Since Ren Siqi replaced Shi Kefa to supervise the military affairs of Yangzhou, he moved his residence to the Governor's Mansion, and the entire shogunate also moved in. Pen % fun % Pavilion www.biquge.info

The officials in Shi Kefa's palace were killed and wounded in Li Qifeng's attack, and even several of his staff members died.

Since Ren Siqi has his own team, he naturally doesn't want to use these Shi Kefa's staff, but Shi Kefa is still there, and he can't be driven out, so he can only keep it like this.

The inventory work continued, and more and more gentry and wealthy businessmen were implicated. However, there is a Daishan army in Yangzhou City, and under the long hair of the Daishan army's muskets, even if someone wants to make trouble, they have to weigh one or two.

Ren Siqi took out a part of the confiscated silver to reward the three armies, and every soldier in the city was rewarded with five taels of silver, and each general received at least a thousand taels of silver. This made the soldiers rejoice and cheer, and all the generals also supported Ren Siqi even more.

What did you come out of the army for? It's not enough to eat to earn money! An ordinary soldier is only paid about one or two taels of silver a month, and Ren Siqi gave them the equivalent of several months' salary at once, which made them unhappy.

With the silver, the morale of the army in Yangzhou City suddenly increased a lot. The haze caused by Shi Kefa's injury and coma has also almost disappeared without a trace.

Li Qingchuan and others conspired with Wang Lin to surrender the gentry and wealthy businessmen of the Qing Dynasty, and seized millions of silver. Yangzhou really deserves to be one of the richest places in the world, and a few gentry copied so much silver at will.

As for those people who Wang Lin bit indiscriminately, the Daishan Army did not involve all of them, but ordered them to donate a batch of materials and let them go. Implicating too much in extraordinary times is not conducive to the stability of Yangzhou, but after this incident, these gentry will be much more honest and dare not have other thoughts at will. The miserable fate of Wang Lin's family was in front of them, and no one dared to provoke this terrible Su Lu Uncle again.

Now Ren Siqi has more than five million taels of silver in his hands, and countless other materials, which is an incomparably huge wealth.

However, although there is a lot of money, the food in Yangzhou City is not very sufficient, and it is only enough for one month roughly calculated.

Yangzhou is a big city with a population of more than 600,000 people, and countless grains, vegetables, firewood and rice are consumed every day, all of which need to be transported from outside the city by canal. Now the Qing army is besieging the city, although the canal is still in the hands of the Daishan army and the navy, but all kinds of daily use suddenly become tense. The prices of various substances have skyrocketed.

A few days ago, the biggest reason for the panic in the city was the lack of supplies, and Shi Kefa ordered the city gate to be closed and no people were allowed to enter or leave. However, the prohibition of entry and exit also means that the materials in the city cannot be transported, and the lack of materials naturally causes panic in the city.

If you want to hold Yangzhou, it is not enough to close the city gate, Ren Siqi ordered to open the water gate and allow the merchants in the city to go out of the city to trade, but the ships entering and leaving must be checked, and it is strictly forbidden to abscond with their families. Now the price of goods in Yangzhou is at least fifty percent higher than usual, and such a high profit is willing to be done even at the risk of life and death. In the following days, firewood and vegetables were continuously transported into the city. Although the outside of Yangzhou is the world of Qing soldiers, the huge Yangzhou area is covered with a dense water network, and hundreds of thousands of Qing troops cannot be blocked at all. Although Kong Youde and Geng Zhongming were forming a naval division of the Qing army, it was impossible to compete with the Daishan Water Army in a short period of time.

The large amount of silver confiscated made the work of raising people more easy, and Ren Siqi simply ordered on behalf of the governor's office that according to the yellow book of household registration, each household should get a strong man to assist in defending the city. However, every strong man will receive a subsidy of fifty copper coins every day.

Yangzhou City claims to have a population of one million, but in fact, it includes the people in the countryside, and the population in the city is more than 600,000, but this is also more than 60,000 households. There are more than 60,000 strong men per household, and it will definitely be enough for defending the city.

There are also some wealthy families who do not want to leave the service, they can pay silver to serve on their behalf, and Ren Siqi ordered that they must pay 100 taels of silver to be exempted from service. One hundred taels of silver is enough to hire five strong men to guard the city for a year, and there are many men in Yangzhou City, and poor families are willing to be strong men.

One hundred taels of silver is enough to buy ten acres of paddy fields or buy a good house, so much money is not available to ordinary people, but who is called the rich businessmen in Yangzhou, being a strong man is a hard-working job, or many people choose to pay silver on behalf of the service. For this alone, more than 200,000 taels of silver were earned.

With the errand of Yangzhou Mansion following, the Lizheng of each Lifang guiding the way, and the heavily armed soldiers of the Daishan Army, the gathering of strong men was very smooth. In one day's work, more than 65,000 strong men were gathered.

The Daishan Army shogunate headed by Li Yanzhi was very experienced in organizing strong men, and of course, when they first emigrated from the Jiaozhou Peninsula, the relocation and resettlement of tens of thousands of people was much more troublesome than this.

There is a general flag for every 50 people, a team of 100 people, and a battalion of 1,000 people, and the Daishan Army assigns veteran officers to serve as the commander of the general flag and the battalion leader, and as for the low-level official positions such as the commander of the small flag, they are elected by themselves.

Each battalion is formed, that is, a special flag is issued, on which their battalion logo is embroidered, and there will be a recruitment document to record every strong man. In order to recruit strong men this time, Ren Siqi ordered the hiring of hundreds of scholars.

In the end, a full sixty-five battalions of strong men were formed, and Ren Siqi named them Township Soldiers. There is no town structure above the battalion, because they are all recruits who can only be used as a supplement to defend the city, and they do not need to fight, so it is useless to set up such a large establishment.

All the village soldiers were divided into three squads, and they took turns to go to the city to guard and assist the soldiers of each city in defending the city. When defending the city, they were given simple training by veterans. I believe that as long as they fight a few battles, they will quickly mature, and the role of other parts of the Ming army in the city will be greatly reduced, to be honest, Ren Siqi is not at ease with other Ming troops, especially Hu Shangyou, the general soldier of Sichuan, always feels that he is gloomy all day long and does not know what to do.

In addition to recruiting village soldiers, Ren Siqi also requisitioned the people through the Yangzhou government to transport all kinds of city-defending materials to the city, rolling wood and stones, ash bottles, iron pots filled with vegetable oil, and even dung.

A large number of wooden planks were also prepared at the head of the city to prevent the Qing army's bows and crossbows from covering fire.

Ren Siqi even ordered the Equipment Department to gather all the craftsmen from all over Yangzhou and work overtime to make various equipment for defending the city and fighting. Shields, oil cans, flying dragons, swarms of bees, and more. Carpenters in Yangzhou even made dozens of stone throwers.

The forces of the entire Yangzhou were slowly mobilized, and Ren Siqi decided to fight a national war.

The bow battalion was also formed, and a total of 2,500 recruits were recruited, most of whom were coolies who carried work on the docks, and they had to fight anyway, and it was better to join the Daishan Army directly as a township soldier, because the salary of the Daishan Army was much higher than that of the township soldiers. The soldiers of the Daishan Army repeatedly publicized their family's happy life on the Daishan Islands, which attracted many poor wharf coolies.

The bows and arrows seized from the Qing soldiers were distributed, and more than 2,000 archers were in the square of the inner canal, under the command of Mao Liu, who practiced drawing bows every day. Although they couldn't practice their bow skills in a short period of time, Ren Siqi's requirements for them were simple, they only needed to pull the bow apart and shoot the arrow. Even if the accuracy is poor, the coverage of more than 2,000 feathered arrows can deal a heavy blow to the enemy.

Under the leadership of Ren Siqi, the huge city of Yangzhou was slowly mobilized. The wheels of war rolled slowly, just waiting to deal a heavy blow to the Qing people. (To be continued.) )