Chapter 169: Organizational Models
The organizational model is a very big concept, as small as a group of classmates who go to KTV to sing, to soldiers who are ready to declare war and destroy the enemy country, only a good organization can accomplish one thing.
Even if the primitive people light the fire, they need to work together to cook the mutton.
Here, someone must collect firewood, someone drill wood to make a fire, someone take care of the flames, someone hunting, someone peeling, someone barbecue, here, who does what, which work is hard, which work is enough, and which job can work with Liangmei......
And how to distribute the barbecue afterwards is a very serious matter, and there is no room for sloppiness.
Primitive people need to take into account all aspects of barbecue, not to mention the people of later generations to do things?
The success of a cause must come from the success of the organizational model, even the East India Company at this time, because of its advanced financial system, advanced talent selection system, advanced profit distribution system, almost supported the foundation of modern civilization.
In comparison, the so-called Li Hongzhang of Zeng Guofan, who was boasted to the sky in later generations, those shameless literati who boasted of his moral perfection in order to sell Zeng Guofan's family letters, would never say that Zeng Guofan's younger brother relied on plundering Jiangnan, and gold, silver and jewelry were all transported by boat, while Li Hongzhang Li Hefei was thin in the world, but it really shows how clever this Zhongtang master is in making money.
Of course, for literati, killing people is not a crime, as long as it is not a literati who kills, corruption and incompetence are not a crime, as long as the literati are guaranteed a high-paying life, they will naturally praise you.
But their poor organizational skills are destined to fight only an ancient war.
Traditional Chinese society is centralized, political, to commercial, which is related to China's historical development context, after the unification, trade is no longer the only way to exchange goods, in the past Qin and Zhao, Qi and Chu between the exchange of necessities, must be carried out through merchants, now suddenly found that a highly consistent regime, through administrative orders to transfer resources, more efficient and convenient, so commerce is no longer irreplaceable, and Confucian morality began to be generally accepted by literati and rulers, Rulers are increasingly unable to accept the anti-moral elements that exist in business.
Business is anti-moral, of course, businessmen can also do good deeds, and even have many big philanthropists, but this cannot change the essence of business, the essence of business is competition, that is, the survival of the fittest, that is, the efficient replacement of inefficiency, that is, the strong replace the weak, so when a disaster occurs, the business-driven resource allocation behavior is hoarding, sitting and watching the poor starve to death, and businessmen get super high profits. As a result, business has resulted in the elimination of the poor who lack social competitiveness and the survival of the rich.
In agriculture, this means that the landlord usually lends money to the tenants in a good manner, and when he waits for the famine year, he is in a hurry to collect taxes and deliberately starves the tenants to death, and the tenants' small property can only belong to themselves.
Of course, in the era when the regime is not out of control, the politically driven resource allocation behavior is a relief, not considering the cost, but considering a bottom line, that is, to let people live as much as possible, but to a certain extent, it is to compete, to survive the fittest, to protect the inefficient, to protect the weak. So politics is not necessarily moral, but to a certain extent, he is more ethical than business. This is the deep-seated reason why Confucianism, which emphasizes morality, will gradually get closer to politics and finally be closely integrated.
This is not a moral consideration, it is purely to better appease and absorb the people's fat and ointment, after all, if they don't give relief, people will rebel.
But if society is politicized for a long time and lacks commercial drive, competition will be insufficient and dynamism. Inefficient, debilitating elements accumulate little by little, eventually leading to the weakening of the whole society. From a human point of view, China's thousand-year-old politicized organization has protected the weak and retained inefficiency.
It is not the race that is weak, but the ideology and cognitive concept, so in Chinese culture, there will be characteristics such as dependence on groups, blind obedience, etc. When a disaster occurs, ordinary people instinctively think not about how to save themselves, but about huddling together to keep warm. Even the business culture of this politicized society did not like competition, and merchants preferred to do business under the protection of the regime, whether it was the merchants of the Thirteen Lines, the salt merchants of Yangzhou, or the Jin merchants of Shanxi, all of whom regarded maintaining relations with the government and officials as the top priority. This is the weakening of ideological concepts, the sequelae of being protected by strong organizations for a long time, and the emergence of a large number of giant babies.
On the one hand, Confucian scholars were born with no knowledge of business and could not create wealth, so they naturally hated those who created wealth, and hoped to rely on making rules to order the creators of wealth to distribute their wealth to themselves, or kneel and lick them in exchange for a little leftovers.
Compared with Westerners who survive in the high competition of business culture, they have a strong sense of competition in their ideological concepts, and they are very adventurous and have independent personalities.
The contrast between the adventurous spirit and the sense of competition of a single person is not yet reflected, but if the differences of thousands of people are added together, the difference is immediately manifested.
In modern times, China and Western countries have overseas development, such as China's voyage to the South Seas and the West's great voyages, the difference is that Westerners are active and Chinese are forced. The West opened up overseas colonies, up to the aristocracy, scholars, officials, all joined in such a cause, and the Chinese went to the South Seas was a forced choice by a group of poor people who really could not survive. So when Westerners open up overseas, they go to conquer, to learn, to rule, and the only purpose of the Chinese is to make a living!
The most ridiculous thing is that there was a chance to sweep Southeast Asia away in the name of justice, and we refused to destroy them because we had to be polite and could not be barbarians!
This is also the most ridiculous embodiment in later generations, in XX and XX, there is a huge group of foreigners, who take pleasure in touching porcelain, they either rent a house and do not pay rent, and when they go to ask for rent, there is a woman who has already lost herself by them, and calls the police to claim that her black friend is discriminated against, and requires that he must give the house to his black friend for nothing, otherwise he will go to ......
In other words, this kind of thinking that we can't lose face in front of outsiders is simply the biggest scourge of our nation, and countless times, for the sake of this kind of face, the loss of a lot of money and potential benefits has been educating us countless times.
Why do you want to save face so much? Why can't we abandon vanity and take reality?
Li Qianqian is clear about the characteristics of Chinese people with strong collective consciousness and weak independent personality, and he has not studied much of the underlying reasons, but he feels that a strong sense of competition is by no means a shortcoming.
Therefore, he felt that injecting a sense of competition into Chinese society and using more commercial rather than administrative means to allocate resources would make the society more efficient, more energetic, and more passionate, and then he could fight abroad, break into the stormy waters of the Age of Discovery, and fight Westerners.
This is the problem of decentralization.
Under this system of decentralization and authorization, although it is necessary to have quite strict training for the police officers in the police station under him, you can't always put your arms around the female secretary in the bedroom, eating hot pot and singing songs, and he comes and knocks on the door without eyesight, and asks you that you meet a drunk driver, roaring, and shouting that my brother-in-law is xxx guy, should I kneel on the ground and send him back to the mansion, or should I beat him up and throw him into the detention room and let other prisoners teach him a lesson?
In the same way, businessmen in this era also need to change their thinking.
Dong Xiaowan was a young lady in the silk village when she was a child, and her income level was not low, she could afford her education experience, and she did have a bit of a beautiful appearance, but as soon as her father died, the "professional manager" began to make black account books and directly bankrupt the profitable silk shop, which is the problem.
Li Xiangqian didn't want to criticize this matter morally, Dong Xiaowan also lived in the imperial capital, and seemed to be very hot with a certain elder, which can be regarded as a positive result, and his own people got cheap, but in essence, how many people benefited from this matter?
The Dong family is ruined.
But what about the stewards, the courtiers, and the bookkeepers? Naturally, their money is taken home to spend money, and at the same time, in this business environment, their reputation is also ruined, and if they fail to do business, they naturally go back to be landlords.
Wealth cannot be accumulated, and there is no need to use various steam engines, and even if there is a protagonist in the industrial revolution, no one will buy your machine!
If the crossing people really directly provided them with a lot of technical funds or assembly line technology at the beginning, the final result is likely not to be optimistic.
Therefore, Li Xiangqian has always been known for being conservative, and even gave up a lot of interests for this purpose, in order to be stable.
When Li Xiangqian talked about it, he was talking about this tax.
"This tax is a thing, it is really the first priority of a government, there is no money, how can you have the money to give money to the adults to support the little wives, however, the technology of tax collection must also be improved, at least as far as I know, you Jiangyin alone is such a big county, it is also necessary to spend a lot of money to feed those tax collectors."
"This is true, in fact, Xia Guan also has a headache for this, but he has never been able to find a way to solve it."
"The transportation cost is the same, and the exploitation in the middle is the same, and the emperor is not short of hungry soldiers, right."
"It's really difficult, in fact, according to what the adults said, cancel the agricultural tax, those tax collectors are really sad, how to say that they have also contributed to the court, and they can't chill people's hearts."
Li Xiangqian smiled and said: "This is like a donkey pulling a mill, obviously the grain has been milled, but in order to let the donkey have a job to do, he has to let him pretend to work there." ”
Li Xiangqian had to be sad, this is really the same as the past and the present.
Whether it is the East or the West, there is always preferential treatment for tax collectors.
In later generations, it was suggested very early that the agricultural tax should be abolished, but it has been delayed for more than ten years before it can be handled, why?
A large number of people who feed the industrial chain of tax collection are all waiting to eat this bite.
If you cancel it at will, then the other civil servants will see the rabbit die and the fox sad and sad, and they are afraid that they will have to move their own minds.
Even in the 21st century, there is one thing that is simply ridiculous.
At the beginning of the 21st century, some people said that it was technically possible to abolish a large number of tax collection agencies and form a tax payment system in which the central government directly paid taxpayers, and you don't pay taxes? Okay, we'll deduct money from your account, it's all electronic accounts anyway, everyone is each other?
As for the old lai, after knocking down someone's house, the property was given to the family, and he pretended to be poor, and he also had various packages to serve, right?
But in later generations, at least at the beginning of the 21st century, almost no country has done this, and the reason is very simple, the IRS in the United States claims to be particularly capable of fighting and collecting taxes, but they are all masters of core weapons, and if you let them be laid off, they are still fat jobs, and they have to do it.
In fact, the money is in the bank, all in Alipay, you can check at any time, how much tax should be paid is only the tax preparer to calculate, which is supported by professional software.
You don't have to really mess with your tax arrears, you can deduct money directly from your account, and you will be overcharged for late fees.
With the establishment of this new tax system, the original national and local tax systems are basically useless, and million-level tax workers, each of whom spends hundreds of thousands of dollars a year, not only wages, but also their water and electricity expenses, housing expenses, who will pay for them?
Not a taxpayer yet?
Let's talk about a number that makes people collapse, if one million people, the annual salary plus benefits plus the average loss of what kind of water and electricity houses are calculated according to 200,000, then it is, 200 billion.
Even in Li Xiangqian's era, this set of tax payment systems from the central government to taxpayers can only be said to be just right.
The reason why the American Empire is the United States is naturally particularly unique, although the number of people is only 200,000, this does not include a large number of "supernumerary" personnel.
In the United States, you report others for tax evasion, you can get more than 15% of the recovery of taxes, for a time, the annual tax declaration work is almost like a three-way intrigue game, all careless people are all on the spot, in fact, at that time, because the Chinese were generally simple-minded, kind and ignorant, were secretly reported by the bent compatriots, the family was broken and the death of many people, so that a huge industrial chain was formed, a group of bent people specially to get to know the Chinese, please you, praise you, to a certain time, If you see something wrong about you, you will find fault with you.
You have to say that the United States can have the status of the rivers and lakes in later generations, or there are these special tax collectors who can collect taxes and fight to support it, if Chongzhen has such an IRS under his hands, then what are you worried about? Kill those big guys directly!
If the Merry Nuts die, unless the IRS dies!
With the IRS here, I, the United States, will not die!
Of course, you can get a bonus for reporting tax evasion, and whether this system is good or bad is really a matter of opinion.
(End of chapter)