao Dongyun can be said to be using strong and powerful means to carry out various reforms, what are the so-called strong means?

For example, in order to kick out these old diehards, Zhao Dongyun impeached and dismissed a few people every few days, and in October 1905, Zhao Dongyun impeached and removed more than 30 old officials in Fengtian who opposed the financial reform.

And as a soldier, he is even more decisive for some riots, such as the beginning of the patrol police reform, due to the abolition of most of the old army, which caused large-scale riots, in the face of these troublemakers, Zhao Dongyun did not hesitate at all, almost once it happened, suppressed once, from May to July, a total of thirteen riots were suppressed, not many were arrested, but more than 300 people were executed on the spot.

For people like Zhao Dongyun, all kinds of so-called political opposition, protests and the like will only get him bullets......

Most of those who died regarded him as those foreign generals, the pioneers of reform, but they forgot that Zhao Dongyun not only knew how to play reform and run industry, but he was also a soldier with blood on his hands, and his duty was to kill people.

By the beginning of 1906, Fengtian had completed the initial tax reform and concentrated the financial power on the provincial finance, and at the same time, at this time, Fengtian could no longer see those old-style troops, and the regular troops stationed in various prefectures and counties to maintain law and order had been replaced by all patrol police, while the regular army stationed in various important places in western Liaoning was mainly composed of the two mixed associations in Fengtian, and the third town continued to be stationed in Jinzhou.

It can be said that Zhao Dongyun's military reform in Fengtian is much more thorough than that of other provinces, and the reason why it can be carried out so thoroughly, in addition to Zhao Dongyun's strong means, is also related to the fact that the old army of Fengtian is not strong. So after recruiting a group of people who joined the patrol team and killing a group of recalcitrant people, the rest was completely dismissed.

As for other provinces, it was not so easy, even the direct subordinates directly under Yuan Shikai could not completely eliminate all the old armies.

It can be said that among the many Fengtian New Deal reforms hosted by Zhao Dongyun, the financial and military reforms are the most successful and thorough, but most of these two are invisible to ordinary people, after all, ordinary people will not care about the quality of the government's financial and taxation system, nor will they care about the two Fengtian Mixed Formation Associations under Zhao Dongyun's hands are already expanding the establishment of the town.

People are generally concerned about the development of the actual people's livelihood, and the development of the actual people's livelihood is mostly reflected in agriculture, industry and commerce!

Speaking of the development of the actual people's livelihood, the locals of Huludao may be the deepest feeling, in the first half of the year, Huludao is just a small place, the port area is even more barren, but since the establishment of the Huludao Industrial Zone, countless people from all directions poured in, countless kinds of machines are also moved down from the small port that has not yet been completed, Huludao Railway Station was originally just a small station, but now every day is people come and go, becoming the largest station in western Liaoning, and there are more passengers than Jinzhou.

Most of the people who came in from other places entered the newly opened factories in Huludao, especially the few large factories in the textile industry, and almost none of them needed hundreds or even thousands of workers.

When there are more and more enterprises and more and more workers, the locals of Huludao unconsciously find that they don't know when it started, Huludao has become a small city with a population of tens of thousands, and the population is still growing rapidly, and it is estimated that it will not take long to exceed 100,000 people.

And there are many people who see business opportunities from it, because this Huludao is a typical immigrant industrial city, most of the residents are employees of various enterprises, their clothing, food, housing and transportation are huge consumer markets, when a breakfast shop owner who sells bread and steamed buns has become a monthly income of hundreds of taels of silver in just three months, more people with a keen sense of smell begin to no longer stubbornly want to work in those enterprises, but open a variety of small shops, the most of which are all kinds of food, in addition to all kinds of groceries, cloth, ready-to-wear stores and so on.

Relying on the consumer market of workers in these enterprises, Huludao Industrial Zone has quickly formed a scattered but overall large-scale tertiary industry, and although the Taxation Bureau of Huludao Industrial Zone cannot receive those huge business taxes from various enterprises, it can also collect a part of the tax from the tertiary industry, and finally get rid of the embarrassing realm that the industrial zone has been relying on selling land and renting factories to obtain income.

Duty-free, treaty ports, and especially the new administrative one-stop service system made the capitalists who came to Huludao extremely happy.

Now is not the Opium War period, to open a commercial port has to come to a war, and now there are more treaty ports in China, so Huludao as a newly opened treaty port is actually not special, what really attracts merchants is the duty-free policy, and leaving them is the excellent administrative service system of Huludao Industrial Zone.

You must know that these businesses to invest have spent a lot of effort to recruit from all over the world, so Zhao Dongyun repeatedly emphasized that the authorities of the industrial zone must have a spirit of service, and the administrative authorities are to serve enterprises, not to make things difficult for enterprises in turn, and after his death, Zhao Dongyun personally launched the so-called one-stop service for investment.

This one-stop investment service is because there are all kinds of chaotic rules and even legal provisions in contemporary China, and in order to avoid any trouble encountered by enterprises applying for enterprises, all procedures are handled by the industrial zone authorities. In addition to handling legal formalities, you can also help contact the purchase of equipment, and at the same time help recruit workers.

To put it simply, as long as the investor comes with a bank check, then the authorities of the industrial zone will take care of the rest for you, from the formalities to contact the foreign bank to purchase equipment, hire foreign technicians and then recruit ordinary workers, all can be solved, and even if your products are the advantage of export products in the Northeast, such as soybean oil and oil cake, these two can also help you expand the Japanese and European markets.

Within a few months of the opening of Huludao Industrial Zone, Zhao E got along with several well-known foreign firms in China, and several famous foreign firms such as Jardine Matheson were in a hurry to open branches in Huludao Industrial Zone to solicit business nearby.

And this so-called one-stop service also has a bad point, that is, the heads of various departments in the Huludao Industrial Zone are tired like dogs every day, it is reported that Zhao E sleeps in the office building in the industrial zone almost every day, and has not been home for more than two months!

Relying on Huludao Industrial Zone, it has also driven the economic development of eastern Liaoning, especially in western Liaoning, Huludao Industrial Zone is currently dominated by textile and agricultural product processing industries, especially oil extraction and winemaking, which have a very large demand for local agricultural products.

The Northeast region has always been a grain-producing region, and although it is abundant, the huge industrial demand has further stimulated the supply and demand of local agricultural products, and the rise in soybean and wheat prices has further stimulated people to expand the scale of cultivation to harvest more agricultural products.

In addition, there are a lot of workers in Huludao Industrial Zone, and it is a pure consumption-oriented industrial city, and its huge living market consumption has also driven the surrounding product market.

And once this commercial activity is stimulated, and goods and capital are flowing, then the government is able to collect a large amount of tax revenue from it.

"As of January this year, our financial revenues last year are as follows!" Zhao Dongping's tone at the financial meeting was much lighter.

Beginning in the second half of this year, Zhao Dongyun began to gradually expand the two mixed associations into two towns, although it was not a one-time expansion, but gradually and gradually, but it still caused huge pressure on Fengtian's finances, not to mention the at least three million taels of silver needed to purchase ordnance for these two towns, and the maintenance cost of four or five million taels of silver alone per year was like a thousand catties of heavy burden on Zhao Dongping, making him almost breathless.

Others regard him as Zhao Dongyun's financial steward, and at the end of last year, he was recommended by Zhao Dongyun as the alternate prefect of Fengtian, plus three ranks, although the grade is still slightly lower, but looking at the country, he can be regarded as a middle and senior official. In addition, he is a veritable leader of Fengtian's finances, and his future in a high position at a young age can be described as red and purple, and many people think that it is estimated that in less than 20 years, the Zhao family in Xuzhou may have two feudal ministers.

But outsiders only see his scenery, but they can't see the hardships and risks behind him!

Others only know that he is in charge of Fengtian's finances, but few people pay attention to him not only to control income, but also to solve expenses!

Like all ambitious heroes, Zhao Dongyun's ambitions are almost endless, and the concrete embodiment is not only to run a new policy, but also to expand the army!

The cost of expanding the two mixed associations into two towns, and doing it at the same time, is almost tens of millions! This is almost a difficult task for Fengtian, whose financial income from 1904 to 1905 was only two million taels, but Zhao Dongyun didn't care how Zhao Dongping solved the financial problem, he just needed money!

Zhao Dongping knows his cousin's temper very well, and he gives you the task to trust you, if you can't do it, then Zhao Dongyun will not hesitate to change to another person who can do it, and the reason why Zhao Dongping has always been reused by Zhao Dongyun is also because he has always properly handled the financial problems of the third town.

However, if he hadn't made any achievements in Fengtian's financial predicament, Zhao Dongping would not be far from being abandoned!