"A'shee...A'shee...Oh, who is scolding me? What happened in the capital this time really has nothing to do with me!"
Xiao Letian sneezed twice, put down the latest information and laughed at himself helplessly.
"Have you seen the latest news? I really didn't expect that Zai Chun would use such means. Let's pass it on and read it all..." Xiao Letian motioned to Bureau Wang to share this information with everyone in the conference room.
Zai Chun's conspiracy could not be hidden from the Chinese intelligence network, at least not from Ermao, so Xiao Letian immediately knew the cause of Guang Liang's death!
Everyone watched for a long time and couldn't laugh or cry. Xiao Hexin said, "In the final analysis, this is still the case. Emperor Tongzhi exhausted all his methods, but in the end he used Yongzheng's methods to engage in espionage politics!"
"That's right!" Xiao Letian pinched the cigarette butt into the ashtray. "The situation in the Qing Dynasty has undergone profound changes. I have always speculated that this change will take four or five years to occur, but I did not expect it to happen. So fast!"
"The Capital Iron Works has not yet been put into operation, but it has already profoundly changed the power of the Manchu Qing court!"
"Although what Xin Jian did was an accident. After all, it was his personal behavior, it was also inevitable...Sooner or later, these working class people with new ideas will not be able to bear being oppressed and will rise up to fight!"
"This is an inevitable force of the times. The Manchus and Qing Dynasties cannot avoid it. Britain, France, the United States, Germany...including us Chinese will all face such problems in the future!"
"The times have undergone tremendous changes. The industrial revolution is developing deeper and deeper, and the concentration of manpower required by new industries will be higher and higher! The old system is completely unable to adapt to this change, and then the power of the times will tear the backward party apart. !”
"One hundred thousand workers have just gathered together, and already such a huge chaos has occurred. In the future, tens or even hundreds of millions of industrial workers will appear in China. How big will the conflicts caused by this huge change be?"
"That's why I need the fortress plan! Do you really think that the fortress plan is to guard against the Manchus? Those high walls are to guard against the war horses of the Eight Banners?"
"Wrong... Every industrial city should be a tightly defended fortress! Because I have clearly judged that the Manchu Qing Dynasty cannot control the working class!"
"At that time, the workers in the Qing Dynasty will definitely resist fiercely because of the oppression... Will this movement be transmitted to our industrial areas?"
"It's very possible! This brand-new war is not the same as the peasant uprisings in the past. The power of this revolution will be even more surging!"
"One day, you will definitely see the beacon fire of revolution everywhere in the entire Central Plains... Just like the torrential floods, these fortresses of ours will be like safe islands like the Dinghai Shenzhen by then!"
"Actually, changing dynasties and competing for people's hearts are not that complicated...really, very simple!" Xiao Letian tapped the table with his pen.
"Many people tend to fall into a situation called perfectionism. They always hope to design a system that will last ten thousand years. They always hope to achieve perfection in all aspects and satisfy all parties!"
"This is a disease! It is impossible to achieve something. Perfectionism is a mental illness!"
“What any country or system is focused on is promoting the stable operation of society, not making all social strata happy and satisfied!”
"Because human nature is full of desires and cannot be satisfied! The human heart is as variable as water. How can you ensure that such changing things will always be stable at a standard?"
"Look at the difference between the Chinese people and the Manchu people! It's only been a few years, and the people here don't even know how good it is to eat white flour and polished rice, but the Manchu people can enjoy sweet potatoes and corn tortillas. Haha, shout long live!"
"You know, when there were no Chinese ethnic groups a few years ago, they were all the same and had the same public sentiment. How much have our people's life expectations increased in the past few years?"
"If you can't satisfy our people's desire to eat white flour and polished rice in the future, will they still scold us?"
"So, blindly pursuing the perfection of the system is a typical mental illness! It is a kind of obsessive-compulsive disorder! And where does human beings' true happiness come from?"
"It comes from contrast! It is contrast that makes people feel happy!"
"Everyone can imagine that day, when a large-scale civil war broke out in the Qing Dynasty, but we Chinese people were isolated from the world! Our people stood on the high city wall of the special zone, surrounded by the turrets of huge coastal defense guns. No enemy within range dares to make a mistake!"
"Moats, trenches, barbed wire... form a tight defense system, layer upon layer, increasing the people's sense of security!"
"At a time like this, even if our workers only have a bowl of stick noodle porridge and a steamed bun with pickles, they can enjoy the horrific war scenes outside in Manchuria, like the sky is falling and the earth is falling. What do you think they will think?"
"Those refugees who are selling their children and daughters outside the fortress industrial zone, grabbing even the bark and grass roots to finish their meals, and the people who have to beware of massacres by insurrectionary troops at any time and place... What will they think of life inside the fortress?"
"Don't think I'm alarmist! Why did Weng Tonghe and Li Hongzao side with the Eight Banners this time? Because Zaichun's reforms have shaken the cheese of the traditional landlord class! They are the tenants!"
"China's traditional small-scale peasant economy relies on exploiting a large number of tenants to maintain operation!"
"Zai Chun has no choice. He can only practice the spy politics of the Yongzheng period. He needs to use black hands to frighten his political opponents. He does not have so much time and energy to make steady progress on the official front. He can really resist it alone. Can’t stand the siege of a pack of wolves!”
"From now on, we must be careful to guard against changes within the Manchu Qing Dynasty. The traditional landlord class is very likely to collude with the Eight Banners conservative group!"
"I really didn't expect everything to change so quickly..."
Xiao Letian suddenly closed his mouth and fell into deep thought. A group of people in the conference room were busy writing down the outline of the meeting, and suddenly found that the head of state was silent.
What was Xiao Letian thinking? Suddenly a bolt of lightning flashed across his heart!
Could it be that the parallel world I traveled to changed the speed of things because of my arrival?
Does the time traveler itself have a certain accelerator effect?
My arrival has advanced the popularity of armored battleships by several decades, the birth of airships by several decades, the birth of penicillin by several decades, and the birth of many technologies...
Why is it that the ebb and flow of social forces is now so advanced? This is different from the time I deduced. It should be another five or six years before the Qing Dynasty encounters a crisis in the labor movement.
Why is this kind of conflict happening now that the iron plant has not even been built yet?
Xiao Letian suddenly shuddered!
