Zhu Yaofei, or should be called Zhu Cixiang. He had already devoured a very delicious royal meal. It is a simple three dishes, one soup and a bowl of crystal white rice. There is no strong and spicy seasoning. The dishes are not novel, but they create the most perfect taste. Even the gourmet delicacies provided by high-end clubs in later generations cannot compare to this seemingly simple three dishes and one soup!
It seems that the career benefits of the prince are quite good. He eats well and lives in a spacious house. A big house in the first ring of Beijing. No matter how much money he has in the future, he will not be able to buy it!
Although this big house will belong to Li Zicheng in a few days. But there were still many industries in the Ming Dynasty. Beijing fell and Chongzhen was hanged. That was just the death of the Ming Dynasty in the history books. It did not mean that the 270-year-old shop in the Ming Dynasty completely closed down.
After that, there was Nan Ming. Although he didn't do well, he still persisted for more than ten years. If you include the power of the Zheng family on Taiwan Island, there is still nearly forty years to go!
These forty years of persistence were achieved without Zhu Cihong's wise leadership. Now that there is an outstanding and far-sighted revolutionary successor like Zhu Cixi, how can the Ming Dynasty persist for a few more years, right? No, it’s not to hold on for a few more years, but to revive the Ming Dynasty and create greater glory again. This is necessary!
"Yes!" Zhu Cixiang put down his job and slapped the table, "We must rescue him! We must do whatever it takes to save... Huang Dabao!"
Eunuch Huang who was waiting at the side was stunned. Master Qiantose had always called him Huang Banban. Why did he call him by his first name today? Moreover, there is always something wrong with Mr. Qiantose after he wakes up. His tone of voice and expression are completely different from before... It seems that he has changed into a different person! And he said all these weird things, like he was crazy!
After being stunned for a moment, Eunuch Huang quickly came to his senses, bowed and asked, "Master Qiansui, what are your orders?"
"Tell me, what is the problem that has brought our Ming Dynasty to this stage?"
Why bother asking? Of course the problem lies with your emperor father... Eunuch Huang would not dare to tell the truth.
"This, this..." Huang Dabao hesitated.
Zhu Cixiang glanced at him, "Stop this and that, just talk! Just say whatever you want, don't be afraid."
He was engaged in finance in his previous life. This industry not only studies the market, but also studies policies and the company's fundamentals, which requires conducting research all over the world. According to his many years of experience, the actual situation of many large companies may not be clear to the high-level chairman and general manager. On the contrary, many middle-level and grassroots cadres have a clear understanding of the actual situation... but are reluctant to speak out!
"Then, that slave said it." Huang Dabao said, "The world is in such chaos. Actually, it's all caused by lack of money."
"No money?" Zhu Cixiang nodded slightly. As soon as he mentioned money, a bunch of numbers popped up in his memory. They are all data on the annual income of the warehouse, the three salary increases, and various miscellaneous expenditures in the 16th year of Chongzhen.
It turned out that Zhu Cihong had often accompanied Chongzhen to court since the fifteenth year of Chongzhen's reign. When Chongzhen was giving instructions and memorials, he often called Zhu Cixiang to watch and teach. Zhu Cixiang has a very good memory and can remember the general meaning of the memorials he has read, so he remembers some memorials from the Ministry of Household Affairs.
Zhu Cixiang recalled it carefully for a while: It seems... he is not particularly poor! Last year's regular tax plus three additional payments were worth more than ten million taels of silver.
"Serve with pen and ink!" Zhu Cixiang ordered.
"Do you want to write an article or draw a picture, Master Qiantose?" Huang Dabao asked.
"I don't write articles or draw pictures," Zhu Cixiang said, "I want to analyze and study."
Analysis? What means? Huang Dabao was confused.
Zhu Cixiang didn't bother to explain to him. He took a writing brush, spread out a piece of rice paper, and started writing and drawing on it. He first drew a table for the situation analysis method by hand. Then based on his own memory, he listed the "advantages", "weaknesses", "opportunities", "threats", etc. that he could think of of the Ming Dynasty, and then analyzed different combinations.
In later generations, he was a senior financial dog who obtained the Chartered Financial Analyst certificate and had done countless company research reports. Looking for opportunities and risks in a mess is his ability to make a living. In this life, his ability to analyze and research is one of the golden fingers he can rely on.
It’s different when you have a golden finger!
After just a simple analysis, Zhu Cixi found that the fundamentals of the Ming Dynasty were actually not that bad, and they were not completely rotten at all...
Many people in later generations like to blindly draw the conclusion that "it's rotten to the core" when it comes to the late Ming Dynasty. In fact, these are just layman's terms. Not to mention a country, but what is the foundation of a company? What are the abilities of the chairman? The conduct of the general manager? If the co-author encounters an idiot chairman and a corrupt general manager, is the company considered to be rotten to the core?
That's not the case at all. It's true that company management can bring down the company. But it doesn’t mean that with bad management, the company will be rotten to the core.
In the same way, it does not mean that a company will definitely thrive if it has a very good management team. And a company that cannot be saved by an excellent management team is truly rotten to the core.
According to Zhu Cixiang’s experience, the real foundation of a company is whether its products can occupy the market!
If the Ming Dynasty is regarded as a company, then its products will undoubtedly occupy the market.
The silk and porcelain produced in the Ming Dynasty were sold all over the world. From the mid-16th century, when large silver mines were developed in the American continent, massive amounts of silver began to flow into the Ming Dynasty, in exchange for bulk trade goods such as silk and porcelain. In just one hundred years, tens of thousands of tons of silver flowed into the country. It's almost 400 million to 500 million taels, which is a trade surplus of several million taels every year.
Historically, such a market share would be maintained until the end of the Qing Dynasty, when it would turn into long-term trade deficits and silver outflows.
In future generations, who will think that a company whose products have lost market is of high quality, and at the same time think that a company whose products have a very high market share and can continue to occupy the international market for two hundred years is rotten to the core?
If there is such a person, never engage in any job related to business management... You can live happily if you are content with poverty.
In later history, the Qing Dynasty was able to create the Kangxi era in a very short period of time after taking control of the Central Plains, which also shows that the roots of the Ming Dynasty were not rotten at all.
The foundation of a company is not bad, the market has not been lost, and it has not owed a whole lot of debt. It is just that the management team is too incompetent and has encountered difficulties. It is because of the replacement of the management team that it can quickly turn losses into profits and create new glory.
If it was really rotten to the core, how could it be possible to immediately revive the company by changing the management team?
On the contrary, the Qing Dynasty was really bad until the end. Not only did their own products disappear from the international market, but the country was dominated by all kinds of foreign goods, and they also owed a lot of foreign debt. They had to pay back at least two billion taels of silver with interest, which was almost more than the total amount of domestic silver in the Qing Dynasty at that time. . All the country's sovereignty was like collateral, pledged to the great powers of various countries. Even a piece of land called Dongjiaominxiang within the Second Ring Road of Beijing was occupied by the armies of various countries and became a lawless place in the Qing Dynasty.
This is because there is no market for the product at all, the financial situation is seriously insolvent, all kinds of movable and real estate have been seized by the bank, and the company has serious difficulties in operating... Later, the three actual controllers of Beiyang, Dangguo, and Hongchao were changed in succession, and it was hard to After more than a hundred years of struggle, Great China has finally returned to its prosperous age. One can only imagine how bad the assets left by the Qing Dynasty were.
