Realizing that his positive persuasion had once again been useless, Shen Shiming was not annoyed, and began to talk about the domestic political struggle, or the political situation, and began to reverse persuasion.

In the same way, although the Chinese Empire is a nascent regime with a relatively simple power structure, it is still an emperor's dictatorship/dictatorship/autocratic system, and the bureaucratic system is not bloated because of time, but there are still many factions and struggles within it.

In the political system of the Chinese Empire, Li Yongji, the emperor, was of course the first person on the high ground, he not only controlled the army, but also controlled the government.

When Li Yongji was still in China, because the country was newly established, the time was too short, and Li Yongji, the emperor, was too strong, after all, he was the first person to overthrow the Manchu Qing Dynasty and the Taiping Army, with unparalleled prestige, and there was a shortage of people below, and almost all of the people who were promoted by Li Yongji at the beginning, especially the people in the army, so the factional disputes below were still relatively weak.

With the passage of time, as the new government structure gradually stabilized, and as everyone began to slowly adapt to the system formulated by Li Yongji himself, the behavior of grabbing power and profit in groups began to become more and more, the distinction between factions began to gradually become clear, and the power struggles for competing for interests, or internal friction, began to slowly appear.

In the early days, because Li Yongji's existence was like a mountain pressing on the heads of all parties, and everyone did not dare to go too far, the formation and struggle between such factions were still relatively hidden and almost untraceable.

But when Empress Yin Susu began to get pregnant, and Li Yongji began to slowly delegate power to the subordinates and spend a lot of time with his wife, this faction began to develop slowly, and then when Li Yongji left China willfully, changed his name and surname, arrived at the Red Fort in Hollywood, and began to train and prepare for war in North America, thousands of miles away, the domestic political situation seemed to be loosened, and all kinds of factions came out at once and entered a period of vigorous development.

Today, after some open and secret struggles, the Chinese Empire is roughly divided into three factions, namely the Hou Party, the Pro-Party and the Military Party, which are basically split from the original Imperial Party.

The so-called Hou Party, as the name suggests, is a faction centered on Empress Yin Susu and Prime Minister Shen Shiming, and the power of this faction mainly controls the Ministry of Internal Affairs and the State Council, as well as the courts, and is the most powerful faction in the imperial government.

As for the pro-party, it is mainly a faction of imperial relatives centered on the immediate family members of the emperor such as Li Zhengxiang and Li Yongchang. The core members of this faction are basically the relatives and businessmen who made Li Yongji's fortune at the beginning, and there are also a group of intellectuals and old bureaucrats who took refuge in the former dynasties, who have mastered the senatorial council, the parliament, and also control a lot of royal industries, mainly referring to those such as banks and factories that Li Yongji asked them to represent, so in terms of economic strength, they are the strongest, almost mastering the economy of the empire.

The last military party mainly refers to the army, because there is no No. 2 person in the imperial army who can replace Li Yongji to coordinate the overall situation, and all the commanders of the group army are directly under the orders of the emperor himself, after all, there is a radio, and they are relatively independent from the government, so they can still be regarded as a separate faction.

Among these three factions, except for the military party, which was able to be strictly neutral and impartial because of Li Yongji's advice and because it was separated from government agencies and operated separately from the beginning, there were more and more disputes between the latter party and the pro-party because there were often overlapping interests.

In other words, the original imperial party has been divided into three factions, and although it has not yet affected the overall situation of the country, a situation in which the three parties are in full force has been formed.

Of course, Li Yongji was very unhappy about this matter, after all, no one like the people below to set up a small gang on their own, but later Li Yongji asked people to investigate, and then they found that this qiē was still related to him, or rather, it was precisely because of Li Yongji's willfulness that the current situation was caused.

First of all, after the party, Li Yongji started to go to Los Angeles, that is, Hollywood, after Yin Susu gave birth to a child, because he felt guilty and was afraid that Yin Susu would be lonely, so he found a lot of things for Yin Susu to do, simply put, let Yin Susu take full charge of the affairs of the Internal Affairs Office.

Maybe the original Yin Susu was a person who had no quarrel with the world, after all, she was young and simple, but she was in a high position, and many things were involuntarily, especially when she gave birth to the prince and mastered the power center of the Internal Affairs Office, she didn't fight, and the people below would also ask her to fight.

Especially after Shen Shiming, the prime minister of the State Council, began to take the initiative to take refuge, the latter party became the group that controlled the two major power organs of the Ministry of Internal Affairs and the State Council in one fell swoop, and began to truly control the government and government.

However, the power of the state is in the hands of a woman, even if it is just an agent, after all, the emperor is fine, although in North America, he can still rely on the radio to save the sense, but after all, Li Yongji cannot see it all the time, and Li Yongji often can't make a phone call because he is busy, and over time, this has caused many people to be unhappy, including Li Yongji's father, that is, the emperor Li Zhengxiang.

At the beginning, it was just a little bit of psychological unhappiness, after all, Wu Zetian and other histories are there, and everyone is wary of women in power. But when Shen Shiming took advantage of the queen's power and began to fight against many royal properties, that is, to collect taxes on those industries under the banner of royal relatives, this was not a little unhappy, but quite unhappy.

To put it bluntly, in the final analysis, this qiē is still a money word.

As the prime minister personally promoted by the emperor and an outsider, Shen Shiming originally didn't want to face Li Yongji's relatives so early, that is, those imperial relatives, but the reality was there, so that Shen Shiming had to cut into those royal industries, and the reason for this was somewhat directly or indirectly related to Li Yongji.

In the past, Li Yongji engaged in many enterprises that were not under the management of the state, such as China CITIC Bank, Dai Mengde Jewelry, etc., the main reason was to facilitate his own reloading of materials.

However, although Li Yongji has set up a lot of enterprises that do not go to the treasury and do not pay taxes, Li Yongji is the emperor, so he can pay out of his own pocket to raise soldiers, such as the Praetorian Guard, which does not eat the treasury, and Li Yongji pays out of his own pocket*.

In addition to these, such as some construction corps, or infrastructure projects, special industries, special agriculture, immigration bureaus, etc., Li Yongji also paid out of his own pocket*, and even sometimes the treasury was not enough, Li Yongji would directly post money to the treasury.

Although when subsidizing money to the treasury, he also has to ask the treasury for some treasury bills and other things as vouchers, which is theoretically an investment, but in the current situation, Li Yongji does not expect to earn back this money from the treasury in the short term, so he buys special treasury bills that have been in place for a long time and the interest rate is not high, and the main purpose is to set an example and promote treasury bills.

It can be said that in the early days of the founding of the People's Republic of China, Li Yongji used his own strength to supplement the state treasury, which made the state treasury barely function, and began to implement Li Yongji's plans, such as universal primary education, that is, the literacy program, and basic health care programs.

You must know that at any time, education and medical care are the most important things, and they also require large investment, but in the short term, you can't see the direct benefits of investment, so generally speaking, it is the country that is strong, and will invest vigorously in these places.

However, Li Yongji is a person from the past, and he deeply knows how important education and basic medical care are to a country, and many benefits cannot be seen in the short term, but in the long run, they are crucial.

Let's start with education. The importance of basic education is self-evident, more than ninety percent of the people in China are illiterate, so although there are many Chinese, there are few talents available, and they cannot form a huge group of industrial workers.

You must know that being a farmer is not the same as being a worker, when a farmer can live a life without big words, and you can grow food with experience, but if you are a worker who is illiterate, you will not be able to read many factory manuals, and it will take less than half a little time to retrain and educate.

Therefore, in order to develop industry, there must be enough industrial workers, and in order to have enough industrial workers, basic education must be universal, at least the literacy rate must be high enough, and this requires basic literacy, at least half of the population reaches the level of primary school education.

In order to promote education, Li Yongji directly used the land tax to subsidize education, and used it as an education fund, which was a major income in old China.

Without the income from the land tax, the only way to keep the empire running would have to be to raise money from other sources, basically from industry and commerce, and from the service industry.

However, China's private industry and commerce have just started, and it is too late to support them, and there is not much oil and water to pump, so most of the time, Li Yongji still pays subsidies out of his own pocket, and even dedicates a piece of his own enterprise to pay taxes.

Fortunately, with Li Yongji's golden finger, China has some advantageous export items, such as special drugs, such as weapons, such as high-grade silk porcelain, etc., which have generated a large amount of foreign exchange for China, and the country can therefore collect a large number of customs duties, and customs duties have become the largest tax in the Chinese Empire.

Let's talk about basic medical care. The so-called basic medical care generally refers to the treatment of common diseases such as headache and brain fever, such as fever, cold, pneumonia, malaria, etc.

In fact, in this era, these common diseases are the culprits of the high mortality rate of Chinese, on the contrary, things like cancer are negligible in the face of these.

Of course, in the period of underdeveloped medical treatment, especially in the era when modern medicine has not developed, it is indeed difficult to treat these diseases, and it basically depends on personal luck, but Li Yongji is different, he can not only get all kinds of cheap drugs for the treatment of these diseases from modern times, but also get a full set of technology and production equipment, which can produce these cheap drugs locally.

Not to mention anything else, antibiotics such as sulfonamides and penicillins can now be completely self-produced in the Chinese Empire, and the technology and equipment used are all imported from modern times.

Of course, the imitation of these modern drugs is mainly for emergency purposes, and the relevant imitation research, that is, to know the results first, and then according to the technical data homeopathic research, is also being carried out at the same time, but that is only done to accumulate relevant technical principles, in order to form their own perfect scientific research system, and has nothing to do with practicality.

At present, these self-produced modern drugs have basically replaced the drugs imported from modern times, which is not to say that the cost of self-produced drugs is lower.

Strictly speaking, the same medicine, even if the cost of Chinese in the nineteenth century is lower, but because the infrastructure and other aspects cannot keep up, the efficiency of industrial workers is not good, and the cost of transportation and raw materials remains high, so the unit cost of the finished product is still inferior to modern imported drugs.

However, in this era, the production of drugs can be continuously replicated, and the output can be greatly increased, and these increased output does not have to occupy Li Yongji's transmission tonnage, Li Yongji can use these precious transmission tonnage to transmit others, from this point of view, it is still quite cost-effective. Not to mention, the production of modern drugs in this time and space is beneficial to the relevant industry in the country and related scientific research fields.

Every year, one-third of these self-produced modern drugs are used for export, and the other two-thirds are supplied to the country, and of course, the price of the export is very different from the purchase price of the citizens of the country, and the smallest gap is more than 20 times!

Take one of the most widely used drugs - anti-inflammatory analgesic.

The so-called anti-inflammatory analgesic is actually aspirin, this drug was born as early as 1853, but did not attract attention, if a qiē is normal, it will not be officially debuted until 1899, and quickly became a classic drug that swept the world, and has been used until the 21st century and endured.

This drug is an antipyretic analgesic, which can treat fever and cold, and can also relieve various pain diseases such as arthritis, toothache, headache, rheumatism, etc., and can also inhibit platelet aggregation, which is used to prevent and treat ischemic heart disease, angina, cardiopulmonary infarction, cerebral thrombosis and other diseases, and can be said to be a widely used panacea.

Of course, in addition to the benefits of wide application and small side effects, the biggest benefit of this thing is that it is easy to produce and the cost is cheap enough!

If this drug is produced in the Chinese Empire, in terms of cost, one Huayuan can currently produce 100 kilograms, and according to the calculation of one gram tablet and one bottle of 100 tablets, one Huayuan (containing 37 grams of silver) can produce 1,000 bottles.

So, how much does this thing sell for to the outside world?

The domestic selling price, a bottle of this anti-inflammatory analgesic, the price is a penny a bottle, that is, 0.01 Huayuan a bottle, if you calculate the profit, it is only ten times more expensive than the factory price.

However, if it is exported to the outside world, a bottle of such a hundred diseases will cost 50 Chinese yuan, and the retail price can be at least doubled when it is shipped to Europe, and it will cost 100 Chinese yuan a bottle, and the price is 100,000 times higher!

This kind of profit is quite rare to see in modern society, and the most important thing is that the demand for this thing is still large enough, unlike modern society, even if there is something that can earn 100,000 times, the circulation will definitely not be large!

The reason why this is the case is that the effect of this drug is too good, and the number of pills is also large, usually one treatment, but it takes more than a dozen tablets to be enough, even if some more severe infections, at most thirty tablets can be cured, as for some long-term analgesic diseases, such as arthritis, etc., only one bottle is enough for two months, and on average, it only takes fifty yuan a month.

In this way, although the price of this drug in foreign countries is relatively high, on average, the price is not expensive, and it can be consumed by the middle class.

Some diseases, such as fever and other diseases, without this medicine, are likely to burn to death, and with this medicine, it may save people's lives, so from the perspective of life-saving, it is a must.

This is the so-called difference between having and not, there was no such drug before, many diseases can only wait for death, with aspirin, no, it is anti-inflammatory analgesic, you can continue to survive, plus this drug is widely used, headache and brain fever can also be used, so many middle class have to prepare a little.

The most important reason is that this drug can only be produced in China, in other words, it is a monopoly drug, although other countries have been making efforts to research, and even thought of coming to China to steal the secret recipe for production, but so far there has been no result.

The reason is very simple, China itself is a country with a relatively single ethnic composition, the Han nationality accounts for the majority, and it is quite difficult for foreigners to integrate, plus these drugs are made in factories in the 110 Special Economic Zone, and there are special guards to guard them, and there is a strict confidentiality system, so it is basically impossible for outsiders to steal the secret recipe

As for cracking research, in this era, medicine is just starting, there is no formula, and it is really difficult to count on reverse cracking from the real thing, and it is basically an impossible task. As for the scientists who could have produced or could have produced this drug in Europe, they had already died due to various "accidents", so the progress of research on this drug was greatly delayed.

In short, this drug is exclusive to China, except for aspirin, such as sulfonamides, penicillins, which are also only available in China, and the price of domestic sales is far from the export price, which is essentially to improve the basic medical level of the people.

The price difference between domestic and foreign prices is so large, there will definitely be people who engage in smuggling and selling to make profits, but it is a pity that this drug is a monopoly of the royal family, others cannot buy and sell, and the prescription is also strictly restricted, there is a strict monitoring process, and there is also a strict punishment law for reselling drugs without permission.

With a series of methods, this kind of scalping trend has finally been curbed a little, but it is impossible to completely stop it, after all, as long as the difference between domestic and foreign prices is stored for one day, and the price difference is large enough to make people take risks, this kind of smuggling activities cannot be stopped.

In fact, many smuggling activities are carried out by insiders, and this internal activity is mainly in the circulation link, that is, those relatives who are under the banner of the royal family and actually have nothing to do with Li Yongji, who were able to handle this kind of business because of the care of the Wang family, but later saw that the price difference between domestic and foreign prices was so high, they simply guarded and stole themselves, and became the largest smuggling group.

The biggest problem here is that these drugs are not taxed, after all, drug income is one of Li Yongji's biggest sources, and they all rely on drugs to raise soldiers, and they have to rely on these to maintain the basic medical construction in the country, so they are tax-free.

However, seeing that he couldn't get so much income made Shen Shiming very uncomfortable, so he simply made great efforts to crack down on smuggling, and he could make a lot of money just by cracking down on smuggling.

In this way, it angered many "imperial relatives and relatives", and they began to connect up and down, using the parliament to attack Shen Shiming's government team, and finally Shen Shiming saw that it was not a problem, so he simply took refuge in the queen and became a member of the Hou Party.

In fact, Shen Shiming was also forced to be helpless, if he could, he didn't want to be hostile to those royal relatives so early, but he was too short of money now, and his eyes were green, so that he had to take the richest group in the country!

He naturally didn't dare to move the sensitive enterprises directly under the emperor, but he could still move those marginal enterprises or smuggling illegal activities.

The reason why it became like this has to start with Li Yongji leaving China and going to the United States. R1152