Wang Jijie organized the first general meeting of shareholders of the joint-stock company in Jinan, and the participants were all shareholders who had invested heavily in the company, and they were also waiting for Wang Jijie to uncover the mystery and what direction the company would develop. Pen % fun % Pavilion www.biquge.info

"Everyone is a big businessman on the rich side, and some small money is not worth it. This time we started the company to make a lot of money. Wang Jijie got straight to the point, and spoke to the hearts of businessmen.

"Boss Wang, we have invested all the silver, this is all our hard-earned money, you can now say how this company operates." The businessmen were a little impatient.

"Our company's business will be divided into two parts, the most basic is to transport grain from Jiangnan, which can ensure that we all make a steady profit. The other part will be invested in the construction of seagoing ships, and we will transport the goods to the Wa kingdom and even further Luzon, which will be a lucrative business and guarantee us a fortune. Wang Jijie sat in the first honorable position and introduced the company's situation to everyone.

"We have heard that the sea is rough, and those who go out to sea will die, and if there is a storm, the ship will be lost, and our losses will be great." Someone asked everyone what they were most concerned about.

"If you want to make a lot of money, you must take some risks, otherwise we will do some small business in Shandong, and we will not worry about eating and drinking, and we must have the spirit of adventure and the dream of making a lot of money if we dare to invest the silver in the company. Needless to say, as you guessed, the last time I sold was from overseas, that's why you dared to put your money in. Hearing Wang Jijie say this, the businessmen present all smiled. Wang Jijie continued: "The last time the goods were indeed transported by me from the Wa State, I transported the goods from Shandong to the Wa State, and then transported back the goods from the Wa State that the Ming Dynasty lacked, this time and again, the profit of commodity trading exceeded several times, and it proved that this route was feasible, and the entire fleet did not have any losses at sea. As long as we follow the course I have taken, we can reach the country safely, and in the future we can go further and earn more silver with bigger ships. “

"But the imperial court has an order prohibiting going to sea, if we are caught by the government, won't we end up with all our personal wealth?" Merchants were thrilled to hear that there were several times the profits, but there were still cautious businessmen who raised their doubts.

"The ban of the imperial court has long been extinguished in name only, Zheng Zhilong and others in Jiangnan have long made a fortune by sea trade, we can also follow the same path as him in the north, and we have better conditions than them, Governor Xie Lian Xie is building ships with all his might, and now he governs the ports of Dengzhou, Yantai and Weihaiwei, and Lord Xie has agreed that we will use his port, as long as we give some help to the warships he has built. And if we encounter pirates or something at sea, Lord Xie can also send warships to escort us. When Wang Jijie said this, everyone was relieved. If Xie Lian didn't want to do anything to live Lei Feng, everyone was even more worried, and now Xie Lian was poor and directly asked the businessmen to sponsor everyone to pay for the construction of warships, which made everyone understand that Xie Lian cared so much about the company for money. Since it's all for the sake of profit, everyone is relieved.

The first general meeting of shareholders ended in laughter, and the shareholders sent the treasurer and his associates to work in the company according to the number of shares, and at the same time, the people who kept an eye on the company would not harm the interests of the company and would not take the money away. This not only reassures the shareholders, but also makes Wang Jijie no longer worry about the shortage of manpower.

Everything in the company is on the right track, and Wang Jijie purchased a large number of goods according to Zhang Chu's experience in the last trip to the Japanese country, of course, the largest number is the cotton cloth, copper coins and other items produced by the security military factory. This made Zhang Chu suddenly have money again, which he invested in factories and shipyards, which produced more goods, and the shipyards started construction of several new ships.

Not long after that, Yangliu's fleet, which was transporting personnel to Jeju Island, returned to Yantai after completing its mission, leaving only a small number of ships to protect Jeju Island, and the rest of the ships returned to Yantai for maintenance, so many ships were parked there, and the crew did not know where they would go next.

Zhang Chu had already arranged for the itinerary of the fleet, and they would be sent to the Wa Kingdom to take a walk around the country to earn back more silver, so that the shareholders who had invested in the shares would be happy.

The money for renting the ship was sent to Zhang Chu, and this time he did not spend it indiscriminately, but used all the money to buy the wood urgently needed for the construction of the ship, many of which were stored by everyone for their own shipbuilding, so there was no need to wait for the wood to dry.

This time, Yangliu's fleet was loaded with all kinds of goods, and after extending the last route, they arrived at the Wa Kingdom without encountering any danger, and the silver of the Wa Kingdom was loaded onto the ship and transported back to Shandong with sulfur saltpeter. The security forces also looked for suitable candidates in the Wa Kingdom, and gradually infiltrated the goods into all parts of the Wa Kingdom.

In order to give shareholders a real feeling of making money, Wang Jijie proposed to give everyone a bonus at the shareholders' meeting, and part of the money earned by the company was distributed to shareholders in the form of silver dollars.

The first batch of shareholders earned, which made other businessmen very envious, and they found a way to beg Wang Jijie to absorb them into the company. Wang Jijie took the opportunity to convene the company's shareholders' meeting, at which everyone unanimously hoped that the company would expand its scale and sell more goods at one time, and it would make more money.

The company's share expansion and capital increase conference was held in Jinan, this time everyone paid the money faster, Wang Jijie not only absorbed several powerful wealthy businessmen to join the company, but also used the shipyard is under construction of the ship into the shares of Zhang Chu into the company, so that everyone's fortune is tied together, rest assured and bold let Wang Jijie to operate, Wang Jijie's business in Shandong is prosperous again.

Zhang Chu is also in the excitement these days, he used the money earned from the lease to buy the existing ready-made shipbuilding raw materials in various places, with the completion of the dock of Weihaiwei Shipyard, the construction of the two "Caiyun" sister ships started, because of the use of ready-made materials, the construction speed has increased a lot. Zhang Chu was silently calculating the construction period there, and at the same time recruited thousands of local people in Shandong, and arranged them in Yangliu's fleet, as long as the battleship was built, from here it could be allocated to form a fleet immediately, and the crew had less time to adapt to the new ship.

Zhang Chu was fantasizing about leading the fleet to counterattack Liaodong and flee Huang Taiji to the cold land further north, so that China would not fall into a hundred years of humiliation, and his journey through it was not wasted. (To be continued.) )