Traitor Summoning System [Infrastructure]

After the Harvest Festival, Leonard began to reorganize the surrounding towns of Blazing Sun City.

Still starting with the civilian trial, Leonard has tried it repeatedly.

Rhett V's bachelor told Leonard: "Some nobles in Blazing Sun City are quite dissatisfied with this."

"The ones who are dissatisfied have ghosts in their hearts." Leonard replied to him like this.

"After all... this is too harsh, the nobles have always had such a high status..." He said tentatively, his tone was a little panicked, although he was one of the people with the highest power in the empire, he was still afraid of Ren Nader.

Rhett V's bachelor is named Peps Rhett, and he does have royal blood. If he is older than Rhett V in terms of seniority, strictly speaking, Rhett V has to call him uncle.

The bachelors of the Rhett family are generally from their own clan, and they only trust their own clan.

"Yeah, the status has always been so high. Just doing some good deeds can make people feel grateful. Then, even if it is a good deed, you can't find a good deed. It's amazing." Leonard said.He also felt a little emotional. According to his standards, the trial of nobles here in Blazing Sun City is really very lenient. Even if you do a little good deed, you can be exempted from the death penalty. After all, Leonard does not want to kill all the nobles. Yes, some must flow down first.

Maester Peeps Rhett: "Hmmm..."

He didn't know how to answer for a while, and he couldn't answer Leonard's words.

Even though those nobles are used to being in high positions, they really haven't done any good deeds, and they can't even use words other than 'I have noble blood' to justify themselves.

This really made Leonard feel murderous.

"I don't want to kill people either, please give me some reasons not to kill you guys." Leonard showed a very penetrating smile at Maester Rhett.

Bachelor Rhett swallowed: "I see, Prime Minister."

Then, Bachelor Rhett told Leonard that some nobles left the town early after hearing the news.

"They have taken a great deal of treasure..." said Maester Pepts Rhyder, "I fear it to us..."

"They left just right, so they don't need to cause trouble when I'm rectifying." Leonard said he didn't care about it, "Since they're gone, don't come back."

"But the treasure." Maester Rhett still had some thoughts.

"The real treasure is the people," Leonard said. "With the people, there is everything."

And he really doesn't like the so-called treasures of the nobles.

Maester Rhett was startled when he heard this.

Before Leonard came, Wei Zhongxian beat them all up, and everyone trembled.At that time, everyone had almost no intention of resisting, and they all wanted to get Wei Zhongxian's lord Leonard to come over quickly, which was better than being tortured by Wei Zhongxian.

But after Leonard came, the situation didn't seem to have changed.

Some people even think that the young Prime Minister is even more terrifying, because what he thinks in his mind is completely different from others.After all, Wei Zhongxian was born in a feudal dynasty, so many ideas are still in common with the people here, but many of Leonard's ideas are completely incomprehensible to the people here.

In this case, many people think that Leonard is moody, including Maester Rhett.

Today's conversation seemed to be another piece of evidence of the prime minister's moodiness, but Maester Rhett saw something different in it.

Everything seems to point to one fact: Does the young prime minister care more about commoners than nobles?

In the past few months, noble officials have died, and those who have been dismissed have been dismissed. Those vacancies have been arranged by the prime minister for people around him, and most of these people are civilians.

Of course, no one dared to protest this, and everyone only slandered in their hearts.

But after a long time, Bachelor Rhett found that these commoners were indeed quite capable, and they were much better at doing things than the nobles before.

What needs to be made clear is that the remaining nobles in Blazing Sun City have all passed Leonard's preliminary screening, and they are all people with a certain degree of kindness and ability, so they have a pair of eyes that can distinguish people's abilities.After becoming working partners with these civilians, they found that many tasks were much easier to do.

This made their wavering increase little by little.

Almost all the people who followed Leonard at first became noble officials, including businessmen Emerson and Dorothea.

And their caravan was naturally handed over to the disciples they brought out to lead.

Moreover, there are still a steady stream of officials in Little Thorn Castle.

……

Gongsun Sheng came to Blazing Sun City from Thorn Castle, and Leonard asked him to study gunpowder.

Gunpowder has many functions. Besides war, it also plays an important role in mining and road construction.

But gunpowder research is very dangerous, Leonard told Gongsun Sheng to be more careful.

The formula for gunpowder is to mix saltpeter, sulfur, and charcoal in a certain ratio. Leonard didn't know the specific ratio, but he told Gongsun Sheng what he knew, and he thought Gongsun Sheng would research it.

Saltpeter is generally obtained from saltpeter mines, and almost no one on this continent uses saltpeter, so Leonard cannot directly obtain saltpeter mines.So if you want to make gunpowder, the first thing Gongsun Sheng has to do is to find saltpeter mines.

Saltpeter mine can not only make gunpowder, but also make cold drinks.

When saltpeter dissolves in water, it will absorb heat. Ancient China discovered this early on, so iced drinks appeared in the late Tang Dynasty.After the Song Dynasty, fruit juice was added to cold food, and merchants in the Yuan Dynasty added jam and milk to it.Leonard thought it was delicious.His desire to find saltpeter mines suddenly became stronger.

Another way to make saltpeter is to pour a lime mixture into manure and urine, and potassium nitrate crystals will precipitate.This method seems to be more convenient, but considering that he still plans to use saltpeter to cool drinks and ice cream, Leonard does not want to use this method for the time being, after all, it is a bit too much.

This reminded him of penicillin in the early days. At that time, it was extremely difficult to obtain penicillin, so the doctors thought of a way. After giving penicillin to patients who needed it, because penicillin was not digested, the patient would pull it out from the feces Refined and then reused.

...It sounds very, very, very scientific.

……

As Leonard walked in the forest, various smells lingered together, the rich aroma of trees, the fruity aroma of crushed bushes, and the smell of wet swamps.

Lu Bu used his sword to help Leonard clear the way, and He Shen walked slowly, saying, "Oh, slow down, slow down, I'm a little tired."

Leonard sat on a rock, picked up a wild fruit, wiped it and took a bite, his pupils constricted, then he casually handed the wild fruit to He Shen: "Taste it, it tastes delicious magic."

After taking it, He Shen took a bite, and his pupils constricted a bit. He deliberately picked out a big one and handed it to Lu Bu: "Fengxian, come and taste it too."

"Okay, I happen to be a little hungry." Lu Bu happily opened his mouth wide, and under the watchful eyes of Leonard and He Shen, he took a big bite.

Then his pupils quake.

It's just so sour!

It was so sour that my teeth almost fell out!

Lu Bu twisted his face and said, "Zhi Zhai, you, you..."

"It was given to me by the lord." He Shen said innocently.

Lu Bu twisted his face and looked at Leonard: "You, you..."

"I only gave Zhi Zhai." Leonard said.

Lu Bu hesitated for a while, and finally said angrily: "You bully people!"

Leonard couldn't help laughing with He Shen.

Lu Bu went over there to drink water with a grimace, and he adjusted after a while, and he went to the front to open the way in a dull mood.

When Leonard told him, he ignored him.Looks really annoyed.

So Leonard and He Shen didn't dare to speak anymore, and they followed Lu Bu wherever he went, regardless of the planned route.

After the three of them walked for a while, Lu Bu stopped: "I seem to have made a mistake."

"It's okay, it's okay, the direction your sword is pointing at is the direction we are going in," Leonard said.

Lu Bu was speechless: "My lord..."

Leonard: "Hahaha, are you not angry?"

Seeing the Iron-Blooded Prime Minister who caused a bloodbath in the imperial city put on such an appearance in front of him, Lu Bu couldn't help laughing at the contrast: "How could that be?"

"I don't know where I went." He Shen said, "Let's take a rest."

"You are in poor health now, you can't breathe after walking a few steps." Leonard said, "I'm fasting."

"It's not particularly panting." He Shen said.

"But you might be panting too." Leonard said, "Plus your voice is so nice, it doesn't make me feel right to be panting next to me all the time."

He Shen said happily, "Oh, thank you Lord Lord for your compliment."

Lu Bu felt dissatisfied: "It's nice to breathe when I'm tired after fighting!"

Leonard: "...What are you arguing about?" Although he started it first, it always feels very weird when it develops to this point.

"But there are too few men who can make me breathe." Lu Bu said regretfully.

Leonard: "..." Sounds even more outrageous! ! !And you actually regret it!This is really outrageous... isn't it?

"Why don't we make gestures another day." Leonard said seriously, "I'm not interested in hearing you breathe, I mainly want to make gestures with you."

……

The atmosphere suddenly became a little scorching.

They chattered for a while longer, and the sky gradually darkened.

"Good times are always short." Leonard said, "It's time to go back."

"Well, I'm going back to Broken Star City tomorrow." He Shen said.

"I can't bear you, Zhizhai." Leonard said, "But you have to exercise after you go back. Compared with the beginning, you have gained a lot of weight, and you have developed in the direction of Teacher Wang Gang."

He Shen was stunned for a moment: "Then... who is that?"

"There will be an actor who will play you in later generations." Leonard said, "It's like an opera, you can get a sense of it."

"Oh oh oh, isn't he extremely handsome?" He Shen asked.

"No, he looks very...amiable. He smiles very, very festively." Leonard said.

He Shen:"……"

He Shen understood this time.

"... I will practice martial arts well when I go back!" He Shen said seriously.

……

This year's autumn harvest, Little Thorn Fort had a bumper harvest.

Dadi Brown's side was unlucky, and the harvest was not good, so they bought grain from outside.

Leonard immediately realized that this was a good opportunity. He agreed to Dadi Brown's trade request and put forward his own request:

"I can give you food at a low price, and then you sell it to civilians at a low price, and you must get a low price.

As you can see, I have always cared about civilians. "

Leonard sacrificed money and interests to protect the lives of civilians, which was incomprehensible to other nobles, but looking back at what Leonard had done, one would conclude that he was indeed such a person.

So Dadi Brown didn't have the slightest doubt about it.

And this is a matter of great benefit and harmless to Dadi Brown, which is equivalent to giving away food for free.

After all, Dadi Brown is also worried that the civilians will starve to death.

Dadi Brown asked to trade five boats of grain, and Leonard directly transported eight boats of grain. According to the agreement, the transaction price was very cheap.So Dadi Brown happily took over all the grain, and sold it to civilians at a price slightly higher than the transaction price as agreed with Leonard.

The commoners were very surprised to see the high-quality and cheap food. They were deeply shocked and moved. Many people knelt down while receiving the food and thanked the nobles who sold the food at a low price.

Leonard assigned He Shen to be in charge of this matter, and he attached great importance to this matter.

Officials from Heshen and Dadi Brown sold food in the territory, and Heshen supervised that most civilians had enough food for the winter.

The commoners were so moved that they swore to support Duke Brown of the Earth.

The nobles came back to report to Duke Brown, and Duke Brown felt quite happy after hearing it.

So he told his subordinates to treat the civilians well, after all, they were all his property.

When selling grain, some civilians asked, "Will there be this kind of grain next year?"

"There is still a lot of grain in the granary, enough to last until next year." He Shen assured them with a smile: "There will be more and more grain in our territory, and the price will become cheaper and cheaper."

After going back and forth like this, Duke Brown actually made some money.

He is very happy.

But because of the previous agreement with Leonard, he couldn't use the money casually, so he put it aside for the time being.

But Duke Brown didn't know that the disaster was already buried.

The previous natural disasters, coupled with the fact that there was a lot of surplus food at home, and Heshen’s guarantee, so many farmers planned not to grow food crops next year, but to grow other crops or do other things to make money.Anyway, since food is so cheap, it would be too much of a loss to grow it yourself.

As for the big grain households, some small nobles who rely on selling grain to make money were hit hard by cheap grain last year.

In previous years, they let slaves grow grain on large tracts of land, and sold it to civilians at a high price before winter to make money. As a result, in this winter, all the civilians went to buy grain from Little Thorn Castle.They basically all lost money.

I heard that Duke Brown will buy grain from Little Thorn Castle this year, so these nobles stopped growing grain and switched to other cash crops.

They're actually pretty smart.

Too bad it's not smart enough.

After Leonard got enough information from He Shen, he wrote a letter to Cai Lun with a smile.

Let them grow food well, and continue to sell it to Duke Brown at a low price this winter.

Duke Brown only felt that Leonard's behavior of caring too much about the lives of civilians—and the lives of civilians of other nobles, was really ridiculous.

Little did he know that he had completely fallen into Leonard's trap.

In the third year, on Dadi Brown's land, there were hardly many people growing food.