Recaps

Tang Wen’s island settlement drew the attention of Yanling officials, who planned to reward his pirate victories and tax his land while seeking his donation to the war effort. A month later, Bu Feng returned with refugees and reported that the large Thousand-Leaf Workshop was for sale, leaving Tang Wen considering a major purchase as his supplies ran low.

• Tang Wen stopped Gu Hanyan from leaving the household, insisting that she remain his personal maidservant after he had saved her life.
• Yang Yun showed Prefect Zhang Hongjiang Tang Wen’s rice and described his fortified camp, the pirate ambush, and his family’s history.
• Zhang Hongjiang and Yang Yun decided to credit Tang Wen with military merits for killing seventy-two pirates, promote his noble rank, and press him for a donation and taxes.
• Bu Feng returned to the island with several dozen refugees, but Tang Wen remained short of the workers needed to unlock the Great Landlord and nearly out of cement and steel for the dam.
• Bu Feng told Tang Wen that the Thousand-Leaf Workshop in Yanling City, covering more than two hundred mu, was for sale for over three hundred thousand taels.

Tang Wen investigated whether Li Chun'er had raised the prices of his goods and learned that Shen Xihe had bought her entire stock for sale in Jiangzhou. He then inspected the indebted Thousand-Leaf Workshop and arranged to meet its owner, while Qiao Xiao sensed something was wrong.

• Tang Wen traveled to Yanling with Qiao Xiao and sent Ge Ziyun and Bu Feng to gather information about the Thousand-Leaf Workshop and Li Chun'er.
• Tang Wen confronted Li Chun'er about the high mirror prices, and she said Li Dawang bought through other resellers rather than directly from her.
• Li Chun'er explained that Shen Xihe had bought her remaining mirrors, lipstick, and perfume for his Jiangzhou shops, and she gave Tang Wen the accounts and gold from the sale.
• Tang Wen visited the Thousand-Leaf Workshop with Qiao Xiao and Bu Feng, where Wu Nong said the business had shut down and owed its remaining workers tens of thousands of taels.
• Tang Wen asked to meet the workshop's owner the next day, and Qiao Xiao quietly told him that something seemed wrong.

Tang Wen learned that Qiao Xiao had been arrested after a fight with Kang Qingfeng of the Six Fan Gate, whose authority left Constable Yang unable to help. Yang Yun also told Tang Wen that his military merits had earned him promotion to Second-Rank Baron, and Tang Wen went with him to meet Zhang Hongjiang and claim the official documents.

• Qiao Xiao left to seize and question one of the people suspected of spying, but did not return.
• Constable Liu told Tang Wen that Yang Yun wanted to see him, and Tang Wen hurried to the Commandery Governor's Office.
• Yang Yun explained that Kang Qingfeng, a Deputy Director of the Six Fan Gate, had arrested Qiao Xiao and barred anyone from seeing him.
• Yang Yun told Tang Wen that his seventy-two military merits had earned him promotion to Second-Rank Baron and offered to take him to Zhang Hongjiang.
• Tang Wen asked to claim his new title immediately, and Yang Yun brought him to meet Zhang Hongjiang.

Tang Wen bargained with Zhang Hongjiang over Qiao Xiao’s release, military donations, and taxes on Su Mei Island. He paid 170,000 taels to gain an earldom and left hoping to secure more settlers for his island.

• Zhang Hongjiang presented Tang Wen with approved papers recognizing his military merit, while Yang Yun explained that Qiao Xiao remained imprisoned by the Six Fan Gate.
• Zhang Hongjiang and Yang Yun used Qiao Xiao’s arrest and Chu’s military funding quota to press Tang Wen for a large donation, and Tang Wen negotiated the price of reaching third-rank earl.
• After Zhou Tong calculated the promotion cost at over 170,000 taels, Tang Wen paid that sum, and Zhang Hongjiang agreed to speak to the Six Fan Gate about Qiao Xiao.
• Tang Wen asked for his taxes to be waived, but Zhang Hongjiang only halved the current levy to 2,000 dan of grain and set next year’s tax at 8,000 dan.
• Tang Wen argued that he could not reclaim enough farmland or support tenant farmers after the donation, while privately planning to use Su Mei Island to grow profitable medicinal herbs.

Tang Wen secured Zhang Hongjiang’s support for a promotion to count and discussed obtaining labor for Su Mei Island. He then met Li Dawang to negotiate for the Thousand-Leaf Workshop, using cigarettes and a lighter to impress the wealthy owner.

• Zhang Hongjiang dispatched Tang Wen’s count promotion request and decided to send Su Mei Island refugees and petty offenders as labor.
• Zhang Hongjiang suspected Tang Wen mainly wanted manpower and planned to raise his taxes after supplying it.
• Tang Wen and his companions suspected Qiao Xiao’s arrest was connected to efforts to force down the Thousand-Leaf Workshop’s price.
• Tang Wen met Li Dawang at the River-View Tower and asserted his imminent count title, causing Li Dawang to show him respect.
• Tang Wen gave Li Dawang a Phoenix Cigarette and demonstrated his lighter, impressing him with the unfamiliar smoking accessories.

Tang Wen negotiated to buy Li Dawang’s Thousand-Leaf Workshop by taking on its artisans’ unpaid wages, and he bought a stock of mirrors, lipstick, and perfume from Li Dawang. He then visited the jailed Tang Jun and offered to recover the workers’ wages in exchange for them entering Tang household service and helping develop Su Mei Island.

• Tang Wen offered to buy the Thousand-Leaf Workshop for 300,000 taels by assuming Li Dawang’s debt to the artisans, and Li Dawang agreed to let him settle with them first.
• Tang Wen sold Li Dawang 200 mirrors and 500 items of lipstick and perfume for 590 taels of gold, then exchanged the goods for payment.
• Tang Wen visited Tang Jun in jail, stopped Constable Liu from whipping him, and dismissed Liu from the cell.
• Tang Wen offered Tang Jun work and a way to recover the artisans’ wages by taking them into Tang household service to build up Su Mei Island.
• Tang Jun questioned Tang Wen’s motives and asked what the workers would have to do.

Tang Wen brought Tang Jun and the Thousand-Leaf Workshop artisans to Su Mei Island to show them the Tang household’s living conditions and persuade them to join. The chapter ended with the newcomers marveling at the camp’s modern facilities and being led to a plentiful meal.

• Tang Wen stood surety for Tang Jun’s temporary release and invited him to bring witnesses to inspect Su Mei Island.
• Fang Qiang and Luo Qing discussed Tang Wen’s interference and considered whether to seek Kang Qingfeng’s help against him.
• Tang Jun gathered the artisans, and Tang Wen set out with them for Su Mei Island that night.
• Tang Wen’s group arrived at the brightly lit, fortified camp, where Zhan Junru and Gu Hanyan welcomed them.
• Zhan Dongwen and the others showed the artisans the camp’s restroom, toilets, running water, and towels, astounding the newcomers.
• Zhan Junru led the artisans into the dining hall, where they saw hot food and white rice waiting for them.

Tang Wen recruited about three hundred people into his household, advanced his martial arts, and used his seventh crossing to return to Yunhai City, where he discovered that time passed at a different rate between worlds. He returned to Hengjiang Trading Company, promised to expand and fund it, and put Zhao Jiang in charge as he prepared to grow the business.

• Tang Wen persuaded about three hundred of the newcomers to enter his household, and they signed contracts of servitude.
• Tang Wen absorbed the gathered Popularity, advanced to the mid-stage eighth rank, and increased his crossing capacity and other Great Landlord Space figures.
• Tang Wen crossed back to Yunhai City and found that sixty days in the Chu Kingdom had passed in only two days there.
• Tang Wen met Zhao Jiang at Hengjiang Trading Company and instructed him to find larger premises with spacious warehouses and a private warehouse for Tang Wen.
• Tang Wen announced that he would inject another thirty million into the company, promised generous pay for loyal employees, and appointed Zhao Jiang as the final authority on company matters.

Tang Wen used the proceeds from selling gold to equip his company and build up his supplies, while Zhao Jiang revealed the grudge behind his departure from the special forces and pledged his loyalty. After Tang Wen crossed back to Su Mei Island, he began transforming the camp into a fortified residential compound as the system demanded more popularity for his next crossing.

• Tang Wen set salaries, sold gold to fund the company and supplies, and ordered weapons, prefabricated houses, and frozen food.
• Tang Wen trained Zhao Jiang, who confessed he had left the special forces after losing a bet and vowed to defeat his former opponent; Zhao Jiang also gave Tang Wen an M2000 handgun.
• Zhao Jiang told Tang Wen that the company had been reorganized as the Tang Su Mei Group, with Hengjiang Trading Company as a subsidiary.
• A month later, Tang Wen crossed back to Su Mei Island and learned that his eighth crossing required another 350 popularity points to upgrade the system to version 2.0.
• Tang Wen ordered Zhan Dongwen and Ge Ziyun to replace the camp’s tents with prefabricated houses and build warehouses, while workers installed utilities and poured concrete.
• Half a month later, the camp had several large warehouses and a ring of reinforced two-story houses around a central plaza, forming a fortified residential compound.

Tang Wen gave the Tang household new homes, winning the allegiance of nearly all its members, then learned about the Iron Sword Sect while traveling to Yanling City with Tang Jun. The chapter left them on the road as Tang Wen explored the sect’s strength and cultivation methods.

• Tang Wen announced housing benefits for his servants and encouraged them to form families, offering to arrange weddings and welcome spouses into the household.
• The servants moved into their new homes and celebrated with a feast, where Tang Wen drank heavily and was carried to his bedroom by Zhan Junru and Gu Hanyan.
• Tang Wen drunkenly tried to sleep with Zhan Junru, but Gu Hanyan intervened; Zhan Junru said she was willing to serve him, and Tang Wen apologized and sent both women to rest.
• The next morning, Tang Wen traveled to Yanling City with Tang Jun, who explained that he had been an eighth-rank perfection Iron Sword Sect disciple before Liu Fei had him expelled and hunted.
• Tang Jun described the Iron Sword Sect as a prominent sect of seven or eight hundred members, led by Luo Tiandao, and detailed its heaven-tier Thunderclap Heart Method and Thunderclap Sword.

Tang Wen learned how cultivation methods shaped a fighter’s limits, then negotiated with Li Dawang to settle the Thousand-Leaf Workshop’s land sale using modern goods instead of silver. The deal remained unfinished as Li Dawang eagerly asked the price of Tang Wen’s disposable lighters.

• Tang Jun explained that the Iron Sword Sect forbade him from sharing its earth-rank cultivation method and described how powerful sects and the Six Fan Gate deterred the authorities.
• Tang Jun told Tang Wen that heaven-rank methods could be bought in Sea Saint City for at least a million taels, while legendary mystic-rank methods were said to let practitioners reach the first rank.
• After reaching Yanling City, Tang Wen exchanged silver for banknotes and arranged to meet Li Dawang at the River-View Tower.
• Tang Wen and Li Dawang signed the contract for the Thousand-Leaf Workshop’s land, with Li Dawang accepting mirrors, lipsticks, and perfumes as payment at a reduced price.
• When the goods fell short by about fifty thousand taels, Tang Wen offered silver crowns; Li Dawang accepted sixty but noted that forty were missing.
• Tang Wen offered a disposable Windproof Lighter to cover the remaining value, and Li Dawang eagerly asked how much one cost.

Tang Wen completed a business deal, learned his title of Count had been approved, and used gifts and a reproduced painting to build relationships with officials. He left Lord Zhang considering an exchange of calligraphy for the painting, which could fulfill Zhang Hongjiang’s father’s long-held wish.

• Tang Wen sold Li Dawang two thousand lighters and gave him fifty extra, while Li Dawang waived three hundred taels from the Thousand-Leaf Workshop’s price.
• Tang Wen learned that his Count title had been approved and sent Tang Jun and Steward Ning to complete the deed transfer.
• Yang Yun told Tang Wen about his hopes of becoming Criminal Clerk, and Tang Wen offered to arrange a gift to help him seek the post.
• Zhang Hongjiang presented Tang Wen with his official hat, robe, documents, and command token, confirming his title as Third-Class Yanling Count.
• Tang Wen showed Zhang Hongjiang a reproduction of the lost Apollo painting, then offered it in exchange for two pieces of Zhang Hongjiang’s calligraphy.

Tang Wen secured Zhang Hongjiang’s help to free Qiao Xiao and began planning the reconstruction of Thousand-Leaf Workshop, while Kang Qingfeng and Fang Qiang plotted to use Qiao Xiao to seize the property cheaply. Tang Wen prepared a lavish gift for Yang Yun to help secure his cooperation, as Kang revealed plans to establish a Six Fan Gate sub-helm in Yanling.

• Tang Wen commissioned Zhang Hongjiang to write calligraphy for Su Mei Island and asked him to help release Qiao Xiao; Zhang arranged a dinner invitation for Kang Qingfeng.
• Tang Wen returned to Thousand-Leaf Workshop and outlined plans for a new storefront, warehouses, training ground, and guest club.
• Fang Qiang told Kang Qingfeng that Tang Wen had bought Thousand-Leaf Workshop, and Kang predicted Tang would pay dearly to recover Qiao Xiao.
• Kang Qingfeng revealed he was establishing a Six Fan Gate sub-helm in Yanling and persuaded Fang Qiang to offer him sixty mu of land.
• Tang Wen showed Yang Yun a gift box containing Grape Wine and a lighter, and Yang was impressed by the lighter and accepted the gift.

Yang Yun gave Tang Wen the Fish-Dragon Nine-Turn Art, while Tang Wen wondered whether his hidden cultivation came from the landlord space concealing his aura. At a tense dinner, Kang Qingfeng and Yu Hong tried to force Tang Wen to surrender the Thousand-Leaf Workshop, leaving Zhang Hongjiang asking how Tang Wen wanted to proceed.

• Yang Yun gave Tang Wen the upper-grade earth-rank Fish-Dragon Nine-Turn Art and explained its leaping and gliding techniques.
• Tang Wen wondered if the great landlord space concealed his martial aura from others.
• Tang Wen, Yang Yun, and Zhang Hongjiang met Kang Qingfeng and Yu Hong at the Nightfall Pavilion, where Kang insulted Tang Wen and his efforts on Su Mei Island.
• Tang Wen challenged Kang Qingfeng after Kang questioned whether anyone remained in the Tang family, and Tang Wen warned that the insult also implicated the Imperial Clan.
• Kang Qingfeng demanded the Thousand-Leaf Workshop for the Six Fan Gate branch and threatened Qiao Xiao, while Yu Hong backed his demand.
• Zhang Hongjiang proposed giving the Six Fan Gate part of the property for military merits, but Kang Qingfeng disputed how many merits Tang Wen should receive.

Tang Wen stood up to Kang Qingfeng’s pressure over Qiao Xiao and the Thousand-Leaf Workshop, while Zhang Hongjiang and Yang Yun warned Kang against provoking him. After Kang had Qiao Xiao brutally beaten but left him alive, Tang Wen prepared to strengthen his position and met Shen Xihe, who offered to buy a large batch of goods from the Western Lands.

• Tang Wen refused to sell the property beside the Thousand-Leaf Workshop to Kang Qingfeng for less than six hundred thousand taels and warned him against harming Qiao Xiao.
• After Kang Qingfeng left the banquet, Zhang Hongjiang reassured Yang Yun that Kang would hesitate to retaliate against Tang Wen, and told Yang to watch over Qiao Xiao.
• Kang Qingfeng first decided to abandon the interrogation, then changed his mind and had Qiao Xiao brutally beaten without killing him.
• Tang Wen received Yang Yun’s letter about the beating and told Bu Feng to stay in contact with Yang and watch the prison while the Tang family recruited more people.
• Tang Wen met Shen Xihe at the River-View Tower and demonstrated his Western goods, including a lighter, cigarettes, and a Silver Crown.
• Shen Xihe offered to buy one hundred thousand taels’ worth of goods and asked Tang Wen for a twenty-percent discount.

Tang Wen completed a profitable trade with Shen Xihe, then returned to Su Mei Island to supervise construction as supplies and workers ran short. Yang Yun brought hundreds of prisoners who joined Tang Wen’s household, raising his popularity enough to upgrade the Great Landlord Space to 2.0 and unlock another crossing.

• Tang Wen handed Shen Xihe the goods, gave Li Chun’er a silver crown, and hosted them for wine and food at the Thousand-Leaf Workshop.
• Tang Wen returned to Su Mei Island, where slow dam construction, dwindling supplies, and a shortage of recruits threatened to halt his plans.
• Yang Yun brought three or four hundred petty offenders and refugees to the camp, then persuaded them to sell themselves into Tang Wen’s household by promising better lives and warning them of forced service on the battlefield.
• Tang Wen and his helpers showed the newcomers the camp and served them a hearty meal, convincing them to join; several returned to fetch their families.
• The new recruits pushed Tang Wen’s popularity past 350 strands, upgrading the Great Landlord Space to 2.0 and unlocking a second gate for crossing into another world.

Tang Wen dealt with Kang Qingfeng’s pressure on Qiao Xiao and secured Yang Yun’s help gathering information, then entered the upgraded Great Landlord Space. He discovered that its first transmigration gate now allowed him to choose a destination and selected his rented house in Yunhai City.

• Tang Wen learned that Kang Qingfeng had beaten Qiao Xiao again and decided to find a way to bring Kang down rather than surrender military merits.
• Yang Yun agreed to gather information on Kang Qingfeng, and Tang Wen gave him gifts before Yang and his men returned to Yanling.
• Tang Wen considered recruiting sixth-rank martial artists to strengthen his position against Kang Qingfeng.
• At midnight, Tang Wen entered the Great Landlord Space and saw that its system had upgraded to version 2.0, adding a second gate and improving its popularity features.
• Tang Wen chose the first transmigration gate, used its new map to select Yunhai City, and saw the house he had rented there.

Tang Wen bought supplies and recorded training videos before selling medicinal pills to Chen Guozhang and declining an offer to join the War Dragon special forces. He returned to the Chu Kingdom, where the Great Landlord Space set new requirements for his ninth crossing.

• Tang Wen sold 41,300 taels of gold, bought silver and supplies, and recorded instructional videos with seal-script subtitles.
• Luo Jun introduced Tang Wen to Chen Guozhang, who negotiated a discounted purchase of Tang Wen’s medicinal pills.
• Tang Wen and Chen Guozhang sparred, and Tang Wen demonstrated that he could hold his own against the newly promoted Eighth-Rank fighter.
• Chen Guozhang invited Tang Wen to join the War Dragon special forces, but Tang Wen refused and agreed to advise the team on martial arts when available.
• Tang Wen invested twenty million yuan from the pill sale in Hengjiang Trading Company and left Zhao Jiang in charge.
• Tang Wen returned to the Chu Kingdom, and the Great Landlord Space required 400 popularity points and 500 more mu of land for his ninth crossing.

Tang Wen used the luggage cache to unload construction supplies and machinery at the dam, then organized equipment, training, and a new guard force. After returning home, he shared an intimate bath with Zhan Junru while Gu Hanyan objected to their relationship, and he called her over as he rested.

• Tang Wen discovered that the luggage cache held supplies for only half a day and unloaded cement precisely into the dam’s temporary warehouses.
• Tang Wen told Zhan Dongwen and Ge Ziyun to keep the Mountain-Moving Art secret, arranged training for crane and hoist operators, and ordered Zhao Du to select two hundred men for a Personal Guard Army.
• Tang Wen unloaded machinery and teaching equipment, prepared illustrated Seal-Script Textbooks, and planned literacy and technical classes.
• Zhan Junru helped Tang Wen bathe, and Gu Hanyan scolded them for becoming intimate without a ceremony.
• Tang Wen came out refreshed, drank Lotus Seed Soup, and called Gu Hanyan over.

Tang Wen started a Literacy Class to teach his household workers basic reading quickly, recruiting Gu Hanyan and Zhan Shifeng as teachers and using illustrated textbooks. He introduced the class by explaining the value of literacy and demonstrating a glowing, musical whiteboard, leaving the students eager to begin.

• Tang Wen asked Gu Hanyan to help teach a crash course in reading, and she examined his illustrated Language Arts textbook with Zhan Junru.
• Tang Wen told Gu Hanyan and Zhan Shifeng to prepare to teach the first Literacy Class that evening.
• About a hundred students gathered, and Tang Wen explained that knowledge could bring wealth and opportunity while Gu Hanyan challenged his claims about books containing gold and beauties.
• Tang Wen switched on the whiteboard, played music, and displayed a rooster alongside its written characters.
• The students found the rooster entry in their textbooks after Tang Wen directed them to it.

Tang Wen set a paid deadline for his students to learn over two thousand characters, then reconciled with Gu Hanyan after she objected to his treatment of her. The next day, he began preparing a hidden cave for his secrets and used a drone to survey Su Mei Island, discovering that it stretched extraordinarily far from north to south.

• Tang Wen taught his students to read and write with the Mechanical Television and offered silver rewards for learning the characters quickly.
• Zhan Junru worried about the cost of the rewards, but Tang Wen encouraged her to study and promised her two hundred taels for finishing within half a month.
• Gu Hanyan returned late after teaching, and Tang Wen ordered her to wash his feet before tearing up her indenture and offering to let her leave.
• Gu Hanyan refused to leave and admitted that powerful enemies kept her from confiding in Tang Wen, who comforted her and gave her and Zhan Junru a copy of Dream of the Red Chamber.
• Tang Wen ordered Zhan Dongwen to prepare a silver-mine cave as a private hideaway, then flew a drone over Su Mei Island and discovered its great north-to-south length.

Tang Wen and Tang Jun discovered a hidden pirate settlement on the far side of Su Mei Island, where pirates were mining silver from the Tang family's mine. They returned to their base to prepare for a preemptive strike, but Li Quan reported that someone had come to see Tang Wen.

• Tang Wen used a drone to find man-eating plants guarding a stretch of jungle, then spotted hidden sentries, paths, and houses beyond them.
• Tang Wen and Tang Jun found pirates guarding workers as they loaded crates onto a ship in a concealed gorge.
• A miniature drone revealed hundreds of workers smelting stolen silver ore in a cave using a smoke-extraction system.
• Tang Wen concluded the pirates would attack again and rejected seeking help from authorities because their network might include spies.
• Tang Wen returned to base with Tang Jun and ordered work halted so their people could train before a preemptive strike.
• Li Quan told Tang Wen that someone wished to see him.

Tang Wen met Li Liao, a disgraced former Hundred-Household Commander recommended by Yang Yun, and invited him and his followers to try serving the Tang household for ten days. After touring Tang Wen’s modern works and equipment, Li Liao’s doubts began to give way to admiration, and Tang Wen brought out a telescope to show him.

• Li Liao arrived with Yang Yun’s letter explaining that he had been framed and dismissed after protecting Song Yuanyuan from Chen Wangde, and Tang Wen questioned him about his family and followers.
• Li Liao introduced his family, Song Yuanyuan, and thirty-six loyal fighters, including Wei Guang and Chen Guang, and Tang Wen offered them rooms and a ten-day trial in his service.
• When Li Liao refused to sell himself into Tang Wen’s service and prepared to leave, Tang Wen invited him to tour the estate before deciding.
• Li Liao’s group marveled at the privies, faucets, Stone and Sand Crusher, construction at Crouching Dragon Lake, Iron Horses, electric lamps, weapons, and small crossbows.
• Li Liao praised Tang Wen’s abilities and recalled seeing a telescope on a western campaign, so Tang Wen asked Li Quan to bring one.

Tang Wen impressed Li Liao and his companions with the Tang family’s modern comforts and weapons, persuading them to stay for ten days and visit the training ground. After Li Liao and Tang Wen’s guards demonstrated the crossbows’ remarkable accuracy and range, Tang Jun challenged Wei Guang to strike his chest with a saber.

• Li Liao and his companions admired Tang Wen’s binoculars, dinner, and electric lights before agreeing to stay for ten days.
• Tang Wen took Li Liao and the others to the Special Operations Training Ground, where they watched his guards train.
• Li Liao demonstrated his skill by hitting the bull’s-eye seven times with a crossbow, then tested its telescopic sight and hit a distant target.
• Tang Jun and Zhan Zhao also struck distant targets, leaving Li Liao and his companions astonished by the crossbow’s range.
• Tang Jun invited Wei Guang to slash his chest, and Tang Wen told Wei Guang to use half his strength.

Tang Wen demonstrated the Western Lands’ bulletproof vests and helmets to Li Liao and his men, impressing them with their protection against blades and firearms. He offered equipment to martial artists who joined his Personal Guard Army and asked Li Liao to oversee training for ten days.

• Wei Guang slashed Tang Jun twice, but Tang Jun remained unharmed because he wore a bulletproof vest.
• Tang Wen explained the vest’s protection, and Li Liao, Wei Guang, Chen Fei, and the others tested it and marveled at its strength.
• Tang Jun used Tang Wen’s Xiuchin Saber to break Wei Guang’s saber, and Tang Wen fired a firearm at Tang Jun’s vest to show it could stop the shot.
• Tang Wen brought out bulletproof helmets and demonstrated that one could protect Tang Jun’s head from a firearm shot.
• Tang Wen told Li Liao’s men that a full equipment set cost around two thousand taels and offered sets to seventh- and eighth-rank martial artists who joined his Personal Guard Army.
• Tang Wen offered Li Liao ten taels of silver a day to oversee the men’s training for ten days.