Supporting others with kindness is a term coined by Xiao Letian. These three words represent the thousands of orphans in heaven.
In the last few years of the Taiping Heavenly Kingdom, failure had always been with them. When Tianjing City was destroyed, even Hong Xiu, the king of heaven, had no food to eat and had to eat "sweet dew", which is weed dumplings, to encourage the soldiers and civilians. morale.
You can imagine that even Hong Xiu had to eat wild vegetables. How depressed the Taiping Army was at that time. Against this backdrop of broken mountains and rivers, a large number of orphans from heaven appeared.
The most serious victims during the war were women and children. A large number of Taiping family members were raped, tortured, and sold. Countless descendants of the Taiping soldiers were exterminated and killed, leaving only some young ones who were sold into slavery. .
No one knows how many orphans there are in heaven. It could be a hundred thousand, or it could be a million. Please come to more and faster chapters. Even if these lucky people can escape the military disaster on the battlefield, the cruel social reality will push them to a dead end.
Countless children were abducted by the Hanako Gang and were either sold or crippled and used as beggars. Others simply died of cold and hunger in the mountains and forests and became the food of wild beasts.
In this medieval era, the so-called social welfare is a joke. There may be some kind-hearted people who adopt some children, but the proportion is very low.
The Taiping Heavenly Kingdom was eventually destroyed. Apart from allowing the local governors represented by Han Chen to come to power and ushering in the warlord era of nearly a hundred years, he did not leave any positive significance in history. On the contrary, what he left behind were the deaths of hundreds of millions of people, the entire Jiangnan empty house, and the women and children who were harmed by the war. Update as soon as possible
Xiao Letian began to pay attention to these war orphans very early. When he gained a certain level of strength, he began to gather a large number of "benevolent people", which was the main job of people like Greybeard Liu Lang and Chun Shisanniang.
In Xiao Letian's heart, these young children were not guilty. The Manchu Qing Dynasty's move of not only not rescuing but killing them was really worse than animals. The hatred in the adult world should not be passed on to children. This is the universal value that Xiao Letian advocates most.
Well, since the Manchus are unwilling to raise these children, and the remaining forces of the Kingdom of Heaven are unable to raise these orphans, let Xiao Letian do this.
From the end of the fourth year of Tongzhi, Taibaiding had secretly begun to smuggle these children from the southern main theater. Until now, after nearly a year, Xiao Letian has established five secret resettlement sites, and the number of children has exceeded a thousand.
And these children all have a unified label, that is, "nurturing the masses with kindness." Each of them remembers that it was Xiao Letian, the great master of Western learning who could write books, who gave them a bowl of rice and taught them civil and military knowledge. In the cold winter, they can have a pair of cotton-padded clothes, a bowl of hot rice, and a place to stay, all of which are thanks to Xiao Letian's kindness.
Xiao Letian has never been shy about showing his kindness to others, and he has said more than once that these kindnesses to others will be the core strength of his future career. For these children, Xiao Letian chose an extremely cruel training model like the Spartan Youth Camp.
There is warmth here, there is whip here, there is knowledge here, but there is also love here. Hundreds of young people gathered together and received pure military management. Needless to say, they read, read, and learned English. They also practiced martial arts and gunfire and conducted military training as part of their daily homework.
The modern new army needs talents, and modern industry needs talents even more. But where do talents come from? Do you expect the Manchu and Qing education systems, which are now dominated by Confucianism, to cultivate them? This is obviously a dream. Therefore, Xiao Letian had no choice but to cultivate talents by himself.
Three years, Xiao Letian urgently needs a three-year buffer period. After three years of cramming training, the Qing Dynasty's Enyang people and the schools in Ryukyu can continuously provide some basic talents for Xiao Letian's career. .
In any business, the ability of cadres determines everything. Without a loyal and capable management, any big plan of Xiao Letian will be like a moon in a well and a flower in the water.
At that time, Yuan Shikai conducted small station training and Principal Jiang was stationed at Huangpu Military Academy, both of which wanted to cultivate his own talent system. But what they did was not perfect, because they were eager for success and only focused on cultivating military talents, but did little to cultivate internal affairs talents.
This cannot be said to be short-sighted, but the times are different. In the early years of the Republic of China, the second industrial revolution was still completed, electrification technology had formed productive forces, and capitalist countries had completed their global layout. At that time, China was already an outdated ox-cart, and no major power would give the Chinese time to strengthen themselves.
But it is different now. Xiao Letian lived in an era where the first industrial revolution and the second industrial revolution alternated. The European continent was in chaos due to the rise of Prussia, Germany and Russia. Capitalist countries already had The signs of splitting into two factions.
As for the North American continent, after the civil war, the United States has been controlled by the idea of isolation. Before World War II, they had no interest in intervening in the affairs of other countries. Making money silently and developing industrial strength is the most suitable choice for the United States. As for Japan, it is not as good as the Qing Dynasty now.
Although Greybeard Liu Lang and Chun Shisanniang could not understand the plan in Xiao Letian's mind, their admiration for Xiao Letian was real. Of course they knew the meaning of Xiao Letian's naming of Enyangzhong, and they also knew that these orphans would become his die-hard admirers after being brainwashed by Xiao Letian.
Xiao Letian's original intention is to cultivate his direct descendants. Everyone can understand this. The so-called kindness is actually for show. Xiao Letian is not a pure saint.
But in the dark era of the late Qing Dynasty, those fat-headed princes, nobles, and Confucian bureaucrats were too lazy to even put on an ordinary show. Everyone is afraid of comparison, but in comparison, Xiao Letian naturally wins the hearts of the people.
It was an initiative to support the masses. In fact, it didn't cost much at all, but its effect on winning over the remaining forces of the Taiping Heavenly Kingdom was self-evident. From now on, Xiao Letian will no longer face any resistance if he wants to integrate the resources of the Kingdom of Heaven.
The education that the children of Enyangzhong received was determined by Xiao Letian himself, including bilingual picture cards in Chinese and English, easy-to-understand natural science knowledge, and basic arithmetic such as addition, subtraction, multiplication, and division at the elementary school level.
These very interesting teaching courses have never been seen by people in this era. Even some old people said with emotion, "I think when I was young, if someone taught me knowledge like this, I would not be able to become a person." Blind Eyes' even adults are attracted to, let alone these children.
Jiao Si'er's grandson Hu Tou, after being kidnapped by Chun Shisanniang, never cried or made trouble, but was attracted by the atmosphere here immediately. There are friends here, and there is also knowledge that has never been seen before. Although he sometimes cries when he can't see his biological mother, having his biological father here also makes the child feel a lot more at ease.
Young Master Jiao held his son in his arms and spent a miserable night anxiously. But early the next morning, the pampered young master was called out by his kidnapper, and without saying a word, he was given a kitchen to cook fire and chop wood. of work.
"Damn it, you're lucky. Our boss has said that you can just chop wood with peace of mind here. As long as you do well after a month, I'll let you two go home." After saying that, he threw down an ax and walked away. go.
The kidnapping bandits don't want gold and silver, but wood? No one had ever seen this peep show before. The timid Mr. Jiao didn't dare to refute, so he had to chop wood and boil water in an orderly manner. In less than an hour, his hands were already covered in blood blisters.
The work was hard and tiring, but Mr. Jiao did not dare to refute. He had to seize the one ten thousandth chance of survival. However, Hutou didn't feel any fear or grievance at all. This child was indeed very smart. In just a few days, he had already become one with the Enyang people, and he could learn all the subjects in one go.
The communication level in the late Qing Dynasty was so backward. At the same time that Hutou and his son were imprisoned in Jingdong Winery, Jiao Si'er, who was far away in Tanggu, had no idea. He was still dreaming of getting rich and working hard in the countryside near Tanggu. I'm working for Xiao Letian. Update as soon as possible
"Fellow, think about it, think about it again! Your two acres of dry land could not even be sold for twenty taels in previous years, so we are offering double the price. Do you still need to think about it? Even fools are selling it... "
"What? You said it's hard to leave your homeland... It's easy to handle. I'll trade the land with you. As long as you nod and exchange one acre for two acres, you don't have to go too far. It's right near us in Tanggu. It doesn't even take twenty miles. …”
"Hey, you have wronged me. Of course the land we bought is for farming. We are not running errands for that bullshit special zone. We have nothing to do with them. Don't worry, fellow..."
In the past few days, Jiao Si'er and his gangsters have been roaming around all over Tanggu Village, but what awaits them are blank stares and cold faces. These native farmers are too lazy to talk to them, and often slam the door behind them without even saying a few words. Door.
"Grandma, these stubborn things are so shameless. I came to deliver money and you gave me a cold butt... Damn it, you guys come here and do it tonight. Give them first. Give them a warning and let them know how many eyes Lord Ma has..."
That night, it was completely silent. After everyone had fallen asleep, outside the village that had refused Mr. Jiao during the day, tall stacks of firewood were ignited. After a while, the flames shot straight into the sky. The farmers had accumulated a lot of firewood. An autumn's worth of firewood and straw were all swallowed up by the flames.
"It's on fire, come and put out the fire..." The sleeping villages and towns were awakened. Countless people rushed out of their homes. Iron basins and wooden buckets poured cold water on them, but it was a drop in the bucket. Dried firewood was The best combustion accelerant, people can only watch a winter's fuel turn into ashes.
Ordinary people in rural areas in the north cannot afford charcoal and coal. They can only collect large amounts of dry firewood and straw and hay from crop fields in summer and autumn. On the one hand, the family's livestock needs to be eaten, and on the other hand, fuel is needed for cooking and heating. This fire is so vicious that farmers who have been cut off from fuel will have a hard time surviving this cold winter.
It is now the tenth month of the lunar calendar, and the north has entered the freezing period. In ancient times before the greenhouse effect appeared, without fuel, people would lose half their lives.
Moreover, the land in the north is now desolate, and it is simply unrealistic to collect firewood again.
"Hahaha, you are such a shameless bunch. I'm so proud of you but you still don't know how to continue. Are there no more firewood now? Just spend money to buy it. A bunch of poor bastards don't dare to eat until they are full. What the hell do you still have?" Do you have spare money to buy firewood?”
"You poor guys, just wait. I still have plenty of tricks to deal with you. I'll see how long you can last..."
