This contract made the coastal defense of Qinglong Kingdom exist in name only.
Moreover, in this contract, the Turtle Kingdom also enjoys the same special rights and interests as other great powers, as well as the right to establish concessions on the territory of the Qinglong Kingdom.
As the contract was implemented, the news spread, and the people were extremely angry.
It can be said that this defeat and the signing of the contract were the biggest shock to the people of Qinglong Kingdom.
After all, for nearly two thousand years, the Divine Turtle Kingdom was just a vassal state and a younger brother of the Azure Dragon Kingdom.
Now that the younger brother is riding on the elder brother's head, the people of the Qinglong Kingdom, which calls itself the Kingdom of Heaven, are particularly angry.
But at this time, everyone in the Qinglong Kingdom's court had been beaten to the point of breaking their bones and losing their courage by the Turtle Kingdom.
At the same time, this battle also showed the great powers how weak the Qinglong Kingdom was.
From then on, the warships of the great powers frequently traveled up the major rivers to the interior of the Qinglong Kingdom, spreading their influence and privileges across the land of the Qinglong Kingdom.
By this time, the Qinglong Kingdom has regarded the foreign powers as fierce tigers. Whenever there are cases involving the participation of foreign powers, local officials will unconditionally favor the foreign powers when imposing penalties. They even dare not punish the Qinglong Kingdom people who have taken refuge with the foreign powers.
Therefore, a saying soon spread in Qinglong Kingdom: first-class powers, second-class officials, third-class gentry, and fourth-class people.
In fact, the spread of the power of these great powers has even affected the Three Emperors concept.
When she got up this morning, Fang Xiaoyue sat under the sweet-scented osmanthus tree in the backyard of the Taoist temple, brewed a pot of wild tea, and tasted it slowly.
Suddenly, there was a violent loud noise, which made him tremble, and the teacup in his hand almost fell to the ground. Although his eyesight and hands were quick to hold the teacup steady, the tea also poured down his pants.
What happened?
This incident made Fang Xiaoyue a little angry, and then asked Li Chizhang to go out to inquire about the situation.
Li Chizhang is now twenty years old. As Fang Xiaoyue's eldest disciple, he has a stable character and has completed everything assigned by his master very well.
So not long after, Li Chizhang returned to the Taoist temple and informed his master of the information he had found out.
It turned out that the loud noise before was caused by the foreign powers building a dock by the river.
Stones were needed to repair the dock. For convenience, the foreign powers used dynamite to break up the mountains and blast the rocks, causing a loud noise.
"The Great Powers?"
Fang Xiaoyue couldn't help but frown.
In the history of his original world, his motherland had also experienced what the Azure Dragon Kingdom had experienced.
These foreign powers are not good people. They built the wharf here just for the convenience of docking their warships or merchant ships for supplies.
Fang Xiaoyue had also heard about the difference in military discipline among the soldiers of the foreign powers.
It happened that at this time, Magistrate Lin came to visit the Taoist temple.
Fang Xiaoyue then asked about the construction of the dock. Did the powerful people inform the county government for approval?
Hearing Zhenren Fang's question, Magistrate Lin couldn't help but smile bitterly: "To be honest with Zhenzhen Zhang, the powerful people in our Qinglong Kingdom are now called the Supreme Emperor wherever they go! Don't say that I am such a small county magistrate. Well, even if the prefect sees the powerful people, I'm afraid..."
Magistrate Lin didn't finish his words, but Fang Xiaoyue understood the meaning.
Magistrate Lin's immediate superior is the magistrate of Huangshui Prefecture.
It is said that the magistrate immediately knelt down to greet the powerful people when he saw them, which completely disgraced the national dignity of the Qinglong Kingdom.
With such a prefect, how could those powerful people apply to the county government when building docks?
They completely ignored the sovereignty of Qinglong Kingdom and acted wantonly on the land of Qinglong Kingdom.
Fang Xiaoyue bid farewell to Magistrate Lin and frowned at the cluttered crowd by the river in the distance.
Several tall men from the great powers stood by the river, sometimes gesticulating, sometimes laughing, looking arrogant.
And the few comprador-looking guys around them were groveling and flattering them.
However, as soon as these compradors turned around and faced the recruited local workers, their faces became ferocious, and they would occasionally take out their whips to discipline these low-class people in their eyes.
Since the dock was very simple to build, Fang Xiaoyue didn't even think about whether to destroy it. In two days, the dock was initially built.
Soon a steam merchant ship slowly docked at the dock, and a large number of workers, driven by the compradors, moved the goods off the ship.
Fang Xiaoyue had already seen that the goods included nails, kerosene, cloth and other daily necessities.
From here he saw signs of the future bankruptcy of most handicraft industries in Donglin County and even in Liujiang Province.
With the level of handicraft industry in Liujiang Province and even Qinglong Kingdom, it is simply impossible to compete with the products of the great powers that have already begun industrialization.
The price of handmade homespun cloth is more than twice that of foreign cloth from the great powers.
When people buy things, they naturally shop around. If there are cheaper foreign cloths from the great powers, they will naturally not buy homespun cloths.
The same goes for other local products.
In fact, with the opening of the first foreign goods store in Donglin County, within a month, the surrounding villagers had no one to buy the homespun cloth, sickles, hoes and other items sold in the county.
Residents in the county are more willing to buy cheaper foreign goods.
As a result, coupled with the lack of employment, a large number of villagers soon fell into bankruptcy.
They have no money to repay the debts they borrowed from the landlords and loan sharks, and when they cannot repay the money, those landlords and loan sharks will not be merciful at all.
Those who have fields must pay their debts with their fields, and those who do not have fields must use their houses to pay their debts. Those who do not have fields and houses can only use their children to pay their debts.
Soon, villagers gathered and burned the foreign goods stores in the county town and the foreign goods in the dock warehouses.
Their actions naturally aroused the dissatisfaction of the merchants of the powerful powers, so the foreign goods shop and the foreign goods were their property.
They went to Magistrate Lin and demanded that these troublemaking villagers be severely investigated and dealt with.
Magistrate Lin did not dare to offend them, but he also did not want to send people to arrest those villagers.
After all, these villagers have no choice but to live.
If he really sends people to arrest people, then he will really be forcing the people to rebel.
The reports from the foreign merchants were ineffective. Soon, a gunboat from the foreign powers sailed up the river. After arriving at the pier, it fired at the villagers watching on the pier.
More than 300 villagers were killed on the spot and thousands more were injured.
Afterwards, the powerful gunboat fired more than thirty artillery shells at Donglin County, blowing up the county into a mess, killing more than 100 people and injuring more than 200 people.
This is the Donglin tragedy that shocked the Qinglong Kingdom!
When the tragedy happened, Fang Xiaoyue happened to go to the mountains to practice cultivation. When he came back after receiving the message from Zhihe, the tragedy had already occurred and his life could not be saved.
This made Fang Xiaoyue angry for the first time since she came to this plane.
That night, Donglin River set off unprecedented huge waves! 12892/10568759