In 1882, China's industrial construction began to be in full swing.

On August 29, a "Foreign Advisory Committee" was set up under the Industrialization Leading Group to be responsible for the introduction of equipment, jishu and talents. In August and September alone, China signed nearly 60 JISHU projects with Western countries, especially Germany and the United States, involving many important economic sectors such as metallurgy, industrial machinery, and ships. For some projects, we simply directly purchase complete sets of equipment or invite foreign capital to build them, and quickly introduce advanced Jishu projects from the West. By the end of 1882, the number of signed projects increased to more than a hundred.

On September 29, a Jewish delegation to China, with the "Zionist Union" as its core, arrived in Beijing, including a large number of experts in the field of economics and jishu.

Ding Yuntong personally met with the delegation at the Ziguang Pavilion in Zhongnanhai and delivered a speech. Ding Yuntong pointed out that the "June 61 23 Declaration" to help the Jews build a nation is a basic national policy, which will remain unchanged for 50 years, and as for 50 years later, there will be no reason to change it. In this regard, he also solemnly promised: The Chinese people count their words.

Ding Yuntong also pointed out that an industrialized and strong China is an important guarantee for the eventual establishment of the Jewish state, and in this regard, the Chinese and the Jews are on the same front.

The conversation was warmly welcomed, and a large number of Jewish engineers and mechanics joined the construction team of Chinese industry. Together with those hired specialists, they quickly became the core of jishu in all walks of life.

At the same time, the number of Jews who came from Shijie, especially in South Russia and Eastern Europe, to settle in the Funsali area is also increasing exponentially.

From the second half of 1882 to the beginning of 1883, China quickly became the largest buyer of machinery and equipment in the shijie market. In the Zuihou quarter of 1882, 28 percent of the machinery and equipment exported to the United States was sold to China. In the first quarter of 1883, 37 percent of German machine exports were sold to China, and in the second quarter 45 percent were sold. In the second half of 1882, 17% of the total export of shijie machines was sold to China, and by the first half of 1883, this figure had risen to 29%.

The introduction of a large number of machinery and equipment, jishu, personnel, etc., followed by the rapid reduction of Huaxia Bank's silver stock, like opening the floodgates. This was complemented by a significant increase in cereal exports.

Sichuan, as the first special zone to levy grain, was officially launched at the end of August 1882.

On September 2, Ding Yuntong personally wrote a letter to Zhao Bingjun, the Minister of the Interior in charge of "maintaining stability" in Sichuan, stressing that the work of requisitioning grain must not be "gentle and drizzly." He pointed out: "We must not be restrained, we should not have too many rules, and we should not pour cold water on some excesses." It is necessary to let the activists in the rural areas get a little bit of blood debt, so that they will stand with the government without hesitation. ＂

Ding Yuntong ended with a sentence: "I want to see blood!" ＂

This letter set the tone for the work of the Sichuan Special Economic Zone.

Soon, under the leadership of the Ministry of the Interior, China's first concentration camp was established in Chongqing's Dregs Cave, a location that Ding Yuntong himself chose. It won't be long before it's going to be overcrowded, and it will always be overcrowded!

At the same time, more than 2,000 young students, carefully selected from major cities, were assigned to various regions as auxiliary cadres. These students are all fanatical monarchists. Years of propaganda convinced them that the wise emperor had reversed the history of the Chinese nation from being bullied by the West, and that the emperor was now doing his best to make China an industrial power, and that they would be witnesses to this great era.

These young bodies are full of surging blood; In the immature chest, the flame of passion burns even more; Their eyes radiate the light of ideals and beliefs; In their heads, the emperor's stirring voice echoed: "All for food!" All for industry! All for the new empire! ＂

Among these enthusiastic young people, there is a native of Liuyang, Hunan, who is only eighteen years old, who is moved by the warm atmosphere of the great era and the sacred mission he shoulders, and can't help but write an ambitious declaration:

The feelings of the book and sword are sent to the country, and the ambition of the economy is Kuang Heshan.

The blue blood stains the history of the red danqing, and the ambition illuminates the autumn wind plain.

His name is Tan Sitong.

At first, the campaign was only a matter of reasoning and education, but apparently not many landlords were willing to hand over the grain, and by October, the campaign began to escalate, and there was a tendency to arrest, fight, and beat indiscriminately. In the face of high pressure, landlords often dig holes to hide grain, overreport and underpay, and wait for change.

By the end of October, with the support and acquiescence of the Ministry of the Interior, some extremist students and poor peasant activists began to violently beat landlords who did not pay enough grain quotas, and the action gradually went too far.

By mid-November, the violence had begun to spread rapidly and widely, with bloody slogans everywhere in the countryside: "If you want food, you still want your life, pick your own!" ＂

Many families were suspected of hiding grain and were brutally tortured. Including beating, hanging, baking, pouring water, and using a wooden stick to grind stool from chest to abdomen. There are also torture methods such as using small snakes and big ants to put them into the crotch of the landlord's pants, as well as hanging nipples, smoking fireworks, sitting in water prisons, sleeping on strangled beds, and lighting sky lanterns.

After all, the landlords were only a minority in the countryside, and by the end of November, they had been largely wiped out. But this was only a warm-up, and the compulsory requisition of grain for the kulaks and middle peasants began immediately afterwards.

In an atmosphere of terror, a number of Ministry of Internal Affairs personnel, students, and activists were promoted in the line of fire because of their "firm stance and outstanding performance." At the same time, a small number of local officials were "soft-hearted and ineffective in their work", and all of them were sent to the Dregs Cave concentration camp in Chongqing.

And the grain was constantly being searched out of the cellars, from the caves, from the mezzanine of the walls, and even from the rat holes, little by little, and not a single rice husk was left, and all of them were taken to the assembly points along the Yangtze River and transported by water.

At the same time also reported in succession: Sichuan has reaped another bumper harvest of grain, achieving nine consecutive increases in summer grain. The peasants enthusiastically handed over grain to support the country's construction, and everyone was elated and high-spirited, vowing to increase grain income to the end!

At the beginning of 1883, the same measures for requisition of grain began to be implemented in Jiangsu, Henan, Hunan, Shandong and other major grain-producing provinces, and the new Guizhou Fenfeng Concentration Camp, Jiangxi Shangrao Concentration Camp, Nanjing Jiangtang Concentration Camp and so on were newly established.

At the same time as the large-scale collection of cereals, China's agricultural exports are also increasing substantially. The total export value of agricultural products such as raw silk, tea, beans, cotton, sesame, vegetable oil, cowhide, wool, and pig bristles has continued to set historical records.

Under the escort of national policies, with the support of a large amount of funds, and under the command of countless experts and scholars, a large number of civilian enterprise projects are springing up on the land of China.

Coal mines: Shanxi Lu'an Coal Washing Plant, Jiaozuo Zhongma Village Vertical Shaft, Datong Emaokou Vertical Shaft, Huainan Xiejiaji Central Coal Washing Plant, Tongchuan Wangshiwa Vertical Shaft, Pingdingshan No. 2 Vertical Shaft.

Iron and steel: Anshan Iron and Steel Company, Benxi Iron and Steel Company, Wuhan Iron and Steel Company, Rehe Vanadium Titanium Ore.

Non-ferrous metals: Zhuzhou cemented carbide factory, Yunnan tin company, Jiangxi Dajishan tungsten mine, Jiangxi Xihuashan tungsten mine, Jiangxi Yumeishan tungsten mine, Luoyang non-ferrous metal processing plant.

Machinery: Wuhan Heavy Machine Tool Factory, Xi'an Switch Rectifier Factory, Xi'an Insulation Material Factory, Xi'an Electric Power Window Container Factory, Luoyang Mining Machinery Factory, Xiangtan Marine Motor Factory, Lanzhou Chemical Machinery Factory.

In addition, there are Jiamusi Paper Mill, North China Pharmaceutical Factory, Taiyuan Pharmaceutical Factory, etc.

The drastic and high-speed process of industrialization greatly shook the whole society, and due to the policy of requisitioning grain, a large number of peasants gave up their land, either actively or passively, and were recruited into the cities to become workers. The organizational structure of society is changing drastically, and at the same time, it is also shaking the minds of the people, everyone feels that they have involuntarily fallen into the vortex of this violently rotating era, everyone feels like an ignorant baby, the original consciousness in the mind is shaken, all experience is completely no longer applicable, as if being pulled forward by an invisible rope, and the destination is unknown. Everyone's ears only have the emperor's voice, guiding the way forward, and the portraits of the emperor are filling the confusion of the spirit.

The people are like helpless lambs in a blizzard, walking step by step into the unknown expanse.

February 1883 was the month of Wax, and it was a very cold winter.

The Great Famine began.