174 First Divided
The distribution of the benefits of the mine is a matter that has been negotiated by the members of the Nanyang Chamber of Commerce long before the establishment of the mine, and now Lu Jiajie has come to the stage to explain the situation in detail, more to explain the expenditure in the past two years.
As for the income from the mine, this has never been a secret in the Nanyang Chamber of Commerce, but all members of the Chamber of Commerce can check the bill sent by Lu Jiajie from the Medan mine last month in Keelung Town anytime and anywhere.
Excluding the expenses caused by the expansion of the mine, the total income of the entire mine in the past two years or so is more than 330,000 taels of gold, which is converted into silver according to the current gold and silver exchange ratio of the Ming Dynasty, that is, more than 3.3 million taels of silver.
This income, for the top few big businesses in the Chamber of Commerce, although the wealth is amazing, but they are also wealthy, and there is not much change in mood after a little sigh.
Not to mention that this gold, in the end, it had to be divided with fifty-eight merchants and a Sulu kingdom, and the gold that finally fell into everyone's hands was at most more than 10,000 taels of gold, which really made them all excited.
However, there are more small and medium-sized businesses and gangs, and the entire business is afraid that this wealth is not valuable, so how can it not surprise and excite everyone.
Not to mention that in order to shock people's hearts, Li Tianyang and them worked hard to transport all the 330,000 taels of gold from Luzon to Keelung Town, when Lu Jiajie explained the detailed report and announced the start of the distribution of gold, everyone originally thought that it was just for the occasion when the big red curtain hung behind the podium in front of them slid down and revealed the true face behind the podium, everyone's eyes were dazzled by the golden in front of them!!
Even those proprietors and young proprietors of big businesses who thought they were equally wealthy, when the gold in front of them formed a solid wall of gold, they thought that they were calm, and they also lost their minds, and became a part of the hearts that were fascinated by gold.
Hongmen and the Shark Gang, which has been merged into Hongmen, occupy a share of one and a half in it, which has been discussed by everyone before, although now the two are one, but the surrounding share is not less.
Of course, Li Tianyang and the others did not make concessions, after all, the investment, management and production of this Medan mine did not involve much Hongmen, in fact, Hongmen did not intervene much, it can almost be said that they were sitting and collecting money, so after they defeated the Spaniards, they Hongmen divided 10% of the profits that were originally going to be distributed to the Spaniards to the remaining 58 business members.
According to this calculation, the gold that Hongmen can get is about 50,000 taels, which can be regarded as a large amount of income, which can just fill the financially scarce Hongmen.
But what everyone doesn't know is that Li Tianyang spent all his efforts to transport all the gold mined by Medan Minerals to Keelung Town, not just to shock the hearts of these members of the Chamber of Commerce, he didn't want this gold out of his hands at all.
A representative of the Chamber of Commerce, in the midst of Lu Jiajie's shouting, walked up to the podium and took a note engraved with the seal of the Chamber of Commerce, with this note, after their return trip later, they could take the gold away from the Hongmen Dayuan Village.
The members of the Chamber of Commerce present at least received more than 1,000 taels of gold, that is, more than 10,000 taels of silver, which may not be anything in the eyes of these big firms in Hongmen, but in the eyes of these merchants, it is also a lot of income.
Not all businesses, like Hongmen, Defuxuan and other big merchants, a trip to the sea has at least tens of thousands of taels of silver, many small merchants do not dare to trade in the ocean, that is, between the Ming Dynasty and Dayuan Island, Ryukyu to earn some difference, a trip to the profit of more than 10,000 taels, this time the income can withstand the first half of the rush, how not to make everyone satisfied.
Moreover, without the threat of the Spaniards and natives, the expansion of the Medan mines will be in full swing, and with an abundant supply of labor, the benefits will only increase.
After everyone got their own share of the benefits, Lu Jiajie could be regarded as having completed his mission and stepped down, and then Li Tianyang came back to the stage.
"It seems that everyone is quite satisfied with this benefit, since you have made a fortune, you must remember to treat yourself, we have all kinds of strange things in Keelung Town, ancient and modern, Chinese and foreign, you might as well change a little and go back to coax the wife at home!!"
Li Tianyang's joking voice sounded, which immediately made everyone present smile.
"Okay, let's laugh and laugh, we're done with this business, it's time for dinner, I've prepared some thin wine and food in Hongmen, and I hope everyone will get together with their faces, everyone will not get drunk tonight!"
"Good!"
Li Tianyang's invitation, who dares to not, to put it bluntly, this time almost all the proprietors of the Chamber of Commerce members came to cheer, and the picture will naturally not be the income of the Medan mine, they don't want to continue to maintain a good relationship with Hongmen Li Tianyang, so as to hug Hongmen's thighs, and have a backer in the future!
"By the way, there are surprises waiting for you tomorrow, but don't be in a hurry to leave Hong Kong!!"
In the end, Li Tianyang also sold a small pass, and then announced the end of the meeting and invited the proprietors to go to the canteen of the Keelung Town Government to eat.
Just for Li Tianyang's last sentence of profound words, at this moment, everyone is afraid that they are all beginning to think about it, what kind of surprise will be waiting for everyone next.
With Li Tianyang as his company, the dinner party in the evening made everyone drink to the fullest, and it was rare that even Li Tianyang himself was drunk.
Before everyone came to visit him at the same time, Li Tianyang, as the master of Hongmen and the admiral of the Ming Water Division, naturally could not be received by everyone, so he only met with more than a dozen business owners with high status and close relations.
But in the evening to the banquet, Li Tianyang can no longer put on a show of dignity and humility, and none of the proprietors of the Chamber of Commerce who came to toast refused, it can be said that the wine is dry, so that everyone can see Li Tianyang's fair and right attitude towards everyone.
In particular, many proprietors themselves were the first to come to Keelung Town, and their meetings with Li Tianyang were only a few in Keelung Town, but when they found Li Tianyang to toast, Li Tianyang could always call each other's names as soon as possible, and at the same time mentioned a few words to himself about the future cooperation plan of his firm, which made everyone's perception of Li Tianyang rise to a higher level again.
It wasn't until the third day of the night that this happy banquet came to an end, and almost everyone in the Chamber of Commerce walked into the canteen vertically, and was carried out by their own servants horizontally.
(End of chapter)