Xinshun 1730

Chapter 930 Awakening ([-])

When the sun rises, the auspicious time has come, and the firecrackers have been crackling for a long time.

The shareholders, filled with anticipation, entered the venue of the headquarters building one by one, and sat down according to their respective table numbers.

The dividend meeting will be held for ten days, and the profit of this time may not be announced until the last day.But they also knew that Liu Yu wanted to explain some policies, which is why they were more able to accept the government's control.

In business, business is all about profit, not about righteousness, not about the community.

But even when business is business, policy differences are bound to exist.

short term profit.

long-term interests.

How to choose, this needs to be made clear at the general meeting of shareholders.

On the stage, a huge glass cabinet with account books was placed there. Those account books that recorded the amount of gold and silver seemed to emit bursts of sacred light.

Soon, the auditorium gradually became quiet, but Liu Yu didn't talk about the European trade first, but first wrote the words "Wuyi Canal" on the curtain behind him.

After writing these few words, Liu Yu first talked about the importance of the tea trade in the entire foreign export, and then came up with very detailed figures to draw out the issue of the Wuyi Canal.

"Twenty years ago, the tea from Wuyi Mountain had to go to Jiangxi first, and then go to Poyang Lake for packaging and collect the tea from the two lakes."

"Packing, or take the northern line, through Mobei, to Beihai, to Moscow."

"Or take the southern route, take the old route of the first emperor of Dayuling, and go to Guangzhou."

"At least before the Wuyi Canal was built, I calculated the average price of tea in Guangzhou."

"Wuyi tea costs 39 taels of silver per load."

"Kung fu tea is 63 taels."

"Songluo, it's 76 taels."

"Xichun Tunlu, 120 taels."

"Let's not talk about how much these teas can sell in Europa. Let's talk about the original customs price of these teas in Guangzhou."

"Now that the canal is finished, don't mention anything else, just talk about Wuyi tea. Instead of going to Poyang and then south, it will go to Fujian via the canal, and ship it to Songjiang Prefecture for distribution."

"Nowadays, you only need 20 taels of silver to get the goods."

"We don't do retail in Europe, we only do wholesale."

"There is a dedicated business group responsible for retailing, and it's all brought together by the Dutch. Whoever it sells to...then we don't care."

"That's why we want to share a piece of the pie with the Netherlands. There is an organization in the Netherlands called Sons of VOUT, which is dedicated to this. In short, we only do wholesale, efficient smugglers... er, sons of VOUT, an efficient business group, can Guarantee that they will be able to sell half of our goods next year."

"A load of Wuyi tea, this time the auction is 100 taels of silver. It's only 90 taels if sold to a big customer."

"Gross profit, 450%."

"Of course, what if the Wuyi Canal hadn't been built before? The gross profit is only 100%. Although it is quite high, the difference will be huge."

When Liu Yu gave a gross profit of 450%, there was an earth-shattering cheer in the venue.

450% gross profit ah this is.

How could they, who were engaged in merchants and merchants before, earn such a high profit?

For 30 or so taels sold to foreigners, we all know that tea is making huge profits, but we really didn’t expect it to be so profitable!

"No wonder those Westerners have traveled thousands of miles to come here. It's really worthless."

"Hey, why don't we say that all Westerners organize trading companies and don't allow other people to intervene. If there is full competition, if the price is lowered, in fact, the business can still be done if it is shipped to 40 taels a load."

After cheering, a group of people muttered there, couldn't hide their excitement, and discussed loudly.

Liu Yu faintly heard the word "lower prices", and his face was a little ugly. He thought to himself, why do you always think about price competition, and why can't you think about monopoly to make money?
Waiting for the cheers to gradually subside, Liu Yu said: "What did I say about the Wuyi Canal? It was to say that supervision is important."

"I said that you are all a bunch of waste. You have been raised by thousands of hard-working people. Before, you could collect money while sitting at home. You don't understand what is profit and what is competition. This is ugly, but it is That's it for the words."

"This tea trade is not a day or two, right? Who of you said to organize the big guys, pay for the construction of the canal, and let the tea reduce the transportation cost?"

"I have been waiting for 20 years, and I really can't wait any longer. I really can't stand your incompetence. I have no choice but to come forward and organize, so to speak, to build the canal."

"If the imperial court doesn't supervise and doesn't set policies for you, you can still only get 100% of the profits, not 450% of the profits. I say that, right?"

The people present have long been used to it. Liu Yu often said that they were waste, a group of waste merchants raised by the common people.

Although these words are ugly, but in the face of this huge profit, no one wants to care about this matter.

I don't say it, but some people don't think it's too unpleasant.

Some people think that what the Duke said is ugly.

What happened to selling tea before?What is going on now?Can that be the same?

The cost of building a canal is 10 taels. Everyone competes and suspects each other. If you sell 40 taels to the Dutch, I can sell it to 39 taels. In this case, who can invest in building the canal?

Even if it is finished, will it be used by others?

Don't let others use it, and you can eat it all by yourself, so why don't everyone unite to kill you?

Let others use it, even if the ship fee has been collected, when will the capital be recovered?

Some people feel uncomfortable in their hearts, and naturally there are also self-reflection in their hearts.

Some businessmen were scolded by Liu Yu a lot, and they did reflect on it.

Liu Yu scolded them before, saying that tea is the only place in the world where tea is produced, and there is no other place besides that.This purely natural monopoly advantage can be taken away by Westerners to pick up the pricing power. Is it wrong to say that you are trash?

If the canal issue can be refuted, then many businessmen really have nothing to say about this matter.

In fact, before Liu Yu set up a trading company, Dashun merchants were defeated everywhere.

In Japan, the pricing power of Japanese copper was taken away by Japan.

In Guangzhou, Westerners took away the pricing power of the natural monopoly tea.

This is really nothing to say.

For copper, Japan is the producer, and Dashun merchants are the buyers.

For tea, Dashun merchants were producers, while Western merchants were buyers.

It cannot be said that due to various reasons, the pricing power cannot be obtained when buying, and the pricing power cannot be obtained when selling, right?
Production and purchase, these two are in extreme opposition. It is said that the relationship is either-or, if one cannot get it, the other must be obtained.

Is there an explanation other than incompetence?

If it is said that the ship was detained in Batavia and the Dutch forced to sell tea at a low price and lose money, it was the court's incompetence.But sitting at home, holding a natural monopoly in your hands, and being manipulated like this is really unreasonable.

For some things, Liu Yu really felt that the Chinese bourgeoisie might be inherently deficient.If we say that before Dashun engaged in free and competitive trade, it caused frequent internal fighting and lowered prices.

The thirteen lines of the Manchu Qing Dynasty were almost monopolized by a small circle, but the pricing power was still held by the Westerners, and they were forced to sell woolens.

This is really difficult to understand. Liu Yu has lived so long in his previous life, and he has never seen a monopoly industry where the pricing power can be easily taken away.

After irritating these businessmen again and causing them a blow to their confidence, Liu Yu saw that these businessmen were no longer embarrassed, but after being scolded by him so often that they got used to it, he smiled helplessly and said: "The reason why It is very important to talk about the Wuyi Canal first, that is, to talk about the cost of some companies."

"Canals, transportation, that's part of it."

"The monopoly, escort, inspection, and anti-smuggling of spices are also necessary investments that can make money."

"Garris, military spending, forts."

"Shipbuilding, artillery, land reform."

"Repair the port in Amsterdam, repair the supply station in Cape, maintain the escort scale of several warships, and arrange inspection and sealing seals in the tea production area."

"All these are expenses. Do you think it is necessary?"

"Why did I say from the beginning that including the previous trading companies to Japan, they must also undertake certain military obligations, because of this."

"These expenses are the basis for guaranteeing a 450% gross profit. Without these expenses, there would be no such high profits."

"This point, I must tell you clearly."

"Ordinarily, I will supervise you, as long as the profit is guaranteed and the minimum annual interest rate I promised is enough."

"But one day, I won't be able to supervise all the time. I hope you can grow up, and when the board makes decisions in the future, you must look forward appropriately."

"Look at the problem with a long-term perspective. Don't just look at this year's profit and next year's profit. Don't just look at how many 10 taels of silver it costs to invest in the canal, but don't think about how much money you can get in return after it is repaired."

"I know, some people think that taking away more than one million taels of silver every year and giving it to the court to build a navy and build a fort, many people feel wronged."

Speaking of this, many people bowed their heads a little shyly.

Internally, many people are dissatisfied with the fact that more than one million taels of silver are taken away by the imperial court every year for naval construction. They feel that the imperial court is sucking the blood of businessmen again.

Liu Yu is well aware of this kind of dissatisfaction, so today I will use the Wuyi Canal to increase the profit of Wuyi Tea from 100% to 450%, and talk about the importance of necessary expenses.

Let these merchants who have been spoiled by the industrious and hard-working masses, not to mention returning to the level of "extraordinary goods to live in and control politics" in the pre-Qin period, at least have to reach the level of "plutocrats who are cruel internally and expand externally".

Today, Dashun's industrial and commercial development is actually following the path of the state supporting the chaebols.

Several chaebols have gradually emerged.

Japan trade chaebol group; Nanyang banking and plantation chaebol group; shipbuilding machinery coal mining and iron smelting chaebol group; overseas export chaebol group.

The imperial court has shares, the honorable king has shares, and the emperor has shares.Relying on the support of the imperial power, some convenience and monopoly rights were granted.

The big chaebols who engage in monopoly are not only convenient for the imperial court to control, but also convenient for concentrating power.

To be a chaebol, you must have the consciousness to be a chaebol.At the very least, the chaebols need to know when they are willing to spend money and where they cannot save money.

If being a plutocrat is regarded as the level of cruelty inside and outside, then you really can't help it, just be the cheapest of the four people honestly.

Dashun is a country that pays attention to "reason" and "righteousness".Since Liu Yu chose supervision, he needed to explain the truth to these people. In business, he only talked about it from the perspective of pure commercial profit.

As for things other than commercial profits, such as strengthening control over Nanyang, finding a population relief valve for Dashun, preparing battleships for future wars, etc., he didn't mention them.

He hoped that one day in the future, it would be a matter of course, and when the war with Britain started, these big businessmen who were pinned on by the chaebol would be the group of people who Quan Dashun most supported the war.

Even, they will use low interest returns to buy enough war bonds.

If they can achieve that step, it can be considered that they have their own class consciousness, at least they have the consciousness of being the ruling class-taking responsibility for the country that they are the ruling class.

When can we use the positive class awareness of the landlord class to suppress peasant uprisings, to engage in external expansion and internal incitement, when will this group of people be truly awakened.

But looking at it now, it is still too early to have such a consciousness, and it has to be cultivated step by step.Now I have been thinking all day long about banning all parties and calling for a break, asking the court to let go of land purchases, etc.

Since it was a long training process, Liu Yu just stopped at the point and did not continue to talk about it in depth.

After everyone was silent for a while, Liu Yu said with a smile: "Forget it, the future will be long. Today is a happy day for the company, so I won't be so spoiling the scenery. Click to stop, click to stop. What I just said was a bit heavy, so I will say it now." Talk about happy things about tea."

He turned around and wiped off the words Wuyi Canal on the screen, and wrote two lines of poems.

"In the old days, the swallows in front of Wang Xietang flew into the homes of ordinary people."

(End of this chapter)