The late Qing Dynasty was an era of great change. The collision of new and old ideas caused a huge contrast in people's values. In addition, the changes in the late Qing Dynasty were not formed spontaneously from the inside out, but were caused by the forced intervention of external forces, so this conflict was even more shocking.

To be fair, Xiao Letian is also an outsider. Although he is a Chinese and has been a serious Han Chinese for both lifetimes, for this late Qing Dynasty, his thoughts were actually as destructive as those of foreigners.

The laggard will never know that they are behind, just as every snowflake in an avalanche believes that they are not wrong. People with old ideas refuse to change, because change means denying, denying their previous cognition.

You know, it is very difficult to make people think they are wrong, and it is no less difficult than making a stubborn stone nod. So in life, we often see some people who have been forced into a dead end, but there is no reason, but they still never repent.

Why is this happening? Because the pain of continuing on the wrong path is much smaller than the pain of denying oneself before, at least he thinks so much.

Negate your first half of your life? Negate your parents, is the education of your grandparents wrong? How shameless is this and how painful is it. Who can get out of that hurdle?

But life has to continue. People refuse to change, but they also hope for the benefits of change. For example, the Tanggu Special Zone in front of them, this place of wealth has now become a dream in the hearts of everyone in Northern China, especially in the Zhili area.

When Tanggu Special Zone was just being built, Huang Juren desperately attacked the Special Zone under the inspiration of ulterior motives. A group of indigenous people including Wangzhuang, including Xiao and Wangzhuang, were dizzy and opposed Xiao Letian, and even forced each other to death.

At that time, people really regarded this special zone as a disaster, and Xiao Letian was a Western demon in their hearts. But later, with Xiao Letian's clever response, the local resistance in Tanggu gradually faded.

Until the end, when the Industrial Special Zone began to release the magic of wealth, these locals completely changed their minds. Looking at the white silver dollars in their pockets, they completely devoted themselves to Xiao Letian's plan.

Since ancient times, wealth is emphasized as water. When the water is wet, and the land is wet, a large amount of funds are used to build a special zone. How can the people around you not take advantage of it? Whoever has land at home still grows crops? Hurry to rent the land out and build a warehouse. The rent for building a shop every year must be hundreds of silver dollars.

It’s not enough to just eat rent. Chinese people are so hardworking. If you are young and powerful, you can just do some work on the construction site and make money. If you are older, you can set up a pancake and fruit stall, bun shop, etc. outside the factory. Some companies even have a two-meat shop together to provide workers with some small stir-fry dishes, ordinary pot and wine.

This is all money. As long as the locals are not lazy, they make money like water.

At first, people were worried that the court would pick fruits, but when Meile led his troops to besiege Tanggu and finally completely destroyed the new army, everyone was fully in their hearts.

At that time, the local people on the street said, "Oh... Second Brother! Our wealthy life is in a hurry... The Prime Minister took over this city of Beijing. Who dares to grin at us in the future? Let's make money with confidence..."

Later, Beijing and Xiao Letian made a secret agreement, expanding the area of ​​Tanggu Special Zone dozens of times. They went to Tangjiapu to the south and were close to Qikou Village, and to the west and to Beitang to establish Xishuimen. They walked north and across Qilihai, Ninghe to the north and then to Kaiping.

This large circle has traveled more than 900 nearly 1,000 square kilometers of land, which is close to the area of ​​a small county. This large circle has become the jurisdiction of Tanggu Special Zone.

At this point, a very strange phenomenon occurred. Along the edge of the Special Administrative Region, Xiao Letian began to hire the people to build waterways and then planted large willow trees everywhere. He actually made a willow edge here.

Outside the pass, Manchus planted willow branches around the Han people's gathering place. Over time, the willow branches took root and sprouted, and became a wall called willow branches. In Zhili, Xiao Letian did not plant willow branches but planted large willow trees in an orderly manner.

This is no longer a row of willow trees in one or two rows. Xiao Letian planted a willow forest with a width of 200 meters. Outside is a wide newly built river channel. At a glance, a discerning person is a defense system.

Xiao Letian's army is now recognized as the strongest in Asia. No one, including Europeans, dares to underestimate this army. If you have to find the problem of this army, then there are two points that should be considered weaknesses.

One is that the number of people is small. So far, Xiao Letian can only have 20,000 combat soldiers, which is indeed not enough to see. And the other is that Xiao Letian has not developed cavalry until now, which makes Xiao Letian's army lack the ability to deviate from the big strategic strategy.

In fact, the Qing government has always had a false sense of security, which is actually because of these two points. They knew that Xiao Letian's new army was very strong, but there were not many cavalrymen at that small number of people. Even if they had the upper hand for a while, with the strong national strength and strategic depth of the Qing Dynasty, they could finally drag them to death.

It is precisely because of this sense of security that the two families have formed such a hostile and cooperative situation, which looks a bit intimate on the surface.

Within the wall of the big willow tree, the ruling system of the court still exists, and some people still manage what officials should be managed. The Qing Dynasty also collects a lot of taxes. The common people can go to the county government to file lawsuits or go to the special administrative district chief to file lawsuits. The two systems actually coexist in parallel and live in harmony.

Even the army has two systems. It is true that there are actually several green camp soldiers from the imperial court in the Tanggu Special Zone. Unfortunately, these soldiers are just image-based and cannot control anything serious.

The Tanggu Special Zone has become like this, which fully proves Xiao Letian's political maturity. Don't just be humble. The court's face gives you enough, and no one can tell you. This land will always belong to the court, and Xiao Letian is not a rebellion.

The Li Secret in the Special Administrative Region wanted civil officials and military generals, and even tax revenue was fine. It was easy to collect and collected more than in previous years.

If you are willing to manage local public security, you will manage it. If you don’t want to manage it, let the Special Administrative Region manage it. Anyway, under the bayonet of the new army, the public security of the Special Administrative Region is unimaginable.

Everything is as dreamy as heaven, but in such a quiet and peaceful situation, conflicts still exist and conflicts are becoming more and more intense.

The point of the outbreak of all contradictions is in the new policy issued by Xiao Letian before the New Year. Mobile phone users should visit http://m.piaotian.net
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