Chapter 624: When Encouraging Scholars to Go Overseas to Be Officials and Reform of Government-run Industries
"There are many scholars at the bottom who have begun to make a living in the market, become storytellers, be the chief writer of newspapers, and even become professional shopkeepers!"
"But they often look down on the profession they are engaged in, let alone others."
Wen Tiren replied at this time.
"We cannot only see the country, not the society. The system of the country has three identities: official, civilian and soldier. However, in the whole society, there are many professions that can be pursued, and there are also many that can be used to demonstrate the identity of the society and the local ones!"
"After returning to Beijing, we must set up some social royal institutions and hold some celebrations, and the royal family will award honors to some social roles that perform outstandingly in society, so that our Ming Dynasty will not only be a country, but also have a prosperous and harmonious social atmosphere, such as giving the best prizes to some of the best stories."
Zhu Youxiao said, and ordered: "You remember it as a state memorandum."
"yes!"
Lu Xiangsheng and Wen Tiren replied.
After that, Lu Xiangsheng continued: "In fact, the imperial court still lacked officials outside the pass, overseas, and in the west."
"Since the election of officials was required to take the exam, many Jinshi and Juren would rather wait for the position of the Central Earth in the Ming Dynasty to be vacant before taking the exam than apply for the entrance examination outside the pass, overseas, and western regions, so there are still relatively few officials in these places. If the threshold for selecting officials in these places can be reduced and the treatment will be increased, it may be possible for many scholars who are willing to be officials but are not afraid of hard work to get the opportunity to become officials, so that the court can have officials to be assigned in these places and can also satisfy the wishes of these scholars to enter the officialdom."
"Yes! This is also written into the memorandum!"
Zhu Youxiao said, "In addition, just like this, in order to avoid the officials who are promoted to Central Earth to enter the cabinet and the political affairs hall in the future, and establish a rule that anyone above the ministry, or even the cabinet and auxiliary ministers must have the experience of becoming an official outside the pass or overseas!"
"Your Majesty's wise!"
The two replied.
Zhu Youxiao smiled faintly, then patted the steam car he was on and said, "This steam car from Datong Machinery Factory is not bad. I didn't expect that one day, I, Daming, could have such a car that can travel without human and animal power."
"Yes! Your Majesty just mentioned society, which is also a major change in society. In the future, no one can dominate the world with more horses, but whoever has strong ability to make cars can dominate the world."
Lu Xiangsheng replied.
"This major change began with His Majesty's decree to change the strange skills and tricks to science and technology. From now on, technological innovation can be said to be changing with each passing day. People gradually realized that it contains profound natural science, which has been systematically studied, so that all people can benefit from it."
Wen Tiren said.
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"The research and development of science and technology cannot be despised at all. The money that should be invested in this must be invested. If you have less points, you can get less points. Are you short of money now?
I asked Sun Yuanzheng, Academician Song, and Husca (Pascal) to come to Datong Machinery Factory in order that they can let our Datong Machinery Factory go to the forefront in technology! You are now saying that you want to fire them, which is a sign of short-sightedness!”
Bi Ziyan put forward his own views when he proposed to cut off some R&D functions at the Datong Machinery Factory staff committee.
As the founder and director of the former Shoujiao and Datong Machinery Factory, his words are still very majestic.
Even Gong Yonggu, the son-in-law, had to compromise after hearing this: "Since Mr. Bi insisted on not cutting, then not cutting. I originally meant to use the current technology to expand the profits first, and then think about technological research and development after completely making the only mechanical products in our Datong Machinery Factory in the world."
"Although most private investors' enthusiasm for technology research and development is not as good as ours, we cannot underestimate that some private investors will have wisdom that others do not have. In addition, we cannot underestimate the ability of private investors to reproduce."
Bi Ziyan continued.
Gong Yonggu nodded: "What Mr. Bi said was that night, she gave up her previous proposal."
"Very good! It is said that if you have an old family, like a treasure, and if you have a treasure in the country, like a treasure, this technology research and development cannot be ignored. Otherwise, you will be careful in the future, people will stick your neck in Datong Machinery Factory and force you to buy technology with money. But if you have technology, you can stick his neck, force him to buy your technology, and even make him accustomed to buying your technology and help you make money."
After staying in Suzhou for some days, Zhu Youxiao quietly came to Kunshan. He came to Datong Machinery Factory without notice in advance. After keeping the relevant personnel confidential, he quietly came to the conference hall.
When Zhu Youxiao heard Bi Ziyan’s meeting content, he couldn’t help but walk in and say a few words.
"His Majesty!"
Bi Ziyan and others were quite surprised and quickly got up to give a big gift.
Zhu Youxiao helped Bi Ziyan up and said with a smile: "Everyone is exempt from tribute!"
Then, Zhu Youxiao asked Bi Ziyan: "How is it doing now? What are the problems?"
"The outside is naturally still thriving. From pressure cookers to automobiles, Datong machinery products are very popular. Merchants from all over the country come to purchase goods every day. Recently, the supply of goods was made a reservation a month ago. Because the factory has formulated an eight-hour working system according to the needs of employees, even if some merchants ask for a price increase and get the goods in advance, we did not agree. If we really want to meet the needs on the market, even ordinary employees can become millionaires."
Gong Yonggu answered at Bi Ziyan's instruction: "It's because there are internal differences. Some people want to train new employees and make more money. But some people give up the research and development of new technologies. Some people think that they should continue to develop, so that they can have more trump cards. His Majesty heard it just now, so we still choose to listen to Mr. Bi and focus on innovation. Money is not enough to make money."
Gong Yonggu smiled as he said that.
"You prince-in-law, you can't lose money!"
Zhu Youxiao said with a smile, then sat down: "Let's talk about it again, what new experience does this employee have in the experiment of official and enterprise management? Is it necessary for the court to set up new official and enterprise next?"
"Report to Your Majesty, after trying to run the Datong Machinery Factory, I believe that this official and enterprise that holds shares in the employee will still need to be started in the future. After all, it is indeed more conducive to distributing benefits to employees, but there is no need to give all employees the right to make decisions!
Because decisions are determined to everyone, there are often situations where it is difficult to agree on the other side, and even situations where no one can convince anyone, which delays business opportunities!
Now Datong Machinery Factory is because he is a little face like me, so it is hard to object to what I decide. Even if I don’t agree, I can only reserve opinions and choose to obey, so that Datong Machinery Factory can still make decisions efficient, but other officials and enterprises will find it difficult to protect them."
"So, in my opinion, employees will still be allowed to hold shares in the future, but the national treasury or the internal treasury will be controlled by His Majesty, and the relevant manager will be appointed by His Majesty. The dividends will be distributed to all employees, and the employees' shares cannot be traded. In this way, it is more difficult for employees to invoke their relatives to enter the factory. The main reason is that there is a decision-maker, especially after the factory is bigger."
Bi Ziyan said.
"In this way, will it still make the official industry bureaucratize, and will it make people greedy?"
Zhu Youxiao asked.
"It is better for officials to be corrupt than employees to be corrupt. Once officials are corrupt, they can still be confiscated once they find out. However, employees to be corrupted, they can't copy all employees, right? Is there any more factory?"
Bi Ziyan replied.
Zhu Youxiao said: "It's reasonable! I originally meant this, but it was not easy to say it clearly at that time. You have to try it first so that you can have a deeper understanding! If you start a new official industry in the future, what new ideas do you have about which industries to start?"
"From the old minister's opinion, it should be tobacco, alcohol and oil!"
Bi Ziyan replied at this time.
Chapter completed!