While the company has quelled the chaos in the Central Plains, the various departments of the Far East in Shenyang have basically been relocated. The headquarters of the company www.biquge.info temporarily located in several houses in the interior of the Ming Imperial City.

Beijing's municipal construction is still in the planning, compared with Shenyang, there is no water and toilet, no 20-hour hot water, no electric lights and telephones, so now the company's various departments of the office conditions are still relatively difficult, these modern facilities can only be pinned on next year.

At present, the company's main work is to overcome all difficulties and get on the right track as soon as possible. Although the company has made active preparations as early as two years ago, now that the company has just entered the Central Plains, all kinds of work are still piled up and complicated.

Fortunately, the company's material situation is very good now, even if it has been slightly short of food, it is not a big deal now.

First of all, the Yangtze River Fleet carried out the plan of "plundering Jiangnan", and the results were extremely brilliant, and the plundered grain greatly exceeded previous expectations.

Later, the big businessmen in various parts of the Central Plains colluded with each other to raise prices in various places through rumors and inciting all kinds of despicable means, which caused the Central Plains to fall into chaos.

In the face of such a crisis, the Far Eastern Company immediately reacted, quickly quelled the chaotic situation in various places, and dealt a heavy blow to the traditional feudal forces in various places.

In this action, the company not only won the hearts of the people of the Central Plains, but also directly pressed the grain price that has been high in the northern part of the Central Plains for more than ten years to the "cabbage price" through the efforts of various departments.

As a result, grain merchants all over the Central Plains sold all the grain they had been hoarding for many years to the Far East at low prices. Not only did the company not suffer too much loss in this economic war, but it also purchased a large amount of grain from grain merchants in various places.

This also completely solves the company's current food shortage problem, at least in the past two years, the company will not cause rapid social turmoil because of the lack of food.

The company also took the opportunity to establish a perfect grain strategic reserve system in various parts of the Central Plains. Each county has set up a combat readiness storage team, which is responsible for the management of various materials and is guarded by local garrison troops.

Of course, because of the rush of time and limited conditions, the company's modern strategic reserve granaries in various places have not yet been planned, and can only use the original backward official warehouses and military warehouses of the Ming Dynasty to temporarily store grain.

With a large number of grain and other materials being included in the strategic reserve system in various parts of the Central Plains, the company has finally completed the first layout in the Central Plains, laying the foundation for the next grassroots work.

After the Far East came into control of the Central Plains, in order to ensure the stability of the Central Plains, it did not touch the traditional local feudal forces. Especially the gentry and bureaucracy, the company has been very cautious, in addition to temporarily retaining the existence of officials at all levels, but also as much as possible to continue the various systems of the Ming Dynasty, but the company is not so polite to the Ming clan and relatives.

After Zhu Yuanzhang established the country, he set the lowest wage standard in Chinese history for the officials of the Ming Dynasty. But he set a very high standard for his children and grandchildren. After the prince was named the prince, he received ten thousand stones, which was nearly seven times that of the Ming Dynasty's first-class officials, not including a large amount of land and other rewards.

In order for future generations to fully enjoy their happiness, the royal family did not have to engage in any profession. Every descendant of the royal family, all consumption needs are borne by the state, from the age of ten onwards to receive a salary to enjoy the lulu, when the court is married, the court distributes housing, crown clothes, and wedding expenses. There is also a generous funeral bill at the time of death.

The descendants of the royal family are not bound by ordinary laws and are not subject to the control of the local government. The palaces, costumes, and military horses of the kings are the first class of the Son of Heaven, and the princes and ministers must "bow down and pay homage" when they see it.

Beginning in the middle and late Ming Dynasty, the imperial population increased exponentially. The number of people officially included in the royal archives of the Ming Dynasty, that is, on the jade, was 58 in the Hongwu period, 127 in the Yongle period, 19,611 in the 32nd year of Jiajing, and more than 80,000 in the 32nd year of Wanli.

And that's just the number of high-level royals, not counting the larger number of lower-level royalties. According to the estimation of An Jiesheng and other population history experts, by the end of the Ming Dynasty, Zhu Yuanzhang's descendants had multiplied to nearly one million.

It means that the fiscal expenditure will increase dozens or hundreds of times. And the royal family's income comes directly from the financial income of various places. From the middle of the Ming Dynasty onwards, local officials found that the local fiscal revenue was no longer enough to support the local royal family.

For example, Shanxi's local fiscal revenue is 1.52 million stones, while the annual consumption of Shanxi princes is 3.12 million stones. Henan's annual fiscal revenue is 840,000 stones, and what needs to be supplied to the prince is 1.92 million stones.

The best land in the world is increasingly concentrated in the hands of the royal family. King Jing and King Lu have as many as 40,000 hectares of farmland in Huguang and other places, 20,000 hectares of Zhuangtian of King Fu, and 30,000 hectares of Zhuangtian of King Gui, King Hui and King Rui. King Ji is in Changsha, with 7.8 million acres of land, and 40% of the fields in Changsha and Shanhua counties are also owned by King Ji. Half of the land in Henan Province is owned by the royal palaces.

The imperial court policy has been so generous, these princes and grandsons are still not satisfied. Relying on their special identity and influence, they extend their tentacles to all fields where there is oil and water, and they do everything without profit.

They used their connections to collude with local tycoons to ask the imperial court for special policies, which were resold to merchants, and then received huge profits from them. Almost all the most profitable industries in the region are monopolized by it.

All scarce natural resources, such as land, forests, and mines, proved to be profitable, and the royal family seized them by begging the emperor or by stealing them. The land encircled by the royal palaces in various places is "all taken from the middle and extreme fields of the state and county".

These vassal kings and nobles amassed the most wealth in the world through clever and plundering means. The rich king of the world, "pearl and jade goods bribe mountain accumulation", millions of money. The King of Qin in Shaanxi is rich in the world and "supports millions".

Since the middle of the Ming Dynasty, successive emperors have continued to pass on the cost of the clan to the people through means such as "adding factions". The hardships of the people, who were already heavily burdened, were even worse.

Of course, the Far East Company will not be polite to these descendants of the Zhu family, and the participating units of the Far East Army in the Central Plains Campaign, with the assistance of the Ministry of Intelligence, adopted a cruel liquidation policy against the vassal kings, clans and relatives in the northern part of the Ming Dynasty.

Although there was no policy of mass killings, all their property was confiscated. All the clan members were sent to concentration camps and placed under the control of the Far Eastern Army Intelligence Department.

They were carefully screened by the Far Eastern Intelligence Department and sent to various control areas overseas in batches. The fate of the man when he is young and strong will be to spend the rest of his life in the coolie camps in various overseas controlled areas, and almost no one will leave alive.

The old man and the child were held together, and although they also left by boat, they were never seen again. The fate of a large number of young clan women was not bad, and many of them changed their names and were sent to various controlled areas in the Far East.

How many women from these Ming clans there are, no one counts at all. Even years later, there was no news of them. Even many of them are very good-looking, and some of them have entered the homes of employees in the company, but they are generally infertile. (To be continued.) )