Feng Ziying also once hoped to use Xue Biao's shipping company, or simply organize a colonization company similar to the Dutch East India Company to take advantage of the large Zhou joint-stock enterprise.
However, considering that the fleet is still in a stage of rapid expansion and has no visible benefits, and is mainly located in the North, it lacks some persuasiveness to attract Jiangnan capital, and the colonization company seems to be more illusory, so it may be difficult for hot capital to take risks.
If you come forward to persuade some people to buy it, then the significance of this experiment will be lost.
Therefore, in the end, we chose the shipbuilding industry, an industry that is relatively mature but has unlimited potential, as the pilot project. It happened that the Wusongkou Shipyard was confiscated by the court and needed to be sold to raise funds for the court, so it was perfect to use it as a pilot project.
"Well, Ziying, you can trade freely. This is the key to the stock you are talking about, right?" Guo Zhengyu also captured this point very keenly, "Trading in a place designated by the government, the government guarantees the safety of both parties to the transaction. Equity, free trade, then in terms of price..."
"Since it is a free trade, it is of course free floating and unrestricted. You can buy one share for six taels of silver, or you can sell it for ten taels of silver. It is also possible that no one cares about it, and you can only sell it for five taels of silver. Come out..." Feng Ziying took over.
"For example, I heard that the imperial court will order thirty warships from Wusong Shipyard in the next three years, worth 500,000 taels. Wusong Shipyard's profits will not only increase sharply in the next three years, but will also be guaranteed, and the dividends will definitely be huge. Then I will immediately report to Bu Someone who knew the news went to buy Wusong Shipyard shares. He asked for 7 taels per share and thought he had made a profit. But after I bought it, someone got the news and asked me to buy 1 taels per share. I could make a profit of 3 taels per share or one thousand by changing the hands. I can earn three thousand taels from just one stock,..."
Guo Zhengyu was so excited that he couldn't help but lick his lips, "What else can the government do inside?"
"The government has a lot to do, such as preventing fraud in the middle and ensuring the normal conduct of transactions. Of course, it is difficult to do these things, so they can consider charging a transaction tax and determine the tax rate according to a certain proportion of the transaction amount, such as thousands One tenth or one ten thousandth, depending on the situation..."
Feng Ziying's words made Guo Zhengyu a little disappointed, "One in a thousand? How many can this be?"
"Brother Meiming, at first glance it is indeed very few and not worth mentioning, but if it develops in the future to the point where hundreds of thousands of taels or even millions of silver dollars of stocks are bought and sold here every day, think about it. , then there will be a settlement." Feng Ziying smiled, "This is equivalent to opening up another channel for making money for the court."
Transactions of hundreds of thousands to millions of taels of silver every day? Guo Zhengyu couldn't imagine it.
But if, as Feng Ziying envisions, there really are dozens or even hundreds of stocks trading stocks worth hundreds of thousands of taels, it’s really hard to say whether they can achieve such a high trading volume. Then calculated, every day The income of hundreds or thousands of taels of silver, three hundred and sixty days a year, every day, is not a small supplement to the court.
The key is that this thing is stable and doesn't have much risk. The government can handle it by just sending a few officials. It's very cost-effective.
Seeing that Guo Zhengyu was still thinking about the pros and cons of this, Feng Ziying further said: "Brother Meiming, this is not just as simple as the court being able to collect transaction taxes, nor is it simply to be able to cash out these industries this time, what I value more is If this method is used as a demonstration, in the future, if anyone feels that their workshop has great development prospects and needs money to expand production, but there may be some restrictions on borrowing money from a bank, can they transfer the workshop to Convert it into shares to carry out part of the transfer transaction, and then exchange it for money to expand the scale of production. This will provide an additional financing channel for the industrial and commercial industry.
While Guo Zhengyu was thinking about it, Feng Ziying suddenly brought up a topic: "I don't know if Brother Meiming has noticed some changes in Beizhili. Taking Shuntian Prefecture and Yongping Prefecture as examples, their industrial and commercial taxes and tariffs have been in a state of flux. The rapid growth trend of Yongping Prefecture has been sustained for four years. Its industrial and commercial tax revenue has far exceeded its original land tax revenue several times. The situation of Shuntian Prefecture is similar. Now it is driven by it, and Hejian Prefecture also has This sign..."
Guo Zhengyu raised his thick eyebrows and said, "Ziying, do you think industrial and commercial taxation will replace land tax and become the household income tax in the future?"
The main income of the department? This is probably impossible. Maybe it is possible in one or two special states, but overall, land tax is still far from being comparable to industrial and commercial taxes and tariffs...
"Just looking at it, who can imagine what level of development of industry and commerce will be achieved in the future?" Feng Ziying disagreed, "The development of the iron smelting industry has already reduced the price of iron by 20%, and the popularity of iron tools has also stimulated more demand. To give a simple example, carriages now use a kind of steel spring leaf produced by Gyeonggi Iron and Steel Military Building Materials Consortium. When stacked, the vibration of the carriage can be reduced to a small extent and the comfort of the carriage can be greatly improved. The speed can also be improved a lot. At present, more than 30% of the carriages in the capital are modified with this kind of spring leaf. The workshops that produce this kind of spring leaf are in short supply, and the carriages in Jiangnan, Central Plains, Northwest, and Huguang don't even know about this. New stuff,......"
Feng Ziying continued, "For another example, the scale of the new large-scale sailing ships has increased a lot, and the displacement and carrying capacity have increased a lot. This has also greatly increased the iron materials required on the ship, especially many important parts of the warship need to be laid. Wrought iron armor to prevent damage from enemy warships during battle..."
Guo Zhengyu roughly understood what Feng Ziying meant. The development of industry and commerce would generate many unexpected demands, but he still felt that Feng Ziying's assumptions were too optimistic or a bit unrealistic.
Compared with the needs of ordinary people to dig food from the fields, the output of industry and commerce is still far away. It seems that without industry and commerce, no one will starve to death, but without the fields, people will starve to death or freeze to death. This An idea is deeply ingrained in the minds of most people.
However, he also agrees with Feng Ziying's point of view. You can take it lightly. Wait a moment. If you look at many things for two more years, you will be able to detect some clues.
It took Guo Zhengyu two or three days to roughly understand Feng Ziying's idea. I have to say that Feng Ziying's idea is still very feasible. At least it is necessary and meaningful to use Wusongkou Shipyard as a pilot project.
Doing this well is not only to recover the 600,000 yuan from Wusongkou Shipyard, but also to open up a new path. Various businesses worth 10 million can at least spawn several similar "joint-stock companies". Enterprise" comes.
For example, after the Zhou family was wiped out, the remaining fleets and crews, as well as the already mature routes, could be quickly profited by whoever took over, such as the Jiangdu shipping tycoon Zhu, another Nanjing company that was also suppressed by the Zhou family. The Yue family, the original shipping family, and even the Jiao family, which has been the birthplace of shipping for several generations in Anqing Prefecture, have shown strong interest.
If Wusongkou Shipyard can be used as a pilot project, three or five relatively mature and qualified companies can be excavated and integrated in this batch of industries to carry out joint-stock reform and be launched into the future exchanges for trading, even in terms of income. Slightly lower, Feng Ziying and Guo Zhengyu think it is acceptable.
For this reason, Feng Ziying also wrote to the court early, hoping that the court could send an additional official from the Ministry of Commerce to make arrangements for the sale and integration of these industries. Although the letter was unclear, the court obviously responded to Feng Ziying's suggestion. They still took it very seriously, and sent a team headed by Bi Ziyan, the right minister of the Ministry of Commerce, to go south to Nanjing specifically for this matter.
Feng Ziying was even more familiar with Bi Ziyan. On the one hand, Bi Ziyan once served as the dean of Qingtan Academy. On the other hand, he was also quite impressed with Bi Ziyan in history.
This is a rare or even rare financial expert official in the late Ming Dynasty. If the Ming Dynasty did not have his financial skills in the previous history, the situation in Liaodong would have been even worse.
Bi Ziyan came to let Feng Ziying breathe a sigh of relief. He believed that his views could win the other party's approval. By letting Bi Ziyan handle this kind of thing, and letting Gu Dengfeng assist Bi Ziyan in doing it, he wouldn't have to do that. You have to do everything yourself if you worry about it.
Feng Ziying also took the opportunity to tell Zhen Baochen about the models of "joint-stock enterprises" and "stock exchanges", which as expected aroused great interest in Zhen Baochen.
In particular, the stocks mentioned by Feng Ziying can be bought low and sold high, and they can also make their own judgments through analysis and understanding of the industry, and then pass on the news through some channels, thereby forming public opinion and opportunities, and grabbing profits from it. This made Zhen Baochen simply obsessed.
Feng Ziying didn't expect Zhen Baochen to have such a deep understanding of stock trading. After a little reminder, she understood it and had a premonition that she would make trouble in the stock market in the future.
However, Feng Ziying did not interfere. She even felt that if Zhen Baochen was really talented in this area, he could support her to become a big banker in the Nanjing or Yangzhou stock exchanges in the future.
It’s not to earn some profit, Feng Ziying wants Zhen Baochen to become a model, to activate the entire securities trading, especially stock trading, and truly become a pool of living water instead of a lifeless pool of stagnant water. This requires silver carps like Zhen Baochen.
There are still some opportunities and conditions lacking, but Feng Ziying believes that as long as there are a few demonstrations, many people will become interested, so the start must be made well, and publicity and public opinion must also keep up.
On this point, Feng Ziying also specifically told Gu Dengfeng that all factors must be taken into consideration to ensure that nothing goes wrong.
