Chapter Ninety-Eight: Yan Xueyi and the Han Kingdom
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- Yan Xuecai, the first prime minister of the Chinese Empire
As Yan Xuecai said, Yan Xueyi is the master of this country, and everything in this country belongs to Yan Xueyi, just like the rulers of various Chinese dynasties.
Because of the Yan clan and Yan Xueyi, there will be today's Han Kingdom and the future Chinese Empire.
Some people say that the wealth of the country is the country, and the wealth of Yan Xueyi is Yan Xueyi's, and the two cannot be confused, but without Yan Xueyi, would there be today's Han Kingdom?
It is certain to say that Yan Xueyi or the Yan family and the Han Kingdom have always been one, Yan Xueyi is the ruler of the Han Kingdom, everything in the Han Kingdom belongs to Yan Xueyi, and now the Han Kingdom is developing by relying on Yan Xueyi's property, and the two will never be separated.
If they are really separated, then the cabinet will take away all the power in Yan Xueyi's hands, and Yan Xueyi will become a symbolic king at most, and even be expelled in the end, which is not what Yan Xueyi wants.
What Yan Xueyi really wants is to become the faith of this country and this nation, when Yan Xueyi gives every order, everyone will obey it, Yan Xueyi wants to war, there will be countless people who are not afraid of death to fight for Yan Xueyi.
In order to achieve this step, Yan Xueyi will use various methods to penetrate his influence into everyone's heart, so that they can support Yan Xueyi from the bottom of their hearts.
Back to the very beginning of the scene, Yan Xueyi is the master of the country, and the cabinet members are Yan Xueyi's housekeepers, responsible for helping Yan Xueyi better manage the country, this is the relationship between Yan Xueyi and the cabinet, once the housekeeper does not do well, Yan Xueyi can fire the housekeeper at any time and find a new one.
From a business point of view.
A country must have some industries related to the lifeblood of the country, such as the steel industry, the power industry, the transportation industry, etc., these industries are very important, can not fall into private hands, can only be controlled by the state itself, the enterprises that do these industries belong to the state, or they are called state-owned enterprises.
At this time, the question arises, whose state-owned enterprises belong to?
People in a constitutional monarchy will answer: of course state-owned enterprises belong to this country.
And the Chinese people have a different opinion: of course, state-owned enterprises belong to the emperor, and everything in this country belongs to the emperor.
This is the difference between a constitutional monarchy and an absolute monarchy, the king of a constitutional monarchy is just a symbol, dispensable, while the Chinese-style absolute monarchy has absolute power, can determine the life and death of others in one word, "I am the country", although Yan Xueyi, the monarch, also has absolute power, but the Han Kingdom is governed by law, and Yan Xueyi will not take the initiative to destroy.
So now all the important industries of the Han Kingdom are controlled by the Yan family, not by the cabinet, and your cabinet is just Yan Xueyi's housekeeper, how can you meddle in the affairs of the master's family without getting the order of the master Yan Xueyi, this is to betray?
The cabinet of the Han Kingdom did not have the right to personally control any factory.
So what power did the cabinet of the Han Kingdom have?
The cabinet of the Han Kingdom originally did not have any power, and all his current power was given by Yan Xueyi, so the cabinet now has executive power, judicial power, and legislative power, but most of the time it is Yan Xueyi who gives orders, and the cabinet does according to Yan Xueyi's orders, rather than Yan Xueyi does not need to order, and the cabinet formulates various plans and submits them to Yan Xueyi for approval.
Take the financial revenue of the Han Kingdom as an example, the financial income of the Han Kingdom refers to the various taxes of the entire country, and the cabinet can use the financial money to better help Yan Xueyi manage the country, such as raising an army for Yan Xueyi, building hospitals and schools to make the people more supportive of Yan Xueyi, and so on.
But in fact, the financial revenue of the Han Kingdom is also Yan Xueyi's, and it is okay for the cabinet to use a little less money, once it reaches a limit, it must be reported to Yan Xueyi, and only with Yan Xueyi's approval can this money be spent.
If it develops to a certain extent, the cabinet will make a plan for the next year at the end of each year, listing the plans and expenditures, and then submit it to Yan Xueyi, who approves it, and next year the cabinet can implement the plans according to this plan.
From the second half of 1883 to the beginning of 1884, the cabinet of the Han Kingdom originally did not have a trace of financial revenue (Yan Xueyi became the ruler of Siqi Province for less than half a year, and Yan Xueyi gave up this half year to tax the people of Siqi Province), in order to better rule Siqi Province, Yan Xueyi took out his own property (everything in the Yan family is Yan Xueyi's) and injected it into the country, so that the Han Kingdom officially operated, and also let the governments at all levels operate, the common people support the government even more and support Yan Xueyi, the ruler.
(The property confiscated by the Han army was Yan Xueyi's, the evil monarchy...... )
In 1884, Yan Xueyi's four-five-year plan was in full swing, and the funds used in the plan would be even larger, money was needed everywhere, and it was difficult to move an inch without money.
Yan Xueyi paid a lot of money, but after the end of the First Five-Year Plan, Yan Xueyi got a more powerful Han Kingdom, with the power to overthrow the Manchu Qing Dynasty and unify the country, and at the same time, the financial income of the Han Kingdom increased greatly, and the funds paid by Yan Xueyi are also slowly flowing back, don't forget, a large number of factories were built in the First Five-Year Plan, and the light industry factory Yan's firm has two percent of the shares, and the heavy industry factories all belong to the Yan's firm, and these factories are profitable.
More importantly, after the end of the First Five-Year Plan, Yan Xueyi influenced every common man in the Han Kingdom from agriculture, industry, commerce, military, education, health and other aspects.
If it is said that the property of the Han Kingdom is the Han Kingdom, and Yan Xueyi's property is Yan Xueyi's, Yan Xueyi issued the First Five-Year Plan, and the cabinet borrowed money from Yan Xueyi to carry out the First Five-Year Plan, after the end of the First Five-Year Plan, the cabinet gained control of important industries in the Han Kingdom, and the people supported Yan Xueyi but supported the cabinet and governments at all levels, what would happen to the situation?
The cabinet will seek to get more power from Yan Xueyi, and finally let Yan Xueyi have no rights at all, just a symbolic monarch, and even kick Yan Xueyi when necessary, so that the country will become a real democracy.
Yan Xueyi doesn't want this, he chooses to tie himself to the country, he wants to gain the support of the people, he wants to become the faith of this country and this nation!