“Pa pa pa…” Buff was so angry that his eyebrows were raised, and his hand slapped the people in front of him like the wind. The heads in front of him all got hit by the hand, and he angrily roared, “Shut up!”
Everyone was stunned and blankly looked at the angry Buff.
“Hmph! There are some words you can’t randomly say. You haven’t even figured out the situation yet and are already ruining my reputation, that’s villainous behavior.” Buff pointed his finger at the noses of several people and shouted.
“Also, if you dare to say something bad about Lord City Lord¹ again, I will fight him to the death.” Buff’s serious face made everyone know that this old man was telling the truth. Now, no one dared to randomly talk nonsense.
This was what someone who hadn’t received an education was like. They would only try to guess based on their personal bias rather than trying to understand using logic and reasoning.
Buff glanced around, opened the sheepskin roll, and said loudly, “Lord Baron Liu Feng, today instructed the abolishment of the following taxes: entrance tax, wheat tax, passing by tax, childbirth tax…”
Many people widened their eyes in disbelief the moment Buff started speaking. Even after Ba Fu had finished speaking, everyone was still in a daze.
“Mr. Buff, please read it again.” Some people said with disbelief.
“Okay, listen carefully.” Buff knew that everyone’s lives had been so bitter and exploited so much that they couldn’t believe that someone was treating them well.
After Buff finished reading it again, many people knelt on the ground and cried and loudly yelled.
“Wa wu wu wu… my son, he was… wa wu wu wu…”
“Why has lord city lord only come now, my brother was starved to death to pay taxes.”
“A dozen copper coins can be saved a month, long live lord city lord, long live…”
Everyone went crazy with joy. This was one of the few good news for the poor residents.
……………………
In the City Lord’s Mansion, Liu Feng sat in the study, listening to the cheers outside, and the corners of his mouth rose silently.
You can’t make much money by exploiting the poor. Also, it would force the people to rebel.
Anyone who has seen the history of China on Earth knows that they cannot exploit the people; otherwise, they were just digging their own graves.
“I can still transmigrate today. It seems that I’ll have to go on a shopping spree. Especially the things here, I can throw all of them away.”
Liu Feng looked at the things in the study, disgusted. Many of them were broken, and it was obvious that Carter didn’t leave him with anything good.
His transmigration chance refreshes at midnight. He had spent yesterday at Niu Ben’s family’s house, so he still hadn’t used his transmigration chance today.
Liu Feng got up to lock the door of the study. After all, there was a catgirl in the castle. He then silently said transmigrate in his heart, and in the next second, he disappeared from the study.
When Liu Feng opened his eyes again, he found that he had returned to his room. He looked at the familiar furnishing and breathed a sigh of relief.
He immediately changed the other world clothes that he was wearing. He put on a casual outfit and sat on the bedside, thinking.
“I don’t have to worry about the number of recruits. Then there is only the weapon aspect left. There is no need to think about the hot weapons; I can only start with cold weapons right now.”
Liu Feng took out his cell phone and searched for the cold weapon crossbows on Du Niang². He had already thought of bows and crossbows when he was in the other world.
Archers need to be able to use the longbow proficiently, and powerful archer requires at least one year of training. Crossbows didn’t need that. As long as they practice, archers using crossbows could form effective lethality in just a dozen days. That was the reason why Liu Feng valued crossbows.
There were only about 20 days before the autumn harvest. If they couldn’t stop the thieves’ attack, then more than half the people in West Sun City would probably starve to death.
Bows and crossbows both have their strengths and weaknesses. The former could shoot arrows faster, but required much more practice and longer time to form an effective army, while the latter required a long time to load arrows. Thus, he decided to buy some of both.
Liu Feng opened Tao Bao³, searched on it, saw a few powerful crossbows, and started communicating with the sellers. After spending a lot of money, the seller agreed to some of his rude requests.
It would be difficult to produce even iron with the craftsmanship in the other world, let alone crossbows.
Liu Feng placed several large orders on Tao Bao. Since he has a base in the other world, he can use some things.
After placing the orders, Liu Feng tidied up and prepared to go out to buy some things, including some daily necessities.
Liu Feng was an orphan. After getting the transmigration chances, he brought precious metals from the other world to Earth and exchanged them for money. He then found a relatively remote place and rented a house.
He planned to change places every year so that he wouldn’t be noticed when buying some things. The ability to travel to the other world was his biggest secret and safeguard.
After all, his focus would be on the other world. On Earth, he was just an ordinary person, but in the other world, he was a noble and the lord of a city.
After leaving the house, Liu Feng went to the supermarket to buy a lot of things, and then found an unobtrusive place without a camera and put the things in the storage space.
Just like that, Liu Feng went to several different supermarkets and bought multiple items. He finally returned to his house after filling up the 2 cubic meters of his storage space.
Translator’s Notes:
¹ 城主大人. Literally city master lord. 大人 means lord, and I’ve always written city lord, so… lord city lord.
² 度娘. Apparently, it’s a cutesy way to say Baidu( the most popular Chinese search engine).
³ The author actually writes 某宝, which means certain treasure, instead of 淘宝. It’s most likely because many websites censor Tao Bao (likely to avoid getting sued if an author decides to slander it). Tao Bao is one of the most, if not the most popular, Chinese online shopping platforms.