As soon as Li Yongji's words fell, he saw a big uproar of the Qing army on the Fengmen, and then there was a chaotic flight in all directions, and in less than a quarter of an hour, there was no longer a single defender on the entire Fengmen.

Seeing this situation, Li Yongji pouted, with this virtue, it is no wonder that Suzhou was struck down by the Taiping Army in history, and did not carry out any tragic offensive and defensive battles, it is estimated that it has little to do with internal response, and it is really unbearable to defend it.

But at this moment, the gate of the city suddenly opened, and a cavalry team of no more than twenty people came out of it.

In this team, they are basically dressed as officers and soldiers, only one of them is wearing civilian clothes, and Li Yongji can recognize it at a glance, this is his brother-in-law Lin Guangyao.

Seeing Lin Guangyao's appearance, the corners of Li Yongji's mouth curved slightly, and then he exhaled softly, knowing that things might be going in the direction he expected.

In fact, the previous move, whether it was shooting Zhang Qian in public, or threatening the city with artillery under the army, Li Yongji was taking a lot of risks, and if he didn't get it right, he might really have only one way to rebel.

These practices were not Li Yongji's original intention, nor did he first come up with it, he did this completely by adopting Zhang Xinda's ghost idea.

According to Zhang Xinda's words, this is called persecutive temptation, which is not only to force one's own people to express their position, but also to force the other party to express their position, and to test the bottom line of their own people and the defenders of Suzhou in a chaotic manner.

For his own elite army, whether it is shooting Zhang Qianzong in public or sending troops to intimidate Suzhou City, it is a kind of resignation. In this case, those who are willing to go with Li Yongji are absolutely their own people, if they are shaken and withdraw privately, it is not a heart, and they must find a way to solve it as soon as possible.

Fortunately, so far, no one in the Jingwu Army has wavered, or someone has wavered, but they did not dare to withdraw privately in the general environment at that time, so they could only go with the flow.

For the city of Suzhou, it is a different situation.

The behavior of the elite army, no matter what the reason is, the behavior itself, if it is under normal circumstances, it is absolutely necessary to immediately declare it a rebellion and send troops to suppress it.

If the Suzhou City side really chooses to send troops to suppress it, it means that the other side is either still confident in its own strength, or it is a die-hard who does not know the current affairs.

Now is an extraordinary period when the Taiping army is pressing, as far as the defenders of Suzhou are bearish, Li Yongji dares to be sure that as long as he attacks once, he can defeat the city of Suzhou, and when the Taiping army comes, as long as he shows enough strength, with Li Xiucheng's shrewdness, he will definitely not fight with himself, he can only pinch his nose and admit the facts, and unite with himself.

Once it reaches that point, he will temporarily defect to the Taiping Army, follow the path of Li Xiucheng back then, take Suzhou as the center, sweep the Suzhou, Shanghai and Hangzhou regions, take this area into his own pocket, and then slowly figure it out.

With the current strength of the Qing army in this area, it is completely powerless to stop the Taiping army and themselves, and as for the British and French troops in the Shanghai Concession, because the defenders are almost empty, they are now powerless to fight against themselves, and they can't even defend.

In short, once he really fell out with the Qing court, the Qing court would definitely take advantage of himself for the time being, and the Taiping army had even worse control over the army under his hands, and they were all military leaders, that is, small warlords, who could not control themselves at all.

Therefore, even in the worst case, it is a good way to rebel and defect to the Taiping Army now.

However, in that case, there will be a lot fewer cards in his hand, and the enemy is stronger, and the situation is more complicated, so he can only take the road of the first army to quickly attack the world, and the people's livelihood and economy can only be put aside first, and the development speed will be much slower, and there are more drawbacks, which is not what Li Yongji likes.

On the contrary, if Suzhou City chooses to compromise and choose to appease itself, it means that the head of the city still has a certain amount of wisdom and knows the priorities.

The momentum of the Jingwu Army before, even the blind and deaf people in the whole Suzhou City can know, as long as they are not stupid, they all know that the Jingwu Army is showing its strength, and it definitely has the strength to break the city in a battle, not to mention anything else, just looking at the defenders of Fengmen who actually scattered in a hurry, they know that they can't hold it at all. In this case, the best thing to do is to appease.

And Li Yongji also gave the two sides a step, that is, they grasped the four words of personal grievances, so if the other party has a little wisdom and courage, he will definitely choose to vigorously win himself over at this time, and will not choose to fight hard.

Obviously, letting his brother-in-law Lin Guangyao come out, this is to appease his own side, which is naturally the result that Li Yongji wants most.

It can be seen that although Li Yongji has been taking risks in the eyes of outsiders, he is a little stunned and does not know the meaning of the consequences, but in fact, Li Yongji is the one who is the most comfortable in advancing and retreating. On the surface, it seems that Li Yongji has blocked his own way and can only leave it to others to decide, but in fact, Li Yongji is forcing others to express his position, giving others questions, and waiting for others to answer, and then he will make the next step according to the situation.

Li Yongji's biggest reliance is the current situation and his own strength, he just wants to use such a way to make his debut, that is, to make people think that he is not easy to mess with, he is stunned, and he wants to keep himself and the elite army at a certain distance from the traditional forces, so that it will reduce a lot of trouble in the future.

Sure enough, Lin Guangyao quickly ran to the front of the Jingwu Army, and after a brief examination and body search, he came to Li Yongji, and began to scold angrily.

The content of the scolding is nothing more than how unwise you are, how you make heinous mistakes, for the sake of his brother-in-law, Li Yongji will let him say it first, and only after seeing that the other party is almost there, he will start to talk about the actual thing.

Lin Guangyao said that this qiē was all a misunderstanding, as long as Li Yongjun withdrew first, he would be easy to speak. Li Yongji resolutely refused to back down, insisting that Zhang Yuliang come over and kowtow to himself in public to admit his mistakes.

This point is unlikely to be realized, not to mention whether Zhang Yuliang has the courage to come, even if he really comes, and kowtows to admit his mistake, Li Yongji did not kill him, then after he does this, he will lose face, and he will no longer be able to lead the troops in the future, because no one will obey him.

Moreover, Zhang Yuliang is not the only one who is disgraced, even the officialdom of Suzhou will be disgraced, after all, Li Yongji forced the defenders of Suzhou City to come out and kowtow to him, some kind of Cheng Dù said, it is to slap Suzhou City in the face.

If the differences between the two sides are too great, they will not be able to reach an agreement. Lin Guangyao is not a fool, looking at the smile on the other party's face, he knew that Li Yongji was repaying the money on the spot, so he simply asked what your real purpose was.

"Officials and money!" Li Yongji said without hesitation, "It's not easy for me to come all the way, give me one million taels of silver, and add me the rank of chief soldier, and this matter will be stopped." ”

"It can't be!" Lin Guangyao immediately shook his head, "This is too much of a request, not to mention that one million taels of silver is absolutely impossible, just say the chief soldier, it must be ordered by the imperial court, and the governor has no right to appoint the chief soldier." ”

"Then write an excerpt recommendation." Li Yongji smiled, "A governor recommended me to be the chief soldier, so I think it's always a bit weighty." ”

"That's not possible." Lin Guangyao shook his head again, "Yongji, don't mess around, my family is still being detained inside, even if you don't care, you have to care about me, care about your sister." ”

"That's why I came here because I cared about my sister." Li Yongji shook his head, "I said brother-in-law, my sister can say it, when I asked you to go to Qingpu County with me, you had a brain pump?" Do you have to stay here? Do you want to organize a group exercise? Do you think you can do it? ”

"I don't want to, that's not what my father meant." Lin Guangyao smiled bitterly, "My father is bent on serving the court, and I can't stop it." My family is here, what's the matter if I run away by myself? In case my family has a bad day in the future, and I am the only one alive, then, will I be able to raise my head and be a man in the future? Moreover, your sister thinks I'm stupid now, but if I really leave my family alone and run away with your sister, what will she think of me in the future? At that time, my family is gone, and your sister looks down on me again, do I still have a foothold? ”

"Huh?" Listening to Lin Guangyao's words, Li Yongji was impressed by him, but he didn't expect that this young man, who is usually weak in writing and writing, doesn't express much opinion on anything, and has a very weak sense of zài, has a very lively brain, at least he can see things clearly.

"I can't see that my brother-in-law is talented." Li Yongji sighed.

"What a talent, it's just that I usually like to think about more things." Lin Guangyao sighed, "Anyway, Yongji, you are now equivalent to roasting our family on the fire, and I have always thought that you are not really muddy, so you can give a correct word." ”

"Okay, then I'll give you the right words!" Li Yongji said, "You go back and tell the above, just want me to go, just give 500,000 taels of silver, as soon as the money is in hand, I will immediately lead the troops and leave, of course, I have to return your family and the three boys I sent in." ”

"In this case, it is still possible, but 500,000 is still too much......"

"Don't be busy, I haven't said anything about me yet." Li Yongji waved his hand, "If you are willing to give me one million taels of silver, I will stay and help you defend the city and beat Li Xiucheng's Taiping army away." Of course, this million taels of silver is only a number, and I don't want silver, but you can offset it with silk, tea, jadeite, gold, white jade, precious wood, and other valuables that I can look at. Suzhou City has always been prosperous, and it can still be done with some valuables to offset the silver, right? ”

"You want to help defend Suzhou?"

"Of course, otherwise you really think that I brought the troops here to save your family." Li Yongji pouted, "You can tell them that the goods of one million taels of silver can be owed first, but they must be jointly guaranteed by all the adults of Suzhou above the fifth grade, including the governor, and when I have repelled the bandits, it will not be too late to give me this money." Moreover, after repelling the Taiping army, I have to give the imperial court a fold and give me the official position of the chief soldier, well, the general soldier is smaller, and it is better to be the commander. ”

"Admiral, you dare to think about it." Lin Guangyao shook his head, "I only have a few admirals in the Qing Dynasty, and that's the feudal official." Do you want to be a direct commander from a nine-rank foreign commissioner, is it possible? ”

"At this time and that time, as long as I can fight, why can't I be a commander?" Li Yongji pursed his lips, "Even that coward Zhang Yuliang who can only run back and forth can be the commander, if I can defeat the bandits, why can't I?" In short, if you go back and tell the governor, what do you do when you are an official, if I become a general soldier in the future, I will only take care of what my chief soldier should do, and if I become a commander, then I will protect the safety of a province and let him do it himself. ”

"But this ...... Will this work? ”

"You go back and just say that, it's not up to you to decide whether it's okay or not." Li Yongji waved his hand, "By the way, let them release my three messengers first." If you don't let them go in half an hour, I'm really going to attack the city! It's a big deal to capture Suzhou City when the time comes, and then go to Changmao! Well, remember to say these words, and be sure to say them clearly! Moreover, I'm not kidding you, when the time comes, I will definitely fight, and there will be no room for maneuver when the time comes! ”