"There are too many risks at sea! So ......"

Looking at everyone, a smile appeared on Shi Yiwen's face.

"I would like to adopt a risk-sharing approach and adopt the ...... of co-financing and co-financing with you to establish a Western-style company."

Without waiting for Shi Yiwen to finish speaking, Zhu Yingzhen said urgently.

"What do you say? Co-financing? What is the investment method? ”

Originally, he was determined to win him by the Western Company, but he never expected that Shi Yiwen would give up the Western Company. Most of the others also looked at Shi Yiwen curiously, and their eyes were full of puzzlement.

"Is it possible that you want to give up the Western company?"

"Let it out?"

Shi Yiwen asked rhetorically,

"It's not about letting it out, it's about setting up a joint-stock company."

Seeing that everyone still seemed to have some doubts, Shi Yiwen explained.

"Because the sea voyage is very risky, so in the Western countries are operated in the form of joint stock management, before each voyage, they will raise the sailing funds, according to the amount of capital to divide the shares, after the voyage returns, after deducting the cost and then share dividends......

For the way Shi Yiwen said, everyone here is no stranger, after all, they are more or less involved in business operations, and they have also heard of this way of dividends, and even this is also the way of operation of southern maritime merchants.

"However, this mode of operation is not suitable for Western companies, after all, Western companies need to operate for a long time, so the shareholders of future Western companies need to store their assets in the company for a long time and recycle them, and do not raise funds for a certain voyage."

Although he is reluctant to admit it, he knows that this investment model has indirectly influenced later companies, creating a new atmosphere of collaboration and mutual benefit between strangers and businessmen in modern society.

This is even the reason for the growth of the Dutch East India Company. With this model, the East India Company had sufficient funds to cope with frequent voyages, and the rolling funds brought huge returns, forming a virtuous circle.

Moreover, throughout the history of the East India Company, every time the East India Company grew, it almost benefited from the mistakes of the Portuguese reticulated trade, and the East India Company was able to successfully take over the strategic nodes lost by Portugal every time and enjoy the success. And this is also due to the virtuous cycle of its capital.

"After all, if you want to make good profits, you need to operate for a long time, and you need to invest both equity and profits in the company's operation, which is the best choice for long-term profits. If my estimation is correct, if everything goes well, in three years, the annual profit of the company will exceed 3 million taels, and in five years it will be doubled, and by then, your annual dividends will probably far exceed the figures you have written on paper! ”

This is the reason why Shi Yiwen asked them to write down this number, the reason why he did it is not only because these people don't know how to expand the profits of maritime trade at all, their thoughts just stay on "selling goods", nothing more than to transport the goods of the Ming Dynasty to the East and West Oceans, and then transport the goods that the Ming needs back, that's all.

But in fact, the profits of maritime trade are not limited to this, this is just the most basic game.

"Oh, this big cake in Shi Lang is not small."

looked at Shi Yiwen, and then glanced at the British princess, thinking about the Zhang family's income in the Jingxi coal mine, Zhu Yingzhen, who couldn't help but be hot for a while, muttered in his heart, is it possible, what is his way to do it?

"How much can you earn from this, it's nothing more than a saying, I want to hear what you do as a Western company, isn't it, we take out the silver, and then you take the silver to do business, and wait until the end of the year to make money, and then give us dividends? This gives us a chance to sit back and enjoy the dividends, speaking of which, I still want to thank you! ”

Although it is just a casual question, this is precisely the characteristic of "partnership" in this era, and the investors do not ask about the specific operation, but only enjoy the dividends. This is also the fundamental reason why the East India Company is called the first joint-stock company.

"Sitting on dividends?"

Shi Yiwen said with a smile.

"How is this possible? Since the company is composed of joint contributions, it is natural to set up a general meeting of shareholders, and the general meeting of shareholders is the highest authority of the company, and in order to facilitate the management of the company, another board of directors is set up, which is an agency set up for shareholders in the staff meeting. Therefore, in the future, the board of directors will be the top leadership, and the board of directors will be composed of 17 directors, and the specific operation of the company will be decided by the board of directors......"

Then Shi Yiwen explained the characteristics of the board of directors one by one, and in addition to explaining, he could notice that Zhu Yingzhen's expression changed from time to time, and of course, he could also see that Zhang Rong's expression was not very natural, it seemed that the former saw an opportunity, and the latter was full of doubts and puzzles.

They don't understand......

In fact, the establishment of the board of directors and even the introduction of the 19th-century shareholders' meeting into the structure of Western companies was not for the sake of the company's management. If it is just to run the company, Shi Yiwen is more willing to adopt the "partnership" of this era, where the investors contribute capital and enjoy dividends, but they do not ask about the company's operation model.

However, Shi Yiwen finally chose the "shareholding system", which is relatively inefficient and seems to have many internal problems that need to be balanced.

The reason why Shi Yiwen made this choice was that Shi Yiwen had more far-reaching considerations - political considerations, almost after determining that the Jiangnan gentry group was his enemy, he was thinking about how to use the emerging capital group and the Xunchen group to fight against the Jiangnan gentry group, the former would form a loose alliance of interests through industry, commerce, chambers of commerce and other means, but this alliance was loose and had limited power in the DPRK. So in the end, he still moved his brain to the Xunchen Group, but over the years, the Xunchen Group has also been scattered, and they lack common interests, and there is even no common stage to communicate, which is also the reason why they are easy to be broken by each other.

Therefore, what Shi Yiwen needs to do is to provide a platform for them to negotiate on this platform and slowly reach a consensus, maybe there will be conflicts between them, but no one has a grudge against Yinzi. For now, whether it is the board of directors or the shareholders' meeting, it seems to have no effect, but when the Jiangnan Gentry Group reaches out to the company because of the conflict of interests, it is equivalent to being the enemy of the entire Gentry Group!

"Platform, give them a platform to make the whole gentry group their enemy, and then ......"

Thinking of the conversation with Wu Cai a few days ago, Shi Yiwen sneered in his heart.

"Let them fight on their own......"