June 17 was the first week of Yan's announcement of economic reforms in areas such as "transportation roads, agriculture and animal husbandry, water conservancy projects, and light industry." At this time, the forty or fifty walled cities of the entire Yan Kingdom began to enter the peak period of infrastructure construction in an all-round way.

The construction of the main roads between almost all the walled cities has begun to be more than halfway through, and there are also some large-scale irrigation projects such as farmland irrigation, reservoir irrigation canals, and bridges that cost huge amounts of money.

If someone is very sensitive, it will be found that these infrastructure projects have a common feature - it consumes a large number of NPC peasant labor, consumes a lot of food, and consumes a lot of financial resources in the local walled cities of Yan Kingdom. The labor and materials required to concentrate on such a large number of infrastructure projects in a short period of time are no less than that of a war, and the effect is completely equivalent to a widespread war in the whole Yan country. The only difference is that war is pure attrition, while infrastructure projects can bring enormous wealth in the future.

Moreover, these infrastructure projects are all deployed in the form of "local walled city tasks", and large player power organizations in various places have also participated in them, investing a lot of money and manpower in them to benefit from them. In the palace of Yan Kingdom, after receiving the progress reports of a large number of infrastructure projects launched in various parts of Yan Kingdom, Qin Xiaobai was almost uncontrollable excited. It is not because of the great leap forward in infrastructure construction in various parts of Yan Kingdom, but because the financial power of the NPC chiefs in various parts of Yan Country has been consumed in a large amount of time in a very short period of time.

Yan did not participate in these local infrastructure projects, and the treasury did not detract from any food and financial resources, but increased it.

These NPC chiefs have no food and financial resources in their hands, even if they have 100,000 or millions of soldiers, they dare not rebel easily because of the lack of food and money, so the probability of an NPC chieftain rebellion in the near future is greatly reduced.

Other words. Now there is a very rare and fleeting precious opportunity to implement a more hard-line economic reform policy, that is, the reform of Yanguo's heavy industry -- the iron mines and coal mines of Yanguo will be nationalized by Yanguo, and will no longer be under the jurisdiction of local walled cities.

All along, these things were owned by local chiefs. Normally. These NPC Grand Chiefs may not tolerate this policy. There is a high chance that there will be a rebellion and a protest. But now, they have to endure if they want to, because their capital is exhausted in a large number of infrastructure projects. It will take at least half a month to fully recover.

He carefully left the heavy industry reform to the last step of economic reform, to a large extent, in the hope that the series of reforms that followed would consume the food and financial resources of the local walled cities. Thus reducing the resistance to the reform of heavy industry.

If iron ore mines and coal mines are not nationalized. Then the entire economic reform is illusory, the strength of the Yan court is weak, and the local power is strong. This kind of pattern in which the tail is bigger than the head and the local government is stronger than the central government will sooner or later be a catastrophe and lead to civil strife in the Yan country.

Only by nationalizing the iron mines and coal mines can the power of the Yan court become strong and overwhelm the local walled cities. Let the big chiefs of the NPCs in the walled areas in various places obey the deployment of the Yan King's land. So as to revitalize the Yan country in a real sense.

And now, undoubtedly, is the best time to do so.

After Qin Xiaobai got the reports on the infrastructure projects of the local walled cities. Immediately visited Da Situ Guo Kui. He wanted to consult with the king's most trusted NPC minister to seize this favorable opportunity to promote the reform of Yan's heavy industry.

After Guo Kui listened to Qin Xiaobai's narration, he was obviously shocked, and it seemed unbelievable that Qin Xiaobai actually used a series of large-scale economic reforms to revitalize the Yan Kingdom, causing the local NPC chiefs to fall into an extremely temporary weakness, which was simply incredible. I'm afraid no one would have thought that at the moment of revitalizing the economy of Yan Kingdom, it was actually the weakest moment for the entire Yan Kingdom.

He thought for a long time before he said, "Lord Xiaobai, can you be sure that there is not much food and money left in various places?" ”

Qin Xiaobai affirmed: "Lord Guo, don't worry, I have here the original records of the financial inventory of all the Great Chiefs Great Wall Villages in the entire Yan Kingdom, and they can calculate how much grain they consume in each infrastructure project." According to detailed statistics, the whole Yan country has launched as many as hundreds of infrastructure projects, and more than 80% of the money and grain stocks in the cities around the country have been consumed, and some large-scale reservoir embankment projects still need a lot of time to complete, and the money and grain will continue to be consumed, and the newly relocated nobles have also invested a lot of money and grain in it. At least in half a month, their strength will be quite weak. ”

Guo Kui groaned: "Lord Xiaobai, the old man is a little puzzled. Since the timing is so rare, why don't we simply carry out a comprehensive political reform, replace the local chiefs, and bring the local walled city power and military power back to the royal court? Once and for all, lest the local chiefs continue to sit large in the future? ”

Qin Xiaobai thought for a moment, shook his head and said: "No, the local government and military power are absolutely impossible, and the time is far from ripe now, and a big disaster will arise if you move." The only suitable thing at the moment is heavy industry, the nationalization of iron ore and coal mines. ”

Guo Kui was puzzled: "Oh, why? ”

Qin Xiaobai said: "Lord Guo, think about it, what is the use of iron mines in various places now?" Without a blacksmith for smelting, these iron mines were of no use at all, they would not be worth more than stone, and the chiefs everywhere did not pay attention to iron mines, and they did not even know what iron mines were used for, they were far more interested in copper mines than iron ore. So it is easier to nationalize iron mines now than to nationalize copper mines. In addition, coal mines are not very useful, and local walled cities prefer to use wood to make fires and make various utensils instead of coal mines. So now let the chiefs of the walled cities hand over the power of the iron mines and coal mines, with the least resistance, and the least likely to lead to rebellion. It is too late for the great chiefs to realize the value of iron ore and coal mines in the future.

The biggest resistance to nationalizing iron and coal mines came from the new nobility, not the chieftains.

And if the power and military power of the local chiefs are mobilized now, the chieftains of various places are greatly threatened, even if they do not have much food in their hands, they will definitely rebel one after another and destroy us in order to protect themselves, which will cause the entire Yan country to fall into turmoil. Our strength is not strong enough to suppress a great rebellion in the whole Yan country, and the time is far from ripe for local government reform. Iron and coal mines can be moved, but local government cannot be moved in the short term. ”

Guo Kui did not speak, his expression was solemn, apparently convinced, and did not insist on immediate reform of local power.

Guo Kui said: "Iron ore and coal mines are nationalized, what does Lord Xiaobai plan to do with these things?" ”

Qin Xiaobai thought about it for a while.

He had been planning to set up a Yanguo Iron and Steel Group to monopolize iron ore, coal and steel production throughout Yanguo. In order to obtain this kind of monopoly operation, he must give a part of the share and power of the Yangang Group to the king of Yanguo, as well as key ministers such as Guo Kui and Le Yi, in exchange for their strong support, otherwise it is impossible to achieve monopoly operation.

He now has a contradiction. If he gives too many shares, he is easy to lose control of Yangang Group, which he is not happy with. If the share given is too small, the king, Guo Kui and Le Yi may not be willing to support his monopoly. This contradiction is not easy to deal with.

Qin Xiaobai pondered, his eyes suddenly lit up, and he thought of a solution. Since you don't want to lose control of Yangang, you just need to decompose Yangang and turn it into three groups.

He immediately said, "Lord Guo." In my opinion, after the state-owned iron and coal mines, private individuals cannot mine them without permission, but must obtain state approval before they can be mined, and they must pay a high 50% tax on minerals to the state treasury. In this way, a large amount of money can flow directly into the treasury, thus quickly strengthening the strength of the Yan court.

In addition, I suggest that Yanguo set up three large private groups: Yanguo Iron Ore Group, Yanguo Coal Mine Group, and Yanguo Iron and Steel Group, which respectively have the franchise rights for the production and sale of iron ore, coal mines and iron and steel in the whole Yanguo, and only need to pay 10% tax to the state treasury when buying and selling minerals and trade.

The property in the Yantie group is 50% owned by the king, 10% by Lord Guo, 10% by me, 10% by Lord Le, and the remaining 20% by the newly relocated nobles who own iron mines, so as to appease them so as not to cause chaos.

The property of the Yanmei group is 50% owned by the king, 10% by Guo, 10% by me, 10% by Leda, and the remaining 20% by the newly relocated nobles who own coal mines, so as to appease them so as not to cause chaos.

The property in Yangang Group, because all the blacksmiths are my people, and the investment and construction are also my own, so I personally account for 50%, the king accounts for 10%, Guo Daren 10%, Le Daren 10%, and the rest of the important related personnel account for the remaining 20%. In this way, the interests of all parties are relatively balanced, which can ensure the smooth progress of Yanguo's heavy industry reform to the greatest extent. ”

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