Chapter 94 Blue Blood Nobles
Madagascar, Zhangjiacheng.

Since reaching a military weapons research and development agreement with a certain company, Meihua Company has invested most of its funds in the military industry. After all, it is better to store guns than to store food.

Of course, it is mainly the military industry that can drive the development of all walks of life. With the help of these scientific and technological talents, we can realize industrialization as soon as possible. This opportunity should not be missed.

This is mainly the development of heavy industry, which cannot be said to be similar to the development in the early days of Red Russia, but can only be said to be exactly the same.

The Red Russia had no choice but to choose this path. The First World War and the subsequent foreign armed intervention and domestic counter-revolutionary rebellion brought the Red Russia's already backward national economy to the brink of collapse.

The economy was severely damaged, which directly affected people's lives. Factory shutdowns and food shortages caused unemployment and famine.

The primary task facing the Red Russian government was to restore the destroyed national economy. However, restoring the national economy only meant reaching the previous level, and it was still a backward country.

Russia is a backward agricultural country where capitalism has failed to develop, and its industry, especially heavy industry, is very backward.

In order to ensure the success of the entire liberation cause of the newly born Red Russia and the victory of socialism by completely freeing it from the shackles of capital, it is necessary to greatly improve social productivity and realize industrialization and agricultural mechanization.

The development of any matter has its historical background, and the historical background for the development of heavy industry by the Meihua Company was the upcoming World War II and the struggle for post-war interests.

No matter how advanced the world's civilization becomes, violence is always the strongest force, and a certain level of self-preservation capability is a must.

This period of time is the last window of opportunity. During the Second World War, taking advantage of the chaotic situation when various countries were too busy to pay attention, and the collapse of Britain and France's global colonies after the war, Zhang Feng was bound to seize this opportunity to lay the foundation of his family.

After having a certain foundation, what remains to be done is to take root in various places. Zhang Feng now has many sons, and their marriages must contribute to the family.

A few hundred years is enough to witness the rise and fall of nations and the changes of hegemony. Countless organizations that were once powerful have been reduced to ashes in the blink of an eye. However, beneath the grand historical narrative, there is still a group of people who have successfully passed on power and wealth by relying on the most ancient bloodline inheritance, becoming blue-blooded aristocrats who stand tall in any era.

17世纪英国派往北美卡罗来纳州的殖民总督约翰伊曼斯；18世纪30年代北美13个殖民地最大的奴隶贩子约瑟夫拉格；19世纪中叶俄罗斯帝国最成功的企业家之一，亚历山大二世册封为男爵的约翰路德维希冯鲁普。

Although these famous figures at the time have long disappeared in the long river of history, their wealth and power have been passed down through their bloodlines. After hundreds of years of reproduction and circulation, these bloodlines have continued to extend and blend.

For a powerful family, the country is not important. As an aristocracy that gathers the blood of famous people from various countries, the family's interests have long transcended national boundaries. Hundreds of years of family inheritance have told these aristocrats with a long history that the secret to success is to always stand on the side of the strong. No matter the dynasty changes or the country perishes, they can always transform themselves and become the upper elite of the new era again.

Maybe they are not the most powerful family in every era, but they are always the ones that stand at the top.

Every country has its own operating rules. For a long time in the foreseeable future, no country will be strong enough to establish a set of universal world standards. Powerful countries can only maintain a relatively stable system through mutual compromise and checks and balances.

In this kind of system, these people are needed to connect the interests of all parties. They will become the guides of the strong, and can not only divide the interests of their own country, but also obtain the protection of the strong.

At the same time, they are also strong and will join forces with other strong people to oppress the weak in order to gain benefits.

When a crisis breaks out, they can use their blood or marriage ties to move their money to other safe areas and continue to enjoy a wealthy life. Through manipulation, they can join the local upper class. Finally, they may be able to make a comeback with compromise among all parties and become the upper class of the country again, repeating what happened before.

This is the blue-blooded aristocracy.

When the Meihua Company shifted its focus to military industrial enterprises, it also relaxed the operating restrictions on light industry.

The light industry under the Meihua Company accounts for less than 50% of the entire Zhangjiacheng area.

Most of the companies established in the past two years are owned by the management of Meihua Company or their family members and relatives.

Firstly, it was because the wage system had only been implemented recently and they were the only ones who had the capital;
Secondly, they have the connections to get production equipment and technology.

Some people even directly privatized the "poorly managed" companies under the American Chinese company at very little money.

After the fake canned beef incident broke out, the Safety Management and Supervision Department and the Public Opinion Survey Department launched a comprehensive investigation. They also investigated all the inside information and passed the news to Zhang Feng. Zhang Feng felt that he had underestimated their greed.

The investigation found that all walks of life were plagued by shoddy workmanship and corruption, especially in the food industry, where safety issues were alarming because this industry is currently the easiest to enter.

On the one hand, illegal use of food additives and non-food raw materials to produce and process food, passing inferior goods off as good ones, adulterating and counterfeiting.

Excessive use of preservatives and freshness-maintaining agents during food procurement, storage and transportation.

On the other hand, many food companies are small in scale, and their production workshops are dirty and messy. Some companies even sell fake and substandard food, or spoiled food. The Safety Supervision and Administration Office, in conjunction with the police and the court, has strictly and quickly arrested and sentenced a group of bad entrepreneurs and the management of the Meihua Company who protected them.

"It's a relief! In order to increase profits, Shanlu Company added self-developed Shanlu cyanamide to its dairy products, which caused great harm to human health. The company's boss has been sentenced to death." - Daily News
"Changyun Company produced gutter oil, the company was closed down and the boss was detained." - Chinese Daily
"Lei Dafu, the director of the food industry department of the Meihua Company, embezzled and accepted bribes of huge amounts. He ignored the company's repeated warnings and interfered with the law enforcement of the Supervisory Office. He went from being a guardian of fairness and justice to a trampler of legal order, seriously damaging the company's credibility. He used public resources for personal gain, condoned and acquiesced in his relatives using their official influence to accept bribes, became a protective umbrella for bad entrepreneurs, lost his moral bottom line as a Chinese, and engaged in corruption and power-for-money transactions. The stolen money has now been confiscated and he is awaiting judicial trial." - Meihua Daily.

The anti-corruption campaign in the food industry is in full swing, and more and more business owners and management of related Chinese companies are being taken away for investigation.

Seeing this scene, the people applauded, but those with related interests were all panicked. They could no longer sit still and began to make comments in the media newspapers with which they had connections.

"If we continue to investigate, the company bosses will be arrested. These people are all excellent entrepreneurs. Then the company will be left without anyone to run it. There will be food shortages, soaring prices, and people will starve to death. --Xu Xianchun" --Zhongcheng Daily
"We can't continue investigating. If we continue investigating, the factory will close down, and tens of thousands of workers will lose their jobs, which will trigger a chain reaction. Without jobs and sources of income, people may lose their minds and cause chaos. -- Wang Fuqing" -- Chengxin Daily
Both of them are middle-level managers of Chinese-American companies, and some of the companies under investigation are owned by their family members.

In fact, this is nothing more than their sophistry. Whether these people are conscientious and excellent entrepreneurs is another matter. The bankrupt factories will naturally be taken over by new wealthy people. As long as there is money to be made, there will never be a shortage of new entrepreneurs.

Many people also said that it was because of these entrepreneurs that the wages of workers in Zhangjiacheng increased by 20% in the past two years.

The wage increase is a fact. After the Meihua Company relaxed the restrictions, in order to snatch workers from the factories under the Meihua Company, these business owners had no choice but to increase wages to attract workers.

Even though the wages were raised, most people were still unwilling to work in private factories. Some people began to recruit refugees from the mysterious big country on their own, or simply used natives.

The Meihua Company no longer transports immigrants for free, but requires immigrants to repay part of the immigration fees every month after they find work. One reason is that the company's expenses have increased dramatically and some are unable to afford it. On the other hand, some of the transported immigrants no longer work for the Meihua Company, so naturally fees need to be charged.

Although workers' wages have increased by 20%, food prices have increased by 30% in the past two years. Ordinary people's income has increased, but their sense of happiness has decreased.

Things continued to ferment in the midst of this turmoil, and some chaos also appeared in the Meihua Company. In this chaos, Xu Xianchun and Wang Fuqing were both shot and killed, and there was a brief silence for a while.

The criminals were also arrested a few days later. According to the police investigation, the company associated with the families of these two people produced expired or even toxic food, which caused several relatives of the prisoners to be hospitalized, but they have not received any compensation.

Xu Xianchun and Wang Fuqing also used their power to prevent the court from hearing their cases and even threatened and intimidated them.

Several people were already dissatisfied, and after reading the shameless remarks made by the two in the newspaper a few days ago, they could no longer bear it, so they organized themselves and carried out the assassination of Xu Xianchun and Wang Fuqing.

In the end, it was Zhang Feng who made the final decision. His husband criticized Lei Wanting and others, and demanded a thorough investigation without any compromise.

Because these people are harming his interests, it has nothing to do with him who gets rich, but it cannot shake Zhang Feng's ruling foundation.

It was also proposed to separate the police, courts and supervisory departments and have them belong to different companies and institutions to reduce the possibility of mutual interference, but how long this can be maintained depends on the situation.

This was something Zhang Feng had thought of before, but it had not been officially implemented yet. This was a good opportunity to decentralize the Meihua Company again.

He was indeed very dissatisfied with the current management of the Meihua Company. Everyone was only concerned about their own interests, and in just a few years they had formed their own factions. If it was not managed quickly, it would become even more difficult in the future.

Once it has become solidified, we can only carry out reforms, but every reform is a test of life and death. Many dynasties in history have perished in the process of reform, and only one in a hundred can succeed.

The second is to introduce legal provisions for various industries as soon as possible, improve rules and regulations, and impose strict penalties on violations of the law.

The management of Chinese American companies that were found to be corrupt and accepting bribes would basically have all their property confiscated and be sent to labor reform, or in serious cases, the death penalty.

For illegal enterprises, the lightest punishment is half life penalty, such as false advertising;
Severe cases can be fined directly to bankruptcy and auction, such as selling inferior goods as good ones;

In more serious cases, the boss will be sentenced to death, such as intentionally adding additives that are harmful to human health.

In addition, for those who embezzle the assets of Meihua Company, all illegal gains will be confiscated, a three-fold fine will be imposed, and the case will be handed over to the court for prosecution.

After thoroughly investigating and punishing a group of people, the entire industry has been completely renewed. I believe that with such high fines and strict laws, few people would dare to take risks. After all, the cost of breaking the law is also very high.

The investigation into the food industry has gradually come to an end. The Chinese American Daily finally published an article saying:

In order to further implement food safety responsibilities, strictly prevent and control food safety risks, comprehensively improve the level of food safety governance, continue to strengthen communication and coordination with public reports and market supervision, cooperate sincerely, and move forward hand in hand, promote the coordination and responsibility implementation of food production enterprises, safety supervision, and Meihua company management, and do our utmost to maintain the bottom line of food safety and push food safety work to a new level.

As for the prisoners who shot Xu Xianchun and Wang Fuqing, they were detained by the military and sent to Yemen to join the Yulin mercenaries.

(End of this chapter)