The feudal dynasty is essentially a cannibalistic society, and the poor people at the bottom can be said to be inferior to dogs, and can only be exploited and bullied by the local traditional feudal forces. Pen, fun, and www.biquge.info

Countless local tyrants and inferior gentry bullied men and women, and they also colluded with local officials to frantically annex land and oppress the local people.

They also lent money aggressively in the local area, and ordinary people had to borrow money from local landlords in the event of a famine or a family member's illness. Although the Ming court stipulated that the interest rate of private loans "shall not exceed three points", and "regardless of the length of the loan, the interest shall not exceed half of the principal." ”

After the middle of the Ming Dynasty, the people's usury activities were once very popular, and the gentry and landlord class looked for some local villains Qingpi to act as their agents, and lent money to the local people with interest and their high usury, and many people were forced to die.

Because they wear the same pants as the government, even if the poor people at the bottom are brutally persecuted, the lawsuit reaches the local yamen, and in the end they can only end it.

If it wants to change all this, the Far Eastern Company will inevitably touch the core interests of the traditional feudal ruling class in the Central Plains, and it must also completely smash the traditional feudal ruling structure of the Central Plains dynasties.

If the company wants to effectively solve the food and clothing of the people at the bottom, and cannot temporarily touch the interests of the traditional feudal forces, it needs a large amount of land to settle the people at the bottom to cultivate, so the company wants to carry out grassroots work, the key is to start from the land.

Although most of the land in the Central Plains is now in the hands of the traditional gentry and landlords, and the company has not yet established a firm foothold in the Central Plains, it can only implement the strategy of "boiling frogs in warm water" to temporarily avoid touching the interests of the traditional feudal ruling class.

However, there is no need to be so polite to the vassal clans and noble relatives of the Ming Dynasty, and as soon as they entered the Central Plains, they took vigorous and resolute action against them, and nationalized their land and official fields of the Ming Dynasty, as well as various properties and other materials under their names, as well as real estate such as manors and shops.

There were also some lands, shops and farms of Ming Dynasty eunuchs in various places, as well as a large number of lands and farms of the Ming royal family, which were also confiscated in this liquidation operation.

The gentry and bureaucracy in the Central Plains did not react to such a move by the Far Eastern Company. After all, it is also a relatively normal phenomenon to change the dynasty and liquidate the clans of the previous dynasty. As long as their interests are not touched, these scholars will not think about the fallen emperor at all.

The only regret for them is that the Far East, relying on its own strength, independently completed the liquidation operation. Such a fat difference was not handed over to them to deal with, which also gave them one less chance to collude with each other and get up and down.

Because of the great drought in Chongzhen, thieves broke out in the north of the Ming Dynasty, especially in Shanxi, Shaanxi, Henan, Shandong and other places. Numerous armed bandits are wreaking havoc in these areas.

In addition, the Far Eastern Company was behind the scenes, the Intelligence Department of the Military Commission and the various base areas of the Ming Dynasty, as well as more than a dozen bandit armies controlled by the company, carried out a brutal blow to the gentry and landlords in various places.

This also made a large amount of land in the northern part of the Central Plains barren and thus borderless, and the amount of these lands was also extremely considerable. In this liquidation, the unclaimed land was also nationalized.

It is also a very cumbersome task to count such a large scale of land and assets. Fortunately, the Far Eastern Company has cultivated a large number of talents in this area over the years, and with the strong support of the Far Eastern Intelligence Department and grassroots cadres in various localities, as well as the fierce Far Eastern Army to escort them, they have basically completed all the liquidation tasks before the winter.

At the same time as the liquidation of the assets of the Ming Dynasty, the company also had a task of carrying out large-scale sweeps in the northern part of the Central Plains, vigorously purging the Ming Dynasty defeated army and thieves in various places.

These people could not stay in the Central Plains, and the Far Eastern Army imprisoned them in concentration camps, severely rectified them, and then sent them to various overseas control areas of the company by ship in batches.

There, they will also undergo more severe winter training to strengthen the organization and discipline of these guys, and then they will be placed in various overseas control areas. In the future, when the company carries out global colonization, it will also select elite people from among these people to participate in the wave of global colonization of the company.

During the interval between battles, the participating units of the Far Eastern Army wantonly collected displaced people from various places, registered, screened, and purified them, and then resettled them in various parts of the Central Plains.

Although there were also a large number of tenants and slaves in the land of the Ming clan and the nobles of the foreign relatives, the large number of ownerless lands in the northern part of the Central Plains was also very large, and the displaced people collected in the northern part of the Central Plains in the Far East in recent months were not enough to fill the huge amount of land.

Therefore, the Military Commission issued orders to the garrison troops in various parts of the Central Plains, but they "mobilized" some of the people in the northern part of the Central Plains, and then sent them to the unclaimed land in various places for resettlement.

Of course, the company did not mobilize the registered peasants, but gave the doctrine to the tenants of the gentry and landlords everywhere. In fact, they all belonged to the hidden population in the Ming Dynasty, and could only be attached to the gentry and landlords

The order of the Military Commission requires that the troops must not forcibly relocate the population. However, the people in various places were given extremely favorable conditions, as long as the people agreed to relocate, they could receive a surplus of food for several months, and they were all distributed according to the capitation, and some necessary production and living materials were provided free of charge.

Although the Far Eastern Army did not adopt the policy of forcibly relocating the people, the employees and grassroots cadres of the Propaganda and Education Department of the Ethnic Affairs Committee who accompanied them would knock on the door of each village and explain in detail to the people the migration policy of the Far East.

Moreover, horse-drawn carts full of grain also followed them into the village, and as long as the people had the intention of migrating, they would immediately carry bags of grain into the homes of the people, and then persuade them to go to the new land.

But in the face of a group of fierce Far Eastern officers and soldiers, how dare these honest peasants go with them. Even if the employees and grassroots cadres of the Propaganda and Education Department of the Ethnic Affairs Committee who accompanied them said all the good things, these peasant households, who had been born and raised here for several lifetimes, were reluctant to leave their homeland.

Although they were all tenants of the local gentry and landlords, they had worked hard for a year, and the little food left after paying the rent was not enough to feed the stomachs of the whole family, but at least they could survive.

Especially since the successive years of drought have just passed, the situation of the past two years has been getting better and better, and everyone's hearts have just settled down, so let them leave their hometown and go to an unknown place, of course they are not willing to go.

In the end, the Far Eastern Army could only use coercion and intimidation to forcibly relocate villages one by one, causing crying and wailing everywhere in the Central Plains, as if life and death were parting, and that scene made people feel sad to watch.

(To be continued.) )