Chapter 412 If you have milk, you are a mother

Because this is equivalent to spending hundreds of thousands or even millions of dollars in Fuyuan Machinery Factory and sell these excellent shares to cash out. They are reluctant to sell them, but they will not get dividends if they don't sell them.

It is these reasons that let them continue to put forward dividend proposals at the board of directors. However, the previous few times were rejected by major shareholders such as Fuyuan Company andding sheng Bank. It is normal for Fuyuan Company to veto. Dingsheng Bank, this bank was not short of money before, but withding sheng Bank this year The development is getting bigger and bigger, and its capital gap is also relatively large. Due to its own shortage of funds, Dingsheng Bank began to sell a small number of shares of Fuyuan Machinery Factory last year. Half of the percentage shares repurchased by Fuyuan Company were sold by Dingsheng Bank.

However, Dingsheng Bank does not want to sell all the shares directly. After all, the development momentum of Fuyuan Machinery Factory is obvious to all. A large number of rich people outside are waiting to buy shares of Fuyuan Machinery Factory without a chance. However, if you don't sell shares and want to get funds, you can see a sharp rise in the profit of Fuyuan Machinery Factory in the first quarter of 1908, which led to the change of attitude of Dingsheng Bank, which has been supporting Fuyuan's non-dividend policy at the board meeting a few days ago, and turned to support the dividend proposal.

Finally, at the board meeting, a share dividend proposal was reached with the support of 66 percent of the shares and 34 percent of the shares. The proposal decided to require Fuyuan Machinery Factory to put forward at least half of its quarterly profits for share dividends in the next three quarters.

The adoption of this proposal made a large number of shareholders very happy, but it was undoubtedly an extremely unfavorable thing for Zhao Chenbin.

Today, he held a meeting of the heads of various departments of Fuyuan Machinery Factory to find a way to deal with the dividend proposal of the board of directors.

However, in the discussion area, they did not come up with a good solution. After all, the board of directors is the real controller of Fuyuan Machinery Factory. Although these people present are the leaders of Fuyuan Machinery Factory, they are actually just a group of wage workers. If they want to resist the resolution of the board of directors, they are undoubtedly Very difficult.

Zhao Chenbin had no way to solve this problem within Fuyuan Machinery Factory and had to report it to Zhao Dongyun.

After receiving the news, Zhao Dongyun also looked a little deep. Now is the critical moment of the Feng-Wan War. He not only needs the army to fight hard on the front line, but also the government to do a good job in government affairs and logistics. He also needs the business circles in the northern provinces to continue to support him.

In the business community, the support of Fuyuan Machinery Factory is particularly important, because more than 80% of the guns and artillery needed by Fengjun, all shells and bullets come from Fuyuan Machinery Factory. The continuous expansion of production scale of Fuyuan Machinery Factory is crucial to the development of Fengjun.

Now that group of businessmen actually want to postpone the expansion of Fuyuan Machinery Factory and want to share dividends?

"I think these people have fallen into the eyes of money. They are all short-sighted people!" Zhao Dongyun was very dissatisfied with the behavior of the shareholders of Fuyuan Machinery Factory dragging back behind his back.

And the businessmen he said are also short-sighted and the truth. If the Fuyuan Machinery Factory continues to expand its scale now and waits when the Fengjun truly unifies China, then Fuyuan Machinery Factory will definitely have grown into the largest defense and steel supplier in the Far East. At that time, the shares in the hands of those businessmen will be more valuable. Less than twice?

Not to mention how huge the Fuyuan Machinery Factory will completely monopolize the domestic defense supply in the future.

However, now Fuyuan Machinery Factory's behavior of dragging itself back also makes Zhao Dongyun have another intention to support a national defense enterprise.

"It seems that no matter what industry it is, it needs to compete!" Zhao Dongyun simply said this sentence, which made Zhao Chenbin feel Zhao Dongyun's anger.

Zhao Dongyun's anger is naturally not reflected in how cruel it is. No matter how stupid he is, he will not say that he will use any administrative means to force Fuyuan Machinery Factory to stop dividends and continue to expand, but he will adopt other methods.

The first thing is that he directly instructed several state-controlled banks to directly acquire the shares owned by the Fuyuan Machinery Factory, the two arsenals of Shenyang Arsenal and Baoding Arsenal. At the same time, on the grounds of wartime production, the law forced the already false defense patent sharing act to provide for wartime. Period, under the premise of national needs, a patent can be forced to be shared with other defense suppliers. Of course, patent sharing also requires manufacturers to pay patent fees.

This bill aims to break the patent monopoly of Fuyuan Machinery Factory on many domestic weapons.

Through the acquisition of the shares of Shenyang Arsenal and Baoding Arsenal, and the acquisition of these two arsenals is also a state-owned bank, which also means that the government owns the arsenal directly under it.

In addition, it is not enough. Zhao Dongyun directly supports the Ordnance Department of the Commander's Department and requires the Ordnance Department to support the above two arsenals when purchasing weapons.

Therefore, in the latest round of military bidding at the end of March, Shenyang Arsenal naturally defeated Fuyuan Machinery Factory and obtained orders for up to 30,000 rifles, and Baoding Arsenal also received more than 2 million yuan worth of bullets and shells.

In this round of bidding, Fuyuan Machinery Factory only received orders for artillery, machine guns, etc., with a total order of only more than 3 million yuan.

Although this round of bidding for Fuyuan Machinery Factory is still a big winner, things can't be seen like this. In the past, these ordnance orders were all a matter of Fuyuan Machinery Factory. However, since the state-owned bank forcibly acquired the shares of Shenyang Arsenal and Baoding Arsenal held by Fuyuan Machinery Factory, the Soviet Union The dominant situation of Fuyuan Machinery Factory has become a three-point situation in the world, which naturally makes many shareholders of Fuchang unhappy.

But I'm not happy, but I still dare not criticize the military's bidding!

It's just that this time the dividend proposal of Fuchang made Zhao Dongyun begin to feel that it is difficult to control the military giant of Fuchang. Now the acquisition and support of the two arsenals in Shenyang and Baoding is just the beginning. In Zhao Dongyun's mind, he has begun to plan to continue to support national defense-related enterprises in the future and strive for more in China. Enterprises and capital are involved.

Let Fuyuan Machinery Factory become bigger, and then blackmail the military.

Although the Soviet system is a whole interest class such as industrial and commercial landlords in the north, there are contradictions within any faction, especially in the military and politics, they are not always able to maintain the same steps with industry and commerce. Those capitalists want to make money and buy weapons and ammunition at high prices, while the military I want cheaper and more weapons and ammunition. If there is only one Fuyuan machine factory and there are no other competitors, it will be easy to become a Fuyuan factory, and the military does not even have the capital to bargain.

Of course, these are things in the future. Now, no matter what Zhao Dongyun thinks, the current Soviet Fengjun still has to rely heavily on the support of Fuyuan Machinery Factory. In this regard, Zhao Dongyun, on the one hand, supports other defense enterprises, and on the other hand, he intends to gradually increase his control over Fuyuan Machinery Factory through capital.

As for the use of administrative means, this is only the last option. As a last resort, Zhao Dongyun does not intend to use administrative means to forcibly interfere in the operation of domestic industrial and commercial enterprises.

Because the regime under the leadership of the Soviet system is strictly speaking, a regime with a strong feudal atmosphere but inclined to industrial and commercial development. It does not mean the state-owned system, but a regime that strictly protects private property. If the government interferes with the business and development of the enterprise itself at will, it will usher in many industrial and commercial circles. People's opposition.

Although the current main force of the Soviet regime has gathered the support of a large number of landlords in the north, to be honest, the main support force of the Soviet regime is the business community in the north. Look at the patriotic bonds issued by the Soviet system.

Most of the bonds issued by the Soviet Union in recent years have been purchased by capitalists in the business world, whether they are private or financial institutions, and the final money is paid by those rich people.

So even for the sake of military expenses, the current Zhao Dongyun can't offend these capitalists.

After all, this is not the ancient time. An order from the ancient monarchs could ask those merchants to subsidize the treasury. For example, the Yangzhou salt merchants in the Qing Dynasty are a group of long-term money bags raised by the monarchs of the Qing Dynasty. If they are short of money, they can find a name to speculate a few eyes, and the treasury will suddenly become rich.

But now is different. Not to mention now, even the Qing government did not dare to suppress merchants casually in previous years. Even matters related to national interests may be ruined by the opposition of businessmen. The most obvious are the Guangdong-Han Railway and Sichuan-Han Railway. These two railways were originally borrowed from the former Qing Dynasty to build roads, but It was because of the opposition of businessmen who were eventually forced to reduce their power and then began to do business.

However, these days, if there is no support from the upper-class powerful behind large-scale projects, it will basically be ruined. Even the Fuyuan Machinery Factory, which is in the name of commercially, was supported by the whole Beiyang Group at the beginning. At the beginning, the Qing court even issued a special order to ask the local government to give For convenience, it also restricts foreigners from buying shares in the factory.

The Guangdong-Han Railway has been talking about the commercial office for several years, but in the end, it is still over. As for now, it is even less settled. After Zhao Dongyun takes over the southern provinces, the construction of this railway will also borrow 100% like Longhai Railway and Jinpu Railway to build roads, but will insist on the management rights, not the same as before. In the Qing Dynasty, he was so trapped that even his management rights were taken away by foreigners.

It's just that it's unreliable to engage in large-scale projects these days, but the political influence of businessmen in this era is still increasing. At least at present, whether it is Zhao Dongyun or Duan Qirui, they actually need to win over the local business class. Even the Southern Federation is no exception. Compared with the Chinese Southern Federal Empire As far as the Chinese republican government is concerned, they have a more feudal atmosphere. Now they still respect Guangxu under house arrest as the emperor. However, they are more tolerant of industry and commerce to some extent, especially after the continuous defeat and the loss of the two rivers, Guangdong and other important provinces, they are more tolerant of Yunnan and Sichuan. They tried to attract the local business class to continue to support their regime.

To some extent, the Su, Anhui and the Southern Federation and even Wu Fengling in Shanxi and Wang Shizhen in Hubei are all women. Whoever can provide them with more money to support the army to fight, they will be their guests.