New Shun 1730

This matter cannot be explained in a short time.

This time, the banquet about restructuring and setting rules lasted for three whole days.

Three days later, Liu Yu mentioned it.

"This time I came from Weihai, not only to finish the business of this trading company, but also to do some other business. I hope more people will participate. Let's discuss whether to do it."

"To make money, more people will make it lively. If there is money, everyone will make money together."

"In business, there are gains and losses. Although I have some money, I don't want to bear it all by myself."

The businessmen's ears perked up, and they all wanted to know what the business was, but at this time Liu Yu kept it a secret.

Someone said: "The business done by Ying Suobo can only make money, how can it lose money? Since it is a business that Ying Suobo has figured out, we must participate no matter what. If we lose, we lose. Anyway, we have to invest, and losing is not going to bankrupt us."

"Yes, Ying Suobo may as well talk about it. We are all itching to do it."

Liu Yu smiled and said: "This matter cannot be explained clearly for a while. How about this, when you go out, pass on a message for me. I will treat you here in half a month."

"Those who have this idea, come. Then, let's talk about this new business and new business."

These people think that they will definitely make a fortune by following Liu Yu. At this time, they all shouted: "How big is Ying Suobo's business? Can't we afford this money?"

Those who are qualified to participate in the banquet today are all big businessmen in Songjiang. Which one of them does not have tens of thousands of taels of silver?

If the people here can't raise enough money, how big a business is this?

The bigger the capital, the bigger the business.

"Everyone, it's not that you can't afford the money, but you may not be willing to pay. We won't force you. Those who are willing to pay can pay, and those who are unwilling to pay can't pay. Naturally, the more people, the better."

"The more people there are, the less responsibility you share, and the more people share the responsibility. As the saying goes, wealth and honor are sought in danger. Some businesses, the more people there are, the more lively they are."

"Let's talk about business, not official matters. I'm speaking from the perspective of a businessman. Now this trading company has rules. Even if you commit a crime, only your stocks will be confiscated. Let me ask you, if you did it yourself, if you committed a crime... what would you do if your property was confiscated?"

At this point, the scene suddenly became cold.

The wealth of the past few years and Liu Yu's integrity and profit-making performance have made these businessmen forget the risks when facing Liu Yu...the risks of the court's confiscation of property, apportionment, implicated, and joint responsibility.

In general, Dashun treated the nobles well. When the country was founded, because Li Laiheng was young, those generals with military merits died, and there was no slaughter of meritorious officials.

This made people believe that the nobles were the most solid backers.

Now that Liu Yu had spoken out, these people were also depressed.

Seeing the atmosphere was dull, Liu Yu simply stopped there.

"Forget it, I won't talk about it today. Let's just disperse today. In half a month, anyone who wants to come can come. By then, we will know what kind of business it is."

As soon as the banquet was over, the news spread, and various speculations emerged one after another.

With the example of the formalization of the trading company and the trust of Qianjin Shigu before, many people were thinking about digging out the silver in the cellar as soon as possible.

If they can participate in the shares this time, they will definitely participate as much as they can.

Liu Yu is trustworthy, especially with the reputation that he has cultivated with real money and given up so much profit.

Every year, the dividends of the trading company are a big event in Songjiang. The white silver is piled up at the door of the trading company, and the dividends of this year are collected according to their respective stocks.

It is done deliberately to make people familiar with this way of cooperation as soon as possible.

With millions of taels of silver piled there, anyone would be dizzy.

The poor are not eligible to participate in the stock market, but they like to watch such excitement and dream of getting rich by looking at the dizzying silver.

The rich have the ability to participate in the stock market, but many people missed it before, hesitated and waited, watching the value of the waste paper bills rise, and the white silver dividends every year, which are like showing off their wealth, and they regretted it.

This deliberate dividend distribution in public has created a situation where the West is not bright but the East is bright.

The West experienced the South Sea Bubble, and even Newton lost a lot of money. He had to sigh that he could calculate the orbit of celestial bodies but not the stock market; the "Bubble Act" was introduced, prohibiting the establishment of companies that can transfer shares without the king's authorization, which made British joint-stock companies unable to recover until decades later.

In Songjiang in the east, the large amount of silver dividends distributed by trading companies every year aroused people's enthusiasm.

Under the stable political situation, the rise of foreign trade has led to the accumulation of a large amount of silver capital near Songjiang. People are eager for an opportunity to make a fortune.

Half a month later, the news that Liu Yu was going to hold a banquet spread, which immediately shook the surrounding areas of Songjiang.

What people heard was not a banquet, but a large amount of silver and dividends beckoning to them.

As for how much profit and return rate there is, they believe that Liu Yu can bring wealth, and the silver dividends every year have made many people blind.

People who know and are familiar with him spread the news to people.

People who don’t know and are unfamiliar with him spread the news to the surrounding areas after hearing the news.

This place and Guangdong may be the most capital-rich area in the entire Dashun. Half a month means a radius of seven days. People who do business here have eyes and ears in Songjiang.

Soon, the news spread within hundreds of miles. Anyone who could take out several thousand taels of silver hurried to Songjiang.

I missed it last time, and I can't miss it again this time.

As for what Liu Yu was going to do and what new business he had, no one knew.

In fact, what Liu Yu wanted to do can be summed up in one sentence. He used his official status as a guarantee, sea transportation as a tool to shorten the distance, Weihai as a transit hub, and joint-stock companies as a means to invest the capital of Jiangnan in the north.

There is a big problem for Dashun to carry out the industrial revolution, that is, the capital-rich areas and resource-rich areas are separated.

Jiangnan has money, a lot of money.

But Jiangnan does not have large coal and iron mines, especially those that are very close.

Liaodong has coal and iron, and there is a lot of coal and iron.

But Liaodong has no money and does not have enough capital to support a large coal and iron mine.

Originally, Liaodong and Songjiang were far away, so far away that people in Songjiang felt that it was outside the world, after all, in the northern frontier.

Now, the development of the sea transportation foundation for trade with Japan has shortened this distance.

After mastering the new route, the trading company can not only sail directly from Songjiang to Nagasaki, Japan, but also sail easily from Songjiang to Liaodong.

The soybeans and wheat shipped from Liaodong to Songjiang every year are a microcosm.

Once the distance is shortened and the joint-stock company is formalized, the merchants in Jiangnan can sit in Songjiang, waiting for the money to be divided, raise capital, and develop the coal and iron mines in Liaodong.

It is definitely profitable.

It’s just that in the past, merchants did whatever they could do.

Now the emergence of joint-stock companies such as trading companies has made it unnecessary for merchants to do it themselves, as long as the rules are set and money is invested.

In the short term, Dashun needs a large amount of iron to support the military industry for military reform.

In the long term, the reclamation of Liaoning immigrants, the reclamation of Jinghai immigrants, the reclamation of Mongolian immigrants, and trade with North Korea and Japan have made it very profitable to build coal and iron industries in Liaodong.

In the longer term, Liaoning is the most suitable as the heavy industrial base of Dashun. At least it is more suitable than Shanxi, because Shanxi has no sea transportation, while Liaoning's iron and coal mines are close to the country's tenth largest river, the Liaohe River.

It's just that this kind of profitability is long-term, and it is unlikely to make money in the short term. It will take at least three to five years.

Relying on the shock of the trading company's dividends and Liu Yu's personal reputation, Liu Yu believes that as long as he shamelessly deceives people, just like the Nanhai Company, many people will definitely be "deceived".

Liu Yu has planned and prepared for this kind of "deception" for several years, and it is finally time to reap the harvest.

Excluding the foundations of Dashun's immigration to Liaodong and allowing sea transportation, the remaining foundations are all laid by him in recent years.

His official status and previous concessions have won the trust of everyone.

The joint-stock system of the trading company has been developed in recent years, at least in the Songjiang area. People trust and are familiar with it.

He trained troops in Weihai, making Weihai a hub and transit station for communication between Liaoning and Songjiang, shortening people's impression of distance.

The exploration of new routes and the use of sextants made it possible for Songjiang to reach Weihai directly without going along the coastline through the deep sea, and Weihai had a very mature route to the mouth of the Liaohe River.

The plan to go to war with Japan and lease land to North Korea also made it profitable to build iron smelting workshops.

The military factory in Weihai coincided with the Dashun military reform, and there would be a steady stream of orders for at least ten years.

The preparation of the shareholding system made many people believe that they could sit in Songjiang and wait for dividends, rather than having to know how to smelt iron before doing it.

As for the local officialdom in Liaoning, the businessmen naturally did not have to consider it. They were sure that as long as Liu Yu participated, there would be no local officials who would make trouble and extort and exploit.

These foundations were not built overnight, but accumulated little by little from a few years ago when they had the ability to monopolize Japanese trade but insisted on giving dividends.

What can change the world is a class, not a person. Otherwise, it is just a change of dynasty.

Let Songjiang become the financial center of Dashun, let Liaonan and Liaozhong become the starting point of heavy industry in the north, let Weihai become the hub connecting the north and the south, and form a big circle covering North Korea and Japan. This is his plan for the north.

In addition to tricking people into opening up the iron smelting industry in Liaoning, he also wants to sell emerging industries and commerce such as cigarettes, glass, and matches.

The original textile industry is basically saturated, so he can only start a new business and create new consumer products to get more people involved.

In fact, Liu Yu can still afford to do these industries, even if he is smelting iron in Liaoning.

But money is just a tool, and the purpose may not necessarily be to make money.

He hopes to take this opportunity to promote this new system of equity participation and dividends, and professional craftsmen are responsible, at least to form an acceptable habit in Songjiang area.

Change the previous habit of doing handicrafts, which requires one to have skills, accumulate a little bit of wealth, and finally become big through generations.

It is very important to rely on several industries to form a trend.

The focus this time is not really to raise funds, but to cultivate habits and trends. Songjiang has the custom of going to Japan for trade in partnership before, and the custom impact brought by trading companies in recent years, so it still has a solid foundation.

The court does not have a special policy to protect industry and commerce and ensure that there is no joint responsibility or limited liability.

But Liu Yu's twisted identity as an official noble allowed the merchants to temporarily put aside such concerns.

This time, of course, a portion of the shares must be reserved for the emperor and the nobles, and they must also be tied to this interest, at least in the short term, there will be less trouble.