Tang Tingshu first met with Gou Fugui, the household servant who was responsible for cleaning up the official property, in his capacity as the premier of the railway company, and then presented his equity document to the other party, indicating that he was now the major shareholder of the railway company and should have a say in the railway company. Pen % fun % Pavilion www.biquge.info

He called for the establishment of a board of directors to discuss the issue of the issue of railway shares, and he believed that the Ministry of Household had sold the railway company at a low price, which greatly harmed the interests of the shareholders.

Gou Fugui was very curious, the railway company only sold the first batch of shares, I heard that the sales went well, sold out in one day, financing 12 million taels, before it was all official property, where did the board of directors come from, and there were no shareholders, but this person is obviously a knowledgeable person, and knows these things about the board of directors.

Gou Fugui is also knowledgeable, he is a technocratic bureaucrat who came back from studying accounting in the UK, and he has been responsible for managing official property before, not to mention the railway company, and the arsenal is under his control, but Hao Kejiu can't get involved.

There were no shareholders before, but now there is, obviously the stocks sold today have been bought by this Premier Tang, Gou Fugui can't help but be impressed, people who can take out 10 million taels of silver at a time can't be underestimated anywhere.

So I seriously talked to Tang Tingshu about the railway company.

The emperor insisted on selling the railway company, firstly to raise funds in the future, and secondly, to allow the people to hold shares in the company, which the emperor said should be owned by the public.

As for the government, in fact, it doesn't pay attention to it, most people think that the railway should not be sold privately, so after the charter is announced, it will be hastily listed, as for this Premier Tang, there are many people waiting to wear small shoes for him, and some people want to see his jokes, last time the arsenal dared to recall his own buddies, without the support of big people in the back, Hao Kejiu did not dare to do things so desperately.

To put it bluntly, it was this Premier Tang who stood in the way of too many people.

But Premier Tang's views are indeed unique, which makes Gou Fugui feel like a bosom friend, how does he know that this is the ability of compradors, relying on the exquisiteness of all sides and begging for tricks everywhere.

So Gou Fugui decided to report that Premier Tang was also a shareholder of Tang.

But Premier Tang is not idle, after so many things, he has roughly figured out what the situation is, who wants to make him stumble, he can guess eight or nine, or there are too many people, where is this matter in the Manchu Qing Dynasty, I am afraid there are not so many things, because the adults of the Manchu Qing Dynasty do not understand these things, and the adults of the Ming Dynasty just have too many people who understand this, so they secretly dug a pit.

These adults don't care whether the railway company can sell it at a higher price, because the money can't reach their pockets, but if the railway company can't raise enough funds, these adults will have reason to think that he Tang Tingshu is ineffective, and at the same time, they can prove that the railway company should not be privately owned, and when the time comes, the railway company can be nationalized with a requisition decree.

After Tang Tingshu figured out these problems, he knew that his showdown might not have any effect, and no one would support him in the future, even if he could really convene a board of directors in accordance with the law, the government would symbolically send a person, and probably would not say good things to him Tang Tingshu, and the official shares are still ninety percent, and this is still a company that the government speaks.

Tang Tingshu needs more money.

So he pledged the shares of the railway company he had just purchased, and he found three banks, Standard Chartered, Li Li and Liru, these three British-funded banks knew more about railways, and they confirmed that these were the shares of the Daming Railway Company, and after the total amount was as high as 10%, they immediately decided to give Tang Tingshu a large amount of credit.

I got 10 million taels from these three companies, and I borrowed 10 million taels from my old club, Jardine Matheson & Co., of course, these are all interest-based, and they are not low.

A few days later, the second batch of shares of the railway company was listed, and Tang Tingshu ate a large sum of money while selling it at a high price. The purpose of raising the price is to attract attention, and sure enough, the abnormal price changes have attracted a lot of attention in the exchange, and some businessmen with spare money began to follow up, and the price of one hundred tickets was speculated to two hundred taels.

But this is not Tang Tingshu's real purpose, he wants to create a gimmick for the newspaper, and then he secretly buys two newspapers, writes some advertorials, and reports on the prospects of the railway company, and soon there will be more newspaper reports, and some people pay attention to these new things.

And in the end, it became a big debate, that is, whether the railway should be privately owned, whether it is more promising to run by government or private management, and some people have led to the situation of railways in various countries around the world, Germany is mostly government-run, and Britain and the United States are more private, some people think that it is better to be government-run, because German railways are more punctual and more efficient, and American railways have skyrocketed and plummeted, often falling into a situation where investors are bankrupt.

It's good if there is an argument, it has become a hot topic, and those adults can't manipulate it secretly.

The next step is to make the shares of the railway company super high, and the newspaper advertised it for free, but in the end someone has to invest in it, and the foreigners are very interested, but the prospectus of the household department states that foreign investors are not allowed to buy shares, and the railway shares are only purchased by Chinese people.

Therefore, Tang Tingshu still has to find rich Chinese people, the Wu family and the Pan family will not participate in politics and business, they have a sharp nose, and they know that there are political forces playing in the back this time, and they will not be involved. And the rich Chinese people are more estranged from the government, and they are nothing more than compradors.

Tang Tingshu secretly called on dozens of comprador groups in Xiangshan, some of them were compradors in Hong Kong, Guangzhou, and even Japan.

But the strength of these comprador businessmen is still not enough, these people will not press everything like him Tang Tingshu, so they can raise at most twenty or thirty million taels.

Tang Tingshu still has to find more money, he opened the railway company's account books, from a large customer to find investors, swept through those foreign banks, politics and business, the rest of the big customers visited one by one, Dongguan's Yongtai cotton yarn factory, or have an old relationship, when operating cotton, there is no less dealing, lobbying them to invest in the railway company, telling them that they will definitely find a way to give Yongtai cotton yarn a preferential price in the future.

Several emerging cotton yarn and cotton cloth factories in Dongguan visited one by one, promising preferential prices and lobbying them to invest.

The silk reeling factories in Shunde and other places are all by water, so there is no way to lobby.

However, the railway of Daming is not only one Guangzhou-Kowloon Railway, Guangjiang Railway, Dongqing Railway are profitable railways, Guangjiang Railway is mainly various businesses, also go to visit one by one, but there are not many strength, because Jiangxi's goods are mainly tea, ceramics and copper ore, tea is mainly done by the Wu family, there are many commercial houses that do ceramics, but the strength is limited, and the copper mine is developed by the arsenal, obviously impossible to invest.

However, among the customers of the Dongqing Railway, there is a group of powerful figures, Jin merchants.

The Russians relied on the Kyakhta-Zhangjiakou Railway to snatch the dominance of the tea business from the Jin merchants, and the Jin merchants began to use the Dongqing Railway to transport tea from Dalian to Manchuria into Russia to balance the Russian merchants.

Now the capital of Jin merchants, especially the tea capital, went south to the Ming Dynasty in large numbers, built tea factories in Fuzhou, made brick tea, and then went directly to Dalian by sea, avoiding a series of checkpoints of the Qing government, and surrendering their old base of Hankou to Russian businessmen, and it was time to fight against the water.

The two largest of them are Da De Yu and Da Sheng Kui, both of which are old names that began to operate during the Kangqian period, and the tea bricks made are deeply liked by the Russians and Mongolians, but since the Russians began to make tea in Hankou, they have lost their monopoly and have to compete fiercely with the Russians, but the tax rate of the Russians in the Manchu Qing Dynasty is more than half lower than theirs, which leads them to find more convenient trade routes, they have tea estates in Fujian in their early years, and it is logical to buy tea from Fujian to make tea, There are even those who make tea in Japan and then travel by sea to Dalian.

But in any case, they can't get around the Dongqing Railway, it is a critical moment for them to compete with the Russians, if they lose this battle, maybe they will forever launch the Russian market that has been operating for hundreds of years, which is a matter of life and death.

Tang Tingshu knew that this kind of Shanxi rich man who had been in business for a hundred years was extremely powerful, and no one knew how much silver was buried in their deep compound.

But the railway can only be subscribed by the Chinese, and the Jin merchant is obviously not a Ming national, so he can only borrow.

The conditions are still preferential freight rates, he is the new prime minister of the railway company, and he is the major shareholder of the railway, what he said is strong enough, but these Jin merchants are not Chinese, in order to make them believe, Tang Tingshu directly signed a contract with them on behalf of the railway company, and the loan is also given to them interest.

After these Jin merchants got the preferential freight contract, they happily lent Tang Tingshu more than 30 million taels of silver, they are really rich, in fact, the Chang family of Da Shengkui and Da Deyu are giants with an annual turnover of 20 million and assets of tens of millions, not to mention that they are not only two of them who also operate tea, but a large number of such businessmen in the Shanxi Guild Hall.

Then I visited several grain merchants who were running rice and grain businesses in the northeast, these people did not have a lot of net worth, but they were also big customers of the railway, and the trading was stable, if they were willing to borrow money to invest, it was also a large amount of money.

After running down in a circle, Tang Tingshu borrowed it himself, and the total capital invested by persuading his old friends to be hundreds of millions of taels was enough for him to launch a business war.

When the railway company was listed for the third time, the stock price quickly rose from 200 taels to 300 taels, 400 taels, and finally closed at 500 taels, which caused a sensation in the market again.

When the railway company was listed for the fourth time, the household department finally could no longer be as safe as Mount Tai, and the household department Shangshu personally met with Tang Tingshu, discussed with him to convene the board of directors, and handed over the subsequent listing operation to the board of directors to be responsible.

Tang Tingshu heard that this matter had alarmed the emperor, and the household department could no longer withstand the pressure.