Zhao Liben stayed in the small building of the Portuguese commander's residence for less than an hour. After the exchange of treaties, he returned home accompanied by the Xiangshan County Magistrate and the Macao garrison officer.

In fact, he had originally planned to go to the Venetian Casino in Macau to see the sexy dealers in bunny costumes. However, when he asked Lin Hongzhong, he found out that he had no idea that there was such a great place in Macau.

The old man then realized that he had been cheated by that brat Zhao Hao. There was no such thing as the Venetian, no Casino That Never Sleeps, and no sexy dealers. Damn it!

If the brat hadn't boasted so much, he wouldn't have come all the way from Jiangnan to Lingnan to suffer this hardship. The old man left the hellhole of Haojingao angrily...

Domingo stood on the balcony on the third floor, watching the Ming Dynasty team leave. He took a deep puff of the cigar in his hand, with a very unfriendly expression on his face.

He really couldn't swallow this humiliation, but he couldn't let the Viceroy of India and the Governor of Malacca know about his failure in Japan.

At present, because the Portuguese do not reside legally in Macau, although Macau’s status is extremely important, it is still under the jurisdiction of the Governor of Malacca and no separate military district is established.

However, before sending him to the Far East, the Viceroy of India had promised that as long as he obtained the lease of Macau from the Ming Dynasty, he would immediately petition His Majesty the King to appoint him as the first Governor of Macau.

Because the profits of the vast Southeast Asian region under the jurisdiction of the Malacca Governor-General are not even half of those of the tiny place of Macau. And the gap is still widening... Therefore, His Majesty the King and His Royal Highness the Viceroy both believe that it is necessary to set up a separate military region in Macau in order to better cultivate in the Far East.

The Governor of Malacca certainly did not want to lose control of Macau, the Pearl of the Orient, so he deliberately did not give him enough support, forcing him to make guns and cannons by himself and recruit natives from Southeast Asia to supplement his troops.

But he couldn’t build a large sailing ship no matter what, so Macau only had two large sailing ships, the Governor of Goa and the Oriental Beauty. It was pure dream to want a third one...

If the Governor of Malacca knew that he had lost the only two ships in Macau, he would open champagne to celebrate and then report it to Lisbon. Even the Viceroy of India would not be able to save him.

Thinking of this, he wanted to stuff the damned Colonel Pinto into the cannon and fire him. How could this guy be so stupid as to let the Ming people capture both large sailing ships?

Moreover, trade had been cut off for a while, and the merchants were complaining. The families of the crew members were also getting impatient. So the most urgent thing was to hold their noses and get the two ships back, and pretend that nothing had happened.

"Well, let's just get through this first. I can always find a chance to avenge this arrow later..." Domingo raised his head and drank the sherry in the glass, swallowing his breath depressedly.

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It was already April when the news of the contract exchange with the Portuguese reached Kunshan.

After returning from Pudong, Mr. Zhao basically stayed in the north city every day, wandering around several schools.

Every morning, he would go to the Jiangnan Vocational and Technical College, also known as "Jiangnan Technical College", to give classes to the management of the group and various companies, and personally teach them the ways of scientific management.

The reason why Zhao Hao attaches so much importance to management is that he knows very well that the Industrial Revolution is not as simple as creating steam engines and replacing manual production with machinery. It is also a management revolution in production methods, labor efficiency and manufacturing standards.

Without the management revolution, it would have been difficult for factory workers to continuously improve their technology and produce high-standard parts, and it would have been impossible to gradually improve the crude Newcomen steam engine into the sophisticated and complex Watt engine.

It can be said that the production management revolution is an important prerequisite for the industrial revolution. And most importantly, it can be directly acquired through learning and take effect immediately, which can immediately improve the production efficiency of Jiangnan Group. It is definitely worth Mr. Zhao's painstaking efforts to compile teaching materials and teach in person.

He hopes to bring about a "spiritual revolution" for both management and workers, making both sides realize that as long as they work together to improve production efficiency and make the "cake" bigger, even if the distribution ratio does not change, it can benefit both sides at the same time.

Only by recognizing this can labor and management turn confrontation into cooperation and work together to improve efficiency.

However, the production tasks of each company are very heavy. Even if the management is divided into two batches for rotation training, the maximum training can only be two months. In order to get them started in such a short time, Mr. Zhao can only adopt devilish teaching!

He uses ten days as a teaching cycle.

For example, in the first cycle, when learning the "work quota principle", he will teach them how to achieve "work quota", that is, to replace subjective management with objective standards, through nine mornings of teaching.

In this era, managers’ subjective factors are too strong in evaluating workers’ production. This has caused a prominent contradiction: the employer does not know how much work the workers can do in a day, but always thinks that the “lazy guys” work less but get paid more, so they increase the exploitation of workers by extending working hours.

The workers do not know exactly how much work they can do in a day, but they always think that they work too much but get paid too little. When the employer increases the exploitation, they resist by passive resistance, which results in a lose-lose situation.

How to solve this problem? Zhao Hao told them to set up a special department to study and find out the "reasonable daily workload" with scientific basis. Then, according to the completion of the quota, a differentiated piece-rate wage system should be implemented to closely link the worker's contribution with the salary.

Then every afternoon, Mr. Zhao would give a topic and let the managers discuss it in groups, such as "How to formulate a reasonable daily workload?"

Let them express their opinions in the group, spark new ideas through discussion and broaden their thinking.

After dinner, he would let representatives from each group take turns to speak on the topic, and then give scores and rankings based on each group's performance.

On the tenth day of this teaching cycle, he will give out examination papers, including purely objective questions based on knowledge as well as subjective questions based on discussion, to examine each person's level of knowledge mastery.

After a night's rest, the next day we immediately entered the next teaching cycle, "Principles of Standardization", teaching them how to develop scientific process procedures, standardize tools, machines, materials, and the working environment, and document them.

Then came 'selecting top-class workers', 'labor-management cooperation', 'establishing a special planning layer', 'functional foreman system', and so on and so forth...all aspects of scientific management were broken down and taught to managers.

In fact, Mr. Zhao's previous structure and leadership of Jiangnan Group all reflected the idea of ​​scientific management. In the past two years, the senior officials of the group and various companies have already realized something, but they just haven't formed a system and don't know if it is right.

This time, Master Zhao finally taught them systematically. Everyone felt like they had suddenly realized something and benefited a lot. They couldn't wait to go back and practice these new moves.

But it is not that easy to graduate. At the end of the two-month study, everyone has to write a paper on how to carry out scientific management reform in the company or department they are responsible for.

Only those who have passed the subject, exam and thesis scores can receive a graduation certificate and be allowed to go back and start their own company. Otherwise, they can only repeat the year and continue studying with the second wave.

If it still doesn't work, then I'm sorry, I can only give way to you...

Zhao Hao was so strict, firstly to attract their attention and make them study hard. Secondly, it was to screen the middle and senior management of the group and the company. He eliminated the unqualified and unfit mediocre and bad apples, and found excellent talents with the same ideas.

Just as he taught the management to make great efforts to select top-class workers, he also had to select his own 'top-class workers' from the management and assign the right people to the right positions. This was the guarantee for the long-term prosperity of the group.

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In addition, Mr. Zhao also has to take time to visit Yufeng Academy from time to time.

To be honest, he could still teach science classes to the students in the college and show off his skills to gain their admiration.

But this year is the year of the big exam, and the students have to concentrate on their studies, so Mr. Zhao really can't get involved. If he pretends to be knowledgeable and messes around, he will definitely make these two hundred and fifty students fail...

However, Zhao Hao also lived up to these students who came from all over the country to teach him. He equipped them with a super luxurious teaching team consisting of the tutoring king Li Zhi, former Hanlin editor Pan Zhongzan, literary leader Wang Shizhen's younger brother Wang Shimao, and Grand Tutor Hua's son and former imperial examiner Hua Shuyang.

There is no need to mention the strength of the first two. Just talking about the imperial examination families like the Wang family and the Hua family, they have mastered exclusive test-taking experience that is impossible to find anywhere else!

They have experience, skills, strength, and tricks. This lineup is unmatched in the entire Ming Dynasty, okay?

In addition, Zhao Hao also asked each family to invite famous scholars from Jiangnan to take turns to hold literary gatherings at Yufeng Academy to improve the reputation of these disciples and let them grasp the most cutting-edge trends in the literary world. This is very important. It is impossible to be in the eyes of the examiners if you work behind closed doors. Otherwise, why would even Fan Jin have to hold a writing competition?

Therefore, Teacher Zhao does not need to teach personally to make his students feel his deep love, and no one will feel dissatisfied at all.

Brother Hua also told them that their master didn't teach them anything about the imperial examination. It was not until they failed the examination that he could no longer bear it and trained them for a month. What was the result? They made a big comeback and took the top five places in the palace examination!

This made the group of junior students realize that the teacher was too knowledgeable and it was not worth it for him to help them before the palace examination. In other words, they were not qualified to receive the teacher's guidance on the examination before the imperial examination...

Everyone secretly made up their minds to pass the two exams in a row and get personal guidance from the teacher! Otherwise, they would never be able to enter the master's room and call him "Master" in their entire lives...