"My lord, if you entrust these priceless treasures to me, I'm sure I can sell them for a good price."
“My lord, you can exploit these aristocratic families however you want. The more you exploit them, the more profitable it will be for me to sell my goods.”
Jiang Tian had no idea what Shen Wansan was up to, but he nodded.
Song Yingxing snapped his fingers towards the outside.
"My lord, I have recently modified the musket and developed some new types of muskets."
Soon, two soldiers walked in.
These soldiers were all carrying guns.
"A flintlock musket?"
Song Yingxing shook his head.
"The gun I developed is a breech-loading gun, and its principle is similar to that of the Franco cannon."
Holy crap!
Upon hearing this, Jiang Tian had a huge "Holy crap" in his mind.
"Then let me see it."
Two soldiers quickly handed over the firearms produced by Song Yingxing.
Song Yingxing picked up a gun, and Jiang Tian noticed that it was similar to a hunting rifle.
"My lord, the breech-loading cannons mainly use bullets for firing, and I think this firing method is excellent. I modified this gun based on the musket."
Song Yingxing took out two bullets, which were about the same size as the bullets for a hunting rifle.
"In the Frankish cannon, it's called a bullet, but I call this thing in the musket a bullet. Is that the right way to put it?"
Jiang Tian nodded happily upon hearing this, finding the address to be very appropriate.
How many bullets can this gun fire per minute?
"About ten shots."
This efficiency is incredibly high.
"Come on, let's go to the back garden and see the power of this kind of firearm."
Jiang Tian slung the gun over his shoulder.
The group headed straight for the back garden.
We arrived at the back garden.
Jiang Tian couldn't wait to test fire this gun.
Gunshots rang out in quick succession.
The bullets fired from this gun were incredibly powerful, far exceeding Jiang Tian's expectations.
The stones and trees hit by the bullets were shattered into pieces.
Stones and wood chips flew everywhere.
Jiang Tian praised it highly.
With this thing, we can organize a Divine Machine Battalion.
On the battlefield, its power would be boundless.
The palace maids and eunuchs in the palace were so frightened by the deafening noise that they trembled all over.
...
Outside the capital city.
Irrigated by river water.
Everywhere was lush and green.
The lake water in this system is incredibly powerful.
The crops in the fields, which had been parched, gradually turned from withered and yellow to lush and green after being nourished by the river.
From a distance, the crops look thriving.
Farmers from both inside and outside the city gathered together.
Xiao He led his men.
"Listen up, all you people! Lord Jiang has said that the land will be divided according to the number of people."
“Everyone has land, no matter what you did before.”
"Lord Jiang said that all the crops on the land irrigated by this lake will ripen in a month."
Upon hearing this, some people were initially skeptical.
But when they saw the lush green fields, no one doubted Xiao He's words.
Register names and measure land.
To avoid not having enough manpower.
Furthermore, to prevent people from causing trouble.
Jiang Tian immediately dispatched 10,000 soldiers.
These ten thousand soldiers, clad in heavy armor and wielding swords, stood there with an imposing presence.
After three days of measurement and registration.
Each person was allocated five mu of land.
This is definitely a great thing for the people.
If Jiang Tian hadn't come.
These people don't even own a single hair, let alone land.
Now Jiang Tian is giving away all the land of the major families and landlords to the farmers free of charge.
The farmers were all ecstatic.
All the people knelt down facing the direction of the capital.
"Lord Jiang is a living bodhisattva who saves people from suffering."
"We'll follow Lord Jiang for the rest of our lives. He's our provider, our second parents."
"If anyone dares to bare their teeth at Lord Jiang, I'll risk my old life to kill them."
"These bastards have always bullied us ordinary people, but now we've finally stood up for ourselves."
All the people were overjoyed.
What they didn't expect was...
Just as Xiao He said, the land nourished by the lake water could be harvested in a month.
These lands were arid, but after the crops were nourished by the river, they quickly turned lush and green.
A few days later, all the crops had sprouted ears of grain.
This means that these people will be able to harvest their crops soon after they receive their land.
Looking at the heavy ears of wheat, the local people couldn't help but sigh in admiration.
"Our Lord Jiang is truly remarkable."
"Lord Jiang said that if we use his water to irrigate the fields, we can harvest grain once a month."
"Look, these heavy ears of wheat, each one is at least four or five inches long. This acre must produce one or two thousand catties of grain!"
"That's right. I've worked the land all my life, and I've never seen wheat growing so well."
“We’re incredibly lucky. With Lord Jiang around, we’ll never have to worry about going hungry again.”
"Look at this wheat, it will be ready for harvest in a few days. Folks, we can't waste time here. Let's hurry back and prepare the threshing ground."
"Yes, we can't waste time here. We need to hurry back and prepare the threshing ground. In just a few days, we can dry the wheat there."
The people talked and quickly divided up the tasks.
Some were tending to the wheat in the fields.
Some went home to prepare sickles, stone rollers, and threshing grounds.
...
The capital city, the Yang residence.
Although few members of the Yang family held official positions in the imperial court.
However, as the Yang family of Hongnong, they controlled more than half of the officials in the imperial court.
Half of the wealth in and around the capital belonged to the Yang family.
Outside the capital, 99% of those tens of thousands of hectares of land belong to the Yang family.
The Yang family's reception room.
Yang Dezhi, Yang Dacai, Yang Gongda, Yang Chao, Yang Delin, Yang Jin...
A dozen or so people sat together.
Yang Dezhi, the head of the Yang family, stood up and said, "Everyone, ever since this Jiang fellow entered the capital, he has distributed all the land outside the city that belongs to our Yang family to those peasants."
"Our Yang family will never swallow this insult."
"We need to find a way to kill that Jiang guy, or get rid of him."
Yang Dacai stood up: "Patriarch, this Jiang's power is at its zenith. It's better if we don't confront him head-on."
Officials of the third rank and above in the imperial court were all skinned alive by this man, their bodies hung on the city gate tower.
Yang Delin: "This is also our land. What right does that guy surnamed Jiang have to divide our land among those poor people?"
Those peasants were born to work for us; they have no right to squander our land.
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