The beginning of 1873 was actually like this, with strange and treacherous in secret, but on the surface, the Qing Empire was calm!

Zaichun kicked Yi? Yihuan and Yili, three conservative leaders. No one can stop his new policy. Even if he was unhappy in his heart, the ministers would not dare to say anything.

The Beijing Railway Plant and the Beijing-Tianjin Railway have accelerated the construction progress. Although there are still problems of one kind or another, the conflict among the people is still very large, but at least it has started to move!

Zaichun puts strong pressure on local officials, so he doesn't care whether the people below are acting against each other. As long as you get a worker for me, you will be a loyal minister and capable official!

Under the pressure of the government, by July, the railway and the railway plant had already gathered 100,000 civilians, and the entire Shuntian Prefecture area was in a state of chaos!

This is really a big test of the administrative ability of an imperial court. Every day, seawater-like materials are transported back and forth, cement, sand, stones, wood, steel bars, bricks and tiles... and various tools used by workers.

The vegetables, meat, eggs, rice and flour needed every day, including water for 100,000 people, fuel for boiling, and even cleaning the toilet are all a big problem!

In the hot July, some road construction sites near Tianjin were even infected with dysentery, which made the court very panic. In the end, the Chinese Industrial Zone sent a medical team to forcefully intervene to control the epidemic!

The Qing Dynasty had not organized such a large project for many years. In the past few decades, they were basically preparing for wars. Once economic construction began, these officials were a little uncomfortable.

Maybe? I don’t adapt, but these people are born to be a group of people who are useless and have no experience at all!

Zai Chun was also angry many times, but after the initial panic, the project was really promoted after July.

Zaichun is working hard, and the Chinese people are mobilizing the whole country to start the construction of the Concession Special Zone. The Yangtze River Basin is the most important area for the Chinese people to penetrate, and the first industrial areas along the Yangtze River are beginning to be invested and built.

The people in the Yangtze River Basin have never seen such a busy and spectacular scene. The wide Yangtze River is almost filled with various ships. The Chinese officials and merchants have also started to transport the materials that they had prepared for two or three years in advance according to the plan!

Ships after ship are all steel, cement and talents. Every industrial special zone began to place orders with surrounding Qing Dynasty merchants, purchasing a large amount of wood, sand, gravel, and bricks!

The infrastructure funds invested by the Chinese central bank every month, including loans, have exceeded the 50 million silver dollar mark. Jiangnan society was flooded with such sea water, and has rushed out of a great prosperous era and an era of expansion of liquidity flooding!

Later generations could not imagine what happened in those years. They were originally a rich man in the countryside, but they took over part of the sand and gravel business in Wuchang Special Zone, and earned 1.5 million silver dollars in half a year!

The crazy wealth myth has caused the surrounding landlords, rich peasants, and local tyrants and evil gentry to start digging sand and gravel frantically, and all the rivers that produce sand and gravel are occupied!

The river sand and stones that were worthless in the past have all turned into gold!

After July, severe armed fighting began in the local area, with a very wide range and a larger scale! Before, they were just ordinary sand and gravel merchants, but under the stimulation of huge profits, they began to have fires!

It’s just a word of robbing! It blocks the river and establishes itself as king, occupying the mountain and not allowing anyone to approach it. If you dare to dig a basket of sand and gravel on my side, I will dare to fight with you!

The fight quickly killed people. At first, one or two people died, and in the end, more than ten people died in each fight. The villages that used to date blindly became enemies, and neighbors who had been intermarried for hundreds of years suddenly became enemies!

At first, the government could still suppress the enemy, but not long after, they found that the scale of the fight was getting bigger and bigger, and there were even some retired Hunan Army veterans inside!

The weapons began to upgrade, and muskets appeared secretly among the fighters!

The government dared not take care of it now. The county government has become the negotiation site for these sand and gravel merchants. The county magistrate is just a middleman who has emphasized the conflicts for these powerful people!

No matter how many people you die, grabbing time is the top priority. If the infrastructure of the industrial zone is not built, the factory will not be able to settle in!

If the strict city walls and fortresses are not repaired properly, it will not be able to create strong psychological pressure on the Qing people around them!

You can fight whatever you like. Anyway, I am the old man who pays for sand and gravel. Sufficient supplies are the most important!

Money is flooded, people's hearts are not as good as the past, prices soar, and people are living in poverty! This is the color recorded by scholars at that time for that era!

Indeed, the small peasant economy has never experienced the impact of such a huge capital frenzy. Countless handicraftsmen in small households have been destroyed, and the fate of many farmers who have lived in the farm for life has also been reversed!

Some went bankrupt and died suddenly, while others took advantage of the situation to quickly change their destiny and upgrade their class through this procurement trend. Some had to defect to the industrial zone and became the first batch of workers!

It was not until this time that the people in the world knew how rich the Chinese were. The compensation from billions of gold francs in France was the greatest confidence behind it!

The silver mines in Central and South America, as well as the wealth accumulated by the people in the Qing Dynasty, and the gold and silver of the colonies expanded by the Chinese people, were all mobilized!

This is the head of state’s “fortress plan” that had already been launched, and it had already brought in one-third of East Asia’s currency.

As money starts to make noise, humans can hardly hear other sounds. As for the Chinese people, they dug more than 20 oil wells in the Brunei region of Borneo, the No. 0 internal combustion engine has been upgraded to the third generation, and even the fourth generation internal combustion engine has begun to rivet onto the experimental ship!

No one cares about these news, and the eyes of all the people in the world, including foreigners, are staring at the money!

British, American, German… there are even French who have just been defeated, Italians who have been unified, and European and American adventurers are running towards Shanghai and Naha like crazy. Who doesn’t want to make a fortune?

European banks were built like mushrooms after the rain. Where is the Chinese special zone repaired? They bought land at high prices to repair their own banks, and various investments were pouring in from Europe.

The Chinese stock market has grown to scale, and of course they dare not stand shoulder to shoulder than the City of London, Amsterdam and New York. However, compared with the stock markets such as Berlin, Hamburg, Rome, and Madrid, the Chinese stock market is like the boss!

How could Europeans let go of such a piece of fat? The dream of making money is calling them to rush to Asia. At this moment, the Chinese have replaced Shanghai and become the adventurer paradise in the hearts of foreigners!
Chapter completed!