When the applause stopped again, Li Ke waved, and a man in his thirties walked up next to him.
This is the future chairman of Datang Shipping Company.
"This is Tian Bolin. He is the shopkeeper of Datang Shipping Company, or the chairman. He will be responsible for all operations of Datang Shipping Company in the future." Li Ke pointed at the person next to him and said, Tian Bolin is Tian Meng recommended me here. Although both of them have the last name Tian, they are not relatives. It is just a coincidence.
Although Tian Bolin rarely appears next to Li Ke, in fact, all the information transferred to Tian Meng was compiled by Tian Bolin before, so he can keep up with Li Ke's idea and let him serve as the head of Datang Shipping Company. It is also reasonable, because the next arrangements of Datang Shipping Company are very important, and ordinary people cannot keep up with Li Ke's thinking.
"Let him introduce to you the profitable trade of Datang Shipping Company last year." Li Ke said.
"Hello, all shareholders." Tian Bolin walked up to the podium and saluted everyone before speaking directly with a smile: "After one year of operation last year, Datang Shipping Company made huge profits last year. The Shipping Company was established. Expenditure, the total sales of all shares was 9.69 million yuan, and the total cost in the past year was approximately 4 million yuan."
"It is mainly used to purchase supplies, purchase a large number of new ships, hire and train more sailors, and provide higher monthly wages for some outstanding sailors."
"Last year, Datang Shipping Company made a total trading profit of approximately 26.33 million taels of gold and 26.33 million taels of silver, totaling 1,316.5 tons of silver."
"Currently, Datang Shipping Bank still has about 5.2 million guan in cash. This time the company paid taxes of 3.48 million guan, leaving a balance of 22.85 million guan. This time, it has reserved 2.85 million guan as operating profit for the next year, and the remaining 20 million guan will be directly distributed as dividends." Tian Berlin directly spoke and roughly reported the profits of the entire shipping company last year.
"In addition, if shareholders want to see detailed financial statements, please apply to the shipping company one month in advance, and then the relevant printing will be completed and delivered to all shareholders within about one month."
As Tian Bolin finished speaking, everyone's applause became enthusiastic again. How could he not be enthusiastic?
When they first invested, to be honest, many people only did it for the sake of His Highness King Qin's face, and also for the future.
But who the hell knows that in just one year, the investment can be almost doubled in one year! In the future, the shares of the entire shipping company will be a pure profit! If this profit is transferred to future generations, it is estimated that the market value of the stock will only be a matter of a few daily limits. It will be possible to directly increase it several times, or even dozens of times.
"Based on 10,000 shares, each share can be distributed as dividends of 2,000 yuan." Tian Bailin said with a smile. He was also very happy. Although he did not intend to do this, who wouldn't be happy if he could make money?
He is the management of the shipping company, and he also owns part of the shares.
"However, in order to facilitate the mutual transfer of shares of Datang Shipping Company and facilitate future transactions between shareholders, each share of Datang Shipping Company will be split into 100 shares. That is to say, starting from today, Datang Shipping Company will The shipping company has a total share capital of 1 million shares, and of course the shares in your hands will increase 100 times." Tian Bolin explained again.
Everyone can easily understand it and roughly understand why it is split up like this. Naturally, it is to make it easier for some people to trade.
If there were only 10,000 shares, the previous auction price would have been about 969 guan per share, but now, I am afraid that even if one share was sold for 10,000 guan, no one might have sold it.
If it is divided into one million shares, the value of one share will definitely drop a lot, and it will be easier to trade at that time.
It has become possible for some small commercial banks to sell part of their shares.
"Now, please invite His Highness King Qin to announce the relevant information of this dividend distribution."
After Li Ke walked onto the podium again, this time everyone looked at Li Ke eagerly. This is not His Highness, this is the God of Wealth.
"What kind of place is this? I believe everyone saw the plaque when they came in. This is Datang Central Bank!"
"What does the Qianzhuang do? It is the place that will be responsible for issuing Datang currency and managing various aspects of Datang's finance in the future. The reason why it is named Qianzhuang is because all its business in the future will be related to money."
"For example, the currency distributed to everyone this time is the banknote that Datang will launch next." Li Ke said.
Following Li Ke's words, a guard immediately pushed a large PPT onto the podium behind him, and it still had a familiar smell.
On the PPT, there are banknotes drawn one after another after being enlarged.
The amount is marked on it. The smallest one is 10 taels, and there are five denominations: 10 taels, 20 taels, 50 taels, 100 taels and 1,000 taels.
"With the issuance of banknotes, Datang will adopt a plan of mutual circulation of silver and copper coins. The exchange price of silver and copper coins is 1 tael of silver for 1 copper coin." Li Ke said.
"And these banknotes can be exchanged for silver at the Datang Central Bank at any time."
"Theoretically, we don't want everyone to exchange copper coins, because copper coins are too bulky, and the copper coins reserved by some states may not be enough, but the silver will definitely be sufficient." Li Ke said with a smile.
At first, everyone was a little surprised when they heard about paper money. In their minds, can paper be used as money?
But when they heard that these banknotes could be exchanged for silver at the central bank at any time, they roughly understood what it meant. For example, some businessmen immediately thought of the exchange coupons from a previous mall.
Many people here have exchange coupons. Once this banknote appears, wouldn't it be equivalent to another kind of exchange coupon?
It's just that the previous exchange coupons were equivalent to depositing money in a shopping mall, and were supported by the credit of His Highness King Qin.
Now the banknotes are exchanged by the Central Bank of the Tang Dynasty, the Tang Dynasty court and the treasury.
The bank only provides a platform for exchange.
"By the way, in order to avoid conflicts between exchange coupons and currency, after the introduction of banknotes, a mall will no longer issue new exchange coupons, and all original exchange coupons will be replaced with banknotes after recycling, or members You can directly come to a mall to exchange it for banknotes."
"Now pay dividends!" Following Li Ke's words, trolleys were pushed out directly, with stacks of the first batch of printed banknotes of the Tang Dynasty neatly placed on them.
The only thing that compares these banknotes to those of later generations is the paper material used. In terms of printing, it is terrible compared to later generations, but compared to this era, it appears extremely refined.
