The next day, Prince Li Hao made a report to the Holy Emperor Li Xuan on the development of the steel industry. Moreover, this was not a private report, because it was official business, so it was made at the Umrah meeting.
When Prince Li Hao came out with a report on the steel industry that he brought out overnight, he talked a lot about the need to adjust steel production capacity and not allow steel companies to expand production capacity uncontrollably and engage in disorderly and vicious competition. Otherwise, it will It will cause extremely bad consequences.
At the beginning, many ministers did not know what the consequences would be, but when Prince Li Hao told them one by one, it might lead to large-scale unsalable steel, which would later implicate many upstream and downstream industries, and a crisis broke out in the banking industry. As a result, a large number of companies went bankrupt and workers lost their jobs.
"If it were just a turmoil in the manufacturing industry, the country would be able to withstand it based on its background. However, it must be noted that the manufacturing industry is the economic engine of the country. Once the manufacturing industry collapses, it will lead to the collapse of the financial industry. Finally, it will lead to the collapse of the financial industry. It will affect the entire economic system. At that time, it will not only affect eight million workers, but also tens of millions of urban residents. Once the consumption power of urban residents is degraded, it will also affect more farmers who are unable to Selling their agricultural products, causing a large number of farmers to go bankrupt!"
"This is absolutely impossible!" Prince Li Hao said in a firm tone: "Manufacturing, especially basic industries such as steel, must not go wrong, otherwise the consequences will be disastrous!"
When a group of ministers heard these words, each of them looked frightened or confused, but Li Xuan, who was sitting on top, showed an expression of relief.
Although he knew very well that this report and even the issue of overcapacity were not the idea of Prince Li Hao himself, but the secretary under him reminded him that this subsequent report was also made by the secretary.
But that's not important!
Because he has never asked Li Hao to be an expert or scholar, he does not need to understand the economy, or even what an economic crisis is.
He just needs to know how to direct others to do things and do them in the right direction.
Judging from the performance of Prince Li Hao today, Li Xuan is still very satisfied, and his ten years of continuous cultivation of him have not been in vain.
Under his training, Prince Li Hao's knowledge may not be as good as that of ordinary college students, but he is definitely a qualified prince and will become a qualified emperor in the future.
Today's small court meeting has achieved its goal for Li Xuan.
Li Xuan was very familiar with overcapacity and economic crises. If he had been willing, such matters would not have appeared in the discussions at the Xiaochao meeting, but would have been resolved by him yesterday.
As the emperor of the empire, Li Xuan has countless ways to resolve this future crisis in advance.
After all, overcapacity and economic crisis haven't happened yet. They are just a sign now, and it is not a big problem to solve.
But he still raised this issue to Prince Li Hao, and then asked him to make a public report at the Xiaochao meeting. In addition to giving Prince Li Hao a homework, the other purpose was to let these ministers know about overcapacity and the economic crisis. importance.
You must know that China has never experienced any economic crisis since ancient times. Even if there was a 'gold crisis' in the empire in the early years, it was limited to the early irregular stock market, and the number of people affected was at most Just tens of thousands of people.
It seems to be an economic crisis, but in fact it is just a drumming and passing-the-flowers game spread in a small area, and its impact is actually very limited.
But an economic crisis caused by overcapacity or other problems, especially an economic crisis involving the entire economic system, can be very troublesome.
By then it will no longer be a small industrial issue. If it goes wrong, it will shake the foundation of the empire's rule.
In the modern West, some kind of economic crisis will break out every three days. Generally speaking, there will be no problem. At most, it will just change the prime minister.
But for the Tang Empire in the 16th century, if there was a large-scale economic depression, workers' industries, and farmers went bankrupt on a large scale, the people of the Tang Dynasty would not wait for relief like Westerners!
They will shout: Wang Xiangjun Hou Ning has the guts!
Then sweep Datang into the trash heap of history!
The Chinese people of this era are very simple: If you can survive, you will be good to me and everyone will be happy. If you can’t survive, rebel!
So simple, so pure!
Jiuzhou in China is very large and has a lot of people. Every year there are always natural and man-made disasters in some places. At the same time, the relief capabilities in ancient times were very poor, which led to the fact that even in the so-called prosperous times, there would be some places.
Suffered from drought or flood, which led to unrest.
Therefore, the Ming Dynasty and the earlier dynasties had numerous rebellions. If a dynasty did not suppress dozens of rebellions every year, it would be embarrassed to say that it was a Chinese dynasty.
In fact, in the first ten years of the Tang Empire, the heroic Tang army or local patrol police had to suppress many rebellions every year.
This situation lasted until the Tang Empire carried out agricultural reforms and implemented policies such as rent-in-lieu-purchase and settlement orders. At the same time, more importantly, it invested huge sums of money in building water conservancy facilities in various places, and adopted work-in-relief on a large scale.
At the same time, large-scale eradication of illegal armed forces was carried out in the local areas, and in this way, many unrest in the empire's mainland were barely suppressed.
By now, in the thirty-sixth year of Xuan Ping's reign, there were very few large-scale riots in the empire itself, and those were only small-scale riots.
However, all this is based on a stable situation and stable economic development. Although most of the people of the empire still have difficulty eating, they will never starve to death. At the same time, although the empire's overseas expansion policy spends countless money,
But it provides a retreat for the people of the empire.
That is, if they really can’t survive in their home country, they can still immigrate!
The empire has always welcomed and even encouraged people to immigrate overseas. Even if you are penniless, you can board an immigration ship of the Immigration and Reclamation Department to go to overseas territories.
To put it simply, although most of the people on the body are not living a good life, they can still survive and have a way out to immigrate overseas.
However, if there is a large-scale economic turmoil, then things will be very different.
In the past, the high-ranking officials of the empire did not realize the possibility of this kind of thing. However, in today's Xiaochao meeting, Prince Li Hao personally reported overcapacity and the economic crisis. After that, the high-ranking military and political officials of the empire were asked to
Become vigilant.
As soon as Prince Li Hao's report ended, many people couldn't help but start talking one by one!