Section 389: Non-profit organizations
After agreeing, Zhang Jiaao breathed a long sigh of relief, and then he began to ask some substantive questions. Pen, fun, pavilion www. biquge。 info
"How does Lord Yang plan to set up a public housing management agency?"
"Recruit professionals."
Zhang Jiaao nodded: "Then what if there is a profit?" ”
Yang Chao said: "Continue to invest in construction. ”
Zhang Jiaao said again: "Then will there be officials?" ”
Yang Chao said: "No, I think I have made it very clear, this is a non-profit organization. ”
The only difference from non-profit organizations in the United States is that public housing does not accept private donations, and will borrow money to build and collect rent to pay off debts. The government is also not allowed to participate, and it is feared that it will become a bureaucratization that will not be overlooked.
Yang Chao tried to imitate a large number of nonprofits in the United States, because he felt it was appropriate, and Americans, like Chinese, were full of distrust of their government, presumably related to the long-term corruption of the American government.
Therefore, a large number of gentlemen's social elites in the United States often invest heavily in the construction of such non-profit institutions, such as donating to build schools, such as building foundations.
Some people initiated the establishment, and later generations of social elites are willing to devote themselves to this cause, for example, some elites would rather give up the lucrative salaries of large companies and be willing to receive a more civilian salary to work in such non-profit organizations.
Yang Chao believes that the public housing he set up can also attract a group of such Chinese, because although the economy of this era is not comparable to that of later generations, traditional culture and ethics have not been completely destroyed, and there are a large number of moral noble people in society who really believe in traditional moral concepts.
These people are not only limited to the squire class who have received traditional education, but are all over the whole society, although there are a large number of big corrupt officials like Li Hongzhang and Sheng Xuanhuai in the country, but there are also not too greedy like Zhou Fu and Zhang Zhidong.
Even among the people at the bottom, there is no shortage of civilians with a sense of morality, many civilians who can get by, just with simple kindness, can do something that is not very big, but touches people's hearts. For example, some ordinary people, when he goes to buy vegetables and fruits, he just picks some rotten ones, and when others ask him, he says that he feeds the birds, but in fact he still eats them. These people think that they buy rotten fruits and vegetables, and what others buy is good, and they don't let the vendors suffer, they think that people should be altruistic, there is no reason, there is no reason, they just believe that it is right, and if they do this, their hearts will be very satisfied.
This kind of person is not one or two, but a large number of them, and these are really rare to see in later generations.
In the second half of the 20th century, China completely destroyed the traditional culture, and could not establish a suitable social ethics and morality, which caused a large number of ethical tragedies in later generations, although the average morality of the people in the late Qing Dynasty was not too high, but there is always a moral force in the society to restrict, this is a moral tradition that has been passed down for thousands of years, is the result of Confucianism, Mohism and other schools with good ideas to insist on education, and all these are all defeated on the grounds of feudal ideology without screening, is it really right?
The Americans defeated the army of the British king, but they did not abandon the English folk gentleman culture, they did not have an aristocratic culture, but there was never a shortage of moral and noble gentlemen in their society, from the founding of Hamilton and Franklin, to later Wilson, Roosevelt and others, in fact, they were all characters with this spirit.
In this era, there was no shortage of some wealthy and good gentry in China, such as those who built roads and bridges in the countryside, ran schools, and helped orphans and widows. Therefore, some people say that the countryside is the last haven for the soul, because many people of insight feel that only the countryside has the traditional moral culture remaining.
Yang Chao believes that the elites with good intentions in their hearts must be happy to accept this kind of public housing with good intentions for the people at the bottom of the society, and many people are willing to spend some time working in public housing. It's as if the culture of volunteerism and volunteerism that has disappeared in mainland China is common in Chinese societies in Hong Kong, Taiwan, and Southeast Asia.
"I see. Although I don't believe that she really has any economic benefits, I do firmly believe that she has huge social benefits. ”
Mr. Cheung said that was why he agreed, not because he was convinced that the project would be profitable.
"Thank you."
Yang Chao didn't expect Zhang Jiaao to have this in mind.
Soon the Hanshi public housing project was announced to the public, and bonds will be issued to the private sector for construction.
Yang Chao issued the first batch of bonds, fearing that the market would fluctuate too much, only 10 million taels, and although the interest rate was only 3%, it was still sold out, not because the Shanghai financial industry was confident in this project, but because they had confidence in Yang Chao, and Yang Chao gambled his reputation into this project.
At the same time, the newspapers openly recruited managers, and even the monthly salary of the chief director of public housing was only 100 taels, and the salary difference between managers at all levels was very small, and the lowest community service staff was also 50 taels.
There are still a lot of applicants, and even celebrities like Zhang Jian are very interested in this, after all, the ideal of letting the homeowners have their own houses can still stimulate the sense of mission of these traditional knowledge practitioners.
Zhang Jian wrote a special letter to Yang Chao, saying that he is no longer an official and is willing to be the big landlord of this public housing. He also asked if he could make a donation, and he was willing to donate one million taels.
Yang Chao rejected Zhang Jian, Zhang Jian's morality is not in question, but there is one more suitable than Zhang Jian.
"Let's start with Chaogong."
Yang Chao chose a famous man Liang Qichao from the letters of social elites.
The reason why he was chosen was not because of Liang Qichao's fame, but because Yang Chao thought of Liang Qichao's son, Mr. Liang Sicheng is a famous designer, Liang Sicheng, who accepted his father and is still studying at Peking University, can still run? With such a big architect in charge, there will be the chief designer of Hanshi public housing in the future.
As an innovator, Liang Qichao was convinced for a long time that China's future way out was to learn from the West, but after the end of the world war, he went to Europe and discovered many problems and shortcomings in Western society. Therefore, he decided that Western civilization had gone bankrupt, and instead advocated the promotion of traditional culture and the use of the "inherent civilization" of the East to "save the world".
In fact, it was because he saw the destruction of social morality caused by the war in Europe, and believed that the pirate and robber morality in European society was not the future of mankind.
The doctor has his medicine, the cultivator has his field, the homeowner has his house, the old have support, the young have dependence, and so on Chinese traditional culture is the essence of it, Yang Chao engaged in the public housing plan, so that Liang Qichao very agreed, I feel that this is a great social practice, although he has withdrawn from the political arena, but doing this kind of social practice is still very attractive to him, it is better than moaning without illness to write a few articles for a few manuscript fees to make sense of life.
However, he did not expect that he would be hired, and Yang Chao soon sent him a telegram inviting him to come to Shanghai to take up a job immediately.
Liang Qichao was at the Tsinghua Research Association at this time, immediately resigned, and rushed to Shanghai to meet with Yang Chao.
Yang Chao had an exchange with Liang Qichao and introduced him to the model of public housing, and Liang Qichao easily figured it out, he is also a figure who has traveled all over the world, and he still admires the model of non-profit organizations in the United States, but Yang Chao emphasized to him the importance of credit and made him pay attention to financial issues.
Liang Qichao doesn't understand these things, but there are a large number of people who understand to help him do things, engineers, designers and auditors, there is no shortage here in Shanghai, so it is very appropriate to put the headquarters of public housing in Shanghai, Liang Qichao is just a decision-maker, for this kind of non-profit organization, the personal ethics of decision-makers are very important, in the case of maintaining operation, the maximum improvement of the social benefits of public housing, but too much consideration of economic benefits This is the most important.
"Mr. Liang, forgive me, the salary is lower, and it's your identity again."
After talking, Yang Chao joked.
Liang Qichao smiled: "It's good, do you care about eating?" ”
Yang Chao smiled: "Tube! ”
Then handed over all the documents to Liang Qichao, including the document appointing him as the general director, in addition to him there were eighteen deputy directors, in charge of public housing projects in each province, Yang Chao asked Zhang Jian to choose a place in Shandong and Jiangsu, Zhang Jian chose Shandong after thinking about it, and the other provinces are also held by local celebrities, and they are basically traditional people.
In this way, a group of gentry with traditional moral conscience formed the management class of public housing.
Of course, it is not just morality, a politician like Liang Qichao, his organizational ability and activity ability are not bad, coupled with huge social influence, will inject new credit into this project. Most of the other deputy directors are also figures like Zhang Jian, who have at least proved their management ability, not just celebrities.
Such a large-scale construction is a huge positive for the market, and the capitalists do not care about any social benefits, they know very well that the price of steel is going to rise, the price of cement is going to rise, and the price of building materials is going to rise, so the corresponding stocks have risen sharply.
But this is all virtual, as long as the order does not go down for a day, the real economy will not be able to roll.
So Yang Chao grasped very tightly, engineers have been stationed in various places, a piece of data is being collected, designers have also begun to design architectural plans based on these data, and in two months, the construction of large cities in Shanghai and Shandong will be the first to be carried out.
However, the construction has not yet begun, the order has not yet come out, and there is already a group of capitalists like hungry wolves smelling fishy, trying their best to start plotting this big cake, and even Li Fuan personally came to Yang Chao to lobby once, he wanted to hand over the steel bar order for public housing to the steel mill in the northeast. (To be continued.) )