Laoshan, Tangquan Town, the ruling yamen of the United States of New Island.

The main building of this yamen is also a half-middle and half-western building, with four floors high, 50 or 60 zhang long, 112 zhang wide, and extraordinary magnificence. This was originally intended to be the headquarters of the Royal Chamber of Commerce, but after it was completed, it was just in time for the opening of the United States of New Zealand, and it needed a magnificent and decent building as its headquarters, so I rented this building and hung the gold signboard of the United States - a big signboard with real gold, and it has strength when it looks like it!

The ruling government and the council of the United States of New Island are now placed in it, so it is called the ruling government yamen.

In the Great Hall of the Ruling Political Yamen, a general meeting of shareholders is being held at this time, no, it should be a political meeting.

The parliamentarians attending the meeting were all extraordinary, either honorable and meritorious heroes, or rich and southeastern. The nobles are reckless and black, and their bearings are high, needless to say. There are also parliamentarians from the metropolises of Shanghai, Nanjing, Suzhou, Yangzhou, Quanzhou, Guangzhou, and Ningbo, all of whom are extremely wealthy, and everyone has millions of furniture, and they all wear red official robes and black gauze official hats with imperial gifts. The nobles and wealthy businessmen should be two types of people who are clearly divided between the noble and the low, and how to collude in private is another matter, but on the surface, why should they not sit down under one roof in a grand manner - in front of a group of nobles, where is there a huge rich seat?

But Zhu Cihong just made such a United States that recognizes money but not people, and let a group of princes and uncles and a group of millionaires with millions of dollars and tens of millions of dollars happily sit together to discuss matters, this kind of thing was not believed by anyone a few years earlier, but Emperor Zhu can do it, which is really admirable.

And Zhu Cihong's method is also very simple, that is, he has engaged in two rounds of "venture capital", the first round for the nobles and the second round for the rich.

Now the shares of the United States in the hands of the nobles are all discounted, not eight or nine discounts, but directly discounted!

One million taels of one large share, first out of 50,000 taels, then out of 50,000 taels, before and after came out of 100,000 taels. Including the 30 major shares subscribed by Emperor Zhu, a total of 100 shares were issued in the large shares of the United States, and the actual funds raised were only 10 million taels.

After these 10 million taels were in place, Zhu Cihong presided over the convening of the United States Council and passed a resolution to turn the "big shares" in the hands of the honorable people into non-transferable special shares (inheritable, non-transferable). There is another one-split ten, that is, one large share is split into ten special shares.

At the same time, it is stipulated that shareholders who hold these "special shares with unpaid share capital" can postpone the payment of all the shares due for 50 years!

After that, the United States began to raise special shares (which are also inheritable and non-transferable) that required full payment of the subscription fee, one hundred taels per share, for a total of one hundred shares and raised ten million taels.

And the object of this round of offering is not limited to honorable nobles, as long as you can come up with 100,000 taels of silver.

100,000 taels is not a small amount of money!

Although there are many rich people in Daming now, no one's money is blown by the wind, and it is not easy to trap this money in.

Fortunately, Zhu Cihong is a senior expert in the money industry - the old bank! Can you not be familiar?

And Emperor Zhu's method is also quite creative, not to use the high premium of the secondary market to make money, what liquidity can a stock of 100,000 taels of shares have? Emperor Zhu set such a par value for the shares of the United States in the hope that investors could hold them for a long time and participate in the construction and development of the United States...... So Chu's approach was to attach several special rights and interests to the special stock of the United States.

The first is that you can get a Baron of the United States by holding one special share, a Viscount of the United States by holding three shares, an Earl of the United States by holding five shares, and a Marquis of the United States by holding ten shares. Each title comes with a certain amount of land.

Of course, these titles and lands were not to be cashed out immediately, but only after the Council of the United States and the king had moved into the Americas. However, until it is redeemed, any person who holds one share of the United States Special Stock (or every ten shares of the unpaid Special Stock may recommend one Member of Congress) may be entitled to the position of Member of the United States Council and the title of Distinguished Person of the United States.

Second, since the king of the United States is currently held by Zhu Cihong, the wealthy merchants who hold shares have obtained the power of "face king" and "upper play".

Don't underestimate these two powers, Zhu Cihong doesn't like to summon sesame mung bean officials very much, and civil officials below the sixth grade are not even qualified to participate in the court meeting, although they can be invited in theory, but basically they can't see the emperor.....

There are a little more officials who have the "right to play", and theoretically all officials can play it, but except for a very small number of officials who have the right to play secretly, the other officials' recitals are issued by the General Political Department. If there is a division that thinks it needs to be uploaded, it will be sent to the Cabinet Office, the Generalissimo's Office, the Metropolitan Procuratorate, the Imperial Palace, the Guozijian and other yamen who have the right to face the monarch, and then send it to Emperor Zhu.

And the members of the United States Council also have the same power as the members of the Daming Council!

Of course, the power of this face-to-face monarch is not unlimited, but there must be a certain number of joint names of parliamentarians, and there must be total control...... Because Zhu Cihong also doesn't like to watch too many concerts.

Thirdly, the wealthy who hold the position of a member of the United States Council also have the right to recommend talented people to school (the members of the Daming Council also have such a power), and they can recommend a certain number of "talented people" to enter the best primary, secondary and university in Daming!

Of course, the virtuous don't shy away from relatives! It is also okay to recommend your own sons and grandchildren to school...... However, the number of seats is limited, so please be cautious about recommending!

With these three additional benefits, is 100,000 taels of silver still a problem?

One hundred thousand taels of silver is not a share, but a ticket to enter the circle of top elites in the Ming Dynasty!

If you enter this circle, you may be bullied by the real top magnates, but the local sesame mung beans will not dare to provoke you again.

Moreover, Zhu Cihong's credit rating is very high, he has always been true to his words and more reasonable, so the rich people who pay for tickets are not worried about being slaughtered by him as a fat pig.

As for those real magnates, it is certain that they look down on the 100 "newcomers" who squeezed in, but they will not be kicked out. Because the United States is still burning money, it has to point to the rich people of the Ming Dynasty to continue to pay for it, so that the United States can continue.

If you kick them away, the business of the United States will be ruined—these powerful people have unscrupulous sons and daughters in their families waiting for the title of the United States!

And the thing to discuss at today's parliamentary meeting is to continue to circle money!

The ruling government of the United States was Zheng Zhilong's nephew Zheng Cai, who told the big guy about the budget for the increase of troops in the Americas in a Fujian official dialect, and then proposed the third phase of the fundraising plan.

This time, it is 1,000 taels of ordinary shares with a face value, and it is planned to raise 30,000 shares, which is to circle 30 million taels!

The interest in the common shares themselves is equivalent to one percent of the special shares, i.e., one hundred shares of common stock equals one special share, and unlike the inheritable but non-transferable special shares, these common shares can be bought and sold on the market.

However, ordinary shares do not have "special rights", and shareholders holding ordinary shares cannot directly enter the Council, nor do they have the title of Honor of the United States, nor can they recommend talented people to school.

Of course, the United States will also return the shareholders of the common shares, and the return will be done in two ways: one is to pay for the redemption of the shares on the land; The second is to pay a fixed dividend.

One thousand taels of common shares of the United States of America may be exchanged for one thousand acres of arable land or three thousand acres of pasture in the Republic of New Continent. After acquiring arable land and pasture with stocks, you can also get a tax exemption (referring to the land endowment) for a period of 5 years.

If the shareholders holding the common shares of the United States are not willing to exchange the land, they may receive a fixed dividend of 60 taels per share from the ruling government of the United States from the fifteenth year of the year of Hung Xing...... The return is not very good, and it is about the same as the interest on the feudal debt.

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