Chapter 96 Showing Muscles

When the County Master Wu Chengji and the County Magistrate Zhao Qian learned that the Marquis of Kaiyuan County had invited them, they immediately rushed to the banquet.

In front of the Kaiyuan County pier, a cruise ship stopped in front of Wu Chengji and Zhao Qian.

"Sir, please get on board."

"It is said that the Marquis of Kaiyuan County is very wealthy. Now I see that it is true. This cruise ship must cost several thousand taels of silver." Wu Chengji looked at the cruise ship in front of him in amazement.

Wu Chengji and Zhao Qian boarded the cruise ship and were amazed to find that the windows of the ship were all made of colored glaze.

Just at this moment, an old man walked down from the upper floor.

Wu Chengji and Zhao Qian saw that the old man was dressed in rich and luxurious clothes and did not dare to be arrogant.

"May I ask what is this old gentleman's name?"

"Old Rosen."

"It turned out to be Mr. Luo..."

Suddenly, Wu Chengji and Zhao Qian choked up.

Luo Sen!? Isn't that the deceased old man Luo?

When it comes to Lawson's reputation, it can be said that everyone in Kaiyuan County knows it.

He raised a top scholar and also married him to a princess.

His own daughter even became the Marquis of Kaiyuan County, a true nobleman.

Even his wife was a first-rank lady, and his descendants benefited from it.

In just a few decades, an ordinary family was elevated to the aristocratic class.

Who doesn’t envy, who doesn’t respect?

I heard earlier that Mr. Luo had passed away, how come he suddenly came back to life?

"Please take a seat." Rosen sat down at the round table.

Wu Chengji and Zhao Qian sat down cautiously. They felt as if they knew something extraordinary.

"As you can see, I faked my death." Rosen said, "During the reign of Emperor Jianwen, Zhu Di was trapped in Yingtian Prefecture. I later rescued him and helped him raise an army to quell the rebellion. Zhu Di was afraid of my skills and kept me under his control. Two years ago, I had a premonition that he was going to kill me, so I faked my death to get away."

"Hiss..." Wu Chengji and Zhao Qian took a breath of cold air at the same time.

They knew it was over this time, they heard things they shouldn't have heard.

Why did Rosen tell them?

Either recruit them into the gang, or kill them to silence them.

"Just as you thought, now you either join the gang or go down to the lake to feed the fish."

"I... I am naturally willing to serve Old Master Luo."

"Yeah." Rosen smiled.

Wu Chengji and Zhao Qian had made up their minds that as soon as they returned to shore, they would report the matter to the government office.

They don't dare to say that they are extremely powerful now, but at least they have some authority and wealth. Why would they follow Rosen to take risks and kill nine generations of their clan?

Soon, the cruise ship docked at a small island.

When Wu Chengji and Zhao Qian saw the island, their hearts skipped a beat.

But he didn't dare show it on his face.

Responsible for pick-up and drop-off at the island port are several sturdy teenagers.

They moved very quickly and without saying much.

The two followed Rosen to the island. There was a shooting range in the woods on the island. Rosen took the two to the edge of the shooting range, where a hundred teenagers were shooting.

Wu Chengji and Zhao Qian saw that the guns in the hands of these young men were not the common matchlock guns. They were completely black and had extremely strange shapes.

What shocked the two men the most was that the muskets in the hands of these young men could fire continuously.

And their targets were all three hundred steps away.

And it is estimated that the probability of hitting the targets three hundred steps away is very high.

The two were horrified, as the current matchlock rifles could only fire at a distance of a hundred steps at most, but Rosen's musket not only fired continuously, but also had such a high shooting accuracy.

"Would you like to give it a try?" Rosen asked.

"Ah... I have never used a musket."

"It's okay. This thing is much simpler than a musket." Rosen called a young man over and said, "Bring two automatic rifles over."

A moment later, Rosen had the automatic rifle and the magazine.

"There are bullets in here, just put them here and load them." Rosen pointed the gun at a tree not far away and pulled the trigger.

Da da da da——

The trunk of the big tree was immediately riddled with holes.

"You guys try it too." Wu Chengji and Zhao Qian were so shocked when they saw this scene that they couldn't close their mouths.

If there were twenty people, they probably wouldn't be able to withstand this volley of bullets, right?

Can the Ming army withstand such weapons?

woohoo-

At this moment, a roar was heard in the sky.

Wu Chengji and Zhao Qian looked up and saw a huge bird with a strange shape appearing in the sky.

That was an armed helicopter, the only one that Rosen brought back from the Resident Evil.

The armed helicopter slowly landed on the open space ahead.

Wu Chengji and Zhao Qian were already stunned, their faces filled with astonishment.

"Then...what is that?"

"Let's go over there." Rosen said.

When the two approached the armed helicopter, the wind force generated by the rotation of the propeller almost made them lose their balance.

Rosen took the two men onto the helicopter: "Put this on."

The noise from the propellers is unbearable for most people and requires a headset.

As the propeller speed increased, it immediately rose into the air.

Zhao Qian and Wu Chengji were shocked beyond words by this scene.

This is the magical power of flying into the sky and hiding in the ground! !

"Shoot a stinger at the big tree on the top of the mountain ahead." Rosen ordered the pilot.

Wu Chengji and Zhao Qian didn't understand what the sting was, but they soon understood.

A Stinger missile, dragging its tail flame, flew more than ten kilometers and accurately hit a large tree on the top of the mountain ahead. Raging flames rose into the sky. More than ten seconds later, the sound of an explosion was heard.

At this moment, the two were so shocked that they couldn't close their mouths. If this thing was used to attack the city, even the city wall of Shuntian Prefecture would not be able to withstand the attack of this poisonous stinger.

"Okay, let's go back."

Rosen is showing off his muscles this time.

When Wu Chengji and Zhao Qian returned to the ground, they were still in a daze.

"You tell me, if I want to divide the land and become a king, can the Ming Dynasty stop me?" Rosen asked.

Wu Chengji shook his head dejectedly.

Here today, both of their worldviews were turned upside down.

Rosen handed each of them a walkie-talkie.

"This is a walkie-talkie. It can transmit sound over thousands of miles. As long as we are within Kaiyuan County, we can all communicate through the walkie-talkie." Rosen demonstrated the function of the walkie-talkie again.

Once again, the two were shocked beyond words.

"For the time being, I don't need you to do anything. You will manage Kaiyuan County for me and cooperate with my arrangements and deployments. If there is anything, you can communicate through the intercom."

Rosen sent the two men back to Kaiyuan County. They were in high spirits when they came, but were distraught when they left.

Both of them thought of a possibility, that Rosen really had the ability to overthrow the Ming Dynasty.

This made the two of them feel very complicated.

So after the two returned to the government office, they stayed together.

"Master Wu, what do you think we should do about this? Should we notify our superiors?"

Wu Chengji glanced at Zhao Qian and said, "Do you think we are still under the supervision of Old Master Luo at this time?"

"Ah this...?"

The first thing Zhao Qian did was to look up at the sky, then he shuddered with fear.

Although there is nothing in the sky, after seeing what they have seen today, there may be some magical tricks that they don’t know about.

"I just ask you one question."

"Master Wu, please speak."

"Are you willing to die for the Ming Dynasty?"

"This..." Zhao Qian thought about it and then shook his head.

"If we choose to report Old Master Luo, I don't know whether he will be wiped out, but I know that the two of us will die, and our whole family will be implicated." Wu Chengji said seriously: "Following Old Master Luo, maybe you and I can get the merit of following the dragon. On the one hand, there is a chance to become rich and powerful, and on the other hand, there is no doubt of death. You make your choice."

"I understand."

Rosen also did not completely trust the two men, but left a shadow clone to monitor them.

The reactions of the two were within his expectations.

With the cooperation of these two people, Rosen and Luo Mingyue's plan went more smoothly.

Rosen closed off the entire Kaiyuan County. When outsiders came to Kaiyuan County, they could only know what Rosen let them know.

Similarly, the news that the people of Kaiyuan County can know is also what Rosen needs to let them know.

At the same time, Kaiyuan County set up more than a dozen factories and hundreds of workshops.

A large number of people from Kaiyuan County went to work in factories and workshops.

This leads to another problem: no one is farming anymore.

To be precise, it is the tenants who have stopped farming.

They all went to work in factories and workshops.

After all, farming can barely provide them with enough food and clothing, but working in a factory can allow them to live comfortably.

Working in a factory, you can earn at least one tael of silver a month.

But the whole family worked in the fields and could not save even a tael of silver throughout the year. You can imagine how big the gap was.

Agriculture was the pillar industry of the Ming Dynasty, so the fields in the Ming Dynasty were under very strict control. If there were fields that were not cultivated, they would be nationalized.

Therefore, many landlords had their land forcibly taken away by the government because no one was cultivating the land.

At this moment in Chenjia Village, the landlord Chen Youcai's face turned pale, because 400 acres of his family's 600 acres of land had been taken away this year!

This was the family fortune that his Chen family had worked so hard to accumulate, and now it was taken away by the government. How could he bear it?

It's not that he didn't think about using connections, but the people in the county government took the money but didn't do the job.

The people should not fight against the officials, and he could not speak out his grievances. The key point is that the county government is so bad that it is useless even if he reports to the state government. They are taking away the land legally and reasonably, not seizing it.

So he took out all his anger on the factories and workshops.

At this moment, there were more than a dozen people gathered in his house, all of them were rich landlords whose land had been taken away.

"Old Chen, you called us together and said you had a way to get all the tenants back to the fields. What was that method?"

"Since our tenants have been taken away by those factories, what do you think will happen to those tenants if the factories are gone?"

"But how is this possible? I heard that the pocket watch workshop is selling like crazy outside. A pocket watch costs three hundred taels, and you may not be able to buy it. Those workshops are making a fortune every day. The owner of the workshop will not listen to us and close the workshop."

"If he doesn't want to lock himself up, then we will help him do it." Chen Youcai said.

"What can you do?"

"I heard that there are bandits in the Beimang River. If the bandits burn down the entire industrial zone, do you think those peasants will have no choice but to return?"

"Old Chen, can you contact the bandits in Beimang River?"