Chapter 30 Raising Shares and Building Factories (2)
At noon, after Wang Bin came back from the barracks, he saw Fu Bo tell him about Gui Ye's desire to buy shares, and he was a little embarrassed.
It's fine to let yourself lead the army into battle, but ask yourself about this business, what is it!
So I had to run to ask the old man how to deal with this matter, but what I never expected was that the old man seemed to have discussed it with Fu Bo, and they all had to make their own decisions.
Helpless, only he analyzed this matter, Wang Bin himself pondered that many companies in the future were controlled, and as long as the company was controlled, it would still be the largest in his own words.
This is nothing more than this reason for opening a factory at the end of the Qing Dynasty, if this Gui Ye also invested hundreds of thousands of taels, how could his identity as the largest shareholder shrink, this Gui Ye's investment is okay, but it must not exceed 300,000 taels.
After Gui Ye came to the door, several more interested businessmen came one after another, and there were more than a dozen local small businessmen in western Liaoning, and Fu Bo received these businessmen one by one, all of whom came to buy shares.
After all, the businessmen in Liaoxi still know more or less that the newly built factory has something to do with Wang Bin, and they don't know how much it has to do with Wang Bin, anyway, it has something to do with Wang Bin.
In the face of these swarming businessmen, it is also happy to open it.
However, after there are more people who want to buy shares, Wang Bin is also a little annoyed, this is only seven or eight hundred thousand yuan to run a factory, but he never expected to underestimate the nature of businessmen seeking profits, so that there are more people who buy shares, I am afraid that it will be a little unfavorable to the management of the factory in the future.
So after two days of thinking, Wang Bin decided to gather these businessmen together to talk about this matter of shares.
"In the past few days, the official has taken a closer look at the businessmen who are interested in investing are very widely distributed, there are from Zhili, Shanxi, and a total of 17 local companies in western Liaoning have shown their intention to invest.
These businessmen below originally heard that the owner of this factory would talk to them about this shareholding today, but what they never expected was that the owner of this factory turned out to be the new minister of military training outside the Guanwai, which made all the businessmen present extremely excited.
If you can take advantage of the spring breeze of investment to get in touch with this minister, you can ask for as many taels of silver as you want.
Compared to these excited businessmen, Gui Ye seemed a little calm, after all, he knew this as early as when he discussed investment with Fu Bo before.
Wang Bin saw that there was some chaos below, and motioned to the merchants below to be quiet, and the effect was immediately reflected, and the following was suddenly silent.
Wang Bin saw that there was silence below, and then spoke again
"This time, the official took a look at the funds you have made, and in my opinion, you only need to pay about 500,000 taels is enough, so today the official just wants you to discuss the funds you have made, and don't exceed the scope given by the official."
After finishing speaking, the merchants below gathered together to discuss, and Wang Bin himself sat on the first seat and waited for these merchants to give an answer.
Looking at these businessmen who were discussing, I thought to myself that I had finally taken the first step in the real sense of Liaoxi.
The merchants didn't discuss it for long, and they had already come to a conclusion just after a cup of tea.
Gui Ye alone contributed 150,000 taels, the rest of the merchants from Liaoxi and Shanxi contributed 200,000 taels, and those small merchants contributed 100,000 taels together, with a total of 450,000 taels of silver, plus the 500,000 taels brought by his own old man, a total of 950,000 taels.
This is already a huge business, and the time of fundraising is also extremely fast, but it took less than half a month to complete the fundraising, but I am afraid that such a fundraising speed is rare in modern times.
These abundant funds were sufficient to complete the construction of the mill in a very short period of time.
Before the funds were successfully raised, Wang Bin was already thinking about where to buy spindles.
Through many inquiries, Wang Bin knew that during the Westernization Movement, a batch of spindles had been squeezed in Shanghai, and 40,800 spindles were taken away from Zhang Jian's Dasheng Yarn Factory, but there were still about 20,000 spindles left, and as for the remaining spindles, they were still purchased from foreign companies in the UK, which was not an important thing anyway.
According to Wang Bin's guess, he can still buy a large number of spindles from foreign banks, because according to what he knows, Zhang Jian of this Dasheng yarn factory seems to be preparing to buy a batch of spindles recently, and he can't afford to buy these spindles at a higher price, as for Zhang Jian, he is embarrassed.
This turned out to be Zhang Jian in the Russo-Japanese War to see the Japanese stop the foreign cloth in western Liaoning, decisively at this time to open up the sales of Dasheng yarn factory into Liaoxi and Liaodong, later Zhang Jian is to take advantage of this opportunity to make Nantong Guanzhuang native cloth to sell well in the Northeast, a total of 150,000 pieces (40 horses per piece) of more than 150,000 pieces a year, and at that time, the cotton yarn output of Dasheng Yarn Factory was only half of the amount of yarn used in Guanzhuang Yarn, which provided favorable conditions for the development of Dasheng Yarn Factory.
But now that I'm ready to set up a yarn factory, there's nothing to worry about.
Wang Bin was going to ask the opinions of these businessmen, but how dare these businessmen argue with themselves, just said that "it's all up to adults" Wang Bin was embarrassed to say something.
In the end, Wang Bin sent someone to check the situation in the suburbs of the city, and decided to build the new yarn factory in the suburbs not far from the Guanwai railway, so that it can be regarded as a convenient place for transportation, and for the convenience of the traffic Wang Bin is also ready to pave the roads around the yarn factory with cement to build a cement road, so that it is very convenient to transport gauze.
As for the source of this early cotton, Wang Bin learned that the cotton produced in Dongchang Mansion in Shandong Province was quite famous, so he asked the people in the family to be responsible for the purchase of cotton, and in the future, he was ready to hire people to plant cotton in places such as Da Ling River and Xiao Ling River.
After Wang Bin decided the address of the yarn factory, there was also good news in Shanghai, and the person sent by Wang Bin to discuss the spindle matter sent a telegram not long after arriving in Shanghai, telling Wang Bin that the matter of the spindle had been negotiated, and a total of 600,000 taels of silver were spent to buy about 60,000 spindles, which was estimated to arrive in Jinzhou in about ten days.
After hearing the contents of the telegram, Wang Bin thought that now he had everything done, but he was just short of the completion of the yarn factory.
For the completion of the yarn factory, Wang Bin recruited a large number of workers from Jinzhou City with extremely high wages, and it is expected to be completed in about a month.