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Chapter 1058 What does abdication mean?
There was no outsider in the carriage, Jiang Yifan was still puzzled when he thought that Ye Xinyan could recommend a profitable business to the emperor.

He asked: "Ayan, since the coal business is very profitable and has a huge prospect. With your character, why are you willing to hand it over to the emperor?" But it didn't go out of your way like in the past, and you must share a few percent.

Ye Xinyan shook her head and said, "Currently, all coal mines are mined in small coal mines. It doesn't matter if you dig in a small area. But if you mine in large quantities, the business is too big. Not only will you earn too much money, but it will also be related to the future energy lifeline. .If we participate in earning this money and gather too much money, I am afraid that we will be suspected by the royal family in the future, so we don't have to cause trouble for ourselves."

Jiang Yifan understood Ye Xinyan's analysis of fooling the emperor in the mechanical workshop, but he never expected that coal is so important, and Ye Xinyan actually used the word "lifeline".

"Since it's so important and the profit is huge, it's good to let the court mine it. Why encourage the emperor to do this business himself?"

Hearing what Ayan said at the time, he suggested that the emperor leave the coal mine to one or several sons of the emperor, and still not return it to the court.After two or three generations, the royal blood of the owners of the coal mines gradually weakened, and the coal mines became privately owned.

"Aren't I going to find something for the emperor to do, so that he is always hanging around in the workshop." Ye Xinyan teased the truth, paused, and then corrected her expression.

Jiang Yifan's attitude towards this matter made her a little speechless. Although the historical process differed by thousands of years, the way of thinking about coal mine ownership and the attitude of the superiors are still so unified.The coal mines of the later generations were controlled by the state for a long time. Later, with the advent of new energy sources and many factors, the coal mines were owned by enterprises.

She patiently explained: "There is no way to do this. As the amount of coal mining increases, the pits and mines will also expand and gradually go deeper into the ground. This kind of terrain is prone to collapse, flooding, and even explosions." Accidents, miners will be a very dangerous industry. If it is mined by an individual or a large family, the imperial court can still supervise one or two, and if it is assigned to the imperial court..." Ye Xinyan shook her head and did not continue.

Since ancient times, the words promotion and fortune have been linked together.In this kind of feudal centralization and poor information circulation, if there is no supervision, the coal mine may become a Shura field.

Although Ye Xinyan didn't continue to talk, Jiang Yifan had almost figured it out.For a while, various words kept piling up in his mind: a lot of money, huge assets, massive development, underground excavation, and then collapse, flooding, explosion, and miners who went deep into the ground.

He could almost imagine what it was like.

"Since this is the case, why do you need to mine on a large scale?" Jiang Yifan frowned.It can be mined less, as long as it can supply steam engines.

Ye Xinyan also smiled wryly: "In the era I experienced before, when we entered school, we learned a lot of things. There was a subject in it, and there was a sentence in it: Every pore of the primitive accumulation of capital flowed dirty. Dirty blood."

Ye Xinyan looked at Jiang Yifan who was stunned by this sentence, and continued: "This is the inevitable course of history. If we don't do it, other people will take the lead, so as to grasp the absolute initiative and strength. Therefore, We can only do our best to do things better, which is the same as expanding territory and defending our country. At least the casualties of mining are much less than fighting on the battlefield.”

Jiang Yifan thought of the battlefield where the fight was fought, and the mourning that would be caused by natural and man-made disasters, so he nodded and agreed: "That's fine, instead of letting coal mining fall into the hands of others in the future, it's better to start mining now. At least you know the dangers, Ayan And danger, we can use the coercion of the imperial court to make the mine operators not to belittle human life too much, and form a system of safety management."

As he spoke, he shook Ye Xinyan's hand as a sign of comfort.Ye Xinyan also shook it back, but she was not as shocked and struggling as Jiang Yifan was.

In fact, not only the primitive accumulation of capital is bloody, but the entire process of human history itself is bloody.It's just that many people are trying their best to reduce the occurrence of all kinds of blood.

Jiang Yifan thought that the emperor might earn a lot of money, and felt a little worried for the emperor.The silver earned always has to be spent to realize its value, so the silver earned in coal mines needs a use.

He said: "It's good for the emperor to earn this money. When the time comes, let's ask the emperor to use some money to run a school and teach the subjects you learn..."

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Time passed like running water.

Five years later, in the spring, the wind is warm and the grass grows and warblers fly.In a large garden in the capital, the vegetation is sparse, the buildings are exquisite, and the corridors are winding.

In front of the low window of the second-floor pavilion, there were two old men, sitting a few times apart, each leaning on a rattan chair covered with smooth fur, basking in the warm sun, very uncomfortable.

An old man tapped his finger, touched the armrest of the wicker chair time and time again, and complained: "It's not that I'm talking about you, you should also talk about your granddaughter and grandson-in-law. It's outrageous. How much money did I make so hard?" Is it easy for me to spend money? But the good medicine is being missed by them all day, it's really troublesome."

Although he has opened coal mines in the past few years and made a lot of money, he has passed the initial excitement.However, the money is still earned by him, not by plundering people's fat and anointing... No, that's not what he said. It should be said that he earned it by his ability, not by collecting taxes.

He was reluctant to take out the money obtained in such a righteous way. Is it wrong?
Another old man with white beard and hair is An Guogong.

Hearing the emperor's words, Duke An couldn't help but sneered and said, "Your Majesty, what you said is really not kind. The one that gave you the form is your Minister of Rites. Although the booklet is for yourself, it is also The sincerity of the subjects to the emperor and the court is for His Majesty's country, and they have no selfishness. This has nothing to do with grandchildren."

What An Guogong said was not guilty at all.Jiang Yifan submitted the booklet and let the emperor know about the school with money.As early as when the emperor sent people to explore the coal mines, Jiang Yifan was already planning the teaching subjects and teaching teachers of the new college, and formulating teaching materials.

The official schools run by the imperial court, as well as the private schools and academies run by various places, all study classics and historical books.If you want children to increase their knowledge and learn some subjects such as astronomy, geography, arithmetic, natural biology, etc., then they have to run another school.

Looking at the world, the easiest way to make money is probably His Majesty the Emperor.

Today, the coal mines mined in Jinzhou and continuously sent to various states and counties in the Great Xia Dynasty are all the emperor's own hands.The money earned was not even charged to the Ministry of Internal Affairs, and it was all in the hands of the emperor himself.

Although no one dared to check the emperor's account, but according to my granddaughter, the money from mining coal mines is really profitable, without additional processing, it is dug out, loaded on a truck and transported away, bought at any time, and used at any time, which has never been seen before in history. good deal.In Xinyan's words, the ease and speed of making money is comparable to robbing a bank.

For An Guogong, who was born as a general, he would of course prefer his students to learn more practical things, not to be like many officials in the court, who do not work around the body, do not distinguish the five grains, and have nothing to do except the hanging book bag.

The emperor heard the meaning of Anguo Gong's words, sat up straight on the rattan chair, and said displeasedly: "Yetang! Do you see that I am not in charge of government affairs now, so you have disrespect in your heart, and you will contradict me like this!"

An Guogong sat up after him, bowed his hands to the emperor, and confessed extremely perfunctorily: "Your Majesty has misunderstood my minister, and my minister has always respected His Majesty, no matter what time it is, it will never change."

Damn, I don't even give an example, it's too perfunctory, right?The emperor snorted coldly and half-lyed on the rattan chair again.

He looked down on An Guogong's perfunctory.However, isn't he leaving politics now just for leisure?If everyone is both frightened and afraid of him, then his leisure and ease will be greatly reduced.

Forget it, you can't have it both ways, of course what he wants is leisure and ease.If he wanted to be feared from above, he could sit in the palace and be admired by the world.

"Now the imperial court is rich and powerful, and all industries in the world are prosperous. King Yu is also diligent in his work and has a clear administration. Ye Aiqing, tell me, can I abdicate?"

"Cough, cough, cough..." An Guogong never expected that he could hear the emperor say such words, and was really choked by his own saliva.

He really didn't understand what the emperor meant.Isn't the position of emperor a life-long tenure?It's easy to say abdicate, what does this mean?
Cough cough... An Guogong thought to himself, it seems that it is not very good.Since the emperor used his private money to invest in coal mines and made money, the emperor has had an incomparable enthusiasm for making money, much more than his enthusiasm for handling government affairs.

　Thank you liuziyan for your reward, thank you for your support and refills.

　　
　
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