Chapter 185 Haimao Group Company

Looking at Zheng Zhilong and his subordinates who began to become silent, Xiao Tianjian certainly knew what they were thinking. Anyway, after they surrendered to the Great China Dynasty this time, it was impossible for them to hold troops and dominate the side as Wang Chang followed the Ming Dynasty. This psychological gap will certainly not be too uncomfortable.

"Cough!" After Xiao Tianjian coughed a few times, he looked at Zheng Zhilong and asked with a smile, "Zheng Aiqing, do you feel sad to see this rich income included in our system because you can no longer collect tolls at sea in the future?"

Zheng Zhilong didn't expect Xiao Tianjian to say their ideas directly, so he quickly got up and walked around the table. After kneeling down, he said he didn't dare.

"You don't have to hide it from me. I can see it and guess it! You don't have to worry! I also know that once I unify, a large piece of interest that originally belonged to your Zheng family will be collected by the state. It is natural for you to feel uncomfortable!

But today I can give you a suggestion! You have been dealing with Portuguese, Spaniards, Dutch and even British all year round. Naturally, you also know something about their East India Company!" Xiao Tianjian asked Zheng Zhilong.

Zheng Zhilong quickly replied, "I want to report to the emperor! I will submit to my dynasty and can no longer act as in the past. Our loyalty to the Holy God is comparable to the sun and the moon, and I hope the Holy God will forgive our sins! As for the Westerners' East India Company, Weichen does know a little about it! But I don't know why the emperor mentioned this?"

Xiao Tianjian nodded and said, "As far as I know, the main reason why these Westerners formed the so-called East India Company is that their merchants competed with each other viciously in order to compete for the right to trade at sea. They often clashed and plundered each other. As a result, It caused great losses, so in order to integrate their maritime resources, they established the so-called East India Company to replace the country's unified foreign trade!

Because the previous dynasty of our country did not attach importance to maritime trade, for so many years, sea merchants have been fighting with each other and dismantling each other, and also competing with each other to lower prices, and even stealing and merchants, doing some plundering at sea..."

Speaking of this, Xiao Tianjian deliberately glanced at Zheng Zhilong and others. Zheng Zhilong and others couldn't help blushing. Xiao Tianjian actually said what they had done over the years. Isn't the Zheng family also a thief and a businessman? Over the years, in order to monopolize trade power at sea, they have done such immoral things, but they have not dared to take over, so they can only listen to Xiao Tianjian to continue honestly.

"In this way, I'm afraid the happiest ones are those Westerners. Through our Chinese businessmen, without this awareness of trade protection, they try to find ways to lower the price of our commercial goods and make huge profits from it!

Although your Zheng family has done something that should not be done to monopolize trade over the years, it is still beneficial to some extent!

I have been thinking about this matter since I learned that Zheng Aiqing decided to abandon the secret! With these lessons from the past, I will continue to trade with Westerners, and I can no longer take the old road, so that those Westerners can make money from cheap!

Why can't our dynasty follow the practices of Westerners and set up a trading company to integrate the resources of our dynasty, unify the price and trade with Westerners, and also save them from taking advantage of all the advantages, but let my merchants end up working for them?

After saying this, Xiao Tianjian paused again, because even in later generations, Xiao Tianjian also knew that Chinese people competed to bargain with each other in order to deal with foreigners. As a result, a large amount of Chinese resources were wasted, but foreign businessmen took advantage of it. In the end, they laughed at it. The Chinese people are fools. Now that he wants to promote maritime trade, he can no longer watch the Chinese do such a stupid thing again, so a plan has already been formed in his mind, which is also an important reason why he insisted Zheng Zhilong and others to come to Nanjing.

He is very clear about the single title, which is nothing for Zheng Zhilong and others. It only represents glory, but they don't have any real power. What Zheng Zhilong and others really want is actually to get a real power dispatch in Fujian or the coastal area of Guangdong.

However, Xiao Tianjian did not intend to give any real difference to Zheng Zhilong and others, because Zheng Zhilong and others are different from ordinary old officials in the Ming Dynasty. These people belong to people outside the Ming court system. They are just wearing official clothes. On the surface, they are under the management of the court, but in fact, they are still a private military collection. Tuan.

Therefore, these people are given official positions and put them within the system of China and North Korea. In addition to filling in the trouble, it may also make the country and the Zheng family finally go to the road of break again because of their nonsense in the future, which is not in line with Xiao Tianjian's idea.

Therefore, Xiao Tianjian believes that if you want to take advantage of Zheng Zhilong, you need to put them in an appropriate position and tie their interests and national interests together. This is the right thing to do, rather than blindly restricting or eliminating them.

Moreover, the Zheng family is familiar with the matter of Tonghai. Such talents are also a very scarce resource for Dazhong and North Korea. Although he used Liu Jiang and other people to form a navy, these people know little about Tonghai merchants. It only represents the country's violent means. In the future, Dazhong and North Korea will go to the sea. These people of the Zheng family can't be imprisoned.

Therefore, he came up with such a way and began to induce them in front of Zheng Zhilong.

After listening to Xiao Tianjian's words, Zheng Zhilong and others also felt the same way. Over the years, they have tried their best to control the sea. In addition to gathering wealth from selfishness, they also hoped to integrate the power of sea merchants and obtain more benefits in foreign trade as much as possible. However, they didn't expect Xiao Tianjian to do such a thing. The love is also so thorough, as if there is a deeper meaning in the words.

So Zheng Zhilong's mind immediately came to life. Xiao Tianjian mentioned that he wanted to set up a trading company similar to Westerners to integrate Chinese businessmen. If this matter can be implemented, it will have great benefits for them to trade at sea in the future. With the current maritime merchants in Fujian and Guangdong. Say, who else can be stronger than their Zheng family? Once such a trading company is established, does it mean that Xiao Tianjian intends to let the Zheng family host this matter?

Once this is the case, what else can they ask for? For officials, don't they just want to use their official identity to earn benefits for their Zheng family? But if China and North Korea also want to set up such a maritime trading company and let their Zheng family to preside over this matter, then even if they are not officials, it will be nothing. Thinking of this, Zheng Zhilong and his relatives and his subordinates suddenly warmed up. Just now, because they failed to get a substantial dispatch, The sense of loss also suddenly swept away, so Zheng Zhilong and others hurriedly nodded and said yes.

Looking at the expression on Zheng Zhilong's face, Xiao Tianjian knew that what he had just said had played a certain role, so he continued to say, "In this case, then I think that since we are going to open a sea ban and trade in the future, these things should be handled as soon as possible!"

Recently, I have been considering whether the best person to preside over this trading company is Zheng Aiqing, but I don't know if Zheng Aiqing is willing to be the governor of this trading company?

Zheng Zhilong was really overjoyed when he heard it. He knew the weight of the governor of this trading company better than anyone else. This trading company is equivalent to the official identity of the group of foreign trade under the authorization of China and North Korea. Mastering this trading company, for the Zheng family in the future, it will undoubtedly be more rich than before. More.

So Zheng Zhilong quickly walked around to the center of the hall again, knelt down and shouted, "Thank you, Lord! Weichen is willing to serve the emperor, although he is also willing to do so!"

Xiao Tianjian smiled and said, "Zheng Aiqing is willing to do this, and I am very relieved! So this matter will be settled today! Let's discuss the specific things next!"

After Xiao Tianjian's words, the Zheng family suddenly rejoiced, which means that they will not be suppressed and controlled by the court in the future. On the contrary, they have obtained the new official status of the Dazhong Dynasty in disguise. Although they are not as good as any local official, the wealth contained in it makes them It's almost drooling to the ground.

So Zheng Zhilong quickly discussed the specific articles of association of the trading company with Xiao Tianjian in detail.

Xiao Tianjian decided to name the company "China Maritime Trade Group Company". The company's business is to charge the maritime trade between China and North Korea and integrate export and import commercial affairs in various parts of the mainland.

And this company is defined as a joint-stock group company. The government of China and North Korea controls the company, owns 55% of the equity of the company, sends personnel to supervise the company's finances, and has the power to appoint and remove the governor of the trading group company and the employees below. In short, the country of China and North Korea is the trading group company. The leader and the controller must have the administrative right to appoint and remove the trading group company.

The Zheng family, with their fleet and sailors, invested another three million taels of cash as equity, owning 15% of the group company, and Zheng Zhilong was the first governor of the trading group company to fully preside over the development of the company's business. The rest of the Zheng family were responsible for their respective strengths. Other sub-departmental affairs.

The other 30% of the equity is raised from various domestic sea merchants, and other sea merchants are also included in the company, becoming the company's minority shareholders and participating in the company's operations.

And the company's funds must be operated through the Bank of China. In this way, on the one hand, a large amount of the company's funds are included in the supervision system of the Bank of China, and also provide a large number of operating funds for the Bank of China, making the business of the Bank of China more It is easy to develop, and it will also be more convenient to implement the Chinese dragon banknote, which will completely change the previous way the Ming Dynasty used silver and copper money as settlement. Invisibly, it can also accelerate the financial control of the newly recovered land in the south.

In terms of business methods, in the future, if domestic merchants want to export goods, they must purchase them through the unified pricing of the Maritime Trading Group Company to ensure that domestic merchants have the disadvantages of competitive price pressure in order to export the same goods. First, they can ensure the interests of domestic merchants, and at the same time, they can also obtain the determination of foreign trade. Price right.

Imported goods also need to be uniformly responsible through the Maritime Trading Group Company. After shopping through the goods, the goods with the best quality and the lowest price are purchased, and the goods are wholesaled in the mainland through various commercial ports to domestic distributors.

This has great benefit, that is, the country can effectively control the variety of exported goods, ensure that some restricted goods will not be smuggled out, and at the same time, it can also allow mainland export goods to get a better price.

Although doing so is a naked state monopoly, in this era, this means is an important means to accumulate wealth for the country, and the advantages far outweigh the disadvantages.

Once the company makes a profit, it can be distributed according to the shares. Although the government of China and North Korea has taken the big head, the remaining 45% of the profit is still an extremely considerable wealth, which is enough to make the Zheng family and the participating merchants make a lot of money.

In this way, Xiao Tianjian also used this method to tie the interests of the Zheng family and other sea merchants to the chariot of national interests. As long as they want to make money, they can't do without the support of the state. Moreover, whether they import or export, they have to rely on land channels. If they want to go out independently, it is basically impossible. Once they have any idea of opening another centimeter, the Greater China and the North Korea only need to cancel their import and export rights, and they will be immediately strangled and strangled alive. Therefore, as long as they want to make money in the future, they must cooperate with the country. Otherwise, everything will be in vain, which will eliminate them from becoming one. The danger of confrontation between small maritime military groups and countries.

For these regulations proposed by Xiao Tianjian, although Zheng Zhilong feels that the shares held by the Zheng family are a little small, he carefully calculates that once China and North Korea open sea commerce in the future, the scale of maritime trade will be an astronomical figure. Even if they only own 15% of the shares, the profit will be huge, absolutely It can far exceed their previous income level. In this way, they don't have to worry about being suppressed by the court, nor do they have to think about how to fight against the court all day long. As long they do a good job well, their Zheng family can still get countless wealth in the future. For the Zheng family, It's also the best thing.

So after Xiao Tianjian brought up these things, the Zheng family did not fart, so they agreed. One by one, they were angry about not getting an official position before, and suddenly completely swept away and became refreshed. One by one, they couldn't wait to go down and start immediately. Get ready to go, run this maritime trading group company quickly, and make a lot of money quickly.

At Xiao Tianjian's proposal, a person was transferred from the household department to be the first financial director of the group company. This person is not someone else, but the first old man to follow Xiao Tianjian, Jin and Jin Fuzi.

Since Xiao Tianjian gained a foothold in Yangcheng County in those years, Jin Fuzi was not the kind of person who was good at fighting on the battlefield. He, who was born as an accountant for rich families, was best at managing money, so he gradually transferred from the army to logistics and finance.

Later, after Xiao Tianjian had Fan Yutong, a sage to help him take care of his finances, Jin Tong, as Xiao Tianjian's most trusted old man, worked under Fan Yutong and secretly contributed a lot to the rise of Xing Tianjun.

And when Fan Yutong established the Bank of China according to Xiao Tianjian's idea, Jin Tong was also one of the elders who formed the Bank of China and was familiar with the operation of the Bank of China.

Xiao Tianjian ascended the throne. After the establishment of the Great China Dynasty, Jin Tong entered the household department again and became the head of the gold department. Although his official position is not high, he has always held great financial power. Over the years, he has already become a housekeeper who is good at controlling large-scale funds.

For Jin Tong, Xiao Tianjian is very reassuring. After so many years of cooperation, he has a deep understanding of Jin Tong's temperament. This person is very loyal to him. He is the financial director of the Maritime Trading Group Company. Zheng Zhilong presides over daily affairs. He is responsible for financial management, so he can put the trading group company in the court official. Under Fang's management, there is no need to worry too much about the Zheng family's tamping and swallowing profits.

Zheng Zhilong has nothing to say about Xiao Tianjian's appointing people from the court to manage finance. After all, the court is the controlling party, and financial management cannot be entrusted to their Zheng family. Everyone understands this truth, and Xiao Tianjian also said that after the establishment of the company in the future, the financial department will Issue a detailed financial statement for the shareholders to review, everything is open and transparent, so that everyone has a clear account in mind, and he has nothing to object to.

So the banquet lasted until the middle of the night. In the end, Xiao Tianjian negotiated most of the things with Zheng Zhilong. Although this is just a framework, the main thing that should be said has been said. Even Jin Tong was recruited to the palace overnight, accepted Xiao Tianjian's appointment and participated in the negotiation of some affairs. As for the specific details, Fu Deming, the secretary of the household department, and the Zheng family will join hands to do it in the future.

Things such as the company's articles of association can be gradually established in the future. Xiao Tianjian only needs to read it in detail and modify it to establish this maritime trading group company.

It can be said that Zheng Zhilong's trip to Nanjing made Xiao Tianjian and the Zheng family very satisfied. Xiao Tianjian eliminated the potential threat of the Zheng family, and the Zheng family also got a way to continue to make a fortune in the future.

Of course, it is impossible for maritime merchants in this era not to involve military forces, because there is no obvious distinction between warships and merchant ships in this era. In order to ensure the safety of operations at sea, merchant ships will be armed to a certain extent, but as long as it is included in the group company system, such armed forces are officials. Fang's armed forces are no longer just the private armed forces of the Zheng family.

In fact, the cabinet of the imperial court has already discussed the joint establishment of this maritime trading group company by Xiao Tianjian and the Zheng family. Although the cabinet ministers were a little confused at the beginning, under Xiao Tianjian's detailed explanation, they still realized that Great benefits. In this way, the court can not only control maritime trade, but also the country can obtain huge fiscal revenue by collecting taxes and share huge trade profits. In addition, the most important thing is to eliminate the worries about the Zheng family group through this means. The benefits are so great that they have never thought of it before. As it happened, the cabinet ministers finally unanimously approved the decision, and all ministries expressed their willingness to cooperate in the formation of the maritime trading group company.

(I'm really in a good mood today! Thank you for the huge reward of a good friend! In addition, I would also like to thank General Mao Mao and his two friends for the reward! Thank you very much! Today, I will present a chapter of 5,000 words!)