Datang: Li Shimin begged me to rebel

1% of the shares, the gold members of Yuelai Commercial Bank can buy [-]% of the shares, and if the gold members want to buy more, they only have the right of first refusal at the same price.

In addition, even silver members also enjoy the right of first refusal at the same price, but it is lower than gold members. In fact, there are not many silver members who have not purchased. Most of the named chambers of commerce are silver members, and a small number of brass members.

They were given a [-]% share, and if they bought it alone, they would definitely not be able to buy a [-]% share.

Today, Li Ke has dispersed the shares as much as possible, and before he came, he actually asked Tian Meng to secretly greet some businessmen in advance, and told them that today's share purchase is based on money, and these businessmen alone will definitely It is impossible to buy it, let them discuss it in private, unite first, and it is best to buy it in the name of the chamber of commerce.

Because the gold members of Yuelai Commercial Bank have five surnames and one family of Qiwang. Oh, the Zheng family in Xingyang does not have it, but the Zheng family in Chang'an has it.That's seven quotas, and Li Shiji has one and eight quotas, which will occupy 8% of the shares, and the remaining 24% of the shares. They have the strongest strength, and if they make a move, they will probably buy the most.

"Datang Shipping Co., Ltd. split a total of 1 shares, and the price of each share is 1000. This time it is an auction method, and everyone publicly bids."

"Now let me tell you about the main business of Datang Shipping Company. The purpose of the business is very simple. It is to trade with the Western Regions by shipping. However, since I will be directly responsible for the initial stage, the specific trade will not be announced to you."

"Now you can bid." Li Ke said with a smile.

Everyone: "..."

Your Highness, what you said is equivalent to not saying, but they are helpless, Li Ke is unwilling to say, they have no choice, and this time Li Ke also has no restrictions, it is still the same, if you like it, you don’t have to buy it , Participation is entirely up to you.

Soon the follow-up auction will start directly. These families don’t care about the 1% of the shares of the gold members. They must be purchased directly.

At first, these aristocratic families wanted to take a look, but after the auction started, the enthusiasm of these merchants made all the aristocratic families unable to sit still.This bid is too fierce.

What shocked these aristocratic families even more was that the merchants in this auction did not purchase individually, but in the name of the chamber of commerce.

What surprised Li Ke was that the names of these chambers of commerce matched those in his memory, and the names of the chambers of commerce were very simple.

Shanxi merchants, Huizhou merchants, Yue merchants, Lu merchants, Yang merchants, Jiangxi merchants, and Dongting chamber of commerce.

These merchants seem to have discussed it, and they all used the names of the main vassal states in the Spring and Autumn and Warring States Periods in their area. Needless to say, Shanxi merchants, for example, the Huizhou Chamber of Commerce actually had its embryonic form in the Eastern Jin Dynasty, although there was no chamber of commerce. , but their local businessmen have actually united long ago.

This time, it was established directly by taking advantage of this opportunity.

The Yue merchants were established collectively by all the merchants near Guangzhou, because there were once various Yangyue, Minyue, Nanyue, etc., large and small, here, which is the origin of Guangdong later.

Yangshang is the Yangzhou Chamber of Commerce, which was united by merchants near Yangzhou. This is likely to be the prototype of the later Zheshang and Ningbo Chambers of Commerce.The Dongting Chamber of Commerce is the union of merchants around Dongting Lake.

It can only be said that there must be coincidences in history. The names of these chambers of commerce were chosen by these merchants themselves. Li Ke did not teach them, but they chose these names themselves.

The aristocratic families won a total of 12% of the shares, and the remaining 18% were directly auctioned by the seven chambers of commerce.

As for how they distribute themselves in the future, that is their own business.

The half of what Li Ke wanted was actually distributed to some people. For example, his three married younger sisters got out of the half of the shares. The three of them each gave 3% of the shares.

The 100% of the shares purchased by the Chamber of Commerce, according to the same price as the royal family, is also [-] million.

The remaining 132% of the shares have a total auction premium of about 396%, that is, [-] million strings were auctioned.

In the end, the total capital of the entire firm was 996 million guan, and Li Ke himself did not pay a penny.

Since it is an officially-operated firm, all staff naturally have to pay salaries, such as sailors, housekeepers, accountants, etc. Li Ke naturally wants to pay them.

In addition, the ships, the ships built by Yu Wenlin and the others, Datang Shipping Company naturally had to pay for them.

At present, the cost of these ships cannot be calculated. How can I put it? If it is only a 1200-ton ship, the cost is about 1 guan. According to Yu Wenlin's current construction, that is, the bottom keel and the part below the draft are covered with a layer of iron sheeting. Thick, that is, the thickness of a few millimeters, using riveting technology, used to verify the technology and strengthen the strength of the ship's keel.

The cost is actually only 2 guan. Of course, this cost refers to the cost of Li Ke's iron-making, but if it is based on the cost of Datang's iron-making, it is estimated that it will increase to 20 guan in an instant.

But this price is too expensive. If you sell it like this, it will be difficult to sell it if you want to sell it.

Therefore, Li Ke set the price of a 1200-ton ship at 10 yuan per ship, so as to make less profit. This price may be unbelievable to many people. After all, some luxury goods in Datang are so expensive, right?

In fact, in ancient times, this was the real situation. The cost of luxury goods used by the rich and powerful families and the cost of some large objects make it incredible for later generations to compare.

In the future, people will think how can a ship be inferior to dozens of bolts of silk, even if it is extremely luxurious?But that's luxury.

In fact, many modern luxury goods are similar. A car costs hundreds of millions. The basic price of a domestically produced Type 99 main battle tank is only 1600 million. A sports car can buy many tanks.

The sense of fragmentation in the price of luxury goods in Datang is heavier than in modern times, because the cost of the main manpower, wood, and craftsmen for shipbuilding is too low in Datang.A piece of top-notch silk is enough to employ hundreds of ordinary people to work for several years.

This is still the result of Li Ke spending money to hire workers. If it was built by Datang officially and the manpower was all performed by corvees, the cost would be lower.

10 for a sea-going ship with a displacement of 1200 tons, Datang Shipping directly placed a deposit to buy 20 ships first!This is only 200 million guan, and we will continue to buy it in the future!

In addition, Li Ke bought a total of 80 sets with Datang Chang'an Sixteen Guards at a price of 3 sets.At this price, the Tang court ordered another 2 sets of new armor from Yuelai Trading Company for subsequent replacements, waiting to be shipped to Guangzhou. A total of 240 sets of armor cost [-] million pieces.