The first little Chinese businessman to speak was named Liu Mingfa, and when he heard the conditions given by Mr. Pan: free shares, no coercion, and preferential treatment, he was moved and asked: "How did you buy this share?" Can Mr. Pan explain? ”

Pan Liu said: "This share is divided into 3,000 shares, each with 1,000 taels of silver. Shareholders who buy more than one share can be partially cared for by the company, for example, they have the priority to buy in-demand goods compared to those who do not buy our shares, they have preferential transportation costs from the company's transportation department, and they can also get the support of the company's escort in the event of an attack by pirates and natives. Major shareholders who purchase more than 30 shares have the right to join the board of directors, participate in board meetings, propose proposals, and have the right to vote on major decisions. Of course, whether the plan proposed by shareholders can be approved or not still needs to be voted on by the board of directors. The person who holds the most shares is the chairman, and the chairman's decisions in small aspects do not need to go through the board of directors, but can be passed by himself. However, even if the chairman proposes a major decision, it needs to go through the board of directors and obtain a majority of votes before it can be passed. In addition, the major shareholders also have the right to require the chairman of the board of directors to disclose the books to the major shareholders when the board of directors is convened, and they can check the accounts, so as to avoid the chairman of the board of directors from cheating on dividends and re-allotments. ”

Although the board of directors and the chairman of the board of directors are all new words, these businessmen can also understand it, the chairman, isn't it the big shopkeeper? The members of the board of directors are all small shopkeepers.

Liu Mingfa shook his head and said, "Old Man Pan, these thirty shares have the right to speak, and they are too expensive!" It takes 30,000 taels of silver to enter the board of directors! And can a minority shareholder of a share, apart from these benefits, be of any use? Will this share depreciate? ”

Pan Liu replied: "Not only will this share not depreciate, on the contrary, it will also appreciate!" In addition to dividends to shareholders, part of the company's annual net profits will be retained as a development fund to expand reproduction. As the company grows, each stake increases in value. For example, now that the company has just been established, the capital is three million taels of silver, and one share is one thousand taels; Three years later, the company quadrupled and had nine million taels of capital, and at that time, each share would automatically rise to three thousand taels of silver. ”

Another Chinese businessman asked, "Isn't the company no longer absorbing new shareholders in the process of development?" ”

"That's a very complicated thing, and when the company grows, you can't just absorb new shareholders, because it involves the issue of re-allotment. Of course, when the company grows to a certain size, it will issue public shares to the outside world on a large scale, and everyone can buy the company's shares. At that time, a re-allotment will be required. For example, the original old shareholders occupy 10% of the shares. At this time, it is necessary to turn the proportion into 70%, and then vacate 30% to be pushed out, so that the people can buy and sell stocks freely, and the proportion of shares of the original shareholders will be relatively reduced. But the value of the shares has appreciated, because after the public offering of shares, the company has become large enough. Pan Liu patiently explained to everyone.

"When it comes to the public offering of shares, will those mud-legged people also enjoy the preferential rights of the company after buying your shares?" Another Chinese businessman asked.

Pan Liu replied: "It's different, the shares they buy are shares that do not have a controlling stake, and only have the right to receive dividends and appreciation. Therefore, when the allotment of shares is re-allotment in the future, those who have purchased the new shares will no longer enjoy the company's preferential treatment, and even if they sell more, they will not have a controlling stake and will not be able to enter the board of directors! ”

Liu Mingfa nodded and said, "I understand!" That's it, Mr. Pan, I'll buy five shares! When do you start investing? ”

In fact, this Liu Mingfa has the financial ability to buy more than 20 shares and enter the board of directors, but because he still has no confidence in the prospects of Nanyang Company, he made a decision that he later regretted for the rest of his life: he was only willing to pay 5,000 taels of silver and buy five shares.

It takes 30,000 taels of silver to enter the board of directors, which does not seem to be a small amount, but in fact, those large and small Chinese businessmen in Southeast Asia were still quite rich, and there were not many big Chinese businessmen with 20,000 or 30,000 taels of silver at home, and some large Chinese businessmen had hundreds of thousands of taels or even millions of taels of silver in their hands! It is undeniable that the silver of that year was indeed very valuable, and a big fat pig was only between four and five taels of silver, and 20,000 taels of silver would be a rich man with tens of millions of assets if the purchasing power was placed in later generations. But then again, which of those Chinese businessmen in Nanyang in the future does not have hundreds of millions of assets in their hands? Hundreds of millions of them can only be regarded as small Chinese businessmen.

The reason why Indonesia is strongly anti-Chinese is because the Chinese, who only account for 5% of Indonesia's population, actually control 90% of all the wealth in Indonesia! After many ** incidents, the Chinese still control 80% of Indonesia's economy! The Filipino Chinese account for only one percent, but they control 70 percent of the Philippine economy!

Why are Nanyang Chinese so rich? Because they have amassed a great deal of wealth through the efforts of generations.

However, even the Chinese in later generations did not know how to use the economy to control politics like the Jews. All the Chinese are basically scattered and do not know how to unite to turn money into a political tool, so the Chinese in Nanyang have no political status except for Singapore.

What Wang Xinyu wants to change now is, first of all, to let the Chinese have the right to speak in Nanyang, and at the same time, after concentrating wealth, they can develop their military strength on a large scale.

It is sad to think of the Chinese in Nanyang in later generations, so rich, but they are fish on other people's chopping boards!

However, when Wang Xinyu proposed to set up a company guard team, he was very surprised: the big Chinese businessmen had no opinion and expressed their support for the establishment of a company guard team.

Because Nanyang was still a pirate's paradise at this time, and the land was not safe, Western colonists and local natives could threaten the survival of the Chinese at any time. It is a good thing to have an armed force to protect itself.

The next step is to determine that everyone buys shares, and everyone wants to buy shares, sign an agreement in public, write down how many shares they want to buy, and pay a certain deposit as collateral. Within a month, Nanyang United Trading Company was formally established, and the shareholders who purchased the shares made up the remaining money, and the company issued a certificate of shares, which was recorded in the accounts.

More than a hundred small Chinese businessmen sitting in the middle of the hall have more or less bought shares. The least number of people booked a share for a thousand dollars, the average person bought four or five shares, and a few people bought seven or eight shares. There was even a small Chinese businessman named Li Laoqi, who booked to buy thirty shares in one go, and just got the qualification to enter the board of directors.

In fact, Li Laoqi's financial resources are not very strong, and these thirty shares of shares make him have to sell all his shops and fields in the Sultan of Aceh, and give up all his industries in order to afford so many shares!

Someone asked Li Laoqi softly: "Laoqi, have you bought so much?" Isn't your property going to be sold out? What if this Nanyang United Trading Company breaks the bank? ”

Li Laoqi replied with confidence: "Is it so easy for such a large company to go bankrupt when it involves banks, transportation, ironmaking, gold mines, farmland, plantations, and shipbuilding?" I think just General Wang's eight large cargo ships can make a lot of money in a year! This company will only appreciate in value, not go out of business! ”

Many small Chinese businessmen ridiculed Li Laoqi for being a fool and doing things without thinking about the way back. But a few years later, those small Chinese businessmen regretted it, because by that time Li Laoqi had become a super-rich man with tens of millions of silver dollars, and they were still ordinary small businessmen.

The more than ten Chinese businessmen sitting on it are all relatively large Chinese businessmen from all over Nanyang, most of them are quite discerning, except for one person who only bought ten shares, other Chinese businessmen, some people bought sixty shares, some bought ninety shares, and even a person named Wu Feng was very generous and willing to pay 300,000 taels of silver to buy three hundred shares!

300,000 was an astronomical amount at the time! Even if it is Pan Liu's own assets, they add up to less than one million taels of silver. Wu Feng took out 300,000 taels of silver to buy 300 shares, which can be said to have sold all his properties, or merged them into Nanyang Company, which means that he will not have his own property in the future, and he will be completely dependent on Nanyang Company just like Li Laoqi.

When it was Wang Xinyu's turn to buy shares by himself, Wang Xinyu said: "At present, I have eight large cargo ships in my hands, and the largest ship is discounted by 20,000 taels of shares; The discount of the small point is 15,000 taels of shares. In this way, the merchant ships had a stake of 135,000 taels of silver. But this stake is not enough! I took out another 10,000 taels of gold and put them in shares, which was converted into 100,000 taels of silver. Then I will take out my cement firing technology and transparent glass firing technology and invest in it! These two techniques can be converted into 95,000 taels of silver, right? In this way, I bought three hundred and thirty shares! ”

Wu Feng calculated, and saw that Wang Xinyu's shares were going to exceed his own, and he was very anxious, he wanted to be the second largest shareholder, and this position would definitely not be given to Wang Xinyu, so he stood up and sneered: "These two technologies are worth 95,000 taels of silver?" Lord Wang, you are too trusted! Just one mouth, ninety-five thousand taels of silver will be in hand? If that's the case, I can also take out the ancestral secret recipe and stake it! I don't want much, just convert it into 60,000 taels of silver! ”

Many people echoed: "Yes! This is not fair! It's worth so much silver, and I can also take out the ancestral secret recipe to buy shares! ”

"Hahaha!" The hall erupted in laughter.

At this time, Pan Ying, who was dressed as a Confucian student, turned around and walked back to the back hall. Soon he walked out, holding a glass bottle imported from Italy: "Everyone, be quiet! ”

When everyone quieted down, Pan Ying pointed to the glass bottle and said to everyone, "Everyone, please look! How much can this transparent glass be worth? ”

When everyone looked at it, they saw that the transparent glass bottle was crystal clear, and there was no flaw in sight. This kind of thing, but it is not available in the East, and only a country called Italy produces it. A knowledgeable person said, "This is worth at least a thousand taels of silver, right?" ”

"That's right! If you produce one, you can sell it for a thousand taels of silver! What if ten are produced? What about producing a hundred? What's more, in the future, we will not produce one by one, we will produce hundreds, thousands! With this technology for the production of transparent glass, I am afraid that everyone will not be able to make a fortune? You say, just a transparent glass technology, not to mention 90,000 taels of silver! Pan Ying said loudly.

Everyone had nothing to say, but that Wu Feng said: "If General Wang can make this kind of transparent glass, the old man will be convinced!" Didn't you say that you would start a company within a month, and then everyone would officially become a shareholder? Then within a month, the old man will see General Wang's transparent glaze factory! ”

Wu Feng knew very well that if he wanted to take out another 60,000 taels of silver to buy shares, in order to surpass Wang Xinyu, he would not be able to take out so much money. And the commercial value of this transparent glass, Wu Feng is very clear. But he didn't believe that Wang Xinyu could do it! Wu Feng secretly thought in his heart: If this General Wang really had such great ability, he would have made a fortune a long time ago, and this chairman should also be him, and the Pan family should speak?

In fact, Wu Feng didn't know that even if Wang Xinyu really had the financial resources to be the chairman, he would not be the chairman himself, and the position of chairman was still given to Pan Liu, because Wang Xinyu had a lot of other things to do, and it was not a good thing to have someone to act for him.

Pan Ying agreed for Wang Xinyu: "Old man Wu, you just wait!" Within a month, this transparent glass factory can definitely be built! ”

"Good!" Wu Feng sneered and said, "A word is a certainty!" If the old man can't see the glass factory within a month, and can't see the transparent glass made by the glass factory, the second largest shareholder is the old man! ”