There are many reasons for the rise of the Netherlands, and one of them is that the Dutch guò stock form concentrated the loose capital in the country and established the East India Company to carry out commercial activities, which is undoubtedly the reason why the Netherlands really dominated world trade in the 17th century. The concentrated use of capital gave the Netherlands an unrivalled advantage in commercial activities, and it was the establishment of the East India Company that finally broke the monopoly of old powers such as Spain, and finally led the Netherlands to rise.

Xiao Yungui spent an hour patiently telling the story of the rise of the Netherlands to the Chamber of Commerce and Industry present, and finally Xiao Yungui said slowly: "Today's world is full of powerful countries, and all kinds of goods of foreigners are flooded all corners of the world. The current factories and workshops here will also be unable to resist the impact of cheap goods from foreigners and gradually disappear, and there will be no industry in China from now on! ”

Xiao Yungui's words are not alarmist, the national industrial system in Jiangsu and Zhejiang and other places has experienced several years of great development after the new policy of Suzhou, this development is because of the stimulation of the new policy and the support of the government, but the circular development of an industrial system, especially the industry, can not rely on policy stimulation and support for a long time, she must be able to independently face the impact of foreign commodities.

After a few years, Britain, France and other countries also adjusted their trade policies, and with the Taiping Army abolishing various taxes on gold and miscellaneous taxes in the interior, encouraging industry and commerce, and vigorously developing foreign trade, more cheap goods began to hit the markets under the rule of the Taiping Army. Gradually, the weak domestic industry with a weak foundation began to fall into difficulties.

Historically, after the Qing Dynasty launched the Westernization Movement, some knowledgeable Han ministers of the Manchu Qing Dynasty also ran many industries, and under the auspices of Li Hongzhang and others, they set up the Jiangnan Manufacturing Bureau, the Jinling Manufacturing Bureau, the Tianjin Machinery Bureau, and so on. However, because the products produced are not good, the prices are not cheap, and they lack competitiveness, they cannot be self-reliant, so these industries have not become a money-making machine, but have become a money-eating machine for Li Hongzhang and others to invest a large amount of money every year.

After Xiao Yungui occupied Shanghai, he paid great attention to the way of supporting industry, combining government and private offices, and focusing on supporting private industries, but to this point. It is impossible for the Heavenly Government to throw money into it endlessly like Li Hongzhang. For example, although the order can be handed over to a private industry, it costs two silver coins to make a set of military uniforms. However, if a foreign merchant can buy it for a single silver coin, and once or twice the heavenly government can grit his teeth and purchase his own goods, but if there are many times, a fool will know that he should choose cheap goods.

The most important reform implemented by Xiao Yungui in the Taiping Heavenly Kingdom was to support the country's capital industry. He didn't want to watch the situation he had created fall into a desperate situation. However, the domestic private industries are loose and mostly work on their own. Where is the way out? Joint capital, concentrated capital, the advantages of technology, may be able to open up a new situation! So the Dutch East India Company, which was a joint-stock company, became a model that could be used as a reference!

"Nowadays, the world trade is almost monopolized by Britain and France, and even the United States has been affected by the impact of British goods and has an economic crisis, and if our domestic industry wants to continue to develop, it must be united in terms of capital and technology, and the best form of union is the Dutch East India Company model!" Xiao Yungui's tone was very steady, but it was like a bomb exploded in everyone's ears.

Since ancient times, Chinese people have had a very strange subconscious of self-preservation. Many skills like to be passed on within their own people, and the so-called secrets that are not passed on are not passed on to the outside world, etc. A lot of skills have been lost, so the Chinese people are conservative. Now Xiao Yungui's proposal for this kind of alliance has made many businessmen unacceptable for a while, and some folk workshops can support it, relying on the secrets that no one else has, and these technologies are worthless once they spread. Capital alliance is good to say, but the sharing of technology and professional talents is difficult to accept.

After Zhao Puzhai stood up and slowly said the worry of technology union, Xiao Yungui had no interface, and Tao Enpei on the side said: "Zhao Gong don't worry, the Kingdom of Heaven will issue a new decree recently, called the Taiping Heavenly Kingdom Patent Law, which is formulated with reference to the patent laws of Britain and the United States and other countries, so that unique skills can be protected by national laws." In the future, even if the technology is combined, the person who provides the technology will receive an annual royalty under the protection of this law, and the company that uses the technology will have to pay an annual royalty. This technology also needs communication to progress, and everyone is hiding how to progress? Isn't it? ”

After Tao Enpei's explanation, some people dispelled their doubts, some people waited and watched, but on the whole, the resistance to this mention was reduced a lot, Xiao Yungui struck while the iron was hot and continued: "Nowadays, foreigners' firms and companies can undertake our mineral mining, railway construction, ship construction and other large-scale industries, technical reasons are one aspect, but the most important aspect is that they have strong capital, and although each of our princes here is very rich, it is weak to compete with foreigners alone. Technology Now we have cooperated with foreigners for so many years, and we know some ways to do it some, and now we want to use some big industries in the future to do it ourselves, so we must carry out capital alliances. ”

Xiao Yungui paused and continued: "Now Liangguang, Yunnan and other places are all recovered, Guizhou, Sichuan and other places can be recovered in less than a year, the southwest is full of minerals, to mine these minerals, we need to build more new railways, these require a lot of capital, without strong capital is unable to take care of it." Just imagine, if thousands of kilometers of railways in the southwest are invested and built by the company we founded, and the minerals along the line are contracted by the company to mine, what a huge amount of income this will be in the future, and future generations can sleep on the money, why spend money to buy land and continue to be a rent collector? ”

Xiao Yungui continued to agitate: "After the minerals are mined, there must be a market, and we can also build larger steel mills, shipyards, etc., the surrounding small countries have an increasing demand for arms, ships, and various metal hardware, we can use guò resources and capital as well as the advantages of neighboring countries, and gradually dominate the entire market in East Asia, and completely squeeze out foreign goods!" Then we can continue to expand, to the east of the Pacific Ocean, to the south of the Indian Ocean, and eventually we will be able to do a great thing like the Dutch East India Company. Imagine that businessmen are not just for themselves to make money, when everyone in the world uses goods made in China, I believe that the great names of Zhugong will forever go down in history and be famous for centuries! ”

Xiao Yungui's rendering speech is still so inflammatory, Chinese businessmen in addition to making money, also pay attention to fame, which is why after they make money, they like to build bridges and pave roads to do good deeds, they like to leave a reputation, and Xiao Yungui's words for a hundred years moved a rich businessman like Yu Songnian, and small businessmen and small households hope to follow the big businessmen to get benefits from the capital union, so the businessmen pay attention to the nature of fame and fortune, it can also be said that the nature of people began to be revealed, Everyone's eyes were eager.

Yu Songnian got up and arched his hand: "Your Highness, according to Your Highness's conception, this United Industries, which is similar to the Dutch East India Company, is bound to become the largest industrial company in China, and there will inevitably be many affairs adjudicated in the future, so who is in charge of this company?" ”

Shen Wanben said: "Naturally, whoever contributes the most will be in charge." Zhao Puzhai said: "What is this, since everyone has contributed money, it is natural for everyone to call the shots, otherwise it will be unfair." ”

As soon as the topic opened, everyone began to debate eagerly, it is strange to say that every collective of human society has never had the aggregate of merchants so easy to produce democracy, the peasants like the patriarchal system model, the scholars take talent and virtue first, the craftsmen are the first to look forward to the people with outstanding skills, and the army is the word of the generals, only the merchant class is the most likely to produce democracy, because the merchants are from all over the world, everyone's purpose is to make money with fame and fortune, the goal is highly unified, and the merchant philistine is shrewd, I know more about the law of connecting horizontal and vertical, and I know more about the power of unity, and the basis of unity is that everyone decides together!

Without waiting for Xiao Yungui to give advice, a group of people have already negotiated on their own, according to the model of the president of the Chamber of Commerce and Industry, all shareholders participate in the establishment of the general meeting of shareholders, elect a company organization similar to the executive executive, and then elect the head of the entire industrial company from these executive standing offices, and then the head and the executive executive standing body jointly manage the daily operation of the entire company, and the general meeting of shareholders supervises, and if necessary, the important matters must be decided by the general meeting of shareholders.

Seeing this scene, Xiao Yungui smiled, he knew that he had opened a new era through the guò incident, from loose to centralized, and after centralization, to the initial democracy, and it was precisely the businessmen with extremely low status in this society who started this democratic consciousness. At this moment, he also seemed to find the reason why there was no democratic consciousness in the country since ancient times, that is, the long-term emphasis on agriculture and suppression of commerce suppressed the strata that could germinate this kind of conscious foundation, so people have always been accustomed to having the Holy Lord Mingjun sitting on their heads, without the slightest concept of being the master of the house.

After the fervent discussion had come to an end, the merchants began to worry that the kingdom of heaven would be able to tolerate the existence of this capitalist enterprise, which was a behemoth that might in the future possess a great deal of social wealth and resources. At least not on the Manchu side, absolutely not!

When Yu Songnian raised this question tremblingly, Xiao Yungui smiled and said: "Since it is a joint-stock industrial company that can be participated by all the people, then Benwang will also participate in it." Following him, he easily pointed to Wei Hexiang, who pointed to the Guiyun firm, and said: "In fact, the Guiyun firm has always been the private property of this king, and Boss Wei is the big shopkeeper appointed by this king. ”

Everyone turned their heads to look at the smiling face of the fat-headed and big-eared Wei Hexiang, and they were speechless in surprise for a while...... (To be continued......)