Doctor Amnesiac, but not completely amnesiac

Until the last page, he closed the plan and looked at Qiao Yelan, his eyes as bright as lightning, without any trace of the flattering humility and fawning from before.

However, this expression only appeared on his face for a moment, and then disappeared.

"Very......"

He took a deep breath, as if to suppress his true thoughts.

"It's a very good plan, Mr. Qiao Yelan. The Imperial Ministry of Labor will do its best to cooperate with your work. I promise that my workers and I will not be a hindrance to your plan."

He handed the document back to Qiao Yelan, but Qiao Yelan did not take it but pushed it back.

"After reading the plan, is this all Minister Yegor thought of?"

Qiao Yelan sighed, looking a little disappointed.

Yegor's pupils suddenly shrank, and the hand that was handing over the document froze in mid-air.

"If you are really willing to fully cooperate with my plan, then you will choose to take this plan back and study it carefully. His Majesty Fedor and Speaker Witte are high up in the hierarchy and give orders, so they only need to read it once and think about the theoretical possibilities, and they won't be entangled anymore."

"But you are different. You are responsible for doing things, and you know everything about the Ministry of Labor, from the rules and regulations to the conditions of the workers. You are a down-to-earth person. So if you really want to support my plan, you will seriously discuss the feasibility of the relevant decrees with me and make some adaptive modifications instead of just pushing them to me with a smile."

Now Yegor's hands were no longer stiff.

They began to tremble.

"You should understand your current situation, Minister Yegor Terekin. Two years ago, in order to resist the plan of that madman Anatoly, you have been completely exposed. The military regards you as a thorn in their side, the civil servants are quite embarrassed by the large-scale demonstration you launched, and the nobles have always wanted to replace you."

"As a target of public criticism, if His Majesty had not personally issued an order saying that you were innocent, you would have been thrown into the Kronstadt dungeon as a scapegoat. But now, you even dare to contradict His Majesty and even disobey his orders in secret - His Majesty is becoming more and more impatient with you."

Qiao Yelan sneered.

Yegor is now in a desperate situation - but there is no need to dwell on why he is in such a desperate situation.

"An official from the empire sent his family away... You know what this means, right? But do you know why no one reacted to it, even His Majesty?"

"......Why?"

Yegor asked hoarsely.

"Because I reported this matter to His Majesty, and the reason I used was that I needed to capture your family and then use your family to threaten you into submission."

Veins bulged on the back of the man's hand as he gripped the document. He stared at Qiao Yelan with bloodshot eyes, a fear he had never felt before rising in his heart.

He suddenly realized something.

Letting Qiao Yelan "always protect" his family actually means that their deal will continue.

"you--"

"Please rest assured, I am not a person without bottom line. I will not do anything like this. Your family will be well taken care of, and I will not use them to threaten you to do anything - I just hope you can think about it for a while."

What a joke, threatening his family to force him to work for you - what an inefficient way of exploitation is this?

Qiao Yelan doesn't like it.

"Thinking about what?"

Yegor forced himself to put his heart back into his stomach, breathing heavily, and staring at Qiao Yelan.

"Think about what you mean by 'protecting His Majesty's legacy'."

This sentence reignited Yegor's anger. He stood up and threw the documents in his hand onto the table.

"I will protect your majesty's legacy until the last moment - I am willing to pay the price of my life for it. You can laugh at me, but it's best not to do so while I'm alive!"

"Vladimir's legacy... I'm curious, what does this legacy look like to you?"

Qiao Yelan's voice remained calm.

"Back then, in order to set an example, Your Majesty took the initiative to burn all the serf contracts, turning them all from slaves into freemen. Later, in order to help these people who had nothing but freedom survive the cold winter of Ursus, Your Majesty established the Imperial Ministry of Labor to coordinate the resettlement of these new freemen."

"After that, the Ministry of Labor became a shelter for all homeless people, whether they were refugees caused by natural disasters or escaped serfs. They could all report to the Ministry of Labor, receive basic minimum living security, and then be settled in factories or newly reclaimed farms. Perhaps, this is why you regard the Ministry of Labor as a [legacy]?"

"The Ministry of Labor is not worthy of being called His Majesty's legacy. Is the Ursus Parliament worthy of it?"

Yegor said coldly.

"Okay, let's get back to the plan first - what's wrong with it?"

"Are you sure you want to listen?"

The man asked back.

Qiao Yelan stretched out a hand, indicating that the other party could speak freely.

Since the relationship had already been torn apart, Yegor didn't care. He opened the plan and began to refute it word by word and frame by frame.

"Since when did the factory provide accommodation and workers have to pay rent? Pack animals don't have to pay for pack animal sheds, right? And the ten-year lease - nine years and eleven months later, they announced layoffs, right?"

“Workers are forced to pay for meals and eat in the factory cafeteria. I’m not even going to talk about the shady things in the factory cafeteria. I’m just not going to talk about whether the food is good or not, but whether they can eat enough is a problem!”

"And this, a preferential price for internal purchase of workers? Do you think I don't know what the defective rate is on a newly built assembly line before it is fully run-in?"

"...After adding up all these messy things, how much salary can the workers get? I know with my knees that His Majesty the Emperor must take some money from it, otherwise he would not agree to lend these workers to Witte's factory!"

"What's more, among these factories, the proportion of heavy industry is very small, and it is obvious that they want to support light industry - then let me ask you, who can consume these products?"

"Workers don't get much salary. The domestic economic conditions have always been bad, which means that people don't have the spending power. As for foreign trade... humph, let's not talk about the fact that Ursus' foreign trade has almost stopped in recent years. With Casimir's goods as a shining example, how could people from other countries be interested in our goods?"

"If the products produced by then cannot be sold and are piled up in the warehouse, doesn't that mean that this so-called industrial reform is a plan with only input but no output? Then the failure of this plan has already become a foregone conclusion - great, now we don't have to wait for nine years and eleven months, we can definitely get the house back ahead of time!"

"What I saw was not some bullshit 'Imperial Industrial Innovation Plan' - but the most clumsy imitation of His Majesty Vladimir's heavy industry reform plan!"

The man slammed the table hard and mocked Qiao Yelan.

"Of course, I also saw an ambitious emperor, a short-sighted speaker - and an ambitious jester who only knows how to play with words!"

Pop, pop, pop.

Qiao Yelan clapped slowly.

Satisfied, very satisfying.

Yegor Telekin understands all the fancy tricks, knows the basic logic of industrial operation, and even has his own understanding of the economic market problems in Ursus and the entire Terra - so he can see through all possible traps sharply.

How lucky it is that Ursus can actually produce such a talent. Should we say that everything will turn around when it reaches its extreme, or that good times will come after bad times?

Sure enough, it was right to send the black snake away.

Looking at the furious man in front of him, he did not make any futile attempts with words, but opened the cabinet and took out an old file bag.

It was a file bag style that was once used by the official Ursus Empire, but it had been abandoned decades ago. Yegor had only seen this style of file bag when he was looking through some old documents.

"Open it, Mr. Yegor Telekin. I think you are the only one, and perhaps the last one, in Ursus who is qualified to open it."

Qiao Yelan said lightly.

Yegor glanced at Qiao Yelan doubtfully. Although he didn't trust this man, the sealing stamp on the file bag really made him curious.

That is the seal of His Majesty Vladimir.

He reached out, carefully opened the file bag, and took out a document.

The paper of the documents was very white, but the moment Yegor took them out of the file bag, they began to turn yellow and brittle - as if time that had been blocked for decades had penetrated this dusty history in an instant.

The first page of the document did not contain the name of the document, but a Tsarist order.

【Those who hold this warrant shall be treated as if I were present in person.】

The signature below is - Vladimir Ivanovich.

And the unique emperor's seal.

Yegor suddenly raised his head and looked at Qiao Yelan with shock.

"Keep reading, Mr. Yegor. I told you, we will have a lot to talk about next. And I will answer all your questions one by one."

Qiao Yelan's voice was still so calm.

Yegor also put aside all other thoughts, carefully put the warrant aside, and then read the document more cautiously.

The more he read, the faster his breathing became, and before his hands began to shake uncontrollably, he put the documents down to prevent them from being damaged by his rude behavior.

“This… This is——!!!”

He spoke intermittently. He used to be able to refute Qiao Yelan's plan with great fluency and insight, but now he couldn't even finish his sentences.

But it is obvious that the second half of this document is the same as Qiao Yelan’s plan.

The problem is that the second half of this document is the same as Qiao Yelan’s plan.

Because he had seen the first half - in the archives of the Imperial Ministry of Labor, packaged in an identical file bag.

——That was the "Imperial Industrial Reform Plan" directed and implemented by Vladimir the Great himself.

Chapter 173 Comrades

"How...how is this possible? Is this actually...actually a plan made by His Majesty? But why is it here with you? And that chief..."

Yegor's face was pale and he was breathing heavily. He looked at Qiao Yelan. Words could not describe his mood at the moment.

But now he hopes that Qiao Yelan can fulfill what he said - to explain all the questions and doubts for him.

"As you can see, Yegor Telekin, this plan, no, this half of the plan, comes from His Majesty Vladimir - and from me."

"But you... you are just a young man. You may have just reached adulthood when His Majesty passed away! How could you possibly get such a warrant, let alone participate in the formulation of the plan!"

Yegor's voice was extremely hoarse.

"Mrs. Kosice doesn't look old, so why have you never asked her the same question?"

Qiao Yelan did not answer directly, but asked a rhetorical question.

The man's expression froze. He suddenly remembered what position the man introduced himself as when he first met him.

Chief Administrative Officer of the Vice-Royalty of Siberia.

Yes!

Grand Duke Koschei has never been good at managing her own territory, so what could make her feel more at ease than letting an immortal like her look after her territory?

And Grand Duke Kosice has never sung a different tune from His Majesty Vladimir.

"I see."

He lowered his head and looked at the old document in his hand.

This is actually a plan approved by His Majesty... That is to say, these means and measures are real, and not just empty promises made to fool people!

Seeing Yegor's previously stiff expression gradually relax and even become a little excited again, Qiao Yelan was very satisfied.

Sure enough, the dead Bai Yueguang was the truly invincible existence.

The plan that I came up with was called a [poor imitation], and the opponent could review the jungler's problems frame by frame.

But once this plan came from His Majesty Vladimir——

"Since you have brought out His Majesty's plan now, it is natural that you are not just planning to play with it, and there will not be so many loopholes - so I want to hear your true opinion."

Yegor carefully put the old plan back into the file bag, and respectfully handed it back to Qiao Yelan along with the Tsar's order. He then collected the document that he had thrown on the table and placed it neatly on the table.

"The so-called flaw is nothing more than a loophole that can be exploited. As long as we can seize this loophole, it will naturally not be a flaw."

Qiao Yelan explained.

"Ursus's new industrialization reform is imperative. This is not a question of new or old, but without this second half of the reform, Ursus will never be able to get rid of its current predicament."

"I think you should be able to realize that the empire Your Majesty founded collapsed to such an extent in a short period of time. This is actually a very unreasonable thing. We have won so many wars and seized so many territories, but within a few years after Your Majesty's death, it has collapsed to the state before Your Majesty ascended the throne."

Yegor nodded solemnly.

Any reform, even a failed one, even if it was counterattacked later, could not collapse in such a short period of time to the point where only an Imperial Ministry of Labor remained - not to mention that Vladimir the Great's reform of Ursus began before he ascended the throne and continued until his fall.

So he has always been confused. After such a long time, why does he always feel that he is fighting alone, why does he always feel that he is surrounded by enemies all over the world.

It's just that the work at the Ministry of Labor is too much and too heavy, so he can only run around dealing with people who want to pounce on him and suck his blood one after another. Naturally, such doubts can only be buried in his heart, and he doesn't even have a chance to verify them.

"Because everything that came before, including the industrialization reforms in the first half, the de-serfing policy, and even so many wars, were all paving the way for the second half of the plan."

Qiao Yelan gave a bitter smile.

"We are transforming a huge empire and an equally huge aristocratic class. How dare we fail to make adequate preparations to achieve such a feat that has almost never happened before?"

"So this also means that all the back-up plans and countermeasures are actually in the second half of the plan. Once this part is not started, everything that has been done before can easily become someone else's wedding dress."

Yegor looked at Qiao Yelan in amazement.