Chapter 485
Zhang Zhai, Minister of Finance and Minister of Commerce, was busy and worried. He almost always complained to Prime Minister Tang Shaoyi.
At first, Tang Shaoyi had no choice. After all, these two bills were added by Zhang Yunfei himself, and the purpose was to protect the exhibition of Chinese national capitalism. Tang Shaoyi knew the interests of it, so he could only carry out the implementation under international pressure.
However, as the protests from the great powers became more and more intense, Tang Shaoyi had no choice but to run to Zhang Yunfei to seek scriptures.
In response, Zhang Yunfei smiled and said, "This is a good thing!" Think about it, trade is a relationship that you make money and I lose money. Nowadays, the protests of the great powers are getting stronger and stronger, which means they are losing money. Therefore, it proves that our approach is right."
Tang Shaoyi smiled wryly and said, "Your Majesty, you are right! But we can't keep going like this, it's easy to break! In a short period of time, the great powers have no choice but to deal with us, but if we continue for a long time, they will definitely take countermeasures against us!"
Zhang Yunfei nodded and said, "Then will you send someone to talk to them? Remember, the future negotiations may not be war-related, political negotiations. With the arrival of the era of countries around the world for the purpose of pursuing economic interests, diplomats from all over the world work more on trade disputes. The future trade dispute negotiations will become more and more intense. We must start from now and accumulate experience!"
Tang Shaoyi asked: "Your Majesty is saying that to raise economic and trade issues to political issues? To resolve trade disputes through negotiation?"
"Yes!" Zhang Yunfei said: "As long as our negotiations begin, other countries will have nothing to say. Will you sit down and talk? As for the outcome of the negotiation, or how long it takes, it depends on the level of diplomatic security!"
Tang Shaoyi asked: "What should we do according to Your Majesty's wishes?"
"Drag!" Zhang Yunfei said: "Drag! The longer you drag, the more beneficial it will be for us! The national industry of the empire is actually just starting out. If compared with other powerful countries, our national industry is fragile! Therefore, we need to buy time for our national industry to grow up quickly. When they can fight back against the enemy, we no longer need to negotiate, nor do we need to play trade protection and tariff fortresses. At that time, other powerful people will use trade protection policies to deal with us themselves!"
Tang Shaoyi said happily: "Your Majesty is wise! Listening to Your Majesty's words, the empress suddenly enlightened. Your Majesty is really a wise ruler in ancient times!"
Zhang Yunfei smiled in his heart: I have more than a hundred years of experience than you, so naturally everything is at the highest point.
However, looking at Tang Shaoyi's admirational expression in front of him, Zhang Yunfei was naturally very proud.
"Without a fetal minister like Shaochuan, I can't achieve the prosperous era today. I hope Shaochuan will continue to work hard and build an extremely prosperous China with me!"
After hearing this, Tang Shaoyi immediately bowed to the end and said, "I am afraid that I will die if I don't work!"
Afterwards, Zhang Yunfei discussed some things with Tang Shaoyi, but the Ran Qi of Xia seemed to have penetrated into the palace hall, and Zhang Yunfei suddenly felt the heat.
Zhang Yunfei's every move was seen by the eunuch standing quietly not far away, and then quietly left.
Soon, the eunuch came to Zhang Yunfei's imperial desk with a bowl of iced sour plum soup.
"Your Majesty, the sour plum soup that is iced is just right to quench your thirst and relieve your heat!"
Zhang Yunfei was thinking about it, when he saw the eunuch bringing iced sour plum soup, he immediately said happily: "I was thinking about it? It came!"
The eunuch said, "Your Majesty is busy with everything, so you should pay attention to your health!"
Zhang Yunfei nodded and sighed in his heart, no wonder there are eunuchs who are favored in any dynasty. Although these eunuchs have become abnormal, no one is more careful than them when they take care of people.
"I understand!" Zhang Yunfei said, "Prepare a bowl for Lord Tang!"
"I know that Your Majesty is kind-hearted and has prepared a bowl for Lord Tang!" After the eunuch said that, he clapped his hands and a little eunuch came in from outside the door with a bowl of sour plum soup.
This is not the first time Tang Shaoyi has had a meal and soup with Zhang Yunfei. He thanked Zhang Yunfei now and drank it all in one go.
When the eunuch left, Zhang Yunfei said with a refreshing voice: "It's hot. When you go back, you can ask the Ministry of Internal Affairs to ask for a few ice cubes to go home to relieve the heat of your wife and children!"
"Thank you!" Tang Shaoyi said: "But, there is no cellar in Weichen's house that stores ice cubes, and it has melted when he gets it!"
Zhang Yunfei nodded and said, "That's right, if only there was an air-conditioning refrigerator!"
Air conditioner? Refrigerator?
Tang Shaoyi was no longer surprised that Zhang Yunfei would spit out "Immortal World Terms" every time he said, so he asked: "Your Majesty, what are the air conditioners and refrigerators?"
Zhang Yunfei smiled and said, "Guess?"
Zhu Shaoyi thought about it and said, "It should be related to the hot summer and the storage of ice!"
Zhang Yunfei nodded and said, "Yes! The air conditioner is a machine that can blow cold winds in summer and hot winds in winter. The refrigerator is a machine that can store ice at home.
Tang Shaoyi said: "Your Majesty, I think what you said is an air conditioner!"
"Colding machine?" Zhang Yunfei asked, "Where did you hear it?"
The air conditioner is the predecessor of air conditioners.
On July 2019, Carrier, a young man who had just graduated from Cornell University for one year, understood the air conditioner when he was working at the "Buffalo Company" Zhiren Jiaxi.
Speaking of the 16th customer of Buffalo Company, Shacoon William Printing Factory, New York City, at that time, its printing press changed from temperature and humidity to expand and shrink the paper, and ink alignment was inaccurate, and it was unable to produce clear color prints. So he turned to Buffalo Company. Carrier thought that since the air could be used to keep warm through a coil filled with steam, why not use the air to cool down through a coil filled with cold water? The water in the air will condense on the coil, so that the air in the factory will be cool and dry. On July 2019, the era of air conditioning began with the use of air conditioners. Soon, other industries such as imitation weaving, chemical industry, pharmaceutical industry, food and even arms industry, also greatly improved the product quality due to the introduction of air conditioning.
But initially, the purpose of the air conditioner was not to bring people a comfortable living environment, but to serve some dead objects.
Since the Chinese government attaches great importance to the science and technology of European and American countries, during non-war periods, the overseas branch of the Imperial Intelligence Bureau was basically used to collect this information.
Therefore, Carrier's air conditioner was captured by the Military Intelligence Bureau and sent back to the Chinese headquarters. Finally, after the Military Intelligence Bureau saw that it had no military value, it handed it over to the cabinet to see if it had any other uses.
When Tang Shaoyi finished speaking, Zhang Yunfei said happily: "This thing is good! It has great prospects in the future! Has that Caril registered?"
Tang Shaoyi said: "Information shows that there is no legal book yet!"
"Great! This is also a huge profit-making industry in the future!" Zhang Yunfei said: "Send someone to contact us immediately and find a way to buy a patent! Leave it to some domestic merchants who have not determined the investment direction and display our own products!"
Zhang Yunfei said it was a good thing, but Tang Shaoyi must have believed it. When Zhang Yunfei cheated Tesla's alternating current patent, Tang Shaoyi thought it was a loss-making business? Now, as countries around the world began to use alternating current on a large scale, they all need to pay patent fees to China. The profit is very considerable. According to Zhang Yunfei, the AC electricity patent fees given to China every year in the future will become an important part of China's fiscal revenue.
Huge profits, real huge profits! Whenever Zhang Yunfei thinks of this AC power patent, he despises Bill Gates's pediatric economy.
Tang Shaoyi smiled and said, "Your Majesty, you didn't expect that from a bowl of iced sour plum soup, you would have a huge plan again. I admire you!"
Zhang Yunfei smiled brilliantly. At this time, he was always the most proud and embarrassed time.
"That." Zhang Yunfei didn't know what to say: "Send someone to buy some air conditioners first, uh, that air conditioner, buy more, install them for the palace first, and then install them for the officials in the capital!"
Tang Shaoyi smiled and said, "I obey the order!"
"By the way, how are you preparing for that political party?" Zhang Yunfei asked suddenly.
Tang Shaoyi replied: "Your Majesty, according to your request, the army will always be external, so no party in the army shall intervene. Except for the army, there will be shadows of political parties in other fields.
There are many political parties in China, but they are very weak and have no appeal or influence. Therefore, they are not enough to lead the state power. So I suggest that political parties be established in Your Majesty's civil officials system first. Since most of these people are state officials now, they can become ruling parties. When other small parties grow stronger in the future, they can be able to take on major tasks in the country, and then use democratic mechanisms to let them rule after elections."
Zhang Yunfei said: "There is no need to show those small parties. There are many parties, big differences, and chaos. Let's show my civil officials system into a political party! I guess that my civil officials system must have hundreds of thousands of people participating, which is enough to become a major political party."
"More than a few hundred thousand people?" Tang Shaoyi said: "Your Majesty is too underestimating your appeal. At present, the empire has more than 10,000 officials of all sizes a year, all of whom are activists who support Your Majesty. Once Your Majesty issues an edict to form a political party, they will be the first to join."
Zhang Yunfei was surprised for a while, but he didn't expect that he was also a legend now, so he said: "That's right! All officials of all sizes and big but not the military system will be given a set of papers. If you answer everything correctly, you will be selected as our political party!"
Then he thought: "It seems that our party does not have a name yet? What does Shaochuan think?"
Tang Shaoyi said: "Our political party was established after the founding of the country. We no longer have revolutions, but we have to face the pursuit of welfare for the people and the path to prosperity for the country. So what about the Kuomintang?
Zhang Yunfei was speechless for a while, thinking that although the name was very good, it was a pity that it was disharmonious, so he said: "Our country will be free, democratic, and overly prosperous and powerful, and the name must be well-known!"
"Liberal Democratic Party?"
Zhang Yunfei rolled his eyes and almost spit out, thinking: Grandma, good names have been taken away, so it is so difficult to name a name?
So he said, "Call the Emperor Party first! Think of the name before talking about it!"
Tang Shaoyi didn't know Zhang Yunfei's true thoughts, but he understood the Emperor's Party. He said happily: "Your Majesty, it's good to call the Emperor's Party! Even if the constitutional monarchy is implemented in the future, they will support the royal family! In this way, your Majesty, you no longer have to worry about the safety of your descendants!"
Zhang Yunfei didn't expect it, so he had to smile bitterly and said, "Okay, let's establish the Imperial Party first. When the Imperial Party matures in the future, then turn the part of the Imperial Party into two factions, one faction belongs to conservativeness and the other faction belongs to reform!"
Tang Shaoyi said: "Your Majesty's wise internal division can not only produce a civilian system that takes turns to rule. It also makes the ultimate and most basic goals of the two ruling parties have the same family and the same origin, so as to avoid the emergence of two different cultural beliefs!"
Zhang Yunfei nodded. What he feared most was that the ruling party had two different cultural beliefs, such as Marxism and capitalism, so a civil war would have to break out!
"The more you do, the better! Of course, you have to pass the exam!" Zhang Yunfei said: "As for other small parties, let them preside over the supervision organs! Supervise the behavior of the imperial party!"
Tang Shaoyi hurriedly took the order and then dealt with some things. Tang Shaoyi left the palace.
With the issuance of reform edicts by the Emperor and Qin government, China embarked on a vigorous pace of construction. Due to the large surplus of war reparations from Japan and Russia, and the financial income and expenditure of the Emperor and Qin government were good, the wealthy funds brought large-scale infrastructure construction.
The most important infrastructure is road transportation. Earlier, Zhan Tianzuo received Zhang Yunfei's promise. While mobilizing state funds, he absorbed the funds of the people in China who had just transformed from a landlord to a capitalist. Now he has achieved great results.
Road traffic between major towns began to be built. Due to sufficient funds and the fact that many domestic farmers do not like to move to other places, and there is not enough land for them to cultivate, they have devoted themselves to the ranks of road construction workers. Gradually, they have also raised their wages from the continuous road construction to support their families and gradually transformed into workers. The investment landlords also obtained the profits they won from the country, so they actively participated in it and gradually transformed into capitalists.
Gradually, many of the stubborn factors in China's feudal system have also been transformed from a feudal economy to a capitalist economy due to the large-scale construction of the country.
At the same time, the Emperor and Qin government retired many officers and soldiers of the Navy Army due to the disarmament of the Dazhimo. These retired soldiers were basically very few of them specialized in apart from fighting.
Therefore, after weighing the pros and cons, the General Staff of Emperor Qin decided that all the soldiers who came down from the front line would be transferred to the second and third lines to continue to serve Hui, the second and third lines, which is equivalent to police, military police, traffic police, prison guards, etc., while the navy would be transferred to the coast guard, customs inspection team, marine survey and other professions.
Also, with the end of the war, the Emperor and Qin government began to reward merits according to the merits during the War Gathering period.
The highest marquis with significant merits, plus the title of general. Others are based on merit values, and so on, and so on. Viscount and Baron.
What excited the soldiers of the three armies the most was that the generals and officials with outstanding meritorious achievements and those who were unmarried will choose the beautiful daughters in the palace for them, and the palace maids will marry them as their wives. Of course, the number is limited, and only the generals and officials with outstanding merits can be ranked first!
In terms of finance, with China's big victory, Chinese stocks stopped falling and rose sharply. The chaebols of various countries have affirmed China's security environment. China's gold standard has withstood the test of finance and war, allowing them to inject funds into China with confidence.
However, Zhang Zhai, the Minister of Finance of Emperor Qin, kept staring at the movements of the Rothschild family. During the war, they not only did not sell Chinese currency, but instead kept buying. The Qin government was deeply uneasy about their actions. This huge financial family had financial wealth that was as rich as the country, and their every move touched the nerves of the Chinese government.
Obviously, the Rothschild family bought a large amount of Chinese currency and Chinese stocks this time, which made them make a lot of money. Zhang Yunfei has been listening to their reports and can only be said to be impressed by their actions. Because even Zhang Yunfei himself was not sure about the victory, but they blocked nearly 500 million US dollars and pressed on China.
Perhaps if they fail and lose a lot of money, Zhang Yunfei would be happier.
However, since Zhang Yunfei rejected the British representative of their family last time, the Rothschild family has not come to harass Zhang Yunfei again. This is definitely not a normal phenomenon. Zhang Yunfei always warned himself to be careful.
Zhang Ji seemed to see Zhang Yunfei's concern and asked: "Your Majesty, we have thoroughly investigated the Rothschild family. As of now, the wealth they exposed in Europe and the United States is wu billion yuan, and the wealth in secret is estimated to be no less than 3 billion yuan. Although it sounds very scary, it can even be said to be terrifying! However, compared with the empire, they are not enough to see it!"
Zhang Yunfei shook his head and said, "You can't underestimate them! Judging from their secret control of the finances of the five European countries, they are completely likely to control our empire!"
Zhang Yunfei knew in his heart that the Rothsmould family was acting low-key, that is, they were hidden. You should know that the consortiums in the United States did not completely break away from the control of the Rothschild family until World War I, which shows how powerful their family is. Zhang Yunfei can despise them strategically, but must pay attention to them tactical attention.
It is now obvious that the Rothschild family has begun to target China. Because of China's successive victory and huge economic output, their family has no reason not to intervene.
The problem is that except for their own people, no one knows how they handle China affairs, and Zhang Yunfei doesn’t know even more. Therefore, others do not know the power of this family because they do not understand history, but Zhang Yunfei cannot be despised, let alone ignore it! Read!
Chapter completed!