It took only one day to capture Nanjing, in addition to the strong attack power of Li Yongji's troops, it was also related to the weak resistance of the Taiping army, and the reason why the resistance was not strong was mainly due to two factors.

The first factor is naturally that Li Yongji's propaganda offensive has done well, and his reputation is also good, forming a trend that is popular with the people, and the common people are looking forward to Li Yongji's call.

Before the attack on Nanjing, the people in Nanjing were very yearning for Li Yongji's policy, and knew that Li Yongji was not an indiscriminate murderer, but they had long been disappointed in the Taiping army, so they were all looking forward to Li Yongji's elite army coming in so that they could live a better life as soon as possible.

The second factor is that the Taiping army itself has long expected to be able to hold Tianjing, for example, Chen Yucheng has persuaded the city not to leave and give up Nanjing more than once, but Hong Xiuquan is dead or alive, so he prepared for the defense of Tianjing.

But in fact, Chen Yucheng had already made two arrangements, arranging defense while preparing for evacuation. Sure enough, after finding that he could not hold it, Chen Yucheng immediately escorted the young lord and a cadre of important ministers, and Qiao Qiao fled from the west, and Chen Yucheng and the main force left, plus Hong Xiuquan committed suicide, and the Taiping army without unified command was not vulnerable at all.

But no matter what the reason, being able to conquer Nanjing in one day is definitely synonymous with toughness.

After conquering Tianjing, Li Yongji immediately dispatched a patrol team, patrolling everywhere while posting notices to the people.

At the same time, Li Yongji repeatedly expounded the strictness of military discipline in the army, strictly prohibiting soldiers from wandering around the streets at will, strictly prohibiting robbery, and severely punishing anyone who found it!

Fortunately, the troops fighting Nanjing were Zhang Wei's troops, and Zhang Wei's troops have always been known for their strict military discipline, so these things are not difficult. As for the second-class Wehrmacht, they were all required to hold on to the city and not to go out into the streets at will. In addition, there is also the monitoring of the Judge Advocate General's Office, so there is no problem with discipline as well.

This move greatly relieved the people of Nanjing, for them, there was no massacre, no looting, it was already a blessing.

Immediately afterwards, Li Yongji ordered Tianjing to be changed back to the title of Nanjing, but because Nanjing was dilapidated, the capital was not immediately moved to Nanjing, but planned to wait for a new palace. In other words, after the government office building is built, the central leadership team will be relocated from Suzhou.

That's right, Li Yongji has decided to temporarily make Nanjing the capital of the Chinese Empire in the future, but he doesn't look down on the Heavenly King's Mansion and intends to continue to use it as a museum.

As for the new palace, or government office building, he planned to rebuild a modern building on the site of what would later be Southeast University.

The design of the new building, all carried out by modern designers, is a large modern Shikumen villa style building. The building is divided into the main building and the auxiliary building, which is composed of one main building and two auxiliary buildings, plus the connecting passage, and the overall appearance is like a large "mountain" character.

Outside the building, he was going to paint it gold. Coupled with the searchlight lighting, even the name has been thought of, and it is called the Golden Palace.

And until the construction of the new Golden Palace is completed, he is temporarily near the Taiping Gate. That is, a piece of land was encircled in the place of White Horse Park in later generations, and people built their own mobile villas, and several color steel houses were built. Even if it is your own foothold in Nanjing.

In the same way, it is not that Li Yongji is simple and does not disturb the people, but that he is used to the environment of the mobile villa, after all, there is everything in the mobile villa, and he is also used to the convenient small environment of modern life, the kind of large-scale Chinese classical pavilions, he is not used to it.

This is why he didn't live in the Forbidden City in Beijing and didn't live in the Tianwang Mansion here. The Forbidden City is not mentioned, there is not much damage at all, although there is some damage to the Tianwang Mansion, but because the resistance is not strong, the damage is not big, so it is no problem to live in people.

Of course, Li Yongji definitely can't tell others his true reasons, so he uses the unlucky things of the previous dynasty as an excuse.

After Li Yongji settled down in Nanjing, he immediately sent Zhang Wei to lead two regiments to continue the attack with the help of the cruiser Zhenyuan, and fought until Anqing, where he temporarily stopped due to insufficient troops.

In other words, Anqing has been taken by the Chinese Empire, and the remnants of the Taiping Army are only the two big cities of Jiujiang and Nanchang, with a total strength of only 80,000, and they are still under the attack of the Chinese Empire and the Hunan Army, and it is difficult to feed themselves, and they are not a threat at all.

At the same time as Zhang Wei attacked westward, Li Yongji also began to nervously recruit manpower to repair the damaged buildings, and at the same time close the treasury and count the income.

Because the Chinese Imperial Army did not burn and loot after capturing Nanjing, and Chen Yucheng took a batch of gold and silver treasures with him in advance when he left, the wealth harvested was not much, if not counting real estate and the like, the total wealth was only five million taels of silver.

Compared with wealth, the population of Nanjing City is relatively large, and after preliminary statistics, including the Taiping prisoners, about 700,000 people have survived.

This figure is already quite reliable, indicating that the destruction of the city of Nanjing in the Battle of Nanjing was not severe, at least the damage to the personnel was not serious.

You must know that in history, when Zeng Guofan conquered Nanjing, he once carried out a massacre in Nanjing, and according to research, the number of people slaughtered exceeded the Nanjing Massacre of the Japanese army in later generations, reaching as much as 500,000.

Although because the time is too long, there is not much evidence to prove this number, but in comparison, when the Taiping Heavenly Kingdom ruled Nanjing, the highest once reached one million people, after the Hunan army conquered Nanjing, burned, killed, plundered, and did all kinds of evil, and finally the survivors of Nanjing were only 200,000, many of whom were later outsiders, and during the Guangxu period, Nanjing was only 500,000 after such a long period of recovery.

Now, after Li Yongji's Chinese Imperial Army captured Nanjing, they did not burn, kill and loot, and they were lucky to be able to leave so many people.

But in this way, Nanjing is really an unfortunate place, all the massacres have Nanjing's share, which is also a wonder, of course, this may also be related to Nanjing's geographical location, easy to attack and difficult to defend, and easy to accumulate population wealth.

It's like a rich man who doesn't have a knife in his hand, and if he encounters a robber, he will naturally be easily bullied.

Li Yongji did not believe in superstition, he felt that Nanjing's geographical advantages were actually more suitable for being the capital of a strong country than the capital of a weak country.

Why did Zhu Yuanzhang call Nanjing emperor back then? That's because Zhu Yuanzhang is the best, and he is the strongest. He can only beat people, and no one else can beat him, so Nanjing's geographical advantage of convenient transportation is conducive to being the capital.

On the other hand, if your country is weak, and you are still the capital in such a convenient and easy to attack and difficult to defend place, it is normal to be abused, but all in all, Nanjing is a place with developed transportation and convenient water conservancy, which can accommodate more people, and it is more reliable to be an economic capital. The government is a little too dangerous.

Because of this, Li Yongji planned to temporarily make Nanjing the capital of government, as for the future, for security reasons, it would be better to move the capital to an inland city, but he had not yet chosen which place to choose, but fortunately, there was still a lot of time. You can choose slowly, so he's not in a hurry.

During the reign of the Taiping Heavenly Kingdom, the citizens of Nanjing City actually did not live well, and it is still today. Although they dare not say that they are extremely poor, there is not much difference, and Chen Yucheng has looted a lot of wealth before leaving, so many people even have a problem eating.

In order to stabilize the hearts of the people. At the same time, in order to increase the labor force and speed up the renovation of Nanjing, Li Yongji continued to implement the method of cash-for-work in Nanjing.

Other words. In Nanjing, the policy of household registration book and ID card was continued, and after the residents registered, they began to recruit a large number of construction workers from all walks of life according to the ID card.

Although there is not much damage to Nanjing today, there are still many places to be built, at least far from a modern city.

Li Yongji decided to build a large number of buildings in Nanjing, taking advantage of the fact that most of the citizens of Nanjing were extremely poor and most of them did not have the spirit of resistance, so as to replan the entire city and build Nanjing into a modern city.

To become a modern city, the first one is the sewer project, with the sewer, not only can dredge the drainage, but also in the future to engage in wires, network cables and the like is also easy, is a sign of a modern city, so this project is also the top priority of Nanjing.

The second project is the road widening project. Li Yongji decided to re-widen the city's main roads around the Golden Palace, starting with 12 main roads in each direction.

The width of the main road is based on eight lanes, but because there is not enough asphalt for the time being, the dirt road is built first, and then the asphalt road is laid.

In the neighborhoods divided by the main road, he decided to demolish all the ordinary houses and build new ones, except for some buildings with unique styles.

The new houses are all in modern architectural style, simply put, all are boxy two-story or three-storey small buildings, the pursuit of simplicity, practicality, beauty and generosity, and the building materials are made of red brick cement. Only the roof is made into a Chinese-style spire with tiles, but it is also mainly practical, not deliberately pursuing any Chinese style.

The third is the Golden Palace Project, which will not only be Li Yongji's residence, but also the government office building of the Chinese Empire, similar to the White House in the United States. In this place, Li Yongji decided not to build high walls around this place, except for the main building, and made all the green grass, which is not only conducive to defense, but also looks more beautiful and comfortable.

In short, Li Yongji decided to treat Nanjing as a large construction site, personally supervised, and used Nanjing's manpower and his own golden finger to turn most of the citizens of Nanjing into construction workers, so that the construction of the new city could be carried out quickly, and the way of royal employment could be used to give these laborers a job, so that they could have a stable income and not live on the streets.

Because Li Yongji's salary for construction workers is relatively high, with a minimum of one or two silver a month, and food, even if it is not enforced, he soon recruits a construction army of 200,000 people, all of whom are men in the prime of life.

In order to carry out the plan of building a new Nanjing, Li Yongji transferred a number of backbone members of the production and construction troops from Shanghai to reorganize the 200,000 people in Nanjing in the mode of the production and construction corps, which was called the Nanjing Construction Corps.

Then, the 200,000 construction army of the Nanjing Construction Corps was soon put into the busy construction of the project under the leadership of the backbone supervisors at all levels.

In order to improve efficiency, the Corps has adopted the old method of rewarding and punishing people, in which there are few economic rewards and punishments, and most of them use the method of political propaganda to boost morale.

In this regard, the backbone of the Production and Construction Corps, which has been in operation for nearly a year, has long had experience, and they still have the old method, that is, to organize a conference first, preach the history of the founding of the Chinese Empire, beautify the history of Li Yongji's fortune, and give them the impression that Li Yongji values faith and righteousness and has the destiny of heaven.

After that, they began to sue them about the benefits of being construction workers. To put it simply. It's that you are now the Nanjing Construction Corps, that is, you eat the imperial grain and work for the imperial family. This work is not temporary, but can be done for a long time.

So what are the specific benefits of working for the royal family, in addition to having a good reputation, you can say that I eat imperial food when you go out, and at the same time, your own children are eligible for free schooling, and your immediate family can also get a limited amount of cheap food. These cheap grains are more than half cheaper than the market, and the so-called limited amount is actually more than enough for you to eat yourself. The rest does not prevent you from buying and selling privately, which is equivalent to an extra privilege and allowance.

After saying this, these backbone supervisors began to perform a sweet show, that is, to find a few guys who had been trained in advance to give a speech on stage, saying who he was, where he was, what he did before, and how miserable his life was. Hey, since he defected to Li Yongji. After becoming a laborer and eating the imperial grain, it was only half a year, and his life had undergone some earth-shaking changes.

There were more than ten people who performed on stage, including Suzhou people. There are Qingpu people, there are Jiaxing people...... Anyway, there are almost everywhere in the Jiangnan area, and they are basically real people, but they have undergone some speech training in advance. It's just a slight exaggeration.

Otherwise, how could ordinary people speak so fluently when they come to the stage to speak. I still cry at every turn, I have to train.

But don't say it, as soon as you do this, the people below will still admit it, and they will soon be full of longing for the future, thinking that they can be like the people on stage, work hard for half a year, and they can live a good life.

Similar ideological education usually takes three days, and it is an intensive bombing type of brainwashing education, through guò such an intensive bombing brainwashing education, and then let these people learn the rules and become laborers, they will be full of enthusiasm, and there will be very few cases of passive sabotage.

In addition, the propaganda team of the former Jingwu Army often went down to perform some programs with a strong political nature, and also taught everyone to sing military songs, entertaining everyone, and at the same time imperceptibly spreading the idea of loyalty to the monarch and patriotism, which made those people in the Nanjing Construction Corps who had endured enough hardships more motivated.

In this way, in just 10 days, the morale of the Nanjing Construction Corps is high, and you can hardly see sad faces on the construction sites that can be seen everywhere on the streets of Nanjing, and there are songs and laughter everywhere, all kinds of singing and singing, and all kinds of activities such as brick moving competitions and house demolition competitions.

At the same time, in order to reduce the logistical pressure, Li Yongji also sent people to organize the women in the rear and set up a women's volunteer team, and the members of these women's volunteer teams were usually responsible for washing clothes, cooking, and delivering meals; although the salary was very small, more than half less than the salary of a construction worker, and the average was only half a tael of silver a month, but it was still an income.

Moreover, these female volunteers will cook and deliver meals in shifts, which further stimulates the enthusiasm of the Nanjing Construction Corps. You know, during this period, men were working outside, and they were most concerned about their wives and children at home, if they knew that their wives and children were also organized, and they could come over every once in a while, this was more reassuring than anything else, at least they didn't have to worry about the green on their heads.

In short, the organization of the Nanjing Construction Corps in Tongguò is equivalent to the main manpower of Nanjing, and the people's hearts quickly settled down, not to mention, the entire city of Nanjing has fallen into a period of great construction in full swing, and everyone has begun to change from the original cautious and fearful to the brainless fan mode of wholeheartedly worshipping the emperor.

In half a month, the 200,000 people of the Nanjing Construction Corps have become a fanatical group, and their enthusiasm for work far exceeds that of other construction corps, and according to the investigation, the worship and fanaticism of the people within this group for Li Yongji have reached a pathological level, and this is the case for both young and old, and it is stricter than other places.

Li Yongji had no doubt that once these people were given guns and a little training, they would immediately become a fanatical army that was not afraid of death, and I am afraid that in terms of morale, they would be stronger than the Praetorian Guard.

This made Li Yongji a little strange, he didn't know how he was accepted by the Nanjing people so quickly, he was the one who eliminated Hong Xiuquan. What's more, if they were so fanatical from the beginning, then he would definitely not have been so smooth when he hit Nanjing.

In fact, the reason why these people in Nanjing were able to change so quickly was because these people were forced or spontaneous to believe in God worship in the past, and they also believed in God worship, but soon this belief was shattered with the increasing difficulties of life and successive failures.

It's good that people don't have faith, but once they have a belief and it is shattered, it's like falling in love and falling out of love, which is difficult to accept for a while. In this window of disappointment, if another relationship or another faith can appear in time, then they will soon devote themselves to the new faith with more enthusiasm.

This was the case with the Nanjing Construction Corps, when they were disappointed and discouraged by the Taiping Heavenly Kingdom, Emperor Li Yongji appeared, although he was actually the one who destroyed the Heavenly Kingdom, but his appearance gave these people a new center of faith, coupled with the improvement of their practical lives, which is why they changed so quickly and so fanatically.

Because of this fanaticism, some people also built the Nanjing Construction Corps to simply form an armed force, but Li Yongji still didn't do it in the end, because he didn't really lack troops now, and it was not good to be too fanatical, so let them continue to build.

Of course, in order to enrich the reserve system, after a while, let them start to take turns in some military training, at least learn how to shoot guns, that is also possible.

However, this also gave Li Yongji an inspiration, that is, the Production and Construction Corps can be regarded as the National Guard, without having to recruit separately, so calculated, one million places are basically enough, it's really strange, why didn't I think of this at that time. (To be continued......)