Chapter VI Reform of State-owned Enterprises
A gray-brown ball rolled towards Zhu Youxiao on the dry and yellow grass. Zhu Youxiao knocked the ball with his foot arch and stopped the ball firmly in front of his body. Then he looked up at the goal in front. Several opponents' players steadily formed a defense line, but the door was wide open in the center of the defense line. Zhu Youxiao saw that the opponent's goalkeeper was jumping nervously.
Zhu Youxiao knocked the ball forward, then flew forward and kicked the ball hard with his right foot. The soft ball drew a graceful arc in the air and flew towards the goal.
The defensive players on the court suddenly relaxed. In fact, this was a very bad shot. The angle was not tactful, the strength was not very strong, the line was not secret enough, and the line was very clear. Even a goalkeeper who had never guarded the goal could easily win it. Moreover, the goalkeeper is Liu Baihu, who is known as the strongest light body skill in the palace and is commonplace to climb over the wall and walk around the wall.
At this moment, a figure emerged from the crowd, and gently jumped up and hooked the ball flying slowly in the air. Liu Baihu was also very powerful, and made a correct judgment within such a short distance. He jumped up and rushed towards the ball. Unfortunately, the speed was too fast. After touching Liu Baihu's hand, the ball stopped awkwardly in the air and fell into the goal with a little force.
At this time, a crisp sound of gongs came from the sidelines.
"The Emperor, five to zero! The game is over!"
Zhu Youxiao sat in the pavilion on the sidelines with satisfaction. The palace maids in the pavilion had already prepared hot tea. Zhu Youxiao took it with her, drank all her sips, and then happily said to Li Jinzhong: "My pass was good in the last ball just now!"
Li Jinzhong immediately smiled flatteringly and said, "The emperor's excellent ball skills, and the servant is just adding a bright spot to the emperor. If it weren't for the emperor's passing, the servant wouldn't have made the ball!"
Zhu Youxiao was very happy. He knew that Li Jinzhong was flattering or looked happy. This football, oh, it should be Cuju. However, Zhu Youxiao proofreaded the improved version of ancient Cuju and introduced many modern football elements. Even if the football was created by Zhu Youxiao, Zhu Youxiao personally found craftsmen to make it. Anyway, Zhu Youxiao was very happy to play with his own team. He was either a celebrity in the palace like Li Jinzhong and Wei Chao. The opponent's players dared to play with these fierce players, or they were Jinyiwei who had excellent football skills. Winning was easy, not to mention that Zhu Youxiao didn't need to defend and no one dared to press on the ball. A good Cuju game turned out to be a game to please Zhu Youxiao. What Zhu Youxiao had to do was to kick the ball hard.
At this time, Zhu Youxiao picked up the ginseng tea on the table and drank it all in one sip, and said to Wei Chao, who was still gasping for breath, "Wei Chao, how did the things I told you to do!"
Wei Chao settled his breath and immediately replied: "Your Majesty, I have done it as the emperor's instructions. The time is scheduled tomorrow morning. As for the purpose of preventing variables in the palace tomorrow, I have already put the Jinyiwei and the imperial guards in the city into a state of alert, so I will definitely be foolproof!"
Zhu Youxiao thought about it and said to Wei Chao: "Be good-looking, don't let the ministers outside the palace think that something happened in the palace, and by the way, they will also vent the ministers of the cabinet and the six ministries. Don't always want to control people's words. The more you don't let him say it, the faster, wider, and unreal this matter will be spread. Just like when I just ascended the throne, there were rumors that I burned Li Xuanshi's mother and daughter to death, so at the meeting tomorrow, people will record the whole process and keep it for a while. If there are any rumors, can't you use it!"
After hearing this, Wei Chao nodded quickly. Without saying anything else, many of the emperor's thoughts were far beyond his imagination. Take what the emperor asked him to do this for example. In a word, it was horrifying. I really couldn't think of how the emperor could come up with such an idea.
Then he replied: "I will understand when I go back to the emperor, so let's make arrangements!" After saying that, he was about to turn around and leave.
Zhu Youxiao thought about it and said to Wei Chao who was about to leave: "Wei Chao, I am still a little worried about you. I will go to supervise it myself tomorrow. In this way, I can correct the mistakes whenever I make it," he said.
Wei Chao actually wanted to hear this sentence the most. Zhu Youxiao has been thinking about such strange things recently. He has been so busy with these things about Zhu Youxiao these days. He is not sure about the reform conference tomorrow. If Zhu Youxiao personally pressed the formation, it would be the best. He replied happily: "I will do it now!" After saying that, he walked away with a smile on his face.
Seeing Wei Chao leave, Zhu Youxiao turned his attention to Li Jinzhong. When he saw Li Jinzhong was sweating profusely and was constantly wiping the dripping sweat, he thought that Li Jinzhong was really good at Cuju. It was pitiful. He couldn't even play football and eunuch!
When Li Jinzhong saw that Zhu Youxiao was staring at him, he couldn't help but feel weak. Recently, he took over Zou Yi's class and took over the Dongchang factory, but it seemed that there was no improvement. Although he was as honest as water now, those who dared to come to give him money and those who were involved in relationships were sent to the Dongchang Yamen and beat him up. This way, he offended many officials in the court. But this is not the case. He didn't know where to go for money before, but the one who changed it to the famous honest eunuch in the palace.
However, according to Zhu Youxiao's three-month period, it has been more than half a month since he has not achieved any results. So he said to Zhu Youxiao awkwardly: "Is there anything that the emperor wants to order the slave?"
However, Zhu Youxiao was not thinking about Li Jinzhong's affairs, but about the matter between the Dongchang and the Jinyiwei. It should be noted that in addition to the formal state supervisory organs (the Censorate, the Six Divisions of the Censorate) and the judicial organs (Ministry of Justice, Dali Temple), there was also an Jinyiwei personally under the charge of the emperor. The reason why the emperor wanted to set up the Jinyiwei was because he had a sense of distrust of the formal supervision and judicial organs he established, so he set up another institution to monitor the officials and the people.
Since the formal supervision and judicial authorities cannot fully trust the Jinyiwei, how can Jinyiwei be fully trusted? Therefore, during the Yongle period, the emperor set up the East Factory. Jinyiwei could monitor all officials and civilians, and the East Factory could also monitor Jinyiwei. Later, Xifa was established during the Chenghua period, and Liu Jin set up an expert factory during the Zhengde period. So many institutions were established, and it was just to use one group of people to monitor another group of people, and then use another group of people to monitor the surveillance; the institutions overlapped, and there were endless disasters.
Zhu Youxiao understood that in the Ming Dynasty, a society with backward consultation, in order to maintain the central government can effectively rule the entire huge empire, the existence of spy organizations such as the Dongchang and the Jinyiwei was inevitable. However, because the power of the Dongchang and the Jinyiwei was too large, eunuchs often controlled the government's government. Therefore, the reform of the Dongchang and the Jinyiwei was also a question that Zhu Youxiao has been thinking about recently. Zhu Youxiao brought Li Jinzhong, a novice, to the position of eunuchs as the eunuch in the Dongchang to reduce the resistance to reform!
When Zhu Youxiao heard Li Jinzhong's voice, he immediately woke up from his thoughts and shook his head. He realized that it was not the time to attack Dongchang and Jinyiwei, so he ignored Li Jinzhong, looked at the sunset full of the sky, and said, "It's getting late today. I'm going back to take a shower. Li Jinzhong, you can go and do your Dongchang affairs!"
After saying that, he left the court in the palace surrounded by a bunch of eunuchs and Jinyiwei.
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In Zhu Youxiao's words, this is a suffocating moment. Looking at the densely packed square in front of the hall gate, the eunuchs and palace maids who were waiting for the meeting, Zhu Youxiao couldn't help but sigh at the cruelty of feudal society. Thousands of people without little jj stood in front of you, and Zhu Youxiao couldn't help but sigh at the cruelty of feudal society!
"Your Majesty, the staff should have arrived. Can you start?" Wei Chao ran to the hall carefully and said to Zhu Youxiao. The eunuch's status is low, and this so-called reform conference cannot be held in the hall. Zhu Youxiao was sitting in the hall at this time and remotely commanded the meeting outside the hall.
"Then let's start! I've finished the matter earlier! I have other things to be busy with, so I can't waste too much time here!" Zhu Youxiao was already a little impatient, although this matter was relatively serious.
Wei Chao immediately ran out and started the reform conference fabricated by Zhu Youxiao, which is the eunuch sanctions conference.
After a while, Wang An announced the beginning of the conference came from outside the hall, followed by a praise to the emperor, and then a bow to Zhu Youxiao. After most of this, Zhu Youxiao couldn't help but feel anxious. Could it be that the Chinese people's habit of procrastinating meetings had been there since the Ming Dynasty? He quickly ordered a small eunuch to go out and ask Wang An to get it done quickly.
The little eunuch hadn't been out for long, and Wang An ended his speech. Then the person who came on stage was Wei Chao, the executor of the eunuch severance plan. Wei Chao obviously learned that Wang An's lessons, or Wang An had finished what he should say. This time it was very simple. After saying a few words, he began to read out the resolution of this conference.
Speaking of this resolution, Zhu Youxiao was very proud. This resolution was formulated by Zhu Youxiao alone. It draws on many experiences in state-owned enterprise reform. The first is to break the big pot meal, launch the employment system, and then streamline the organization. Of course, many eunuchs and palace maids will lose their positions. Zhu Youxiao will call this type of laid-off personnel. If the eunuchs voluntarily go home, they will pay some silver. If they are homeless, according to Zhu Youxiao's idea, this group of people will conduct some simple training, and then set up some textile factories to place these surplus eunuchs and palace maids. To be honest, these seem simple, but in practice it will be troublesome. Wang An and Wei Chao spent more than ten days to improve and perfect Zhu Youxiao's rough draft.
Just when Zhu Youxiao was fascinated by the idea, the Wei Dynasty outside the hall had already finished reading the long reform resolution. At this time, there was silence among the crowd, and Zhu Youxiao was pulled back by the sudden silence.
After a while, Wang An and Wei Chao entered the hall with a look of relief on their faces. Obviously, the conference was over. Zhu Youxiao asked quickly: "This is over? Why did you leave the venue without any voice? Don't these people think this resolution is not good for them?" Zhu Youxiao was obviously dissatisfied with the reaction of the eunuchs. He thought this might be a noisy meeting. Maybe someone else fanned the flames and riots. He also specifically instructed the guards of the palace city to strengthen the guards. Unexpectedly, it would be over without any resistance. Did these people's jjs also be castrated after they were castrated?
Wang An and Wei Chao obviously understood what Zhu Youxiao meant. A few days ago, Zhu Youxiao was worried that this resolution would touch the interests of too many people, and he always emphasized the need to strengthen the guards. Now it must have disappointed Zhu Youxiao.
At this time, Wei Chao replied embarrassedly: "Your Majesty, this resolution adopts the appointment system, and today the eunuchs in power in the 24th Prison will not be missing their seats. Naturally, they have no reaction. Those who have been cut were those who have just entered the palace or older eunuchs, and these eunuchs were not present!"
When Zhu Youxiao heard this, he was a little stunned and then said angrily: "I asked you to cut some personnel. Why are there many people in power now, and those who work have all cut down? What's the matter? After the cuts are finished, how many people are still in the palace?"
When Wei Chao was angry when he saw Zhu Youxiao, he said embarrassedly: "The emperor told the slave not to reform this time, and divide it into several stages. This time, the slave planned to cut more than 30,000 eunuchs and palace maids in the palace to 10,000!"
When Zhu Youxiao heard that the number of people was reduced to 10,000, he was relieved. He was worried that the Wei Dynasty would not be able to do things well. In the end, the number of people was not reduced, so a lot of time wasted. It seemed that the Wei Dynasty was still a little useful this time.
So he said, "Didn't I say that those official positions will be cut, or those who are cut will be like little eunuchs and little palace maids? Will you hold a job fair tomorrow? All positions will be cut by one third, do you understand?"
Wei Chao dared not say no, and quickly replied: "I understand!"
Zhu Youxiao thought about it and said, "When you go back, you have to carefully consider my opinions. In a few days, I will give me a second reform. At that time, I will separate those yamen, such as the Anmin Factory in your military battle, in the future, either divide them into the Ministry of Works or become an independent business. However, you don't understand these things. I will see if I can find some people to provide you with your staff. You must also use your own care! As for the prince, you must take more responsibility for the matters in the palace. Now there will naturally be many problems here. If you can solve them, solve them yourself. If you don't, tell me. This is good!"
Chapter completed!