1872, the year when Emperor Tongzhi came into power, the year of his wedding, was also the year when the industrialization of the Qing Dynasty officially laid the foundation!
In 1872, the Chinese Fortress Plan was fully launched. Before the Spring Festival, the financial market in Jiangnan was shaken by the news. Billions of silver were undercurrent here, and all materials related to infrastructure construction soared by 30%!
Faced with such a huge surge in material prices, Mr. Fan Jian could only publish the futures contracts held by the Chinese central bank in newspapers again and again!
Only then did people realize how powerful the old shopkeeper was. The Chinese senior officials had already made judgments about the future. Ten industrial zones throughout the Qing Dynasty started infrastructure construction at the same time. Of course, supplies, mainly steel and cement, would skyrocket!
In 1871, the central bank had already signed futures contracts from 1873 to 1876, all based on the average price in 1871!
It is such a large amount of futures contracts that has slightly stabilized the market sentiment. Otherwise, let alone a 30% increase, even doubling is possible!
The Chinese stock market has ushered in the most violent main rise. The news of the victory in the Franco-Prussian War has caused the stock market to soar by 150%, and then there was a slight decline!
But when a series of concession contracts between the Chinese and the Manchus came into effect, the Chinese financial market went completely crazy. God knows where the cash flow came from. Suzhou, Shanghai, Jiangning... wherever there were stock market sales offices, people lined up to go there. There are simply more wealthy locals saving money than there are swordfish in the Yangtze River!
Grab, grab, grab! Before the Spring Festival in 1872, there was only one word in Jiangnan: grab!
Everyone is grabbing any Chinese assets, and the most magical scene appears, the Amami Island Cannery, a small business with just over thirty people specializing in the production of canned sardines!
The total assets were calculated as just over 80,000 silver dollars. As a result, it was listed before the Spring Festival. Within three days, the market value of the stock was speculated to 2.8 million silver dollars!
"The golden age! The golden age belonging to the Chinese nation has finally arrived!"
All Chinese newspapers and magazines did not hesitate to publicize the arrival of the golden age. Under the impact of the wave of money, the foundation of the people of the entire Jiangnan Manchu Qing Dynasty was greatly shaken!
To put it bluntly, in today's Jiangnan area, except for some stubborn landlords and poor people who have never left their homes who still remain loyal to the Qing Dynasty, the businessmen and progressive landlord class have long since separated from the Qing Dynasty!
Changes are happening around people. Boat after boat of Chinese soldiers protect officials and engineers, and go up the river with the concession order signed by Emperor Tongzhi!
More than 70,000 square kilometers of land and 28 special concession areas are all bloody flesh dug out from the territory of the Qing Dynasty!
Local officials, as well as the generals and elders who filled the city under the Eight Banners, all knelt in front of the Concession Order of Emperor Tongzhi one by one. They watched helplessly as the Chinese soldiers' boots trampled on their land, and they measured the land bit by bit. !
In front of the heavily armed soldiers, no one dared to raise any protest. The unowned wasteland was occupied as soon as it was occupied. The land belonging to the government would eventually go to the capital and the Ministry of Industry and Accounts to settle accounts!
These Chinese officials would register the land that was taken away by the Manchus when they entered the customs, and then send it to the capital and the Ministry of Internal Affairs to account!
If there are ordinary people's fields in these lands, this will not cause the ordinary people to suffer, and they will be purchased at double the market price...what? You said you won't sell it?
Very good, the Manchu and Qing magistrates are responsible. Anyway, the concession order is here. Do you dare to disobey the emperor's will?
Things are changing! The Qing Dynasty has really changed!
Countless people came from all directions and surrounded these strangers in large numbers. The originally aloof officials bowed like shrimps in front of these soldiers wearing leather boots without braids.
Construction will definitely not start right away in the middle of winter. After measuring the land, the first thing to move in is the army!
One tent after another was erected, the bugle sounded for getting up and going to bed every day, the sound of running exercises shook the earth, and a live-fire shooting drill was conducted every other day. No one in Xiaoxiao dared to think anything out of this place. !
At the beginning, each special zone had only one battalion of troops. More than 300 people didn't seem like much at all!
There were even some fanatical Manchu generals who counted the heads of their subordinates and wanted to devour these three hundred people!
Never underestimate the stupidity of these people. Many people are born without brains!
The easiest way to deal with idiots is to show your strength. There are not many garrison troops in a battalion, but they can't withstand the continuous support provided in the future.
Ship after ship of munitions and supplies were delivered. The engineering regiment was familiar with modular operations and streamlined operations. One field trench after another protected the military camp like an iron barrel!
The barbed wire fences pulled out by mechanization were as dense as a forest, which made the Manchu and Qing cavalry look downright chilly!
As the defense gradually upgraded, a scene that frightened the local Manchu and Qing civil and military officials appeared!
Along with the shiploads of supplies, there were also shiny black breech-mounted field guns, imitation Krupp 88-caliber field guns produced in the Northern Industrial Zone!
Brand-new artillery one after another was deployed in the safe depths of the camp. Trenches, barbed wire, and bunkers protected these kings of war!
You want a sneak attack? There is no door, and you will be discovered by the light and dark sentry even if you don't get close. Even if you can lurk past the sentry, how can you destroy the barbed wire fence, how can you get past the traps filled with iron caltrops, and the trenches where soldiers are hiding?
Before the Spring Festival of 1872, about thirteen concession areas completed the layout of artillery positions. Chinese people celebrating the New Year, please enjoy the fireworks!
The garrison commander received an order from the Chinese General Staff and posted a post inviting local Manchu and Qing civil and military officials to conduct military parades and exercises!
Deep artillery fire, heavy machine gun crossfire, hot air balloons taking off to provide artillery with ruler data, infantry trench defense, and night counterattacks!
Just taking out some common tactics in the tactical drills and practicing them again, these Manchu and Qing officials, whose thinking was still in the medieval era, were all frightened, and some even fell under their chairs!
The Chinese artillery has long been upgraded to the coordinate blind shooting stage. Shooting cattle across mountains is no longer a dream. It can be said that within the range of the 88 gun, it can hit wherever it wants!
When the cannons sounded, the officials in these places were completely desperate. They knew that some things were lost and they could never get them back!
On the twenty-eighth day of the twelfth lunar month, the people of Naha, Ryukyu are rejoicing. The head of state’s ship will return to Naha this evening. Xiao Letian has not celebrated the New Year in Naha for several years, but this year he expressed his intention to celebrate the New Year in Naha with complete faith. And the two ladies all came back with us!
These are not just two women, these are the two major factions in the harem who are all back. Fu Hui and the Twelve Golden Hairpins lead a huge group of servants with more than 300 people!
As a first-class tiger lady recognized by Fuso, Huniu served countless servants, and there were more than 400 people staying in Naha alone!
The Ryukyu Prime Minister's Office was an unprecedented event, and the jubilant atmosphere almost reached the sky!
That night was a grand fireworks show. The Navy provided six training ships and 12 offshore defense warships to form a naval review. Fireworks were fired into the sky from Naha Bay!
At the top of Shuri City, King Shangtai, civil and military ministers, and members of the major parliaments congratulated the head of state on the New Year!
