Also letting the cities surrounded by large farms become the main body of the national administrative units, requiring far fewer management personnel than in the past to govern these places.
With ample labor force perfectly facilitating the prerequisites for industrialization, all that's left is for the Whale Oil Steam Engine to enter the scene, and factories can rise up from the ground.
Finally, Byron reclaims their land, redistributing it according to villages, able to win over the hearts of the people without spending a penny.
Of course, the basic principle of land distribution is: "Water Mining City land belongs to the state, collective housing mountain lands for self-retention."
Farmers only have the right to use the land but not ownership, cannot buy and sell, but can use it as a reservoir and flood channel under industrialization.
