Hidden Dragon in Qing Dynasty

late Qing was an era of great change. The collisions between the new and the old gave rise to huge differences in people's values, and with the addition of the change in late Qing, it was not caused by internal and external forces interfering, so this kind of conflict was even more shocking.

Honestly speaking, Xiao Letian was also an outsider. Although he was a Chinese and had been a righteous Chinese for two lifetimes, to this late Qing, his thoughts were as destructive as a foreigner's.

The latter would never know that she was left behind, just like how every snowflake in an avalanche determined that it was not wrong. People with old ideas all reject change very much, because change means negation, negation of their previous cognition.

It was not easy to make people think they were wrong, and it was no less difficult to make a rock nod. So in life, we often see some people who have been forced to a dead end, have no reason at all, but still refuse to repent.

Why did this happen? Because the pain of continuing on the wrong path was much less than the pain of denying himself before, or so he thought.

Deny the first half of my life? Was it wrong to deny the education of his parents and grandma? How shameful, how painful, who could walk out of that kind of situation?

However, life had to continue. People refused to change, but at the same time, they also wished for the benefits of it. For example, the Tanggu District in front of them was now a land of wealth in North China, especially in their dreams.

When the Tanggu District was just established, the people of, who had ulterior motives, instigated their people to attack the Special Zone. A group of local people, such as the Great Little Wang Manor, blacked out while opposing Xiao Letian, and they did not even hesitate to force him with their lives.

At that time, people had really seen this district as a place filled with raging beasts. In their hearts, Xiao Letian was the demon of the west. But after Xiao Letian had cleverly dealt with it, the resistance from the Tanggu gradually faded.

In the end, when Industrial Zones began to release her wealth power, these locals had completely changed their minds. Looking at the shining silver in their hands, they were all immersed in Xiao Letian's plan.

Since ancient times, money was the only thing that mattered to them. Water flowed through the soil, and large amounts of funds were used to fund the construction of the Special Zone. How could the people surrounding them not take advantage of this? Who in the family has the land to plant crops? He had to rent out the land and build a warehouse. Every year, he had to pay several hundred silver coins to build a shop.

It was not enough to just eat the rent. Chinese citizens were hardworking; those who were young and strong could go to the construction site to do whatever work they wanted, and those who were older could set up a pancake and fruit stand outside the factory.

This was all money. As long as the locals weren't lazy, they could earn as much money as they could in the sea.

At first, people were worried that the imperial government would come pick the fruits, but when Maylor led his troops and attacked Tanggu, they were completely annihilated by the New Army.

Then the local people on the street said, "Ouch..." Second brother! [We are in a hurry to get rich …] If the Beijing is taken over by the Prime Minister, in the future, who would dare to show their teeth at us? "Let's not worry about making money …"

Afterwards, the secret agreement between Beijing and Xiao Letian expanded the size of the Tanggu District by ten times, from the Tang Family Shop to the vicinity of Qikou Village in the south, and from the west, all the way until Beitang City established the West Water Gate. They walked northwards, past the Seven Mile Sea, and then towards the north, all the way until they reached Kaiping.

This large circle had covered nearly 900 square kilometers and was close to the size of a small county. This large circle became the domain of the Tanggu District.

Right then, a very strange phenomenon appeared. Following along the border of the special area, Xiao Letian began to hire citizens to build waterways, and then he planted willow trees everywhere. He actually made a willow branch here.

Outside the pass, the Manchu had planted many willow branches around the Chinese gathering area. The willow branches had taken root and sprouted over a long period of time, forming a side wall called the willow branches. On the other hand, Xiao Letian had planted willow trees instead of cutting them open.

Xiao Letian was planting a willow tree with a width of two hundred meters, outside it was a new wide river, one could tell with a glance, it was a type of defensive system.

Xiao Letian's army was now recognized as the strongest army in Asia, so no one, including the Europeans, dared to underestimate this army. If they had to look for trouble with this army, then two things could be considered weak.

One of them was because there were not enough people. Until now, Xiao Letian only had twenty thousand soldiers that he could use. The other point was that Xiao Letian still had not developed his cavalry skills, which made Xiao Letian's army lack the ability to make strategic detours.

In fact, the fact that Qing Government always had a sense of security that was fake was also because of these two points. They knew that Xiao Letian's new army was very strong, but they did not have that many cavalrymen. Even if they managed to gain the upper hand in that short period of time, with the Great Qing's power and strategy, they would be able to kill them in the end.

It was because of this sense of security that the two sides were in such a hostile and cooperative situation. On the surface, they seemed to be quite close to each other.

Within the willow tree wall, the ruling system of the imperial government still existed, and there were still people managing government affairs. The taxes collected by the Great Qing were not small at all, ordinary people could go to the county magistrate to sue, or to the governor of the district to sue. The two systems actually coexisted side by side, coexisting harmoniously.

Even the army had two systems. The current Tanggu District did indeed have a few imperial court Green Battalion s, but unfortunately, these soldiers were only in terms of image. They did not care about proper matters at all.

The fact that the Tanggu District had become like this, completely proved that Xiao Letian had mature politics. This piece of land will forever belong to the imperial government. Xiao Letian was not a rebel.

There were civil and military officials in the imperial government, military generals, and even taxes. The amount of money collected was even higher than in the past years.

If you don't want to be in charge, then let the Special Administrative Region be in charge. In any case, under the bayonet of the new army, the security of the Special Region is unimaginably good.

Everything was like a dream of heaven, but in such a quiet and peaceful situation, the conflict between the two continued to escalate.

And the reason for all these contradictions to erupt was because of the new rule that Xiao Letian had announced two years ago.