Zhu Jinglun has never had a good impression of state-owned enterprises, and compared with those new-style experts who call state-owned enterprises cancers, Zhu Jinglun's understanding is much more objective; he knows that state-owned enterprises are a problem left over from history, and he shouldered the responsibility of national industrialization in the era of planning. Pen fun and pavilion www.biquge.info

However, Zhu Jinglun knows very well that after the reform and opening up, the various problems that broke out have made the state-owned enterprises completely a burden that the government cannot get rid of, and the government wants to throw off the burden, but it cannot ignore the work problems of tens of millions of employees, and do not throw off the burden, and the successive losses have put great pressure on the government's finances.

State-owned enterprises are not competitive in the market economy, this is inevitable, although some people give examples of state-owned enterprises in the West, but first, Zhu Jinglun knows very well, Western state-owned enterprises are also synonymous with inefficiency, second, Zhu Jinglun has never been a flattering person, Westerners' things have never become his standard for judging affairs, he will never think that it must be correct because of how Westerners are, Westerners eat steak, Zhu Jinglun prefers to eat fried noodles, and he can't think that fried noodles are inferior to steak.

At most, he takes the development of the West as a reference, but even Westerners are not good at state-owned enterprises, so he should not touch this system.

Therefore, Zhu Jinglun has never asked the government to directly make a big enterprise like the Westernization Movement, with only one exception, that is, the arsenal located on the Nanshan Mountain of the Nantou Peninsula in Xin'an County.

There is no doubt that the arsenal is a heavy industry, and at that time, no one in Guangdong knew how to use the steam engine, and it was impossible for anyone else to run it except the state, without experience and knowledge, and without the funds.

But now the steam engine and the machine have been popularized in the two industries of silk reeling and tea in Guangdong, and these two industries are not gathered in the city, but close to the countryside, because whether it is silkworm cocoons or tea, they are relatively delicate raw materials, not suitable for long-distance transportation, and can only be processed nearby.

The most important thing is that the industrialization tendency of these two industries has made machine manufacturing appear in Daming, and a large number of iron workshops that have accumulated machine experience by repairing foreign steamers in the past have begun to get involved in machine manufacturing, and the machine workshops that are currently popular in Guangzhou are basically produced by iron workshops in Guangzhou and Foshan.

The biggest spillover effect of the development of light industry is to provide a market for heavy industry.

As the largest and most industrialized arsenal at present, it should be the best time to carry out reforms at this time.

Zhu Jinglun has always believed that carrying out reform at the best time is the lowest cost time, and when a business has entered the end of the road, it is as if it is already seriously ill before treatment, and can only be punished with surgery.

The development of the tea factory provided a market for machines, which could be copied by the arsenal and of better quality, and as for the various types of horsepower steam engines that required high-precision processing capabilities, the arsenal was almost the only one in Guangdong that had the ability to manufacture them.

But reform is not to say that change can be changed, first of all, the arsenal is a safe Western-style management factory, production technology is no problem, but the marketization is not satisfactory, the management personnel hired from Sweden, they simply do not have the ability to develop the private market, the key is that there is no such motivation, in only need state orders to maintain production, and even no orders do not affect their own income, he has no motivation to develop business.

Now that the arsenals are suddenly allowed to enter the market, it is very likely that there will be a vicious circle in which the townships and towns and private enterprises, which were clearly unable to compete with the large state-owned enterprises in terms of technology and production capacity, made a lot of profits, but the state-owned enterprises lost a lot of money, and the long-term losses brought about the loss of excellent workers, the decline of development capacity, and even more losses, and finally they were bought by private enterprises or simply went bankrupt.

But it is necessary to reform the arsenal, and Zhu Jinglun is very determined to reform, even if he directly bankrupts the factory, he is willing to take the risk.

Of course, success is best.

However, Zhu Jinglun was not very satisfied with the reform plan given by the Ministry of Industry, or the government led by Chen Zhiting, was very willing to sell the arsenal, because it had to invest a huge amount of money in this factory every year, and now it has to bear millions of subsidies for silk households, and the government's financial pressure is even greater.

Moreover, as an official who grew up in traditional culture, the steam engine and other machines sold by the arsenal to the people always made Chen Zhiting feel a little suspicious of competing with the people for profit.

Therefore, the suggestion given by the Ministry of Industry was to sell the factory directly to the iron workshop, and if one could not eat it, it would be divided among several companies. If they can't sell them, they prefer to keep only the department that makes guns and cannons, and let go of all other unnecessary workers to save money.

But Zhu Jinglun felt that even if he added up all the iron workshops in Guangdong, he might not be able to acquire the arsenal. Since the establishment of the arsenal, it has lasted nearly ten years, and no one has a year of expenditure less than one million taels, and in the two years of war with the Qing court, at most 10 million taels of silver was invested in a year. The total investment over the years has exceeded 30 million taels, and the iron workshop owners in Guangdong can't afford to buy it even if they smash the pot and sell the iron for joint acquisition.

The most important thing is that you are willing to sell, and no one may be willing to buy it, those iron workshops are still in a transition period, from the past to make a hoe knife and fork to make a machine, there is no industrial accumulation and management experience at all, let alone sell to them, even if you give them away, they can't manage it.

What's more, if it is sent to them directly, the management of the arsenal may not be happy, and when the time comes, it will face a large amount of brain drain, and there is only one way to go. Instead of giving it to the iron workshop and letting Zhu Jinglun see it, it is better to give it to the management.

But most of the current management are Swedes, and the best Chinese management talent is only in the middle level, they have no problem managing a workshop, managing a production process, and they have no experience in managing a huge arsenal.

Giving tens of millions of taels of assets to foreigners in vain, not to mention that Zhu Jinglun was reluctant, even if he was willing, public opinion would have to drown the government, and the Meiji Restoration gave government-run factories to the chaebol, which was not tolerated by public opinion, let alone given to foreigners.

Zhu Jinglun is now facing the problem of wanting to reform and reforming, but there is no suitable talent to operate.

The original intention of establishing the arsenal was twofold, the first was to build an independent arms industry, this project seemed to have no problem before, whether it was Swedes or Chinese, in later generations they were known for their production capacity, and the combination of the two in this era did not result badly; The second purpose, Zhu Jinglun wants to spread machine technology through the arsenal, this project has some achievements before, but it is too far from what Zhu Jinglun envisioned. For example, Zhu Jinglun once hoped that a large number of apprentices who had learned technology in the arsenal could go to social entrepreneurship. But it is a pity that the apprentices of the conservative agrarian society, in the face of the generous wages of the arsenal, have no intention of starting a business at all. Basically, the apprentices trained in the arsenal will stay in the arsenal forever.

The technology diffusion of the arsenal was still a few years ago during the Northern Expedition, when a large number of technicians were sent to some iron workshops in Foshan to help them cast new cannons, but these technologies spread to Foshan, so that a large number of iron workshops learned to cast Thomas cannons, but none of them grew to the point where they could manage the arsenal.

The current industrial accumulation of the Ming Dynasty has not yet accumulated to the private enterprises that can eat such large assets as the arsenal, Zhu Jinglun searched all over the country of the Ming Dynasty, and did not find a suitable successor, the largest Minyong Machinery Factory, Chen Liantai Machinery Factory in Guangzhou, only employed more than 300 people, and the arsenal was at best a production workshop.

In other words, if it is necessary to reform at this time, it is impossible for Zhu Jinglun to find suitable talents among the people, and in the arsenal and in the government, there is a lack of talents with a sense of market competition and development experience, and this problem has plagued Zhu Jinglun for a long time like a dead knot.

Finally, with a flash of brain, or open-mindedness, it suddenly occurred to him that if you can't find talents in the industrial field, can't you find talents from other industries? He felt that he was still misled by habitual thinking.

Since there is no shortage of management personnel in the arsenal to manage production, and there is no shortage of technical personnel for production, it can be said that there is no problem at all in the arsenal in production, and what is lacking is only market development, so as long as we find a talent who knows how to develop the market, all problems will be solved.

And to open up the market talents, Daming is not lacking, in recent years every year there are some exceptionally outstanding figures, through the more and more international Daming market to become nouveau riche, these people dare to fight, with a spirit of adventure, itself is a good market development talents.

But after looking for a few alternatives, I found that these people all have a gambler spirit and dare to take risks, but this is not what Zhu Jinglun wants, and can lead the arsenal to a stable country to market-oriented talents.

It is necessary not only to have experience in opening up the market, but also to operate in a stable manner, and this kind of person is really difficult to find.

You have to continue to open your mind, you can't find it in Daming, can't you find it in the whole of China?

Zhu Jinglun thought of this, only then did he suddenly realize that some big businessmen are very good, and some shopkeepers, starting from apprentices to shopkeepers, have long had a stable temperament, and they themselves are crawling in the market, and naturally they also know how to develop the market.

And among these shopkeepers, the shopkeepers who belong to the Jin merchants are the best, they are excellent, not because they are more able to do business, but because they are more stable, more refined, and more loyal, Zhu Jinglun found that the system of the Jin merchants, so that their shopkeepers and Caidong check and balance each other, and they are inseparable from each other, forming a stable power structure, which is exactly the model he wants.

And the most important reason for him to choose the Jin Merchants is the popular shareholding management system in the Jin Merchants, he wants to promote the shareholding system, thinking about it for a few months, but in the Guangfu Bank, but failed, so can it succeed in the arsenal?