Han Du acted as if he should take it for granted, which made Lao Zhu slowly give up his suspicion and continue to look at the dividends below.
At the end, he suddenly turned around and warned Han Du, "Now An Qing is pregnant. If you dare to do something to make her angry, I can't spare you."
"I'm still thinking about An Qing giving birth to a fat boy for me. How could I have such thoughts?" Han Du quickly complained.
When Lao Zhu saw Han Du's sincerity, the doubts in his brows finally dissipated, and he nodded with a smile, "It's good that you know."
The dividend meeting was successfully concluded.
The mountain-like pile of millions of banknotes was handed out in full view of everyone.
Such a thing instantly caused people in the capital to rush to tell each other. Within just two days, everyone was talking about the dividend meeting.
There are even many people gearing up to buy a share the next time the Stock Exchange releases securities.
As soon as the dividend distribution meeting ended, Lao Zhu, Queen Ma and others returned to the palace.
Han Du stayed and prepared a banquet to receive the shipowners.
At the banquet, the clerk filled up the wine glass for Han Du. Han Du stood up with the wine and said loudly: "This is the first glass of wine I would like to express to all my bosses. It is because you are honest and trustworthy, and you have come to share the dividends and save the money." The face of Shibosi has also been saved by this prince. I thank you, do it!"
"Your Majesty, your words are serious. This is also my duty."
Everyone raised their glasses together and drank it all.
After doing it, Han Du stretched out his hand and pressed down on everyone, motioning for them to sit down.
After everyone sat down in response, Han Du slowly sat down.
"Everyone has made a lot of money this time. What are your plans in the future? Will you continue to go to sea?" Han Du asked everyone with a smile while still letting the clerk fill him up with wine.
Several people in front of Han Du looked at each other, and all of them smiled.
The person on the left is slightly older, with gray hair and ridges on his forehead.
"Thanks to Lord Marquis, we were able to make such a large sum of money. Naturally, we will continue to go to sea in the future. But after making this profit, we also have capital, and we will prepare to take our own ships to sea in the future."
Han Du glanced at this person with a smile, then put down the wine glass he had picked up.
It is impossible to say that these people have distributed so much money this time without heartache. Han Du thought to himself that if there was no agreement in advance and he forced them to suppress it, none of these people would be willing to share the dividends with others.
That's several million guan. On average, each of them took out more than 100,000 or 200,000 guan.
Now that they have ample funds in their hands, they naturally don’t want to share the profits with others. In other words, they don’t want to sell securities anymore.
Seeing that Han Du seemed unhappy, everyone immediately shut up and looked at Han Du cautiously.
Han Du saw everyone's solemn expressions and suddenly smiled dumbly, "Why are you so nervous? So far, we can be considered mutually beneficial, right?"
"That's, that's..." All the shipowners immediately laughed in agreement and nodded repeatedly.
Seeing that everyone relaxed, Han Ducai smiled and said: "If you want to go it alone, that is your freedom. I will not stop you."
Han Du's eloquent statement immediately restored the atmosphere of the banquet to its previous enthusiasm. Everyone was noisy among themselves and no longer had any worries.
Han Du waited for everyone to whisper for a moment, then waved his hand and silenced everyone's voices, "However, I have something I want to remind you of."
"Master Hou, please give me your instructions."
Han Du was not polite and said simply and directly: "First, even if you don't do it in the securities field, there will be others who want to do it. You can think about it for yourselves, and you can learn from the past mistakes. People will naturally follow the same example, unless they don’t want to get rich.”
Since these people are dissatisfied with the dividends and think that they have made money based on their skills, they have to give most of the profits to other people who are sitting on their profits. Make them feel unworthy and want to go it alone.
Then Han Du told them that this securities business is not only successful because of you, but because there are so many people who want to do it, there is no need to worry about no one who is willing to do it.
Han Du's words immediately caused all the shipowners to fall into silence.
It is true that they can go it alone, but Handu can also continue to find people with insufficient funds, those who are willing to raise funds through securities in order to pursue overseas trade.
Will there be fewer such people?
On the contrary, there are not only a lot of them, but even more.
At the beginning, they were just the first to find Han Du and took advantage of them. If other people knew that business could still be done this way, and that if you don't have enough money, you could raise funds through securities, then they wouldn't have been the ones who went overseas in the first place.
It will be at least ten times more.
From this point of view, whether they do securities or not has no impact on Handu at all. On the contrary, they took advantage of the securities and made a lot of money this time.
Thinking of this, the dissatisfaction that everyone felt just now disappeared.
People are like this. When you can't figure something out, if you change your position, you may have a different view.
Han Du saw the changes in everyone's expressions and saw that everyone was relieved before continuing: "Secondly, I would like to remind you that going out to sea and running a boat is also risky. You are all going smoothly this time, and you are lucky not to have any encounters. Storm, can you guarantee smooth sailing every time in the future? If you run the boat yourself, if you encounter a storm, you may lose everything and years of hard work."
"But if you continue to raise funds through securities, it will be different. Originally, if you work alone, you may only be able to take one ship to sea, but by selling securities, you can do ten ships at a time. Although you still need to Share the profits with others, but your own benefits are actually the same as if you work alone.”
"But in this way, the risks you bear will be much smaller. You can even buy each other's securities, and the risks will naturally be smaller."
To be able to do business like they do, everyone is a master of calculation.
After Han Du finished speaking, they thought about it briefly and realized that what Han Du said was true.
"Your Majesty, this is a golden and wise saying, and I admire you very much."
Han Du then smiled and picked up the wine glass, signaled to everyone, and drank it all in one gulp. He asked with a smile: "Don't you want to go it alone?"
"Haha," the owner of SF Express laughed and said jokingly: "The Marquis is so worried about the villain. If the villain has to go it alone, wouldn't he be living up to the Marquis's kindness?"
Han Du also laughed humorously, "I am not thinking about you, I am also thinking about your sea trade tax."
"The villain will put his words here. If the villain misses a penny in sea trade tax, the Marquis will just take the villain's head."
The owner of SF Express said proudly.
