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These aristocrats are actually similar to the big landlords in ancient China, although they will hoard some grain for usury, so as to reasonably and legally turn their tenant farmers into completely sold serfs, but if others bid relatively high, it is not impossible to sell grain.

In the event of a disaster year, the two tenants will starve to death, and anyway, dozens or hundreds of serfs under his command can digest that bit of land with a little more effort.

Otherwise, it is also a way to simply break it up and distribute it to other tenant farmers to rent seeds.

Anyway, they don't have much food to eat, and if they have too much leftover, they will spoil it, causing an unbearable waste.

What is the so-called love for the serfs and tenants under the hands...... It's just a simple level that no one farms when all the people under him die.

In this era, it is not easy to recruit a large number of displaced people.

However, the high price of this grain is also relative, in fact, after removing the profits deducted from the grain merchants, the price that Luo Ming bought is actually cheaper than buying from the merchants.

Of course, this part of the merchant's deduction is not only the profit, but also the loss of transportation.

However, at this time, the ox carts that Luo Ming brought back from Brandon were more professional transportation tools, which could be compared with those of the merchants, and they could be of great use at this time.

Of course, there are also people who suspect that Luo Ming's intention to buy food is not just to feed the new slaves, but even when he is questioned, he is not angry, but just puts on a face of "you see through", saying that he is going to brew a batch of beer.

The main wine on this continent is fruit wine, due to agricultural technology problems, grain production is average, and using grain to make wine is a relatively luxurious and wasteful thing. As for cheap ale...... It is just a product made with bran and other things, and it is mixed with water, and it is just a private drink for the aristocratic lords, and it is difficult to reach the elegant hall after all.

And since Luo Ming said this, it was obvious that he was going to make a high degree of wine, and the consumption of food was huge, which was a shameful thing in an agrarian society, and it was no wonder that he refused to say it explicitly—thinking about it like this, the man's suspicion also completely subsided.

In addition to the grain business, Luo Ming also made several other businesses along the way, such as charcoal.

Although the recipe for making gunpowder developed by Luo Ming has changed slightly in this other world, charcoal, which accounts for more than one-tenth of the ingredients, remains the same.

Of course, the purity and quality of the charcoal itself are uncertain, but Luo Ming does not plan to make such a precise ratio of gunpowder for the time being.

To be able to burn violently, in fact, is enough.

Even if the gunpowder can't be prepared very accurately, it is probably enough - you can actually fire one or two cannons on the battlefield to adjust.

Muskets, even the most basic muskets and arquebuses, have a relatively high technical content - while the technical content of bronze cannons is almost none, and it is said that the metallurgical and casting levels of the Spring and Autumn Period and the Warring States Period are sufficient.

As for cast iron cannons, they are actually cheaper than copper, but nowadays metallurgical technology is immature, which makes it easier to use iron to make artillery. Although the iron cannon is still within the scope of Luo Ming's plan after all, it can't be made for a while, so it can only be slowly experimented and trial-produced.

Although bronze is not cheap, Luo Ming can still afford a small amount - a gold coin is worth a thousand copper coins in conversion, which is about more than three kilograms of bronze in terms of weight and copper content.

Qi Xuguang used a large number of tiger squat cannons when he suppressed the Japanese Kou, and only thirty-six catties - that is, eighteen kilograms of bronze could be cast into one door. Firing a scatter bomb can hit a distance of 200 meters, which is a miracle effect against soldiers who do not have sufficient protection, and can even hit a dozen or twenty people with a single shot at close range.

Another "crossing artifact" touted by many people on the Internet - the M1841 12-pound mountain howitzer, weighs only a little more than 100 kilograms, and Luo Ming can't afford to build it. It has a range of nearly one kilometer, and although it is easy to be suppressed by longer-range artillery in artillery-to-artillery battles, it is not common to be able to shoot an attack of several hundred meters in the warfare of this era, and it is even rarer to cross a distance of nearly a kilometer to destroy artillery or snipe gunners.

Archers who are less than the level of swordsman, no matter how skilled they are, even if they are combined with expensive magic arrows, they can only maintain their lethality within 500 meters.

A sword-level archer...... That's rarer than ordinary swordsmen, and such a long-distance sniper arrow consumes a lot of fighting energy, he has the ability to dare to spend a lot of fighting energy to shoot only a few gunners, Luo Ming dared to cover each other with Granty, and quickly crossed the battlefield to get his head.

Although Luo Ming can't make a grenade yet, even if he fires live ammunition, it is strong enough.

Its caliber is about 11.7 centimeters, such a large iron ball flies through the battlefield, if you are lucky, you can make a bloody path in the dense military formation, and seven or eight people will fall, almost sticky to death, and the immortal will lose its combat effectiveness.

The number of people killed in an attack is secondary, and the scene of flesh and blood splashing and stumps dancing around is terrifying enough - the denser you stand, the easier it is to be hit, such an imagination can easily crush morale, and the originally tight phalanx will turn into a wave of stragglers.

Even an aristocratic army or an army of fanatics with a sense of honor and dedication will waver to a certain extent in this situation.

And the soldiers on Luo Ming's side are still in a tight phalanx, and they have no fear. If the enemy rushes over in a scattered manner without forming a formation, it will be like hitting a tree with his head against the array, and I don't know how to break the blood flow to make the tree shake a little. It's not surprising that the swap ratio was beaten 1 to 3.

And if the enemy is in formation, then in order to keep the array neat, it is natural that it will not be able to move fast. A few hundred meters of the road has to walk for ten minutes, such a long time, just wait for it to be bombarded by artillery on the road for seven or eight rounds.

He wanted to see if there was really such a strong army in the world now, and it could still fight casually after being bombarded by artillery for seven or eight rounds.

You can't talk too much, maybe there are really one or two armies that can do it once in a while, but Luo Ming is not worried about this.

For example, the Knights of the Radiant Blade, where Grant once stayed, has a large number of high-level swordsmen and even swordsmen, and there are many great swordsmen, and the leader is a legendary powerhouse, and it is also equipped with a large number of military priests who can cast legion-level magic - the hard-top artillery fire of such a unit is actually not a big problem, and it may even be able to fight with the tank troops of World War II on the earth, but such troops are generally used to deal with evil gods and their powerful lackeys. Reading, a better reading experience.