Chapter 255 Such great official prestige
The Xishan Jingjiao Lime Farm occupies a huge area, with several surrounding hills within its scope, and there are tens of thousands of lime workers and prisoners inside.
The people who manage the workers and prisoners in this lime field are also officials dispatched by the Ministry of Industry and the Dali Temple. Of course, almost all the officials who can be dispatched here are sesame and mung beans. Big and small officials are not even included in the ranks.
But this does not hinder the actual management of these petty officials. It can be said that these officials, who are not officials in Beijing, are already officials here. Their happiness, anger, sorrow, and joy are directly It can be related to the life and death of tens of thousands of lime workers and prisoners!
Of course, in order to prevent these officials from doing evil and enriching themselves, the palace will also send a guard eunuch here to supervise the normal operation of the lime field, as well as the financial situation that is most concerned about the palace.
However, most of the time, these guarding eunuchs would directly overstep their authority and the petty officials sent by the Ministry of Industry and Dali Temple actually had the highest management authority here.
So often, remote places like this breed heinous corruption and abuse.
And this is also a stubborn disease that feudal management cannot overcome. In addition to the evil of human nature, the biggest reason for this stubborn disease is the thousands of years of "official status" and "people superior to others" thinking.
Under the influence of this kind of thinking, as long as someone becomes an official, even if it is just a small official, as long as they have some power in their hands, there will always be some people who can't help but regard themselves as The superior person who can ride on the heads of others begins to exert extreme control and oppression on the people he can manage.
It simply amplifies the evil of human nature to the extreme through power.
So sometimes Zhu Zaijing is very angry, because some such self-righteous people will appear in his Shunyi Industrial Park, and some of these people are also poor people in the surrounding areas.
After they finally obtained a small management position in the industrial park through their conscientious efforts and down-to-earth work, it was as if they suddenly changed into different people and began to treat themselves differently. The former co-worker yelled and drank as if he were a master.
Faced with such a situation, Zhu Zaijing also deeply feels the importance of quality education and responsible education.
So in a later meal, Zhu Zaijing asked Gao Gong to write a pamphlet, and then used lectures and collective learning to reshape the workers and managers in Shunyi Industrial Park own correct values.
Let them understand that power and responsibility are always two sides of the same coin that go hand in hand. If you only want power but don’t want to take responsibility, you are not a qualified manager.
Then Zhu Zaijing also creatively gave some supervisory rights to the small employees under management, and stipulated that a management inquiry meeting should be held every month, so that these workers under management can put forward corresponding work opinions and work criticisms on their small management. , thereby improving management methods and improving work efficiency.
After a period of implementation in this way, although the current Shunyi Industrial Park cannot be said to be a pure land, it is at least much better than the original rough and barbaric management.
It can be said that this is Zhu Zaijing's small attempt at humanized management, and of course it is only limited to the Shunyi Industrial Park.
Because although the imperial court also had this form of prison, it was from officials to officials and it was not implemented in other places.
So for the sake of caution, Zhu Zaijing also asked front-line management to adopt this model in Shunyi Industrial Park. As for the management of the middle and upper levels, it is still the original top-down vertical management model. Superiors still have absolute authority. Authoritative.
Otherwise, in such a large industrial park, so many people really want to have such a "humanized" management. With Zhu Zaijing's understanding of human nature, these people's final demands will definitely become more and more bizarre, and more and more bizarre. becomes increasingly unrealistic.
Therefore, Zhu Zaijing's attitude towards management is still the same as before: grasp the big and let go of the small.
Leave specific people responsible for specific things, and do more personally or pay more attention to key things.
Anyway, you can’t put everything, and you can’t put nothing.
In the end, it’s about finding a balance between the two.
When the internal management officials and guarding eunuchs of the lime field heard that the prince was arriving, they all looked frightened and panicked, not knowing how to receive him.
Because in their knowledge, it seems that no such noble person has ever been here.
So, the entire lime field was in a panic for a while, and they arrived at the gate in a panic to welcome Zhu Zaijing's arrival. "The servants (ministers) are waiting to pay homage to the prince."
The guarding eunuch Wei Dahe, the Ministry of Works official Zhang Enhua, and another Dali Temple official Liu Quande and others manage the lime field. , all of them knelt down on the dusty ground with excitement and anxiety.
Zhu Zaijing looked at these people and did not show any strange emotions. He just said: "Get up."
Then he entered the lime field with Meng Chong, Teng Xiang, Si Hua and other guards. Inside.
Looking at the gray lime field everywhere, Zhu Zaijing couldn't help but want to cover his mouth and nose, but he held it back in the end.
After arriving at a relatively clean wooden house, Meng Chong quickly stepped forward and wiped the stool with his sleeves, and asked Zhu Zaijing to sit down.
Zhu Zaijing sat at the main seat of the wooden house, looked at Wei Dahe, Zhang Enhua, Liu Quande and others who came in, and said: "Don't be restrained, sit down and answer."< br>
The three people thanked them quickly, and then carefully sat on the small stools in the wooden house.
Zhu Zaijing looked at the three of them and asked: "You three are in charge of this lime field, right?"
The three of them replied: "As you said to the prince, that's right."< br>
Then Zhu Zaijing asked, "Then who among you three will make the final decision?"
The three of them looked at each other, and then Wei Dahe carefully replied: "It is the slave who makes the decision."< br>
Zhu Zaijing frowned slightly, "What do you mean? Be clear."
Wei Dahe, Zhang Enhua, and Liu Quande looked at each other again, and then Wei Dahe replied: "This slave is responsible for The finance and supervision of the lime field are considered the largest. Manager Zhang and Manager Liu are responsible for the management of the craftsmen and prisoners in the lime field, and the other is responsible for the production and sales of lime."
Zhu Zaijing heard that Wei Dahe. After saying this, he nodded and said: "The division of labor between the three of you is quite clear. Tell me how much lime can the lime field produce in a day?"
Zhang Enhua, a clerk from the Ministry of Industry and Commerce in charge of production and sales, replied: "Returning to the prince, if the coal supply in Xishan is sufficient, at least one million kilograms of lime can be produced a day."
Hearing Zhang Enhua said that the production capacity of only one million kilograms of lime a day made Zhu Zaijing feel a little bit Less.
This million kilograms sounds huge, but when converted into the measurement unit used by later generations, it is only a few hundred tons.
If these hundreds of tons of lime are really used for the expansion of the capital, it seems to be a drop in the bucket.
Zhu Zaijing asked: "How many people are there in the lime yard? Why is there such a small output?"
Liu Quande replied: "There are three thousand craftsmen in the lime yard and more than five thousand prisoners. , and there are more than 2,000 casual workers in the surrounding area, almost more than 10,000 people.”
Zhu Zaijing calculated silently, and based on the number of workers of 10,000, it would take one million kilograms of lime per day. Production, isn't this equivalent to the average person producing one hundred kilograms of lime a day?
You must know that the production technology of this lime is not very high. It only requires a continuous supply of limestone or other raw materials with high calcium carbonate content, which can be obtained by calcining it at a high temperature of 900 to 1000 degrees Celsius for a certain period of time.
But the output of a large lime field with 10,000 people is really too small to say the least.
To put it bluntly, let them just smash limestone in the mountains all day long. One person can smash several thousand kilograms of limestone in a day. However, their average output is only more than 100 kilograms a day, which shows that there is either a problem with their working model or a problem with their management model.
So we have to take a good look at the problems involved and see if we can maximize the lime production capacity here when the capital expansion officially starts.
Otherwise, due to the lack of building materials, construction has been halted. It will take until the Year of the Monkey to complete the capital expansion project?
(End of this chapter)