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Chapter 597 No one at sea

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    Zhao Liben was very good at teaching, but Zhao Hao was still confused.

    The old man had no choice but to accept that his grandson had not yet understood the setting, so he turned the conversation to secondary matters.

    "What's going on with your Laoshizi Jiangnan Company? Last time you were in Yangzhou, why couldn't you get some air?"

    "Hey, I made up this name at random in order to reassure Mr. Wu." Zhao Hao smiled and replied, "But after traveling around Taicang and Wuxi, I also attracted a few shareholders, so I can't do it now."  It¡¯s a lie.¡±

    "How much money did you deceive others?" Zhao Liben asked curiously.

    "The two Wang families each have 100,000 taels of silver and 50,000 shi of grain. The Hua family has 150,000 taels of silver and 80,000 shi of grain." Zhao Hao counted with his fingers: "Sister Xueying came up with one million taels, but I  I'm worried that other shareholders will have objections and only want half of her."

    "My dear" Zhao Liben almost rolled his eyes.  "You are a white wolf with nothing to show for it, and you managed to collect 1.2 million taels of silver in one go?"

    Su Song, rice is expensive. In the lean season, the price of the Mi family is never less than two taels and one stone.  The Wang Jiahua family only paid for it with two taels of silver, and Zhao Hao did not suffer any loss at all.

    "Grandpa, what you said is wrong." Zhao Hao said sternly: "How can it be a waste of money? My grandson is using the goodwill accumulated in the past."

    "Goodwill, what is that?" Zhao Liben was confused.

    Mr. Zhao patted his chest and said nothing.

    "Uh isn't that still a waste of money?" Zhao Liben chuckled.

    "Grandpa insists on saying this, but I can't help it." Zhao Hao spread his hands helplessly.

    "It's a skill if you can pull it off." Zhao Liben smiled, took out an envelope from his sleeve, handed it to Zhao Hao and said, "There are still people who are chasing you to give you money."

    "This is?"

    "Last time I passed through Yangzhou, the salt merchants begged to partner with you, but you didn't agree. This time they just gave all their money to grandpa."

    "And they were afraid that you wouldn't agree, so they wrote a document promising not to interfere with the company's business, nor to sell their shares, but to just follow you and pay dividends." Zhao Liben handed Zhao Hao another envelope.

    "It's time to take others to play, right?"

    "So good?" Mr. Zhao opened his mouth in surprise.

    "Their money comes from the sea, and they can't spend it all, and they have no other place to go. Instead of keeping it in the cellar to grow mold, it would be better to leave it here to give birth to babies." Zhao Liben smiled and said: "Look,  They are so generous."

    Zhao Hao opened the first envelope and took a look. Inside was a thick pile of conference tickets, which amounted to one million taels.  "Whose company is this?"

    "There are five companies in total, each with two hundred thousand taels." Zhao Liben laughed and said: "There are three more companies that are not our Huizhou merchants. If we don't take them to play do you think we should do this?"

    "Yes, everyone has done this, how can there be any reason why they shouldn't?" Zhao Hao pondered for a while and said:

    "Normally, now that Jiangnan Company has taken over Xishan, the stock price should have gone up. But since they are so sincere and it's grandpa's face, then let's just settle it at one or two per share."

    "Hehe, it's bright! You are indeed grandpa's grandson!" Zhao Liben was very happy. He had completed his mission and had an explanation when he returned.

    Zhao Hao opened another envelope and saw five pieces of paper inside. The general idea was that each family would invest 200,000 taels of silver in Zhao Hao, and he would be solely responsible for managing the shares. He would share the profits and losses and would never withdraw voluntarily.

    To put it bluntly, the salt merchants regarded this as a financial investment and did not regard it as a big deal at all

    Thinking about it, two hundred thousand taels is really nothing to a wealthy salt merchant.

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    In fact, even if the salt merchants did not grant full voting rights to Zhao Hao, Mr. Zhao would take the initiative to reduce the shareholding to less than 50%.  Only in this way can it be shown that Jiangnan Company does not belong to him alone, and it will also stop everyone from talking.

    In fact, Mr. Zhao does not need to be so careful. In this era, there was no rule prohibiting relatives of officials from doing business in the place where they served.

    But be careful, who knows if this will be used to attack his father and son in the future?

    So he won¡¯t even serve as the chairman of Jiangnan Company, and is going to ask Taishi Huacha to act as the mascot.

    Zhao Liben will not interfere in these specific and minor matters. He only focuses on the big strategic direction.

    After taking a sip of tea, the old man talked about the situation of the Eight Families.

    "Last year they failed to recover the golden seal of King Jinghai. I wanted to re-calculate the number and cast another one."

    Zhao Liben smiled happily and said, "But just as I expected, it can't be that simple? Previously, the Lu family relied on the power of Lu Bing and his son as the royal guards.With a monopoly of 20% of the market share, everyone felt that they had suffered a loss.  Now that the Lu family is defeated, how to divide the 20%?  Should everyone share it equally, or whoever takes over as King of Jinghai will get the big share?  The eight families fought endlessly.  "

    "Of course." Zhao Hao nodded and continued the tea ceremony for his grandfather: "Those families who know that there is no hope of competing for the position must hope to share it equally. A powerful party like the Xu family naturally wants to monopolize it."

    "And in addition to the battle for land shares, there are more troublesome issues at sea." Zhao Liben went on to explain to his grandson:

    "It turned out that Wang Zhi's Wufeng fleet controlled the shipping in the southeast and two oceans, and the nine families could only sell their goods to him. Therefore, at that time, the power and profits belonged to Wang Zhi."

    "Naturally, the nine families were dissatisfied with this, and they united and tried every means to get rid of Wang Zhi. After Wang Zhi's death, his fleet was divided and attacked each other, and maritime trade was completely finished."

    "The nine families used both hard and soft tactics to jointly elect the Lu family as the new king of Jinghai, the five major fleets of Wangzhi and Zhejiang. The king of Jinghai is the spokesman for all the fleets on the sea surface of Zhejiang and Zhejiang."

    "The goods of the nine families are distributed by King Jinghai to the five major fleets. The five major fleets then sell the goods to the two oceans, make money and then pay to King Jinghai. Finally, King Jinghai distributes them to the nine families. In this way, a maritime trade is completed."

    Zhao Hao nodded and said with some gloating: "Once King Jinghai dies, the sea will definitely be more chaotic than the land."

    "That's natural. Most of the families on land maintain their own identities and are related to each other, so it's hard to completely quarrel with each other. But at sea, the jungle is always strong, so are those fleets merchants or pirates? No one can say for sure." Zhao Liben also laughed.  road:

    "So order is more important at sea. Once there is no order, the fleets will immediately become chaotic. Without King Jinghai, no one will supply them with goods, and they don't know who to pay the money to after selling the goods. All of a sudden, the trade will be cut off.  .¡±

    "Those maritime merchants were originally those who dared to make a fortune, but after half a year of no income, some of them went back to their old ways, became pirates and started to rob. I heard that the Wang family in Taicang was robbed of two batches of goods in the first half of the year."

    "Oh." Zhao Hao suddenly realized, no wonder Wang Shimao sweated when he mentioned this. It turned out to be because he suffered a big loss.

    "The Xiang family simply took the opportunity to eat up a fleet. They wanted to produce and sell themselves without playing with everyone. As a result, the other families quit the business. On the first day of the first lunar month, a fire broke out and burned more than a hundred of the Xiang family's ships.  Ship. Naturally, the Xiang family wanted revenge. They struggled for several months and hundreds of people died before they stopped."

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