C951 Fortress, fort!

The stronghold's plan was actually just a game of exchanging time for the hearts of men! Not to mention the fact that the citizens of the late Qing were backward and rotten, they were just not used to changing. With the backward media and the sealed clan concept, they did not know what the sky outside looked like.

For example, the contradictions that the West Water Gate had encountered, in the end, those people who had resisted simply did not understand the Special Zone, nor did they know what it represented to them.

In the eyes of these refugees, the District could only be a place to eat and earn money. After working here for a few years, they would save some money to return to the village and continue building their houses and lands. They would be content to become a small landowner or a rich farmer and would come here for the rest of their lives.

This was the ideal of the refugees. However, to the citizens of Tanggu who had already experienced the influence of the Special Administrative Region, not only did this place represent a better material life, it also represented a sense of security and hope.

The Willow Wall and the moat, as well as the new army and cannons, had consecutively won three times in defense battles. They had already displayed to these citizens the sense of security Xiao Letian gave them, and this was the most urgent resource for the late Qing, and even for China, in the coming decades.

Not only did the people here have hope for the future, they could even enter Western-style schools to learn new knowledge. Even more daring families would send their girls there, and the new education system would open up a new sky for their future.

Some would become blue-collar workers, some would become merchants of the Ocean trade, and some would even join military academies. Some would even be able to enrol in advanced universities and become senior engineers and researchers in science.

When the future of life and the Imperial examinations were untied, China, a nation with an unusually large population base, was destined to enter a period of great development as brilliant as the Renaissance.

However, everything needed to be protected by a strong military force. Without safety, everything was just a dream.

Each of the Industrial Zones s was a fortress that preserved the vitality of their people. Tanggu, Shanghai, Liaodong Peninsula, Shandong Peninsula, Huai River Basin, Fujian, Guangzhou … They even went upstream along the Yangtze River.

As long as it was an area that the Iron-armored battleship's firepower could cover, as long as the Ryukyu's marines could control it quickly, it would be the target area of the future fort plan.

Right now, the Qing Dynasty was not stupid enough to let Xiao Letian occupy so many special zones for development and development, but opportunities were always left for those who were prepared for it.

There would definitely be a fight between the old faction and the new faction in the Qing Dynasty, and the Xiangjun Group would definitely laugh at the division of the Manchu, the three forces would eventually make their move, it was just like when the three powers fought for power, as long as the Ryukyu floating in the ocean did not reveal their ambition, the various powers would not care about opening up some land for Xiao Letian to own.

The key point was that Xiao Letian did not even want his own sovereignty, which was what the other powers were most assured of. All of the special zones were loan agreements, and Xiao Letian had gained a few hundred square kilometers of autonomy in fifty to eighty years.

It was similar to how the Ming dynasty recognized the right of the Portuguese to settle in Macao. As long as you promise not to rebel against the sovereignty of the Heavenly Dynasty, the Ming dynasty would not care at all.

But none of them thought that if Xiao Letian were to rule that land for fifty years, would you still be able to take it back?

This was basically two different concepts fighting each other. Xiao Letian, who only cared about his reputation, was someone that the people of the Middle Ages could not handle.

Once conflicts started, forget about the parties needing Xiao Letian's financial and military support, sometimes, in order to get him to be neutral, giving up a hundred and eighty kilometers of land would be a piece of cake.

Compared to the ten million square kilometers of rivers and mountains, what were a few dozen square kilometers? These arrogant emperors and generals didn't even have the slightest hair on their head. Sooner or later, they would lead a million strong army to sweep through this small district. In their eyes, these little sparrows were no threat at all.

Is there really no threat? This world had already thrown the Middle Age's line of thinking into the Mariana Trenches. The way the war was going to take place in the future would be beyond their imagination.

A regime with a land population and no technological prowess in industry is a lamb to be slaughtered in the future. Forget about your Qing Dynasty, even the regular French army would not be able to fight back in the face of advanced tactics that has been going on for more than 20 years.

How did you lose the war? They started off with a single group fighting a total of three thousand Japanese tenants, but they were unable to do anything! After that, both sides increased the number of troops, the Japanese army invested in two divisions, and the Chinese army invested in eight groups.

In the end, the Chinese army invested a total of 600,000 soldiers and the Japanese army increased another 130,000 soldiers, but they were still unable to bite through!

Is it because Chinese Army doesn't have any blood? No, the performance of the Chinese Army was absolutely outstanding! Was that a lagging individual weapon or equipment? At that time, most of the cannons in the field were imported from Germany, so the figures were not inferior to the equipment used in daily life.

The key to the problem was the war mode, which involved a large number of naval battleships and aviation in the war. By then, the entrance to the sea was completely under the control of Japanese warships, and Japanese bombers were flying in the sky above Shanghai.

This was a battle using a three-dimensional object to attack a flat surface. To put it simply, this was the first time the three-dimensional world had faced off against a two-dimensional world!

No matter how elite a single soldier was, they would never be able to withstand the bombardment of an aviation bomb. No matter how excellent a field artillery was, its caliber would never be able to keep up with the main cannon of a battleship.

Without the support of absolute firepower, a single burst of valor would not help him at all.

The stronghold's plan was definitely feasible. Xiao Letian wanted to make use of the Chinese people's habitual thinking and their blind spots to look at the cloth.

Other people thought that these special zones were moneymaking machines, and seemed to be of no threat to them, but Xiao Letian knew clearly that what he had placed on China was definitely a mass of murderous fortresses, and these fortresses were definitely able to form a chain that was linked to each other, and then placed on the heads of all the ambitious people.

Xiao Letian looked at everyone and laughed coldly, "So, everyone, don't worry about the conflict of views between West Water Gate and I anymore, try your best to be prepared! Three years later, the civil war will definitely start in the Northern Reaches, and there will definitely be a wave of refugees! "

"Tanggu District must prepare in advance! "These refugees who lost their chance are destined to regret it in the future, because at that time, we will have even harsher immigration requirements …"

"We have to perform a cutting operation on the human heart so that they can see with their own eyes what is right and advanced, and what is wrong and backward …"

"Those who abandon me today are destined to regret their past deeds in the future!"