Coercion and temptation, familiar with the road.

In the past ten years, or to be more precise, for most of the past six months, Gao Pragmatic seems to have been doing this kind of thing, and he dare not say that he has reached the peak, so he should be called perfect.

Now that Annan's military power has been mastered, and the rights and obligations between the Jinghua Group and the Annan Metropolitan Command have been basically divided, the next thing to do is the work of government affairs.

In fact, government affairs are really no less important than military affairs. And the most important thing is, in short, just four words: colonization.

In Gao Shishi's eyes, the Jinghua Group, especially when it comes to foreign affairs, is similar to the so-called "East India Company" of Europeans, of course, it wants to make a profit, but in the final analysis, it is a pioneer of colonial exploration.

Historically, British India was founded by the "British East India Company", which had no less than 200,000 "company troops" composed mainly of Indians in India before the company's demise.

It would be stupid not to learn such a good experience.

On June 23, 1757, a battle was fought between the British and the Bengali prince Siraj Ud Dra'a in a village called Plassey on the banks of the Bhajirati River, at the source of the Ganges. On the British side, the commander Robert Clevough, led a force of more than 3,000 men, including 900 Europeans and 2,200 Indians, while his opponent, Siraj, committed 35,000 infantry and 15,000 cavalry.

In the end, only about 20 British soldiers were killed or wounded, while the Bengali army lost more than 1,000 soldiers.

In terms of scale, this "Battle of Plassey" can hardly be called a major battle, but its historical significance is extraordinarily significant. After this battle, the power of the British began to infiltrate all levels of government in India, becoming the de facto rulers of India. More importantly, the war represented the East India Company as an official "agent" of the British Empire's colonial rule in India.

Strictly speaking, as a historical term, the term "East India Company" does not specifically refer to the British East India Company. In the 17th century, the "East India Company" was a corporate model established by most countries in Western Europe to develop colonial trade, and its trading partners were mainly India, Malaysia and other Asian countries located in the Indian Ocean and the western Pacific Ocean. The reason why it was called the "East Indies" was to distinguish it from the Americas, which was called the "West Indies" by the West at the time.

In the beginning, among the East India Companies established in Western countries, the most advanced and powerful model was actually the United Dutch East India Company. They adopted the model of a joint-stock company and operated with the goal of long-term operation, so they were regarded by later generations as the pioneers of the "joint-stock system". At its strongest, the Dutch East India Company monopolized the spice trade throughout the East Indies and completely suppressed the operations of the East India Companies in other countries.

However, Gao Pragmatic has no interest in the "Dutch advanced company system", because the system he implemented in Jinghua is also a joint-stock system, but it is ...... It's just too Chinese characteristics.

This feature is called political shareholding, and more colloquially, it is that the powerful eat dry stocks.

Gao Pragmatism has never made it clear what "Jinghua Group" refers to in Daming, but in fact, everyone will definitely acquiesce in this way: any industry controlled by Gao Pragmatism and whose signboard begins with the word "Jinghua" belongs to "Jinghua Group".

This group is completely controlled by Gao Pragmatic, and there is no such thing as equity. However, when it comes to specific industries, there are two other systems implemented at the same time, namely dry stock dividends and performance dividends.

There are two major categories of dividends of dry stocks: one is the shareholding of the elite, which does not need to be explained, Zhu Yingzhen, Zhang Yuangong, Li Zongcheng and other powerful people or the children of the powerful in various industries under Jinghua get profit dividends, which is dry shares.

Dry stocks do not contribute money, enjoy profit dividends, but do not have any decision-making power - that is, the so-called voting rights in later generations.

The other category is technical dry stocks, and the Liu family's Baibao Continuation Life Scatter belongs to this category. However, a more important technical cadre is Zhu Zaiyu.

Zhu Zaiyu's improvement of some production equipment, such as coking and iron-smelting tools, sail shapes, pulley sets, etc., also arranged dry stock dividends for him after the production of products.

However, because Zhu Zaiyu has no concept of money, the dividend ratio given by Gao Pragmatic is also surprisingly low, but because his "patents" are a bit much, the money is quite considerable in the end.

The performance dividend is given to the daily managers of various industries, such as Gao Rui, Gao Mengnan, Shuai Jiamo, and Gao Sitang, in addition to the formal salary, they are all performance rewards can be obtained.

However, it is easier to get the "subsistence allowance" for the performance reward of the high and pragmatic guy, and it is difficult to get the next few higher grades. For the division of performance rewards, Gao Mo's internal affairs office and Gao Guoyan's finance department jointly worked together for several months to roughly determine a performance level, of course, there is no need to go into detail one by one.

But by the way, Gao Jue, Gao Zhang, and Gao Jing, "generals" who lead troops to the battle, also get performance rewards, but this kind of reward is determined by Gao Pragmatic himself, and he just takes the account of Jinghua.

Therefore, the current shareholding system is a kind of "Chinese characteristics" joint-stock system, which has both an advanced side, which is equivalent to the practice of "equity incentive" in later generations, and also has a "decadent" side...... It is equivalent to a power and money transaction.

Among them, there is also a "flexible mechanism", that is, Gao Pragmatic can use "face" to raise money from the powerful, but this hand is a spare skill, and Gao Pragmatic has not used it yet - his "cash flow" is still abundant so far.

It's just that I don't know if this abundance can be maintained after the construction of Golden Harbor City is in full swing and the construction of pure warships begins. Maybe when the time comes, he will have to consider diluting a small part of the equity, or exchanging face for money, and these will be seen when he gets it.

Since there is no need to learn the institutional systems of the Dutch East India Company and the British East India Company, all you need to learn is the means of management.

The reason why the Yongle Dynasty's control of Annam failed was, in the final analysis, that it was unable to make ends meet and that the losses were too serious; The colonization of Europeans was able to spread all over the world, in large part because of the profitability of their colonial policies.

Another reason for the colony's profitability was the agency model similar to that of the East India Company.

The East India Company's first consideration was profit, and then it would consider continuing to develop colonies, and the development of more colonies was for the sake of more profits—only such "rolling profits" could be maintained.

So many commercial clauses in the "Jinghua Sixteen Articles" are designed for this purpose. Even some of the provisions with strong political connotations are essentially designed to protect these profits.

But Gao Shishi knew that whether it was the British or Dutch East India Company, there was one thing that he could not learn at will, at least in Annam.

This is called a predatory colonial policy.

For example, the British East India Company maintained the privilege of zero tariffs in the Mughal dynasty of India for a long time, which was not learned by high pragmatism. Although the "Jinghua Sixteen Points" were completely based on a pragmatic decision, he left a little comfort for Annan - Jinghua also had to pay a tax of one percent in full.

After the historical British East India Company seized political and military power in India, it soon became its main means of profiting by plundering trade, which Gao Shishi believed was the beginning of their downfall.

At that time, the East India Company was in the hands of the Zhèngquán and could not wait to use it to achieve maximum plunder. Whenever the company conquered a land, it plundered the treasury and extorted the princes and nobles.

In 1757, after the East India Company captured the Bengali capital, Murshidabad, it robbed £3.7 million worth of treasure from the treasury of Siraj, the Maharaja of Bengal. Subsequently, the East India Company installed Mir Jafar as the puppet ruler of Bengal. Mir Jafar paid another £1 million in "reparations" and paid £500,000 to British businessmen in Calcutta. These riches even exceeded the sum of the East India Company's annual trade.

The initial policy of peaceful business was abandoned, and war, territorial expansion, and tax increases were replaced, and the East India Company seemed to be more profitable, but it was also dying step by step.

waging wars, colonizing, plundering, selling opium...... While the East India Company was engaged in high-profit trading, the internal competition was also increasing due to the disappearance of competition.

After Klevu became Governor of Bengal in 1764, "the once courteous clerks of the company have now become furious and greedy; Shareholders collude with each other to bribe campaigns; The board of directors has also become a contentious body without the leadership to govern effectively. ”

At that time, the employees of the East India Company began to enrich themselves and accumulate wealth on their own. According to a report by the British Parliament, between 1757 and 1766, the East India Company employees received gifts of £2.17 million. In the mid-to-late 18th century, the lucrative "reward" for service in India made company shares seen not only as a regular investment, but also as capital to make a fortune in India for themselves or their relatives.

If these situations are evaluated by Gao Pragmatic, it is "the transformation from a commercial company to a dynasty".

If you want to make some inappropriate analogies, this is like the combat effectiveness of Taqing before entering the customs and the combat effectiveness after entering the customs, in just ten or twenty years, it can fall from the peak to the bottom; It's like the Jintian Uprising, the Taiping Army when Yong'an was crowned king, and the Taiping Army after the Dingdu Tianjing, it didn't take ten years at all to fall into the sun.

Therefore, Gao Pragmatic did not intend to let Jinghua Group follow the old path of the British East India Company, and he mainly wanted to learn the "first half of life" of the East India Company.

So what were the characteristics of the "first half of the life of the East India Company"?

It is to maintain business competition and maintain business reputation, while insisting on profit first and not falling into endless frenzied plundering.

All of the above can be described in five words that Gao Pragmatic is very familiar with: sustainable development. If there are two more words, it is: adhere to sustainable development.

Killing chickens to take eggs and fishing with all their might must not be a wise rule, only to seriously plant leeks for the sake of cutting leeks.

Therefore, Gao Pragmatic grasped the military and political power of Annan on the one hand, and on the other hand, he established two ports in the north and south of Annan, and at the same time allowed Mo Maoqia to cooperate with the Jinghua Group to do business.

Not only that, Gao was also afraid of the lack of competition and vitality of the Jinghua Group, and built the golden port as a free port for trade - the new port at the mouth of the Ganghe River in the north is not a pure free port, because the northern part of the country wants to ensure that Mohs and Moh's related old Annan forces can be profitable.

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This can be regarded as gradually writing about the "deep water area of reform", and the more I write, the slower it gets......