Li Hui's orders were quickly conveyed, and the rapid arrival of a fully equipped infantry brigade (crucially with artillery) in Tianjin gave the rebels more confidence.

The legend that the so-called foreigners and civilians were more elite than the Qing army collapsed in front of the artillery of the rebel army, and only a few dozen people were killed and wounded, and the three major concessions in Tianjin all honestly gave up resistance and took the initiative to disarm.

In the final analysis, historically, they were able to hold out for so long under the siege of the Boxers and the Qing army, but they only relied on the solidity of the concession buildings, and once these sturdy turtle shells were pried open by the artillery of the rebel army, they did not perform as well as ordinary militiamen.

However, after that, a situation happened that Li Hui did not expect, and as soon as the curfew in the city was lifted, some Tianjin citizens spontaneously organized themselves to rush into the concession to smash and loot. Obviously, some smart people guessed the attitude of the rebels towards the foreigners from the sound of the guns in the concession, and the foreigners in the concession were disarmed again, so they naturally took the opportunity to beat the water dogs

Although the rebel army took decisive measures, on the one hand, to arrest the mob that took the lead in smashing, looting, and burning to restore order, and on the other hand, to open a public court for Tianjin citizens to appeal to vent their grievances, the two-pronged approach finally controlled the situation in time and did not cause too much damage, but this incident still caused Li Hui to think deeply, "It turns out that the contradictions between people and religion in Hebei have become so intensified, much more serious than in Shandong, so why did the Boxers originate in Shandong in history?" Is it because the Germans were too ugly in the years after the First Sino-Japanese War? Also, the famous lesson plans in Shandong in my memory are all German missionaries."

In order to better solve the problem, Li Hui not only immediately set off to personally go to Tianjin to preside over the overall situation, but also recruited more than 5,000 military policemen in one go, more than half of whom went to Tianjin with him.

In addition to the duties of military judges, the gendarmes are also fully qualified for the positions of judges and various police officers, and in the newly acquired territory, they are even more valuable than the only "agents" in the biochemical army who can be qualified as administrators, and the price is much cheaper than the latter.

However, Rao is like this, the total cost of recruiting more than 5,000 gendarmes at all levels is as high as nearly 6 million taels of silver, if it were not for the harvest in the past few days after the uprising, even with the support of many gold mines, Li Hui would definitely go bankrupt.

In Yantai and Weihai alone, the rebel army seized more than 20 million taels of silver and foreign exchange within a few days.

Although the seizures in Tianjin have not yet been reported, the number is certainly only higher than that of Yantai Weihai, and it should be able to exceed a lot. As for Beijing, which has not yet been attacked, if you think about it, it is definitely a real city of wealth.

The only thing that makes Li Hui a little regretful is that too many works of art and luxury goods such as antique calligraphy and paintings have been seized, which have far exceeded the capacity of the market, coupled with the depreciation caused by the war, the difficulty of realizing has increased dramatically

But no matter what, Li Hui's financial resources have increased tremendously, and he can continue to have a large amount of money in his account in a short period of time, which allows him to safely recruit a large number of biochemical soldiers, and the more than 5,000 gendarmes are actually just a part of them.

The sudden increase in the total number of biochemical troops has allowed Li Hui to have a sufficient number of qualified officers, and the greatly expanded territory can provide far more soldiers than before, and the start of multiple seaports has allowed Li Hui to efficiently deploy materials in "one ship", and the conditions for rapid military expansion are fully ripe.

Since the key technical positions such as machine gun shooters are all filled by biochemical soldiers, the infantry only needs to master the most basic skills, and the training cycle can be further compressed, according to the estimation of the instructors of the biochemical troops, they will be able to basically complete the training by the end of the year, and if they only need to be able to fight a good fight, it will be even shorter

"In fact, if it weren't for the lack of cadres in the local area, and I had to recruit tens of thousands of high-level troops in order to control the newly occupied territory as soon as possible, the size of my troops could have been expanded by two or three times," Li Hui thought with some greed, but the speed of his army expansion was actually very scary, "However, it should be enough for the time being." If nothing else, in a few months I will have 30 infantry brigades at my disposal, plus the navy, cavalry, engineer and armed police units, for a total of no less than 300,000 troops, even if the worst happens, I think it will be enough to deal with it."

The unprecedented rapid expansion of the army gave Li Hui a boost of confidence, and his attitude towards the West became more hawkish, especially in his attitude towards Western missionaries

Since the Age of Discovery, Western missionary activities have been accomplices in its colonial expansion, and even the missionaries' personal integrity cannot wash away this original sin. Therefore, Li Hui has always believed that even if all the foreign missionaries currently in China are shot, none of them will be wronged

However, Li Hui did not dare to openly charge the former as a crime after all, and if he did, the nature would be far more serious than the seizure of Western merchant ships for no reason, and it would really be a long-term enemy of the entire West

But even if only those individuals were to be prosecuted, it would be enough for those foreign missionaries, and you must know that Westerners at this time enjoyed consular jurisdiction in China, and with the usual bandit behavior of the West, you can think that they could not be as behaving as they were decades later

After personally attending a public trial meeting against missionaries, Li Hui's whole person was not good, he could not have imagined that there were such shameless, so murderous, and such beasts in the world who did not treat Chinese as human beings, remembering the remarks of some guys before the crossing to slander the Boxers for the invasion of China by the Eight-Power Alliance, he couldn't help but sneer, "Hehe, on the one hand, the Chinese people are servile obedient people, and they will not think of resistance until they can't survive, which is far inferior to Western citizens; On the other hand, when they say that the Boxers were completely ignorant mobs and that they were about to kill all the missionaries and parishioners because of cultural barriers, didn't they find these two views contradictory? Isn't it that they have been exhausted before, and with the loyalty and honesty of the Chinese peasants, how can they easily incite such a big wave? (To be continued.) )