Chapter 99: The Shen family's year-end dividends
The Chinese New Year's Eve was approaching, and the governors of the provinces of the Shen family's business empire were rushing to Nanjing from all over the country, because the annual dividend meeting stipulated by Shen Xing was about to be held in the Shen Mansion.
Hundreds of leaders in various industries led by Liu Qingyuan simply completed a three-day summary report in the conference hall of the newly built nine-storey office building of Shen Mansion, and the five daughters of the Liu family sat in it very eye-catching.
Although the maritime trade controlled by Shen Rende joined the shortest time, the profit results were impressively at the top of the list, and the trading countries involved rose to as many as fifteen countries in half a year, and the silver taels accounted for one-third of the total proportion, followed by the steel and coal business in the military industry.
Coupled with Shen Xing's later trade unlocking of Mongolia, Tibet and even the Manchu Qing Dynasty, the trend of latecomers is unstoppable, and the most unexpected thing is Yinling, a little girl who has only turned thirteen years old, she not only made the high-end supermarket chain impressive, not to mention the seven provinces that Shen Xing has pacified, but also painted a gourd to make high-end inns bloom everywhere.
In the face of her own industrial advantages, she also started a cooperation model with the local people, and vigorously developed the breeding and acquisition industry chain of pigs, chickens and ducks.
Reading such a year-end report, Shen Xing almost didn't believe her eyes for a while, the little girl was simply a natural business wizard, how many rules and bits and pieces of things in the huge business group needed her to deal with alone, even if there were some people below to help, but to perfectly control and grasp the operation of the entire enterprise, Shen Xing asked himself that he couldn't do it anyway.
The performance of the little girl with silver bell is eye-catching, and she has also been highly praised by Shen Renyi, not simply because she ranks third in the profit, but because Shen Renyi sees the hope of the future of the Shen family through her.
Although the textile industry controlled by Mu Ling has seen a decline in profits due to lower prices and most local cooperation, the overall profits are still very considerable, and more than 50 million taels have been earned. As for other teas, silk, furniture, grain, oil and salt...... Due to the impact of the war, they are the same as in previous years.
More than a dozen bookkeepers carried the abacus and repeatedly calculated, and finally came to the Shen family's annual profit as high as 300 million taels, but because Shen Xing's personal decision to carry out local infrastructure construction for the long-term development of the chamber of commerce for free, and to fund the imperial court's military salaries and other measures, half of them were spent, although when they heard that they were spent so much, all the stewards present couldn't help but feel pain.
However, who can do it here, who will be short-sighted, after a little thought, the land annexed by Shen Xing in the provinces alone is an astronomical amount, although most of it is distributed to the local people for free, but the wool is out of the sheep, and the one-tenth of the grain rent seems to be insignificant, but once all the land is concentrated, then this rent cannot be underestimated at all.
The exciting moment is, of course, in the face of that box of real money and silver began to dividends, five thousandths of each person, 150 million taels converted into a fool is happy, when the family Shen Renyi is distressed at this moment, his cheeks tremble, this hair does not seem to be much, he took out more than 10 million taels, but he can't stand the rules formulated by Shen Xing, the turtle son, even the second steward, the third steward, and the small steward below...... You can get a share of the money!
The share is much smaller, but the number of people who receive the award is hundreds of times more, and more than 20 million taels will be issued one after another, and the follow-up expenses will also be spent in advance, Shen Renyi looked at the end when there were less than 50 million taels of silver left, and he wanted to die, and he was busy in the end it was still the level of the previous year, and it was all cheaper for outsiders.
Jin Ling was in charge of the entire economy of the Shen family and knew all the inside information, and her eyes were sharp, she seemed to see her husband's sadness, so she cautiously walked to Shen Renyi's side and handed over a small account.
"Father-in-law, this is what the husband asked the slave to remember, and it is all the private property of the Shen family!" Shen Renyi didn't think so at first, thinking that his daughter-in-law was just comforting him, but he quickly closed it without turning a few pages, as if he was afraid that others would see it. Jin Ling covered her mouth and laughed for a while, because she couldn't know what was written in it, it was all the rare treasures that Shen Xing had collected in various places over the past year, and the value of them could naturally be imagined, and it was no wonder that her husband, who loved money as much as her life, was so nervous.
After calculating the dividends, the stewards took out their own New Year's gifts, and sent the best wishes for the New Year's Day to the old owner and the young owner, and then the Shen family also took out the return gifts prepared in the morning and distributed them one by one, although the gifts taken by both parties were not valuables, but everyone was very happy, because this form only represents the emotional exchange between the master and servant.
Just when everyone felt that the meeting was over and they were scrambling to leave, Shen Xing patted the table and left everyone behind. "Everyone, please wait a moment, Young Master Ben suddenly thought of a business plan that is not very mature, and I want to discuss it with you!"
"Shao Dong, you have always been resourceful, turning stones into gold, and the business plan that can make you uncertain must be an earth-shattering move, you can say it quickly!" An old steward in his sixties seemed extremely excited, and Shen Xing was really like a fortune boy, and then most people scrambled to reconcile.
Shen Xing took the brush to write, paint, and after seeing everyone sitting down again, he finally opened the golden mouth: "Daming, most of the widely circulated on the market today are copper coins and silver nuggets, I don't know if you have noticed, these two things are particularly inconvenient to carry!" Especially for our merchants, the transportation of tens of thousands of taels of silver, let's not talk about the loss, just this transportation cost is always a big expense! Previously, the tickets were only used sporadically in big cities! ”
Hearing Shen Xing say this, most of the stewards nodded in agreement, but because they couldn't understand Shen Xing's plans, they didn't dare to express their opinions easily, but Shen Xing's old Taishan Liu Qingyuan spoke.
"Xing'er, you don't want to reprint the Daming treasure banknotes, do you! This matter must not be done, the words of the previous car are still in the ear, the original Taizu started, because of the new creation of the Ming Kingdom, the lack of gold and silver, for the livelihood of the people had to do it, and then although it went through several generations but still caused a catastrophe, the value of fifty treasure banknotes can not be exchanged for five copper coins, the people regard the treasure banknotes as a flood and beasts to avoid it......"
Liu Qingyuan counted all kinds of ills of the Ming treasure banknotes, lest Shen Xing make a big mistake in the moment, Shen Xing listened to Liu Qingyuan's opinions very carefully, although he didn't know why the Ming treasure banknotes failed, but the main reason was roughly understood, it was nothing more than the improper operation of the Ming Dynasty and the large number of issues caused by inflation.
He also knows very well that if you insist on promoting paper money at this time, it will definitely be strongly resisted by the people, and once the country's credit is lost, it is not so casual to recover, as the old saying goes, freezing three feet is not a day's cold, but the matter of silver tickets must be put on the agenda regardless of the difficulties, and you can't always carry more than a dozen pounds of silver in your pocket.