I became a god by treasure hunting after arriving 500 years early

Old Cat watched these villagers clamoring and let them be, understanding that this kind of thing had to be voluntary to be perfect.

It gazed at the stars in the sky, seemingly reminiscing about a homeland from long, long ago.

Every civilization began weak and grew strong.

An ideological change, actually, was simple...

One or two generations of education, and a few decades could change them, from backward thinking to advanced thinking.

A few decades, in the long river of history, were just a tiny droplet.

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Just then, a "rushing" sound came from the entrance of the village, and Lu Yuan had returned.

Seeing the 30-meter-tall Tree of Life, the large crowd in the square was surprised and somewhat unsure of what to do.

Some of the militia grabbed their long spears and forks, taking defensive postures.

"Don't be nervous, it's me, this tree is my mount that I subdued in Sky City."

The crowd saw Lu Yuan on the trunk of the tree and instantly relaxed.

Lu Yuan, controlling a human body, spoke, "Friends, have you decided? Will you follow me to Sky City, or stay here?"

Finally, a somewhat prestigious elder, Sha Sanli, stepped forward, "Our Sha Li Clan, with twenty villages, opened the Safe Zone six years ago, all the villages are fragmented."

"From the original seventy thousand people, we've reduced to not even nine thousand now."

"If it's about surviving, I'll be the first to follow Lu the Brave."

This old fellow was quite cunning, the first gentry to pledge allegiance, whose strategic value was definitely the highest, even if his status was a bit lower than before, but he would still have one.

Being too slow to switch allegiances... naturally meant having nothing at all.

In the desert, Guo Weiqiang and others also promptly responded.

Then, reciting the regulations: "Follow management, obey commands, engage in work, and no misconduct!!"

Right after, many villagers actually wanted to kowtow!

Lu Yuan was startled and immediately stopped these actions.

He definitely did not want to be some emperor; as a modern man, having others kowtow to him was just awkward.

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"My ultimate goal is actually to return to my homeland."

"Since you are willing to become a part of humanity, then... I won't refuse."

True equality among people, actually, even humans couldn't achieve... all that modern slavery, materialism, tasks of the master; Lu Yuan didn't bother evaluating them.

He was just not interested in being a local despot, that's all.

"So, I hope to establish a suitable system for development, where we can consult each other on matters."

For him, establishing a modern organization and collectively returning to human civilization was the only goal.

This was all he expected in life—damn it, who wants to spend every day worrying about how Pangu Continent will perish?

But the way of thinking of these natives... well, aside from a few people who could barely understand, the rest were clueless.

Let's take it slow.

Reciting some rules and regulations for now wasn't a bad start.

With that, everyone calmed down, and a strong sense of eagerness and expectation had already appeared in the hearts of the villagers!

Hope is a strange thing; materially nothing had changed yet.

Old Cat whispered a few more words into Lu Yuan's ear.

"First, deal with a few rich bigshots."

"Otherwise, we can't solve the food problem."

Lu Yuan nodded.

He publicly performed a feat, using the Tree of Life to fertilize several tens of kilograms of "rice."

This naturally won everyone's cheers.

They eagerly watched the magical rice, which changed from green to yellow in just three minutes and bore golden grains!

The fragrance of the rice blossoms still lingered in their nostrils, yet the rice was already ripe!

"Folks, although I can make this miraculous tree produce food, I won't help everyone unconditionally."

"It must be useful people, competent people, those willing to maintain order, who can follow me and survive these tough times!"

"Now, I hope the few villagers with food stockpiles will contribute their reserves to help us all get through this difficulty together."

"You must understand, it's impossible for one person to survive here alone."

No way around it, the first step to establishing authority was inevitably to fight the landlords and distribute their wealth.

A single Tree of Life couldn't feed everyone.

Seizing the food was a necessary step, or more than half of the population would starve to death within a month.

Under the absolute advantage of force, the former gentry's faces turned livid, stumbling over words they couldn't manage to utter.

Then Lu Yuan shifted his tone, "Fellow villagers, I won't take your property for nothing."

"I have some good things here... whatever you need, we can trade."

Lu Yuan actually took out some items!

The first were tech products from Rize Civilization, like flashlights, kitchen knives, medicines, and decorative items like gold necklaces and rings.

Next were some Extraordinary Foods, like Pomegranate Fruit, Soul Baby Fruit, and Extraordinary Corn, which were suitable for mass production and trading—of course, priced a bit higher; trading grain for Extraordinary Resources, Lu Yuan felt his heart bleeding.

He had his reasons for this approach.

A man without credibility cannot stand!

Even though he could rob openly, it would chill the hearts of his old comrades and also disrupt public order.