The occupied area around Changzhou and Suzhou can be said to be the richest place in the whole of China. In order to consolidate the rule of the Holy Kingdom over this place, the www.biquge.info urgently transferred several local officials of the Holy Kingdom from Shanghi to Suzhou and Changzhou to manage civil affairs.

The prefect of Changzhou has not yet been appointed, and the head is the deputy of the prefect, Tongzhi. The newly appointed Changzhou Governor is also known as Li Xian.

This person is a person from Handan, Hebei, who has been smart since childhood, and became a member of the Qing Dynasty at the age of seventeen, but since then he has not made an inch. Because he is very proficient in Western studies, he was taken to Yuezhou by mistake when he was studying abroad, and when the Holy Kingdom held the second opening of the imperial examination, Li Xian went all the way to high school and became the champion of Munan Province, and was sent to Guangzhou to accept the personal assessment of the Holy King, and was recommended by the Ministry of the Interior to be transferred to the newly occupied Shanghi City Assistant Civil Affairs.

Because of his excellent ability in government affairs, his background, and the integration of his family into the Holy Country Nanchang Mansion, he showed his loyalty, and he was transferred to Changzhou Mansion as a fellow governor this time, which can be regarded as a reuse.

Li Xian was originally just a scholar who couldn't get into the Jinshi several times, and seeing that his career was hopeless, he wandered into the study tour, but he didn't expect that now he is highly used, and he holds the position of Tongzhi in one fell swoop. Moreover, the Changzhou prefect has not yet been equipped, and Li Xian knows that there is a shortage of local officials in the Holy Kingdom, and if he does a good job as a fellow governor, maybe this prefect will be directly appointed to him.

Therefore, he quickly came to Changzhou City, and together with the two regiments of the prisoner army and 5,000 Taiping soldiers, he reorganized Changzhou Mansion.

Because Changzhou borders Zhenjiang Mansion in the north occupied by Qing demons, Danyang City is not far away. Therefore, the captive army attached great importance to the defense of Changzhou City, and combined with the characteristics of the Jiangnan water towns in the Changzhou area, they built water camps outside the canals, swamps, lakes, and polders along the route.

At the same time, the original Taiping soldiers were reorganized into local garrison units of the captive army, connected with local regimental training, posted notices in the name of the Shengwang Palace, mobilized household registration, relieved refugees, and traced down the Qing demons who fled into the countryside, and ordered the landlords and gentry to surrender to pay tribute, and all regimental training was handed over to the prefect for unified resettlement to maintain social order.

Some squires in Changzhou Prefecture formed a large number of regiments, and although they were forced to disband, they were still powerful in the countryside, and there were constantly people resisting and organizing trouble. In this regard, Li Xian led the soldiers who cooperated with him to resolutely suppress it.

They also formed country patrol units, bribed and divided various regiments to train their bravery, and constantly attacked the training of various regiments, large and small, so that they could be centrifuged internally. After brutally suppressing more than 10 towns and towns and killing hundreds of brave regiments and brave people, the captive army greatly shocked the local tyrants and inferior gentry who had been fighting for power and fortune.

At this time, Li Xian, as the governor of Changzhou, officially implemented the village, town and county system of the Holy Country. He appointed the original enlightened squire as the deputy county magistrate of Wujin County and Yanghu County, which were next to the original Changzhou capital city, to set up a county office and form a county government. Each county, according to the original township, is divided into nearly 20 townships, each township has set up a town office, by the capture of the army soldiers temporarily as the mayor, and then appoint a formal mayor after the opening of the department, and let the local squires and brave or common people serve as deputy mayors, responsible for the management of the civil affairs of the entire township.

In this way, under the entire town office, like the townships and towns of the Holy Kingdom, a series of institutions such as police offices, medical offices, and tax offices were set up, impacting the villages of Wujin and Yanghu counties.

Some poor people, such as those who slaughtered pigs and dogs, and those who farmed the land, could be appointed as long as they sincerely belonged to the Holy Kingdom and were enthusiastic about helping the people. In this way, one-third of the township officials in the entire township are soldiers of the begging army, one-third are enlightened squires, and one-third are ordinary people, jointly maintaining the balance of power in the countryside and maintaining the tranquility of the countryside.

But in doing so, it infringes on the interests of those inferior gentry and the powerful.

On the shore of the lake in the west of Wujin County, it is a remote water village, and there is a strong man, named Lai San, who has hundreds of brothers under his command, who have been robbing fishing boats and passenger boats in the lake, and his power is quite large.

After the city of Changzhou was occupied by the Taiping army, the Manchu fugitive officials, landlords and bully squires in the Changzhou area, led some scattered Qing soldiers and regimental bravery, all rushed to Zhuhu Lake and turned the place into a staging place. With their joining, Lai San's fleet expanded rapidly, forming a large force.

In order to deter the rest of the squires and recover the lake, Li Xian led the soldiers of the captive army to attack the lake late at night, and defeated Lai San's water bandits in one fell swoop.

After quelling the bullies in Zhuhu and rectifying public order, Li Xian issued notices one after another, announcing the ban on smoking and gambling, the levy of money, the construction of water conservancy, the development of production, the resumption of trading and trading, and the activation of the market.

In a short period of time, the Changzhou Mansion was completely stabilized.

At this time, Li Xian released a rumor that the Holy Kingdom was preparing to redivide the fields in Changzhou and Suzhou. The poor people and tenants also have land to divide, but at the same time, these squires who have dozens or hundreds of acres of land do not have to worry, as long as they pay grain taxes and support the holy country, they will not confiscate the land, but only encourage the rich squires to sell the land to the Shengwang's palace as public land, and the Shengwangwang's palace will entrust the township offices of each township to rent the public land back to the landless people at a low rent.

As soon as this kind of wind came out, it set off a huge sensation. The area of the water towns in the south of the Yangtze River, since ancient times, is good land and expensive, and the land rent is high, and I have never heard that the government will take the initiative to buy land and rent it to the people at a low price.

For a time, the poor people greatly supported the holy country, and helped the town office to monitor the squires and strictly prevent the rebellion of the Qing soldiers. At the same time, in addition to the two counties of Wujin and Yanghu, the people of other places are also looking forward to the day when the Holy Kingdom will divide the fields, which will come as soon as possible.

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And here, Shi Dakai, Chen Tianshi and others, led 8,000 captive troops and 10,000 Taiping soldiers who had been renamed the Yiyi Division, took a boat and entered Taihu Lake.

The Qing army originally set up the Taihu Lake Battalion of the Su Song Water Division in Taihu Lake, with 50 sentry boats, 20 Yangtze River sampan boats, and 600 Qing soldiers, but at this moment it has long been gone, and I don't know whether to flee or hide.

The captives swept all the way to the Taihu Hall in Suzhou Prefecture and reached the south shore of Taihu Lake in the north of Huzhou, and the Qing army did not organize any resistance at all. The captive army went all the way unimpeded and directly entered the outside of Huzhou City.

At this time, two spies of the Special Service Department had already led two soldiers in civilian clothes to greet them and report to Shi Da that they had already explained that they had already explained that the two brothers Liu Renfu and Liu Renlu, the guerrilla general, were in Huzhou City, and were ready to receive the captives into the city tomorrow night.

Shi Dakai was surprised and delighted! He didn't expect that the meticulous work of the captival army was so powerful, and when the army drove here, he had already made a good attempt to turn the enemy generals against him, so he could just smoothly attack the city and change his course. The battle has reached such a point, no wonder the Holy Kingdom is invincible!

Shi Dakai immediately ordered, camped and rested, and waited for the city to be broken in one fell swoop tomorrow night.

But unexpectedly, at night, the fire in Huzhou City was soaring, and Shi Dakai judged that there must have been some kind of change, so he immediately made a decision and immediately ordered the captive army to attack the city.

Sure enough, the two city gates in Huzhou were opened by hundreds of Qing soldiers, and the city was in a mess and in chaos. At such a good time, without waiting for Shi Dakai's order, Chen Tianshi, Yang Fuqing, Tu Zhenxing, Chen Shizhang, Shi Fengkui and others each led more than 1,000 soldiers into the city.

There was a scuffle, hundreds of Qing soldiers hurriedly took off their hats, leaking out the red turbans wrapped around their heads, and the captives knew that this was the Qing soldiers who surrendered for internal use, and hurriedly killed the regimental warriors of the other group.

It turned out that the deputy general Liu Renfu and the guerrilla general Liu Renlu mobilized their subordinates to prepare for the sacrifice of the city, but they accidentally leaked it out, and Zhao Jingxian, the Taoist of Huzhou Prefecture and the general office of regimental training in the city, knew about it. That night, he led 2,000 regiments to arrest the Liu brothers, who saw that the situation was not good, and they did not have time to notify the army outside the city, so they immediately held an uprising and ventured to open the city gate.

With the city gate wide open, the Tuanlian and Qing troops in Huzhou City were not at all the opponents of the captive army with strong firepower. The captives rushed all the way over, unstoppable. Soon, the remnants of the Qing army in Huzhou City surrendered on their knees, and the regimental warriors were even more scattered. Zhao Jingxian, the general office of the regimental training, was also killed on the spot by Liu Renfu, who hated him to the core!

The city of Huzhou was broken, the gateway to northern Zhejiang was completely opened, and Zhejiang's silk was stripped of its coat like a fat white bamboo shoot, exposed in front of the begging army.