As the founding hero of Great Gan, you, the Heavenly King of National Protection, were once again ennobled by Zhang Yan, the Qianyuan Emperor, and made Grand Tutor of the Crown Prince and National Teacher Protector of the Nation.
Your status and position were so exalted that they were unprecedented.
With Great Gan established, you did not rush to break through to the Grandmaster Realm.
First, your parents were still alive. Decades of familial affection were not so easily abandoned.
Second, since you were going to play, you might as well play big.
You decided to carry out sweeping reforms on this newly established feudal dynasty.
In the tenth month of the thirty-sixth year, at your suggestion, Qianyuan Emperor Zhang Yan issued the first nationwide decree: all land within the country was to be nationalized. Private individuals would have only the right to use land, not to own it, and even less the right to buy or sell it.
The reason Zhang Yan agreed to your proposal was that he himself had been born a farmer. He understood the lives of common farmers better than anyone and knew how important land was to them.
However, the decree met fierce resistance from many wealthy gentry and great clans. Several great clans, relying on their large populations and enormous wealth, even tried to threaten the government with force.
That was exactly what you wanted.
Afterward, with you and Great Gan's iron cavalry working together, all the resistance was forcibly suppressed.
The few great clans that had jumped around the most were stripped of their possessions and exterminated, vanishing completely into the river of history.
This warning by killing one to frighten a hundred proved immensely effective. Throughout the country, those who had still been waiting and watching surrendered ownership of all their