The Sun family and the Ma family were punished by Yang Ming's revenge like the Guan family, Sun Hao and Ma Jiwei were executed by Ling Chi after being paraded in the streets, all the family property was confiscated, and the family members were all punished to open mines and build roads, in short, all the value was squeezed out, including labor.

Yang Ming is not the Great Holy Mother, it is already merciful enough to rob the rich and help the poor without trumped-up charges, and he does not need to be magnanimous to those who plot against him, sometimes he must have an iron and bloody deterrence, especially as a thief regime that is not recognized by the ruler to survive with leniency and severity.

However, Yang Ming's kindness to ordinary people is still reflected everywhere.

For example, Yang Ming first assigned more than 30,000 mu of fertile land of the Sun and Ma families to the tenants they leased, and the land that was not leased was distributed to the displaced and poor people free of charge, except for a part of the land that was given to the meritorious soldiers of the Han army, and these tenants and displaced people had to be re-registered and became yeoman farmers and had to pay grain and taxes.

However, Yang Ming's taxes are not high and he guarantees that he will not be levied for ten years. In this way, many yeoman farmers and tenants and displaced people no longer worry about paying too much tax, and the original yeoman farmers have responded positively, and under Yang Ming's deliberate arrangement, some villages have begun to plaster slogans praising Yang Ming and actively hold many thanksgiving publicity activities.

Second, Yang Ming directly abolished forced labor, and promised that in the future, all officials would be paid for requisitioning people's labor, except for prisoners. This act of kindness was approved by the ordinary people, and for a time the song praising Yang Ming resounded throughout Dongxiang County.

In addition, Yang Ming also actively advocated that the squires in Dongxiang County reduce rents and interest rates, or simply buy land from many large squires by way of redemption, and then distribute it to the people who have no land or lack of land at a low price or in the form of work-for-work.

Yang Ming's popularity among the common people is increasing day by day, and he is not too bad among the bureaucratic gentry, after all, Yang Ming did not adopt violent revolution, nor did he push these gentry too hard, and Yang Ming also encouraged them to do business and trade, and also gave them enough respect, so these gentry did not dare to oppose Yang Ming in the open, at most they did not offend each other. Because of this, Dongxiang County has basically achieved unprecedented stability within the county.

In order to celebrate the battle of annihilating Yu Dahai, the most ordinary soldiers also received a reward of ten silver dollars, and most of them were from ordinary people, and their families also got a share of the land, not to mention that they themselves got a lot of land because of their war exploits, so the personal interests of the soldiers were more firmly tied to the collective interests of the Han army, and they were more likely to accept the brainwashing education declared by Yang Ming in the days to come.

"Childe, this is the latest news from the imperial court's official army, Zeng Ying's department and Zhao Ronggui's department, a total of 20,000 officers and troops have been assembled, and it is expected to arrive in Kuizhou Mansion within half a month, and it is estimated that our battle with the imperial court officials and troops will start at the end of next month at the latest!"

After Bai Qiantong finished saluting, Yang Ming just smiled faintly: "Got it, let's go down." ”

With 20,000 officers and troops, Yang Ming has never confronted so many enemies, and in his previous life, he was at most a few hundred people alone, and it is not as simple as fighting in a group to defeat tens of thousands of people. Yang Ming had to ponder carefully, and just as he was pondering, Yun Die walked in: "Childe, there is a man named Meng Yunpu, who said that he was a servant of the Han family's ordnance institute and asked to see you." ”

Meng Yunpu came to present a gun to Yang Ming.

Bi Maokang once wrote "Illustrated Weapons of Weapons", and recorded in detail the manufacturing principle of the self-generated firebolt, that is, the flintlock pistol, Yang Ming also happened to see this book and knew some improvement methods, plus Meng Yunpu had also seen the manufacturing method of this self-generated firebolt with his own eyes, so it didn't take long for Meng Yunpu to make a self-generated firearm under the guidance of Yang Ming, and then he hurriedly ran to make contributions.

"Yes, but this self-generated flintlock still has some flaws, this is the Western firearm I captured from the Guanfu, it is also called a ramming flintlock pistol, but the flint of this flintlock pistol is not very good, and it will also be affected by humidity, you better improve the impact cap here, if the improvement is successful, the thousand silver dollars will be given to you."

"Good!" Meng Yunpu responded with a smile and immediately rushed back to the Han Armory, while holding the self-generated firearm in his hand and the Western firearm given to him by Yang Ming, while reading the reference material given to him by Yang Ming: "This is a flint, put it in this screw, and then it is erected by the spring, and when the trigger is pulled, it can hit the plate surface on the gunpowder pool, and detonate the gunpowder, what the official said seems to be such a reason, but the official wants to improve this hat, how can this be improved?" ”

"No, I have to go to the ironworks to see what new and good steel there is," Meng Yunpu said and went to the ironworks. These days, the iron factory has improved its equipment and frequently produced some fine steel and good iron, so that many chief engineers who make firearms are eager to use these good steel to make guns, and Meng Yunpu, who is a servant, is no exception, but in addition to going to the iron factory to find materials, he often goes to the river alone in a daze, sometimes staying all day, and as soon as he comes back, he is busy making barrels and bolts.

Gradually, many people thought that Meng Yunpu was crazy, otherwise he would not go to the river every day in a daze, sometimes he would come back with a large bag of stones, and even sent a lot of money to buy a lot of jade in the market town.

Yang Ming heard that Meng Yunpu of the Ordnance Institute was crazy, and couldn't help but be a little curious, so he also went to the Han Family Ordnance Institute when he went to the Han Family Martial Arts Hall to teach, but saw that Meng Yun Pu Guozhen said that his hair was so messy, it seemed that he hadn't washed his hair for more than ten days, and his whole body was dirty, and he didn't seem to have changed his clothes for a few days, and there was a smell in the distance, it should be that he hadn't taken a bath for several months, and he was expressionless, sometimes sitting and sometimes standing, drawing guns on the blackboard with freshly made chalk for a while, and personally frying iron for a while.

"Childe, I didn't expect this Meng Yunpu to be really crazy, he seems to be only in his thirties", Xu Shuixian who came with him said with some regret.

"It's crazy, if my craftsmen in the Ming Dynasty are so crazy, why worry about the immortality", Yang Ming said with a smile: "Narcissus, you will tell Master Liu later, and let him find a way to find a girl who can serve this Meng Yanshi, and the money will be paid by the government." ”

"What I want to tell you today is that on the root cause and harm of the corruption of the Ming Dynasty's financial system, there have been problems in the Ming Dynasty's financial system from the very beginning", on this day, Yang Ming was teaching the second batch of cadet officers, when he saw Meng Yunpu suddenly run in, completely ignoring the fact that there were still many students in the classroom at this time and shouted: "Official, the small one has been made!" ”