Li Tiancheng emphasized that the Li family army will try its best to protect the interests of factory workers, industrial and commercial owners, working people in society, farmers, and people of all walks of life. The current social structure will not change significantly, and the original policies for benefiting the people will remain unchanged. In the field of taxation, some industrial and commercial people and agricultural taxes will be adopted to reduce the burden on the ordinary industrial and commercial class and peasant class. At the same time, Li Tiancheng's factories in Shanghai and Songjiang will open to all unemployed working classes in Shanghai and southern Jiangsu, and try to provide them with jobs.

Li Tiancheng specially formulated a new policy, which is to form a special department to be established to count the specific data of idle people in society and people with difficulties in families. When newly built factories recruit workers, they will give priority to recruiting unemployed and difficult people or their children, so that they can get a certain salary to support their families.

In addition to reducing and exempting some taxes and caring for socially disadvantaged groups, Li Tiancheng is also preparing to make major medical reforms, establishing the Shanghai Red Cross Association of Li Jiajun and establishing a branch in southern Jiangsu. The Red Cross Society uses fundraising and financial appropriations to raise money and materials, and then use it to help those in need who are seriously ill and have no money to treat, and help all kinds of patients who are not treated, so that they will not have to give up their lives because they have no money to seek medical treatment.

In addition, in terms of education, Li Tiancheng announced that he would soon establish a modern comprehensive university in Shanghai, called "Shanghai Revival University". Excellent students from all walks of life can apply for this university. Those with outstanding grades among the needy children can receive support from school scholarships and provide them with the opportunity to work and study, so that they can complete their university studies. After graduation, they will give priority to students in difficulty to find employment in Li Tiancheng's company.

Regarding the issue of landlords and local tyrants, Li Tianfeng wanted to take the land under the government, and then follow the practices of later generations, adopt the family contracting system, and distribute the land to farmers in various places to farm. However, the situation is turbulent at this time. If the interests of those landlords and local tyrants are affected, they will inevitably jump over the wall, rise up, and cooperate with the Qing government to deal with him. So after repeated consideration, Li Tiancheng felt that after his territory was more stable, he would consider returning the land to the farmers.

The reporters quickly spread the new policies that Li Tiancheng prepared to implement through various channels. The plan to reduce taxes and take care of the needy people immediately caused a huge response in society. All of these policies benefit people's livelihood and benefit the common people. Many civilians who began to have prejudice against the Li family army gradually changed their views. The people who originally supported the Li family army supported them more, but there were still a few stubborn elements who believed that Li Tiancheng's arrival destroyed the original social structure and also moved some interests that originally belonged to them.

These are generally some wealthy people and local government workers. The tax reduction policy alone directly harms their interests, because these people obtain benefits through layer-by-layer exploitation and depriving grassroots workers of taxes. The government's tax collection has decreased, and they have fewer channels for extortion. Therefore, some of these people have adopted a resistance attitude, but not many people dare to gather to cause trouble.

Overall, the measures announced by Li Tiancheng to the newspaper industry were supported by most people, because the living standards of the people in the late Qing Dynasty and early Ming Dynasty were extremely low, and most people lived near the food and clothing line. Many people could not even have enough food, had no money to treat, and had no money to pay tuition for their children to go to school. Rich people accounted for a very small number, and less than one percent of them lived a relatively wealthy life, most of whom were officials, gang bosses, gentry tyrants, wealthy businessmen, etc.

In order to cope with the current situation, Li Tiancheng has ordered his subordinates to start recruiting soldiers today. For young people who meet the physical and all aspects of their health and quality standards and who are willing to join the Li family's army and have difficulties in their families, in addition to withdrawing six silver dollars in a month in advance, they will pay two silver dollars in an additional difficulty subsidy. In addition, in the war, each soldier can receive double salary, which is as much as twelve silver dollars per month.

The recruitment work has been carried out everywhere. Shanghai has five recruitment sites, including southeast, west, north, and middle. Suzhou, Wuxi, Changzhou, Songjiang and other places, and more than a thousand people have signed up for the army one after another. After verifying that the family is in trouble, some people immediately received a subsidy of two silver dollars.

After some measures, the Li family army provided a total of three silver dollars a month, reaching six silver dollars in military pay, and the Li family army's extremely abiding by the rules in Shanghai and other places, the Li family army gradually became deeply rooted in the hearts of the people. At least the working people in society did not exclude them. What ordinary people want is a stable income that can support their families and maintain social stability. As for whom they lead, these are not the key points. Unless foreigners rule them, some people will fight to the death regardless of the temptation of interests.

On that day, the Qing army stationed in the 9th town of the New Army in Jiangsu, and the troops of the Defense Forces were assembled in Nanjing, and began to march towards Changzhou, attempting to counterattack into Changzhou in one fell swoop. The vanguard of the Qing army had arrived outside Changzhou City to camp. The Li family army had dug a circle of trenches deep in the suburbs outside Changzhou City, and the soldiers set up defenses layer by layer. In addition, a large number of infantry mines were buried on the main passage to prevent the Qing army from advancing. The two sides were currently in a confrontation and no further military action had been taken.

At this time, the anti-infantry mines were not used in large quantities in the world. The first generation of anti-infantry mines were invented by the Russians in 1903. Anti-tank mines did not appear until World War II. Landmines on the Chinese battlefield are even more rare, and there are no engineers such as mine demining soldiers among the Qing soldiers. Therefore, landmines have a great effect on them. Once someone touches a mine, their actions will inevitably become cautious, and they may not find a good way to remove mines.

The three thousand new troops stationed in Hangzhou in Zhejiang gradually began to move northward and gathered towards Jiaxing and Huzhou. In addition, the defense forces stationed in Jiaxing had about 8,000 people. The subsequent reinforcements were on standby on site. Then, according to the development of the situation, they would gradually rush to the southern part of Shanghai to form a force of attack on the Li family army from north to south.

But at this time, the road protection movement in Sichuan, Hunan, Guangdong and other provinces became increasingly fierce. The governor of Zhili and the Sichuan-Hanzhou and Guangdong-Hanzhou Railway Supervisor Duanfang had led most of the Hubei New Army to enter Sichuan to suppress the revolutionary masses. Hubei was empty for a while, and Li Tiancheng was disturbed at this critical moment, and the whole south was in a state of turmoil.

Under the stimulation of other provinces in southern provinces such as Fujian, Zhejiang, Jiangxi, Yunnan, and Guizhou, the revolutionaries and other local forces were ready to cooperate with the Baolu revolutionaries and the Li family army to set off a national revolutionary wave, because like Li Tiancheng, they were unwilling to give up this god-given opportunity.

Previously, the revolutionaries of the revolutionaries were easily suppressed by the Qing government because they were too small in scale, too narrow in scope, and did not mobilize the masses widely. At this time, everyone saw that several provinces were in chaos. The Li family army formed by the militia team suddenly emerged and occupied southern Jiangsu and Shanghai in one fell swoop. The people's hearts began to rise. The revolutionaries in various provinces held emergency meetings to discuss plans to further carry out larger-scale actions. The situation was obviously not optimistic for the Qing court.

In the north, the revolutionaries were much weaker. The northern provinces were mainly controlled by the Beiyang Army. However, the opposition in several provinces began to move abnormally and there was a tendency to join the revolutionary wave, so the Qing court was also in a state of great trouble at this time. Originally, after Li Tiancheng's uprising, the troops in northern Anhui and Jiangsu and the Qing soldiers in Zhejiang could arrive in southern Jiangsu to suppress the rebellion within two days, but because they were worried that the backyard would catch fire, they needed to make arrangements and deployments first, so the time for dispatching troops was postponed.

Li Tiancheng arranged all basic affairs to appease the people and began to hold the first formal meeting after entering Shanghai. The participants were all officers at the brigade level or above, only Tan Jianye was not a military personnel. In addition, Li Yunlong, the acting commander of the Second Division, led the troops to arbitrate defense in Changzhou and did not attend the meeting.

This meeting was held in the county office of the former Shanghai magistrate Tian Baorong. Li Tiancheng has considered staying at Tian Baorong. This is to show others. Anyone who supports the Li family army will have a good ending, which is also a way to win people's hearts.

Yan Lisan rushed back to attend the special meeting by taking a helicopter, and then he was about to return to southern Jiangsu. All four helicopters had been inspected, and only one of them had parts strain problems and needed to be replaced. The flight was grounded. The content and results of this meeting will soon be transmitted to all subordinate units.

Li Tiancheng and others discussed the main content of the meeting in advance. The purpose of this meeting was to concretize it and start to formally implement some specific plans.

"The theme of this meeting is to establish a temporary military government to manage military and political affairs in Shanghai and southern Jiangsu. I suggest that the temporary military government in Shanghai is now established. You can express your opinions on specific matters, and those who do not agree can also raise them." Li Tiancheng saved time and immediately went straight to the point.

"I agree!"

"I agree!"

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Everyone raised their hands to express their approval as soon as possible. According to the constitution of the meeting, more than three-quarters of the people must object to the proposals made by the Chairman of the Military Commission to prevent them from passing; while the Chairman of the Military Commission can vote against the proposals put forward by other members.

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