Chapter 1767: The Prince Who Was Too Busy to Collapse
This time, the Ministry of State-owned Enterprises reported the steel production expansion plan, which not only made Li Xuan see the crisis of overcapacity, but also made Li Xuan see more problems.
The Ministry of State-owned Enterprises sees wonderful prospects for the expansion of production capacity and the development of the steel industry, but few people can see the crisis of overcapacity.
This also made Li Xuan dissatisfied.
At present, the organization of the Ministry of State-owned Enterprises is too bloated and huge, and the number of subordinate departments has been increased to more than a dozen, managing thousands of state-owned enterprises directly under the Ministry of State-owned Enterprises or under the local finance.
And it exists in all walks of life, and management can no longer keep up.
Of course, this is not entirely due to the low management efficiency of the Ministry of State-owned Enterprises itself. The main reason is that there are too many companies under its management. The thousands of companies managed by the Ministry of State-owned Enterprises are basically medium and large enterprises, occupying the imperial industrial and commercial areas.
It accounts for more than 30% of the output value. In some industries, especially heavy industries such as steel, coal, chemicals, shipbuilding, and machinery, the proportion mostly exceeds 50% or even 780%.
In addition to these companies that are directly managed, there are more companies that hold holdings or participate in shares. Although they do not directly manage these companies, since they have shares, they naturally have to manage them. You cannot say that you just invest money and just let it go.
If state-owned assets are lost, the problem will be huge.
If this part is also added, the scale of the assets directly or indirectly managed by the Ministry of State-owned Enterprises is extremely large, accounting for more than 50% of manufacturing output.
With such a huge scale of assets, even the Ministry of State-owned Enterprises, which is already very large in scale and has many personnel, is still unable to cope with its needs, leading to negligence in some matters.
In Li Xuan's opinion, the expansion of the steel industry this time is completely a dereliction of duty by the Ministry of State-owned Enterprises.
However, Li Xuan still did not take action personally, but left the matter to Prince Li Hao!
In the evening of that day, I reviewed hundreds of reports intermittently throughout the day, held eight meetings, and met with more than 20 ministers. I hurriedly dealt with lunch and stayed busy until the evening when Prince Li Hao arrived.
After finally being able to take a breath and prepare to finish dinner, Li Hao continued to work hard and review the report. The dinner had just been served and he hadn't even had time to use his chopsticks.
A second secretary from the Secretariat came to him with the Steel Production Expansion Report of the Ministry of State-owned Enterprises. After handing over the report, he also brought an oral edict from the Holy Emperor Li Xuan, asking him to face the Holy Spirit tomorrow regarding the report.
After the second secretary left, Li Hao sighed deeply!
Throughout the ages, there is probably no other prince who can be as busy as me!
In many dynasties, many princes were always anxious and cautious, fearing to cause any trouble, and then lost their position as heir apparent.
These princes generally have little real power and are rarely able to actually handle government affairs.
Even if there are some princes who have real power and can handle practical affairs, there is probably no other prince who has as much authority as himself. In addition to military affairs, Li Hao can basically get involved in other matters.
Especially since Liu Bagou took office, the imperial study has lacked a prestigious minister on duty, which also means that the imperial study has no role like the chief assistant.
At this time, Li Xuan asked him to handle many affairs without any problems, and was responsible for coordinating various departments, especially some affairs within the imperial study room, and basically assumed some of Liu Bagou's early roles.
And this made him even busier.
After completing his studies as an adult, Li Hao began to contact and deal with government affairs. In the early years, he was still in the learning stage. He basically focused on watching and listening, and was responsible for handling small things.
But later on, the affairs he was responsible for handling increased year by year, and became more and more important. By the time he started taking turns to be in charge of a certain department, he was already busy every day.
After Liu Bagou took office, there was no one to help Li Xuan handle many trivial matters, and Li Xuan was unwilling to appoint another chief assistant. At the same time, he was unwilling to personally handle these messy non-core affairs.
He, Li Xuan, has been busy for so many years and is unwilling to continue to be so busy. He also wants to be lazy and enjoy the happiness, so in the past three or four years, he has selectively left some chores to Prince Li Hao.
Li Hao was very excited at first, thinking that this was a symbol that his position as crown prince was as solid as Mount Tai. He also wanted to take over part of the power in advance and establish himself while his father Li Xuan was still healthy and able to control the overall situation. authority.
In this way, when his father dies and he ascends the throne, he can successfully take over the entire empire without having to worry about the same hardships as Qin II and the death of his second generation.
So at that time, he was very excited and started the purgatory mode. He got up at dawn to deal with government affairs. During lunch, he also imitated his father while eating while meeting his ministers and listening to reports, and then continued to work overtime at night.
His feet never touch the ground, this is how he has been in the past few years!
Now that I think about it carefully, it seems that I haven’t had a good rest for several years!
Being a prince is so tiring!
Sometimes he didn't even know whether he was better, the prince who had actual power but was so busy that he was so busy, or the princes in ancient times who had no actual power but were wary!
Because in ancient times, the princes of other dynasties were probably mentally tired, but Li Hao was physically tired!
Really tired!
Sometimes he especially wants to say to his father: Father, can you leave all these troubles to your son? You can handle some of them. You can't leave everything to your son. Your son is also a human being, not an iron man. of!
But how can you say such a thing, how dare you say it!
To put it mildly, it is unfilial. As a son, you don’t want to work hard, but instead make me busy every day. Isn’t this unfilial?
To be serious, this means that voluntarily giving up power will have a great impact on the future accession to the throne, and another very important point is that if he refuses to work, his attitude is too negative, which will make his father suspect that he is It's not that I don't want to be an emperor, but that I want to be a young artistic man or something.
He still remembered that six years ago, when he was not so busy, he fell in love with poetry and articles and spent a lot of time studying poetry. As a result, he was severely criticized by his father, saying that you, Li Hao, were the crown prince and the future of the empire. The emperor is not some damn artistic young man!
Although it was not stated directly, the meaning at that time was basically: If you don’t want to be the prince, just say so directly, and I will definitely make it happen!
Don’t want to be the crown prince? Don’t want to be the emperor?
Are you kidding? Of course it’s impossible!
In Li Hao's life, since he can remember, everyone has told him that you will be the emperor of the empire in the future.
If he is not an emperor in this life, he may not be able to find his purpose in life at all.
You can't just go overseas and hang out with the natives like the other brothers!
So even though he is busy now, he has no idea of giving up his power. He has worked hard for more than 20 years to get this power, so how can he give it up so easily.