The Far Eastern Company's entry into the Central Plains was absolutely not as simple as imagined, and military means could not solve the fundamental problem. Stabilizing the situation on the ground is, of course, the main task.

In fact, the best way to stabilize the local situation is to rule the world with scholars and doctors, as in history. With the strong strength of the Far East, as long as the gentry class in the world is given the opportunity to become a leader, the world will be able to spread the word for thousands of miles.

Although this method is the quickest, and the new dynasty will prosper for at least a hundred years. But in this way, no matter how powerful the dynasty is, it cannot escape the vicious circle of frequent changes of dynasties in Chinese history.

In recent years, the Far Eastern Army has successively conquered Japan, Korea, Nanyang, Indochina Peninsula, India, Persia, Central Asia, Russia and other regions, and this method has been used.

However, the Central Plains is different after all, and of course the Far Eastern Company cannot raise a butcher's knife to set off a bloody storm in the Central Plains like the Manchu Qing Dynasty entered the customs.

Therefore, after the Far East entered the Central Plains, the top priority at the moment was to firmly control the grassroots level. Only with the support of the broad masses of poor people at the bottom can the Far East gain a firm foothold in the Central Plains.

How can we get the support of the broad masses of people at the bottom of the Central Plains, to put it bluntly, it is still the same sentence, that is, let them live a good life without exploitation, without oppression, and with enough food and clothing. Only in this way can the people truly support you,

If we want to do a good job in grassroots work in the Central Plains, it is of course indispensable to have a large number of grassroots cadres who are capable and have rich experience in grassroots management.

In addition to a large number of grassroots management cadres, they also need the support of a large number of food, cloth and other materials.

Since the Far Eastern Group solved the food crisis, the company's storage center began to build the Far Eastern Strategic Grain Reserve System on a large scale. After several years of construction, a large number of modern grain reserve warehouses have been established in the coastal areas of Liaodong, Luzon, Nanyang, Indochina Peninsula, Jeju Island, Taiwan Island and other regions.

In addition, the Logistics Department of the Central Military Commission has also set up a separate system of combat readiness warehouses, and although it mainly uses ammunition and equipment and field food, it also stores a lot of grain and cloth. Even in the Hetao area, where conditions are difficult, continuous war-ready grain warehouses have been set up along both sides of the Yellow River.

In recent years, the company has increased its immigration efforts to India, Indochina Peninsula, Nanyang and Luzon, coupled with the development of a large amount of land in Liaodong and Outer Northeast, the company's grain output has been enough to meet the company's needs, and a large amount of grain can be stored every year.

In the face of countless Ming people in the vast area north of the Yangtze River in the Ming Dynasty, if the company wants to gain a foothold in the Central Plains, it must let them be fed. Therefore, in recent years, the company's storage center and the logistics department of the Military Commission have been storing grain like crazy.

Even so, the Far Eastern Company's food reserves are still tight. In order to solve the huge food shortage, the company has also increased the intensity of grain collection in India's South Seas and other regions.

Rather than collecting grain, in fact, it is almost the same as robbing, and now the Indian people in various princely states in India are extremely miserable by the leaders of various princely states, and there is a large-scale famine every year, and countless people are starved to death.

The same is true of the native kings of the South Seas, who can only transfer the pressure to the people under their rule in the face of the aggressive attitude of the Far Eastern Company, and frantically squeeze them, and the natives of the South Sea islands have always seemed to be in the midst of water and fire.

In addition, after the company occupied India and Persia, although the Far East had strong shipping capabilities, there were still large quantities of grain stored in these areas because of the large amount of seized grain and other materials. Every year, numerous sailboats ply to and from these areas, bringing displaced people to and back with food.

After the company entered the Central Plains, if it carried out large-scale winter training, it was obviously unrealistic. Although the amount of food consumed has decreased dramatically, the people in the northern part of the Central Plains cannot be starved to death in any case, so the food demand of the Far Eastern Company is still severe.

Fortunately, the situation in the northern part of the Central Plains is now erosive, thieves are swarming everywhere, a large number of gentry and landlords' forts have been breached, and their families have been killed.

Therefore, much of the arable land in the northern part of the Central Plains has become terra nullius, and the Far Eastern Company can migrate displaced people and landless farmers to cultivate the land when it enters the Central Plains.

However, land alone is not enough, although the Chongzhen drought has weakened a lot, but the climate in recent years is still relatively bad, and it was not until after 1650 that the weather gradually warmed up in history.

Therefore, the company's agriculture and forestry department has been preparing for it in recent years, and seed cultivation centers around the country have prepared a large number of drought-resistant and cold-resistant seeds. After the company goes south to the Central Plains, the grassroots villages in various places will use the excellent seeds of the Far East.

At that time, corn, potatoes and sweet potatoes will also temporarily become the main crop varieties in the rural areas of northern Central Plains. In this era, agricultural technology is very backward, and farmers get up early and work hard for a year, even if they catch up with the good weather, the average yield per mu of land is more than 300 catties.

The population of the Ming Dynasty is so large, but with such a low yield per mu, the north has encountered a seven-year-long Chongzhen drought, and the Ming Dynasty has not been dragged down, which is really a miracle.

When the company entered the northern part of the Ming Dynasty, the first thing to do was to rectify the borderless lands in various regions, confiscate the private land of the vassal kings and nobles in various parts of the Ming Dynasty, and a large number of official lands occupied by the bureaucracy.

There is also a large number of local tyrants and gentry who bully men and women in various parts of the Ming Dynasty, and confiscate all their land and family property.

After the land is planned, the displaced people and the landless tenants in various places will be collected in various places. They were placed on these lands and the policy of subsistence distribution was implemented.

According to the incomplete statistics of the Central Plains Intelligence Station, the ownerless cultivated land in the northern part of the Ming Dynasty has approached 30% of the registered land in the provinces. The officials of the local government also made a lot of fortune by virtue of these borderless lands.

Under the leadership of the Far East, the displaced people and tenants in various places will make use of the excellent seeds cultivated by the Ministry of Agriculture and Forestry of the Far East, as well as the advanced agricultural technology of the Far East, and the yield per mu in various places during the autumn harvest will surely shock the people of the Ming Dynasty.

The average yield per mu of several crops of Far Eastern Company in Liaodong is very exciting. The average yield per mu of corn has reached or approached 1,000 catties, and the yield per mu of potatoes has approached 2,000 catties.

Sweet potatoes are still the most violent, and the average yield per mu is close to 3,000 catties. Even in some individual areas, the yield per mu of sweet potatoes has reached more than 4,000 catties.

Of course, this is directly related to the fertile black soil in Liaodong, Outer Northeast and other regions, and most of the wasteland developed by the company is selected in the areas with rich water resources along the rivers, coupled with the excellent seeds cultivated by the Agriculture and Forestry Department of the Far Eastern Company using modern wind to adapt to the climatic conditions of eastern Liaoning and Outer Northeast. (To be continued.) )