As soon as the recruitment list of the Jingwu Army was released, there were also many responders, most of whom were indeed poor people who had suffered disasters and had nowhere to make a living, but there were also some people who had a decent family background, but wanted to rely on the Jingwu Army to find a good way out.

Although China has a tradition of good men not being soldiers since ancient times, it also depends on the situation. During the peaceful years, being a soldier was naturally not a good way out, but now it is a troubled time.

In the troubled times, the day is not safe, and the government is not reliable, so it is still a good way out to find a strong army to rely on and back. Especially for those who have a poor life, but have read a lot of books, think they are talented, and they can't achieve fame and fame when they follow the right path, joining the army to gain military merits and climb up the ranks is particularly attractive.

Moreover, in the past, everyone didn't like to be a soldier, in addition to status and other issues, mainly because the battle loss rate of being a soldier was too high and the risk was too high, but joining the elite army is obviously not like this.

This battle of Suzhou was fought under the nose of Suzhou City, when the Jingwu Army faced the Taiping Army, many people were watching it at the head of the city, so although many details were not clear to everyone, the Jingwu Army, as a side with few people, pressed the Taiping Army with a large number of people to see clearly.

Especially the artillery fire, looking at the city gate tower, almost every time the Taiping army is bombed, there will be a big hole in the crowd, and the people who see it are shocked, and then the big scene of the whole army's charge is also particularly impactful, everyone who sees this scene is enthusiastic, and the rebels in the city are completely determined to do nothing, abandon a piece of debris, and escape lightly in advance.

After the war, although the Jingwu Army did not deliberately publicize the results, when they entered the city, they counted and found that the soldiers of the Jingwu Army did not lose anything, and they did not see how many corpses there were, which was even more moving.

The other party is an army of 100,000 (exaggerated), or the victorious army led by the famous general Li Xiucheng himself, but against the elite army equipped with foreign guns and cannons, it was destroyed with one blow, but the elite army itself did not lose anything, which made many people with a heart, especially those who have read a lot of books, but have not been able to make any fame, speculative.

In this way, after the release of the recruitment list, in addition to a large number of refugees, there are actually many children's talents, and even lifting people, they obviously do not come because they can't eat, but have other ideas.

Li Yongji doesn't care about these at all, as long as he meets the conditions and is willing to abide by the rules of the Jingwu Army, he has always refused to come, but for those who are pretentious and want to be an official as soon as they come in, then they have to be sorry, please leave.

In this way, in just the past three days, Li Yongji has successively accepted 130,000 people in, and these people are all labeled as Jingwu Army, most of them are incidental family members, and less than a quarter of them really belong to the Jingwu Army sequence, only more than 30,000 people.

Among the more than 30,000 people, there are more than 20,000 young women, teenagers and children, and less than 10,000 young and strong men can serve as soldiers, of whom more than 4,000 are between the ages of 18 and 22, and only 4,000 can serve as reserve young soldiers, and the rest can only serve as logistics soldiers.

After these people were collected, except for the children under the age of 13 who were sent to the Yangxinju camp in Qingpu County in advance and did not participate in labor, all men, women, and children, regardless of gender, had to stay for the time being, and together with the people who had been stationed in the Huqiu camp, they would first clean up the ruins caused by the Suzhou fire.

Cleaning up the ruins of Changmen is not Li Yongji's good deed, he plans to take this large area of land that has been burned into ruins inside and outside this Changmen, and then connect it to the land of Tiger Hill, and use it as the military camp of the Jingwu Army in Suzhou in the future.

Changmen is a good place, located in an important place, extending in all directions, otherwise it would not have become the commercial center of Suzhou City before, even in later generations, this place is also one of the central areas.

Before, there were houses everywhere here, and the situation was mixed and very difficult to deal with, but now a fire has burned it out, which is equivalent to a violent demolition, and the so-called white paper is good for painting, which is suitable for Li Yongji to re-plan and use it as his own military base.

In other words, this large area near Changmen and Huqiu is equivalent to the eastern Gusu District and Huqiu District in later generations, and it will be his Li Yongji's private land in the future.

This place is the nail he Li Yongji planted in Suzhou Mansion, and no one can move it! As long as Li Yongji stationed a soldier and horse here, then no matter who is nominally in charge of Suzhou City in the future, in fact it will still be his territory, he can come whenever he wants, and no one can stop him, and in his private military restricted area, he can do whatever he wants, and the rules outside can't control it.

In other words, Li Yongji is still playing his dual-track system, that is, he makes a closed military restricted area to play by himself, which is nominally a private territory, but in fact it is a special zone, and there is no essential difference from the concession of foreigners.

What the? Unruly? This is simple, now many officials in Suzhou have been killed, causing a power vacuum, but the official seal is not much lost, now he is in power, privately use the seal to make a land deed document out, and then circle the place, the troops are tied up, even if the new officials are dissatisfied, what can they do?

In fact, it is definitely impossible to hide the matter of printing the title deed without permission, but this is just a step down for everyone. With such a title deed, how much can be said in the future, and the face of the government can still be a little bit, if not, then there is no buffer room. After all, the title deed itself represents the authority of the government, and with such a thing, it can be regarded as a recognition of the authority of the government, and it is easy to say anything.

In short, after the Jingwu army entered the city, in addition to taking over the city defense, closing the treasury, and grabbing money and food, it was to recruit troops and hire people to clean up the ruins, and other things were ignored, such as civil lawsuits and the like, all of which were formed by local squires and took care of themselves.

This kind of practice of throwing away the troubles also has a little bit of the meaning of doing nothing, but it has won praise from all over Suzhou.

After dealing with these things, what Li Yongji had to do next was to gather the big businessmen in the city and start a series of business cooperation with them.

Before the business cooperation, Li Yongji did one thing first, that is, to collect white slips.

Before, the squire of Suzhou because of the fear of being attacked by the army, once scraped together 500,000 taels of silver for the Suzhou government to give Li Yongji, at that time Li Yongji accepted it, but gave them a white note, now Li Yongji robbed 3.8 million taels of treasury silver, there is a lot of silver, so he took the initiative to call these people over, first take 500,000 taels of silver to them, in exchange for the original white strip.

This kind of behavior is simply incredible, at first those who held the white strip said that they didn't dare to ask for anything, and even many people said that the white strip had been torn, but later it came to see that Li Yongji was playing really, even if you didn't have a white strip, you had to give you silver, so I reluctantly accepted it.

Li Yongji is playing in Lixin, just like Shang Yang when he changed the law, and Li Yongji is also being generous to others, after all, he is using the silver from the Suzhou treasury to pay off debts.

The main reason for him to do this is to build a good relationship with these big businessmen and gain their full trust. At the same time, after they accepted the silver from the treasury, it was equivalent to taking the silver from the Suzhou government, and if they wanted to live a good life in the future, they could only rely more closely on Li Yongji and the Jingwu army.

After exchanging the silver for the white slip, the trust between the two parties was completely established and the relationship became more harmonious, after which Li Yongji threw out his business cooperation package.

In this business cooperation package, there are two main categories, that is, a business cooperation plan, plus a financial cooperation plan.

Business and trade cooperation, simply put, is bartering. In the business cooperation plan, Li Yongji will provide them with a large number of cheap pearls, brass, all kinds of glass mirrors, stainless steel products and other modern gadgets on time, these things do not need to be bought in silver, as long as they are exchanged for gold, jadeite, white jade, diamonds, mahogany, ebony and other precious luxury goods, if the number is not enough, it can also be exchanged for silkworm cocoons.

As for the formulation of exchange prices, some of them will be paid, and Li Yongji's side will also be some people, and the two sides will jointly set up a pricing group, and the role of the pricing group is to evaluate and price various products according to market conditions, so that everyone must be satisfied and do business for a long time.

As for the financial cooperation plan, it refers to the bank-number interconnection business, which is a kind of financial networking cooperation business.

In other words, Li Yongji will provide a kind of telegraph system for foreigners, and use the telegraph system to unify all the silver accounts in Suzhou and Li Yongji's CITIC Money Bank to form a joint chamber of commerce for silver numbers, referred to as UnionPay.

Among the members within UnionPay, the banker can be deposited and exchanged, and the bank account can borrow money from each other, and the internal member price is also implemented.

At the same time, in order to facilitate the silver escort between the various silver banks, and the silver money escort between UnionPay members, the newly opened Jingwu Dart Bureau will be responsible for it in the future.

This Jingwu dart game will be a joint-stock dart game in the future. To put it simply, Li Yongji holds 51 percent of the shares, and the other silver banks account for the remaining shares according to the proportion of investment.

In terms of the personnel of the dart bureau, it is an armed escort organization affiliated with UnionPay, which is sent out by each silver number, and then trained by the Jingwu Army, and the weapons are also provided by the Jingwu Army.

In short, the financial cooperation plan is to establish a silver alliance, and the money and silver account that joins the alliance are equivalent to automatically obtaining the protection of the elite army, and at the same time obtaining preferential mutual assistance in terms of money. At first glance, although there are many benefits, the money and silver accounts that join the alliance have lost their autonomy, because no single member can escape the constraints of the silver alliance.

Although it is said that some autonomy has been lost, what is the use of autonomy in these years? Could it be that the government is here to exploit it, and you can still say nothing? As a result, the huddle plan was immediately accepted by everyone, and the participants were almost unanimous.

As a matter of fact, Li Yongji's package of business cooperation plans is actually creating two monopoly groups: a syndicate monopoly group for commerce and trade, and a cartel monopoly group for the financial industry.

The groups in these two fields are dependent on Li Yongji and coexist, and they are also unified by Li Yongji's deployment and command, which seems to be loose for the time being, but in the future, they will eventually come together and burst out with huge energy, naturally, that is another story.

When Li Yongji was busy in Suzhou, enclosing land, recruiting people, and exchanging silver for gold and jade, the nearby government finally reacted from the battle of Suzhou, which shocked the whole country, and on the fifth day, Suzhou City ushered in the first wave of officials who came to grab credit and reap benefits.