Xiao Jiu followed the old Taoist to a Taoist temple on a low mountain, and sure enough, he found saltpeter ore in a cave behind the Taoist temple.

These saltpeters are unmined and are largely exposed.

Seeing that the saltpeter in his heart was right in front of him, Xiao Jiu smiled heartily.

With these saltpeters, black powder can be made in large quantities.

The only restriction may be that the sulphur will need to be imported by caravans.

Xiao Jiu had already made up his mind, and after he returned, he asked Li Gui to arrange a caravan to go to Jinzhou to buy a large number of this so-called "Huangshi".

Now that gunpowder is available, the next step is to think about how to use it.

It is impossible to make a flintlock pistol like that of modern times, and the current iron-smelting technology is far from enough.

The barrel cannot be rubbed by hand alone, and the airtightness cannot be guaranteed by casting it with a doublet mold.

Then you can only make a fuss about the larger cannons.

Now I am self-sufficient in steel here, and I have a large number of skilled craftsmen.

If you can't rub the barrel with high precision, then it is still possible to make a batch of barrels by pouring method.

The inside of the barrel is then hand-ground by craftsmen, which is technically completely achievable.

In the current Great Xia, I have never heard of cannons and gunpowder, and if they are made, they will have miraculous effects.

This is a simple thing to say, but it still takes a lot of time to implement.

Especially when the drawings recovered by Xiao Jiu were sent to the craftsmen of Hare Mountain.

They were all wondering why they had wasted precious steel to forge such a big thing.

When everything was going on in order, Xiao Jiu also had some ideas for other places.

When Xiao Jiu was on Hare Mountain before, he may not have known the distribution of land in the villages and towns of Lingshui County.

Only a rough measure of cultivated land in some villages and towns was made during the grain requisition.

At this time, when I saw the farmland household register in the county government, I was also a little surprised in my heart.

"In this place where Lingshui County has a big palm, there are too many landlords."

Although he had acquired a large amount of cultivated land in a semi-coercive manner before, Xiao Jiu still felt that he was too tolerant of those landlords and old wealth.

How much population is there in Lingshui County, and if everyone had their own land, would there be a famine?

Xiao Jiu decided to carry out a large-scale land reform in Lingshui County.

Maybe I had to think about the pressure from above before, but now that I have a bad relationship with the county government, I don't need to worry too much about it.

made a decision in his heart, and then Xiao Jiu began to gather the militia captains and the backbone of the proletarian guild from various towns to the county office.

When these people heard that Xiao Jiu was going to ask them to go to the county government for a meeting, they all felt very fresh.

These high-ranking people have always issued orders directly, when will they be consulted?

Therefore, when the people from various towns and villages gathered at the gate of the county government, it caused quite a stir.

After Xiao Jiu announced his land reform policy, it made these people feel even more confused.

"Is this about to change the dynasty?"

Many people think so in their hearts.

Xiao Jiu's slogan is very simple, directly "Fight local tyrants and divide the land." ”

And this sentence also entered the hearts of those people.

They never want much, just to survive.

At this time, when I heard the policies announced by Xiao Jiu, I only felt that my brain couldn't react.

Later, Xiao Jiu told the criteria for dividing the composition grades one by one.

Just look at the eager eyes of these people.

After they bring back the news of land reform, the entire Lingshui County will definitely set off a huge "wind and snow".

Now his Xiao Zi battalion has expanded to more than 700 people, and there is a militia organization with an even larger base.

The landlords who were about to be dispossessed of their land could not afford to make any waves.

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Lingshui County, a dilapidated house on the corner of Baijia Village.

"Wife, I'm a sunspot, open the door."

There was a sharp knock on the door.

The door opened, and a beautiful young woman in her twenties asked when she saw her man in a hurry.

"Why did you come back so late?"

But the man didn't answer, and his thick arms directly picked up the young woman, and his mouth was still shouting excitedly.

"Xiaorou, the sky has changed, and it will change in the future."

"We don't have to live a poor life anymore."

Looking at his man's crazy appearance, the woman named Xiaorou was full of worry.

"Kuroko, what's wrong with you? Don't scare me. ”

After speaking, two lines of tears slipped down his cheeks, looking anxious.

But Heizi didn't care about the changing expression on the woman's face, and said the shocking news he heard in Lingshui County.

After listening to Kuroko's narration, the tearful cheeks suddenly couldn't stop like a, and she sat on the ground and cried.

Kuroko didn't stop her from crying when she saw her woman crying, but just hugged her tightly in her arms and didn't say a word.

Heizi has lived in the land of Baijia Village for generations, and has been working as a long-term worker for the white rich family in the village since his grandfather.

I don't know how many years of effort I have made for the rich man's family.

But in his own life, he is still so poor that not an inch of the land he has cultivated is his own.

So when Xiao Jiu formed the militia, this fatherless and motherless man was the first to sign up and broke away from the identity of the white rich man's family worker.

His beautiful wife was also a hard-working woman.

was originally the third concubine of the white rich man's family, but because she was ostracized by Mrs. Dafang, she was almost poisoned to death.

After escaping the catastrophe by luck, he was humiliated and given to the long-term worker Kuroko who had no tiles.

If it weren't for the Proletarian Guild giving the little couple a dilapidated house that no one lived in, they wouldn't even have a place to stay.

And the reason why Heizi didn't go to Xiao Ziying to join the army was also because of the wife in this family.

Usually can only rely on part-time work for others and Xiao Jiu's help to survive.

But now it's different.

Xiao Jiu decided to carry out land reform in Lingshui County, preparing to directly divide the landlord's land and distribute it to poor peasants.

Is there anyone poorer than himself in the entire Baijia Village?

And he is still a militia member of Baijia Village, and he will only be allocated more land.

At night, when Xiao Rou next to him fell asleep, Kuroko, who had never closed his eyes, got up gently.

After picking up the iron spear that he had issued as a militiaman, he left the house, and went to a distance to find a stone and began to polish the edge.

With a creaking sound, a fierce light flashed under Kuroko's eyes.

Tomorrow, the entire Baijia Village will be turned upside down.

The same scene is also playing out in various places in the townships under the jurisdiction of Lingshui County.

The trend of land reform has become unstoppable, and the anger that has accumulated for several lifetimes has begun to erupt outward.

Just when the poor people in various villages and towns were preparing to go on this hot night, Lingshui County Yali welcomed a regular customer.

Xiao Jiu looked at the girl in front of him, felt a little big, and asked, "Why are you here?" ”

When the girl heard this, she retorted angrily.

"What, aren't you welcome?"