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 Province, entered the palace in the 26th year of Jiajing period and worshiped Zhang Hong as his godfather. He was thirty-eight years old at this time.
It is recorded in history that he was "a Congolese person, good at doing power and fortune". In the original time and space, Li Yishangshu impeached him for "relying on favor, deceiving the law, and being bold and ambitious, which has never happened before. Zhang Jing's evil is a hundred times worse than that of Feng Bao.
Even if he is twice as powerful as Song Kun, promoting him is not enough to punish his crimes, and eating his flesh is not enough to avenge his injustice."
After Wanli came to power in the original time and space, Zhang Jing became the emperor's minion and worked with his party members to amass wealth. At that time, there was a proverb in the capital: It is better to meet tigers and wolves than to meet Zhang Jing.
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 act with the emperor's guidance.
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, his character is resolute and decisive, and he is very suitable for this job.
"Chairman".
Therefore, when Zhu Yijun separated the various departments and supervisors of the inner court at the end of the first year of Wanli 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 reminded him of his mistakes and made suggestions, and included him as a key surveillance target of Jin Yiwei, and also placed people around him to monitor him.
Under the two-pronged approach, Zhang Jing became Zhu Yijun's extended brain and arm in the inner government, and he used it like an arm and a finger. In the past three years, the inner government industrial and commercial group had no competitors and no capital restrictions, and was blocked by Zhu Yijun from political resistance.
Later, it 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 the military reform as an example, Zhu Yijun once wanted to use future 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 salt policy reform. Previously, the Bureau of Ceremony sent officers to collect salt taxes along the way, and the annual income was less than one hundred thousand taels. If there was no money in the bank, would Zhu Yijun dare to dismiss it casually? He still had money in his pocket and did not care about three melons and two dates.
, can it be decisively abolished.
When the salt field was auctioned, Wang Guoguang initially suggested that the court simply keep half of the salt field 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 half of the salt field left behind? 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.
——The subsequent emperors may seize whatever wealth they like, just like this. 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 was because some smart people at the auction knew that the emperor sent someone to take the auction, so they did not dare to increase the price.
Because of this. If Zhang Jing did not 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 big problems.
However, neither Zhu Yijun nor Zhang Jing were future generations of business management experts. Because Zhu Yijun worked in the tax bureau, he knew more about company law, contract law and other commercial laws, but after getting started in management, he often felt 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 establishing rules and regulations.
During the development and growth of the group, this management model did not have much problems. However, as the stalls grew larger and larger, Zhang Jing also found that the disease of state-owned enterprises became 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 managers, purchasing, and sales leaders of major factories to first make a summary to Zhu Yijun:
At this time, the Neifu Industrial and Commercial Group had four steel plants, six glass plants, four soap plants, ten silk factories, two clock factories, and three craft factories across the country, totaling 29 large factories.
Each family has more than a thousand workers; in addition, there are about 130 small factories that produce various 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 amounted to 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 three million taels in the third year of Wanli.
Including the profits generated from the production and sales of other silk-making, luxury goods, handicrafts and other factories, Zhu Yijun should be the richest emperor since he took up the profession of emperor-the annual discretionary funds amount to 7.5 million taels.
Since Zhu Yijun was dissatisfied with the current production efficiency of all links, at least one-third of these funds were invested in technology upgrades and R&D tests. In three years, Neifu Industrial and Commercial Group has commended more than 1,600 craftsmen across the country.
Recruiting more than 150 scientific research talents who have no intention of taking the imperial examination and who like strange skills. On the one hand, Zhu Yijun participated in the guidance of technology development, and on the other hand, he invested regardless of the cost.
However, more and more drawbacks of extensive management have been exposed: on the one hand, there is the problem of Zhu Yijun. 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 reading a time-travel novel in my previous life, which showed 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 to develop and produce it.
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 his eyebrows and beard scratched. 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 the place where the internal struggles of the group were launched.
Thirdly, there are many crimes. 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 per year, so it was difficult for Zhang Jing to generate new material resources.
need.
However, in the two aspects of group purchasing and sales, despite Zhu Yijun's severe punishment, the officials were unable to catch them, and corrupt people continued to do so. Especially in large factories, the financial management system was imperfect and the material management was chaotic. The peripheral businessmen who relied on it for a living were in trouble.
Bribing officials at all levels and poaching corners of the emperor's property.
In the third year of Wanli, Zhu Yijun sent people to the steel factory to audit the accounts. Only in the two areas of coke purchasing and warehouse management, more than 30 people were found, 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.