Since the sales channels for the goods produced in the development zone have been completely opened, and the factories have accumulated a large number of orders that cannot be completed on time every day, Fan Jinyan decided to expand all the factories.

In fact, Li Tong's privately owned tile factory has already achieved expansion work one step ahead of Fan Jinyan.

Fan Jinyan was depressed, it stands to reason that private bosses should slam the door and save costs first, Li Tong is so courageous?

From the construction of various properties to the present, Fan Jinyan has basically never asked about it except for participating in the management at the beginning. Several factories belong to his private property, and the Ministry of Commerce and Nanzhou Yamen have not interfered in the management, and the real management of the factory is the few stewards he temporarily assigned.

At this time, Fan Jinyan also questioned the ability of several stewards, and was interested in temporarily transferring the management of all factories to the Ministry of Commerce.

But on the day Sophie received it, she found a lot of problems.

The accounts of the factory are in disarray, the source of the huge amount of money in the stewards is unknown, and the quality of food and accommodation for the factory workers is poor.

Clearly, there is something wrong with these stewards.

For this kind of trivial matter, Fan Jinyan didn't want to ask about it, and directly asked the Ministry of Commerce to hand over these people to the Nanzhou Yamen, and let Cheng Zhou, who was in charge of the prison, be responsible.

Because of the incident of his son Cheng Wending last time, Cheng Zhou was grateful to Fan Jinyan, and he was very concerned about this case, and he didn't know if he didn't try it, and he was really shocked by the first trial.

At the beginning, these stewards were just a few landed talents who could write and paint, and they were fortunate to be favored by Fan Jinyan, although they failed to mix in the officialdom, but they stayed in the richest department in the whole Qiongzhou. You must know that in the early stage of development, the government treasury was in a financial deficit and completely relied on a few factories to support the operation of the entire Qiongzhou. Fan Jinyan is used to spending money lavishly, but he doesn't know that he has inadvertently left a huge loophole.

Every time a department needed to spend money to apply to Fan Jinyan, as long as the government treasury had no money, they would ask them to go to the factory's treasury to withdraw money. At this time, except for a handwritten edict, Fan Jinyan did not send someone to supervise, and the loophole appeared.

Fan Jinyan said that if the approval was 10,000 taels, and those officials could really get their hands on only 9,000 taels, what about 1,000 taels? Excuse me, do you understand the fire consumption? Didn't we have always had this rule?

Ordinary petty officials don't know what the relationship between the stewards and the generals is, and they can only crush their teeth and swallow them in their stomachs, and these stewards never deduct from the main departments, so no one knows that this is not a matter for outsiders.

At the beginning, the stewards were timid, and they generally deducted the money for wine and tea to pick up some small bargains. But after a long time, I found that no one dared to denounce them, and they became more and more emboldened, and the deduction became more and more powerful. For some inconsequential people, it can even be discounted in half, let alone pay wages to the workers, and those who can give two dollars will never give more than a penny.

Fan Jinyan never imagined that these people would be so bold, not only embezzling public funds to enrich themselves, embezzling and accepting bribes, and deducting workers' wages, but now they even dare to meddle in the affairs of officialdom.

Officialdom?

That's right, because these stewards seem to have seized the financial power of Qiongzhou, and the officials of the main departments generally have to sell them some face. Gradually, some people who want to climb up think of them, and often when they collect money and go to the heads of those departments, because the other party controls the financial funds of their own departments, they often have to compromise. In this way, a few people who had nothing to do with officialdom at all, because of Fan Jinyan's carelessness, already had the right to lead the change of officialdom.

If it weren't for the relationship to be expanded, Fan Jinyan would still be kept in the dark, and when it was really out of control, he didn't know what Qiongzhou would be like by these people.

For his own negligence, Fan Jinyan was really shocked into a cold sweat, and he no longer had the elegance of the past, so he immediately ordered the five people not to be tried, and Ling Chi was executed.

The Ming Dynasty has been established for nearly three hundred years, and there are few people who have this honor, and Fan Jinyan has only been in Qiongzhou for half a year to Ling Chi five people at the same time, which is also the only case of Ling Chi in the history of Qiongzhou.

The place of execution was in the development zone, and on that day, the people of the entire Nanzhou gathered together, watching the executioner on the high platform cut off the flesh of the five people one by one, and each time he cut it, the executed person would scream, and there would be several knives next to him. The five of them basically died without receiving 500 knives, which made the people who watched the excitement sigh.

During the period of Ming Wuzong, the great eunuch Liu Jin suffered a full 3,000 knives before he died, and the executioner of the main knife was also famous. The people of Qiongzhou have naturally heard their ancestors mention this matter, but they have never seen it. finally encountered such a good opportunity, naturally I wanted to increase my knowledge, but I didn't know that the executioner didn't give his strength, and he would kill someone with only a few hundred knives.

Fan Jinyan did not go to the execution site, not because he didn't dare, but because he didn't want to go. Because although these people deserve to die, Ling Chi is indeed a little too much, but in order to deter other juniors in the force, they have to kill chickens and monkeys

After the turmoil, in order to avoid similar problems again, Fan Jinyan felt that the equity of the factory would be divided into two parts, 60% owned by the government and 40% owned by himself, all management would be transferred to the Ministry of Commerce, and all financial management would be transferred to the Ministry of Finance, so as to avoid the recurrence of the situation of a dominant company.

Many people don't understand, aren't the government and private all of him talking about it? Why bother dividing it around?

In fact, the reason is also very simple, Fan Jinyan's purpose is very simple, that is, the emperor's throne.

But the emperor also has to spend money! It sounds good, the whole world belongs to the emperor, but when it comes to using money, it is more difficult to find a financial department to ask for money than to ask for food. Moreover, the country is so big, the operation costs a lot, and the ancient tax loopholes are too big, and the finance will inevitably not have too much spare money, if the emperor wants to do something, and asks for money indiscriminately, it will only be apportioned to the people.

Therefore, Fan Jinyan said that this is a small treasury for future generations, regardless of how his private property can last for decades? A hundred years? Two hundred years? They will continue to make money, as long as it is not a big project, the treasury does not even have to give the emperor a dime, the emperor is also rich, and if he has nothing to do, he can still give some money to the Ministry of Finance, and eat usury.

The more Fan Jinyan thinks about it, the more he feels that his idea is very reasonable, these low-consumable products such as soap and soap will be popularized in a few years, and they will no longer make money like now, but there is one thing that can last for more than a hundred years, that is, shipyards. In the future, if you want to develop some new industries, it is not empty talk to say that the emperor is rich. (To be continued.) )