Wen Luo did not force Li Zhaoyu to express his opinion, after all, both of them wanted to make this happen.

After learning about his interest demands here in Wen Luo, Li Zhaoyu turned to seek more professional policy support. This time, he directly found the Imperial Railway Corporation.

After many understandings, Li Zhaoyu and Wen Luo had several discussions, believing that it was just a state-owned intermodal transport and the possibility of receiving full support from the empire was relatively small. After Li Zhaoyu combined the opinions of all parties, he suggested that Wen Luo use the situation of expanding the cake to plan railway construction.

Railways with international nature such as Wanlong Railway that are directly linked to the lifeline of the country can be transported in state-run, but Li Zhaoyu believes that Nanzhang can also allow private capital to build and operate railways on branch or remote lines according to the railway policies imitating the empire.

However, in Wen Luo's opinion, this proposal just sounds useful and has no room for practical operation.

The reason is very simple. Nanzhang is not an empire. The so-called remote lines and branch railways of the empire are also places with relatively dense populations and relatively developed economies. Nanzhang is mountainous in China, and branch railways are almost all mountainous. Not only are they expensive, but their profits cannot be guaranteed.

Li Zhaoyu clearly stated that the so-called branch line is not the connection between Wanxiang and a small city, but the connection between Wanxiang or the railway trunk line and the mining area.

This once again returned to the economic foundation advocated by this Oriental Alliance Conference - the mineral development and export of the vassal states to bridge the trade deficit with the empire.

Wen Luo had to consider one issue, that is, to make a longer-term consideration, that is, railways are the lifeline of Nanzhang, so what about mining? Nanzhang does not want private control of railways, but is Imperial Capital allowed to invest in Nanzhang's mining industry, and to what extent can it be allowed?

And this matter has gradually become complicated, and it is linked one by one.

If the empire wants to exclude Japan from the Eastern Alliance system, it must be the Southeast Asian and especially the vassal states of the Indochina Peninsula jointly expressed their views. If they want to express their views, everyone must have common interests, that is, the Indochina Peninsula Railway Network. How to cooperate with the Indochina Peninsula Railway Network is to have a Wanlong Railway.

Li Zhaoyu originally thought that he might discuss with his father to see what his father's attitude was, but beyond Li Zhaoyu's expectations, his father told the emperor directly about this matter, and the emperor directly asked him to go to the palace to report.

Li Zhaoyu is familiar with the palace. His father was away all year round. When he was a teenager, he lived in the palace more than in the palace. The emperor always liked him very much. Li Zhaoyu knew very well. He always felt that the emperor's uncle liked him more between him and Li Zhaocheng.

But this was the first time that Li Zhaoyu reported his work to a person at the peak of power, which made him really nervous.

"What, are you very nervous, Zhaoyu?" Li Junhua asked, looking at Li Zhaoyu sitting upright.

Li Zhaoyu did not dare to lie and nodded slightly: "My nephew is afraid of doing something wrong and causing a big mistake."

Li Junhua looked at his nephew and laughed: "Is that so, just because of this?"

"What are you doing? What are you doing to scare the child?" The queen who came to deliver snacks pushed the emperor and said blamingly.

Li Zhaoyu swallowed, and when the emperor asked this, he couldn't explain why he was nervous. Maybe he was afraid that he would not do well enough to anger the emperor.

"Zhaoyu is no longer a child. If he really wants to achieve something, he cannot do things as a royal child. When the third brother assumes a great responsibility, he is younger than him." Li Junhua said to the queen.

"You can't compare everything with your brothers, especially the third brother, who has been a ghost since he was a child." The queen smiled.

Li Junhua smiled, picked up the small bowl of snacks on the table, and ate them and said, "Zhaoyu, tell me in detail about the state-owned intermodal transport that Wen Luo said."

Li Zhaoyu nodded and told the whole story all over the whole story. He thought the emperor would evaluate the proposal, but he didn't expect the emperor to say, "Zhaoyu, was the state-owned intermodal transport proposed, or did the prince of Nanzhang meant?"

Li Zhaoyu originally deliberately downplayed this detail, but now he can only say: "In fact, it was Prince Wen Luo's intention. My nephew has carefully considered it and felt that this proposal was good. Although it is not impeccable, it is still the best strategy after all."

"Just a best strategy is not enough." Li Junhua put down his bowl and chopsticks and said, "Wanlong Railway is just a small project, but it is a model for the construction of the entire Nanyang Railway. Therefore, it is not enough to just a best strategy and must be impeccable.

If it is just a separate project, let alone the best strategy, even the middle strategy can be tried. The Railway Corporation can propose a cooperation agreement and hand it over to the Cabinet and the House of Representatives for policy review. Compromise, argue and trade to form a unified opinion.

But this is related to the Nanyang Railway, and the response from the House must be strong. If you want to get the full support of the empire, the cooperation model of this model project will inevitably be impeccable and take care of all interests."

"Yes, it's just... my nephew didn't expect the impeccable cooperation model." Li Zhaoyu said helplessly.

Li Junhua smiled: "Actually, you have done a good job. You have found various departments of the cabinet, learned about the empire's policies in detail, and talked with Wen Luo in detail, and learned about the general intentions of the vassal governments. That's why you came up with such a state-owned intermodal transport method. Although it is not perfect, this method is very good.

But you seem to have forgotten the important party, that is, the capitalists. I wonder, why don’t you take the initiative to contact them and understand their demands?”

"My nephew was indeed not fully considered." Li Zhaoyu bowed his head and admitted his mistake.

Li Junhua asked: "Is it just because I am not considering it thoroughly?"

Li Zhaoyu lowered his head and said nothing. Li Junhua stood up, walked to Li Zhaoyu and said, "You don't want to be involved with them, right? You don't want to be involved with capitalists too much to avoid causing all kinds of trouble. And this is why I asked you to come, not let your father educate you.

Because your father never deals with those people, even if he deals with them, he will be blushed and mostly bloody from the edge of a knife. He can't teach you anything, right?"

"Yes." Li Zhaoyu squeezed a word out of his mouth.

Li Junhua smiled: "Don't be nervous, child, you are my nephew, and I have always been optimistic about you. In our family, you are also a strong competitor to my position, but how to be a good emperor and how to become an emperor is something that dares not speak to outsiders. I think you and your father may not be open and honest.

The reason I was entrusted by your grandfather back then was very complicated. My bloodline was only part of the reason, and the mistakes your uncle made were only one part of it. At least in my personal opinion, my ability to inherit the throne was related to my personal growth.

I can teach you some experience. Whoever you want to be and wherever you want to sit, you have to stand at that angle and height to consider the problem. When I was just a prince, I did this. As a royal child, you can indeed choose not to contact capitalists, and you can indeed avoid suspicion, but if you want to become an emperor, you must have the entire empire in your heart. And they are also part of the empire, or even an important part of the empire."

"I...uncle..." Li Zhaoyu couldn't speak at all, and he didn't know how to reply.

Li Junhua smiled and said, "You don't have to answer anything or be nervous. In fact, the change has begun. Before this, you have been living in a small circle of nobles. Now you take the initiative to contact the bureaucratic system of the cabinet. In fact, you can go further and be bolder.

I am still here, and your father is here. Even if you are wrong, how can you go wrong? For a royal family, mistakes are not scary at all, because the entire empire will cover up for you, as long as you change it. Isn’t your father often saying that you can not admit your mistake, but you cannot change it.”

"Yes, uncle." Li Zhaoyu nodded.

Li Junhua patted his nephew's shoulder: "Okay, go and do it."

Li Zhaoyu left the imperial study room and walked on the path in a daze. Today's conversation was brief, but it was like a bolt from the blue, which required Li Zhaoyu's long-term thinking to digest it.

"Zhao Yu, Zhao Yu..." The queen's call came from behind.

"Auntie the Queen." Li Zhaoyu quickly greeted him.

The queen smiled and said, "You ran so fast, you were so busy that you couldn't catch up with you."

"Is there anything wrong with Aunt Empress?"

"There is a good thing, come on..." The queen pulled Li Zhaoyu to the back garden, where something was being arranged. The queen said: "Your mother and I will discuss with you, and take this National Games to hold a garden party and bring female athletes from all provinces to the palace to entertain. You and Zhaocheng must seize this opportunity."

"Oh oh oh..." Li Zhaoyu's head was still full of the emperor's words just now. When he suddenly heard this, he asked, "What's the chance?"

"Blind date, Zhaoyu, you are not young anymore, you are twenty-three years old, it's time to start a family," said the queen.

Li Zhaoyu was puzzled: "Aren't you going to go on a blind date for Zhaocheng?"

Li Zhaoyu still knew about this. Unlike his further studies at Imperial University, after Li Zhaocheng returned to China, he had been studying in the military academy. Although the country has always advocated the liberation of women, women in the military are still in a state of freedom of talks. Therefore, Li Zhaocheng lived in a monk temple, so it was extremely necessary to create some opportunities for him to solve lifelong affairs.

The more important reason is that Li Zhaocheng will participate in a graduation internship. Of course, graduation internship is a pretext, and it is mainly to give Li Zhaocheng the opportunity to exercise.

Li Zhaoyu was allowed to participate in the Oriental Alliance Conference, which was a chance to show his performance. The royal family has always been a slap in the water, so naturally he also had to give Li Zhaocheng, who was the same age as Li Zhaoyu. His opportunity was to go to the Yizhou area to solve the problem of Japanese immigrants entrenched in South America.

This made Li Zhaocheng very happy and ready to do something big now, but the premise was that he needed to solve a lifelong event before going to war.

"How can you, the brother, fall behind?" the queen said with a smile.

"Aunt, I don't have this idea yet." Li Zhaoyu hurriedly begged for forgiveness.

The queen smiled: "What do you want to think about this? It's just to meet girls of the same age. What if I meet someone who falls in love at first sight."

"Aunt, I'm full of serious business now and I don't have the energy to talk about this yet." Li Zhaoyu said honestly.

"What energy does this require? Look at Zhaocheng, you are very energetic." The queen refused to give in and insisted that Li Zhaoyu be sure to come to the garden party the day after tomorrow.

Li Zhaoyu did not return to the palace because he knew that as long as he went back, his mother would definitely nag about this matter, so he went back to his apartment outside the Imperial University. Unexpectedly, when he got home, Wen Luo was waiting for him here, and Li Yongzhong was entertaining him.

"Young Master, I heard you have entered the palace." Wen Luo asked.

Li Zhaoyu asked: "How did you know?"

Wen Luo smiled and said, "Of course I have my own way."

"Have you always had such a way? This is not good. Wen Luo, I suggest you restrain yourself. You are an alien vassal." Li Zhaoyu said, and he felt that Wen Luo was a little dangerous.

Wen Luo laughed: "Okay, I'll tell the truth."

It turned out that when the emperor summoned Li Zhaoyu to the palace, he sent people from the Zhongting to Wen Luo's mansion, mainly asking Wen Luo how he lived in the capital as usual, but what troubles were there. But Wen Luo knew that this sudden concern was extraordinary, so he guessed that it was related to Li Zhaoyu.

He used some small tricks to ask the ritual officer from the Central Court, and only knew that Li Zhaoyu was summoned by the emperor. The two were combined with one another, so naturally he guessed that it was because of the two people's previous interactions.

"If this is the case, it's better." Li Zhaoyu relaxed and continued: "The emperor asked me about the Wanlong Railway, and I'll tell the truth."

"What does the emperor think about state-owned intermodal transport?" Wen Luo asked immediately.

Li Zhaoyu said casually: "The Emperor thinks..." Suddenly he realized that this was his bargaining chip, and he could put pressure on Wen Luo in the name of the Emperor to make him give in. So he said: "The Emperor has said a lot, and he just didn't eat. Let's talk while eating."

After arranging the chef to cook a few dishes, Li Zhaoyu said: "The emperor is not very satisfied with the state-owned intermodal transport."

“Where is not satisfied?”

"The Emperor said that if it was just a project of Wanlong Railway, this proposal could be discussed, but Wanlong Railway was related to the railway network built by the Empire in various countries in the South China Sea, it would be somewhat unsuitable. If nothing else, it would not be passed in the House of Commons."

“Isn’t this exactly what you need to coordinate?”

Li Zhaoyu shook his head: "It's hard to say what's wrong with the House of Commons, but it's definitely not possible with the Emperor. The so-called state-owned intermodal transport is actually the empire that helps you bear part of the pressure, and this part of the pressure will eventually be passed on to the Emperor, why should the Emperor bear it for you?
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