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"At the end of the Ming Dynasty, there was already the germ of capital in the Jiangnan region, and intellectuals had also produced local protectionism, that is to say, they had the consciousness of protecting capital......"

"Some people say that the Donglin Party is a hypocrite and a gravedigger of the Ming Dynasty, but I don't see it that way! I think that as the master said, the Donglin Party is actually the spokesperson of capital, and the huge capital in Jiangnan is destined to need protection, and when the emperor and the bureaucracy cannot protect them, they will naturally withdraw from their own drummers......

"The Donglin Party is actually the opposition party of the Ming Dynasty, and there is no difference between the Whig Party and the Tory Party in Britain, but later the Donglin Party was destroyed by the Eight Banners Iron Cavalry......"

"Capital has no borders, and capital does not know who to be loyal to, if capital has loyal objects, I think it is also human selfishness and greed, because the only purpose of capital is to pursue profit!"

"If there is no Donglin Party, there will also be the Nanlin Party and the Xilin Party...... Because Jiangnan's huge capital is destined to find a trumpeter and find its own protective shield!"

"It's a pity, this process was interrupted by the Manchu Qing Dynasty, if Jiangnan is given another four or five years, those capitals are given more time to awaken, and Huaxia, the national fortune, is given a few more years of gestation time......"

"Maybe we can give birth to a heroic figure who raises his arms and calls on hundreds of millions of people! With heroes, coupled with the fierce contradictions in society, then China's capitalist revolution may break out!"

"It's very likely! It's really likely......"

Xiao Letian looked at Xiang Ying, who was gradually falling into a frenzy, and a very bad thought suddenly appeared in his heart, which was like a karmic fire roasting his internal organs.

Suddenly, Xiao Lotian couldn't hold back this irritation: "Enough! What is the use of this unrealistic fantasy?"

"At the end of the Ming Dynasty, the social contradictions were much more complicated than you think, how could the capitalist revolution be born so easily? China is not the British Isles, and when a war really starts, millions of troops are strangled on the land......

"Even if Jiangnan is rich, he can't stand the fact that there are too many people in other provinces! There are too many ants to kill elephants! At that time, human military science and technology were not so developed, and the essence of war was still to fight more and fight less!"

"What can Jiangnan do if he is rich? Do you still expect that there will be Mauser rifles and 210 caliber naval guns at that time? When the side with a small number of people does not have a technology bonus, how can it confront the armies of other provinces?"

Xiang Ying was stunned by Xiao Letianding, not because he couldn't stand the master's reprimand, but because Xiang Ying saw the pain and entanglement in the master's eyes.

"Xiang Ying! Xiang Ying...... The English Civil War, the King and the Parliament went to war, and the troops on both sides were less than 100,000, and in this kind of intense civil war, one Cromwell was enough......"

"But what is the situation in the Ming Dynasty? The population is in the hundreds of millions! There are Mongols and Jurchens in the north, and the army of the king in the northwest has already gathered millions, so what is the use of being trapped in the south of the Yangtze River and defending the southeast even if he has money?"

"Do you think that the budding of capitalism is the dawn of civilization? People think that it is the gate of hell, and the army of millions of northern refugees, plus hundreds of thousands of regular troops armed to the teeth, are overwhelmingly slaughtering Jiangnan, how do you let those merchants resist?"

"What's more, you seriously underestimated the ability of the imperial power and the landlords and doctors to control the people, Jiangnan is just a sprout, and the people involved in it can't feel it at all, they still obey the emperor and Confucianism, and they will still kneel in front of the steel sword and crossbow arrows and beg for mercy!"

"China is too big, and it is precisely because it is too big that there will be a very special situation in which barbarism defeats civilization and the advanced loses to the backward! No matter how fast Jiangnan runs, it can't stand up to the encirclement and interception!"

Xiang Ying asked the master to scold, and his face turned red, "Master...... I'm ...... I'm just an idea, I know it's immature......"

"It's not immature!" Xiao Lotian looked at him coldly, "You're not immature, you're just questioning my fortress plan, right?"

A sentence broke the window paper, and Xiang Ying suddenly stopped talking.

In Xiao Letian's plan, the Chinese would never touch the legal system of the Qing Dynasty in the early stage, that is to say, the Chinese would openly express that they would not be enemies of the Qing Dynasty and would not overthrow the Manchu regime.

This promise and moderation were exchanged for 'peaceful coexistence' with the Manchus, but this peace was conditional, that is, the Manchus had to gradually open up some special zones to the Chinese.

Just like the Tanggu Special Zone, the sovereignty belongs to the Qing Dynasty, but the governance of this place must be given to the Chinese people, and the Manchu Qing Dynasty is just to collect taxes on a regular basis.

Each zone was a fortress, and whether it was more commercial or industrial, these Chinese-controlled areas had to communicate with each other by water and rail, and then be fortified.

For example, the three towns of Wuchang, Hankou and Hanyang are the special zones that Zaichun has promised to the teacher, and when Zaichun is pro-government, the first to cede the right to govern is these three towns, and then Xiao Lotian will lead the Chinese to carry out deep cultivation.

The three towns are connected as a whole, forming an important industrial base in the middle reaches of the Yangtze River, and there is no problem at all with ironclad ships like the Zhiyuan in the Yangtze River waterway.

When a special zone is under the protection of naval guns, it is basically invincible in this era.

The navy covers the river, the marines control the interior, and the SAR uses layers of trenches, barbed wire, bunkers, pillboxes, trenches, and walls...... protected, forming a fortress that the Manchus could not bite at all.

Many of these forts would have to be built in the Great Qing Dynasty, and eventually these forts would be connected by railroad to form a vast grid of control over the Central Plains, thus fragmenting the actual rule of the Manchus.

This is the Bastion Plan, a huge and long strategy in the style of a boiled frog!

Each fortress not only plays an important role in the economy and military, but more importantly, each special zone is a stage for the Chinese to show, just as the Tanggu Special Zone has now affected the entire Beizhili.

Countless people outside the Special Administrative Region dragged their dirty whips and looked at the rich life inside the barbed wire, which was a paradise-like dream place!

There is no one who does not yearn for a better life, as long as they are given time to accept it, there will always be people who reflect and then jump out of the lie trap made up by the Manchus and Confucians, and throw themselves into the arms of the Chinese.

Isn't that how the hearts of the people are contested? Isn't that how they are fighting, I can eat braised pork with chicken thighs at every meal, and your youngest son just starved to death yesterday.

How do you choose the hearts and minds of the people? This is a good way to win the hearts and minds of the people once and for all.

But Xiao Lotian didn't expect that the fortress plan, which had already formed a unified opinion internally, was actually questioned by Xiang Ying, and what Xiang Ying said today, Xiao Lotian understood too well.

"Xiang Ying, Xiang Ying, you still want to use the old way to solve the problem? Raise an army of one million and conquer the city...... Enter the city of Beijing and perform martial arts in the Taihe Palace?"

"Are you still going to cut off Zaichun's head and spread it all over the world! Use Zaichun's head to announce to the world that China's feudal society has come to an end?"

Xiang Ying's face was flushed by the master, "No, no, no...... I didn't dismiss the fortress plan, I just hope that the master will listen to my opinion!".