Chapter 6 The Position of State-owned Capital
For Mr. Bai, today's matter is over.
After all, there are more things that don’t concern them.
After sending these people away. There is a businessman from the southwest who wants to see me.
This piqued Mr. Bai's interest. Although Beijing's trade is prosperous, it is difficult to spread to the southwest. There are very few businessmen from the southwest. This southwest guild hall is almost a decoration.
So Mr. Bai invited Zhao Zongshou over.
The two had a great conversation.
Without him, Mr. Bai is not a businessman in essence. He talks about business matters, but he doesn't know what to talk about. The same is true for Zhao Zongshou. As a chieftain, he cannot be said to have no understanding of business matters. Generally speaking, business is not his main business after all. I really want to talk about business matters.
Zhao Zongshou is very likely to reveal his secret.
But in other aspects, Zhao Zongshou has enough knowledge.
After some conversation, Mr. Bai also felt that Mr. Zhao was not a simple businessman. But does this have anything to do with him? He still gave Zhao Zongshou a waist card, which he could use when he was outside.
The Mu family's reputation is not that big in Beijing, but it still has a bit of reputation. At least Xiaoxiao is the one who dares to touch the Mu family.
It can also be regarded as a safety guarantee.
After Zhao Zongshou thanked him, he resigned wisely.
Zhao Zongshou looked at the waist badge in his hand under the oil lamp and felt a special feeling in his heart.
He sensed opportunity.
Zhao Zongshou came to Beijing as an envoy from the Southwest Chieftains to seek development. He also asked for it himself. After all, if he stays in the southwest, his outcome is already doomed, but when he comes to Beijing, there may be another possibility.
And Zhao Zongshou felt this possibility.
He has even forgotten his mission, but thinks about how to develop in Beijing. His future may not be just a toast.
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Zhao Zongshou is just one of the northern drifters who come to Beijing from all walks of life to look for opportunities.
As Beijing becomes stronger and stronger, there will be more and more such people. Every moment in Beijing is different.
And Zhang Youzhi also found it difficult to adapt to this change.
Zhang Youzhi is also considered one of the tycoons in the Beijing business community.
He originally made his fortune under the care of He Xi, and later became the white glove of the Deng family. Then the Deng family collapsed and became the number one figure in the state-owned construction company. In terms of the resources mobilized in his hands, he was superior to many others.
Only this time, he was still very confused about the issue of MPs.
It's not like he can't afford one hundred thousand yuan. It doesn't matter whether the company behind him pays for it or he pays for it himself. The problem is his own positioning, or the positioning of state-owned enterprises. .
Of course, He Xi has sold many state-owned enterprises.
Many people even made their first fortune by taking over state-owned enterprises. But even now, the imperial court still has many factories in its hands, such as Zunhua Iron Works, Liaodong Iron Works, Lushun Shipyard, State-owned Construction Company, Monan Horse Factory, Yalu River Lumber Camp, Railway Company, etc.
Every single one of these is a giant.
For example, Zunhua Iron Works is not just an iron plant, but includes Zunhua Iron Mine, Zunhua Coal Mine, Zunhua Machinery Factory, and many affiliated enterprises. It can be said that from the mine to the end products, such as artillery, Guns, farm tools, railroad tracks, and even steam engines. The whole train. Similar to this is the Liaodong Iron Works.
In terms of assets, both of these two companies have assets of over 10 million. It’s just that they don’t make money.
Why?
You don’t think that the imperial court paid for so many artillery, muskets and even railway tracks at market prices, right?
What if that's really the case? The Ming Dynasty's military expenditure would be unstoppable even if it increased two or three times.
Almost all major manufacturers in the country are the same. Do not make money. Because all the money earned has been directly appropriated by the court. Other businesses can only maintain operations.
From this point of view, victory in the Battle of the River is not surprising at all. Because Beijing has
The investment is much more than that in Nanjing.
Even in terms of the most basic military discipline, good military discipline can only be achieved with good treatment. The uniforms of the Guard Army were sewn by the mother-in-law herself, and most of the troops were given cloth. In Beijing, it’s ready-to-wear.
This is still the simplest difference.
There are many more such differences.
Of course, as a result, state-owned enterprises also have problems of one kind or another. To put it simply, it is the yamen style. It can’t even be said to be a big business disease. Because these people's problems with their affiliation have given many people the urge to turn state-owned enterprises into yamen.
The problem of banks is not a problem of one bank alone, but a problem of almost all state-owned enterprises.
This is also one of the reasons why He Xi focuses on the big and let go of the small.
But even so, Zhang Youzhi still has his own worries.
Zhang Youzhi didn't know whether he was a businessman or an official.
Although under the new imperial system, Zhang Youzhi's department was under the jurisdiction of the Ministry of Water Resources, the Ministry of Transportation, and the Ministry of Industry, and he had to take care of many things, but when it came to money, he had to hand it over to the Ministry of Finance every year.
Essentially, almost no matter. Just money.
More importantly, Zhang Youzhi has no official status.
He said that he was not an official and that he was in charge of the court's enterprises, but he said that he was an official. But he has no official position at all and no corresponding political treatment.
And this uneasiness was originally buried deep in my heart. But things are different now. These people who were originally inferior to him in the mall have the status of councillors. So what should they do?
Zhang Youzhi doesn't care about the privileges of a congressman. What he cares about is that this is an official position. Official body. Official body. Say the important things three times.
Don't blame Zhang Youzhi for caring so much about this. Even in later generations, many old people felt that they were successful and still worked as officials, even if they were civil servants running errands.
Not to mention this era.
Even if you have status, as long as you are not an official. Nothing.
Fortunately, Zhang Youzhi has not been idle these years. He still has some status in front of He Xi. So Zhang Youzhi came directly to ask to see He Xi.
He Xi listened to Zhang Youzhi's cryptic expression.
He Xi had to admit that the parliamentary system was a problem. There are probably many problems, but they can be solved at this stage.
There are too many problems in modern society, and certainly not one person, or even a team, can manage the entire world well behind closed doors. Especially in terms of industrial, commercial, scientific and technological development, etc.
There are so many changes here.
The changes are so fast.
He Xi has been sorted out within the imperial court in recent years to create a strategic advantage over Nanjing.
No other aspects were paid attention to. Many places have become different.
For example, the problem of state-owned enterprises.
This is not just an issue about Zhang Youzhi’s treatment.
It's a problem of a group of people. And this group is the people who know industrialization best.
The quality of the arrangements of this group of people represents the direction of the Ming Dynasty's regime.
If this group of people were to enter the Ming Central Committee step by step, after a few generations, the Ming Central Committee might be able to understand the thinking of industrialization, and the model of the British Empire should be replicable in the future.
In other words, the German Third Reich template.
But if we say that the Ming Empire strongly rejected this group of people, it even lost control of important industries. Then it is inevitable that the Ming court will tremble under the power of capital in the future.
He Xi thought for a long time.
There is no good way to find this problem.
Now the Ming Dynasty Central Committee was arranged by He Xi, and it was He Xi's hometown. It is impossible to replace it, that is digging your own grave. Not to mention, He Xi didn't think these people in front of him were capable of managing the world.
Although He Xi's students supported He Xi's new learning, they were essentially members of the scholar-bureaucrats of the Ming Dynasty. He has the sentiments of scholar-bureaucrats who regard the world as their own responsibility.
Although Confucianism has problems of one kind or another, Confucianism is still essentially meaningful to China. After all, in times of crisis,
Many of the people who have been working hard and regard death as home are those who grew up under the influence of traditional thinking.
They're just going the wrong way. It doesn't mean it's inherently bad.
Although these businessmen do not have any firm values, they are actually profit-seeking in nature. As long as there is enough profit, anything can be done.
However, this is essentially a question of He Xi's successor, and it is still a long way off.
He Xi's upright years as a politician.
He Xi brought her thoughts back and said, "Don't you want a position in the parliament?"
