The third is more presented, Da Luo Luo begged for collection, recommendation, and Sanjiang tickets.

Vincent Street, Manchester, the headquarters of the World Bank.

"Ladies and gentlemen, in the past year or so, our business has developed by leaps and bounds, we have become the largest pharmaceutical company and the largest rubber products company in Shijie, and will soon be the largest explosives (gunpowder) manufacturer and weapons manufacturer in Shijie! Such an achievement can only be described as a miracle, a miracle created by you and me, as well as the mature commercial and patent system of the British Empire (to tell the truth, everything was invented in vain when I went to the Qing Dynasty)! ”

It was Zhu Jishi who spoke, and he finally arrived at the headquarters of the British Empire in Manchester - after the British Empire's military and police had carried out a bloody crackdown on the British working people who were trying to promote freedom and democracy! The streets outside the headquarters are now full of British troops patrolling, and plainclothes police officers from Scotland Yard have just left the factories of the World Bank and arrested several saboteurs who incited the workers to strike! Well, it's not right to go on strike or something, if you want to increase wages and shorten working hours, you can respond to the senior management of the World Bank through normal channels, our Sir Zhu is still very reasonable. Moreover, Jishixing is a high-tech enterprise with high added value in this era, and it can fully afford relatively high wages.

Just before the start of the board of directors, there was a discussion with the Duke of Churchill about giving the workers a full attendance bonus, and Zhu Jihua was to give the full attendance workers a shilling bonus every month, and at the end of the year an additional 10 shillings (half pounds) to the full attendance workers. The duke, however, believed that excessively high wages would make the workers lazy - that the more money they had, the easier it would be to save money, so that they would not starve to death even if they did not work for a while. Moreover, raising wages after a strike can make them feel that the strike is likely to benefit them, which is detrimental to social stability......

Well, since Duke Churchill said so, Zhu Jishi did not mention the matter of bonuses and wages, anyway, there are now more than one million unemployed people in Britain, and there is no need to worry about not being able to hire people.

The sound of applause rang out, and all the directors of the Bank of the World were smiling. The company's profits were so great that in 1843 the net profit exceeded 80,000 pounds! This is still a small profit on the books (in order to avoid taxes), and the financial subsidy of 100,000 pounds received from France, Russia, Prussia, Austria and Spain for the construction of explosives factories has not been taken into account, nor has the 20,000 pounds worth of shares obtained in cooperation with DuPont in the United States have not been counted.

In addition, the company's cash flow on the books is also extremely abundant, with more than 250,000 pounds in advance receivables alone, and a total of 380,000 pounds in all deposits! The total value of the procurement contracts in hand is as high as 1.25 million pounds.

It's a pity that there is no NASDAQ in this era, and Europe is now in chaos, and the stock markets of various countries are in a downturn, otherwise with the current book situation of the World Bank, the last market will probably be able to circle millions of pounds.

Of course, the company will pay dividends when it makes money, including 50% of the net profit of Jishixing itself and its three subordinate companies will be distributed. In this era, there is no joint-stock company that makes money and does not pay dividends, and Zhu Jishi himself also has to spend money. He now holds a 75% stake in the bank, so he has received a £30,000 dividend, plus his salary as chairman of the bank, and his total income over the past year or so has been a whopping £32,000! The personal income tax to be paid is...... One shilling!

It's a good time, I can't figure out how the British working class still has to fight for universal suffrage of one person, one vote?

"Gentlemen, the success of the past year or so is only the beginning of the cause of the World Bank, and there are more brilliant prospects waiting for us in the future." Speaking of this, Zhu Jishi paused, looked around the audience, and took in everyone's expressions, and all the directors were satisfied, which showed that they would continue to support him as the chairman. Although he owns 75% of the shares of Jishixing, he knows that without the support of these directors, there is no way to run such a large company on his own, so it is impossible to do a word.

"Now we have a new business opportunity in front of us. This opportunity is the Chinese market! A huge market with a population of 400 million! It will be the fourth profit growth point with huge potential after pharmaceuticals, explosives and rubber! At today's board meeting, I will present a vision of a greater Hong Kong jihua for you to discuss......"

Greater Hong Kong Jihua is just an idea or an idea, and Zhu Jishi knows that he does not have the talent to manage a large company. Therefore, it has always been proposed to come up with a patent jishu, and the specific management is handed over to Kospel. William, Frank. Hahn, Hans. Schmidt, Will. The management team of Heming, Blomsteain and others.

"Coolie trade with Chinese sailing ships? Jason, if I'm not mistaken, the core of Greater Hong Kong Jihua is coolie trade, right? ”

The "CEO" of the World Bank, Kospel. After listening to Zhu Jishi's introduction, William was taken aback, and only after a while did he mutter.

Who is this Sir Zhu? Bill in the 19th century. How did Gates and Jobs become human traffickers in the blink of an eye? And he also sells his Chinese compatriots as goods, and this conscience is also a little darker, right?

"Mr. William, you are right, coolie trade is the core of Greater Hong Kong Jihua, and it is also the most guaranteed source of profit for Greater Hong Kong Jihua."

The answer to this question is Liu Peng, the new secretary of the board of directors of the World Bank. He handed over a few handwritten charts to the members of the board of directors of the Bank, and then said: "As we all know, China now has a population of 40,000, and labor is the most abundant resource in this country, almost as much as infinite, and it should become an important export commodity, and Nanyang and Australia have a strong demand for labor." Therefore, since the beginning of the last century, there have been laborers from Guangdong and Fujian in China who have crossed the sea to work in Nanyang, and they are the main source of labor in Nanyang at present, and this demand is still very strong. According to preliminary estimates, on average, each Chinese laborer will pay 20 silver dollars for the voyage to the South Seas, and a Chinese Guangzhou ship can transport at least 2,000 people to the South China Sea countries every year, and if everything goes well, it can earn 40,000 silver dollars, deducting all the costs, including the cost of the Guangzhou ship itself, and can also have a net profit of about 30,000 silver dollars, equivalent to 10,000 pounds! ”

A Canton ship earns 10,000 pounds a year! This seems to be a very attractive deal, if you can buy ten Canton ships, wouldn't it be 100,000 pounds a year? If it's a hundred Canton ships......

"Such a lucrative business must attract many competitors, right? What are our strengths in this regard? "Cospel. William just asked faintly. His family still has thousands of black slaves in the United States, so he naturally knows how lucrative human trafficking is, but behind this high profit there is an invisible bloody storm!

"Yes! This advantage is me! Zhu Jishi's voice was low, and he sounded a little indifferent, "I am a descendant of the royal family of the Ming Dynasty of China that was destroyed by the Manchu Qing 200 years ago, and there has always been a party in southern China that attempts to restore the rule of the Ming Dynasty and expel the Tatar Dynasty. It is the most powerful underground shili in South China except for the Qing Dynasty government, and as a descendant of the Ming Dynasty, as long as he joins the Heaven and Earth Society, he is one of the leaders of course. With the cooperation of the Heaven and Earth Society, we will not have to worry about the source of coolies. In addition, most of the underworld and pirates in Nanyang are members of the Heaven and Earth Society. On the other hand, the European shili in the South Seas will not infringe on the interests of our Jishixing, because Jishixing is a joint-stock company of the British Empire, and in the last year alone, we have paid tens of thousands of pounds in taxes to the British government, which should be protected by the British Empire. ”