Not to mention that the people of the late Qing Dynasty were backward and decadent, they were just not accustomed to change, and coupled with the backward media and the closed clan concept, they did not know what the sky was like outside.

Just like the various contradictions that Xishuimen is now encountering, in the final analysis, those people who resist do not understand the SEZ at all, let alone what the SEZ represents for them.

In the eyes of these displaced people, the SEZ may be just a place to eat and make money, and they can work here for a few years to save some money and return to their hometowns to continue to buy houses and land, and become a small landlord or rich peasant with peace of mind.

This is the ideal of the displaced people, but for the people of Tanggu who have been nurtured by the Special Economic Zone, this place not only represents a better material life than outside, but also represents a sense of security and hope.

The willow walls and trenches, along with the New Army and artillery, and three successive victories in defensive battles, have demonstrated to these people the sense of security that Xiao Lotian brought to China, one of China's most strained resources in the late Qing Dynasty and even in the decades to come.

Not only that, but the people here also have hope for the future, they can go to Western-style schools to learn new knowledge, and even the more daring families will send their girls to school, and the new education system has opened up a different sky for their future.

Some of them will become blue-collar workers, some will become merchants in the ocean trade, some will go to military schools, and some will even be able to enter universities to become senior engineers and scientific researchers.

When the future of life and the only one-plank bridge of the imperial examination are loosened, China, a nation with an unusually large population base, is destined to enter a period of great development as brilliant as the Renaissance.

But everything needs strong military strength to escort it, and without security, everything is a pipe dream.

Xiao Lotian wants to provide this, artificial manufacturing differentiation, every special industrial zone is a fortress to preserve the vitality of the nation, Tanggu, Shanghai, Liaodong Peninsula, Shandong Peninsula, Huaihe River Basin in northern Jiangsu, Fujian, Guangzhou...... and even went upriver along the Yangtze River.

As long as the area that can be covered by the firepower of the ironclad battleship, as long as the area that the Ryukyu marines can quickly control, it will be the target area in the future fortress plan.

At present, of course, the Manchu Qing Dynasty will not be stupid enough to open so many special zones for Xiao Lotian to occupy and develop, but opportunities are always left for those who are prepared, and when the Manchus fight because of the estrangement of interests, the Ryukyus, as a neutral faction, will naturally be able to take advantage of the fire to rob.

There will be a battle between the old faction and the reformist faction within the Manchu Qing Dynasty, and the Hunan military clique will definitely laugh at the division within the Manchus, and the tripartite forces will always make some moves, which is like the three kingdoms vying for hegemony, as long as the Ryukyus wandering overseas do not show their ambitions to compete for hegemony, then the forces of all parties will not care about opening up some land for Xiao Letian to set up a special zone.

The key point is that Xiao Lotian does not want sovereignty at all, and this is the most reassuring point for the forces of all parties, and all the special zones are leased contracts, but in 50 or 80 years, Xiao Lotian has obtained autonomy of several hundred square kilometers.

This is like the Ming Dynasty recognizing the Portuguese settlement rights in Macau, as long as you promise the sovereignty of the Celestial Empire not to rebel, that county, the Celestial Empire does not care at all.

But none of them thought that if Xiao Letian ruled that piece of land for fifty years, would you still take it back?

This is fundamentally two different concepts in the war, Xiao Letian's strategy and tactics as long as he doesn't want to save face, people with medieval thinking can't deal with it at all.

Once the conflict evolves and starts, not to mention that all parties need Xiao Letian's financial and military support, sometimes it is a piece of cake to cede 180 kilometers of land in exchange for his neutrality.

Compared with 10 million square kilometers of rivers and mountains, what are those tens or hundreds of square kilometers? Not even counting a single hair, the arrogant imperial generals will be able to lead a million-strong army to sweep through these sesame mung bean-sized special regions sooner or later, and in their eyes, this kind of little sparrow is not a threat at all.

Is there really no threat? The world has already thrown those medieval thinking into the Mariana Trench, and the future pattern of warfare will definitely change to them beyond their imagination.

A regime that has only a landed population but no industrial and technological prowess will be lambs to the slaughter in the future. Not to mention that you are Manchu, even if the French regular army in Dakar is still powerless in the face of more advanced tactics than they have been for 20 years.

How did you lose the Battle of Songhu? At the beginning, one group army fought 3,000 defenders of the Japanese concession, but the result was that it could not be moved! Then the two sides increased their troops, the Japanese army invested two divisions, and the Chinese army invested eight group armies, but the result was still not moving!

In the end, the total number of troops invested by the Chinese army reached 600,000, and the Japanese also increased the number of troops to 130,000, but the result was still not gnawed!

Is it that the Chinese soldiers did not have a bloody nature? No, the performance of the Chinese soldiers in the Battle of Songhu was absolutely outstanding! Was it because the weapons and equipment of individual soldiers were backward? No, all the troops who were engaged in the battle at that time were German armaments built with a lot of money, and most of the field artillery was imported from Germany, and all the data were not inferior to those of Japanese armaments.

The crux of the problem was the mode of war, and the Japanese battle of Songhu used a large number of naval warships and naval aviation, and at that time the mouth of the Huangpu River was completely controlled by Japanese warships, and Japanese bombers were flying in the sky of Shanghai.

This is a battle with a three-dimensional attack plane, to put it sci-fi, this is a strangulation of the three-dimensional world against the two-dimensional world!

No matter how elite the individual armament is, it cannot withstand the bombing of an aerial bomb, and no matter how good the field artillery is, the caliber will never be able to catch up with the main guns of the battleship.

Without the support of absolute firepower, it is useless to rely on blood and courage alone.

The fortress plan is absolutely feasible, and Xiao Lotian is to take advantage of the habitual thinking of the Chinese at that time, using their psychological blind spots, to take a look at the cloth.

Others think that the special zones are all money-making machines, and there seems to be no threat, but Xiao Letian knows very well that what he puts on the land of China is definitely a murderous fortress, and these fortresses will eventually form an interlocking chain, and then put on the heads of all careerists.

Xiao Letian looked at everyone with blazing eyes and sneered: "So, don't worry about the conflict of ideas in Xishuimen anymore, and work hard to get ready! Three years later, the civil war will definitely start in Beizhili, and there will be a wave of refugees at that time!"

"The Tanggu Special Economic Zone must prepare in advance! These displaced people who have lost their opportunity now are destined to regret it in the future, because when the time comes, we will give more stringent immigration requirements......

"We have to do a cutting operation on people's hearts, 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 not being the first in the future!"