"The Erma Consortium is ready to develop into a large-scale capital monopoly group based on the empire and across the world, and eventually become a super-large multinational industrial and commercial empire integrating finance, manufacturing, mining, construction, metallurgy, petroleum, agriculture, commerce, transportation and the upcoming power industry." Feng Yunshan said with great courage: "Now that the Chinese Empire has become the world's number one power, my Erma Consortium must also grow into the world's number one business empire!" ”

Wu Chongyao's eyes lit up, he didn't really care much about the capture of the territory, but he was very excited about the things in the trade business, from the bottom of his heart, although he had been an official under Feng Yunshan for many years, he was still a businessman in essence. At this moment, when he heard the emperor's bold words, he suddenly became excited: "Your Majesty, can the Wu family follow Your Majesty to join the team of the Erma Foundation?" ”

Feng Yunshan didn't expect Wu Chongyao to ask such a question. He couldn't help but feel a little embarrassed.

He originally wanted to establish a consortium, but at the beginning, it could not be called a consortium, but just a group covering several industries such as banking, mining, metallurgy, railway, steel, trade, real estate and construction. Moreover, this group is completely controlled by his personal private funds, which are completely controlled by the sole proprietorship. Unexpectedly, just like when he founded Nanyang Company in Guangzhou, Wu Chongyao actually made this request again, and their Wu family wanted to hug their thighs!

Wu Chongyao added: "Your Majesty, rest assured, although the Wu family's property is quite a lot, it is still not enough compared to Your Majesty's, and it will not affect Your Majesty's control over the consortium!" Moreover, our Wu family can promise not to exercise any shareholder rights, not to participate in the decision-making of the consortium, and only to invest dividends. I believe that Your Majesty will not treat Weichen and the Wu family badly!

Your Majesty, although Weichen still doesn't quite understand the true meaning of the consortium, but literally, this should be a large capital group with a lot of money and funds, so it should not be the strength of His Majesty alone. If you have more people and more capital investment, from the beginning, the capital of the consortium will be stronger, and it can become the world's No. 1 consortium faster! ”

Wu Chongyao's words made Feng Yunshan a little moved.

The more money you have, the more you can spread it out. Moreover, if Wu Chongyao's funds are absorbed, it is better to simply make it bigger, and all the officials of the entire imperial court who are willing to invest can be invested. In this way, many of the squires who have a relationship with those local officials will definitely want to invest money, believing that with such a large number of squires in the Chinese Empire and the amount of money they have, the consortium led by themselves will directly become a consortium, and it will soon surpass the wealth of the Rothschilds.

So, Feng Yunshan nodded and said, "Wu Aiqing is not wrong when she says so. However, anyway, it is necessary to absorb other funds, so it is better to simply let go a little, and all the court officials and local squires, as long as they have the ability to invest more than 10,000 saint yuan, can invest in the Erma Consortium as a member of the shareholders. In other words, the share is 1 million S.A. 1 share. Moreover, the decision of this two-horse consortium is vested in me, which is considered my family business, and is decided by my descendants, and all other shareholders only enjoy the right to dividends, but not any other rights. If you want to withdraw from the consortium, you will still be refunded at the original price of 10,000 S.P. 1 share.

Wu Aiqing, you will quietly inform you of this matter, within a month, those who can get the funds together will become shareholders, and if they can't receive the news or can't get together, there is no need to join.

By the way, Wu Aiqing, how much are your Wu family ready to invest? ”

Wu Chongyao replied: "Obey Your Majesty's decree! Let's invest 3,000 shares in the Wu family first. Your Majesty, the old foxes of the original Thirteen Lines of Guangzhou, they have always been like stealing cats, their noses are very sensitive, and they have made a lot of money by following His Majesty over the years to participate in Nanyang Company and Dongyang Company, etc., and they will definitely follow in the footsteps of His Majesty and follow the investment after eating the big sweetness. Weichen didn't dare to guarantee that 10,000 shares could still be scraped together. As for the squires in other places, it's really hard to estimate, it's up to them to see their own eyes. ”

Feng Yunshan was a little frightened, this Wu Chongyao's net worth had risen so quickly! You must know that at the beginning, the huge assets of their Wu family were donated to the Holy Treasury, which was actually given to themselves in disguise. At that time, he only left a small amount for them, and gave them a hundred percent of the shares of Nanyang Company, but he didn't expect them to do business so well, and in just ten years, they earned such a number of assets, which is really worthy of being a business wizard.

Feng Yunshan said: "Since this is the case, let's decide so." Zhou Aiqing, you divided my private property from the treasury in the way I just said.

And Wu Aiqing, you also transferred all the funds from me. At the same time, the funds of those who are willing to invest in my consortium will be collected together and handed over to Zhou Aiqing for safekeeping. When it's all right, come and see me! ”

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Soon, a month passed, and Wu Chongyao pulled Zhou Shengkun to meet Feng Yunshan in a hurry.

"Your Majesty, the matter of the consortium's investment funds has been properly resolved!" Wu Chongyao's face was full of excitement: "Weichen and Lord Zhou quietly talked to those imperial court officials, and they spread to the local officials and corresponding relatives and friends in various provinces, as a result, when they heard that His Majesty personally inquired about the consortium formed, they didn't even figure out what the consortium was, and many people were happy to invest in it."

Cabinet member Lord Luo had no money at home and could not invest, and the cabinet even gathered 10,000 Shengyuan to buy 1 share with Lord Zhou, Lord Liu and Vice Premier Li.

After calculation, the imperial court officials and local officials, including Weichen himself, made up a total of 7,582 shares, while the local squires directly made up 54,360 shares. In total, a total of 61,942 shares were raised, plus 50,000 shares held by His Majesty, and 50,000 shares held by the imperial treasury, a total of 161942 shares of the entire Erma Company, with a total capital of 1,619,420,000 yuan. Excluding the 100 million saint yuan funds taken away by the eldest prince from Shanghai, the consortium should have 1.51942 billion saint dollars, except for the 500 million saint dollars from the imperial treasury, the rest have all been in place! ”

After listening to Wu Chongyao's words, Feng Yunshan gasped! He was a little scared!

In this way, 1,619,420,000 saint dollars were directly scraped out. Moreover, this is still in just one month, from the secret notice, the consideration of those shareholders, to the whole process of the funds basically in place, all of which have been completed in such a short period of time, this efficiency is simply comparable to the P2P fundraising of later generations.

Fundraising, isn't this fundraising now?

But Feng Yunshan didn't care at all. He promised Wu Chongyao a month ago that he would allow others to invest in it, and he originally thought that he could bring together all the officials and gentry of the entire empire in this way to form a huge interest group. Moreover, in this group, he Feng Yunshan is not only the emperor of the Chinese Empire, but also the leader of their interest group, in this way, everyone will naturally work hard for him!

This is his biggest purpose in addition to building his own consortium.