"As you know, now that I have an official status, there are still many things to take care of in the court. I really can't control what is going on here. ”

"Moreover, I am a golden bone, telling everyone to gather share capital and learn the methods of Westerners. In the past few years, all the money that has been made has been taken out for dividends. I manage too much, and the more I worry about harming everyone's interests when I make a decision. ”

"For example, in the trade with Japan, the Japanese people were issued with fixed trade cards. One boat, one card, but in that case, why don't we make the boat bigger? Why can't we hold 10,000 stones when we could have loaded a few thousand stones? ”

"You've all dealt with the Dutch. The Westerners used to collect tariffs, and they also collected them according to the size of the ship, and the Dutch built the ship to carry more goods. In fact, for the same reason, the Japanese gave each ship a trade card, but there was no regulation on how big the ship was. Shall we build a bigger ship? ”

"It's just that it costs a lot of money to build a ship, especially to build a big ship. In the long run, there are many benefits; In the short term, this will affect this year's dividends. Since they all have share capital, it's not good that they don't even have decision-making power. But if everyone can talk, this is a mess and chaos, and it is difficult to have results. ”

"Thanks to your trust, I've been in charge of this place. But one day I can't do it? Everything is still set up rules, and doing things according to the rules is the only way. ”

In recent years, there have been a lot of dividends and profits, and the idea of building a bigger ship has not been thought of by anyone.

Now that Liu Yu took the initiative to talk about this matter, and said that he wanted to establish rules, everyone was actually happy in their hearts.

Of course the rules are good, now it seems that Liu Yu is a good person, but who knows what will happen in the future? If there are rules, there will be a lot less trouble in the future.

And if it is to expand business in the future, whether to issue new shares, even if Liu Yu can decide alone, everyone may not be willing.

At present, it is relying on personal prestige and credibility, but relying on personal prestige and credibility is bound to be unstable.

Maybe efficient, but always with a sword hanging over his head, unstable.

As much as you give, you have as much power to speak, and these businessmen must be happy. The ideal system that was the favorite of all the merchants in the world was the property-weighted voting system, in which one tael of silver was said for one tael of silver, and ten thousand taels of silver was said for ten thousand taels of silver.

Businessman looks? Unalterable principle.

"That's what I think? We can learn from the English. The British East India Company was to elect some people to speak. How to choose? Are they five hundred pounds? That is, we will count one vote for about 1,500 taels of silver. ”

"So this time, all the people who invested more than 1,000 taels were called, and everyone discussed it. We are just a thousand taels of silver for a vote? Two thousand taels of silver for two votes. I'm not going to be involved this time, so I'll try to let you do it yourself. ”

"But before that? I'll start with some of the rules that come to mind. Listen, everybody? If we all agree, let's do it. If you don't agree, say what you think and brainstorm it. ”

After everyone in the hall is quiet? Liu Yu talked about some of the things he imagined and plagiarized.

Is it to go through formalization? First of all, it is necessary to make it clear that the company bears the debt liability of the trading company to a third party.

According to one vote of one thousand taels of silver, a committee of eleven members was elected for a term of seven years.

Shareholders have the right to convene an extraordinary general meeting as long as they agree to raise one-third of the share capital? Committee members may be removed in exceptional circumstances.

This is a road left for himself, and for the time being, Liu Yu does not want to fully control trade with Japan? It is necessary to let this trading company grow up spontaneously and gradually improve the rules.

But what if the road goes wrong in the future? He can also control.

After electing the Committee of Eleven, the Committee has full powers? This includes making a trade plan, publishing accounts every year, making a long-term plan, etc.

The rest of the people are not allowed to interfere? However, it needs to be announced to shareholders.

Want to intervene? then in accordance with the previous article.

Employees of trading companies must have a fixed salary, and all levels of ship, bookkeeper, and procurement must have a clear salary.

A special supervisory department has been set up to be in charge of auditing, auditing, etc., and this department is outside the 11-member committee.

That's all there is to it, either copied from a previous life, or modeled after the Dutch or English one.

These rules are not too new, they can be understood at all.

Everyone also put forward some of the rest of the opinions, discussed for a while and settled on the general rules, and Liu Yu reminded two more things.

"One is that you can take a little bigger steps and be a little bolder in the future. We still have to grasp the trade in the South Seas. Outside of the South Seas, you can also go to India for a walk. It just so happened that I could send out two ships to load some cargo and send some good sailors to try to find a way to see if I could stand on my feet, and also to prepare for the expansion of my business in the future. ”

"Another ......"

Speaking of another thing, it is to use the construction of a big ship as an introduction, but what I really want to say is that the maritime merchants of this trading company should plan for the long term.

For example, the establishment of a practical school, let the children enroll, so that the concubines or non-elders of the family can learn more about navigation.

If you want to build a large Western ship, Liu Yu can let some people retire from Weihai, anyway, he has trained an excess of officers, and he will not need so many trainee captains for the time being, and these people are also looking forward to finding a better job after completing their studies.

This can be the case for a few years, but it certainly won't be like this in the future.

Therefore, it is hoped that the committee members of the trading company will consider building some voluntary schools in Songjiang, recruiting some poor children, learning navigation, accounting, arithmetic, etc., so as to ensure that there are enough talents to develop further business in the future.

These merchants were not very interested in Confucianism, and they were happy to let their children learn such knowledge.

The real heirs of the family are okay, and those concubines also have a way out, and they can have more contacts in the company in the future.

Moreover, Liu Yu also prepared a way for these people to become officials outside the imperial examination, that is, they could be admitted to Jinghai Palace and become artillery, navy, fortress engineer and other officers.

On the other hand, those who have retired from the navy and sailors can also be given priority to work in trading companies.

As far as possible, a new class was created, one that was not land-owning but mainly industrialists and merchants.

This class does not follow the orthodox imperial examination, and it does not study Confucianism, but it can have a certain influence and influence in the army.

Not only money, but also people.

This idea is also a sideline ball within the permission of the emperor, and now I don't see any problems.

When it came to the establishment of practical learning and righteous learning, the businessmen present also agreed.

They understand the truth that poetry and books are far away, but the relationship between poetry and books in the past and business and navigation is not too big.

It is too difficult to take the imperial examination. Only the top people in each province can get out of the way, and it is really not an easy road.

Now if you want to set up a practical school, the imperial court will definitely not pay for it, and the merchants are still happy to pay this money.

It will definitely be useful to make a big deal in the future.

After the Oriental Ocean is finished, there is also the South Sea, and beyond the South Sea, there is India, which can be tried.

The big deal is to let the maritime merchants of Fujian and Guangdong also participate in the shares, and use their strength to open up the South Seas and expand their influence.

Although there will certainly be people who will not agree with these people taking the profits, these will have to wait for the eleven committee to be elected, and the committee will decide on it.

If you do not agree, you will either gather one-third of the shareholders to meet to recall; Either sell the stock to someone else.

To be a businessman, first learn to abide by the rules, be willing to gamble and lose, there is no business in the world that only loses money and does not make money.

Liu Yu is doing this, in fact, it can be regarded as moving against the times.

The South China Sea bubble had just come out of the British side, which made the joint-stock system so much that for a long time, no new joint-stock companies appeared, and the British were frightened by the tragic situation after the bubble exploded.

However, if Matsue wants to monopolize Japanese trade in the future, it will definitely expand its shareholders and capital.

Shipbuilding, building ships, buying guns and guns in the name of going to sea to defend against pirates, and probing for information about Batavia all require long-term investment, huge investment.

I've eaten enough sweet dates in the past few years, and it's time to bleed.

Liu Yu's shares have the ability to convene an extraordinary meeting to remove the members of the committee at any time, but at this time he does not want to use it, but sees this trading company as a child.

Now that the child is finally going to grow up, trial and error are allowed, mistakes are allowed, and mistakes are allowed for a while...... Until the Japanese issue is resolved, he will not directly take care of it.

This time, the formalization of the trading company was as smooth as he expected, and there was no surprise, and there was no possibility of surprise.

The profits of trade with Japan were too great, and the actual monopoly caused by Japan's lockdown also led many merchants to think that this was a stable sale comparable to that of land.

Naturally, I hope that this business will be more stable, and it is good to have a formal system. There is also a large number of people, and part of the reason is that once the company is formalized, even if the imperial court approves the donation, it is not apportioned to one person.

The company, as an independent virtual person, is responsible to third parties. In this virtual person, there are counts like Liu Yu, nobles in the capital, officials like Tian Ping, and shares of the emperor they don't know.

Without the exploitation of officials, and the money that has to be bribed every year in Japan to obtain trade letters, coupled with the smuggling of rice and smuggling of smuggled goods, the profits have increased year by year, and I am afraid that some people will be jealous in the future.

Now that it's formalized, it at least sounds safer and more stable, especially for some small equity to reassure people.

Although listening to Liu Yu's meaning, he wants to build a big ship and run a righteous school, maybe the profit from the dividends in the past two years will be reduced. But in the long run, it is still earned.

There was generally no opposition, some rules were agreed, and the eleven-member committee was quickly elected.

Rao is Liu Yu didn't want to interfere, and the eleven-member committee elected by him, and the manpower under him still accounted for five.

Lin Yunwen joined in as a matter of course, and completed the miserable process of losing his business a few years ago to becoming a "Xixi", to now being in charge of a large chamber of commerce with a total share capital of several million taels, and he couldn't help but sigh at his life experience.

After this handful of sweet dates was eaten by everyone, Liu Yu struck while the iron was hot, and finally talked about what he really wanted to do.