Chapter Eighty-Four: Crazy Shares (I)
Since the beginning of winter, the biggest news in the hustle and bustle of Chang'an City is tantamount to the holding of the first board of directors of Royal Industrial Group. Because Shaofu, which holds 40% of the shares, does not have the status of a so-called natural person, after the largest individual shareholder, the crown prince Liu Che, announced his withdrawal from the election, Liu Fei, the fifth prince of Jiangdu, became the second largest individual shareholder and became the first chairman of the board of directors.
Naturally, the Han magnates could not understand such new words, but they deeply understood one thing, the Royal Industrial Group was essentially another Shaofu of the imperial family, and would quickly surpass the Shaofu and gather more wealth for the royal family. After all, the Shaofu is only the inner government in charge of the clothing, food, housing and transportation of the royal family, although it has a fixed rental income, but it does not have the slightest trade authority, which greatly restricts its source of income. In this way, although the Emperor of the Han Dynasty is rich all over the world, the wealth that can really be said to be regularly allocated is not even comparable to that of some giant businessmen, let alone those wealthy families with ancient inheritances.
The Royal Industrial Group is different, controlling a large number of high-profit industries such as the Royal Racecourse and the Royal Leisure Villa, like a greedy beast, constantly devouring a lot of wealth from the hands of the powerful. Recently, a "Royal Fertilizer Company" has been set up to sell fertilizers that can increase the yield of at least 50 per mu.
At the beginning, the Han government and the opposition had great doubts about the true effectiveness of chemical fertilizers, believing that it was nothing more than grandstanding. However, when the emperor personally summoned a commoner named Qiu Li in the early court, conferred on him the title of Yi Nonghou, and published the record of the yield per mu of nearly 100 acres of high-yield farmland, the dynasty was shaken.
Fifty percent of the yield per mu is enough for the owner of the noble family to chase frantically to death. In a feudal society based on agriculture, most of the income of the magnates came from the land rents generated by the fiefdoms, which meant that chemical fertilizers could increase their rents for the coming year by 50% out of thin air. For the nobles with a fiefdom of more than 100,000 acres, the increased rent was enough to fill their private coffers, and then they could squander unbridled gold in the heavenly arena and the royal racecourse.
Of course, no one dared to use any crooked brains against the royal industrial group, after the rebellion of the Seven Kingdoms of Wu and Chu, the imperial power was greatly enhanced, and the emperor, the crown prince and the princes standing behind him were enough to crush any restless wealthy family. Just when the Han magnates were waiting to buy miraculous fertilizers and prepare for spring plowing in a few months, Liu Fei, who had first ascended to the chairman's throne, announced a news that caused an uproar all over the world - the output of chemical fertilizer is insufficient, and it will not be sold for the time being, and priority will be given to the supply of clan fields, and the remaining part will be subscribed by the major shareholders internally!
Shareholder! This fresh word spread rapidly from Chang'an City like a hurricane, and instantly swept through the entire Han Empire! Becoming a shareholder of the Royal Industrial Group has evolved into the great cause that the Han magnates most desire, even surpassing the desire to be ranked as the third prince and nine secretaries. In the early Han Dynasty, when the politics of the family were rampant and high-ranking officials took turns to sit, there was not much oil and water to be an official in the central/central/government/government, and the country was founded for only a few decades, and the prime minister alone changed more than a dozen. No one has ever produced three princes and nine kings, and they are embarrassed to live in Beique Jiadi, let alone say that they are from a wealthy family. What the magnates really care about is the interests of the family, how to inherit the family with wealth and wealth, and not to deal with real disasters without fame, which is the essence of Huang Lao's technique.
In just half a month, the 60,000 original shares of the Royal Industrial Group, which had decision-making power, were snapped up by the royal family at a high price of one million dollars per share. Of course, the crown prince Liu Che and the six princes living in the royal manor had already secretly used all their properties as collateral, took 30,000 shares of them, and firmly controlled the management rights of the group.
At the end of the original share sale, at the suggestion and auspices of Chairman Liu Fei, all the royal shareholders gathered together and held a grand celebration ceremony in the palace of Liu Pengzu, the eighth prince of the royal estate. The picturesque manor scenery and the extravagant furnishings of the palace made the royal turtles realize what the gap in the realm is, and during the ceremony, regardless of the occasion, they couldn't wait to find the chief steward of the royal manor, and bought dozens of manor villas with a unit price of tens of millions of dollars on the spot.
After the celebration, it was time for a grand feast. Some tired Liu Fei and several princes temporarily hid in the study to rest, leaving only the sociable Liu Pengzu to entertain guests. At this time, Liu Fei, who had been busy for half a month, was busy and carefully flipped through the account books that the group had just sorted out and submitted, and almost fainted when he saw the huge wealth that the group had frantically amassed nearly 30 billion yuan.
"Brother Huang!" After all, Liu Duan is a fellow mother, a brother, seeing Liu Fei's pale face and white eyes, he hurriedly stepped forward to support him: "What's wrong?" ”
Liu Yu picked up the account book that fell to the ground, glanced at it, howled violently, and fell straight down. When the rest of the princes saw this, they were all frightened and stupefied, and hurriedly stepped forward to help him up. called the maid outside the door again, and after a busy work, the two brothers Liu Yu and Liu Fei woke up. Today's incident has since been regarded as a great shame by the arrogant and arrogant Liu Fei, and he has kept it secret, and no one dares to mention it again in front of him until he dies. However, Liu Yu, the king of Lu, described the true state of mind at that time in his oral memoirs decades later: "When this king saw the account book at that time, he had only one thought, grandma's bear, Lao Tzu sent it!" ”
In short, the princes ended the grand celebration and party in the excitement and ecstasy. After the gold and copper coins, equivalent to the total income of the Han Empire's treasury for five years, were transported into the heavily guarded group vault, they insisted on staying in the vault, lying on the mountain of gold for several sleepless nights, and then devoting themselves to the preparations for the grander share issuance ceremony.
It has to be said that when the interests are huge to a certain extent, shamelessness will become the most significant aspect of people's surnames. Emphasizing agriculture and suppressing commerce was the most important national policy in the early Han Dynasty. However, when the Han magnates were desperate to obtain the shares of the Royal Industrial Group, the issue of buying the group's shares was brought to the Han Dynasty in a grand manner.
Emperor Jing looked at the resounding ministers above the main hall, his head was full of black lines, but he was helpless. They are also reasonable, businessmen pay attention to paying money with one hand and delivering goods with the other. Now their family plans to buy shares, but they just pay money to buy a dividend qualification, and they don't take the goods, so they can't be considered businessmen, and it's okay to discuss it a little in the court. It seems that the prince is right, this Rausch finance is really mysterious. In the future, we should read his book "On Finance and the Real Economy", so as not to be fooled by these old foxes in the future.
Under the pressure of the huge government and the opposition, the always strong Emperor Jing and the Empress Dowager had to compromise and agree to the Han magnates secretly carrying out this disguised business practice. They found the crown prince Liu Che respectively, and ordered him to solve the matters related to the issuance of additional shares of the Royal Industrial Group as soon as possible, and provided a large number of lists of powerful people who must be taken care of.
Liu Che pouted, these magnates really did and set up archways, and even asked to pay for the purchase of shares in the name of donating to the group to build a fertilizer workshop and benefit the people of the Han Dynasty. Since they wanted to bleed, Liu Che didn't have any reason to refuse, and immediately rushed to the newly completed headquarters of the Royal Industrial Group, a five-story tower-like office building in the royal manor.
In order to avoid surpassing the buildings in the palace city and being put on the hat of arrogance by the imperial historians, Liu Che specially made the foundation of the office building low, and also dug the ground three feet, and was stunned to make a small island in the middle of the lake with extremely low terrain in Chang'an City, which is located in the plain. In order to prevent flooding during the rainy season, the surrounding area was also rammed to form a circular valley in the middle of the lake. Anyone who has been here has been shocked by the prince's generosity. Only Liu Che knows that as one of the largest business groups in the world in the future, the headquarters of the Royal Industrial Group is still much shabby compared to the headquarters of the large groups in later generations, and it will definitely continue to be rebuilt in the future, so it has spent such a large cost and reserved a lot of space.
The princes who got the news had already greeted the prince in front of the gate of the headquarters. For this younger brother of the God of Wealth, the princes are really impressed, looking forward to getting more immortal energy. Now that the emperor's father is not as rich as them, and he is not as comfortable as them, there is really nothing to envy. It's not easy for the emperor, even spending the money in his inner treasury to repair the palace has to worry about being impeached by the imperial history, and he is always afraid of being robbed of his position. If you don't have that ability, it's better to be a carefree prince, as long as it is still the world of the Liu family, whoever is the emperor will never dare to do anything to the members of the clan at will. The rebellion of the Seven Kingdoms of Wu and Chu was clearly rebelled, and in the end, only the first evil Wu King Liu Bi was killed, and the other princes and kings were at most imprisoned, and even the feudal country was retained and continued to be passed on to his son.
Liu Che did not talk to them too politely, and directly proposed to revise the original shareholding plan and increase the additional shares from 100,000 shares to 200,000 shares. The princes couldn't help but smack their tongues, which means that the group will increase its income by 200 billion yuan in an instant.
Liu Fei, as the second largest individual shareholder and chairman, said that when he entered the role, he couldn't help but consider the interests of the original shareholders of the royal family: "Your Highness, according to the shareholding agreement, dividends will be distributed before the beginning of the year. Now that an additional 200,000 shares are issued, the dividends per share will inevitably be diluted. Although hundreds of billions of dollars have been obtained this year, once the distribution is completed, I am afraid that the dividends in the future will not be this year, will the clan and the powerful join forces to make trouble? ”
Liu Che smiled, and greatly appreciated this amazing and brilliant imperial brother, no matter how short it was, he could already start analyzing the core issues, so he patiently explained: "The imperial brother does not need to worry, the meaning of the share dividend is not to complete all the income of the year, but to take out a small part first to complete the minimum income guarantee, such as one percent." The remaining proceeds will be used to expand financial resources, such as building more workshops and making more investments, so as to continue to expand the income in the coming year, which is the true meaning of issuing shares. ”
(Huhu, I have a meeting on Monday morning, I'm too busy, the update is slow, and I'll continue to catch up on another chapter in the afternoon, hoping there is nothing else.) )
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