At this point, the Bastion Project is officially open to the public, but of course the level of secrecy is still top secret. Everyone in the flower hall was shocked, none of them expected that the prime minister would come up with such a strange plan.

After a moment of silence, Xiao Hexin was the first to speak: "I understand, what the prime minister wants to use is the Manchu Qing Dynasty to die and force people's hearts upside down? Let our special zones become safe fortresses, and let the people who have taken refuge and the capital who have taken refuge take the initiative to take refuge in the ......."

"It's really feasible, take the initiative to send it to the door and we go to plead to promote those two concepts, one is that they take the initiative to integrate into us, and the other is that we take the initiative to ask for it, and make a decision!"

Sima Yun nodded, "That's right, since ancient times, great things have been nothing more than the three elements of people, land, and wealth, according to the prime minister's plan, as long as there is a big chaos in the world outside the fortress, refugees and capital will continue to pour towards us, and we can't stop it if we want to!"

"And it is very important that once such a refugee wave appears, it is also a screening of the quality of the population, just like the prime minister said that natural selection, in order to survive, everyone has to put out twelve points of strength to fight for the opportunity to enter the fortress...... This is a selection process for the elite!"

"The best quality capital, the best people, is really important, but ...... But what about the land? Is it that there are only more than 10 special zones, which together are less than a state...... Can this support the Prime Minister's career?"

Speaking of this, Wang Huaiyuan also had an epiphany: "Why can't we do it? Have we forgotten the introduction of Britain, the Netherlands, and other countries in the Prime Minister's Journey to the West? Dozens of countries on the European continent are competing with each other, and that country has a vast territory except for Russia?"

"These are two completely different philosophies of statecraft, and we have always wanted to get more and more land, and that is because we have not yet gotten rid of the habits of the agricultural civilization of the past...... In China, where all the source of wealth is on the land, we have all experienced the suffering of swarms of ant-like peasants who prop up such a huge empire with taxes and servitude!"

"That's right, the small-scale peasant economy doomed every natural person and family to only provide the most limited wealth, and many times the empire's taxes were just handfuls of millet and handfuls of rice, and grain was still the main body of taxes......

"This kind of backward economy forces the rulers to make the base bigger, so they need more and more land, because the wealth created per mu is too low......

"The SEZs, on the other hand, rely on what do they rely on to survive? They rely on industrialization, commercialization, and science and technology...... An ordinary peasant household in the Qing Dynasty can take care of seven or eight acres of land for a year's harvest more than a foreign gun built in our factory?

"In the richest Jiangnan area, one acre of good paddy fields can create enough profits in a year to buy a few pieces of glass and a few lanterns? The answer is that there are not many ......."

"We have found a way to create wealth far more efficiently than the agrarian economy of the past, so why are we still clinging to the land?

Xiao Letian smiled, he clapped his hands and said, "Okay, good, I didn't expect you to open up so quickly! But don't forget the saying that there is no agriculture and no stability, people still have to eat......

Before he could finish speaking, the big-nosed Pierre smiled: "I only agree with half of what the Prime Minister said, you have seen the huge size of this world, how can you look at the problem from this point of view? Have you forgotten the grain merchants under the command of Lotte Yangxing? As far as I know, the three-season rice planting masks in Nanyang have more than tripled in two years, and more than seventy percent of the grain in them has been purchased by the Ryukyus, and the military rations we have stored are enough to last more than ten years......

"If we go through the current procurement efforts, we will not have a food crisis in the future, even if we encounter a million-level refugee influx...... We can make good use of commercial means to stimulate more Chinese and indigenous people in Nanyang to cultivate new land, and we can even open procurement contracts to the big granaries in North America.

"Okay...... Xiao Letian slapped his thigh, "This is the way to brainstorm, but it is much happier than just posing on a dead face to force the palace......"

"Yes, when our special industrial zones become fortresses, when our enemies are simply unable to shake these iron nails nailed to China, the fortress will become a kind of spiritual totem for the Chinese people!"

"I have always said that happiness is not an absolute value, but only a relative value, I have a nest in my hand, and you only have a bowl of stick noodle porridge in your hand, then I am happier than you in comparison......"

"Human beings can only experience happiness by comparison, and the Tanggu Special Economic Zone has already divided people's hearts into three, six, nine and so on just by a willow wall, and the villages outside the willow wall are so envious of the people inside the willow wall, and those who are farther away will envy the villages that can open a grass market close to the willow wall......

In fact, in the eyes of Westerners, there is no difference between Chinese in the SAR and outside the SAR, and they are all inferior people, barbarians...... Those Westerners will only compare themselves with their neighbors, such as Britain, France, Prussia, etc......"

"Since human nature is like this, then we must arrange our strategy according to human nature! The fortress is richer than the Qing Dynasty, the fortress is safer than the Qing Dynasty, the fortress is fairer than the Qing Dynasty, and the fortress is more respectful ......of human nature by the Qing Dynasty."

"Well, now I want to ask you, if you are still the people of the Qing Dynasty, what more do you want? Is this enough for you to throw into the arms of the fortress? Under a gray sky, there are so many isolated islands in the land of China that ignite the light of hope, is this not enough for them to devote themselves to it?"

"I firmly believe that there are still smart people in this world, who have been blinded for a while, as long as they are given a few years, they will eventually wake up, just like the people of Tanggu three years ago, and the citizens of the Tanggu Special Administrative Region now, are they still the same spiritual outlook? To tell a joke, even if I take them to raise the banner and rebel in another three years, I am afraid they will follow!"

"It's a snowball game, where a spark can start a prairie fire, one becomes two, two becomes four, four becomes eight...... Don't look at the base of this point at the beginning, but if you square it down, you will calculate for yourself, and how many people we will affect in the end!"

Everyone stood up excitedly, "That's right, a spark can start a prairie fire, we can't let this difficulty at the beginning blind our eyes, go down the right path, change has actually happened!"

Xiao Letian smiled lightly, he pointed to the wind and rain outside the window and said, "A butterfly in the South American rainforest flashed its wings, why did it set off such a huge storm in the Pacific Ocean? How long will it take for my butterfly to see my storm sweeping across China?"

"Brothers, I have only one question on my mind now, and that is time! How many years will it take us to stir up this storm!"