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Chapter 161 - En Yangzhong

En Yangzhong, this was a noun that Xiao Letian had invented himself.

In the last few years of the Taiping Heavenly Kingdom's existence, failure had always been with them. At the moment of the destruction of Tianjing City, even Heavenly King Hong Xiuquan did not have any food to eat.

Just imagine, even Hong Xiuquan had to eat wild vegetables, just how low his Taiping Army would have fallen by that time. In such a shattered background, a large number of Heaven's Country's orphans appeared.

The most severely injured in the war were women and children. A large number of Taiping Army's family members were raped, slaughtered, and traded, while countless of Taiping Army's descendants were exterminated, leaving behind a few who were sold as slaves.

No one knew how many Heaven Saint Masters there were. It could be a hundred thousand, or a million. Even if these lucky people were able to escape the battlefield, the cruel reality of society would force them into a corner.

Countless children were abducted by the beggars' gang, either sold or crippled to beg for food. Some even died from starvation and became food for wild beasts.

In this era of the Middle Ages, so-called social welfare was a joke. Some kind-hearted people might adopt some children, but the proportion was very small.

In the end, the Taiping Heavenly Kingdom was annihilated. Other than allowing the local daoyin, which was represented by the Chinese Officer, to succeed in becoming its ruler and starting the era of the warlords that spanned over a hundred years, he did not leave any positive behind in history. On the contrary, what he left behind were the deaths of hundreds of millions of people, as well as the vast majority of the people in Jiangnan, as well as the women and children who had suffered greatly from the war.

Xiao Letian had been paying attention to these war veterans for a long time. After he obtained a certain amount of strength, he started to gather a lot of 'En Yangzhong'. It was the main job of gray beard Liu Lang and the rest.

In Xiao Letian's heart, these young children were not guilty of any crime. Hatred in the adult world should not be passed on to children. This was the universal value that Xiao Letian revered the most.

Alright, since the Qing Dynasty isn't willing to raise these children, and the Heaven Empire's powers aren't able to support these orphan girls, then let Xiao Letian do this.

From the end of the fourth year, the Taibai Top had already begun to secretly smuggle these children from the main combat zone in the south. Until now, after almost a year of effort, Xiao Letian had already established five secret locations, and the number of children had already exceeded more than a thousand.

And these children all had a common label, which was' En Yangzhong '. Every single one of them remembered that it was Xiao Letian, the Grand Master of Western Studies who knew how to write books, who had given them a bowl of food to eat and even taught them some martial arts. In the cold winter, they were able to have a set of cotton clothes, a bowl of hot food, and a place to settle down.

Xiao Letian had never been afraid to show his kindness to others, and he had also said more than once that these En Yangzhong s would be the core strength of his future career. For these children, Xiao Letian chose the extremely cruel training method of the Spartan Youth Camp.

There was gentleness here, and there were whips here, and there was knowledge here, but there was also tyranny here. Hundreds of youngsters were gathered together, undergoing purely military management. There was no need to even mention how they could read or learn English. Training in martial arts and guns was also a daily course for them.

The modern new army needed talents. The modern industry needed talents even more. Where did talents come from? They were counting on the Confucian education system that ruled the world to nurture them? This was obviously a dream. That was why Xiao Letian had no choice but to train his.

Three years. Xiao Letian urgently needed three years of buffer time, after three years of stacking training, the group of En Yangzhong in Great Qing Province and the schools in Ryukyu would be able to provide a steady stream of basic talents for Xiao Letian's cause.

No matter what, it was all down to the ability of the cadres. There was no loyal and competent management system, and Xiao Letian's big plan was to spend it in the water during the middle of the well.

Back then when Yuan Shikai did some small training, Principal Jiang stayed at Huangpu Military Academy because he wanted to nurture his own talent system. But what they do is not perfect, because they are eager to achieve only military talent training, but little for internal affairs talent training.

In the early years of the Republic of China, the Second Industrial Revolution was still complete. Electrical technology had already formed a productive force, and the capitalist countries had already completed their global layout. At that time, China was already a run-down ox-cart, and no power would give the Chinese time to get stronger.

The era that Xiao Letian resided in was exactly the era where Industrial Revolution and Second Industrial Revolution were at their first alternation. continental Europe was in a mess due to the rise of Prussian Germany and Russia, and there was already signs of the capitalist countries splitting into two factions.

As for the North America, the civil war in the United States was already under the control of the isolated ideologies. Until the second world war, they had no interest in the affairs of other countries. Soundlessly making money to develop industrial strength is the best choice for the United States. As for Japan, it might as well be the Great Clear.

Although gray beard, Liu Lang and the others could not understand the layout of Xiao Letian's heart, their admiration for him was real. Of course they knew the meaning of Xiao Letian naming En Yangzhong, they also knew that these orphans would become Xiao Letian's hardcore admirers after Xiao Letian's brainwashing process.