Chapter 631 - 629: Worth a Try
This Jiang Yifan, he had long despised him. Although this bastard couldn’t be called a man, being humiliated by his wife, he had once served as an imperial censor and had frequented the presence of the emperor. Moreover, the emperor personally appointed him to serve in the Ministry of Revenue, so he really couldn’t be taken lightly.
Ever since Jiang Yifan took office in the Ministry of Revenue, many things under the Crown Prince’s command became very constrained for fear that he was a nail that the emperor had planted in the Ministry of Revenue.
The officials in the Ministry of Revenue also felt very constrained in their work, fearing that their actions would be detected by this minor official from the sixth rank, potentially revealing major issues. This was a matter of their official positions and wealth, their future prospects, and their very lives.
Therefore, the Crown Prince was not only unwilling to replace iron rails with wooden tracks but was also hoping to use this opportunity to drive this bastard surnamed Jiang out of the Ministry of Revenue.
Listening to the low murmurings in the Imperial Court and recalling all the misfortunes of this year, the Crown Prince could hardly wait for the person he had arranged to step forward and took the initiative to make a petition, "Imperial Father, your son has something to say."
"Hmm, speak," said the emperor, who had already noticed the barely concealed rage on the Crown Prince’s face, and spoke gently.
"Your Majesty, about the railway transport, which is a major plan for hundreds, even thousands of years, which consumes vast amounts of financial and human resources. And as everyone knows, wood, when left outdoors in the wilderness, subjected to wind and rain and sunshine, is the most likely to decay. Using wooden rails is to squander the hard labor of the people of Great Xia. Your son thinks that laying wooden tracks is truly inappropriate."
The Crown Prince spoke with such gravity that one could sympathetically feel the distress of seeing the labor of the people washed away to no avail.