Zai Chun is right, people are bitter insects and cannot survive without fighting! The Qing Empire's inefficient political system actually exploded into unprecedented efficiency under his pressure!
At the end of March, Daqing Ocean Ocean took the lead in completing all financial calculations before listing, and Fuqing also clarified all the company's first-phase investment budget, and even the shipyard's deposit.
Everything is written on the form. A total of 52.63 million silver dollars, Daqing Ocean's first total financing package, was finally brought out.
On March 27, Daqing Ocean was the first to be listed on the stock market. On that day, the Capital Exchange was a complete sensation. Due to the good publicity before, the public was already very confident in this stock.
On the day of listing, sales reached 21 million, and the exchange was so crowded that a new trading desk was even forced to be opened along the street!
Thirteen million were sold on the second day, and by the third day all the last remaining original shares were sold out!
Daqing Yuanyang quickly became popular in the secondary market, and its price soared from one yuan at the opening to two yuan and thirty cents!
For this stock, Fu Qing purchased thirty second-hand cargo ships from the Chinese, and used the power of the court to allocate a large amount of royal silk from Jiangnan weaving hands.
Jingdezhen, Jiangxi, purchased a batch of imperial porcelain that was only supplied to the royal family, and also left the best tea leaves to him from the tea mountains in Jiangnan and Fujian.
There is no other way, the local officials have been assigned to the task. Who can afford to offend such a buyer? If there is a good product, he should come first.
The fleet departing from the Qing Dynasty has prepared its cargo, so will the Third Master forget about Europa? Of course not. He used the diplomatic ability of the Qing Dynasty and the Chinese envoys stationed in Europe to purchase more than 60 second-hand ocean-going merchant ships from Britain, France...especially France.
France is currently desperately borrowing money to pay off war reparations. If it can sell second-hand cargo ships for cash, it can certainly do this business. France alone sold thirty cargo ships to the Qing Dynasty, and also stated that it would produce as many as it wanted.
There are a lot of European red wine, glass and crystal products, rifles and cannons, books, woolen velvet cloth... and even very rare chocolates from the Qing Dynasty.
The vast fleet has long been waiting for the company's order. On March 27, the day when the listing was made, the two ocean-going trade fleets from the East and the West began to set off at the same time, and the rivals began to trade.
The Qing Dynasty Times introduced the prospects of this ocean voyage at length, describing the goods on board as the treasures among treasures, and the profit expectations were frighteningly high.
Facts have proved that the scale effect mentioned by Fu Qing really works. After the first ocean trade was successfully concluded, many European captains recalled.
"Dozens of cargo ships gather together to carry out large-scale trade, which scares all pirates along the way from making trouble. I have discovered more than ten very suspicious boats in the Indian Ocean..."
"From my experience, they were pirate scouts, but when they saw such a scale, they all retreated. No pirate organization would attack a fleet of this size!"
"The Chinese and Qing diplomatic envoys along the way notified the British and French colonies in advance. The route and time of the Qing caravan are public!"
"Part of the British colonial fleet, out of respect for the Qing Empire, even sent patrol fleets for short-term escort!"
"The French may be a little bit ready to take action. In Sri Lanka, a French ship once approached our caravan strangely. Do they want to take advantage of us?"
"We didn't know it clearly, but then the Chinese ocean-going fleet suddenly appeared and helped us rescue us... God, I saw the legendary Zhiyuan!"
"The flag says that they came to the Indian Ocean for ocean training, including hydrographic surveys. Their appearance made the French fleet run away like rabbits!"
"I heard that the Chinese already have the third-generation warship of the Zhiyuan series, with a total displacement of more than 7,000 tons! God, if such a warship cruises in the Indian Ocean, I am afraid no one will dare to do anything about Asian goods!"
The sailing records of the foreign devil captain truly restored the grand occasion of the first voyage. After this antagonistic voyage, Fu Qing ordered Qing Yuanyang to immediately take stock of its accounts.
It was already the late autumn of 1875. On this first ocean voyage, the cost of the goods carried by the two fleets was 5.6 million taels of silver.
Excluding operating costs, sales reached 14.6 million taels of silver!
three times! The first overseas sales actually created three times the profit. As soon as such a report was published in the newspaper, investors went crazy!
Daqing Ocean's stock price quickly exceeded the four-yuan mark, and its total market value exceeded 200 million!
Moreover, Fu Qing also said, "This ocean trade will succeed on a large scale and fail on a large scale! The fleets will all set out together. Although it improves safety, it also reduces the profits of the goods!"
"You can imagine that no matter how good the goods are, if only one ship is unloaded in Europe, then the huge market will be hungry, and of course the price will be high!"
"But if dozens of ships unload their cargo at the same time, the market will be saturated in a short period of time. European businessmen are not stupid. They are very good at keeping prices down!"
"Originally, we could get more than four times the profit, but due to severe price reduction, we can only get three times the profit!"
As soon as this statement came out, there was an uproar in the market. Prince Zheng and many princes specially served wine to treat guests, hoping that the third master would dismantle the large fleet.
"Third Master... don't move thirty or forty ships together. What a loss! If you don't buy three or four ships somewhere and move together, you should be brave enough, right?"
"That's right, it can't exceed ten ships at most! What are you doing? It's obviously four or five times the profit, but it's three times the profit. Who has a grudge against money!"
The Third Master rubbed Fu Mu's cheeks, "I'm talking about you princes! Are you too greedy? In my ocean-going fleet, there are ships called by you..."
"Which of you has made hundreds of thousands of dollars from one trade? Looking back, there is the stock market. In the stock market, Daqing Ocean's stock price has quadrupled!"
"You have made a lot of money, and you are still not satisfied? If you reduce the scale, the risk will be great. When the pirates swarm you, I have no choice!"
But it's hard to persuade a damn ghost with good words. If a person's eyes are fascinated by silver, even gods can't persuade him!
As a last resort, Third Master Fu Qing could only say, "I'll give it a try. I can only say I'll give it a try. Can we lower the scale a little bit first?"
Anyway, Daqing Yuanyang got off to a good start! And what about the Beijing-Hankow Railway? In fact, it was done very well.
