Qinghe is an ordinary river in the north of the capital. It is roughly located at the time of the North Fifth Ring Road Olympic Park in Beijing today. However, over a hundred years, the river has been eroded by water and used for farming, and human intervention has occurred.
The location of Qinghe River is a bit further north. In the Qing Dynasty, this Qinghe River was further south than in the 21st century, and it was closer to the capital.
Originally this was an ordinary capital river, a tributary of the Wenyu River, originating from the Xishan Mountains and flowing into the Wenyu River. The Wenyu River finally entered the Northern Canal from Tongzhou, and finally entered the sea through the Haihe River system.
It is located in a plain and has a water system connected to the North Canal. The geographical location here is very convenient. It is indeed a treasure land to build the industrial zone of the capital.
With Emperor Tongzhi's heavy investment, some waterways of the Qinghe River and the Wenyu River have been widened and deepened. Such waterways may be a little crowded for cargo ships of 100 tons, but there is no problem at all for cargo ships of less than 100 tons.
Moreover, many bridges were built on the Qinghe River, especially some steel structure bridges. This was the first time in the Qing Dynasty. After many people saw such steel bridges for the first time, they sighed and shook their heads and said that things were being trashed.
But later, when the circulation of goods became denser and large quantities of heavy goods needed to be transported in and out, I realized that the infrastructure construction of industrial zones was completely different from farming.
Long-term considerations must be taken. Many basic works are not for the flow of people but for the passage of bulk cargo. It is not unusual to use steel to build bridges.
Today, there is a ten-meter-wide steel structure bridge facing the battlefield. Opposite Deshengmen is the largest bridge into the industrial zone. This bloody battle was also supported by this bridge.
The workers' self-defense forces in the factory were able to quickly switch to battle and quickly crossed the dark Qinghe River to rescue Emperor Tongzhi into the industrial zone.
It was this steel bridge. After the company was hit by two artillery shells, the bridge structure still firmly supported the workers' retreat to the north. The ordinary wooden bridge had long been blown apart.
Today, the two sides started a desperate struggle around this iron bridge!
Countless workers on the north side of the bridge used sandbags and steel from the factory to build bunkers. Although they had run out of ammunition, they relied on sharp spears, machetes, hammers, engineer shovels... …also formed a defensive position.
When the enemy comes with long-range firepower, just hide. Once the enemy rushes up to engage in close combat, they will fall into the iron fist of the working class.
In a maze-like position, these workers' self-defense forces are confident of tearing apart any enemy that breaks through!
Anyway, there is an iron bridge separating them, so these rebels cannot attack on a large scale. They can only use fuel tactics of hundreds or hundreds at a time!
Due to the re-excavation of the Qinghe River, the water body is deep and seriously polluted, and there are no boats that can cross the river. It is impossible for large-scale rebels to swim across.
Even if there were desperate swimmers, they would be half dead from exhaustion by the time they reached the shore, and would not be able to engage in intensive battles at all.
The key is pollution. Pollution is the biggest headache. There are no environmental protection laws in this era. Wastewater and even waste residue from industrial areas are thrown away on both sides of the river.
Where is there any clear color in the entire Qinghe River? It has long been turned into a dark river of poison. Ever since the factory started construction, children from all over the surrounding areas have not dared to fish in the water.
All the aquatic animals in the entire river are dead. If people go down and touch the water, they will have red pimples all over their bodies when they return home. It has become a poisonous river.
You let these thugs swim across the river and risk being poisoned? It's better to rush forward with the muzzle of the gun in front of you!
In fact, according to the plan of Xin Jian and others, this dark poisonous river was their important defense against the rebels. All the wooden bridges were set on fire and all the iron bridges were heavily defended.
You can delay it as long as you can. Once the iron bridge cannot be defended, then you can take your brothers and withdraw into the industrial zone to fight guerrilla warfare!
This is really the most effective strategy. The buildings in the industrial area are complex and there are many various stockyards. For unfamiliar people, it is like a maze.
Once street fighting begins, it can easily delay time. The total number of workers in Qinghe Industrial Zone has exceeded 20,000, and these are the people who have been carrying Zaichun's rice bowl for more than a year.
These people all come from poor families. After arriving in the industrial zone, they earn salaries that they have never dared to imagine in their lives.
In particular, the Chinese are responsible for all work planning in the industrial zone, and workers’ salaries and welfare benefits are also based on the system in the Tanggu Special Economic Zone.
The Chinese people actually have their own little plans. Xiao Letian once secretly ordered to improve the treatment of these Qinghe Industrial Zone workers. The purpose is to use differentiation to stimulate the workers to complete their transformation and let them recognize their identity as workers.
In fact, this is Xiao Letian consciously pushing workers to form a class and form their own worker beliefs!
To give a very simple example, let’s take a man in his prime who works hard farming on the Zhili Plain. The wealth he creates in a year is twenty taels of silver. If others exploit him and take away half of it, he will still have ten taels left.
Then we need to increase this base number ten times or even twenty times!
Come and work in a factory. How about being an apprentice and earning thirty taels a year? A first-level worker earns 50 taels, a second-level worker earns 80 taels, and above that you can earn 100 or even 150 taels of silver per year!
What kind of gap is this? This is a world-changing difference, not to mention the factory's regular distribution of work clothes, towels, soap, leather boots... bathhouses, food subsidies, night shift pay... and other benefits!
You have to let them enjoy the dreamlike sweetness in order to develop a protective heart for this sweetness. Otherwise, how can you let these kind people break through their fear and come out to kill people?
The salary base specified by Xiao Letian is very high, which is almost a temptation that people in this era cannot refuse!
Later, Xin Jian and the others staged a grand show of prosecution, and almost wiped out all the evil forces of the Eight Banners that had infiltrated the factory. This ensured that the wage standards set by Xiao Letian could be truly implemented.
There is no arrears, no plundering by evil forces, these wealth are truly left in the hands of the workers!
Finally, there is the study at night school. How could Xin Jian, the periphery of the stormtroopers, not mix sand into night school? This is how the Enlightenment Movement was started.
Today was the first battle of the working class, and the fight was quite beautiful. It was beyond everyone's expectation. Xin Jian and others did not expect that the fighting would reach such a cruel stage, such a bloody scene, and not a single deserter among the workers was found!
Only by protecting your life, which is sweeter than honey, can you risk your own life!
With such a brave workers' self-defense force, he was confident that he could hold on to the industrial zone for a week. Emperor Tongzhi could make a calm choice whether he held on or continued to flee north to Chengde.
But today Xin Jian discovered that there was a big mistake in his plan, that is, he did not estimate the combat effectiveness of the cannon!
The three thousand regiments coming from the west, even with two cannons, were already too much for themselves!
The position behind the iron bridge has been continuously suppressed by enemy artillery fire. Workers died tragically in every bombing. It turns out that the original tactic of bringing in hand-to-hand combat to end the battle no longer works!
Artillery, the god of war, has come forward, and temporary fortifications cannot resist it!
After Fu Qing settled down the emperor, the queen mother and his entourage, he turned around and led his soldiers to support Xin Jian. As a result, he saw the bombardment scene when he came out.
Fu Qing's head was spinning rapidly, "Could it be... could it be... could it be him..."
At this time, another group of people hurriedly came to the factory dormitory area and shouted at Fu Qing, "Sir...Sir...all the editorial staff and workers of Qing Times have evacuated to the industrial area in accordance with your order... "
"Subordinate Luo Hao...Subordinate Wen Xiu...see Sir..."
