On December 18, the Fourth Infantry Division of Yu Sheng's Army, which entered the city of Hangzhou, successively conquered many important official places, and on the evening of the same day, the Ninth Mixed Regiment conquered the governor's yamen, and He Guiqing committed suicide by hanging the beam.

At this point, the Fourth Infantry Division was considered to have completely taken the city of Hangzhou, and some of the Qing court officials in the city were attached to Chengcheng, some committed suicide or fled, and a small number of recalcitrant ones were all killed and robbed.

After taking Hangzhou City, Yu Shengjun issued a notice of peace on the one hand, announcing that Hangzhou City had officially belonged to the rule of Great China, and on the other hand, he confiscated all kinds of booty in the city.

It's just that before Xu Yanqing set off, Lin Zhe warned him that northern Zhejiang, like southern Jiangsu, is the foundation of Yu Shengjun, and he must try his best to protect the local people's livelihood.

Therefore, when confiscating the booty, Xu Yanqing also strictly ordered the troops, except for the spoils of the government and the property of recalcitrant officials and gentry, not to wantonly raid the property of the people and gentry in the city.

Therefore, in the follow-up process, although Yu Shengjun couldn't do it without committing a crime, it would not be said that he would break down his family and get money from the rich gentry like those Taiping soldiers.

However, despite this, Yu Shengjun's harvest was still very rich, and the officials of the battalion office who came with the army counted that at least more than 600,000 taels of silver and 10,000 taels of gold were seized in Hangzhou, as well as a large amount of rice grain, cloth and silk.

The total value of the various seizures is more than one million taels, and this does not include the various real estates, fields, shops and other real estate seized from the confiscation of each family.

Xu Yanqing immediately sent troops to send a large amount of property, especially gold and silver, back to Shanghai, and at the same time, the officials sent by the Finance Department of the Generalissimo's Office also accepted a large amount of property that was difficult for the military to handle, such as all kinds of treasures, calligraphy and paintings, and other floating wealth, and all kinds of real estate.

At the same time, as the first to take the initiative to change the flag, and also the most hard-working former Qing Toucheng official Huang Peizhi also ushered in a new peak in his life, he was appointed as the prefect of Hangzhou, pacified the people's livelihood, and urged the people to resume production as much as possible.

At the same time, Lin Zhe sent his number one confidant official Bi Yutong to Hangzhou to serve as the governor of Zhejiang, and to coordinate the people's livelihood affairs in Jiaxing, Huzhou, Hangzhou, Shaoxing and other places occupied by Yu Shengjun.

As for Xu Yanqing himself, he doesn't have much time to deal with the civil affairs in Hangzhou, and now a large area of Zhejiang is still waiting for him to conquer.

He soon sent the 10th Mixed Regiment to Ningbo to reinforce the 3rd Battalion of the 10th Mixed Regiment, which had been sent at the beginning, in order to occupy Ningbo.

He also sent the Eighth Mixed Regiment to the west to recover Lin'an, Changhua and other counties in Hangzhou Prefecture, and then marched into Yanzhou Mansion and Jinhua Mansion.

And he personally led the Ninth Mixed Regiment to shock the northern Zhejiang region, and at the same time, he was also preparing to organize and train more troops of the Auxiliary Defense Regiment.

In the process of marching into various parts of northern Zhejiang, the Fourth Infantry Division incorporated a large number of Qing troops, and has now been organized into four auxiliary defense regiments, but only two of them are second-class auxiliary defense regiments.

After conquering Hangzhou, Yu Shengjun accepted a large number of prisoners, and according to the management, these prisoners were still organized into auxiliary defense regiments, among which Qingzhuang was selected to set up two second-class auxiliary defense regiments, which were the 20th auxiliary defense regiment and the 21st cooperative defense regiment. There are two C-class auxiliary defense regiments, which are the 22nd and 23rd auxiliary defense regiments.

In this way, Yu Shengjun has eight auxiliary defense regiments in Zhejiang, of course, only half of them can be used as cannon fodder, and the remaining four C-class auxiliary defense regiments belong to the kind of goods that are too much to be used as cannon fodder, and can only be used as coolies.

Looking at the entire Yu Shengjun, the size of its auxiliary defense regiment has exploded to as much as 25, and the total number has reached about 35,000 people, and the total number has far exceeded the regular army of Yu Shengjun.

You must know that so far, Yu Shengjun's regular army strength is still the size of the establishment before the incident, mainly ten mixed regiments, although before and after the uprising, there are also urgent recruitment of new recruits, ready to form a new unit, but in fact, these newly recruited soldiers are still training.

If you want to become an army, it will be a month or two later!

However, these newly recruited soldiers Lin Zhe no longer planned to organize them into various mixed regiments, he planned to directly organize and train a division-level unit in one step, and this was the Fifth Infantry Division that Yu Shengjun had only formulated a paper plan in the near future.

In the city of Hangzhou, Xu Pengan was reporting the progress of the Fifth Infantry Division to Lin Zhe: "When we formulated the plan for the Fifth Infantry Division, we directly referred to the establishment of the existing First Infantry Division, and planned to directly establish the 11th Infantry Corps, the 12th Infantry Regiment, and the 13th Infantry Regiment, as well as the new Fifth Baggage Regiment, the Fifth Artillery Regiment, and the Fifth Cavalry Regiment.

In addition to the large-scale use of new recruits, the above-mentioned units also drew backbone units from various units, including an infantry battalion and a baggage company from the 7th Mixed Regiment, and an infantry battalion and a 12-pounder artillery company from the 6th Mixed Regiment. Two cavalry companies were drawn from the 2nd Cavalry Regiment, etc.

In addition, experienced grassroots officers from various units have been transferred to the Fifth Infantry Division, so that the Fifth Infantry Division can form combat effectiveness with the old and the new!

In terms of equipment, it is expected that the 1856 Linde rifle will be fully adopted, and the artillery configuration will be the same as that of the 1st Infantry Division! ”

Lin Zhe nodded after hearing this: "It's good to bring the old with the new, I only have one requirement for the Fifth Infantry Division, that is, it must be able to act as the main combat force after becoming an army, how to make this army into an army and form combat effectiveness, your supervision and training department must work hard and think of more ways!" ”

Xu Pengan said: "Don't worry, the generalissimo will definitely do its best to handle this matter!" ”

Lin Zhe nodded, and then motioned for Xu Pengan to go out!

After Xu Peng'an withdrew, he continued to bury his head in a large pile of essays on the table, since the incident called himself the Generalissimo of China, and established the Generalissimo's Office, he has been in charge of the military and political affairs of southern Jiangsu, Zhejiang and other places, and now that the incident has just started, many institutions of the Generalissimo's Office are not perfect, and there are not enough and trustworthy people to help him deal with many things.

So Lin Zhe had to go into battle in person and deal with many affairs.

Just when he buried himself in these texts, Xu Pengan also came out of Lin Zhe's office, but soon after leaving, he ushered in Shi Qingxuan.

Immediately, Shi Qingxuan looked left and right, and then said: "Brother Xu, you follow the generalissimo every day, hasn't the generalissimo revealed his tone yet?" ”

Xu Pengan glanced at Shi Qingxuan, and immediately shook his head: "No, maybe we are in a hurry!" ”

"How can this be urgent? It should be said that there is no time to delay, I said at the beginning of the incident, even if it was still early to be called the emperor at that time, but it must be done in one step to directly ascend to the throne, so as to calm the hearts of the people and give the soldiers a head!

But at the beginning of the incident, you said that Wang Jiandu had damaged the reputation of the marshal, so you made a temporary generalissimo. However, now that we have completely controlled southern Jiangsu and northern Zhejiang, it won't be long before Brother Xu will be able to take the entire territory of Zhejiang, so it is enough to call Wang Jiandu, why wait? ”

Xu Pengan looked at Shi Qingxuan's urgent expression, but he sighed secretly, in front of Wang Jue Houlu, even Shi Qingxuan couldn't bear it!

In fact, Xu Peng'an, like Shi Qingxuan, was very eager for Lin Zhe's hint and promise to the prince Houlu, and at the same time, he also knew that the many generals of Yu Shengjun were willing to lead the army to fight with the Taiping army and the Qing army for Lin Zhe, in order to wait for Lin Zhe to win a prince and marquis title when he was a meritorious general in the future.

But this kind of thing is in a hurry.

Even if his subordinates are anxious, but they didn't get Lin Zhe's hint in advance, and give Xu Pengan a hundred guts, he dares to go directly to the table to play and persuade him!

Such a major event has its own handsome decision, and I still have peace of mind and wait!

Xu Pengan has the heart to wait, but Shi Qingxuan and many people don't want to wait!

December 1856 passed quietly, and 1857 arrived.

On January 3, in the former Yamen of the Shanghai Business Zone, now the 'Generalissimo of China's Mansion', Lin Zhe, who had just returned to Shanghai from Suzhou, was routinely handling his own government affairs.

The first thing I read was the battle report from Zhejiang, and today Xu Yanqing gave him another good news, saying that Yu Shengjun's 10th mixed regiment had conquered Ningbo Mansion last month, and Ning Shaotai was killed.

He also said that the 10th Mixed Regiment had set off to continue its march southward towards Chuzhou and Wenzhou, and that the 8th Mixed Regiment had also marched towards Jinhua Mansion after recovering Yanzhou Mansion.

If you say a qiē shun lì, it is expected to recover the whole territory of Zhejiang in the month of inquiry!

Since taking the city of Hangzhou, the rest of Zhejiang has fallen into a state of complete collapse, some places directly surrendered, some desperately resisted, but the stubborn ones fought for themselves, unable to gather enough troops, and finally were defeated by Yu Shengjun one by one.

How long Yu Shengjun will take the entire territory of Zhejiang basically depends only on the time of Yu Shengjun's march in the mountainous areas of southern Zhejiang, and the enemy's resistance is basically negligible.

After reading the good news in northern Zhejiang, he also saw a not very good news, that is, there was news that the British sent troops to Guangzhou under the pretext of the Yarrow incident, and even once entered the city of Guangzhou to loot the governor's palace, but at present, the British army has temporarily withdrawn due to insufficient troops.

Seeing this news, Lin Zhe already knew that the second Opium War in history had officially broken out, and then I was afraid that the British would join forces with the French to formally form an expeditionary force, and then I was afraid that the Qing court would be unlucky!

As for affecting Yu Shengjun, there is no need to worry too much about this, the British and French are not full of food and have nothing to do to start a war, and the most fundamental purpose of the war is to expand trade with China, so as to plunder more gold and silver wealth.

However, the trade zone he built in Shanghai became the largest trade port between foreign countries and China, and a large number of foreigners came to Shanghai to trade or invest, and there was a foundation for the trade zone, and Lin Zhe himself did not fear or be hostile to foreigners like other contemporary officials.

On the contrary, when Lin Zhe was in Shanghai, he had very frequent contact with the ministers of various countries, which led to Lin Zhe being the only high-level Chinese military and political official who could communicate normally in the eyes of the ministers of various countries.

In this case, as long as Lin Zhe is not stupid, Britain and France will basically not have a direct conflict with Lin Zhe!

Now Lin Zhe has to think about how to use this opportunity to get more benefits once Britain and France officially lead their troops to launch the Second Opium War after the year!

Putting down this briefing from Guangzhou, Lin Zhe picked up a copy of the article again, but this article is different from other work reports, but it is a very traditional excerpt.

However, taking it over and only looking at the beginning made Lin Zhe frown, and it was written on it that Shi Qingxuan, the commander of the Third Division, Xu Peng'an, the general office of the Supervision and Training Office, Shi Langyi, the chief of staff of the First Division, Shen Chiyun, the head of the Seventh Mixed Regiment, Su Song, Taidao, Xue Huan and other fifty-six people played!

Another letter of persuasion! (To be continued.) )