In the second year of Huaxing, on August 1, 1906, Beijing, the Chinese Palace.

The teak door of the conference room No. 1 is tightly closed, and the palace is under strict guard. Few people know how far-reaching impact the ongoing meetings here will have on the future world economic pattern and how it will affect the future human history.[]

Yang Yongtai, who officially served as the chief political staff member of the newly established "Imperial Front Staff Group", echoed in the empty conference room:

"………………This conference is top secret, aiming to discuss the future industrial layout of our empire in strategic resources, hoping to maximize the control of the international economic development pattern, and to crack down on or weaken the economic and war power of the real and potential empires in a necessary period."

"In today's era, the financial industry and commerce are dependent on industry and agriculture, and manufacturing is used as the backbone. The development of manufacturing is based on resources. What countries seek is how to use resources more efficiently and transform resources into commodities. The empire's territory is vast and its products are rich. If the empire can use all or most of its strategic resources as the empire's economic weapon, affect global economic and trade, deter and attack potential enemy countries, then the empire will have the weapon of defeating others without fighting."

The following Prime Minister Tang Shaoyi, Minister of Industry and Commerce Xie Zhong, Minister of Foreign Affairs Fang Shijian, Minister of Army Jiang Sheng, Deputy Minister of Army Cen Chunxuan, Deputy Minister of Navy Lin Taizeng, Chief of Royal Industry Ke Shan and others all listened intently.

"According to the world industrial intelligence collected and analyzed by the Empire, our empire currently has roughly twelve strategic resources that have monopoly or decisive supply capabilities:"

"First, pig bristles. From clothes brushes, toothbrushes, shoe brushes, to beard brushes, paint brushes, industrial brushes, and guns and guns, all of them need to use pig bristles.

The bristles cannot be synthesized manually. Except for my empire, there are a certain number of Russian pig breeds in the United States and Brazil. The Indian pig breeds have poor quality and cannot compete with the imperial bristles. Currently, the imperial bristles production accounts for more than 9% of the world's total production and has absolute control."

"Second, tungsten concentrate. The current world's tungsten ore production from the Empire, Spain's United States and Portugal, cannot compete with the Empire at all. By registering a patent for tungsten wire electric lamps, the Empire has further grasped the main demands of the downstream of tungsten ore and has mastered the life gate of the world's tungsten supply."

"Third, rubber. Currently, the rubber tree cultivation areas in the empire are mainly Hainan, Guangxi, Yunnan, formerly northern Myanmar, Lanfang and Annan. Currently, the total planting area of ​​the rubber plantation in Siam is as high as 12 million mu. In addition, most of the rubber plantations in the South Ocean are owned by our Chinese capitals. Northern Kalimantan, Dutch East India, and British Malaya are controlled by our Chinese capitals. In addition to our Asian region, only Brazil in South America has a certain rubber production capacity. Our empire currently controls more than 90% of the global rubber production."

"Fourth, antimony. According to the current exploration data, our empire has proven that antimony reserves account for more than 65% of the world, and are mainly concentrated in the southwest region. Antimony is a necessary raw material for the electrical, chemistry, printing machinery and other industries..."

"Fifth Tin. According to current data, the imperial tin reserves account for 70% of the world and the remaining reserves are basically located in Nanyang, controlled by our Chinese capital. In addition, only South America has more reserves, and Europe has very few reserves..."

"Sixth, molybdenum. The reserves of the Empire's molybdenum account for 40% of the world's proven reserves. Currently, Europe's reserves and output are insignificant. Only the United States can compete. In South America and Mexico, American capital is stepping up exploration, and the Empire Mining is also stepping up its work."

"The Longyuan Plan currently formulated by the Empire is intended to fully consolidate and further enhance the Empire's dominance over such resources, avoid inefficient development and waste of resources caused by improper competition, and use the control of these resources to fight for greater benefits for the Empire."

"At present, there are many problems in the utilization of various resources." Yang Yongtai said, "Take pig bristles as an example, our empire originally adopted the "national factory demonstration" for such resources, determined standards, and compete freely. However, the dispersion of the pig bristles has led to a large number of enterprises entering the market, and there are many cases of adulteration and falsification and poor processing."

"All illegal businessmen add short hair or animal fluff and plant fiber to the pig's bristles. When selling, they put the soft pig's hair into the container, soak it in clean water with human vinegar liquid and heat it and steam it, and then scrape the rust bacteria with iron tools. After this procedure, the pig's bristles become harder and cover the truth. Or when selling raw bristles, use white bristles to infiltrate honey, black bristles seep with salt water, and lower the best, increasing the weight. In terms of processing, when the grey stain remains, when the kang is insufficient, it will not be divided, the mold and sparse, and the looseness of the mold will cause damage to the overall image of our empire's bristles."

"Under wartime economic control, our empire adopted unified purchase and sale of pig bristles, gradually sorting out the context of the domestic pig bristle industry and controlling the price of the international market. According to the comparison of products from various production areas, our economic research department has clarified the impact of species, gender, nutrition, season and age on bristle quality. It has decided to use Rongchang white pigs and Neijiang black pigs as excellent pig breeds to start breeding, and will be promoted in the national bristle production base to improve the quality of the empire's bristles and further strengthen its competitive advantages."

"In the future, above the bristle industry, the Empire plans to adopt an export license and quota system, which will only provide traders with strong capital and good reputation, limit exports every year, and strengthen quality sampling, and cancel quotas and licenses for exporters who fail product sampling."

"In terms of the rubber industry, rubber is an indispensable key raw material for the automobile and machinery industry, especially the automobile manufacturing industry in our empire, and the demand for rubber will rise sharply in the future. In addition, various service industries and manufacturing industries require latex products, tool sleeves, insulation materials caused by electrification, wire jackets, and rubber will inevitably become one of the important resources in the world's industrial field second only to steel and coal."

"Our empire has a profound layout in the automobile industry. Since rubber planting takes seven years to produce rubber, the empire has introduced rubber seedlings widely in tropical areas since its founding, and now it has gradually become a ingredient. The empire plans to further expand rubber plantations in tropical areas and continuously improve tree species, and try to plant different tree species in areas with different meteorological and hydrological environments to obtain more suitable planting plans. In terms of planting plans, wind-resistant cultivation technology will be promoted, and protective forest networks will be established in the rubber plantation, and plant them reasonably and closely to reduce typhoon customs and avoid damaging the rubber tree."

"In terms of industrial policy, the Empire will adopt a subsidy policy, that is, subsidize the losses caused by typhoons and further weaken the advantages of foreign competitive forces. The Empire will strengthen the guidance and management of rubber and rubber products production through the Rubber Industry Association, avoid vicious competition, and promote technological progress..."

As Yang Yongtai talked one by one, the people inside had different expressions.

Xie Zhong knew the inside story, and Tang Shaoyi only knew that there was this matter, but he didn't know the details. Fang Shijian and others didn't know that there was such a plan.

Now that I heard it, many people are a little confused. They haven't figured out how to use resources to control and influence countries around the world, but they just vaguely feel that something seems to make sense.

Until Yang Yongtai finished speaking, Zheng Yu signaled him to sit down and looked around everyone quietly. After a while, he said lightly: "Do you feel a little confused? What can this plan do in the future?"

Fang Shijian nodded: "I do have this many times..."

"Actually, this matter is not complicated," said Zheng Yu. "For example, my empire controlled the global rubber production capacity. In peacetime, if the French want to impose huge tariffs on the automobile products of our empire in order to protect their automobile industry, our empire and Chinese consortiums can engage in trade counter-retaliation against France, which can include stopping the sale of rubber and rubber products to France... In addition, it can also use rubber prices to attack the automobile industries of various countries, and the empire can subsidize tire companies."

"When the war comes, even if the empire is neutral, it can reduce its war power by restricting the export of rubber to a certain belligerent country, or strive for conditions that are favorable to me." Zheng Yu said, "The same applies to other strategic materials.

This Longyuan Plan is generally equivalent to keeping several lifelines of modern industry firmly in our hands. Whoever wants to live a hard life will be uncomfortable; whoever wants to lie down will have to lie down."

Tang Shaoyi was a little fascinated by the hearing and couldn't help asking: "Your Majesty can this be so powerful? If so, wouldn't it be possible to resolve all diplomatic disputes alone?"

"Of course I can't say that." Zheng Yu shook his head, "This thing is useful, but it's not omnipotent. For example, you can restrict exports or raise prices too high, but in this way, other countries can raise pigs on a large scale to compete for the market, and in the end they will be both sides of the loss. Using these weapons requires strategies and cannot be used frequently, and it must be used on the edge. What we need to do now is to further consolidate and strengthen these advantages, improve the country's control over these materials, gradually grasp the decision-making power of the market, and ensure that once we take action, it will be unstoppable."

Tang Shaoyi nodded thoughtfully.

"The Longyuan Plan itself is top secret and is also a long-term plan of the empire. However, the specific industrial policy steps need to be proposed in the form of cabinet decisions, especially when it involves additional national budgets, and it also needs to be persuaded to convincing Congress." Zheng Yu continued, "Today, you are invited to discuss this matter together, hoping to work together to make this cause work together."

Tang Shaoyi frowned: "Your Majesty, although this matter is easy to say, it is a bit difficult to operate."

"Shaochuan, please speak."

"For example, although the tungsten mine is strictly controlled by our empire, there are still unauthorized miners in various places. For example, Jiangxi and Hunan, there have been many private miners in the past two years, and many local officials have been involved. Although the empire's iron fist has corruption, wartime economic control, and severe laws have been used to curb private mining and smuggling, there are still people who take risks here for huge profits. In addition, in remote areas, the Senate and local governments control the gentry, private mining, and use part of the income to build bridges and roads in the local area, donate to schools to obtain orders. The central government wants to investigate and ban, and there will always be local villagers causing trouble and obstruct them in every way. If this control is implemented for a long time, severe investigation will be carried out, and local riots are afraid of local riots."

"For example, pig bristles, many villagers in various parts of the empire have raised them, and it is not easy to purchase them in a centralized manner. The price of pig bristles is high. This year, many travelers have purchased them everywhere and then reselled them abroad. As for the ban on smuggling, there are many constraints in various places."

"This kind of activity was severely punished during the war. However, the war was over, and the public opinion was lenient, and the ministries had no intention of implementing cruel laws. If they forcibly promote unified purchase and sales and lower the purchase price, it is inevitable that local governments will resist expropriation. There are many interests in the local area, and they cannot be said to be fueled. There are even unscrupulous or ignorant people who must have mocked the imperial government with "harsh policies" to incite public opinion and guide the trend. Like such monopoly materials, huge profits are in the forefront. Who can control it? This is exquisite, but how to implement it, please speak freely."

Zheng Yu was not dissatisfied with the man talking and asking such inappropriate points.

Now he hopes that the more capable his subordinates are, the better they have knowledge.

After so many things, although his self-feeling is getting better and better, he does not think he can be stronger than the four Zheng Ying combined. With the knowledge of Zheng Ying’s teachers and students, his talents and talents have racked his brains for nearly forty years, but this country has only made these changes. How much can Zheng Yu do alone?

The real change of this era and the prosperity of this country depends on more talents. And the emperor, the open-minded emperor, actually time traveler, needs nothing more than to influence and guide the talents of this era, and try their best to make full use of their talents, and then put some impetus on some key direction issues.

What he is most worried about now is that after this battle, the government and the middle and upper-level mainstream public opinion of the country have re-defeated the old habits of the Chinese: blindly arrogant and boasting.

Thousands of years of saints' etiquette and rule of law have long made this country accustomed to praising merits and self-proclaiming. Once some achievements are made, they will be immediately praised as an unprecedented "event" in the urgency of the whole country. The emperor is keen on god-making activities such as "Fengshan" and "Supreme titles", and advocates fame. Ministers are busy singing merits and discovering "auspiciousness". All classes blindly exaggerate success in self-deception and deception of each other, cover up mistakes, and are satisfied in the center of "harmony".

Zheng Yu was even more worried that he would lose himself in the overwhelming chant of the Holy Holy Spirit. After all, he was also a human being and was originally just a small person. He neither underestimated himself nor really regarded himself as a god.

He knew that he had the accumulation of historical knowledge and had a large amount of laws and knowledge reserves in the information explosion era in later generations, but he was still an individual after all, and he did not lack various problems rooted in human nature.

There are so many emperors in all dynasties, and there are many outstanding people. There are historical materials for them to "Zizhi Tongjian", but these people have not escaped these fates. Can Zheng Yu escape with him?

In order to avoid the popularity of chanting the saints, he issued strict orders to the Propaganda Department, prohibiting exaggerated propaganda, and insisting on reviewing and correcting the official propaganda manuscripts himself. He persuaded Beizhu to mobilize a large number of literati to write articles to remind the people to remain rational and calm, and thus made these people sarcastic by some radicals.

At the cabinet and the senior leaders of the Baxing Party, he repeatedly reminded everyone to "stay awake" and "start from reality in everything, never talk empty talk, and not say anything against one's will for the sake of so-called political needs."

Now, the real power factions of Piaotiansi.com have not yet seen the situation he is most worried about.

Tang Shaoyi did not disappoint him.

Although this person is quite worldly and has a lot of worldly affairs in the officialdom, he is in the end unwilling to give in in principle. In another time and space, he resigned from his first prime minister of the Republic of China because of a conflict with Yuan Shikai. He also had many conflicts with Sun Yat-sen and Chiang Kai-shek, but he never bowed his head.

Zheng Yu used him, and he also had the intention of checking and balancing the imperial power. Now it seems that this person did not disappoint his expectations, and he was indeed a person who dared to speak out.

Xie Zhong looked at Tang Shaoyi, but he was a little worried.

He and Tang Shaoyi have known each other for more than ten years. Although they cannot say that they have a deep personal relationship, they can still be regarded as mutual appreciation. Xie Zhong is the emperor's confidant and naturally knows something that outsiders don't know. Although the late emperor Zheng Ying was tolerant, he was inevitably complaining about many straightforward officials in private.

Xie Zhong watched Zheng Yugan Gang take the initiative and firmly control the power of the country step by step. He had long classified the young emperor as a first-class person of Li Shimin. In his opinion, these people were of great talent, but their inner guessing was often beyond the reach of others, and it was inevitable that they were broad-minded on the outside and narrow on the inside.

But now looking at Zheng Yu's expression, Xie Zhong was a little confused. He always felt that this person seemed to be really not angry, but instead seemed to appreciate it.

"What Shaochuan said is indeed Lao Cheng's plan for the country." Zheng Yu said with a smile. "The governance of the country often seems simple, but it is extremely complicated to implement it effectively. The world is prosperous for profit. With such huge profits, there is inevitably illegality, corruption, corruption, and open-mindedness. However, we should not act rashly and do whatever we want, nor should we abandon food and indulge in the face of choking."

"My empire won the national war and its national prestige was greatly boosted. We can use this to refresh politics and improve culture, and think that the country and nation have found a foundation for a thousand years." Zheng Yu said, "The Longyuan plan is related to the rise and fall of the country. The benefits outweigh the disadvantages. It should be doubtful. Since ancient times, good things have been hard for many times. If you want to accomplish such great things, you must not have great wisdom, great determination, and great perseverance. We must not retreat when we know the difficulties. As the saying goes, despise the enemy strategically and attach importance to the enemy tactically. Since you have to do it, you must overcome all difficulties. But when it comes to how to do it, you must be more careful, repeatedly pondered, and implemented with caution."

"Today, let's discuss the specific strategies," Zheng Yu nodded when everyone looked at each other and said with a smile, "If some key issues are indeed unsolvable, then temporarily postpone the implementation... But before this, we have to discuss it thoroughly and ponder it over and over again. Please speak freely." The silence is not completed.
Chapter completed!