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Chapter 60 The Queen Mother is immortal (60)

Emperor Jianyuan obviously heard the implication of Sang Hongyang's words. After thinking about it carefully for a while, he felt that this was indeed a direction he had never thought of before, but it seemed to make sense, just as he, his father, and his grandfather did not They were willing to bear the reputation of disobedience and unfilial piety, so they did not dare to do many things while the Queen Mother or the Queen Mother was still alive, and could only wait until they passed away.

This is in a sense.

It should be considered forced.

And his imperial grandmother has indeed been doing things for the country and the people these years, whether she is against him or not.

The final result is indeed for the people's livelihood.

However, Emperor Jianyuan still felt that the current situation alone was not enough, so he quickly discussed a further plan with Sang Hongyang and others, which was to publicize it in advance and help his imperial grandmother build a more perfect one that could serve The image of the country serving the people at all costs.

It is equivalent to holding Bai Sheng up.

Blow her in the direction of the perfect saint.

This is always the case in the world. A person with bad deeds suddenly does something good, which is called abandoning evil and doing good. A glorious and good person does something that is not so bad, but just a little selfish, and he may be reviled by thousands of people. , and even felt that everything the other party had done before was just a disguise.

And doing so was for Emperor Jianyuan.

No matter what Bai Sheng chooses, he will have benefits.

If Bai Sheng chooses to agree and give up the Western Regions Commercial Road, then the benefit that Emperor Jianyuan will get will of course be all the future profits of the Western Regions Silk Road.

If Bai Sheng chooses to refuse or even launch a counterattack, he will suffer the backlash of this perfect image being shattered. Although he will not be reviled by thousands of people, his original image and reputation will definitely be reduced.

It is also beneficial to Emperor Jianyuan.

At least he doesn't have to worry about his royal grandmother's prestige being too high.

With the plan finalized, the next step was of course rapid execution. At the same time, Bai Shengze had already received the news and knew all the conversations that took place in the court.

And soon understood the profound meaning of Confucianism.

And it is clear that this is a Confucian counterattack.

She was really confused at first, whether to move or not, otherwise her grandson would really think that she was easy to bully. As for the problem of perfect image, let alone that she didn't care in the first place. Even if she did, Bai Sheng was sure that it could be easily reversed through newspapers, novelists and other channels. The existing means of manipulating public opinion by Emperor Jianyuan and Confucianism could not be compared with Bai Sheng. It's simply hilarious.

It's just a big sword in front of Guan Gong and an ax in his own family.

But as a new news came two days later, Bai Sheng finally decided not to take action. She planned to let Emperor Jianyuan and others think they had succeeded. After they thought they had won, she would use other means to gradually make them despair. , wouldn’t that be more interesting?
  She didn't have the confidence to do this before.

But after receiving the new news, she felt emboldened.

……

For a period of time after that, everything went so smoothly that Emperor Jianyuan and Confucian felt inexplicably like they were in a dream.

But after all, everything was going according to their plan, so they didn't think that the Queen Mother would have any back-ups. They just thought that maybe their plan was perfect and they had perfectly grasped the Queen Mother's weaknesses.

The princes, kings and princes from all over the country have their own opinions.

And there are indeed efforts to stop and fight against it.

But for Emperor Jianyuan, who now has the powerful army to defeat the Xiongnu, unless these princes, kings and princes unite and raise troops to resist, there is nothing to worry about. And it is not so easy for them to unite with each other.

During the Seven Kingdoms Rebellion, they were unable to reach a consensus!

Therefore, no matter whether the princes, kings and princes in the later period will implement the policy perfectly, or whether they will still secretly mint coins, at least the decree will be advanced.

Officials responsible for implementation were quickly arranged.

The Empress Dowager did not need their threats, so she stopped foreign trade. Not only did she stop foreign trade, she also stopped many workshops. While still insisting on paying wages, she required them to study and reduce their usual working hours. All used to learn professional knowledge.

There is no way to conduct foreign trade anyway.

Who do you sell those things you produce?
  We might as well just stop the workshop.

But Bai Sheng also knew that it would be impossible to stop working in the future, let alone fire everyone, so she simply took advantage of the shutdown to greatly improve the professional quality of the workers. While eliminating illiteracy, she also asked them to learn some more. In the past, there was a shortage of teachers for professional knowledge, and there were no better conditions for taking night classes. Most importantly, Bai Sheng could not force them to take night classes.

Now that things are fine, work is suspended, wages are still paid, and they are asked to attend classes, who can refuse or be dissatisfied?

Moreover, the earliest batch of students from various majors specially trained by Bai Sheng will graduate this year. Letting them come over to give lectures to the workers can also be regarded as a different kind of relationship cultivation. It will be more convenient for them to engage in research and development in the future and mobilize workers to assist when leading production. , and at the same time, it can also prevent workers from having poor communication with each other and being unable to understand some more professional terms or advanced technologies when assisting.

It can be said that all workshops under Baisheng, or the industrial system currently constructed, can take this opportunity to speed up upgrades and iterations.

As for how Bai Sheng could not make money and still have the confidence to pay her salary in vain, it was of course because of the good news she received some time ago about the production of overseas gold and silver mines.

There are still millions of taels of silver every year, plus hundreds of thousands of taels of gold. With such an income, Bai Sheng will have no problem even if he never does business again.

How can you make money as quickly as digging money directly?

And this is just the output of a few gold and silver mines found so far. If nothing unexpected happens in the future, the number of gold and silver mines found overseas will only increase.

While Bai Sheng was taking his time and giving lessons to all the workers in his workshops, the three reform measures also gradually showed results. For example, the Yantie Official Business did bring in a lot of financial revenue in a very short period of time.

The only drawback is that some salt merchants went bankrupt.

The recovery of coinage rights is still in progress, but judging from the current situation, it should also increase a lot of fiscal revenue in the future, and even consolidate the concept of unification to a certain extent. After all, all citizens use the same kind of money, which is undoubtedly more valuable than a bunch of copper coins. Dozens of different sizes and styles make them feel like they are from the same country.

It can be said that the implementation results of these two reform measures.

Emperor Jianyuan was very satisfied.

The third one, that is, losing evenly, most of the results satisfied him because the fiscal revenue had indeed increased, but there was only one thing that made him both surprised and dissatisfied.

That is the income from foreign trade in the Western Regions.

Far less than expected.

Obviously he has completely monopolized the foreign trade of the Western Silk Road, but why did he increase his income?

Less than the tax collected from his imperial grandmother before?

(End of this chapter)