I have been a county magistrate for ten years. My subordinates insist on giving me a yellow robe.

Li Hu and others immediately opened their eyes wide and looked at Jiang Yuan.

Six-month development? Three-year plan?

Isn't this nonsense?

Everyone knows that it takes decades for a county to become strong.

The three-year plan is still reliable, but isn’t half-year development really nonsense?

Jiang Yuan coughed twice and picked up the first piece of paper in front of him.

“First, if you want to be rich, build roads; if you want to be strong, increase the population.”

"We started developing around this in the past six months. Roads must be built. As for the population, everyone can think of ways, even unconventional means."

Li Hu stood up cautiously and looked at Jiang Yuan hesitantly: "Sir, human trafficking is illegal, right?"

"Damn it! Who told you to kidnap people?" Jiang Yuan couldn't help but widen his eyes.

"Could it be possible that Your Excellency could create a human being out of thin air?" Li Hu asked weakly.

Jiang Yuan adjusted his official hat on his forehead and said seriously, "That's not possible, but there are so many refugees outside, can't you deceive them and trick them into coming here?"

"Refugees, since we are all refugees, shouldn't we just come here if we are given food to eat?"

"When the time comes, just tell them that in Taiping County, the trees are full of eggs and the wells are full of rice wine. Do you think they will come?"

Zhao Kai looked at Jiang Yuan with disdain: "Sir, only a fool would believe such words."

Jiang Yuan rolled his eyes in annoyance. You may have studied for two years and have some education, but in this period, there is no nine-year compulsory education, and many people will be fooled.

"Li Hu, I'll leave this matter to you. I'll have you assign a hundred men to travel back and forth within a 3,000-mile radius. Wherever there's a natural disaster or man-made disaster, you're to bring all the people over!"

"I don't care if you use force, deception, or just knock me out with a stick and take me to Taiping County. In short, I want him!"

Having said that, Jiang Yuan looked at Wang Jue. Among the three people, Zhao Kai and Kong Xuan had basically regarded themselves as Jiang Yuan's group, but this guy was the only one who always maintained a business-like attitude.

"Wang Jue, the public security of Taiping County is now in your hands. Just maintain it."

In the following morning, Jiang Yuan explained the six-month plan and three-year development in detail, which made everyone dizzy. Only Ma Zhi's eyes lit up from time to time and he gave a thumbs up in praise.

"Your Excellency's trick is really brilliant, but are you really not afraid of giving birth to a child without an anus?"

Jiang Yuan didn't care at first, but after hearing it so many times, he couldn't help but feel scared.

Should we install a lightning rod on that guy’s ancestral grave?

After chattering for a while, Jiang Yuan waved his hand and announced the end of the meeting.

After everyone left, Jiang Yuan stretched and breathed a long sigh, feeling really tired.

"Master, what would you like to eat for lunch?" Wang Gang asked, scratching his head.

Jiang Yuan waved his hand: "Just make whatever you like, two or three dishes will be enough."

After sending Wang Gang away, Jiang Yuan took a deep breath. It was time to free up his hands to deal with these horse thieves.

Even if the war horses are no longer wanted, this group of people must die!

Not long after, Jiang Yuan appeared in a fireworks shop.

"Master, what's the matter? Do you want fireworks? They are cheap now. How many do you want? I will send them to the county government office later." The firecracker shop owner smiled naively.

Jiang Yuan first glanced at him sideways and asked, "How much do you want to sell this for?"

"It's not expensive, sir. I can talk to the people in the county government about this little thing later." The boss still smiled naively.

Jiang Yuan curled his lips: "How much is it?"

"Fireworks are 150 cents each, and firecrackers are 50 cents each." The shop owner said cautiously.

Jiang Yuan's face suddenly darkened. Well, he was the one who got into trouble.

According to the market price, fireworks cost at most fifty cents, and you can buy a lot of firecrackers for ten cents.

"Boss, are your firecrackers explosive?"

"Nonsense, I sell fireworks, how can I sell you fireworks?"

The air froze for a few seconds, and Jiang Yuan blinked. "It seems like a lot of people have suddenly flocked to Taiping County recently, and a lot of shops have opened. I think we'll need a business license in the future. What do you think?"

The shop owner's face fell, and he looked at Jiang Yuan bitterly: "Sir, since we are a small business, how about fireworks being 50 wen and firecrackers being 1 wen per string?"

Jiang Yuan nodded with satisfaction: "Move all the things in your shop to the county government office. I also want all the unused gunpowder and saltpeter!"

After leaving the firecracker shop, Jiang Yuan ran straight to the sugar shop. Although there was no white sugar, sucrose might be of some use.

One sulfur, two nitrate, three charcoal, add some sugar and Big Ivan. With these things, even if we can't make an atomic bomb, it should be no problem to make some explosives.

The Great Duan Dynasty was still in the era of cold weapons. Not to mention cannons, they didn't even have muskets. With this thing, let alone conquering the world, it would be more than enough to deal with a few horse thieves.

After a while, all kinds of miscellaneous things were moved to the gate of the county government office, and Jiang Yuan casually took out a hollow ball the size of a fist.

Due to the backward manufacturing technology, it can only be considered half a sphere.

Jiang Yuan was powerless to do anything about this. He didn't study mechanics, so he couldn't make any corrections.

Fortunately, beeswax can be used to seal the ball. Pour a mixture of sulfur, saltpeter, and charcoal into the ball, then insert a long fuse, seal it with beeswax, and cover it with a special semicircular hat, and then use beeswax to divide the package.

After being busy for five or six minutes, Jiang Yuan looked at the homemade grenade in his hand and was quite satisfied.

"Even if my skills are poor, I still have a lot of gunpowder, so it should be powerful, right?"

Taking the tinder, Jiang Yuan couldn't wait to come to a deserted place.

First, they found an open space and set up four wooden boards around it to test the power of the spherical bomb.

He blew on the fire stick, lit the fuse, threw it in, turned around and ran.

Jiang Yuan only had a brief understanding of this thing. If he were to be killed by it, it would be too unfair.

"boom!"

A loud noise startled Jiang Yuan. After everything settled, Jiang Yuan poked his head out from behind the tree.

The four wooden boards that were originally standing all disappeared, and the air was filled with a strong smell of gunpowder.

Jiang Yuan searched the area for a long time, but ultimately only found a few small pieces of iron, which were the remnants left after the explosion of the sphere wrapped around it.

"Wow, this is powerful, it can blow up a huge area!"

"With this thing, I can fight not only horse thieves but even regular troops!"

Jiang Yuan's eyes lit up and he hurried back to the county government office.

He hurriedly called Zhao Kai, Kong Xuan, Li Hu and others over.

"Sir, what's the matter?"

Jiang Yuan happily shook the filled ball of explosives in his hand.

"Come on, tonight, I'll take you guys to do something big!"

Li Hu rolled his eyes for no reason: "Sir, we don't need anything now, so please stop doing such immoral things."