Taking advantage of the opportunity to return to Beijing with him, Bai Le systematically reported the textile quota case to Li Junwei on the cruiser. In fact, this case is nothing, but the problem involved is really not small. The key is whether the empire can accept that capitalists sacrifice the overall interests of the empire for their own interests.

The reason why the empire supported Japan's Guangnan and other countries in the form of textile quotas to develop their own textile industry was complicated.

The first thing is to protect the legitimate interests of imperial consumers. Because of the rising labor costs of textile factories and the rising cost of raw materials, the prices of textiles have also risen. Textiles, like grain, are essential goods for national life and are directly related to the prices of the imperial government. The imperial government cannot allow textile prices to rise.

Especially with the rapid growth of textile trade with Europe, the rise of European textile industry has increased the price of textile raw materials, making it less easy to control textile prices.

Secondly, the empire was to develop its own machinery manufacturing industry, shipping industry and other industries. Japan, Guangnan and other countries could not compete with the empire by hand-made textiles, and could only introduce empire textile machinery, which would promote the development of empire machinery manufacturing industry. At the same time, the two countries should also introduce industrial products such as chemical dyes and textiles that match textiles, which would promote the development and industrial upgrading of the empire's new industry.

Transporting cotton to foreign countries and domestic transportation will promote the development of import and export trade, shipping and other industries.

But these benefits are within a controllable range. Once the quota cannot be controlled, it will directly cause the collapse of the Imperial textile industry and a large number of workers will be unemployed.

After more than ten years of textile quota allocation, the positive effect of this economic model has faded, but the negative impact has emerged, because for financial capitalists, it is more beneficial to them to cancel textile quotas, completely open the domestic market to both countries, and not restrict raw materials to both countries.

This is mainly because there are a large number of investments from imperial financial capitalists in the textile industries of Guangnan and Japan. The more developed the textile industries in both countries, the more financial capitalists make.

Therefore, in the name of protecting consumer rights and boosting new industries in the empire, they slandered the textile quota system, and then continued to use various means to increase it, and even demanded the lifting of quotas.

But the question is, can the textile industry be transferred to Japan and Guangnan to achieve these goals that are beneficial to the empire? In Bai Le's view, the answer is completely no.

Indeed, in the past, the imperial textile industry was mainly concentrated in the Yangtze River Delta and the Pearl River Delta. With the development of the economy, labor costs have risen year by year, resulting in the price of textiles rising. But the problem is that it is not a small country. If you want to reduce labor costs, you can transfer these industries to the middle reaches of the Yangtze River and the northern part of the Central Plains. There are relatively low labor force there, and the local governments there also provide many convenient conditions for large workers such as the textile industry.

"Yes, if the textile industry is transferred inland, it can also reduce the price of textiles. The empire's machinery manufacturing and chemical industries will also develop. Although the shipping industry will be damaged, the railway transportation industry that the emperor attaches great importance to will develop greatly and will also promote the overall development of the empire.

Moreover, the economy and taxation of inland provinces will also be boosted. It can be said that they will eat all the benefits into their mouths. This is the original soup and original food." After Bai Le's reminder, Li Junwei also realized something was wrong and said.

"Yes, Your Highness, this is what I am talking about as a whole benefit of the empire. But this is not that cost-effective for all kinds of capitalists, especially those financial capitalists. Assuming that by making the same investment, you can make 10,000 yuan in transferring a textile factory to Nagasaki, Japan, then you may only make 3,000 yuan by transferring to the mainland of the empire." Bai Le said.

"Why?"

"Because Japan and Guangnan are both newly opened countries, and are essentially a feudal country. In such countries, the development of trade and industry cannot be separated from the intervention of bureaucratic capital. For example, the textile factories in the suburbs of Hue have all the shares of the Guangnan royal family, senior officials and generals.

And financial bankers like this kind of partner the most. They have money and power, and they can make sure to make a profit without losing money when they work with them." Bai Le said.

Li Junwei nodded slightly. Such things are not uncommon in ancient and modern times, both in China and abroad. If the textile factory is moved to the mainland of the empire, it is necessary to invest in the construction of factories, recruit and train workers, and bear various risks. However, in feudal countries, these risks almost do not exist.

If you need land to build a factory, you can just force it to expropriate it directly. Whoever dares to say that the people on the land will be arrested directly in the prison. In the empire, private land must be negotiated with contracts, state-owned land must be approved. If there are houses on the land, demolition work will be carried out, which is a mess.

When the factory was built, some bankrupt rural people came to work as workers. There was no limit on child labor or female workers, and the minimum wage was not present! Working time limit, what is that? Worker injury compensation? I have never heard of it! I dare to make trouble, and the government sent out yamen runners to suppress it, and the army drove in.

As for the law, there may not be one. Even if there is one, the final right to interpret the law belongs to the government. Who is the government? Isn’t it the shareholder?

What should I do if the factory is built and the textiles are out, the quality is not good and the cost is too high? It is easy to deal with. The army will change clothes and digest them directly. If it doesn’t help the shareholders, they will directly raise tariffs, block the products that form competition abroad and close the door to make money.

If you still lose money in cooperation with bureaucratic capitalism, there is only one possibility, and the country is trapped in war.

This is much easier and easier than opening a textile factory in China. As for the interests of the empire, financial capitalists don’t care about it.

Under Li Junwei's instruction, Bai Le wrote his thoughts into a report. According to Li Junwei's words, he could submit it to the emperor after returning to Beijing. However, Bai Le was a little hesitant. He thought that what he thought had not happened yet, or was not that bad, and he was a little worried.

But Li Junwei believes that planning ahead is better than digging a well when you are thirsty.

So Bai Le wrote a report on the cruiser and then reported it to King Yu for review. Li Junwei looked at such documents and always looked at the head and then the conclusion. It was very difficult for him to read it carefully. Li Junwei looked through it, looked at it, and handed it directly to Li Zhaocheng: "Look at it, too, what are your opinions."

Li Zhaocheng looked at it seriously and said, "If you want to say good things, it is very detailed and specific. If you want to say bad things..."

"Just just say it, it's not about reporting in front of the imperial court." Li Junwei said.

Li Zhaocheng smiled and said to Bai Le: "Mr. Bai, Brother Bai, to be honest, after reading it, I think that if you can just use a straight-up call to the front of the army?"

Bai Le immediately felt wronged. He said earlier that he was worrying about the situation and that King Yu had to prepare for the future. Now that he reported it, he said it was nothing. Bai Le thought about it and said, "Your Highness, the second son, if you submit it to the imperial court, the Wei minister will not dare to falsify the data."

Li Junwei smiled: "Data falsification, which one made you fake? What I said is that the conclusion is wrong. Your conclusion is not shocking, and it will not take it seriously for the emperor of the empire at all. What financial capitalists have harmed the interests of the empire? You need to say that if you find a junior high school child, he can talk to you a few words."

As Li Junwei said, junior high school students in the empire also knew this because in the political ecology of the empire, in the more than 40 years of founding history, a kind of political correctness has been formed, that is, to scold capitalists.

Scolding capitalists in the empire is a kind of political correctness. This is deliberately promoted by the imperial government and was written directly into textbooks. But the problem is that it is limited to scolding.

In the local area, when a capitalist is inappropriate or commits a crime, he can be slandered, but he cannot be ruined, because his factory is related to the livelihoods of dozens or even hundreds of workers and the local finance and taxation.

It is precisely because of this active propaganda vigilance against capitalists that it has prevented capitalists from seizing power in the empire over the years.

Bai Le asked, "Then, how can you be shocking?"

This is Bai Le's sincere question. He had just finished his position as the Imperial Ambassador to Guangnan. He would not stay in the capital for long and would go to Japan to serve as the Imperial Ambassador to Japan. In the political ecology of the empire, this is already a very high position and can be regarded as the deputy minister of the Cabinet's Ministry of Foreign Affairs.

Because Japan is not a country, but a group of countries, the ambassador to Japan is a high-level team and is responsible for diplomatic affairs in one direction.

Obviously, Bai Le is at such a young age and can imagine that he will enter the decision-making level of the empire in the future. So it is also appropriate for him to take the opportunity to learn some of the working styles of the empire's decision-making level from King Yu.

"You can portray domestic financial capitalists' demand to increase textile quotas as cutting tigers," said Li Junwei.

"Who is the tiger cut off the flesh and feeding the tiger?" Bai Le thought for a while and asked.

Li Zhaocheng replied: "You don't know this, Japan, it must be Japan."

Bai Le nodded slightly, thought carefully, and thought to himself that he had risen to the top by receiving members of the Reform Club in the Japanese delegation to China. Over the years, the empire's attitude towards Japan has not changed. He believed that a split Japan was the best situation, but a unified Japan was not unbearable, but only a unified but industrialized Japan could not accept it.

Now, isn’t exporting the textile industry to Japan just helping Japan’s industrialization?

This immediately elevated from a trade issue to a national security issue, and also from an internal and economic issue to a diplomatic strategic issue.

The former can show Bai Le's pattern. After all, the real upper class must have a pattern. They are willing to use the lower class with broad vision, rather than some petty people. Bai Le himself belongs to the diplomatic system, and internal and economic issues have little to do with him.

Even if his report was handed over and played a role, it was just a reminder to deal with it and do it. It had nothing to do with him. After all, he would have to work in Kyoto, Japan shortly after returning to Beijing.

Only when it is transformed into diplomatic strategic issues is his profession, and he can do things and show some performance.

"Japan...Japan..." Bai Le murmured to himself, and then his eyes lit up and asked, "Your Highness, can you downplay Guangnan and highlight Japan in this way."

"This is a fact. How many people in Guangnan are there, one million?"

"It may be only seven or eight hundred thousand, but definitely less than one million." Bai Le still knew about it after staying in Guangnan for nearly two years.

Li Junwei said: "What if it is even a million, what can you do? You must know that even if all countries invest in the textile industry, they cannot change the status of the empire in this industry. The key is that Japan, there may be 30 million people in Japan now, which is a large enough to change the situation in the textile industry.

Moreover, Guangnan cannot leave the empire. Without the protection of the empire, it cannot cope with the pressure from Annan in the north. What about Japan? You should know Japan better than me."

Bai Le nodded slightly. With the founding of Japan, Japanese nationalism was also awakening. Japanese nationalists had a wide and deep hatred of the empire. It was in all aspects, including both economic and political reasons, and some factors, such as territorial disputes, could not be resolved.

Before the great counterattack against the Qing Dynasty, the empire first attacked Japan, and later provoked a civil war in Japan. During the war, Japan's Sado Island, Tsuma Island, and Hokkien all became imperial territory. You should know that Japan had established direct rule on these islands. The "knowledgeable people" in Japan unanimously believed that the biggest obstacle to Japan's unification was the empire.

The two history of the Tang and Ming dynasties have proved that as long as Japan rises, it will inevitably attack China.

Therefore, at this moment of the 43rd year of the empire, Japan showed a situation where the empire hatred for the empire and the empire was vigilant against Japan. The latter means that the empire would curb Japan in all aspects.

If financial capitalists rely on damaging the interests of the empire, it would be fine. But from another perspective, it is that financial capitalists cut off the empire's meat and raise the Japanese ungrateful wolf. In order not to be bitten in the future, they must be prepared now.

Bai Le finally understood that textile quota is a small matter, but it can be pulled to a very high level, and it is transferred to the range that he is good at and needs to implement it himself.

"Thank you for your advice, and for the second son, please give me some advice." Bai Le put away the immature report and bowed to Li Junwei and said.

Li Junwei smiled and said with a smile: "You are just a piece of uncensored jade, so you should polish it well."

Bai Le nodded slightly and said, "Please teach more, and I will study hard."
Chapter completed!