Everyone has their own vision for the future.

Lorraine hopes to have three children, two boys and one girl. The two older brothers are able to take good care of their younger sister and do not have to worry about the lack of playmates for their younger daughter.

Rosen is counting on himself to build a business with a wide range of influence, so that more handicraft workshops can get rid of the precarious living situation, so that every child can have his own father by his side.

Polina hopes that her invention will completely change the social form of human beings and refresh the air of Olin, which is full of soot.

Dussart wanted the commoners of the empire to live in a peaceful and powerful country where no one had to fear, just like his previous self.

Everyone has a vision for the future, and Androni has her own ideas.

She wanted to make the empire stronger, with rich and civilized citizens, thriving and healthy commerce, and strong and powerful armies.

And in order to achieve their goals, they should start with "people" first.

People are the basic unit of society. It is impossible for any social form to achieve absolute equality between people and people - just as people are tall, short, fat and thin, people cannot be "equal" in terms of education, intelligence and morality.

The empire was now divided into two classes, the freedmen and the pauper, except for the aristocracy, which remained almost unchanged. Whether poor or free, they try to save as much as they can.

Only when the resources they have saved reach a special threshold can they hope to achieve their own class ascension.

Such habits were clearly not enough to support the empire's present vast production system. The most spending power of the forty-two colonial stars is the aristocracy, and the financial resources of the nobles are worthless in the face of the productivity of the forty-two colonial stars.

A large number of goods are not bought, and the price of goods is getting lower and lower. In order to ensure their profit margins, producers will continue to reduce the wages of workers and reduce the price of purchased raw materials.

In an era when the Empire is still discovering new colonies, each newly discovered colony star will bring an unbelievably large order for the entire Empire. But now, the Empire has not found a single habitable colony for fifty-eight years.

Androni is a very good merchant, and she is keenly aware that the empire is currently in a crisis—a crisis in which the entire commodity system and economic system collapse because the goods produced in large quantities are not bought.

Once such a crisis arises, it will have a devastating blow to the entire empire. Poor people cannot buy even a spoonful of flour, those who run factories do not have money to continue buying raw materials by selling their goods, those who work in factories do not receive wages, and those who mine raw materials have neither income nor commodities.

The effects of such a chain reaction would be extremely wide and deep, and the entire social system of the empire would collapse in an instant. And such a collapse...... It has never happened in the history of empires, or even in the history of mankind.

Androni is very worried about this "future", and she cannot allow this to happen. Whether it's because of her role as "Speaker of the House of Commons of Newsar", the title of "Baroness Androni", or "a mother with children".

And her son, Dusander, who is only 14 years old this year, gave Androni an inspiration.

If the poor were provided with the means and ability to earn an income, the poor, who made up the largest proportion of the Empire's population, would become a reservoir in the entire Empire's commodity system. Their presence can give the Empire's commodity system a great deal of room for manoeuvre, and even assist the Empire in dealing with possible crises.

Androni came up with a name for her plan, which was called "Hiding the Rich from the People".

In order to implement this plan, Androni needed to improve the education and living standards of all the non-free people in Newsar as quickly as possible. And this group naturally includes all miners.

What's worse is that Androni didn't dare to give any related privileges to United Mining. No one knows when such a catastrophe will come. Maybe it's tomorrow, maybe it's the day after tomorrow. In any case, the collapse of the commodity system is almost inevitable.

If the mining consortium were to be opened, her whole plan would be ruined – the mining consortium would use all sorts of reasons to shirk the enforcement of the decree, and other mining companies and even other companies would be able to invoke the precedent of the mining consortium and refuse to enforce Androni's decree.

Managers are top names in their respective industries, but they are extremely short-sighted or even blind in this perspective - their usual work and education are not enough to support such a broad perspective. Everyone who raises sheep knows that the wheat that grows on the roadside produces food, but they still don't refuse to let their flock go to the wheat field for a good meal.

Wealth is like a curse that haunts the souls of the poor, and the thirst for money makes their eyes only look at their feet, but they never know to look up at the cliff ahead.

She is a nobleman, a shepherd dog who is ordered by His Majesty the Emperor to shepherd the commoners. It is her duty to keep the flock safe.

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"Sir, we have no ill will towards you and your family." Feuerbach stood in front of Dussand, pressing his fat body even lower, "Please believe that the purpose of our visit this time is to seek peace. ”

"We also don't have any animosity towards United Mining." Dusant coughed lightly, trying not to be caught by the other party, "United Mining is a loyal servant of His Majesty the Emperor, and United Mining's loyalty to His Majesty is worthy of the admiration and admiration of every citizen of the Empire. ”

"Then we have no basis for antagonism. There is also no possibility of hostility. Feuerbach smiled and nodded, "I think Mr. Pilsen and Mrs. Andronie must have had a good conversation." ”

"Come in!" Suddenly, a man's voice came from the flower hall, and Feuerbach bowed again to Dussand, then turned and entered the flower hall.

Dozens of seconds later, Feuerbach walked out of the flower hall with two huge leather suitcases. In front of him, a gloomy-looking man walked away quickly.

As he staggered past Dussand, Feuerbach suddenly sighed softly.

"It's a pity that your mother is not a wise person."

With that, Feuerbach and Pilsen boarded the steam carriage and left the manor, leaving behind a frowning Dussand and a slightly relieved escort Tom behind him.

"This kid is very smart." In the carriage, Feuerbach took out a handkerchief from his pocket, wiped the sweat from his forehead with difficulty, and said, "It's a pity that the lady seems to be determined to fall to the Ministry of Forestry?" ”

Pilson, who had been arrogant before, suddenly changed his face, he rubbed his hands, scolded Androni as if flattering, and then said, "Mr. Director, that woman seems to have been brainwashed by the devil!" She kept on saying that a great calamity was coming, and that the lowly poor people must be ......," he paused for a moment, and then continued, "...... The common people must be made rich so that they can help the empire stop the disaster. ”

"And then she didn't take the money." Feuerbach nodded slightly, then leaned back on the sofa in the carriage in a comfortable position and muttered, "Disaster? What disaster? ”

"What does it look like...... The collapse of the commodity system? Pilson struggled to recall the scene described by Androni and then retold it to Feuerbach, "Mr. Director, this woman may have a bad brain, but she still offered a way to make up for it - the extra labor costs of the company in Newsall could be compensated for with mining concessions and tax breaks......

"She's a very smart woman." Feuerbach suddenly laughed, "How much did she stuff you?" ”

"Two ...... Two thousand gold pounds. Pilson, who had just been trying to exonerate Andronie, suddenly became much quieter. He bent down and said, "Mr. Director, I'll hand over all the money to the company when I go back......"

"No, you can keep it." Feuerbach waved his hand indifferently, then turned to look at the shrinking manor, "She's a smart woman, isn't she?" Commodity crisis, the empire really has some smart people. ”

Pilson looked up a little confused, he felt that the mood of the director of Feuerbach seemed to be a little fluctuating right now.

"She is loyal to the Empire, to His Majesty the Emperor." Feuerbach patted himself on the stomach and laughed, "And she is so confident in her judgment that in order to avoid such a commodity crisis, she did not hesitate to oppose the mining complex, refused a huge bribe of one million gold pounds, and even stuffed you with two thousand gold pounds." This woman is amazing, she is doing everything in her power for the benefit of the empire and the future of this ancient human empire. ”

Pilson complied with him, and he was much more relieved that as long as Mr. Director was satisfied, and then he would mention to Madam Speaker what had happened today, there would be more bribes in his pocket.

Didn't he go to the position of High Representative in order to use this position to gain more benefits?

Pilsen and Feuerbach laughed together, and he seemed to have seen the good life of being a truly rich superior person on a colony in a few years. Maybe...... He could also buy a title from a great nobleman for life.

"Smack!" There was a crisp sound of uncorks, and the blown flat glass on the outside of the steam carriage was suddenly painted scarlet and greasy white.

Feuerbach, who was laughing, put away his laughter and sighed with some regret after putting away the steam pistol in his hand.

"It's a pity, it's a pity you heard her." Feuerbach picked up his "subordinate's" still twitching body and shook his head slightly.

Most of Pilson's head disappeared from its original place, and he died.

"If this woman is really allowed to continue, the empire may be able to avoid this crisis." Feuerbach threw down the corpse in his hand and wiped his brains from his nose with a sweat-soaked handkerchief, "That would be unfortunate." ”

"I'm not doing a good job, so don't trouble me anymore." Feuerbach sat back down on the couch. He sighed, wiped the blood from the glass with his hands, and stared at the sky outside the window with his eyes squeezed into thin slits by the fat meat.

"This ancient and decaying empire should be completely burned."