C144 Difficult Changes

In 1865, the whole of Asia was still ruled by traditional forces. Although Western Powers had shown his muscles to the countries of Asia countless of times, the inertia power of the past few thousand years was still indestructible.

In the real history, the Japan finally became the number one person to eat crabs. However, with the interference of Xiao Letian, the troublemaker, the glume, which was originally destroyed in history became the vanguard of the transformation of the Asia. Industrialized and modern dawn of light had appeared on this Tsingtao of ten thousand countries.

Xiao Letian was now the benefactor of all the people in glume. He was also the Official who wielded the most power in the past few hundred years.

He firmly grasped the heart of the army, the hearts of the people, and even the hearts of a hundred officials in his hands. This allowed his reform plan to proceed exceptionally smoothly. The Rakuten borrowed money one after another to become a national debt, and Xiao Letian spent all of this money on it.

On the rubble that were flattened, ten new Schools s had already been established. With a population of a million, ten glume s were enough to cover the entire population. Scholars who were fluent in Chinese were also invited.

Xiao Letian even enacted laws, setting the official language of glume to be Chinese and English, and forcing compulsory education into effect. Xiao Letian had already calculated long ago that the ten Schools s would not spend much money. Having three hundred thousand a year for basic education was already a waste of money. To Xiao Letian, this little bit of money was like a drizzle in the rain.

Education was the foundation of all reforms. Without the high quality worker, industrialization would not be able to penetrate deeper, so the ten Schools s taught young people in the daytime, opened literacy night schools at night, and even Xiao Letian personally taught. This caused a small sensation in Na Ba Cheng.

With Xiao Letian taking the lead to demonstrate, the learning spirit of the entire glume rose. Furthermore, Xiao Letian had promised these educated Popular to give priority to employment. This made people even more crazy.

Not only did he teach them a lesson first, Xiao Letian also invested a lot of money into that tyrant's Infrastructure. Xiao Letian would not feel sorry for the money right now, since glume had already become his backyard, which was his sphere of influence.

I will clear out all the mountain peaks along the coast, and build them onto the mountain paths. These mountain tops will be the location of the shore defense turret in the future. Xiao Letian had already thought about it long ago. He was going to spend a million gold to purchase the heavily fortified cannon s from USA. If glume wanted to develop peacefully, he would have to forge an iron hedgehog shell.

If the industrial area was to be moved to the island's hinterland, it would be best to hide in the mountains. Don't worry about the problems of transportation being inconvenient, the first railway line of Asia would be built in the glume, at that time, the industrial area, warehouse area, as well as the wharf area and the Commercial District would all be connected by rail.

Not enough money? These foreigners from Europe and America were not Idiot, Xiao Letian was definitely doing good business with 100% profit. Now that he wanted to borrow money from Xiao Letian, he had to queue up, and he heard that the olfactory Jewish Trader was also starting to head to glume. This was not a good sign, we must get the biggest cake before these Jews arrived.

Xiao Letian couldn't even remember how much he spent. His initial estimate had already reached 3 million silver taels. A portion of it was the wealth of the glume Kingdom's treasury, while the other part was obtained after battle, and the cash that was delivered from the Tanggu, so the rest was borrowed.

Three million had fallen into the glume, in just a short month, the entire city had become a huge construction site. All the ruins were bulldozed and replanned, and the roads were dug up to start building sewers and laying new roads. The Public Security Bureau, Fire Department, hospital, Schools and other public facilities were all planned.

Not only that, Xiao Letian also built a large shipyard in the southern part of the wharf. Although he did not have the talent or equipment right now, he could not stop Xiao Letian from planning ahead and building all kinds of Infrastructure to prepare for a rainy day.

Five years, Xiao Letian believed that in only five years, glume would become the most civilized Country, and five years would be enough for Xiao Letian to have a batch of Fleet s that he could protect himself with, and five years would be enough for the glume to start producing a batch of factories. More importantly, in five years, glume would be able to produce a large number of students and worker, who had received a systematic Western education.

The glume had already danced under Xiao Letian's baton, but in Northwest's Port, the Industrial Zones's plan was extremely difficult. As the person in charge, Qing San Ye Chou's hair had already turned white.

At the Tanggu's Allied Altar, Ma Bao's base of residence had become the pillar of Huoqing. As the representative of the Industrial Zones, the people of Tanggu had already started to call this place the yamen, the Third Master of the Qing Dynasty had already become the son of heaven and the official of the court.

However, in these few months, Qing San Ye did not have the slightest bit of arrogance. All he had was a sigh and endless loneliness.

"Qing San Yeson, don't worry. Mr. Xiao has brought back a letter. He will be back from glume in at most half a month. When the time comes, he can help me check his pulse …" Zhan Musi, who was frowning in the lobby, was whispering to Qing San Ye. Qing San Ye's eyes were blazing with anger when he heard the name Xiao Letian.

"Don't mention his name in front of me …" Sun Tie was so angry that his face turned red. He could not utter the latter half of the sentence. Actually, Manager Fan also knew what Qing San Ye was angry about. Currently, the entire North Capital City, TIANJIN Wei and the rest were all saying that Qing San Ye used his own Big Sister to be a red packet in exchange for Xiao Letian's offer. Otherwise, there wouldn't be a Industrial Zones here.

This rumor continued to spread until finally, even the surrounding vegetables of the Tanggu, old farmer, became aware of it. Qing San Ye, who used Big Sister as an official, instantly became a popular person in the Daqing.

The things that were worrying were not only these, the preparations for the Industrial Zones was also not going well. In Manchu's initial plan, it would be enough for Tanggu to give him more than 1000 mu of land. However, after asking Xiao Letian, he found out that a small Steel factory in Xiyang City would take 4 to 500 mu of land. Not to mention those mechanical processing plant's and the weapons factory's 1000 mu of land, they would not be able to solve any problems.

After much discussion, in the end, yamen Prime Minister decided to first grant five thousand acres of land to Industrial Zones. Furthermore, he gave Qing San Ye a starting fund of two hundred thousand taels of silver.

Five thousand mu of land, of which the government had confiscated over two thousand five hundred mu of High Scholar Huang's home, this was free of charge, and the remaining two thousand five hundred mu, including one thousand five hundred mu of ownerless saline soil, was only one thousand mu of land.

As the Tanggu was located at the bottom of the Haihe River, although the soil here was easy to irrigate, the salinization was very strong. In the Daqing, it was not considered a good land at all. The best watered land was only bought by Scophthalmus for ten taels of silver, and the rest of the normal fields had around ten taels of silver.

A thousand mu of land, under Qing San Ye's calculations, was enough for twenty thousand taels of silver. However, what San Ye did not expect was that after the clerk made contact with the landlords, no one was willing to sell their land, if not for the whites of their eyes or for a sky-high price. Some people even called out a sky-high price of four hundred taels of land per mu.

At this time, in the countryside, the majority of the people who could own land were all famous figures like book reader, Elementary Scholars, and High Scholar. Even some farmers were attached to the Family, and these Family s were protected by officials.

yamen and his men struggled to spit, but they were only able to buy 200 mu of land from farmers. Even now, there were still 800 mu of land that could not be filled, so Industrial Zones's plan had been completely stranded.

It is not only the land issue that is difficult, but also the people's hearts. Ever since Qing San Ye's messenger yamen was officially established, strange rumors started to spread from the left side of Tanggu.

The machinery of the foreigners was driven by the hidden demons. Every time the engine was turned on, it had to be sacrificed with the blood of children. The feng shui that made Steel and Titan destroy the earth. Even if the Industrial Zones was just a Prison, he would just treat Slave as Slave and directly throw him into the machine as firewood … The weird rumors caused yamen, the messenger, to become a forbidden area in people's heart.

Of course, Qing San Ye knew who spread these rumors. Other than those useless clear streams that had nothing to do, who else would do such a thankless task?

"Manager Fan, you don't need to enlighten me anymore. I understand … Right, how is your family now? "How has tiger chick been recently …" Qing San Ye was very annoyed and quickly changed the topic. He didn't want to say anything, so he almost cried because of his heartache.

"Life, this is all life!" "tiger chick, your mother's life isn't so good. I didn't expect this daughterming to be so bitter as well …"

Qing San Ye smiled bitterly and said, "Sorry, I didn't manage Slave well, but …" However, I really can't do anything about it now. Other than my elder sister stepping in, there really isn't anyone else who can deal with that Old Bastard … After all, this is the palace that is being guarded by him. "

It turned out that it wasn't just the Third Master of the Qing family who was having a tough time these days, even Manager Fan Sang was depressed, because the Northern Capital City Fu Hui had sent a butler and a group of maids to help him. The servants had already taken over Xiao Le Tian's backyard, and although the Third Master of the Qing family was his master in name, the weird thing was that even the Third Master of the Qing family was unable to order the butler to take over the house.

Jiao Si Shu, nicknamed Jiao Si Er, gelatose. Ever since his great-grandfather's generation was the Fuca's house's outer sect Housekeeper, and with the rise of his family's business, he had also jumped out from Jiao Si Er's generation to work alone. Of course, there were also reasons for his family's decline. But ever since Qing San Ye became an official, seeing that there was hope for the main house, Jiao Si Shu quickly used the bit of shamelessness that he got from the gelatose to go camping at the main house.

He didn't know what Fu Hui was thinking, but she had actually allowed him to return to the Main House and gave him an outer court Housekeeper's seat. Until half a month ago, when Xiao Letian's name came from the East Sea, Jiao Si Shu was somehow sent by Fu Hui to the Tanggu to serve Xiao Letian, accompanied by more than a dozen charming and flirtatious maids.

It was from that day onwards that Xiao Letian's inner chamber became a mess.