Since Mi Zhenbiao was eliminated, Jiang Guidi was also disheartened and resigned from the post of Rehe Commander, and when he left, no one took care of Rehe, and caught up with Lao Yuan and the Protector Army in the big war, and the post of Rehe Commander has been vacant.

The Feng army occupied Chifeng and controlled the north of Rehe, and taking over Rehe at this time would inevitably clash with the Feng army. If you don't have enough strength, no one dares to take it, but those who have the strength are unwilling to take it, after all, Rehe is relatively barren, except for livestock, opium, and there are really not many people willing to come to this kind of chicken rib place.

In this way, it has been dragged on, and as a result, Lao Zhang and Feng Delin met each other, and the unification of Fengtian's military and government has become irreversible, and a powerful Fengtian system has appeared in Guan. For Duan Qirui, who has just become the prime minister of the cabinet, it is a little difficult to accept seeing Fengjun become bigger, but there is no suitable candidate to check and balance Lao Zhang, which makes Duan Qirui really distressed.

After thinking about it, I thought of Zhang Xun who was entrenched in Xuzhou, although Zhang Xun was once a subordinate of Yuan Shikai, but unlike Duan Qirui and others, he relied on the promotion of the Empress Dowager Cixi, so Zhang Xun was loyal to the Manchu Qing Dynasty, and his subordinates all had big braids, known as the Braided Army, and he himself was also respected as a commander.

Strictly speaking, Zhang Xun is the same as Jiang Guidi, he is not a descendant of Beiyang, Zhang Xun is strong, his qualifications are very old, and he is entrenched in Xuzhou, the key point between the north and the south, Duan Qirui is also a little jealous.

Lao Duan and his henchman Xu Shuzheng discussed it carefully, and decided to pick up Zhang Xun first, lure him to fight with Lao Zhang, and then Lao Duan sat on the mountain to watch the tiger fight, so he decided to appoint Zhang Xun as the patrol envoy of Mongolia, one person in charge of three provinces, it seems to be extremely noble, but in fact it is a trap that is not big or small.

After getting this news, Fengtian was a little depressed. Since the occupation of Chifeng, Lao Zhang has regarded Rehe as the meat in his bowl, but Lao Duan sent Zhang Xun over, this old guy is strong, and his prestige and connections are not comparable to Zhang Zuolin, if he controls Rehe, it will be a little difficult for Feng Jun to intervene again.

However, there were also people who were ecstatic, that is, Zhang Tinglan, as soon as he heard that Zhang Xun had been appointed as a patrol envoy to Mongolia and Xinjiang, to manage Rehe and other places. I immediately felt that this was a great opportunity that I had never had before. Everyone knows that Zhang Xun engaged in a farce of restoration and was attacked by the people of the world.

At this time, the Feng army can jump out, directly get Rehe and other places, and smoothly extend the tentacles of the Feng army to the northwest, there is no such big bargain in this world! Therefore, Zhang Tinglan was eager to give Duan Qirui a medal. His move not only could not restrain the Feng army, but also paved the way for the further development of the Feng army.

Of course, Zhang Tinglan also knows that history has changed. Will Zhang Xun continue to perversely. There are still some doubts, so we can't sit back and wait, and we have to take some measures to deal with them. The Feng army had just experienced two major battles and urgently needed to rest and recover, and there were no conditions for the use of force at all.

If you can't come hard, you can only play soft. After thinking about it, Zhang Tinglan sent a copy of the outline for the development of border trade to Wang Yongjiang.

"Mr. Min Yuan, do you think this idea is feasible?"

Wang Yongjiang looked at it briefly, and a smile appeared on his face: "Humble words." To put it bluntly, you are smuggling to Russia with Zhang Xun, full of oil and water, with at least a few million profits every year, I believe Zhang Xun will most likely agree. It's just that it's a little cheap, this old guy, the channels we worked so hard to open up, but now we have to share it with Zhang Xun, it's not worth it. ”

"Mr. Min Yuan, if you say so, the pattern is too small, Russia is now a black hole, and the materials needed are very amazing, just relying on how much Fengtian can provide, and if you get on the thief ship alone, you can make an extra profit, and we also have enough ways to get the big man in our hands, so that Zhang Xun can only earn a little hard-earned money."

Zhang Tinglan continued: "In fact, we are not the only merchants who are smuggling in Russia, but many Shanxi Jin merchants have also joined them, but their scale is relatively small and their personnel are very scattered. Let's cooperate with Zhang Xun, just in time to be able to control the border line with the help of his liliang, and then control those Jin merchants under his command by the way, so that they can all make money for us. ”

Wang Yongjiang listened to Zhang Tinglan's words, and gradually sketched a new jihua, and a trace of excitement flashed in his eyes. Since he became the finance minister of Mukden, he has been facing huge financial pressure and is almost out of breath.

If it weren't for Zhang Tinglan's tossing and stabilizing, and at the same time establishing some factories and having his own stable financial resources, Wang Yongjiang's life would have been even more difficult.

Mukden's economic situation is typical of twin deficits, a trade deficit and a fiscal deficit. China is exporting more and more agricultural and mineral products, but the profits are meager, and they cannot match the exquisite industrial products and munitions of the West.

If we want to plug the fiscal hole, we have to borrow foreign debts on a large scale and let the foreign powers control them more tightly, which is tantamount to drinking water to quench thirst, and the result is that the debt is rolling upward, and the government has almost become a passing god of wealth for the foreign powers to collect taxes, not only in Fengtian, but also in the whole of China.

This situation of double deficits will be a fatal problem in later generations, and there are only two ways out, either to do business honestly and improve the foreign trade situation, or to simply rely on foreign debts, as was what Soviet Russia has done in history.

But for Mukden, the first option is too slow, and the great powers will take advantage of the opportunity to sabotage. And the second type, no matter how bold Zhang Tinglan is, he doesn't dare to do this. However, Zhang Tinglan still thought of a method similar to the debt, that is, smuggling, crazy smuggling to Russia, and using huge profits to plug the financial gap in Fengtian.

Then it can also use other funds to develop Fengtian's industry, enhance its economic competitiveness, and pull Mukden's finances back from the brink of collapse.

In fact, Fengtian had already started to do this early, and Wang Yongjiang had already provided the greatest convenience to smuggling enterprises such as the Xingye Trading Company, and even the Fengtian government helped them organize supplies.

Now Zhang Tinglan has expanded the scale again, and wants to unite with Zhang Xun and be controlled by the trade route from the northwest to Russia, so that the huge trade profits will fall into the hands of Mukden.

"To put it mildly, the more people who know about smuggling, the easier it is to leak out, and I'm still a little worried!"

"I don't think there is any need to worry about it for the time being, after all, Russia has become a mess, the famine is very serious, and there are many peasant uprisings everywhere. And I'm not going to let Zhang Xun understand the core of trade, he can only enjoy a little benefit on the periphery. ”

"What's the specific idea?"

"The method is very simple, that is, let Fengtian Bank act as the settlement bank for trade, and all the trade amount will pass through Fengtian Bank, so that how much money they make is in our hands."

After Zhang Tinglan's planning, the smuggling was divided into two types, the first was direct smuggling in Rehe and other places, which was directly controlled by Zhang Xun, and the two sides divided the account according to fifty-five, but the money earned should be stored in Fengtian Bank for temporary safekeeping.

The second part is the goods smuggled by Jin merchants in Rehe and other places, and after cooperating with Zhang Xun, the smuggling of individual merchants must be strictly prohibited, and they must hand over the goods to the trading company designated by Fengtian Bank to be responsible, and all proceeds must be settled by Fengtian Bank.

This method is also a good thing for those businessmen, after all, they are weak and smuggled into Russia, which is very risky. With the new approach, they only had to transport the goods to the Russian-Chinese border, and the part of the territory of Russia was taken care of by special people, and they did not have to worry about the Russians denying it, because there was a guarantee from the Mukden Bank.

Their income may be reduced, but the risk is less, and they don't have to worry about selling, they can sell more goods, and the profits can be made up, or even more, which is still very attractive to merchants.

However, the conditions that seem to be favorable to them hide a huge trap, because all transactions have to go through Fengtian Bank, so no matter how much real money they make, they have to press in the vault of Fengtian Bank, and all they can get is a colorful ticket.

And through their trading, they can also expand the use of tickets, the wider a currency circulates, the more seigniorage will be obtained, so the dollar in later generations can suck blood from all over the world, and Mukden does not seek anything else, only to take advantage of the northwest.

After all, these warlords in the northwest are still dirt buns, and they don't understand the mysteries of financial operations at all. It looks like they've made a lot of money, but it's not even a little soup.

After Wang Yongjiang thoroughly understood these Zhang Tinglan's jihua, he couldn't help but extend his thumb from the bottom of his heart.

"Humble words, if you follow your method, Zhang Xun is basically the thug who manages the Northwest Trade Route for us, and the dignified patrol envoy has fallen into this field, which is a bit pitiful."

"Haha, Mr. Min Yuan, whether he is pitiful or not, cooperate with us, he has at least three or five million income a year, which is enough to make his soldiers live comfortably, if he doesn't cooperate with us, Rehe, Chahar, and Suiyuan combined, he can't squeeze out so much military spending!"

Wang Yongjiang couldn't help nodding: "With the control of the northeast and northwest, our influence on the Russian black market will increase a lot, this idea is simply to eat two together, not only those businessmen have been calculated, but even the Russians can't run." ”

"I prefer win-win to calculating!" Zhang Tinglan still cares about fame.

"Whatever it is, since you formulated this jihua, it's up to you to implement it."

"Mr. Min Yuan, I sent Jihua here, just to let you and Dashuai come forward and talk about Zhang Xun, as for me, I have more important things."

"What could be more important than that?"

"Of course there is, I am now the leader of the Tun Reclamation Department, and naturally I have to manage the problem of Tuntian, I have to arrange for people to enter the customs and go to abduct and sell, hungry or not, it is the introduction of population!" (To be continued......)