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After the establishment of the empire, the empire did not let go of the prospecting work in the empire, the imperial economic development department at the beginning of the establishment of the western continent from the technology has gone to the forefront of the introduction of professional prospecting personnel, they brought chemical and physical prospecting methods to greatly improve the efficiency of the empire's prospecting department, but also to the empire prospecting department to bring new technology and methods, in this regard, the western continent countries do not seem to have paid enough attention to this aspect, and the empire's high-salary recruitment has not shown a special prohibition attitude, which makes the empire's prospecting level in a relatively short period of time has been greatly improved。 Pen "Fun" Pavilion www.biquge.info

The discovery of a series of copper deposits in Burmese and Central South has made the two new governors of Burma and Central South overjoyed, although the imperial currency reform has made the financial aspects of copper no longer have a special status, but copper has played an irreplaceable role in all aspects of national production, and with the continuous expansion of the empire's territory, the demand for copper is still increasing. However, before the traffic conditions have been thoroughly improved, it is obviously not realistic to carry out large-scale development, so the local government of the two counties has fully cooperated with the construction of key roads carried out by the Imperial Economic Development Department and the Ministry of Construction in these two counties. The construction of the strategic highway from Zhongnan County to East Samoa was also listed as the No. 1 project by the central and local governments of the empire, and only by thoroughly opening up this highway could the economy of the two counties that had been located in the interior of the country be developed, and the two governors who had been transferred from the rich prefectures of Jiangnan knew this better than anyone else.

The Imperial Prospecting Department has also made great achievements in Gelok County, the giant silver mine in the territory of Wolf Mountain Mansion was discovered, which brought a good omen to the newly established Wolf Mountain Mansion, and the flat terrain of the Gerok region is also very conducive to the mining of silver mines, and the issue of silver mine ownership is also the focus of the local political axe and the central political axe of the empire, after a fierce debate, the local political axe finally won thirty percent of the equity for itself, and the newly built Wolf Mountain Mansion only sold one percent of the equity in exchange for a large amount of construction funds for the Wolf Mountain Mansion, and the new city guard of the Wolf Mountain Mansion said that the Wolf Mountain Mansion would be built into the best conditions in Gerok County and even the entire northern region of the empire, the most beautiful city in the environment.

The Empire was still not open to the mining of gold and silver, but some workarounds were taken to deal with historyIn view of the historical evolution of the Indean region, some of the original gold mines were already controlled by the nobles, which was also one of the most important economic sources for the Indean nobility, and the Empire recognized the mining rights of these gold mines, except for some nobles who were obviously involved in the rebellion against the Empire.

However, the "Mineral Resources Law" promulgated by the empire also clearly stipulates that since the establishment of the empire, all gold and silver deposits in the empire shall be owned by the central and local political axes of the empire, and private individuals shall not own them, and the gold and silver mines before the establishment of the empire shall confirm their ownership for a certain period of time through alternative means, and the empire will take back after the expiration of the ownership, and give the original owner a certain amount of economic compensation, but during this period, the beginning of gold and silver deposits must be mined under the supervision of the imperial treasury to prevent the mining of the sabotage. The introduction of this policy was unanimously welcomed by the gold miners in the Indean region, who were overjoyed to be granted mining rights for a certain number of years, and were even more satisfied with the financial compensation they received when the imperial axe was recovered.

The nobles who participated in the rebellion against the Empire's entry into the Indean region were naturally stripped of everything, and while their property was confiscated, their gold mine shares were also confiscated into the State-owned Assets Department under the Imperial Ministry of Finance.

In addition to precious metal mines, diamond and jade non-metallic minerals were not all under the control of the imperial government as expected, whether it was diamonds, gemstones, jadeite in the Indean region or white jade, nephrite and other mining areas in other parts of the empire, the empire did not intervene too much, even the mining areas confiscated for other reasons were quickly sold through public auctions, which also won high praise from merchants and media everywhere.

In addition to the great strides in the mining and metallurgical industries, the empire is also consciously considering the lifting of industry barriers for tobacco and liquor, which were originally included in the monopoly, and the restrictions on access and sales of liquor have been directly lifted, and anyone can enter the liquor production and sales industry as long as they obtain a health and safety permit issued by the empire's economic development department.

The same is true of the tobacco industry, the cultivation of tobacco has never been restricted, but it has been controlled in the field of deep processing, the Tang River Empire and the original Western Xinjiang have adopted a monopoly operation, but now the Imperial Ministry of Culture, Education and Health has issued warnings and suggestions that excessive tobacco smoking is harmful to the people's health, and it is recommended that the empire take measures to prevent the further deterioration of this phenomenon. Although the warning was not adopted in the Imperial Senate and the House of Citizens, it still attracted media attention, which hit the owners of the Imperial tobacco industry, who had hoped that restrictions would be lifted completely.

In addition to the high tax policy still adopted by the empire in terms of cultivation, processing and marketing, and the empire also made an exception to regulate and limit the area of tobacco cultivation, except for northern Luzon, Burmese County, Central South County, Nanhai County, In addition to the area of tobacco cultivation in the counties of South India and Coastal County, the area of tobacco cultivation in other counties of the empire was strictly controlled, especially in the major grain-producing areas, and the tobacco processing industry was also restricted, a large number of small and medium-sized processing enterprises were required to merge or be merged by large enterprises, and the Ministry of Economic Development and the Ministry of Commerce of the empire also put forward strict requirements for these large processing enterprises after the merger or merger, especially for each processing enterprise has put forward more stringent requirements for the proportion of export sales, and the imperial economic development department has also adopted various means to ban smaller tobacco processing enterprises, forcing small-scale tobacco processing enterprises to merge with other tobacco giants or form joint-stock large-scale processing complexes on their own.

This was the first time that the empire had imposed restrictions and restrictions on the development of a certain industry, especially at the time of the comprehensive revitalization of the empire's industry and commerce, which also caused widespread controversy in the empire's industrial and commercial circles.

Critics believe that the Empire's restrictions on the tobacco industry are a fair treatment, especially without the proposal of the Imperial Senate and the Citizens' House representatives, and that such a strong administrative measure to restrict the development of an industry is a huge blow to the Imperial economic community just by the identification and recommendation of the Imperial Ministry of Culture, Education and Health, and they initially did not dare to openly question the Imperial Ministry of Culture, Education and Health on the view that tobacco is harmful to health, after all, it was the result of careful investigation and research by a number of experts and scholars invited by the Imperial Ministry of Culture, Education and Health, and they were not aware of this, but they hoped to use other means, such as increasing investment in health facilities and raising tax rates to compensate for this.

However, the voices of supporters are also not small, mainly from the local gentry and officials, especially in non-tobacco-growing areas, who believe that the harm caused by tobacco will endanger people's health and give rise to more civil problems, and unanimously support restricting the expansion of the tobacco industry, advocating the maintenance of the current status quo.

As the controversy grew louder, representatives of the tobacco industry began to seek legal means to overturn the restrictions imposed by the Imperial Ministry of Economic Development, especially the representatives of the tobacco industry in Tiannan County and Punjab County, because these two counties were not listed as non-restricted areas for tobacco cultivation by the Imperial Ministry of Economic Development, so tobacco cultivation was greatly restricted, and the local government of the two counties had to implement the policy of the Ministry of Economic Development, and at the same time, they also secretly supported the owners of the tobacco industry to solve this problem through legal means.

On July 22, 701 in the Gregorian calendar, 33 representatives of the owners of the Imperial Tobacco Industry Association jointly submitted a complaint to the Seventh Imperial Court (mainly responsible for the trial of major criminal and civil cases under the jurisdiction of Tiannan County), asking the Seventh Imperial Court to rule that the administrative order of the Imperial Ministry of Economic Development in Tiannan County to limit the scale of tobacco plantations is invalid。

This administrative complaint requesting the invalidity of the order of the Ministry of Economic Development of the Empire shook the whole empire almost immediately, and it was the first time that the administrative power department at the level of the imperial ministry was sued, although there was a precedent in the Western Xinjiang era to sue the financial department for banning the opening of commercial banks in order to seek monopoly, but after all, it was in a rather narrow range, and it quickly disappeared, far less than the momentum of this impact affecting the whole empire.

The media throughout the empire paid attention to the incident with extraordinary attention, especially in the newly incorporated region of Merry, where industry and commerce were relatively developed, and the media in Merley County always published the lawsuit on the front page of the so-called Tobaccogate scandal. And the Minister of Justice Mo Lun also said in an unusually high-profile manner that the imperial trial department must try the case impartially and without favoritism, which made the heat of this case soar.

(To be continued)