Steel Dynasty - Chapter 698

[Chapter 697 State-owned Capital]

There was silence in the court hall.

This series of decrees caught the officials off guard. At this time, a minister came out and asked: “Your Majesty, officials are not allowed to do business. Can the official’s relatives do business?” “

No.” Xiao Ming said categorically. In his opinion, once Allowing officials to do business is equivalent to allowing officials to do business in disguise, because officials will inevitably use their rights to seek personal gain for their families.

The ministers fell silent for a while. The emperor wanted to completely eliminate the opportunity for them to use public weapons for private use.

After looking around at the ministers in the court, Xiao Ming continued: “In addition to supporting the establishment of private workshops, the court should focus on establishing a number of official workshops to control the lifeline of the country. I asked Pang Shoufu to allocate these six million taels of silver. , most of which will be used to build official workshops, which involve the management of ordnance, shipbuilding, salt, and tea. “

Pang Yukun asked: “Your Majesty, if there are such official workshops, there will be not a few official workshops. Who will manage it and whether officials should be appointed? “

This establishment of a state-run workshop is a plan to kill two birds with one stone for Xiao Ming.

The development of private capital will inevitably bring huge changes to the Great Chongqing. If Xiao Ming completely hands over the business of the Great Chongqing to private capital, he will be very passive in the future, and even like the West, the lifeblood of the country will be controlled by businessmen.

Therefore, since we are vigorously developing capital, it is better to develop our own national capital at the same time. In this way, he can represent both officials and capital. He is the emperor and the largest capitalist at the same time. The government will not change due to the interference of businessmen, and even he Able to use state-owned capital to regulate the market.

Businessmen pursue profits. In the country where he lives in the contemporary era, many businessmen have taken advantage of the situation to make money while the country is facing difficulties. For example, the spread of a certain disease caused the price of salt to rise sharply due to rumors, and private salt was hoarded by businessmen and sold at high prices.

In this case, if the salt industry is not in the hands of the state, the situation will inevitably worsen.

It is precisely because of these personal experiences that while encouraging capital, he also tied a chain to capital.

At the same time, the second purpose of this government-run workshop is to help him digest the royal family members. This time Xiao Ming’s so-called opportunity to give the royal family members is to completely eliminate the ambition of the royal family members to enter politics.

According to Pang Yukun’s statistics a few days ago, there are currently 470,000 royal family members in Dayu. This is after many royal families were slaughtered by the vassals after the Northern War.

Such a huge number of people really shocked Xiao Ming. Only then did he truly understand why the royal family was called the largest wealthy family.

According to Xiao Ming’s understanding, the Chongqing Kingdom and the Ming Dynasty made the same mistake, which was to provide free support to the royal family.

After hundreds of years of reproduction, this gradually became a serious problem in Dayu, and now this problem fell into his hands again.

If he was not a royal, he would start from scratch and conquer the world without having to worry about these people. However, since he is inheriting the throne, if he does not handle it properly, it will inevitably cause turmoil among the royal family.

During this period, Li San has been paying close attention to the dynamics of these royal family members, and now it seems that these royal family members who have no ability to make a living are about to make trouble with him.

So he used this opportunity to completely solve this problem and bring these royals into the government-run workshops, make them “employees” in the government-run workshops, give them an iron rice bowl treatment, and exchange their labor for money and food.

Of course, this iron rice bowl is only within their two generations, and the third generation will no longer receive such treatment, thus completely resolving this big problem.

Of course, this is only for those ordinary royal families, because these royal families are already very distant from the royal family and are infinitely close to ordinary people. They will be happy to enjoy this kind of treatment, and their number is also the largest.

Naturally, they would not be willing to be ordinary craftsmen for people like Song Guogong, so this time Xiao Ming planned to include Princess Pingyang in the ranks of official businessmen and no longer allow her to engage in private business among the people, thereby preventing the royal family from doing business privately.

The reason is very simple. In fact, it is to turn the pig-raising model into a part-time job model, and at the same time, Princess Pingyang and others who have gained benefits will become profit-bundlers with him.

As an official and businessman, they can also receive profit sharing. They can only enjoy all this if they support Xiao Ming. If they are still not satisfied and cause trouble, he will have no choice but to take action.

Thinking of this, Xiao Ming expressed his thoughts.

Feiji and Pang Yukun listened quietly. The more they listened, the more excited they became. As soon as Xiao Ming finished speaking, Feiji said loudly: “Your Majesty is wise. In this way, the problem of the royal clan has been completely solved. Since there are fewer generals in the treasury, A huge expense, but also to avoid the dissatisfaction of the royal family members.”

Pang Yukun nodded, but he raised some concerns, “Your Majesty, I apologize for the disrespect. As far as I know, royal relatives like Song Guogong are just idiots. “What if we let them enter the government-run workshop and they act recklessly?”

“I didn’t say that I would let them take power when I allowed them to enter the government-run workshop. The positions in the government-run workshop are naturally occupied by those who are capable. I believe that most of the royal family still hold them.” Those who are willing to change, but I will not protect those who are stubborn, and what should be dealt with will be dealt with when the time comes,” Xiao Ming said.

Pang Yukun nodded, and now he felt at ease. Just as he thought, Xiao Ming’s real purpose was to resolve the royal family’s problems.

Among these royal families, there are those who are lazy and lazy, and there are also those who are diligent and motivated. This government-run workshop is like a sieve to sort out the good and the bad.

Virtuous and useful people are naturally more trustworthy than outsiders, and pedantic and useless people can be kicked out when the time comes.

And the most important thing is that these people will always be under their supervision.

The main task of this morning’s court was completed, and Qian Dafu announced his withdrawal from the court at Xiao Ming’s signal.

Xiao Ming was very satisfied with the reaction of the hundreds of officials in the court this time. He had to say that after he ascended the throne, he felt that these officials looked down upon him.

After all, he was young, and these old foxes thought they could influence his decision by using some tricks.

But after Yu Ming was deposed, these officials suddenly realized that the emperor in front of them was also a ruthless character. Only then did they put aside their arrogance and face up to the distinction between monarch and minister.

“If you have something to do, leave the court early, but if there is nothing to do, leave the court!” As Qian Dafu’s high-pitched voice sounded, the morning court ended.

All the officials shouted long live and stood up to leave. At this time, Xiao Ming left Feiji and Pang Yukun behind.

“What are your orders from the emperor?” Fiji bowed.

The most taboo thing about reform is for officials to disobey the government orders and not leave the palace. This is why Xiao Ming kept Fiji and Pang Yukun.

After ascending the throne, his mentality slowly changed. Five years ago, he was just a modern ordinary young man. Five years later, he became the emperor of Dayu.

His psychology has also gradually changed over the past five years. Now that he is the emperor, he must be the only one who obeys his words and do what he says!

The chaotic government during Xiao Wenxuan’s period cannot be repeated for him.

(End of chapter)