In short, this Fuyuan machine factory in the future is an enterprise with a background not inferior to that of official enterprise, the flexibility of running a business and the advanced western management system.
And these things are to make Fuyuan machinery factory have profit guarantee in the future, and when it has profit guarantee and at the same time, it is difficult for ordinary businessmen to be tempted by a large number of high-level employees in Beiyang.
How can ordinary businessmen have the opportunity to do business with Yuan Shikai and other Beiyang bosses on weekdays? Now the opportunity is in front of them, even if they invest tens of thousands, not to mention that they can still make a lot of money in arms business.
Before the wind was released, someone quietly found the door!
Chapter 43 Joint stock
Many people think of Sheng Xuanhuai, Hu Xueyan and Zhang Jian when they talk about businessmen in the late Qing Dynasty, but these three people are famous for running foreign countries, so people will think of them when they talk about businessmen in the late Qing Dynasty. At the same time, there are many businessmen who are unknown and have huge financial resources
Hong Xuwei is such a businessman who was born in a business family in Shanxi Province. His family was also brilliant in the early years. However, in the past few decades, when the tea and silk business came to Hong Xuwei from generation to generation, some of his businesses had long since stopped, and only a small-scale heyday bank was left. However, Hong Jiashi was unlucky. Because of his small scale, he didn’t want his bank to be all over the Ministry, but the owner wanted Zhongshan East and Zhili, and Shandong and Zhili were the hardest hit areas of the boxer rebellion in the year of Geng.
There is nothing wrong with this Boxer to mess around with him, but unfortunately, those mobs burned and killed him and got him a semicolon in Beijing. As a result, those mobs directly took away piles of treasury silver, and at that time they even took part in looting to drive away the mob loyalist. Anyway, in the end, they were robbed of everything, and there was no silver residue left.
If that’s all, forget it. After all, banks have their own way of sharing risks. There are too many cash banks in a semicolon, and there is not much silver in the semicolon in Beijing. But the key is that those who see Dingcheng banks being robbed are afraid that their money will be robbed and can’t get it out, which leads to a run.
Hong Xuwei hurried to transport silver from other places to find a colleague to dismantle it, but it was a heavy loss before and after.
Moreover, after the Year of Geng, it was not easy to see the day of Shanxi draft bank becoming more and more tragic. He just wanted to reform his own draft bank and look for new ways of investment.
When passing through Tianjin, I heard that a Fuyuan machinery factory with assets reaching several hundred thousand was newly established in the British Concession in Tianjin, and the investor’s mentality also paid a little attention.
Only after asking about this did I know that this Fuyuan Machinery Factory is not simple. The head has a silver cotton mill with assets of 202,000, and it is said that it is going to run a machinery factory to produce ordnance. The factory has not been set up yet, and the funds have already collected more than 300,000 silver, and it is said that it is far from enough to continue to invest.
When he was interested, he found that the shareholders of Fuyuan Machinery Factory were all senior officials of Beiyang. When he looked at the names of Yuan Shikai, Duan Qirui, Feng Guozhang and Zhao Dongyun, he seemed to see a large number of gold ingots waving to him.
There are so many big bosses behind this machine factory. If you don’t make money, he just hangs on Hong Xuwei and waits for no man. He immediately found Zhao Chenbin’s exit. The first sentence is "How much do you want?"
And this also scared Zhao Chenbin. I realized that people came out here and there. That is to say, I want hundreds of thousands of dollars. Do you have it?
Don’t say that Hong Xuwei can really take it out!
As a member of Shanxi merchants, although his family has declined and the connection of the draft bank has been hit, it is not a big problem for Hong Xuwei to squeeze a few hundred thousand taels of silver because the skinny camel is bigger than Ma.
Otherwise, he wouldn’t be so confident and ask you how much more money you want.
The two men immediately sat down to Hong Xuwei to show their heyday bank, indicating that they were not short of money, while Zhao Chenbin also showed the back view of Fuyuan Machinery Factory and touted that "my proprietor is a guest of Beiyang upstart Yuan Daren, and this time, I got the strong support of Yuan Daren. Not only that, but more than 20 Beiyang military and political officials, including Feng Daren, Duan Daren, Wang Daren and Zhou Da, all invested money to keep it."
When I heard this, Hong Xuwei wondered, "Did they invest money to come in?"
It’s not rare for officials to participate in shares these days. It’s rare for officials to take out real money to participate in shares. Everywhere else, they send performance shares directly to officials.
Zhao Chenbin boasted, "Of course, I have to give money. Yuan’s adult personally invested 12 thousand silver. Who dares to take it for nothing!"
Zhao Chenbin said that this is emboldened. This Fuyuan Machinery Factory is not a purely commercial enterprise, nor is it official enterprise. It is more like a Beiyang sports enterprise, which can be described as a Beiyang high-level enterprise.
In this group of people, except Yuan Shikai, others are not qualified to let Zhao Dongyun go to curry favor with the shares. However, Yuan Shikai doesn’t care about that little money. He invested 12,000 silver, which is not a profit category. He wants to continue to supervise Fuyuan Machinery Factory under the pretext that the political significance is greater than the economic significance. Yuan Shikai personally took out the money. Who dares to say that he is more awesome than Yuan Shikai and wants to slap him to death!
In addition, for him, Beiyang executives can’t lose money anyway, and this arsenal is to build arms for their own Beiyang New Army. It’s nothing to invest with Yuan Shikai. It’s purely political speculation.
When I heard that Yuan Shikai personally took out real money, Hong Xuwei’s eyes were even brighter!
When the two sides showed off their assets and back to the scene, it can be said that both sides were very satisfied, and Hong Xuwei even said, "Money is definitely not a problem. I dare not say that three or five hundred thousand can still be taken out!"
But Zhao Chenbin is a cold hum. You can’t give you so many shares with so much money. Although this total share has not yet been fixed, it is about 700,000 yuan. Because it is not enough, it will not be allowed to follow up the expansion funds for the time being.
In this case, if you take out 3.5 million words, wouldn’t Zhao control the machine factory?
So I didn’t directly agree, but said I needed to wait for some time to reply!
Hong Xuwei is not the only one who seeks for a share. Just after he left, several big rich men with strong financial resources came in succession, and dozens of them came one after another with smaller financial resources.
In addition to these people who want to buy shares directly, many banks and money houses also came to ask if they want loans, including Hong Xuwei and Zhou Xuexi.
Let’s talk about Hong Xuwei first. Although he wants to directly invest in Fuyuan Machinery Factory, Zhao Chenbin said that even if he accepts his direct shareholding, he will not accept too much because Zhao needs to ensure that he is the largest shareholder of Fuyuan Machinery Factory and would rather spread his shares.
At the same time, in order to control the holding, he also heard that Zhao Chenbin borrowed money everywhere and also planned to mortgage Fuyuan Textile Factory for loans. Hong Xuwei thought about how much he could directly take a stake and how much he could borrow money. Anyway, he was a bank to absorb the money and had to lend it out to generate interest. Lending it to Fuyuan Textile Factory had low risk and low profit, and he said that even if the money could not be recovered, he would earn money by taking back the mortgaged Fuyuan Textile Factory.
Different from Hong Xuwei’s mind, Zhou Xuexi came to ask if he wanted money purely for political reasons. Yuan Shikai told him that the preparation of Fuyuan Machinery Factory was not just as simple as running a commercial enterprise, but also that Beiyang’s future ordnance should be heavy
Due to political considerations, Tianjin Guanyinhao has the right to fund Fuyuan Machinery Factory. Of course, the interest is definitely not low, but this Tianjin Guanyinhao is Beiyang assets anyway. This fund transfer and subsequent repayment is also more flexible, which is more convenient and safer than borrowing other banks and foreign banks.
In the face of these swarming businessmen and banks, Zhao Chenbin felt more satisfied!
This feeling of controlling tens of millions of silver investment projects is really good, which fascinates Zhao Chenbin.
"Because the choice is quite similar, we have more follow-up investors in the machinery factory holding company, not counting the more than 20 investors in Zhili, Shanxi and Shandong, so you and our Zhao family have a total of 53 shareholders, raising a total of 132 thousand shares!" The speaker is a middle-aged man in a mandarin jacket.
And this man is Zhao Dongping’s father, Zhao Dongyun’s uncle, Zhao Chenluan, and this time he went to the north specially to set up a machine factory! Some time ago, Zhao Dongyun told his old family that he was going to set up a factory in a large number of banks and said that it was profitable and it was done with his senior management in Beiyang.
Although the Zhao family has many doubts about his rooms, Chen-liang Zhao said that some funds were collected separately. On the one hand, it was for the sake of family support. Now Zhao Dongyun is already in the third year, and the official career is also steaming. It is said that it is very important for Yuan’s adult to value this. Zhao Dongyun is naturally regarded as a pillar of Zhao’s potential to give some money to help him.
In addition, Chen-liang Zhao is seeing his son getting along with Zhao Dong Cloud since he arrived in Baoding, and has been recommended by Zhao Dongyun as an alternate magistrate of a county. So naturally, the more he values Zhao Dongyun, the more he persuades him to take out his own silver and persuade him to have four rooms and big rooms.
At the same time, Zhao Dongyun also told his hometown that Baoding is understaffed. If there is an outstanding brother at home who can come to Baoding for development, he will make appropriate arrangements. This is also the reason why Zhao Dali supported him.
Zhao Dongping’s example is ahead. He just went to Baoding for less than a year and got an official position, and he is still a promising officer in the Beiyang New Army. If you don’t let the Zhao family envy others.
For many reasons, in the four rooms of Zhao family, except for Zhao Dongyun’s second room, which was taken out by Zhao’s mother and supported by 22,000 silver, the big room was rich with 62,000 silver with a wave of his hand. They mainly wanted to send their brothers to Zhao Dong Cloud to fight for a way out. After all, if you want a top hat, you can’t spend a few silver, but you can’t buy a real role in Beiyang body with money, and you can’t buy a big man to take photos and pull it out by himself.
Zhao Chenliang’s three rooms are relatively thin in financial resources and rich in fixed assets such as fields and shops, but his spare money is not much. However, his bullet is also 32,000 yuan. In the fourth room, he thinks that their second room has invested hundreds of thousands of money in the big room and the third room, and tens of thousands of dollars have been taken out. Anyway, Zhao Dongyun estimates that even if he wants to lose money, he will lose money with everyone, but if he can earn money together, he will also invest 42,000 silver with the mentality of following the trend.
So the four rooms add up, and the Zhao family has collected 152,000 silver!
However, relying on this 152,000 silver is far from enough to control the Fuyuan Machinery Factory. Zhao Dongyun has to find another way.
Chapter 44 Site Selection and Factory Construction
Now the Zhao family has actually taken out 152,000 silver, which is not much, but it is also the largest number that the Zhao family can raise in a short time. If you want to take out more words, you really have to sell fixed industries such as granges and shops.
"Except that I brought 152,000 yuan from home, and you took out 12,000 yuan of silver from Baoding House, totaling 162,000 yuan, and invested it in Fuyuan Mill. So Fuyuan Mill shares will be divided into four rooms in Zhao’s family!" Zhao Chenliang said, "Of course, the big head is still that your three rooms account for 70% of the shares, the big room accounts for 13%, and my three rooms account for seven shares and four rooms account for ten."
With the Zhao family investing money into the Fuyuan Cotton Mill together, it has become the Zhao family’s joint ownership. Although the share price of Fuyuan Cotton Mill before 202,000 yuan is already much higher, the share distribution of the Zhao family’s four rooms in Fuyuan Cotton Mill is not in strict accordance with their respective capital shares, but the reason is simple, because Zhao Dongyun is the guarantee for the development and expansion of Fuyuan Cotton Mill and the biggest guarantee for the establishment of Fuyuan Machine Factory, and his investment in several rooms can be regarded as a hitchhiking trip.
When Fuyuan Cotton Mill absorbed as much as 162,000 silver in cash, it was still far from enough to control the holding office of Fuyuan Machinery Factory. Zhao Dongyun directly mortgaged many equipment and workshops in Fuyuan Cotton Mill to Hongxuwei Dingsheng Bank for 22,000 yuan and Zhou Xuexi Tianjin Guanyin Bank for 72,000 yuan.
In this way, Fuyuan Cotton Mill has collected 332,000 cash. Although this figure is not up to the expected half of the total shares, it is impossible to calculate the investment. Because Fuyuan Cotton Mill set up Fuyuan Machinery Factory first, if future generations want to invest, it is not to say how much money to give, but to talk about it one by one and absorb the investment at a premium.
For example, if you invest 500,000 taels of silver, you can get 40% of the shares, but you can’t get 50% of the shares.
In this way, Fuyuan Machinery Factory absorbed 530,000 cash investment, and Fuyuan Textile Factory paid 57% of the shares, and Fuyuan Textile Factory still controlled 43% of the shares. Although it has less than half of the shares, Fuyuan Textile Factory is still the largest shareholder of Fuyuan Machinery Factory.
The second largest shareholder invested 100,000 yuan, accounting for 10% of the shares, while the shares held by other shareholders were all single digits. It is also worth noting that more than 20 senior officials in Beiyang, although each of them took thousands or tens of thousands, also invested more than 10,000 yuan. Although the investment was much less than that of the top bank, they all accounted for 10% of the shares.
So in less than a month, Fuyuan Machinery Factory has remitted more than 100,000 yuan in cash, and at this time, they haven’t even determined the address of the factory!
Fuyuan Machinery Factory can be said to be the fastest investment in China in recent years. In less than a month, it has pulled down more than 100,000 silver in cash, and sufficient cash has also greatly increased the speed of Fuyuan Machinery Factory’s construction.
Zhao Chenbin had signed a contract with Lihe Foreign Firm to order machinery and equipment before the funds were put into place, that is, when Fuyuan Machinery Factory was just established. The first batch of contracts included a set of production equipment with a daily output of 50 rifles and a production line with a daily output of 25,000 792 mm round warheads in Mao Se. These two sets of equipment were old. In addition, there was a new production line with a daily output of 300 pounds of pyrotechnics. In addition to these big equipment, raw materials needed for making guns and ammunition were also purchased.
In addition to the introduction of materials, it is also a big project to hire practical technicians, so that these equipment can be smoothly installed, produced and manufactured in China. However, the foreign company promised to hire technical experts to come to China for a certain period of time, and of course, the high salary will have to be paid by Fuyuan Machine Factory.
The machine has been set, but the site has not been selected at this time, and this is not for Zhao Dongyun to decide by himself. In terms of quality, this Fuyuan machine factory is a Beiyang enterprise. The location of the military and political Beiyang regiment must be considered from the whole Beiyang height.
Yuan Shikai said that Texas can be built, and that the land in Texas can avoid military attacks by foreign powers. At the same time, because the canal is also convenient for transportation.
However, it was rejected by several senior executives of the machinery factory on the grounds that the new transportation factory must choose convenient transportation, shipping and railway, and the best area is Tianjin. Of course, Tianjin is not available, and Beijing and Tangshan can barely choose Baoding or Shijiazhuang, but they don’t go to Texas anyway
To tell the truth, there is no geographical advantage in running a large-scale military enterprise in that small place in Texas. Even if the railway traffic will be better in the future, it will be many years later. At that time, Yuan Shikai has not chosen this place. A large part of the reason is that it is located at the midpoint between Shandong and Zhili, and Shandong and Zhili are his old nests. Texas is his old site. Building it there can reassure him.
Finally, it was argued for a few days. Seeing that all the machinery and equipment had been shipped from Germany, it was naturally impossible to choose a site here. Finally, Yuan Shikai considered the commercialization practice and said that Tangshan could be established.
For Zhao Dongyun, it is no problem to actually set up Tianjin or Tangshan. He knows that this kind of thing will not happen again when the allied forces landed in Tianjin. It will not happen until the history has changed a lot. If China does not go to war with all the powers, the safety of the arsenal can still be guaranteed.
However, in the end, Tianjin is too many concessions, and finally it chose convenient transportation. Tangshan can rely on the Tangjin Railway to import equipment and raw materials efficiently and transport them to the outside to become arms.
In addition, Tangshan has a lot of coal, which is better for an arsenal that consumes a lot of coal. Moreover, Zhao Dongyun is also considering establishing an affiliated steelmaking plant, and it will be convenient to be close to the coal-producing area then.
After selecting the site, things in Houfuyuan Machine Factory are almost finished. Although the remaining factory building matters are cumbersome, there is no need for Zhao Dongyun to worry about anything. Naturally, there are a group of people in Fuyuan Machine Factory to deal with it. Otherwise, what should we spend so much money to hire them to do?
"You don’t care if so much money is invested. Don’t you have to worry?" Fang Ruolian cut the iced watermelon into pieces as she spoke, and then fork a piece of watermelon meat to Zhao Dong Cloud’s hand.
Zhao Dongyun, on the other hand, took a bite of the iced watermelon in a recliner like a gentleman and said, "It’s really hot this summer!"
Fang Ruolian was annoyed with him for turning the subject around, so instead of handing him the watermelon, she ate it and cut it into small pieces. One piece of watermelon meat entered her mouth one after another, and in a short time, Zhao Dongyun quickly turned over and sat up. The last few pieces of watermelon meat fork were eaten and said, "What are you doing so fast?"
Fang Ruolian smiled!
Since Zhao Dongyun broke into her room on a dark windy night a month ago, she doesn’t know what happened. She seems to have forgotten to put up resistance, and even forgot to keep talking about the emperor in her heart. It seems that everything comes naturally and she lives with him unconsciously.
Is this like being in love? She doesn’t know, but she’s sure it’s definitely not that kind of love, because he hasn’t even said a gentle word to her, let alone those who like to love or not, and she hasn’t said anything about being moved or blushing.
So she was confused by herself and Zhao Dongyun, but although she was a little confused about the two people now, she still liked the feeling now.
"It’s getting dark and I’m going back to the house!" Although the summer night comes late, I will still come to the courtyard. Although it is cool, it is not good to have more mosquitoes and stay for a long time.
