Steel Dynasty - Chapter 972

[Chapter 966: War of words]

The lanterns are coming up, and the crescent moon is like a hook.

The lights in the imperial study were extinguished at midnight, and Minister Pang Yukun and Minister Niu Ben filed out. They were still meditating on the impact of this naval battle.

“If not for His Majesty’s presence in the Great Chongqing Kingdom, it might only take a hundred years for these European colonists to encroach on the Great Chongqing Kingdom with their superior ships and cannons.”

Pang Yukun put his hands in his sleeves, and the coldness made him exhale. Condensation into frost.

“What Pang Shoufu said is absolutely true. In the past, we were just outside the bottom of the well, and our eyes were only on the land of Great Chongqing. How could we have imagined that the world has still undergone huge changes.” Niu Ben said with emotion.

Recalling the scenes of the past ten years, he was quite emotional. Qingzhou had gone from poverty to the top of the wealth list. Their journey was really difficult.

“Thanks to God for giving Dayu a rejuvenating king. Without His Majesty, and anyone else, Dayu would probably be in a very miserable situation today. So, if you want to keep Dayu, you must keep Your Majesty. Especially your army must be in the right position.” Zhan Xingchang’s eyes were profound.

Niu Ben heard this and said warily: “What do you mean? Could it be that I, Niu Ben, will rebel again?”

“General Niu’s temper is still as fiery as ever, but this time the general misunderstood. I mean, although the Merchant Council was However, the residual poison cannot be eliminated in a day or two. This residual poison may seem inconspicuous now, but it will explode one day. Of course, this is just my own conjecture.” Zhan Xingchang said.

Pang Yukun looked at Zhan Xingchang and nodded slightly, “I agree with what Zhan Xingchang said. Although the Cao family happened by chance, it is enough to see that he still has the support of many businessmen and the ideas he proposed are also supported by many people. These are all “Legend,” the private capital of Chongqing is now active, but they have a natural conflict with the court. This conflict will always break out.”

Niu Ben and Luo Quan looked at each other, “You mean the merchant council will appear again? “

No one can say whether it will happen, but there are more and more conflicts between private capital and the court. Businessmen are profit-seeking by nature, evade taxes, make and sell fakes, and they want the court to formulate more rules that are conducive to their business.” The policy is real, and there have been cases of businessmen colluding with local officials to obtain biased policies. As the emperor said, sugar-coated bullets are much more powerful than real bullets,” Pang Yukun said with emotion.

“What’s even more helpless is that private capital cannot be eliminated for the prosperity of the industry and commerce of the Great Chongqing. After all, with the increase of overseas colonies, some corners forgotten by the court need to be filled by these businessmen.” Yang Chengye said loudly, “But the emperor actually We have long realized that the monopoly law in commercial law is to control the emergence of private capital that cannot be lost. At the same time, state-owned capital dominates the economy of Chongqing, with private capital as a supplement to prevent private capital from getting bigger. However, in this way, the court will inevitably be crowned. The government has a bad image of competing with the people for profit. Moreover, this state-owned capital is also controlled by relatives of the emperor and relatives of high-ranking officials in the imperial court…”

Fiji looked at Yang Chengye with admiration. This Yang Chengye is good at business and industry and is a talented person. Today His words were very explicit, and they directly pointed out the irreconcilable problems in the development of Great Chongqing.

The most fatal thing is that it directly refers to the current situation where state-owned capital is controlled by relatives of the emperor. In fact, as one of the relatives of the emperor, he has long been aware of this problem.

The head of the railway company is Princess Pingyang. Relying on the railway company, Princess Pingyang has supported many royal families. It can be said that Princess Pingyang is a small force in the Great Chongqing Kingdom.

In addition, Qingzhou Bank, Qingzhou Chamber of Commerce and some large industries are gradually forming their own small interest groups.

In his opinion, these groups are basically not much different from the previous aristocratic forces, they are just old wine in new bottles.

He believed that in the near future, these interest groups would definitely be able to influence the court’s policies, and the powerful class would not be eliminated.

And this is the reason why he advocated winning over wealthy families in the War of Domain Kings and the War of North and South in order to quickly control the country.

After all, the change of dynasties is just a matter of the wealthy family surnamed Zhang driving away the wealthy family surnamed Liu. Whether it is the wealthy family surnamed Liu or the wealthy family surnamed Zhang, the difference is only in the importance of rent collection.

Their conversation now confirms his long-standing concept. Most of the wealthy families in Xiao Wenxuan’s era were wiped out, and now the wealthy families in Xiao Ming’s era are forming again.

After Xiao Ming turns 100 and a new king ascends the throne, where will the country of Chongqing go?

Thinking of this, he sighed, “Everything we have gained through hard work is to make wedding clothes for others. Let’s discuss these worries again. Why don’t you think about the position of the crown prince? Whether the country of Chongqing can be famous for generations depends on the emperor’s will.” Which heir can inherit the emperor’s mantle, otherwise what you are talking about is nothing but nothing.”

Ge Yiren gave a thumbs up when he heard this, “Old Fei Ge is still wise, what is the future of the country of Chongqing? In terms of character, now that the emperor has three sons and one daughter, Xiao Yi is the eldest son and should be established as the prince. “

“This…” Pang Yukun exchanged glances with other cabinet members and said, “The emperor has always been. I didn’t mention this matter, maybe I already had some concerns in my heart, but now we take the initiative to mention it, but it seems to have ulterior motives. “

“The prince is the foundation of the country. If the prince is not established, it will be difficult to appease the people of the world, General Niu. “General Luo, don’t you think so?”

Niu Ben and Luo Quan pretended to be confused. Luo Quan said, “We are soldiers and we dare not get involved in government affairs, but there is one thing. The army will always listen to the emperor.”

Luo Quan .

A light sentence made his position clear.

An unnoticed smile appeared on Zhan Xingchang’s lips. He mentioned this topic today because he wanted to hear the attitude of the Military Aircraft Department.

Luo Quan said this, and they took reassurance. The development of the Great Yu Kingdom in the past ten years has been so fast that many problems have not yet been solved and they have to travel lightly.

Now these problems are gradually exposed. One of the most serious problems is that the wealthy families that were once attacked have turned into private capital. Now seven out of ten businessmen in Qingzhou have wealthy family backgrounds, and it was he who raised this topic. the goal of.

Fiji’s strategy did quickly calm down the civil strife in Great Chongqing, but now its shortcomings have been exposed.

They had always been wary of these old wealthy families who had made their fortune by killing wealthy families. On the contrary, Fiji now gained their support. Many businessmen with wealthy family backgrounds were grateful to him and only followed his lead.

The former Chang’an officials were also closely surrounding him, and now the calls in the court for Fiji to serve as the chief minister are getting louder and louder.

(End of chapter)