Douluo starts with the Pea Shooter

Yue Hongchen's identity is impossible to be exposed. The Hongchen family has been exterminated on the surface. Now the territory of the Hongchen family is all taken over by Lan Nuo, and the name of the fiefdom has been changed to Xinhuo Dukedom.

Lan Nuo rebuilt the city in the bombed Hongchen Fortress. This time the city is even larger than the original one. The Demon Forest is directly cut down on a large scale as materials for urban construction.

So there are better materials such as reinforced concrete, but due to various factors, the speed of construction is actually much slower than wooden houses. In the relatively warm Kaiboer Pass, wooden buildings are not worse than masonry structures. The only problem is that there are fire hazards, but as long as the wooden buildings are separated from each other, the danger will be greatly reduced, at least there will be no pitfalls like the Chicago Fire in history.

As for why he dared to cut down the Demon Forest without fear of the revenge of soul beasts, it was because Lan Nuo took the initiative to ask the Holy Dragon Empire to station troops to protect the safety of the territory before he formed his own private army.

In the eyes of the emperor, that was completely a loyal minister, showing his loyalty to him! Letting the empire's army be stationed directly in his core hinterland is equivalent to handing his life over to the emperor, and his favorability towards the newly appointed duke is rising.

However, the emperor who has been trapped in a dream obviously doesn't know that he has been replaced by a substitute. If he really dares to issue an order to eliminate Lan Nuo, the spy who replaces him in the palace will never issue this order.

For Lan Nuo, the Holy Dragon Legion is his own legion in a sense, so there is naturally no problem to station in his core hinterland, and he can also get the empire's military pay for free.

It is impossible for the Holy Dragon Empire to let Lan Nuo provide military pay for the army. It is not that they disdain to take advantage of this, but it is a matter of principle. If the army can use other people's money to support itself, then is this army still the emperor's army? Therefore, the money for military pay must be paid by the empire. Lan Nuo wants to spend money to support this army himself, but there is no place to spend money.

With such a large army stationed, the guys who ran out of the soul beast forest to make trouble would be miserable. Not to mention the hundred-year soul beasts and thousand-year soul beasts, there was no need for the army to take action. Lan Nuo's clone, who was responsible for directing local workers to cut down trees and build camps, knocked them down with one punch and put them into the Poké Ball, which would definitely be sold at a good price in the future.

As for the ten-thousand-year soul beasts, those who dared to jump out would be even more miserable, because these guys might cause casualties, so the garrison troops who protected the people accepted the order to kill them directly whenever they encountered them. Lan Nuo's clone directly used himself as a medium to carry the power of the legion and burst out with a combat power that was almost comparable to that of the Titled Douluo. With a nuclear energy dark gold claw, it seemed that all the ten-thousand-year soul beasts that made trouble were smashed to pieces.

This made the local workers' work efficiency very fast. Large areas of forests were cut down and turned into farmland and urban areas. It was still a barbaric era. It was really too much to consider the ecological environment. The annual steel output of the entire continent was less than one million tons. It was really too proud of myself to think that the little change I could make could destroy the ecological environment.

While the city was being built at a rapid pace, Lan Nuo also reorganized the nobles in the territory of the Duke of Hongchen, as if he had spared Yue Hongchen's life. Otherwise, the Hongchen Fortress would have been blasted to the ground, and there would be no place to find information about the local nobles.

"The three I wrote at the top are the largest landlords in my territory. If you want to maintain the stability of the territory, it is best to visit them. For the rest, you only need to send someone to notify them. I believe they will not be ignorant. After all, the power you showed during the battle that day was too terrifying." At this point, the former Duke of Hongchen smiled bitterly. The pride that his ancestors had been operating for thousands of years could not withstand a single shot from others.

Lan Nuo looked at the list. Those listed at the top were indeed large landlords. Each of them owned thousands of acres of fertile land, tens of thousands of people under his command, and thousands of servants and guards. Most importantly, they controlled the local administrative power. Without them, taxes could not be collected, soldiers could not be recruited, and even orders could not be passed on to ordinary civilians.

"Come here, have you never been a lord? Let me tell you, to be a lord you have to come up with all sorts of excuses to win over the gentry to pay taxes and donations. Only when the gentry donate, the people will follow suit. After the matter is done, the gentry's money will be returned in full, and the people's money will be divided into 30% and 70%!" Yue Hongchen leaned over to Lan Nuo's ear and said.

"Why is it only 70%?"

"70% is from others! You have to look at their faces to get 30%!"

Lan Nuo glared: "Look at whose face?"

"Them!" Yue Hongchen pointed at the big landlords on the list.

"Come here! If I become the Duke, I still have to come up with all sorts of excuses, I still have to win over the gentry, and I still have to look at his face? Then I will be begging on my knees, right?"

Yue Hongchen nodded: "According to what you said, then I really am begging on my knees. How many people want to kneel but don't have the ability to do it!"

Lan Nuo slapped the table: "Can this make money?"

The Duke's coat of arms was slapped on the table.

"Yes, kneel!"

"Can this make money?" Bang! A pistol was slapped on the table.

"You can make money in the mountains."

"This plus this, can you make money standing up?" Lan Nuo slapped the gun and the emblem together.

Yue Hongchen's eyelids jumped: "May I ask who the Duke of Xinhuo is?"

"Your humble self, well... forget it, I don't have a good reputation in another continent." After completing a conversation about intangible cultural heritage, Lan Nuo made a direct decision to rectify the local area and completely eradicate the evil trend of personal dependence!

Of course, he was not just simply disgusted with the actions of these landlords, and it was not just for the sake of making money.

The most important thing is to liberate people from the land. The personal dependence between landlords and tenants is still the basis for them to control local governance.

Therefore, even if there are more efficient farming machines, those tenants who have a personal dependence relationship with them will not be liberated, but will become more miserable because they have lost their function.

But cities need labor, and industry needs it even more. If these people cannot be liberated from the land, then there is no point in developing industry. Therefore, these guys who are entrenched at the grassroots level and hold the power of life and death must die. As long as they choose industrialization, these guys who kidnapped farmers are the mantises blocking the wheel of history, and they can be crushed.

It just so happened that Lan Nuo lacked a troop that belonged to him and had its own thoughts and will. After capturing the Duke of Hongchen, Lan Nuo had almost asked about the principles of the Sun Moon Empire's military formation. It relied on a special rare metal to make a close-fitting bracelet or other accessories, and let the soldiers strongly identify with the emblems on the accessories, so as to unify the spirit of the soldiers.

Usually, the nobles rely on long-term brainwashing, even selecting soldiers from a young age, instilling relevant ideas from a young age, and cultivating them into unswerving loyalists.

Lan Nuo did not have the time. The backbone of the army trained in this way was indeed loyal, and it might take more than ten years to wait for a generation to grow up.

Instead of having more than ten years to brainwash people, Lan Nuo might as well drive these people into school. More than ten years is enough to train several classes of high school students. Isn't that more useful than an army that can only show its strength by brainwashing?

And if there is something that can make the people who have just been pulled into the army agree, Lan Nuo thought about it, drew the sickle and hammer emblem on the paper, thought about it, and rolled it into a ball and threw it away.

He couldn't bear the meaning of this badge, and it was not suitable for this era. The industry had not yet developed, not to mention that the workers were oppressed. People could understand the sickle, but most people would be confused when they saw the hammer.

After thinking about it, Lan Nuo re-drew the sword and plow badge on the paper, and then nodded with satisfaction: "Mr. Gao Wen, I'm sorry, I'll borrow your family's badge!"

In this feudal era, the meaning of this badge is obviously easier to be understood by people. Using force to defend security and using sweat to open up is in line with the simple thoughts of people in this era.

It just so happens that the position of the Hongchen family also has a direction for development. Such a large area of ​​the evil forest is occupied by soul beasts. If we don't develop that side, where should we develop?

As for soul beasts? The life and death of soul beasts does not affect the natural ecology. Do you really think that there are no other beasts in the world except soul beasts? Compared with many ordinary creatures, soul beasts occupy only a tiny position in the biosphere.

Lan Nuo looked at the list in his hand and prepared to find them one by one from big to small. As for soldiers, he basically didn't need to bring many. He just needed to select some ideologically qualified backbones from the captured Red Dust Legion.

The next battle did not require the legion to have strong combat effectiveness. Lan Nuo could easily break the fortress of these landlords. The reason for bringing this group of backbones was that they needed to recruit volunteers locally to form an army to participate in the next battles and liberate the tenants oppressed by the gentry.

Before experiencing the possession of the legion's will, Lan Nuo did not consciously form a legion with a military soul. He just went for the combat effectiveness of the legion, using expensive weapons and strict training to obtain powerful legions one by one.

After all, it was not a large-scale legion battle in the information age. The strength of equipment and individual quality could basically determine the outcome. But after experiencing the possession of the legion's will, Lan Nuo changed his mind. A legion with its own spirit and military soul was very necessary. Only this kind of legion could help him chew some hard bones.

And he has planned the steps for these people to build their own military spirit. The first step is to break their own shackles and make them realize that no one is born to step on their heads.

This is also the simplest step. Just let them realize that the big men in the past can also be defeated. And this is actually a very simple thing.

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Zhongli Villa, a well-known wealthy family in the surrounding area, is said to have a tradition of practicing with living people. Once relying on this practice method, a titled Douluo was born, which made this villa famous far and wide and frightened outsiders.

It is said that the lush green plants outside the villa are grown so lushly with the flesh and bones of people who accidentally broke into the villa as fertilizer.

It is the annual severe winter again. The mountain people who can't survive around kneel down in rows outside the villa, either praying for a few days to pay off their debts, or having no other choice, finally have to sell their fields, or are ready to sell their children to survive this harsh winter.

Obviously, land annexation on the Sun and Moon Continent is becoming more and more serious. I am afraid that in a few years, there will be no such thing as self-cultivating farmers.

It's just that it's not easy to change the status of a tenant of a landlord these days. It's really like selling yourself into slavery. They kneel in the cold wind, not daring to move, not even making too much noise to upset the landlord.

But this silence was soon broken. The tall and magnificent gate of the villa was smashed by a demon pillar that fell from the sky. While the rubble was flying, the troops marched in uniform steps and approached the villa.

At the same time, someone began to read: "The Duke of Xinhuo's order, any individual in the duke's territory cannot hold more than 50 acres of land. Violators will have their land confiscated and be subject to investigation!"

This order is now at most complained about, but in fact there is not much problem. In reality, the household contract responsibility system was implemented in the early days. There is an upper limit on the land held by each person, but it can be jointly contracted as a family unit.

From the perspective of productivity, this is actually a step backward. Landlords can hire more tenants to concentrate manpower for large-scale farming and water conservancy construction. If we really compare productivity, they are actually more advanced than individual self-employed farmers. But in the final analysis, compared with industrialization, they are still backward, so they must be banned.

If these people really obey, Lan Nuo can really let them go. As long as the land is distributed, some people will find that working in the city is more profitable than farming at home. At that time, others will contract their land and still have the same responsibilities as landlords, but they don’t need to occupy more social resources like landlords. With workers and land being used, if the purpose can be achieved, there is no need to use force.

However, before truly witnessing Lan Nuo’s brutal destructive power, all his demands will be regarded as fantasy.

"What a big tone! Even the Duke of Hongchen had to be courteous to my master in the past, but they are just a few dogs of the new Duke, and they dare to bark wildly in front of my Zhongli Villa. Come on, arrest these ignorant guys and refine them into corpses!" A shrill-voiced steward shouted loudly beside the collapsed city gate tower.

Lan Nuo stood on the Demon Pillar that fell from the sky and said to the troops behind him: "Remember, Zhongli Villa is suspected of conducting illegal human experiments! We must investigate thoroughly!"

[To be continued]

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