After the special zone confirmed the usefulness of the railway, Li Yu decided to build a railway from Qianxian to the Wuyi Industrial Zone. Pen ~ fun ~ Ge www.biquge.info it's just that the scale of this railway is far longer than the railway from Taoyuan County to the border of the Special Administrative Region, so the Wenchen led by Yuan Lian refused.

Li Yu has already told all the benefits of the railway, but Yuan Jian and others still see the investment in front of them. The key is that the current consumption of iron procurement is too large, and this thing is government-run, and there is no way for private individuals to mine and sell, so the cost is too high.

It's not that there are no private railways, but if they are found out, the consequences will be very serious. Besides, others only mine a small amount of money, even if they build some farm tools or something, and use a large number of private iron to build railways with great fanfare, isn't this a handle for people?

This is also the most frustrating place for Li Yu, Liu Hong did not open up the mining and smelting of steel. In other words, even if iron ore is to be mined, it must first be filed with the imperial court, and then all the mined ore will be purchased by the imperial court, and then smelted into iron ingots for sale. The monopoly of salt and iron was an important economic measure of the Han Dynasty, and there is a work on this point of view, "Treatise on Salt and Iron".

In fact, even in later generations, salt is still a state monopoly, and no one can speculate and operate without a license. As long as it is an economic crime involving salt, the intensity of the crackdown and punishment is also very large.

In fact, steel is almost a monopoly, and there are state shares behind the steel mills. It's just that the smelting technology has gone up later, making the price a lot cheaper, not to mention directly providing iron ingots to make rail steel, just saying that the rails can be made directly and then sold, and the price is not high.

"Ask Your Majesty for instructions that all the ores mined in Wuyue will be smelted in the Special Zone, and then these iron ingots will be purchased internally according to the cost increase of 20% as a profit.

Twenty percent of the profit is directly used as the part handed over, and there is no need to consider fire consumption and other factors, and there is no need to smelt iron ingots for sale, which saves a lot of trouble for the imperial court. Li Yu put forward his own opinion.

Nowadays, small blast furnaces have begun to appear in the special zone, although the pollution is serious, the problem is that the output and the quality of the iron ingots are indeed much better than the iron ingots of the imperial court. The key is that it is cheap, and the price is less than 10% of the official price.

Don't look at the profit of two percent, but in the case of building a large number of railways, the consumption is also huge. The metallurgical technology of the Han Dynasty at this stage could not provide such a large amount of iron materials, which was a great loss to the Special Administrative Region or the imperial court.

"You can try!" Yuan Lian thought about it and felt that he could try it, provided that the profitability of the railway was really considerable.

"Tomorrow we will start to build more carriages for transporting goods, and open them to merchants, try to operate for free for a month, and if there is a large number of passengers, then we will start charging transportation. On the contrary, the subsequent railway transportation can be appropriately delayed! Li Yu further made suggestions.

"Good!" Yuan Jian finally nodded.

In his view, if a policy does not see any benefits at all, or if the benefits far outweigh the input, then the policy is a failure. It is true that the railway can transport troops, but if it is only for transporting troops, then the role of the railway will be weakened a lot, and the distance of hundreds of miles will not be too tiring to walk.

"Now is not the time to say that!" Lin Ming suddenly barged in, and he rarely participated in such policy-making meetings under normal circumstances. After all, his official position does not belong to the official position of the Han Dynasty, and he is actually still a grass people.

Li Yu specially gave him the qualification to observe, but he still rarely came to meetings. It is indeed very rare to break into the venue in such a hurry, and it seems that something is really going to happen.

"Something happened...... But it doesn't hurt to say it, it's all your own people! Li Yu looked at Lin Ming and blinked when he saw him, but he immediately said in public.

In fact, blinking is just a disguise, and it is really a hand. When he came in, he clenched his fists, so it proved that there was really a very private matter, and no one else could tell except Li Yu. On the other hand, if the palm is spread out, it proves that the matter is not private and can be made public.

However, Li Yu's sentence of 'his own people' did make Yuan Jian and Xun Yan's expressions a little better. Although everyone is in a subordinate relationship, in fact, except for Chen Yu and Cheng Yu, they are not Li Yu's personal generals. Even if he has realized that Li Yu wants to treat the SAR as his own backyard, this feeling of treating them as outsiders is very unpleasant.

"The existence of Momen has been exposed, Wang Yue has resigned from the position of Imperial Swordsman, and there is no one from Momen around His Majesty to protect him!" Lin Ming said very solemnly.

"How could this be?" Li Yu couldn't help but get nervous, while Yuan Jian and Xun Yan also looked solemn.

In fact, the two of them already knew that Liu Hong had people from Momen around him all the time to protect him, and by the way, they maintained contact with the Special Administrative Region. And the Special Economic Zone where Li Yu is located is also Liu Hong's foreign aid, and he will go north to King Qin at any time.

Now that Momen is gone, in other words, there is no channel for communication between the two sides. In the future, not to mention that Liu Hong will not be able to pass the news to the Special Administrative Region, and the Special Administrative Region will not be able to know the situation in the palace, the entire palace is now completely closed, as long as the family does not want others to know the news, then there will never be a way to spread the news outside the palace.

Don't doubt whether they have this ability, to put it mildly, it is unknown how many of those guards and ordinary yellow gates, and even palace maids have been bought by them.

The key is Liu Hong's safety issue, there used to be Momen, all of whom were professional killers, and naturally knew how to prevent others from killing them. Now without them, even if Liu Hong finds someone to test the poison, he is afraid that the family wants him to have an accident, or even die early, and the means are as many as possible. Besides, who can guarantee that the person who tested the drug has not been bought?

"Just a month ago, His Majesty planned to go back to the countryside to have a look. I plan to re-woo and find a way to manage my former contacts in Jizhou. However, Jizhou Mu Wang Fen conspired to kill the eunuchs by force and coerced His Majesty to abdicate, it is said that the new monarch has been chosen...... "Lin Ming can only explain briefly.

"Oh, it's the Hou of Hefei, right! We talked about it at the time. I only feel that there is something strange about this matter, after all, Wang Fen is so secret, and the world knows it, and there must be something strange in it. Not to mention that the guy didn't fail in his operation, so he resigned and fled, and committed suicide in Plains County? Li Yu seemed to remember this incident, and he just smiled with Lin Ming at that time.

"In fact, this was originally a bureau, and later I waited for Momen to find out, and the people involved in this matter were not only Chen Yi, the son of Chen Fan in the past, but also Yuan Valve's disciple Xu You, who planned a lot in it. In other words, the whole thing is said to be planned by Wang Fen, but in fact, it is Yuan Valve who is promoting and planning behind the scenes. After the defeat, in order to avoid extraneous branches, I am afraid that Wang Fen's death will be strange! Lin Ming shook his head and told some of the inside story.

"Just because of this, your Momen was exposed?" Li Yu seemed to understand.

"It is precisely like this, Yuan Valve seems to be pushing Wang Fen to depose the emperor, and the main intention is two. During this period, they found Cao Cao and Hua Xin, although the former was from the imperial party, but he was more distant from the imperial party and favored the wealthy families; The latter is the same as Lu Zhi, Guan Ning and Zheng Xuan, and has a great reputation in academics, but in fact, it is not the same boat as Yuan Valve, so this operation also dragged them into the water, and by the way, cut off these two, and even included the uncertain factors behind them.

On the other hand, I am afraid that Yuan Valve has realized that there is such a person around Liu Hong who provides him with information and even contacts foreign ministers. Even, maybe he has begun to suspect Momen, but there was no evidence before, and it was not easy to offend Momen, so he could only acquiesce.

This time, due to the importance of the matter, His Majesty really asked Juzi to send someone to investigate, and the result just confirmed the fact that His Majesty really has an intelligence department by his side, and even Momen plays an important role in it. So the United Family made a difficulty, and Juzi had no choice but to resign, as for whether it will affect us, it is unknown.

Crucially, His Majesty is now completely isolated. Although there is a more hidden organization called Han Soul, it is not known who the members are in it. It seems that without Liu Hong's secret order, the Han Soul Organization will always be in a latent state. Now on the bright side, His Majesty has lost both eyes and ears, and the situation is very unfavorable for him! Lin Ming said solemnly.

It's not just a disadvantage, it's just a terrible thing! You must know that according to history, Wang Fen wanted to abolish Liu Hong around June, and Liu Hong may have felt the crisis, so he formed the eighth lieutenant of Xiyuan. But even so, he could not escape death, and he died violently in April next year. How ironic it is, he was in the prime of life, and he had to tour north a few months ago, but he died violently in less than half a year.

I'm afraid that if it weren't for Yuan Valve, there were still some unresolved issues, so there was no way to easily attack Liu Hong, but I was afraid that even at the end of 188, or even at the beginning of 189, Liu Hong would 'die violently'.

However, now that history has changed, not to mention that the eighth lieutenant of the West Park appeared in advance, and occupied so many places for the family. Without considering the factors of Cao Cao and Hanzhong, or the factors of the Special Administrative Region, there is almost nothing to deal with.

In other words, will Yuan Valve attack Liu Hong in advance? In other words, it is very likely that at the end of the year, Liu Hong will directly 'die violently', and may not die violently in April next year according to history.

Then again, why April? April means that spring ploughing has been basically completed, at least ploughing and cultivation have been basically completed, and it has begun to enter the Qingming Festival. In other words, even if there are riots this year, we will ensure that there is no food in the fields.

Maybe it's because of this plan that Liu Hong died violently in April, right? I can't say it, now Liu Hong himself has been controlled by the family. As for the actual situation of history, it doesn't matter at all, after all, the people who record the history books are themselves scholars and children of the family!

But the problem is that today's high-yielding crops have begun to become widespread, and this thing is not very strict about the season, which means that even if the seeds are planted in May or June, it is not a problem at all. Taking this factor into account, then Liu Hong's life is afraid that it will also start to enter the countdown.

No wonder Lin Ming was so nervous, I was afraid that he would also consider this possibility on the premise of receiving this information.

"What did Wang Yue say?" Li Yu asked casually, even if Wang Yue was forced to leave, Liu Hong should have asked him to bring some secret decrees or oracles.

"It's business as usual! He sent someone over, and he sent this sentence! Lin Ming said solemnly.

Go to Beibi Mountain and help Liu Wei go to Hanzhong, right? I'm afraid that the person who receives this order may not be the only one, Dong Zhuo and Ding Yuan, and even Cao Cao are afraid that they all have a share! It's just that if the two princes fall into the hands of Dong Zhuo, then Liu Wei is afraid that it will be dangerous!

"Well, the king treats me with the courtesy of a king, and I will repay him with the courtesy of a king...... This can be regarded as Li's return of favors! Tell Yang Lang and let him prepare to go north! Li Yu waved his hand and solemnly gave an order. (To be continued.) )