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Sun Lei's words left those people at a loss for words.

Sun Lei looked at those people who bowed their heads and nodded with satisfaction. The truth always lies in strength. He owns the world, and these people are wrong.

If I were just an ordinary person, they would definitely refute what I said, and no matter how much I argued, I would be drowned in their saliva.

"Jiumozhi, where are those Buddhas and Bodhisattvas you worship? You are so pious, why don't they show up to save you?"

Sun Lei looked at Jiumozhi again and asked.

"Your Majesty, I...I..."

Jiumozhi didn’t know how to explain it. He thought about holding on until the end and then dying, but when he was about to die, he suddenly felt fear. He didn’t want to die, because if he died, there would be nothing.

"Okay, stop talking and just reform yourself!"

Sun Lei looked at Jiumozhi and waved his hands, saying that Jiumozhi must find it difficult to speak out, so there was no need for him to ask more questions, as Jiumozhi had already expressed everything with his actions.

"As for you, if you don't reform yourself, you will all be hung up and starved for a few days! I think you guys are just too full, so I have to let you starve for a while."

Sun Lei looked at the others and said, these people are just full and have nothing to do. If they skip a meal, they won’t have so many messy thoughts.

Everyone's faces changed drastically when they heard this. They had watched Jiumozhi go from being full of energy to being on the verge of death from hunger during this period of time. They didn't want to go through this again.

"Okay, you continue to lead them in the renovation. The construction period must be accelerated. How long will it take to finish if you keep dawdling? It's a waste of food!"

Sun Lei looked at Tao Zongwang and spoke.

"Yes, Your Majesty!"

Tao Zongwang spoke.

Sun Lei took his men away, and Tao Zongwang quickly followed.

"Your Majesty, there is no need to be so nice to these prisoners. Just whipping them will be more effective than anything else."

Tao Zongwang spoke.

"You don't understand. Beating these people is useless. They are not strong men. If you torture them, they will just pretend to comply. How can you tell the difference?"

Sun Lei looked at Tao Zongwang and asked.

"This... ask them to write a letter of guarantee?"

Tao Zongwang said after hesitating for a moment.

"A letter of guarantee? That's for respectable people. Do these people have the nerve to do that?"

Sun Lei shook his head.

"You beat these people, they just pretended to be submissive. Even if they are mentioned later, they can still say that they were physically weak. At the beginning, they were steadfast and unyielding, but in the end, they could not withstand the harsh torture and confessed under torture!"

"Listen to it, isn't it pleasant to the ear?"

"But if they are starving, that's different. They can't even stand going hungry for two meals. Where's their backbone? It's said that one would rather die of starvation than eat food given out of pity! Since they ate it, they have no backbone!"

Sun Lei looked back at those people and said.

"These people have no shame."

Zhu Wu spoke up. Although he was far away in the Western Regions, he had also heard about what happened in Liangshan City. Those literati and ruffians were guilty of treason. Would anyone with any dignity continue to live and do hard labor?
"So we need to completely crush their reputation! In fact, we don't need to do too much. If we continue to reform them for a few years, no one will recognize them. The country's pace is very fast.

Sun Lei smiled and said that the State of Qi was changing with each passing day. New things appeared every day. In a few months or half a year, the whole world might be different. A few years of hardship would be enough for these people to be forgotten in history.

Sun Lei continued to live a leisurely life in the next few days until Li Jun came back.

But this time he did not make a big fanfare, but came back quietly.

The port at the north side of Liangshan Lake was closed one day in advance.

As huge ships slowly approached, people near the port were also attracted over.

"It's a sea ship!"

People who make a living near the dock are very familiar with ships. There is a clear difference between seagoing ships and inland ships. Li Jun got off the ship early and was handing over the goods to Jiang Jing.

“So many things again?”

Jiang Jing was very surprised. There seemed to be countless treasures in the open sea, and the gold, silver and jewelry could not be transported all by shipload after shipload.

"Brother Jiang Jing, this is still a small amount, but we have too few people, so it's difficult to find..."

Li Jun smiled and said that he had everything he needed except people to develop overseas businesses.

"Didn't you bring some people who are willing to open up new land?"

Jiang Jing said that Li Jun had gone out to sea several times, and each time he brought some people who were willing to go out and open up wasteland.

The State of Qi gave great support to those who were willing to go out to sea and open up wasteland, and also reduced taxes for twenty years within a certain scale, which meant that the output there would not have to pay taxes for twenty years.

At first many people were still unwilling to go, but the merchants were the first to take action. The tax-free output was the output from the land, and farming required a large number of people, which was obviously not in line with the idea of ​​maximizing profits.

Mining is not very realistic, and it requires enough manpower.

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Finally, everyone's attention was focused on grazing. There were vast grasslands on the western continent, which were many times better than the grasslands outside the Great Wall.

A skilled herder can herd hundreds of cattle and sheep. If there are a few people working together and some dogs, herding thousands of sheep is no problem.

"That number of people is not enough. Even if there were hundreds of thousands, it would not be enough. The place is too big! It is winter in the north, but it is still summer in the south. It is winter in the south, but summer is here in the north..."

Li Jun said that the continent in the east is several times larger than the Central Plains. There are now 100 million people in the Central Plains. If 10,000 people are scattered there, they may not meet another person even if they ride for several days.

"How dare you think that? Where will you get hundreds of thousands of people? They are all young and strong!"

Jiang Jing said with a smile.

"Hey, I'm doing this for the country. We already have a large herd of cattle, sheep and horses over there, and we're going to expand that number next year. Don't you know that there are a lot of bears, lions and wolves over there? Many cattle and sheep have been killed. We don't have enough manpower to take care of them, and the losses are huge!"

Li Jun spoke.

"What? My things were eaten by wild beasts?"

Sun Lei's voice sounded.

"His Majesty!"

When Li Jun and Jiang Jing heard the voice, they turned around and saw the emperor walking towards them with a smile, so they hurriedly saluted.

"It looks like we've gained a lot this time!"

Sun Lei said with a smile as he looked at the boxes of goods being carried down.

"Your Majesty, here are the accounts!"

Jiang Jing immediately handed over the accounts.

"Tell me about the situation over there!"

Sun Lei looked at Li Jun and asked.

"Your Majesty, we have now established three strongholds on that continent. The people who have reclaimed the land are grazing around the strongholds. The current livestock scale is quite good. The more than 10,000 cattle, sheep and horses we brought have now doubled!"

"It's just that wild animals are harassing us, and we don't have enough manpower. The grazing is free-range, so we can't take care of it. This time we brought back a lot of bear skins, lion skins, and wolf skins!"

Li Jun said that the number of bear skins, lion skins and wolf skins in the cargo this time had increased a lot.

"Where are the natives over there?"

Sun Lei asked, there are quite a few natives in the American continent.

"Your Majesty, the natives are ignorant, naked and bare-faced, wearing feather cloaks and feather headdresses, and they will whistle and shout. When we go, they will run away and disappear."

Li Jun said. (End of this chapter)