My Pen Pal Zhu Yuanzhang

Chapter 262: Immorality Breeds Smoke

Daming Maritime Trade Co., Ltd. has been established for several months. According to Li Han's proposal, the assessment criteria are divided into performance, ability, behavior, attitude and comprehensive evaluation.

In the first month after the assessment standards were announced, the children of nobles did not take them too seriously. Relying on their superior status, they worked in a sloppy manner.

Although the company was sponsored by the imperial court, most of the young men and women simply regarded their positions in the company as a job.

The fathers of the noble children, the dukes and princes of the Ming Dynasty, did not take it too seriously at first. They just wanted to run an official business. Anyway, they had already paid for it, and it was better to let their children work in the company than to stay idle at home.

No matter what happens, as long as I don't cause any trouble, I have my father to back me up.

However, when the end of the month arrived, the nobles were dumbfounded. They had not expected that this evaluation was real!

Although the fleet had just set sail and there was still some time before it could return, the company's affairs were still numerous and busy.

Personnel, production channels, logistics, procurement, coordination with other departments and even factories, etc., one thing after another, none of them requires someone to do it seriously. It is like the seventh department besides the six departments of the imperial court.

When the evaluation came at the end of the month, the children of nobles were dumbfounded. Looking at their own evaluation scores, they were shown poor abilities, improper attitudes, irregular behaviors, etc., which instantly made them deeply doubt themselves.

Am I a fool? Why can't I do anything well?
Compared to the penalty for failing the evaluation, what was even more unbearable to them was the smug looks of those princes after their scores were far higher than their own.

Unlike the children of nobles, the children of the royal family were much more serious. Because Zhu Yuanzhang personally reduced the power of the princes, they could no longer be princes in the local areas. And there was only one person like Zhu Di who was good at fighting. Not to mention going to the battlefield, they couldn't even stand the hardship in the martial arts field.

Then the only way out in the future is the Ming Maritime Trade Company, so the royal family members really treat the company as a career.

Now, the unyielding nature of the sons of nobles came out and they began to take things seriously. However, when they found out that it was not easy to do these things well, not to mention whether they could get things done or not, just the assessment standards alone were enough to torture them.

However, for Zhu Yuanzhang, these were all things he was happy to see happen, and they also let the children of nobles know that earning money to make a living is not easy.

Seeing that the performance appraisal system was effective, Zhu Yuanzhang transferred the system to various factories and even considered implementing it in the court.

Of course, the assessment criteria for factory workers and management officials are different.

For the workers, most of them come from poor backgrounds and have lived a hard life for a long time, so this assessment is nothing. The only headache is that their educational level is a bit low, and sometimes they really can't understand what those rules and regulations of the assessment mean.

But they all remembered that as long as they followed the rules and did their job well, their wages would increase.

Now Lao Li suggested moving this system to Champa. Zhu Yuanzhang showed a malicious smile. Once you fall into the performance appraisal system, no one can escape!

"Of course, the sugar-making technology is also in the hands of the Ming Dynasty. This means that the Ming Dynasty has everything in its hands, from the basic sugar-making technology to the performance management in the middle and the upstream sales channels. With these three things, the Champa nobles can be completely blocked."

Zhu Yuanzhang immediately showed a gratified smile on his face, feeling a sense of affirmation. Old Li finally mentioned technology. It seems that his ideas are not completely behind. "This is not the most important thing. The most important thing is that the Ming Dynasty only provides money and technology, but it can occupy a transcendent position in this production system, because the most acute contradiction between labor and capital is borne by the Champa nobles!"

Labor-management relations?

Having been with Li Han for such a long time, Zhu Yuanzhang understood the meaning of these new terms after thinking about them.

"Lao" should refer to laborers, and "Zi" naturally refers to the boss. The conflict between laborers and bosses is sometimes quite sharp. In the Ming Dynasty, cases of workers killing their masters have occurred.

"What is the contradiction between labor and capital? There is one thing you have to understand clearly, Lao Zhu. The contradiction between the exploiting class and the exploited class can be eased but can never be eliminated.

It's just like the relationship between the landlord and the hired farmhands. When the years are good, everyone has food to eat and they live in peace and harmony. But once a bad year comes and the landlord has no surplus food, conflicts will explode.

Although the relationship is different in the industrial production system, there are logical similarities. In order to pursue higher efficiency, capitalists will desperately exploit workers. When workers are exploited to the point of having no way to survive, they will rise up in resistance and demand the lives of the capitalists.

Of course, having said that, I know that you, Lao Zhu, must be starting to worry, right?
That is, with so many workers in Daming, will there be sharp conflicts between labor and capital? "

Yes, I just thought of this problem. Let’s not talk about other places, just take Yingtian Prefecture as an example. There are nearly a hundred factories of all sizes in Yingtian Prefecture. The number of workers, including those from other places, has exceeded 100,000, and the number is still increasing.

Once the conflict breaks out, it will be disastrous for the Ming Dynasty!

"Of course, what I'm talking about is only the most extreme case. The industry of Ming Dynasty has just started, and trade has just begun. It is thriving and everyone can make money. There is no need to worry.

Moreover, although the performance appraisal system is a bit unethical, it can effectively protect the interests of workers. As long as the workers are willing to work, they will get paid. With the protection of the system, managers such as foremen and managers cannot arbitrarily deduct workers' wages like in the past workshops. "

Well, Lao Li, you still know that performance appraisal is unethical. This system is actually quite friendly to workers, but it is extremely unethical to officials and even nobles.

Haven’t you seen that the boys from Tang and Lan Yu’s families were tortured by performance appraisals and cried every day, and the third boy from Fu Youde’s family was almost clamoring to go to Yunnan to find his father and join the army.

Zhu Yuanzhang couldn't help but mutter a few words, but he was happy to see this kind of scene.

"The people of the Ming Dynasty are actually the kindest people in the world. They are not pedantic and know right from wrong. As long as they have food to eat and their boss treats them well, they will work diligently.

According to the current labor-capital relations in the Ming Dynasty, workers will not cause trouble unless the factory is making losses and cannot make money and exploits the workers to death.

Of course, you don’t have to worry about whether the factory will make a loss, Lao Zhu. Now that we are talking about this, I will tell you in detail about the development laws of production and trade. "

Yeah, yeah, yeah, Zhu Yuanzhang nodded involuntarily. He was worried about this. Although the goods produced by the Ming Dynasty factory are in short supply now, how can it be possible to make money every day? Once a loss occurs, what should be done?
(End of this chapter)