Ming Dynasty Little Landlord: I’m Truly a Descendant of the Dragon!

He was already powerful and influential in a feudal dynasty, yet he's still running a small business. Giving the protagonist this superpower is so unfair!

Why can't the protagonist just become the Dragon King? The Ming Dynasty was rife with cults; they just declared themselves gods and started a rebellion.

Honestly, in feudal dynasties like the Ming Dynasty, you could rob someone faster than do business. Without powerful connections, the more you earned, the faster you died; you didn't actually make much money.

By the late Ming Dynasty, firearms were in widespread use and were quite powerful. They could take you down from dozens or even hundreds of paces away. Who would want to fight you then? At that time, the Jurchens, thanks to the weapons sold to them by Shanxi merchants, were several levels better off than the Ming Dynasty. They had cannons, guns, and armor—they were incredibly wealthy, even though their total population was only one or two million at that time.

If he had this ability, why didn't he just rebel? Li Zicheng, a bandit, was able to raise hundreds of thousands of troops in just a few years. Why couldn't the protagonist do the same?

This skill choice is terrible!

Wouldn't it be better to just go ahead and loot like a warlord? Who cares about doing business?

If you have that kind of ability, just become a bandit or pirate, robbing everywhere. You're hopeless, you're already cheating, yet you still want to act like a Tang Dynasty official. What's wrong? Are you afraid of being banned for crossing boundaries? You're hypocritical.

Author, don't you even know where the readers' thrill lies? Your novels rely on paying to unlock abilities, and on making money through farming and business—isn't that ridiculous in that era? Without connections, how are you going to protect your wealth? This type of novel definitely needs to rely on plunder or military themes; that's what makes readers happy.

The protagonist can start planting trees, which later become used for ship timber, gunstock timber, and rubber trees. The northern plains have been largely deforested, and the climate is arid and cold. Ship timber, in particular, is mostly transported by water from Guangxi later on. The growth cycle of ship keel timber trees is measured in 100-year increments.