The Fortress Plan is actually a game of using time to exchange for people's hearts! Not to mention that the late Qing people were backward and corrupt, they were just not used to changes. Coupled with the backward media and closed clan concepts, they did not know what the sky outside looked like.

It’s like the various contradictions that Nishimizumen is facing now. After all, those who resist don’t know the SAR at all, let alone what the SAR represents to them.

In the eyes of these refugees, the Special Administrative Region may be just a place to eat and make money. After working here for a few years, it will save some money and return to the hometown to continue buying houses and land. Being a small landlord or a rich peasant will make you live like this for the rest of your life.

This is the ideal of refugees, but for those Tanggu people who have been influenced by the SAR, this place not only represents a better material life than outside, but also represents a sense of security and hope.

The victory of the willow walls and trenches, coupled with the new army and cannons, has shown these people the sense of security brought by Xiao Letian, which is the most intimidating resource in China in the late Qing Dynasty and even in the next few decades.

Not only that, the people here also have hope for the future. They can enter Western schools to learn new knowledge, and even bolder families will send girls to the school. The new education system opens a different sky for their future.

Their lives will gradually be separated from the land. Some will become blue-collar workers, some will become traders for ocean trade, some will join military academies, and some will even be able to enter university to become senior engineers and scientific researchers.

When the future of life and the only single-plank bridge of the imperial examination are loosened, China, a nation with an extremely large population base, is destined to enter a period of great development as brilliant as the Renaissance.

But everything needs strong military strength to protect it, and without safety, everything is a fantasy.

What Xiao Letian wants to provide is this, artificially manufactured differentiation, and each industrial special zone is a fortress that preserves the vitality of the nation, Tanggu, Shanghai, Liaodong Peninsula, Shandong Peninsula, Huaihe River Basin in northern Jiangsu, Fujian, Guangzhou and even upstream along the Yangtze River.

As long as the area covered by the firepower of the armored warship and as long as the area that the Ryukyu Marines can quickly control will be the target area in the future fortress plan.

At present, the Qing Dynasty would not be so stupid that it opened up so many special zones for Xiao Letian to occupy and develop, but opportunities were always left to those who were prepared. When the Qing Dynasty fought due to the barriers of interests, Ryukyu, as a neutral faction, could naturally get along well and take advantage of the situation.

The conservatives and reformists within the Qing Dynasty must have a battle, and the Hunan Army Group will definitely smile at the division within Manren. The three forces will always take action. This is like the Three Kingdoms’ battle for hegemony. As long as Ryukyu, who is free overseas, does not show his ambition to fight for hegemony, then all forces will not care about opening up some land to build a special zone for Xiao Letian.

The key point is that Xiao Letian does not have sovereignty at all. This is the most reassuring thing for all forces. The SAR is all lease contracts, but in 50 years and 80 years, Xiao Letian has obtained autonomy of hundreds of square kilometers.

This is like the Ming Dynasty acknowledged the Portuguese's right to settle in Macau. As long as you promise the sovereignty of the Celestial Empire, the vast Celestial Empire would not care about the county.

But none of them thought that if Xiao Letian ruled that land for fifty years, would you still take it back?

This is simply two different concepts fighting. Xiao Letian, a strategy and tactic that only needs no face, can’t deal with medieval thinking.

Once the conflict evolves and starts, not to mention that all parties need Xiao Letian's financial and military support, sometimes it is a piece of cake to cede 180 kilometers of land just to replace him with neutrality.

Compared to a country with a scale of 10 million square kilometers, what are those dozens or hundreds of square kilometers? Not even a hair is counted. The arrogant emperors and generals will be able to lead a million troops to sweep these special zones as big as sesame and green beans. In their eyes, this little sparrow is not threatened at all.

Is there really no threat? This world has long since thrown the thinking of the Middle Ages into the Mariana Trench, and the future war model will definitely change to make them beyond imagination.

A regime with only land population but no industrial and technological strength will be a lamb to be slaughtered in the future. Not to mention the Qing Dynasty, even the regular French army in Dakar, even in the face of advanced tactics that have exceeded 20 years, they still have no power to fight back.

How did the Battle of Songhu lose? A group of troops started to fight against three thousand Japanese concessions, but they couldn't get rid of them! Then both sides increased their troops, the Japanese army invested in two divisions, and the Chinese army invested in eight armies, but they still couldn't get rid of them!

Until the end, the Chinese army invested a total of 600,000 troops, and Japan also increased its troops to 130,000, but it still couldn't get rid of it!

Is it the Chinese soldiers who have no blood? No, the Chinese soldiers performed absolutely well in the Battle of Shanghai! Is that the individual weapons and equipment lagging behind? No, the German-armed armed forces built at that time were mostly German-armed weapons built with a lot of money. Most of the field artillery were imported from Germany, and the data were no less than Japanese-armed equipment.

The key to the problem is the war mode. The Battle of Shanghai in Japan used a large number of naval warships and naval aviation. At that time, the estuary of the Huangpu River was completely controlled by Japanese warships, and Japanese bombers were flying in the sky in Shanghai.

This is a battle with three-dimensional attack planes. To put it in science fiction, this is a strangle of the three-dimensional world over the two-dimensional world!

No matter how elite individual armed forces are, they cannot withstand the bombing of an aviation bomb, and no matter how excellent the field artillery is, their caliber will never catch up with the main gun of the battleship.

Without absolute firepower support, relying solely on blood courage would be of no use at all.

The fortress plan is absolutely feasible. Xiao Letian wanted to take advantage of the inertial thinking of the Chinese at that time and take advantage of their psychological blind spots to see the cloth.

Others think that the special zones are money-making machines, and there seems to be no threat, but Xiao Letian is very clear that what he puts on the land of China is definitely a murderous fortress, and these fortresses will eventually form a chain that is linked and then put on the heads of all ambitious people.

Xiao Letian looked at everyone with bright eyes and sneered, "So, don't worry about the little conflict of concepts in Xishuimen anymore, try to prepare! The civil war will definitely start in Northern Zhili in three years, and a wave of refugees will be destined to appear!"

"Tanggu Special Zone must be prepared in advance! Now these refugees who have lost their chances will be destined to regret it in the future, because we will give more stringent immigration requirements at that time."

"We must perform a cutting operation on people's hearts, so that they can see with their own eyes what is right and what is wrong and backward."
Chapter completed!