Chapter 681 Listed Companies
Today's Li Zhi is no longer as worried about the outflow of civilian technology as he was when he just crossed over. Pen, fun, pavilion www. biquge。 info
First of all, because today's products have become more and more specialized, and are often only suitable for the orderly society under Li Zhizhi. For example, this seeder and harvester, except for Liaodong, which is thousands of miles of fertile fields, tenant farmers in other parts of the Ming Dynasty could not afford to use them, and the landlords had no incentive to buy them -- it was obviously more cost-effective to hire tenant farmers who were just trying to make a living than to use expensive machinery.
The most important thing in industrial farming using machinery is the legal environment. A farmer plows the fields of five people and earns super profits, but he cannot be blackmailed by other tycoons. Without the legal environment established by Li Zhi, the seeders and harvesters would have been in operation for less than a few months, and there would have been green-skinned scoundrels who would have come to their homes to extort money, and there would have been bullies and hooligans who would have sabotaged irrigation canals.
Productivity is important, but without the cooperation of production relations, even the best machines can only be shelved. Li Zhi's southern and northern wars killed countless people, and what he wanted was to establish a benign production relationship.
Secondly, the products sold by Li Zhi are indeed very high-tech. For example, steam engines need to be finished using lathes and boring machines. These lathes and boring machines use bearings that Li Zhi has repeatedly improved, and they are far beyond the industrial machine tools of this era. Even if someone with ulterior motives bought a steam engine to disassemble and imitate, he would not have been able to build a steam engine without a lathe or boring machine.
According to the processing accuracy of this era, even if Hongmao and Francois bought Li Zhi's steam engine, they could not successfully imitate it.
So Li Zhi was able to let all kinds of workshops and trawling fishermen use their own steam engines, and farmers in eastern Liaodong to use agricultural machinery without worrying about the problem of technology outflow.
Li Zhi nodded as he watched the three steam engines roar through the workshop.
He said to the owner, "Get up and speak!" ”
The workshop owner stood up, but he still bent over and arched his hand to Li Zhi, not daring to stand up straight.
Li Zhi asked: "How much profit do you make from this harvester?" ”
The owner of the workshop hesitated for two seconds when he heard this, as if he was wondering whether to tell the truth.
Han Jinxin read countless people, and immediately understood the owner's thoughts, and shouted: "Wuna merchant, if Grandpa Guo asks you, you will answer honestly." As long as you tell the truth, there will naturally be benefits to you. If you deceive and deceive, Grandpa Hui will close your workshop and make you lose all your money. ”
The owner of the workshop was trembling by Han Jinxin's words, and replied: "Lord General Soldier has taught him a lesson!" If I return to my grandfather, I can make a profit of fifty-three taels for the production of one imitation harvester. ”
Li Zhi's factory only made a profit of forty-five taels for one machine, but the owner of the workshop earned fifty-three taels. Li Zhi asked in surprise, "Can there be so many?" How did you do that? ”
The owner of the workshop looked up at Li Zhi, then lowered his head and said: "Grandpa Return, we have fine management in the workshop, and we have done a good job in the materials and operations of each production step, so as not to produce a trace of waste." In addition, although the harvester designed by Grandpa Guo is very exquisite, there is still a redundant structure in some parts, and I have made improvements. So when we go back and forth, we use less material and the cost is lower. ”
Li Zhi nodded and glanced at the owner appreciatively.
Li Zhi roughly designed the harvester at that time and went to the south to recruit Qian Qianyi, and the designed harvester naturally did not have time to improve in detail, but it was unexpectedly seen by the workshop owner.
Invention is important, but entrepreneurship is also important for invention to benefit society. Only when advanced science and technology are properly managed can we truly enhance social productive forces. The first person to invent the television is great, but without the continuous improvement of television from generation to generation, the television will always remain a few inches in size.
Li Zhi feels that the owner of the workshop in front of him is a qualified entrepreneur, who understands technology and has strong management skills.
Rather than letting his second uncle Li Dao continue to manage the increasingly large government-run factories and build an increasingly bloated management organization, Li Zhi was more inclined to use the patent system to release product production to the private sector. If private personnel with managerial skills are allowed to participate in industrial production, the efficiency of the whole society will be much higher than that of the government-run giant factories.
Li Zhi asked, "What's your name?" ”
The owner of the workshop replied: "Returning to China, the little man is called Zhang Liang." ”
Li Zhi said with a smile: "Zhang Liang, in the future, if you produce the harvesters invented by your father, you will have to pay forty taels of patent royalties to your father-in-law for each one." ”
The workshop owner thought for a while, nodded and said: "The machine invented by Grandpa Guo is willing to produce for us, and we naturally have to pay a certain fee." It is to pay 40 taels of royalties to Guogong, and we also have 13 taels of profits. ”
Li Zhi said with a smile: "The cost of a machine only costs twenty-seven taels, and the profit of thirteen taels is a windfall profit, almost fifty percent of the windfall profit!" I advise you to expand production! ”
Zhang Liang, the owner of the workshop, looked at Li Zhi and said, "Returning to China, Xiaomin also wants to buy a few more steam engines and produce dozens of more harvesters every month. It's just that all the belongings of the small people are invested in this workshop, where is the money to expand production? After a pause, Zhang Liang said: "It is a way to get a loan from the bank, but my family does not have so many real estate and land as collateral, and the bank will not lend me money." ”
Li Zhi nodded and said: "Bank loans are really not good, the bank only earns the highest interest point, and it is impossible to bear the risk of starting a business like you." I suggest that you issue shares to raise funds from the public. ”
Zhang Liang was stunned and asked, "What is a stock?" ”
Li Zhi smiled: "It's a long story, I'll send someone to explain to you when the time comes." I'm going to build a stock exchange these days, and then you'll be the first listed company on my exchange. ”
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On May 15, Li Zhi took Li Huan to the soon-to-open stock exchange.
Li Huan is already nine years old, and Li Zhi gave him a one-and-a-half-year-old pony at the beginning of the year, and Li Huan has had a mount since then. Li Huan liked this pony very much and soon learned to ride a horse. He felt that the pony was not majestic enough, and asked the housekeeper of the house to bring a red silk flower to hang on the pony's forehead, which looked like the mount of the bridegroom.
Li Zhi took Li Huan on the road, and passers-by looked at Li Huan, the son of the country, with great joy. The common people under Li Zhi's rule are getting richer and richer, but Li Zhi will one day grow old and die. The heir of the Duke of the Kingdom is the guarantee of a good life for the people, and many people stand on both sides and happily salute Li Zhi's father and son.
Riding on the horse, Li Huan suddenly asked, "Daddy, what is a stock?" ”
"Stocks are the fund-raising certificates given to the public after the promising workshops or factories raise funds from the public due to lack of funds. This certificate can be traded on the market. ”
Seeing that Li Huan didn't understand, Li Zhi said, "You know about the partnership, right? ”
Li Huan hurriedly nodded and replied, "I know!" ”
"Stocks are a type of partnership, but there are more people involved in the partnership, and there is less money for a single partner."
Li Huan suddenly realized and said, "I understand, Daddy." A public company is a partnership. However, there are more partners, often hundreds or thousands of partners, and each person's share of the partnership is proved by stocks. This share of participation can be sold on the market. ”
Li Zhi was stunned, he didn't expect the nine-year-old Li Huan to understand the meaning of the stock so quickly.
This son is really smart.