Quietly, some gratifying changes have taken place in the originally barren Jiao'ao area.
There are a lot of newly cultivated fields here, and they are all run in a farm-by-farm mode.
The people who make up the farm are all the poorest families in Lu.
They all have one thing in common, that is, they have family members who are Boxers, the formal kind.
Of course, the number of farms is not an exaggeration. There is almost one farm every hundred miles, ranging in size and scale. Due to time constraints, it is still in its infancy.
But this is so, because of the existence of the farm and the suppression by the Boxers in the farm, the security and order in this area are much stable.
If there are bandits who make a lot of noise or are unruly in the vicinity, they basically cannot escape the end of being wiped out by the Boxers.
When the army is encircling and suppressing, they will also pay attention to their appearance. The Boxers, who are local snakes, will not be polite to the guys who are causing harm to the countryside.
Think about it, when bandits and bandits encounter dozens or hundreds of boxers who are experienced in martial arts, how big the shadow will be in their hearts.
What the boxers know is not only Plum Blossom Boxing, which has a high threshold, but also many powerful boxing techniques such as Changquan that are very practical and suitable for Shandong men to practice.
There are even hunters among the boxers who are extremely skilled in archery, and occasionally there are musketeers among them, who are quite domineering.
The Boxers made a great noise, but they did not attract any suppression from the government.
The main reason is that the Boxers basically live in the countryside and wilderness, and the villages they build and the fields they open are also in the wild, which cannot attract the interest of the officials at all.
Moreover, apart from organizing boxing training, the boxers behaved quite lawfully and kept their own rules, at least they did not take the initiative to cause trouble in the county, which was enough.
However, the bandits and bandits have been almost eliminated, and local security and order have been improved. As a result, more businessmen are willing to do business, and the trade routes have become more popular.
They walked along Zhuangzi, a village founded by Boxer families, and reached the seaside area of Jiao'ao. The journey was quite peaceful.
Unless the government intervenes, no force can compare to it. The organized Boxers can easily suppress the local area.
Merchants are also willing to take this newly opened trade route, and will not easily detour even if it takes more time.
There is no way, there are too many checkpoints in other places, but if you go along the road of Boxer Farm, you only need to pay the toll once.
This is really a waste of money...
Even if a farm does not abide by the rules and secretly asks for tolls, as long as it is reported, the boxers responsible for the so-called discipline will come to deal with it, and there will never be a second time.
Seeing this situation, some sensible people are filled with cold sweat, but they have to admit that the existence of the Boxer Farm has brought a lot of excitement to the desolate Jiao'ao area.
If you look at it from a broad perspective, you will be surprised to find that these newly built Boxer farms are like inns, connected by a direct passage to Jiaoao.
In order to plan this passage, Wu Dong, the person in charge, was extremely busy within a year.
Finally, with the help of the huge number of boxers under his command and the strong threat of force, he finally managed to achieve his original planning goal after a year of hard work.
In this way, there is a rough passage between the Jiao'ao sea area and the interior of Lu Di, which can be called a trade road.
Having accomplished the planned goal, even though it was still very rough and crude, it allowed the Dharma Altar headed by Wu Dong to naturally become one of the strongest civil forces in this area.
With the resources in hand and the materials that can be circulated, calculated in units of a thousand taels of silver, it was easy to get rid of the embarrassment when building a boxer farm.
That's right, after a year of hard work, Wu Dong has now become the first senior brother with influence in several states and nearly 10,000 boxers under his command.
Even in the entire Lu region, that is Senior Brother Wu who has a great reputation.
The nearly 10,000 boxers under his command are not those who are just trying to make up for their numbers, but are at least in good health and have been practicing boxing for more than three months.
Each of these guys has a certain degree of combat effectiveness, and usually one or two Shandong guys of the same weight are no match.
They are the foundation for building the farm, and they are also the backbone of the new farm.
Every newly built farm has hundreds of boxers and their families as the backbone, which is a great deterrent to outside civil forces.
Even the local gentry and landlords have to consider the consequences if they want to reach out.
They do have energy in a local area, but they only have energy in one place. If it goes beyond their sphere of influence, they can only do nothing.
However, the Dharma altar presided over by Wu Dong was able to mobilize foreign forces to launch a surprise attack. Just ask them, can they withstand the torment?
In addition, the newly built Boxer farms are far away from urban areas. It is not an exaggeration to say that they are in the wilderness. It is difficult to attract too much attention from local gentry and landlords.
After testing it out, I saw that I couldn't control it, so I had to let it go temporarily.
Some things, once done too much, may lead to some kind of retaliation.
Wu Dong spent a lot of energy and thought on these new boxer farms.
If it hadn't been for the Khmer temporary base and the steady flow of trained men to support it, I'm afraid we wouldn't have been able to complete such a huge project.
To be honest, as long as the Boxers and their families can be organized, it doesn't cost much money to open up wasteland and build farms. The key is to organize them.
At the moment, the situation in the Qing Dynasty has not collapsed yet, and our attitude towards the Boxers is to suppress and suppress them again, and it is best to eliminate them.
Under such circumstances, families with powerful clans would never get involved in the affairs of the Boxers, let alone squires and landlords.
Therefore, there are really few boxers under Wu Dong who are talented, and there are very few who can even read 300 characters.
To organize the Boxers, who can't even be called a ragtag group, a lot of experienced people are needed.
It can only be said that Wu Dong's power just meets this point.
Then, his boxers were used by the organization and exploded with amazing power.
The emergence of farms one after another has an astonishing radiating effect on the surrounding areas.
Among other things, in addition to normal land reclamation and farming, they also have to control some local bargaining rights for vegetables, meat and eggs, as well as transportation and some agricultural product processing businesses.
Not to mention the local tyrants, at least it is very attractive to the poor people.
In rural areas, whether there is a job or not, the quality of life is completely different.
Seeing that the life of the Boxer Farm is prosperous, but the local poor people are still struggling on the line of life and death, you would be a fool if you don't have any ideas.
That is to say, Wu Dong gave a standardized explanation of the definition of boxers early on.
Otherwise, the number of boxers under his command at this time may reach tens of thousands.
If this is really the case, even if the court and the government don't want to touch him, they won't be able to.
The only thing that gave Wu Dong some headaches was the senior fellow apprentices from other regions in Lu who came to visit him from time to time to recognize his elder brother.
With their arrival, they also brought Wu Dong an inevitable trouble.
That's the problem with foreign churches...
There were not many foreign churches in the area under the jurisdiction of Wu Dong Kai Tan, and they were intentionally or unintentionally squeezed out by the Boxers, making it difficult for them to gain a foothold.
This is not difficult to accomplish as long as you have enough manpower and sufficient deterrence.
In addition, the area under the jurisdiction of Wudong Kaitan is an underdeveloped and relatively barren place in Lu, and it cannot attract the special attention of foreigners.
But as soon as he came to recognize his eldest brother, the situation was completely different.
Most of the areas they are located in are places where conflicts between foreign churches and ordinary people are fierce, and they are also places with a good economic foundation in Lu.
The economic interests there are huge, and the implications are naturally wide-ranging. If the foreign church makes random moves, and the thugs are doing their best, the world will be in a state of uproar.
The local boxer organization seems to have suffered the greatest loss of profits. It is always on the front line and is the main force against the foreign churches.
Anyone who has studied this aspect of history knows how intense this contradiction is.
The local government there had a good attitude toward the Boxer organization and provided them with a lot of convenience in private.
But to Wu Dong's ears, it was all Chi Luoluo's plan.
The existence of foreign churches has impacted the local gentry and government the most, definitely not the poor people who are struggling to make ends meet.
How can the poor people who don't even own a piece of land squeeze out anything from them?
The foreign church wanted to gain a foothold in the local area and expand its influence. The first targets of its thugs were small landowners and civilians with a small amount of land.
It's just that local relations are intricately intertwined. Once a certain joint is moved, other forces will naturally follow suit.
What the officials, gentry and landlords dislike the most is this situation.
If you want the foreign church to be honest, you naturally have to encourage the Boxers to cause trouble.
Many senior brothers who took the initiative to recognize Wu Dong as their eldest brother poured out their bitterness soon after seeing Wu Dong, recounting their own experiences with the boxers under his command, which really made the listeners sad and the listeners weeping.
Finally, I just asked Senior Brother Wu for advice...
Just give me some pointers, it's actually quite simple to deal with such a thing.
After all, foreigners are unfamiliar with the land. As long as the losers who seek refuge with them are dealt with, there will be little harm to the Boxer people.
But there are some things that really cannot be explained clearly. Could it be that the bandits and bandits in the Lu region, as well as the most famous bandit, are all just doing it for a living?
Wouldn't they act out of righteous indignation or favor for their elders in their hometown and take action against a few foreign church thugs?
As long as the person is dealt with and the name is left, that's it.
At that time, the government will have reason to deal with foreign churches, and without their minions, the foreign churches will not have much of a deterrent.
Wu Dong did not believe that the officials and local squires were not aware of these methods, but they were still secretly encouraging the Boxers to charge forward. They were either bad or had ulterior motives. In short, they had no good intentions. Why should the Boxers follow their path?