By the time Li Yongji led his troops to Wuxi, it was already the third day after the Battle of Changshu, and since the Taiping army did not leave any defensive troops here, Li Yongji did not experience any fighting when he arrived with his army, but only received it in accordance with the law.

After taking over Wuxi, Li Yongji found that the city did not have much of a war, and he invited the gentry who welcomed him into the city to know the reason.

It turned out that after hearing the Changzhou massacre, the original Qing army fled in advance without waiting for the Taiping army to come, and the people of Wuxi were also afraid that once they resisted the Taiping army, they would be slaughtered like Changzhou, so as soon as the Taiping army came, they surrendered unconditionally and did not resist at all, so they did not experience the war.

After the Taiping army entered Wuxi, due to Li Xiucheng's strong constraints, in addition to robbing the government treasury of money and grain, the Tianping army did not make things difficult for the ordinary people, neither did they forcibly cut their braids, nor did they forcibly collect taxes and rob the people's property.

The people here don't rob the people's property, but they don't just rob the poor, even if it's a well-off family or even a wealthy businessman, they don't rob at all, as long as you don't deliberately target the Taiping Army, don't find trouble with the Taiping Army, and don't blatantly commit adultery, they won't care about you.

After that, the Taiping army defeated Suzhou, although many local strong men were forcibly recruited as soldiers, but mainly the poor peasants outside the city, but did not do much to the citizens in Wuxi. It is said that it was because Li Xiucheng felt that the people in Wuxi City were too strong and were not good materials for being soldiers, so he went to arrest soldiers outside the city.

In any case, compared with Li Yongji's memory, Wuxi at this time did not suffer much war, such as the Chong'an Temple, as well as Wuxi Dongxu Palace, which are still intact.

In fact, in history, the military discipline of the Taiping Army was still okay in this period, at least much better than that of the Qing Army, especially Li Xiucheng's troops, the military discipline was particularly good, except for a Changzhou massacre, the Taiping Army did not have many rumors of massacres, and even the Changzhou massacre was not Li Xiucheng's original intention.

In addition, if you are more serious, the massacre of Changzhou by the Taiping Army in this time and space is not strict, it is not a large-scale indiscriminate massacre, but only looting and slaughtering the rich households, and does not hurt the civilians under the well-off, so after the massacre, the total loss of personnel in Changzhou City is only more than 30,000 people, compared with the slaughter of hundreds of thousands during the Qing army's counteroffensive, this is really a small thing.

Another example is this Wuxi, even if it is the history of Li Yongji's previous life, it was also the Qing army's counteroffensive that caused a lot of damage, and the huge losses of personnel were almost all caused during the Qing army's counteroffensive, but because the Qing army was the victor, those massacres were not recorded. At that time, when Li Xiucheng started the battle of southern Jiangsu, because Li Xiucheng wanted to manage the southern Jiangsu region as his own territory from the beginning, the military discipline control was very good, and Wuxi was still very well preserved.

In this time and space, because Li Yongji annihilated Li Xiucheng's main force under the city of Suzhou, Li Xiucheng lost the vitality of resistance, and he was too close to Suzhou, afraid that the other party would take the opportunity to attack, so he quickly abandoned Wuxi as a buffer and bait, and did not carry out a strong wall and clear wilderness-style raid.

This is because in Li Xiucheng's view, he is a defeated army, if he loots again, it will completely lose the hearts of the local people, and most of the Qing army is greedy and murderous, a dilapidated Wuxi, the Qing army will definitely not have the heart to rob, will continue to chase themselves, but if there is a relatively rich Wuxi left, then the Qing army will spend time on looting and no longer bother chasing themselves. This is also the reason why Li Xiucheng only robbed the treasury, not the common people, and even the big families, he just hoped that Li Yongji would lead his troops to rob the common people, so that he could not only lose the hearts of the Qing army, but also buy time for Li Xiucheng.

It's a pity that the Jingwu Army is a more disciplined army, and it doesn't make a living from looting at all, so after entering the city, there is no other big move except to re-seal the treasury, post a notice to re-enforce the people, and prohibit the traitor department.

Of course, this is not a big move, it refers to the opinion of outsiders, in fact, after Li Yongji led his troops into Wuxi, there were still a lot of actions, but most of them were not so little-known.

Li Yongji didn't do anything else in Wuxi for the time being, so he did two things, the first thing was naturally to build a military camp in Wuxi, and the second thing was to attract investment.

It is not surprising that the construction of the Wuxi military camp is the right thing to do, after all, the Jingwu army is the most stable guarantee to control this area.

It is also normal to attract investment, after all, he has already set up a package of business cooperation plans in Suzhou, and has set up a business federation and a UnionPay, which is actually a monopoly economic consortium with Li Yongji as the main body, monopolizing local commercial and financial activities, unified coordination, unified planning, and large-scale regional planned economy, so as to earn maximum profits for himself.

The merchants of Suzhou have already fallen under the bayonets of the interests and elite military forces, and this time they have come to Wuxi, so they will naturally wipe out all the major merchants in Wuxi and bring Wuxi into this monopoly economy.

With this in mind, after Li Yongji came to Wuxi, he immediately convened a meeting of local wealthy businessmen, constantly promoted his new products and business cooperation plans at the meeting, and used the method of lure and persuasion to pull the local wealthy businessmen in Wuxi into the business cooperation system he had set up in Suzhou.

There is nothing difficult about this matter, these are all businessmen, not as old-fashioned as Confucian officials, and they are very clear about the benefits of establishing a unified business federation and UnionPay.

Not to mention anything else, just after joining this system, they can get the protection of the Jingwu Army, which can make them tempted, after all, in this way, they are backed by the big tree of the Jingwu Army, and when they do business in Suzhou, Wuxi and other areas controlled by the Jingwu Army, they can be exempted from the government's taxes and assessments, and there are no checkpoints, and the money saved in this regard alone is not a small amount.

Moreover, Li Yongji is doing business with them, not forcibly collecting money from them, and in terms of price, both sides are still sending people from both sides to set up a price committee and set prices according to market conditions. Not to mention how much money they make, at least it makes them feel more comfortable emotionally, after all, it is an equal relationship on the surface.

As for joining the UnionPay and the Federation of Commerce, it is okay to accept the leadership and deployment of Li Yongji in a unified manner, anyway, Chinese businessmen have always been weak and accustomed to it, and now it is a troubled time, and there is an army leader on the head, and I don't think there is any problem, but I think it is a good thing.

In this way, in just three days, Li Yongji got the local merchants in Wuxi, and as for those Confucian scholars and landlords and gentry, Li Yongji did not see them.

In addition, after the rapid retreat of the Taiping army, the Qing government did not have time to re-send officials over, and Wuxi City was a state of anarchy.

Now that Li Yongji is here, he will disband this gentry and set up the family guard group and replace it with the Jingwu army to take charge of the local city defense and public security, of course, there is no objection to this matter.

However, at the same time, Li Yongji used the excuse of raising military expenses to ask those big businessmen who agreed to join the Federation of Merchants and UnionPay to contribute money and people to form a Wuxi military government to serve the elite army.

As the name suggests, this so-called Wuxi Military Government means that in the future, the Wuxi Military Government will be solely responsible for all administrative issues involving the local government affairs in Wuxi, including the collection of taxes on thieves, the purchase of military supplies, and the provision of logistics and transportation.

In order to ensure that the authority of the Wuxi military government is resolutely and effectively implemented, and at the same time not to delay the energy of the elite armed forces, Li Yongji will also set up a police force for this military government.

The police force is a local armed repression force similar to the government's arrest of Kuai, and the full name of the yamen where the unit is located is the Wuxi Police Department.

The weapons, clothing, and training of the Wuxi Police Force are all provided by the Jingwu Army, and the salaries of the police officers and the funds for buying weapons and clothing are all provided by the Wuxi Military Government.

When this police force is trained, it will hand over all the police stations to the Wuxi Military Government, and officials sent by the Wuxi Military Government will serve as police chiefs to manage this police force, that is to say, this armed force is actually managed by those businessmen.

At the same time as the establishment of the military government, Li Yongji also organized a military court, the judges of the military court were appointed by the Jingwu army, and the jurors were appointed by the non-commissioned officers of the Jingwu army and the businessmen who joined the UnionPay and the Federation of Commerce.

Obviously, Li Yongji wanted to borrow the military government and the military court to carry out local administration in the posture of military management, and in this local political structure, in addition to the lack of legislative power of the local parliament, basically the executive power and judicial power are all covered, which is a typical dual-track system of power seizure law, that is, it is not clear that the old yamen is banned, but a new yamen is established to replace the power of the old yamen.

Whether it is the Wuxi Military Government or the local military court, the officials in it are recommended by others and self-competitive recruitment system, and there are property regulations, that is, people with too much property cannot be officials, and at the same time, officials also have background restrictions, they must have been in business for five years, and their family business name has joined Li Yongji's UnionPay or business union system.

In other words, the officials of the military government and the military court will mainly be those small businessmen who have interests with Li Yongji, and there is no serious gentry and Confucian scholars, nor a pure big landlord, let alone a big businessman, which is a clear statement to support small businessmen and suppress those Confucian gentry and landlords.

Because in Li Yongji's view, although the merchant group of the Qing Dynasty was relatively weak, it was also the most progressive and flexible group in China in this era, and it was better to support them to help themselves than to support a group of gentry who were rigid and self-righteous and always made trouble for themselves.

Li Yongji has always believed that the actual interests are definitely more reliable than the etiquette and morality that they say, and that these small businessmen with rich business experience will control the local government affairs, no matter how bad they are, no matter how bad they are, and this is also an attempt to see if the businessmen can work in China at this time, and at the same time, it is also to cultivate local governance talents for themselves.

It is easy to fight the world, but it is difficult to sit in the world, and it is difficult to sit in the world, and the difficult thing is local governance. The elite military can fight all over the world invincible, but if there are not enough and qualified local administrative personnel, even if they lay down the territory, they will only cheapen the old bureaucracy, and there will be no changes, and it is impossible to truly develop the local economy, and the economy cannot develop, so there is no such thing as the people are rich and the country is strong.

As for what will happen if the Qing government sends officials again in the future? Hehe, this is easy to do, there is an elite army and a police force here, as long as something comes out, the people are not stupid, and they will know which yamen they want to listen to in the future, this is the department that wants to seize power with the old yamen, and they can still be afraid of each other?

It can be said that the establishment of the Wuxi Military Government and the Wuxi Military Court is the greatest purpose of Li Yongji personally leading troops to Wuxi, otherwise, it is just a simple construction of military camps in Wuxi, and there is no need for Li Yongji to personally go out at all.

It is precisely because the establishment of the military government and the military court are too involved that no one else can do it for them at present, and it is not clear what is going on, so Li Yongji can only come over in person.

What the? Why not do this new policy in Suzhou? It's very simple, Suzhou is currently the capital of Jiangsu after all, and its status is too sensitive, and if he does this there all of a sudden, it will have a strong confrontation with the Qing government too early, and the current Li Yongji is not ready to make a comprehensive face with the Qing government, after all, the timing is not right, and the strength is not strong enough, so he does not plan to have a showdown with the Qing government too early, in this way, he can't make too much trouble with the Qing government, and both sides need some buffer and compromise.

Wuxi is different, Wuxi's economic conditions and geographical environment are not much different from Suzhou, but the political situation is much better, because Wuxi has just been captured by the Taiping army, the original officials are either dead or fleeing, and it is already an anarchic state.

Besides, whether it is a military government or a military court, it is a new thing for the people of the Qing Dynasty, and it will take a process for everyone to accept it. Moreover, we dare not say that there is no problem at all with small businessmen as officials, but we can only solve problems when they arise, borrow the governance methods of later generations, and continue to advance in the process of exploration in combination with the actual situation in the locality. Because of this, this kind of new policy pilot cannot be carried out in an important city like Suzhou at once, but must be done in other minor cities first, and then slowly promoted to the Quartet after accumulating enough experience.

Li Yongji is confident that even if there will be a lot of problems at the beginning of this new policy, this is a more advanced governance system after all, at least in terms of efficiency is definitely higher than the original Qing Dynasty yamen, as long as these people are given a period of adaptation, relying on this system, these small businessmen who have gained power will sooner or later burst out with amazing power.

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