In March of the fourth year of Wanli, Zhu Yijun took time to listen to Zhang Jing's report.
Zhang Jing, a native of Xincheng County, North Zhili, entered the palace in the 26th year of Jiajing's reign and worshiped Zhang Hong as his godfather. He was thirty-eight years old at this time.
History records that he was "congolese in nature and good at doing Weifu". In the original time and space, Li Yishangshu impeached him for "relying on favor, deceiving the heaven and breaking the law, and being bold and ambitious, which has never been done before. Zhang Jing's evil is a hundred times that of Feng Bao, and ten thousand times that of Song Kun. He was guilty of not being able to promote him, but he was devoured by him." Meat is not enough to avenge his injustice."
After Wanli took charge of the original time and space, Zhang Jing became the emperor's minion and made money with his followers. At that time, there was a proverb in the capital: It is better to meet tigers and wolves than whales.
But in Zhu Yijun's opinion in this time and space, Zhang Jing's greatest advantage is the word "loyalty". He has no courtesy, justice or shame, and does not care about right or wrong, good or evil, and only knows how to follow the emperor's lead.
Since the time travel, Zhu Yijun first asked him to be in charge of the craftsmanship in the inner palace, and Zhang Jing made a clock; then he was in charge of glass manufacturing, and Zhang Jing made flat glass. As recorded in history, he has a resolute and resolute personality and is very suitable to be the "chairman".
Therefore, at the end of the first year of Wanli, when Zhu Yijun separated the various departments and supervisors of the inner court and established the inner government industrial and commercial group, he decisively used Zhang Jing to take overall responsibility.
In order to prevent Zhang Jing from disturbing the people due to his excessive behavior, Zhu Yijun on the one hand gave Zhang Jing a high salary to maintain his integrity; on the other hand, he always gave Zhang Jing advice and gave pointers, and included him as a key surveillance target of Jin Yiwei, and also placed people around him to monitor him.
With the two-pronged approach, Zhang Jing became Zhu Yijun's brain and arm extended in the inner palace, and he used it like an arm and a finger. In the past three years, the Neifu Industrial and Commercial Group, with no competitors, no capital restrictions, and political resistance blocked by Zhu Yijun, has developed into a super freak in this time and space - a behemoth from production to sales end.
This behemoth provided Zhu Yijun with huge funds to implement reforms.
At the beginning of his time travel, Zhu Yijun thought that he had advanced ideas, far-sighted vision, and profound thoughts. As long as he retained the imperial power, he would certainly be able to guide the country and scold Fang Qiu.
However, reality has repeatedly taught him how to behave. Taking military reform as an example, Zhu Yijun once wanted to use later means such as awarding medals to encourage soldiers to dare to fight. At that time, he thought he had succeeded.
However, when the salary of the lower-level officers was not guaranteed, according to his helpless words that day: "What's the use of issuing iron cards?" He had no choice but to invest 600,000 taels of silver from internal funds to basically solve the problem below the general banner. Military benefits and pension issues.
Another example is the reform of the salt administration. Previously, the Bureau of Ceremonies sent officers to collect salt taxes along the way, and the annual income was less than 100,000 taels. If there is no money in the internal funds, Zhu Yijun dares to abolish the company casually? Only when you have money in your pocket and don't care about three melons and two dates can you decisively abolish the company.
When the salt field was auctioned, Wang Guoguang initially suggested that the court keep half of the salt field directly and not include it in the auction, so as to control the absolute production volume and prevent the emergence of monopoly.
But Zhang Juzheng pointed out, who owns the property rights of the remaining half of the salt farm? If it belongs to the imperial court, it should be managed by the Ministry of Household Affairs, and the emperor has no profit; if it belongs directly to the royal family, both Zhu Yijun and Zhang Juzheng are worried about leaving a bad example for future generations - whatever wealth the subsequent emperors like, they may follow this example Steal directly. Aren't the "tax supervisors" sent by Emperor Wanli of the original time and space just like this?
Later, Zhu Yijun made a decisive decision, and the royal family directly participated in the auction, spending a total of 6.5 million taels of silver to win half of the salt farm. ——This is because some smart people at the auction knew that the emperor had sent people to auction again and did not dare to increase the price. Without Zhang Jing to manage the industrial and commercial group to collect money for the emperor, the salt policy reform, which Zhu Yijun wanted to make a big deal about, would inevitably have major problems.
However, neither Zhu Yijun nor Zhang Jing were future business management experts. Because Zhu Yijun works in the tax bureau, he knows more about company law, contract law and other commercial laws, but after getting started in management, he often feels powerless.
As a direct descendant of Zhu Yijun, Zhang Jing inevitably has a lot of "feudal remnants" in his management thinking. He uses "power" as the starting point for managing people, managing affairs, and failing to establish rules and regulations.
During the development and growth of the group, this management model did not have much problems. But as the stall grew larger, Zhang Jing also found that the problems of state-owned enterprises were becoming increasingly prominent, and operations were stagnant. Even if he tried his best, it was difficult to cope with it.
Therefore, in March of the fourth year of Wanli, Zhu Yijun held another management meeting of the Neifu Industrial and Commercial Group, planning to implement formal reforms to the group and promote its further development.
At the meeting, Zhang Jing led the management, purchasing, and sales leaders of major factories and first made a summary to Zhu Yijun:
At this time, the Neifu Industrial and Commercial Group has a total of 29 large factories across the country, including four steel factories, six glass factories, four soap factories, ten silk factories, two clock factories, and three craft factories. Each family has more than a thousand workers; in addition, there are about 130 small factories that produce various types of luxury goods, with workers ranging from a dozen to hundreds.
In the third year of Wanli, these factories produced a total of 260 million kilograms of steel, two and a half times the national iron production in the six years of Longqing; 145 million kilograms of glass frit; and 8.5 million kilograms of soap. . The profits provided by these three items alone to Zhu Yijun reached 2.8 million taels per year.
In addition to the direct wholesale of steel and glass, "luxury goods" such as soap are sold by the Neifu Industrial and Commercial Group themselves, so the sales profits are higher. The annual profit has been close to 3 million taels in the third year of Wanli.
Including the profits generated from the production and sales of other silk, luxury goods, handicrafts and other factories, Zhu Yijun should be the richest emperor since he took up the profession of emperor - with annual discretionary funds reaching 7.5 million taels.
Since Zhu Yijun was dissatisfied with the current production efficiency of various links, at least one-third of these funds were invested in technology upgrades and R&D tests. In the past three years, the Neifu Industrial and Commercial Group has commended more than 1,600 craftsmen and recruited more than 150 scientific research talents across the country who have no intention of taking the imperial examination and like strange skills. Regarding technology development, Zhu Yijun participated in the guidance on the one hand, and invested regardless of the cost on the other.
However, more and more disadvantages of extensive management have been exposed: on the one hand, there is Zhu Yijun’s problem. In his daily life, he was triggered by something and immediately arranged for Zhang Jing to find someone to organize production. For example, one day he Suddenly I remembered that I had seen time travel in my previous life and found that sodium glutamate could be extracted from kelp and sea intestines - I wrote a small note and passed it to Zhang Jing, who then set up a small processing factory for research and development and production.
On the other hand, there is a lack of institutional mechanisms and rules and regulations within the group's management. As the "chairman" authorized by Zhu Yijun, Zhang Jing has a lot of eyebrows and beards. Although he has promoted many people, the boundaries of authority at all levels are chaotic - a matter that Zhu Yijun is concerned about. They rushed forward to take credit; Zhu Yijun, who had not been around for a long time, discarded it like worn shoes and became a place for internal struggles within the group.
Thirdly, corruption is rampant. Zhang Jing knew that he was being focused on by Zhu Yijun, so he was cautious and did not dare to reach out. Moreover, Zhu Yijun gave him an annual salary of 60,000 taels of silver, so it was difficult for Zhang Jing to generate new material needs.
However, in the two aspects of the group's procurement and sales, despite Zhu Yijun's severe punishments, it was difficult to catch them, and corrupt people continued to do so. Especially in large factories, the financial management system is not perfect and the material management is chaotic. The peripheral businessmen who make a living bribe managers at all levels and poach the emperor's industry.
In the third year of Wanli, Zhu Yijun sent people to the steel factory to audit the accounts. More than 30 people were found in the two areas of coke purchase and warehouse management alone, and the total amount of corruption was nearly 70,000 taels. Zhu Yijun estimated that the entire industry chain was leaking. It should be more than one million every year.
Therefore, it is imperative to reorganize and implement formal management of this state-owned enterprise before it becomes terminally ill.
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