Wanli Xinming

Chapter 135 Inventory

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 in Beizhili, entered the palace in the 26th year of Jiajing and worshiped Zhang Hong as his godfather. He was 38 years old at this time.

History records that his man "sexed to Congo, and was good at Weifu".Li Yi Shangshu of the original time and space impeached him for "relying on grace, deceiving the sky and breaking the law, and being bold and ambitious, never before. Zhang Jing's evil is a hundred times as bad as Feng Bao, and his ten thousand times as Song Kun. Not enough meat to justify his grievances."

After the original time and space Wanli came to power, Zhang Jing became the emperor's minion, and together with his henchmen, made a lot of money.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 the eyes of Zhu Yijun of this time and space, Zhang Jing's greatest advantage is the word "loyalty". He has no courtesy, righteousness, integrity, and no matter whether it is good or evil.

Since the time of crossing, Zhu Yijun first put him in charge of the craftsmanship of the inner palace, and Zhang Jing made the clock; then he was in charge of glass manufacturing, and Zhang Jing made the flat glass.If his person is as recorded in history, his character is resolute and decisive, and he is very suitable to be the "chairman".

Therefore, at the end of the first year of Wanli, Zhu Yijun spun off the various divisions and supervisors of the inner court and established the Neifu Industrial and Commercial Group.

In order to prevent Zhang Jing from acting rashly and disturbing the people, on the one hand, Zhu Yijun gave Zhang Jing a high salary to keep him clean; on the other hand, he kept his face and gave him some advice, and included him as a key monitoring object of Jinyiwei, and people were also placed beside him to monitor.

Under the two-pronged approach, Zhang Jing became Zhu Yijun's head 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 has developed into a super freak of its own time and space after having no competitors, no capital restrictions, and being blocked by Zhu Yijun's political resistance - it can be called a behemoth from production to sales.

This behemoth provided Zhu Yijun with huge funds to implement reforms.

At the beginning of Zhu Yijun's journey, he thought he had advanced ideas, far-sightedness, and deep thinking. As long as he held the imperial power, he could of course point the country and scold Fang Qiu.

However, the reality has repeatedly taught him to be a man.Taking military reform as an example, Zhu Yijun once wanted to use later-generation means such as awarding medals to inspire soldiers to dare to fight, but at that time he thought he was self-sufficient.

However, under the circumstances that the treatment of low-level officers was not guaranteed, according to his helpless statement that day: "What's the use of issuing an iron plate?" Remuneration and pension issues.

Another example is the reform of the salt administration. Previously, the Lijian Supervisor sent officials to collect salt taxes along the way, and the annual income was less than 10 taels.If there is no money in the house, how dare Zhu Yijun abolish it casually?You still have money in your pocket and don't care about three melons and two dates, so you can decisively abolish it.

When the salt field was auctioned, Wang Guoguang suggested that the imperial 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 monopoly.

But Zhang Juzheng pointed out, who owns the half of the salt field left?If it belongs to the imperial court, it should be included in the management of the household department, and the emperor has no profit; if it belongs to the imperial family directly, Zhu Yijun and Zhang Juzheng are both worried that they will leave a bad example for future generations. Direct grab.Isn't the "tax supervisor" dispatched by the Wanli Emperor of the original time and space just such things?
Later, Zhu Yijun made a decisive decision, and the royal family directly participated in the auction. A total of 650 million taels of silver was spent to win half of the saltworks. ——This is because some sober people in the auction house knew that the emperor sent someone to auction, so they didn't dare to increase the price.If Zhang Jing hadn't run the industrial and commercial group to collect money for the emperor, there would inevitably be big problems in the salt administration reform that Zhu Yijun wanted to make a big fuss about.

However, neither Zhu Yijun nor Zhang Jing were professionals in business administration in later generations.Because Zhu Yijun works in the tax bureau, he has a better understanding of business law such as company law and contract law, but after getting started with management, he often feels powerless.

Zhang Jing, as a personal biography of Zhu Yijun, inevitably carries a large number of "feudal remnants" in his management thinking. He manages people, manages affairs, and uses "power" as a grasper for those parts that are insufficient in establishing rules and regulations.

During the development and growth of the group, this management model did not have much problem.However, as the stalls got bigger and bigger, Zhang Jing also found that the disease of state-owned enterprises became more and more prominent, and the operation was sluggish.

Therefore, in March of the fourth year of Wanli, Zhu Yijun held another management meeting of the Neifu Industrial and Commercial Group, and planned to implement a formalized transformation of the group to boost its further development.

At the meeting, Zhang Jing led the managers, 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 set up four steel factories, six glass factories, four soap factories, ten silk factories, two clock factories, and three handicraft factories in all parts of the country, a total of 29 large factories. There are more than 130 people; in addition, there are about [-] small factories producing various luxury goods, with workers ranging from a dozen to hundreds.

In the third year of Wanli, these factories produced a total of 6000 million catties of steel, which was two and a half times the national iron production in the sixth year of Longqing; 500 million catties of glass frit; and 850 million catties of soap.The profits provided to Zhu Yijun by these three items alone reached 280 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 itself, so the profit in the sales process is higher, and the annual profit has been close to 300 million taels in the third year of Wanli.

Adding in the profits from the production and sales of other factories such as silk, luxury goods, and handicrafts, Zhu Yijun should be the richest emperor since he became an emperor—the annual discretionary funds reached 750 million taels.

Since Zhu Yijun is not satisfied with the current production efficiency of each link, at least one-third of these funds have been invested in technology upgrades and research and development experiments.In the past three years, the Neifu Industry and Commerce Group has commended more than 150 craftsmen, and recruited more than [-] scientific research talents who have no intention of imperial examinations and like strange skills and ingenuity.For technology development, Zhu Yijun participated in the guidance on the one hand, and invested regardless of cost on the other hand.

However, the disadvantages of extensive management have been exposed more and more: 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 I suddenly remembered that I read time-travel novels in my previous life, and I could extract sodium glutamate from kelp and sea intestines. I wrote a small note and passed it to Zhang Jing, and Zhang Jing set up a small processing factory for R&D and production.

On the other hand, there is a lack of institutional mechanisms and rules and regulations within the management of the group. As the "chairman" authorized by Zhu Yijun, Zhang Jing grabs his eyebrows and beards. Although he has promoted many people, the boundaries of authority at all levels are chaotic - something that Zhu Yijun is concerned about, As soon as they swarmed up, they went up to take credit; Zhu Yijun, who didn't ask questions for a long time, abandoned it like a scorpion and became the distribution ground for the internal struggle of the group.

Thirdly, corruption occurs frequently.Zhang Jing knew that Zhu Yijun focused on him, so he was cautious and did not dare to reach out.Moreover, Zhu Yijun gave him an annual salary of 6 taels of silver, and it was already difficult for Zhang Jing to generate new material needs.

However, in the two links of the group's procurement and sales, despite Zhu Yijun's severe punishment, he could not be caught, and those who were corrupt would go on and on.Especially in Dachang, 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 dig the corner of the emperor's industry.

In the third year of Wanli, Zhu Yijun sent people to the steel factory to check the accounts. In the two areas of coke purchase and warehouse management alone, more than 30 people were found out, and the total amount of corruption was nearly 7 taels. When it is above a million.

Therefore, it is imperative to reorganize and implement regular management of this state-owned enterprise while the disease has not reached the terminal stage.

(End of this chapter)