Once there is a gap in wealth, it will quickly attract the attention of the poor people in the surrounding area. They are all native villagers and have lived together for thousands of years. Today, it is just a big willow tree wall that can separate them? It's obviously impossible.
The people outside the wall and the people inside the wall were only separated by more than two hundred meters, and suddenly they became two worlds overnight. The people inside the wall suddenly became the upper-class people with golden rice bowls. Anyone who went to the special zone to do any work, even the simplest job of cleaning the streets, could get a shining silver coin a month.
That’s silver! The extremely poor people in the late Qing Dynasty were considered good if they could only have half a string of copper coins at home. Who could afford silver? The black eyes saw the white money, and everyone's hearts suddenly burst with desire, and people's hearts became uneasy.
"Others can make money, why can't I make money? We are all natives of our hometown. We are separated by a river and we don't know each other. If you can work, so can I. We go together together..."
Soon a huge wave of migrant workers appeared in the urban area of Tanggu. According to the old theory, whoever has the strength to work hard will be better. It is enough to work hard and do the work for the employer. But when there are more people, conflicts will arise. .
The Tanggu Special Economic Zone is very large, but it cannot meet the needs of all the poor in Tianjin Prefecture. The large influx of labor will inevitably cause the originally high costs to begin to decline, which has caused dissatisfaction among the people within the walls.
The people in the special zone were all so angry that they were living a good life and earning a silver coin from sweeping the streets, but it was because you came here that you ruined the business and brought down the market price. A third goes.
The conflict broke out all of a sudden. What had been villagers for hundreds of years quickly turned into two groups under the influence of interests, one was the inner-wall faction and the other was the outer-wall faction. At first, the two sides just argued with each other, but in the end There was even a fight with fists and kicks.
By the end of last year, there were even armed fights that gathered together, and various small leaders who were capable of fighting quickly appeared on both sides, and gangs were about to be formed.
At the beginning, the special zone chose to suppress forcefully, attacking anyone who took the lead. However, over time, it was found that it was of no use at all, because the core contradiction was that there were limited jobs and too many people in demand. This problem cannot be solved in a short time.
Xiao Letian is not a living Lei Feng, not in this life, nor in the previous life. When he cannot find jobs in the short term, he can only choose to protect the interests of the people within Willow Wall first, because he needs the support of the people in the entire special zone, because this place is destined to be here in the future. It will become a special zone that is a hybrid of a military zone, a processing industry zone and a commercial and trade zone, with internal public sentiment above all else.
From that day on, the willow wall began to be tied up with long barbed wires, and the river outside was also deepening. The connection between inside and outside the special zone was no longer as casual as it used to be. People could only use dozens of heavily guarded gates to Entry and exit, and the household registration system within the special zone has been implemented.
People with household registration within the special zone will be subject to fewer restrictions, while people outside the willow wall can only compete for a limited number of temporary employment permits. A willow border wall finally shapes two completely different worlds, one is paradise, and the other is hell.
This is not all the contradictions. The people around Willows Border Wall can still get some benefits from the special zone. Many people cannot enter and work directly, but they can enjoy the benefits of the special zone through trade, such as the breeding industry.
People in the special zone have high incomes and have high requirements for food and drink. When people around them found business opportunities, they began to develop the breeding industry. Pigs, cattle, sheep and other livestock are provided to the special zone. They are continuously transported to the special zone every day. This kind of business can make up for it to some extent. Look at the gap in the hearts of the people around you.
Soon, more people discovered the benefits of the service industry, and prostitution became popular. It is not that there are no prostitutes in Tanggu Special Economic Zone, there are also several brothels. However, because the special zone has issued very few such licenses, it has created a large market vacancy.
The limited number of brothels are all high-quality. The decoration in the building and the quality of the girls are expected to be high. Only real wealthy businessmen and senior officials can afford to play here. Ordinary people are not even qualified to enter.
Wherever there is demand, there is a market. If you are not allowed to play inside the willow wall, you can go outside to play. Soon a prosperous grass market economy appeared in the villages and towns surrounding the willow wall.
The grass market, as the name suggests, is not high-end, but it actually meets the needs of the market. Gambling dens, opium dens, restaurants, teahouses, theaters...and of course brothels and half-closed houses have been opened in each village. , for a time, tumors began to attach themselves to the huge economy of the Special Administrative Region.
Some people may have doubts, wouldn't there be no conflict between the people outside the Liuqiang and the people inside the Liuqiang? Isn't it a good thing for both parties to get what they need and make money together?
Unfortunately, human nature is complicated. Sometimes just making money is not enough. People's hearts are always in comparison. Who doesn’t know each other who was the same fellow villager who dug in the soil for food back then? But why is it that one side is up and the other is down just because of a willow wall?
Why do people outside the wall have to serve those inside the wall? I am not comfortable making money, so I naturally get angry, and I have to vent my anger. Under the influence of this psychology, the original peaceful and peaceful rural atmosphere disappeared. Under the impact of the tide of money, nostalgia was no longer there, and everything was aimed at money.
There are opium dens, gambling dens, porcelain dealers, immortal dances... There are even vicious cases such as kidnapping and robbery. As for petty theft, there are countless more.
Things outside the willow wall are not under the control of the new military, so those soldiers can only look at the smoky atmosphere outside the willow wall and sigh inwardly. In addition to never going there themselves, they often advise the folks inside the wall to avoid going to those messy places.
Listening to the explanation of the old platoon leader, Fan Ru had forgotten about the heat. He smoked two Cuban cigars in succession and gave one to the old platoon leader. "Good boy! So many things have happened in the past two years since I was gone." ?Second housekeeper... pour two bowls of sour plum soup from my refrigerator to relieve this little brother's heat..."
"Tell me, go on, is there anything else?"
"Hey... the fun is still to come, I'm going to talk about these foreigners!" The old platoon leader drank a bowl of sour plum soup in one gulp and burped comfortably.
"one more bowl!"
How could Fan Ru care about a bowl of sour plum soup? He asked the second housekeeper to bring the carved mahogany refrigerator over and let the old platoon leader drink it as he pleased.
"My dear, I have always heard that the nobles of the Beijing Palace eat ice cubes in the summer. Is there really such a thing? Tsk, tsk, tsk..." The people around him sighed in admiration.
