That's it, after removing the Hereford family, this "obstacle" that is difficult for everyone. Pen @ fun @ pavilion wWw. ｂｉｑUｇE。 infoThe war continues. The entire human world continues to be in turmoil.

Against this backdrop, there is still quiet and peaceful, with little impact. The land under the control of the Hereford family, which can be said to be very "peaceful", has become a paradise in the hearts of many people.

Massive waves of migration appeared. It was only different in the northern part of the empire, in the war-affected territories, namely Lotternia, and Jutland. This time there was a wave of mass emigration from Franknia further south, as well as Bohemia.

Recently, the number of refugees in Austria has increased dramatically after the Protestant coalition invaded southern Moravia.

To put it more simply, the entire empire, basically except for Frisia, which was relatively stable, had a relatively large flow of refugees in all other places, including Lombardy, which had little to do with the war.

Of course, the flow of Lombard refugees is somewhat different from that of other countries.

In other countries, it's basically all classes, and everyone runs away. And the Lombardy escapes are currently some relatively wealthy guys.

The guys ran away for two reasons.

One of them was the declining manufacturing industry in Lombardy, and the seafaring trade, which was devastated by the defeat in naval battles and was expected to soon blow the lamp and pull out the wax.

They wanted to be able to find a new place to invest, and this place of investment was the Hereford family, which William controlled.

Therefore, just like Grandpa Ma said, capital naturally has no borders. Even with these capitalists there will be no borders. Where they are settled, they will run.

Of course, William, as one of the vested interests, would not say that they were.

Whether it is a refugee at the top, with capital, or a refugee at the bottom, with little property - or simply nothing, the abject refugees are the same. The Hereford family all treated them equally, and opened their arms to them.

William had just had two large territories on his books. Whether it was the development of the Cuman-Kipchak steppes and the construction of cities and settlements on these steppes to strengthen the Hereford family's rule over the region. Or the Ruthenian region, the restoration of industrial and agricultural production in this region, diluting the ratio of Slavians to Cossacks, required a large Gothic population.

The influx of these refugees helped William a lot. William said he wasn't satisfied, it was fake.

As for the cost and expense of arranging these refugees, William did not have to worry about this. His army had ceased operations, and the amount of military supplies needed had plummeted. In addition to this, his lands and estates have been in abundance. There is too much food to eat.

So, the only thing that's hard now is this year.

As long as he survived this year, and by next year, when the refugees had cleared all the fertile land of Ruthenia, William would continue to struggle with how to find a way out for his country's agricultural products.

"Ahh There is too much land, too much agricultural population, too much food production...... Sometimes it's not a good thing. William thought to himself.

Anyone with a little knowledge of economics knows the theory of supply and demand, and when supply exceeds demand, prices will fall. This is the legendary grain and the farmer. That is to say, they have obviously obtained a good harvest, but in fact, because of the drop in prices, the price of grain cannot rise, but they earn less than usual.

Of course, when society develops to the stage of capitalism. In the face of the situation of cheap grain hurting peasants and oversupply. The capitalists happily invented a tactic -- they would rather destroy all the crops in the fields and pour all the milk into the river, and thus destroy the crops on a large scale, but maintain a high price in order to make money happily.

Of course, although his identity is also tinged with capital, William still values his dominance over the country.

One of the things that makes him even greater than those capitalists is that he is not the effort of capital. What he wants most is not the multiplication of capital, not the meaningless increase of capital.

What he pursued was the stability of the Hereford family's rule, as well as the progress of society as a whole.

It is precisely for this reason that William quickly issued a large number of orders in response to this measure.

In the final analysis, the core of these whole sets of commands, and the final decrees, the real intent and the real purpose, are only four words.

That is macroeconomic regulation and control.

To put it simply, when prices are low, the government steps in and buys up the reserves at a higher average price. When prices are high, they have to sell them in order to stabilize prices.

In the case of a certain shortage of materials, the government should introduce policies to encourage everyone to produce. In the case of a surplus of certain materials, the government has to introduce policies to reduce the production of such materials.

It's very simple, it's very convenient - for the average person.

But for a government agency, especially one in modern times, this is a very difficult job.

There are two difficulties here. First, in this era when the telegraph had not yet been invented, it was very difficult to grasp the production and price of all kinds of important materials in the large territories under the control of the Hereford family, all over the Great Frontier.

If the central government fails to grasp the correct information and makes wrong judgments and decisions when carrying out macroeconomic regulation and control, the losses caused will be very huge.

And the second difficulty is to face those unscrupulous profiteers and hoarders.

Those guys are the biggest enemies that the government will face in carrying out macroeconomic regulation and control. After the government wants to raise prices and set a higher price standard, there is a good chance that those bastards will buy a large amount of this material in advance and then trade it. The reverse is also true.

If these guys are not dealt with, then the policy of benefiting the people introduced by the Hereford family is likely to eventually become a new means of profit for them, which will not benefit the people, and in turn will damage the credibility of the government and economic strength.

However, these two difficulties are only superficial. William thought to himself: "There is only one thing that is really difficult. Talent. ”

Yes, William could make laws that worked, and by his knowledge in the afterlife, and through his years of experience in this world, he could make laws that worked. But there's a problem here, and that's that all laws are executed by human beings.

Countless reforms have the problem that if the enforcers are unfavorable, no matter how good the laws and reforms are, they will lose their original role, not only fail to promote and develop, but even run counter to the original intention.

"It's the same for both the data collectors and the policy enforcers. Establish a complete system of macroeconomic regulation and control. A complete administrative team is needed.

These people must know professional knowledge and work hard. In addition to that, you have to be capable. Fortunately, the Hereford family has raised people for several years, not for nothing. ”

In this way, during the years of his reign, William spared no effort to promote basic education and cultivate and introduce talents. The system of examinations for civil servants at the grassroots level, which it promoted, was criticized by a large number of aristocrats as deviant and devoid of aristocratic elegance.

This is also the most important reason why the nobles within the empire are not interested in carrying the portable shrine for William and making him the emperor.

They would rather cooperate with the Empire's theoretical greatest enemies, the Britons, than act with William. This is the main reason.

Under the rule of the Hereford family, those civilian-born mud legs are too easy to get ahead. The privileges of the nobility were greatly diminished. Under the blow of the Hereford family who spared no effort. There is no longer a duke in the Great Frontier, any of the more powerful counts.

Some are just a group of small and medium-sized nobles who are subservient to William and the Hereford family, with almost no independence, like pugs.

These people were one of the backbone of the Hereford family, and their status was analogous to that of the landlords and the small rich peasants. The main reason for bringing these guys out is to balance the increasingly powerful merchants, or the bourgeoisie.

William wanted to build them into a new generation of agricultural capitalists. Analogous to the Junker aristocracy of the Second German Reich.

So far, the results of this plan have not been too great.

It's one thing to bow down to the Hereford family. It's another thing to accept reality, to be truly obedient, and to join this emerging empire.

Nowadays, a new trend of thought has swept all of humanity. But the enormous power of its brewing has yet to be truly felt. In this case, not realizing how terrible the bourgeoisie was, the future Junker aristocracy could not become a royalist party as their counterparts in the other world.

Of course, William believes, it's only a matter of time.

As his power grows and the power of the Hereford family grows, it is only natural that more and more nobles will gather and become part of the empire.

When they saw no hope of seizing power internally, and externally they were threatened by revolution.

That's it. William, who has the big killer of the civil service examination system, can recruit more people than any other country, with sufficient numbers and sufficient abilities.

In this way, William's macroeconomic control policy has a group of relatively reliable responsible persons.

Of course, even so, in the beginning, William only included a few necessities of life in the scope of regulation.

Grain, cloth, salt, iron and copper.

These five important commodities are the first batch of commodities that the Hereford family expects to control in their hands, and that they hope to be able to save and regulate.

I believe that this list will grow bigger and bigger over time, and I also believe that over time, the Hereford family will become the most powerful ruler in the world.