Chapter 517 I spent a billion dollars to build a colonial company, who wants to make a fortune together?
In this way, Liu He relied on the three sharp weapons of imperial power, popular support and the new army to completely subdue the family.
Under the whip of the post station and the pavilion guards, Liu He's determination to change the law in the Great Dynasty was once again issued in the form of an edict to the counties of the Han Dynasty.
"Chang'an Monthly" seized the opportunity and published hundreds of articles on the New Deal in a row.
The original "Chang'an Monthly" was two issues in January, and now it is six issues in January. As soon as each issue of the "Chang'an Monthly" is printed, it will also be sent to the counties of the Kanto region by the pavilion guards.
Within three or five days, even if it is far away from Chang'an, Guangling Kingdom and Jiaozhi County can still read this freshly baked "Chang'an Moon Cake".
Today, there is a relatively fixed group in Chang'an City, who make a living by writing notes for the "Chang'an Monthly".
In this group, there are not only low-end officials who are keen on the New Deal, but also Confucian scholars who want to be gentlemen and Confucians, and even peddlers and pawns who are not very literate.
No matter who it is, a word is worth two dollars, and if you write two or three memoirs a month, the money you earn is enough to support your family.
The published memoirs are still easy to understand, keep up with current events, and there will never be half a point of condescension.
Reading the memoirs one by one, you can not only pass the time, but also understand the situation in the court:
"Changyi Lang Team Led the Shocking Eyebrows", "The Birth of Xianheng Wine Shop", "The Victory of the Common People", "Land Merger is Undesirable......
"Whether it is a follower or a cool official, a solid man is a good official", "It is good to change the law, it is good to change the law, the people can eat enough", "Pingling County New Wind" ......
"Where do the good men go, they will naturally join the army" and "The Wind of the Imperial Examination"......
Under the publicity of these major events, the wind of reform and new changes finally blew out from the palace seat, swept the world, and became a new fashion of the Han Dynasty.
This is Liu He's cleverness.
Before the implementation of the new policy, the momentum should not be too big, because no matter how strong the wind blows, it may not be understood by the people.
After all, it's none of your business, hang high.
If the turmoil in the court is not related to the vital interests of the people, they have no heart to care about it, let alone devote themselves to it.
After several rounds of new policies, the common people of the poor family have tasted the sweetness, coupled with the propaganda and agitation of these memoirs, the new coup d'Γ©tat law has been linked to the common people.
All of a sudden, everyone was talking about this matter in the streets and alleys.
When an event becomes a trend among the majority of the population, it naturally creates a trend throughout society, which in turn attracts many people who are not from their own class to participate in it.
In the beginning, only the common people were keen to talk about the New Deal, but later, the big families also began to talk about the New Deal.
Especially the young people in the big family, they take the young son of heaven as a model, and they talk about the words "reform the old and make the new", "enrich the people and strengthen the man", and "strive to be a gentleman and Confucian" all day long.
And it's not just lip service, these young people from big families are also personally involved in it, and they prove their support for the New Deal with their actions.
rebelled from the family, took the initiative to join the army, and went to the border county to garrison the border; Because his father and brother did not support the New Deal, he completely broke with it and set up another door; What's more, after inheriting the family business, half of the family will be donated for national use......
The whole Han was immersed in a new atmosphere that had never been seen before. This vibrant atmosphere catches up with the era of a hundred schools of thought.
In fact, not only the young people of the family, but also the most treacherous and cunning family heads in the family, also began to follow the idea of the new policy of the Son of Heaven to find opportunities.
Since this new deal is already on the verge of arrows, it has to be launched, and there is only a dead end to resistance, then only by carefully looking for opportunities to germinate can it be possible to profit from it.
As a result, these "old sparrows" who lived behind the Gaomen compound gathered together all day long and spent all night reading the edict of the Son of Heaven and the chronicles of the "Chang'an Monthly......
Soon, they really found a way for them to grow.
From this veritable "Great Dynasty Meeting", they found such words from the Son of Heaven.
"Whether it's a big family or a common man, you want to get more land......
"I can show you a clear way, and that is to go beyond the Han Dynasty to get ......."
"Western Regions, West of the Western Regions, Daqin, Jiaozhi, Goryeo, Wa Kingdom...... One day, the Han flag will be planted all over the world! β
The "old sparrows" had never heard any of the Sons of Heaven say such a thing, not even from any one of them.
But they saw one thing clearly, and they understood that the Son of Heaven wanted them to go beyond the Han Dynasty in search of land, opportunity, and wealth.
Then, under continuous inquiry, the "old sparrows" obtained more useful information through their connections in the court.
The Gongguan was in full swing renovating a large shipyard in Huiji County, and Dasi Nong purchased shipbuilding timber from Yulin County and Cangwu County in the south.
These shipyards were to build a large ship that was different from the building boats, and it was specially designed to go to sea: not to sail along the coastline, but to sail into the bottomless ocean.
The news spread far and wide, and it spread from the giant family to the common people of the poor family. Whoever it is, when they first heard the news, they felt a little shocked.
When they learned exactly that the big ship built by the engineer was called the "Penglai Schooner", they even thought that the Son of Heaven would follow the example of the ancestors of the past dynasties and seek immortals and medicines.
When all kinds of rumors were rampant, the memoirs in the "Chang'an Monthly" solved their confusion.
Throughout July, all the memoirs published in the "Chang'an Monthly" were related to the "voyage to the sea".
"Penglai Revealed", "The Kingdom of Wa has been the land of the Han Dynasty since ancient times", "There is not only the king's land, but also the king's sea", "The east of Fusang, its own fairy mountain......
"The sky is round or the earth is round and the sky is square", "What is the earth", "The heart of heaven is not on the ground", "Gold and spices, the way to make money", "Why don't men go to sea......
Under the indiscriminate bombardment of these memoirs, the people of the Han Dynasty finally understood that the Son of Heaven was not going to visit the immortal mountain, but to go to sea to do business.
What spices, they don't know; But what gold is, they understand.
What's more, the Son of Heaven has a seven-trick exquisite heart, and he can always come up with many ways to make money.
Follow the Son of Heaven, and you will definitely make money.
When the poor and rich were looking for a way to "go to sea" to make money, Gongyu, the commander of Shui Heng, sent this way to his eyes.
Captain Shui Heng opened a trade name called "Dong Fusang Co., Ltd."
"Co., Ltd." is another new word, in the world, except for Liu He, no one can invent this thing.
But this did not prevent people from paying attention to this new thing, and many clever people of good deeds flocked to it.
This Dongfusang Co., Ltd. was opened in a newly vacated mansion in Beichengguo.
In the notice booth outside the door, there are hundreds of rules for the operation of this business.
The dense Han Li group of ants is lined up, and the memory is dizzying.
The endless fresh words in the "Regulations on the Management of Dongfusang Co., Ltd." make the smartest cunning and the common people look at the clouds.
What is limited liability, what is Han ownership, what is exclusivity, what is colonial trade...... It's all a problem.
But these questions did not dampen people's enthusiasm, because they could understand the most important systems in it.
"10,000 yuan a share, the shareholder is the company's shareholder, and the shareholder can pay dividends."
"The company made a living by buying and selling silk, porcelain, spices, gold and Kunlun slaves."
"The Shaofu invested one billion yuan into 100,000 shares, and the county official is the largest shareholder of the company."
In fact, as long as there is that last one, it is convincing enough: one billion dollars, and the land rent collected by the entire Han Dynasty in a year is only this amount.
The Son of Heaven has taken out all his own family funds, what else can others hesitate about?
For a time, there were many responders!
10,000 yuan per share is not too high a threshold.
An ordinary family of five, as long as they have their own land and are good at management, can get it out.
A total of 200,000 shares were issued by the entire Dongfuso Company, with a total price of 10,000 yuan per share.
The Son of Heaven gave a billion dollars, which accounted for 100,000 shares, and the remaining 100,000 shares could be subscribed by everyone.
The cunning people of Chang'an City did not fully understand the operation mode of Dongfusang Company, but the money was ready.
On the first day of August, Dongfusang Company began its public offering, and there was a long queue at the door, and countless people rushed to pay for it.
This time, it opened Liu He's eyes.
He knew that the city of first good was a cornucopia, but he didn't expect that there was so much wealth hidden in this cornucopia.
In just three days, hundreds of millions of dollars were raised.
By the fifth day, 300 million had been raised.
Within 10 days, 500 million yuan was raised.
Not only the people of Chang'an City are cunning, but also the people of Sanfu who have received the news, and even the cunning of the Kanto Prefecture, all gathered to respond.
On August 15, the day of the Mid-Autumn Festival, all the billions of money were raised.
In order not to let Hao Qian take too much advantage in this business, Dongfusang Company made clear regulations on the upper and lower limits of shareholding.
The minimum number of shares to be invested is one share, that is, 10,000 yuan must be contributed; The maximum number of shares to be invested is 1,000 shares, which is 10 million dollars.
It seems to be a thousand times different, but in front of the 100,000 shares of the Son of Heaven, it is a small fraction, and it will not cause the hidden danger of the dove occupying the magpie's nest.
If the upper limit of this shareholding is not set, then the 100,000 shares worth one billion dollars will probably be snapped up in just ten days.
In late August, when all the shares were sold out, there were still huge rich commercial carriages in Shuzhong loaded with copper coins, which was long overdue.
When they learned that all the shares had been sold out, they could only sigh and even burst into a rage.
Many arrogant people made a fuss in front of the Dongfusang Company for a few days, and they did not leave until the guards patrolling the city were dispatched.
In this way, Liu He used an empty shelf of "Clothing Co., Ltd." and dozens of memoirs to draw a huge pie.
It is a good start for the Han version of the Age of Discovery, which has only taken a small step.
This will inevitably lead to new inequalities of wealth, but Liu He will have other ways to smooth out this inequality in the future.
At least, a large amount of start-up capital has now been obtained.
Soon, under the planning of the Son of Heaven, Gong Yu, who was also the captain of Shuiheng and the chief seal of the East Fusang Company, began to spend money in an orderly manner.
The largest part of it was naturally invested in the Huiji Shipyard, which was supervised by the engineer himself, but the ownership was in the hands of the Higashifuso Company.
Skilled shipwrights and shipwrights were hired, large quantities of shipbuilding materials were purchased, sailors with experience at sea were recruited, and new workshops were set up to manufacture nautical instruments...... It costs money everywhere.
The second part is to open a special private school in Chang'an City-Penglai School Palace.
Although this private school also teaches some Confucian classics, it teaches more astronomical and ocean knowledge.
There are only a few Confucian students who teach in the chairs, and most of them are related to going to sea.
Either they were officials who observed the stars in the Qin Heavenly Prison, or craftsmen who built ships, sailors who went to sea, or officials of the subject state who had dealt with overseas Hu people.
And the chief chair of Penglai School Palace is none other than the Son of Heaven himself.
Liu He will come to Penglai Academy every three days to teach for half a day, not only the students recruited by the palace must come to listen to the lectures, but even those lectures must be listened to together.
Compared with the Shiqu Pavilion debate, the knowledge imparted by Liu He in the Penglai Academy was more shocking, and the textbook "Geographical Atlas" used made readers even more jaw-dropping.
"The sky is vast, boundless, the sun, moon and stars, innumerable."
"The firmament in which we dwell is the solar system, and the place where we dwell is the earth."
"The earth and the seven stars revolve around the sun, and at the same time they are autobiography, and the moon revolves twice around the earth."
"One revolution of the earth is a year, and a week of autobiography is one day."
"The earth is huge, seven into oceans and three into continents."
"And the continent is divided into seven, which can be called seven continents."
"One is said to be Asia, where the Han Dynasty is, and the wind of education is the most holy. In the east, there are the Wa people, who are the wolf's ambitions, and in the southwest, there are Indians, who are lazy and cannot be educated. β
"The second is called Europa, where the Great Qin is located, its people are white-skinned, although they have been civilized, their ethics are insane, and they can be passed from the Western Regions to the west by land."
"The third is said to be African, the land is vast and rich, hot and dry like midsummer, its people have dark skin and curly hair, do not understand etiquette, such as the ancient savages Ru Mao drank blood, and from Daqin to the south can be passed by land."
"Fourth, North America, thousands of miles away, are fertile soil, its people are red-skinned, suspected to be the remnants of Yin Shang, only know slash-and-burn farming, do not know iron smelting and copper, need to sail thousands of miles."
"Five South America is called South America, the forest is dense and the water is deep, there are many miasma beasts, among which there is a strong country, called Maya, there is no appearance, vulnerable to a blow, North America to the south land route can be passed."
"Six said Australia, there are sand seaside oasis, there are many rare beasts, different from the rest of the continents, its people are short, black and thin, do not understand human language, need to go to sea to sail thousands of miles."
"Seven Antarctica is the extreme south of the world, frozen for thousands of miles, uninhabited, only tens of millions of penguins live on it, and they also need to sail far."
"There are products on all seven continents, which can make the people of the Han Dynasty rich."
"Northern America has gold, Europa has silver, Africa has Kunlun and spices, South America has new grains, Australia has iron and copper, ......"
If Liu He was not the commentator of the "Hadith Canon", but the first Confucian in the world, and even more so the saint of the Pantheon, then what he said would definitely be regarded as a fallacy to confuse the public.
But right now, the listeners have to believe it.
Ask for a full order!
(End of chapter)