"Your Majesty, this is my specific organizational structure for this new Royal Service Group. There will be a number of departments under our Royal Service Group, and the most important and core body is the Business Bureau, which is dedicated to running business for you. However, this business bureau cannot be held by the imperial court and the emperor's eunuchs, and the emperor's eunuchs will also go to other institutions to take up positions, and will not enter this business bureau to serve. As for our royal service group, it is divided into a decoration bureau, which is composed of the eunuchs of the original Shangshe Bureau, which is responsible for helping the princes, ministers, high-ranking scholars, and even wealthy merchants to be responsible for decorating the house in their free time, but the fee is not cheap. ”

"And then there is the Food Bureau, which has several restaurants, and most of the chefs of the imperial dining room will be assigned to be responsible for the production of dishes in major restaurants. The restaurant will be supervised by the emperor by a eunuch as a director. The person in charge of the actual operation of the restaurant will consider hiring one from the outside, and the specific responsible shopkeeper will be responsible for it, and the director will only supervise on behalf of the emperor, and will only ask about major matters, and help the emperor supervise the accounts, make sure that the hired shopkeeper is not greedy for the emperor's money, and other daily affairs do not need to be taken care of. ”

"As for the original dancers of the Ting Bureau, as well as the musicians of Taichang Temple, they will be uniformly arranged to be subordinates of the Performance Bureau. They are responsible for arranging performances, music, and other affairs for all kinds of wealthy merchants and various folk needs, but the fees are not too low. For specific things, the emperor will send a eunuch as the director, and then hire a private treasurer to be responsible for specific affairs. ”

"The establishment of the Garment Bureau, which was in charge of the personnel of the original Shangyi Bureau. The Fashion Bureau will allocate the wealth of those who design the garments and those who make the garments. Then designing clothing will help all kinds of people to design clothing within the specifications of the imperial court, and help people in need to design clothing without violating the imperial court customization as much as possible. And tailors can also help make refined clothes within the scope of the imperial court's customization, but the price will not be cheap. ”

"As for other bureaus, they can also be changed according to their functions, and then those who do specific things will be separated, and the original institutions such as the palace province and the internal service province will be changed to be responsible for planning, not responsible for specific arrangements. And after they have arranged the plan, they will just place an order with the Royal Service Group, and then let the Royal Service Group take care of the disposal as quickly as possible. Finally, the payment will be made in cash, and the money will flow back into the Emperor's hands through the Royal Service. I'm sure that this will not only save money, but also make the most efficient use of those human resources on a daily basis, so as not to cause waste of idleness. So in fact, under the trade-off, it will save a lot of costs. ”

Li Yuan saw that this royal service group was actually another variant of the later state-owned enterprises, which was just in the name of royal. Moreover, Zhang Chao did not cancel the official positions of the original eunuchs and chamberlains, but still let them hang on to their original official positions, and did not cancel their official positions. Even many of the leaders of the Royal Service were at the same level as the former chamberlains, and they were not able to cancel their official positions. Zhang Chao knew that this official position was their pride, and if Zhang Chao wanted to cancel this official rank, then they had to fight hard with Zhang Chao. If once the status of official positions is revoked, then they are also a part-time worker, they are no longer an official position, they are just workers hired by an enterprise, which they cannot accept, even if they are the emperor's workers.

Zhang Chao knew that it would definitely not work to cancel their official rank directly, after all, future generations would also have this problem, and they would eat one bite at a time, otherwise if their official status was canceled all of a sudden, the pride in their hearts would immediately rebound. As long as they retain their official positions, they will not rebound, because they are equivalent to the emperor "sending" them to serve in this royal service group, not for a long time, but just being sent over, they are still noble officials.

Sometimes, this layer of skin is still so important, doing the same work, and having a different identity is different. Just like Zhang Chao is most familiar with in later generations, people who do things for the government have a distinction between those who are making up and not making up, and they are doing the same thing, but the gap between being making up and not making up is very huge. And those officials are the same, even if they are sent to serve in this royal service group, they are not willing to lose their official rank, and do not let them change from state officials to a part-time worker, become a ruled, which is unacceptable to them. Although the introduction of this official rank system into the Royal Service must have had a bad side for them, any reform sometimes had to be compromised.

Society is moving forward in a spiral, and although it is impossible to change this internal distinction of official rank and status for a while, it will inevitably be able to change gradually in the future. Haven't even the state-owned enterprises of later generations changed step by step, gradually moving towards the separation of administrative power and management power, and gradually realizing the professional manager system? Reform is definitely not a one-size-fits-all approach, reform is actually a complex project, and sometimes the reform must take time to change, not something that can be changed immediately at the sound of an order. If you want to change everything with a single command, it's like if you overwhelm a spring, and the harder you push it, the stronger the force will bounce back. Therefore, it is necessary to gradually remove the spring wire of the spring, and then slowly pull out his spring wire, and then wait for the spring to bounce back again, and suddenly apply pressure to completely crush it. This is the essence of reform, and those who hope that the hasty reform will succeed will often end up in ruins.

Zhang Chao knew that it was unrealistic to completely corporatize this royal service group for a while, but it was possible to implement enterprise management, and this was also the reform experience of some public institutions in later generations. The imperial court can only guarantee the basic expenditure, and if you want to make more money and want more benefits, the imperial court will not give it. But although you don't give money, you can give policies, and give policies to let you run your own business and make money, so how you live depends on yourself. In many cases, it is more useful to give policies than to give money, and once those who are thinking about making money in the government get the permission of the higher-ups policies, then they can get a lot of economic benefits while ensuring that their social status is not reduced.

"So what does this business bureau do? Why can't the people of the court be held responsible? Li Yuan asked.

Zhang Chao immediately said: "Actually, this is very simple, this business bureau is to solicit business for everyone, let the people in the business bureau solicit business, so that everyone has a job to do, and then have money to earn." But why can't you let the imperial court and the emperor's eunuchs serve as them, this is because the emperor's eunuchs, as well as the officials of the imperial court, are proud in their bones. What do you think would happen to them if they were proud to solicit business? They are afraid to look down on those who want to enjoy the service, and they are all stinky faces, and they don't like to do it at all. even used his status as an official of the court and the emperor's eunuch to force the rich businessmen of the people to accept services, and in the end, not only could not bring a good reputation to the emperor, but would make countless people complain. Therefore, other bureaus can let them have official status, but this business bureau must not have any official status, and all of them must be composed of employees hired by the private sector. When the time comes, they will be able to do their best to solicit business for our Royal Service Group in order to make a profit. ”

Zhang Chao knew that this business department would never be able to let those court officials and Emperor Li Yuan's eunuchs take office, because once they were put in charge, I was afraid that something bad would happen next. Zhang Chao is a member of the reform department, and he is well aware of the decades-long development process of China's state-owned enterprises. Originally, state-owned enterprises were in the mode of planned economy, and they did not care much about competing for market resources, resulting in the sales staff of those state-owned enterprises thinking that they were state officials, and then ignoring the needs of shoppers. This kind of thinking has endured all the hardships in the future reform and opening up, and has caused the complete collapse of countless state-owned enterprises that have not been able to change their thinking.

However, since Zhang Chao can know this in advance, he must know that this business department is the core department of an enterprise, not only can he not look like an uncle, because he must uphold the idea of customer first. Otherwise, if the court officials were to be in charge of this department, then I am afraid that those bureaucrats would not have any intention to attract customers at all, but would bring in the bureaucratic style, so that those salesmen would also develop a bureaucratic style. And even at that time, they couldn't attract business and couldn't communicate with their superiors, so they would use the identity of officials to buy and sell to the people, especially businessmen with low social status, which was very damaging to the royal image.

"Then why would you want to hire outsiders to help manage the group? Let outsiders be responsible, can this me rest assured? Li Yuan still didn't believe it.

Zhang Chao suggested that Li Yuan should set up a shopkeeper hired from outside in those business places, and then Li Yuan only sent an eunuch as the director, and the director was not responsible for specific affairs, but only responsible for handling major affairs, and then responsible for supervising finances, and it was strictly forbidden to interfere in daily operations. And Li Yuan obviously thinks that everything should be in his hands, so that he can be stable. However, Zhang Chao knew that these bureaucrats would never be able to manage the enterprise well, and if the bureaucrats managed the enterprise, there would definitely be a problem.

"Your Majesty, you must not be like this. Your Majesty, do you think those officials can manage an industry well? A businessman running an industry and an official being an official are completely different things. So if you mix the two, you're bound to have problems. Officials have a coercive order in their thinking, so if they are allowed to come here, it will inevitably cause all kinds of problems in officialdom to be brought here. Even, at that time, there will be all kinds of forced buying and selling, etc., so don't let the officials be in charge of this period. And when those officials see so much wealth here, will they not be moved? At that time, all kinds of corruption will inevitably break out, and the loss will be you, the emperor! Your Majesty, do you know why the palace province and the inner chamberlain province spend a lot of financial resources but can't do things effectively? In fact, in the final analysis, they should not be officials, and I even think that it is necessary for the existence of such yamen as the Inner Servant Province and the Imperial Palace. Because these are all things that can be casually spent and ask people outside to be in charge, if such a large set of teams are set up specifically for the daily life of the emperor and your nobles, it is simply a waste. And such a large group snowballed in size, gradually turning into a gluttonous beast, enough to devour a lot of wealth. ”

Li Yuan immediately said: "You can say these things to me, don't say them." If you say it, I'm afraid I won't be able to protect you! ”

"The minister understands!" Zhang Chao said.

Zhang Chao knew that the eunuchs around the emperor and those who served the emperor, don't look at their usual power, but in fact, in the final analysis, they are all a political group and an interest group. Many times the emperor also has helplessness with this interest group that serves himself, and this is not a joke. In the middle and late Tang Dynasty, those eunuchs even held military power. During the Qing Dynasty, the Ministry of Internal Affairs, which was known as serving the emperor, actually inflated itself and became a gluttonous monster that even the emperor could not control. It is conceivable that these people who serve the emperor are actually not a lot of power, they are not simply a person who serves the emperor, in fact, they are also a person who relies on the big tree of imperial power to obtain benefits.

If Zhang Chao's words get out, then I'm afraid Li Yuan won't be able to protect Zhang Chao. However, although this interest group cannot be eliminated, if it is insisted on being eliminated, it will inevitably cause a backlash. However, it is possible to transform them, use the method of enterprise management to gradually transform them, and even gradually control this interest group. However, if you want them to change, you have to have enough benefits. Reform is actually about uniting more people and fighting those who will not change. This group serving the emperor is actually an interest group that can be gradually transformed, and it is not necessary to completely defeat those backward interest groups. Those who can be reformed still have to be reformed, and only those who die without repentance will be defeated. After all, politically, it is far more important to be with the light than to fight.