At night, in a closed residence in Xishi City, the owner Peng Ye finished recording the account, put the pen and ink, account book, and abacus, then took out the key, opened the cabinet and took out a few brick-like books from the drawer, and carefully placed them on the case.

Under the dim light, a few big words on the cover jumped into their eyes: Nanyang Trading Company Prospectus.

Peng Yu rubbed the beautifully bound books, and then rubbed the words on the cover, then opened the book and looked carefully.

He was a businessman and naturally pursued profits. More and more people realized that there was a kind of profit in transactions, that is, maritime trade. Not to mention anything else, the money brought to the treasury by the court's Maritime Bureau increased every year.

The name of Maritime Affairs is becoming more and more popular.

However, at the beginning, the Maritime Bureau was set up not to do maritime trade, but to manage maritime business and collect ship taxes.

Such a management agency has become a trading agency after several years of development, which is beyond everyone's expectations.

The Maritime Trade Bureau, nominally under the jurisdiction of the Tianguan Government, has the three functions of management, tax collection and operation. This was necessary in the first few years of its establishment, but with the prosperity of maritime trade, an institution that manages trade and participates in trade is somewhat inappropriate.

What is the difference between this and having a businessman check his own taxes?

Therefore, the court must reorganize the Maritime Bureau again.

That is to separate the operating functions of the Maritime Control Department and establish "Nanyang Trading Company", "Beiyang Trading Company", referred to as "Nanyang Company" and "Beiyang Company" according to the north and south of the sea area.

The word "company" has not been seen in classics before. This word refers to a trade organization that is more tight than the chamber of commerce. The division of the seas of the South and Beiyang is bounded by Yizhou above the East China Sea.

Nanyang Company conducts maritime trade in the Nanyang waters, with its main account located in Fanyu, Guangzhou, and Beiyang Company conducts maritime trade in the Beiyang waters, with its main account located in Huaikou.

The two trading companies, authorized by the imperial court, can engage in diplomatic affairs in overseas foreign countries.

The court further separated the tax collection function of the Maritime Bureau and established the "General Administration of Customs" with the jurisdiction of each customs office, which was responsible for the collection of trade taxes such as maritime tax. The Customs Office was located in various trade ports.

The Maritime Bureau retains its management function, and its capital is located in Guangling, Yangzhou, and coordinates business transactions between Nanyang Company, Beiyang Company and the General Administration of Customs, and temporarily leads the lending and repayment of North and South Ocean Trade Company. At the same time, it strengthens one function, that is, force.

The court will split the naval divisions under the Maritime Department and establish the Beiyang Navy and Nanyang Navy to arm the defense of trade routes.

How the Maritime Bureau should arm the defense of trade routes is not what Peng Ye wants to know. Like many other merchants, he wants to know how the trading company should raise stock coupons.

Because they want to "invest shares" and dream of it.

And this set of "Nanyang Trading Company Prospectus" will tell them how Nanyang Company will raise shares.

As for Beiyang Company, it will probably start a public offering next year, which will be another once-in-a-lifetime opportunity.

Putting away his thoughts, Peng Ye continued to read. It took him a few days to browse it briefly. Now, I need to read it carefully.

This Taobao manual introduces the specific situation of Nanyang Company, and the introduction content is very detailed.

Organizational structure, management, supervision methods, fleet size, number of registered ships, cooperative chambers of commerce, merchants, general catalog of trade goods, list of trade ports, customs and outputs of overseas foreign countries.

Introduction to the situation of the Maritime Bureau in the South China Sea in recent years, the near-term (next five years) trade plan, the medium-term (next five to ten years) trade plan, and the long-term (next ten to twenty years) trade plan.

There are every maritime trade route, including every trade stronghold in it; there are currently inland trade routes (Lingbiao area), which also includes every trade stronghold along the way.

These contents make people feel dazzled and breathing rapidly after reading them.

As long as you have roughly read this set of information, you will know that Nanyang Trading Company's stock is sincere, rather than fooling around for the sake of cheating money, because the other party has really shaken out various internal situations.

Nanyang Trading Company is a trade chamber of commerce run by officials. The government is really just a supervision because the court is the major shareholder and just does not participate in management.

The company's management and operation are all carried out by "businessmen" (civilians).

As long as you purchase the shares of Nanyang Trading Company, you can become a shareholder of the company (divided into shareholders of the size of the shares). Then, according to the "shares", you will "distribute dividends" according to the company's profitability every year.

And a piece of coupon will become a "golden rooster" that heirs the family. The "golden egg" will be laid every year, and the descendants will benefit. Who doesn't want it?

Therefore, Peng Ye became more and more anxious to invest. The twenty coins he spent on buying this set of instructions did not feel heartbroken at all.

A set of instructions has a total of ten books, each priced at two cents, totaling twenty cents, which is equivalent to the income of a wealthy family in a year.

But even so, thousands of "Nanyang Trading Company Prospectus" sold publicly in Changan were sold out in just half a day.

This is true in Chang'an, so it is definitely the case in Luoyang, Rangcheng, Jiangling, Xiyang, Nanchang, Xiaohuang, Langya, and Guangling. If you are not well-informed, you can't buy it even if you have money.

Peng Ye is one of the lucky ones. He thinks that everyone who has read this manual must want to buy stock coupons and buy shares.

Be a Class A shareholder and join the board of directors.

According to the instructions, the board of directors is the management body of Nanyang Trading Company. It is like a person's head. It has a chairman and is re-elected every certain period of time. The chairman is the "main officer" of Nanyang Trading Company. Other members of the board of directors are directors and "adjutants".

Directors must also be elected every certain period of time and elected from Class A shareholders.

So as long as you have the opportunity, everyone wants to join the board of directors, but before that, you must first become a Class A shareholder.

This time, there are Class A stock bonds, but if you want to become a Class A shareholder, you must first meet specific conditions and then have huge funds. Peng Ye knows that he does not have that strength and even if he raises funds with his friends, he cannot do it.

Therefore, his goal is to purchase stock coupons and become a Class B shareholder.

Class B shareholders have the right to distribute dividends, but do not have the right to participate in the management of the company.

If he can become a Class B shareholder, he must strive to join the Supervisory Board and climb up.

Nanyang Company has a supervisory board to supervise the operation of the company. The supervisory chairman and supervisors can be used as attendees and attend all meetings of the board of directors. Their status is not low.

The Supervisory Board is also responsible for preparing the second set of account books, just like the supervisor who supervises officials in the government. Therefore, joining the Supervisory Board is a must-see for Class B shareholders to climb up.

Seeing this, Peng Ye was quite moved that in order to win the trust of shareholders, Nanyang Company implemented a three-set account reconciliation system so that shareholders of all sizes can understand the company's real profits every year.

The first set of account books is the company's own account, the second set of account books is the account recorded by the Supervisory Board, and the third set of account is the account approved by the Tianguanfu Office, including the statistical accounts of the General Administration of Customs.

This setting can indeed guarantee the interests of shareholders of all sizes. From this, it can be seen that the dividends are highly guaranteed to invest in Nanyang Trading Company.

Peng Ye was excited and couldn't calm down for a long time. As a native of Anlu, he missed several good opportunities when Huangzhou developed rapidly, so this time must not be missed again.

In fact, as early as last fall, news of the establishment of Nanyang Trading Company and the public offering was reported. It is said that the date of the public offering will be in the second half of this year, and Peng Ye has heard of this.

But everyone did not expect that the time was ahead of the first half of the year.

The reason is said to be that the court's financial expenditure is tight, so the Prime Minister advances the public offering in order to solve this problem.

The Prime Minister is the founder of the Maritime Trade Bureau and the maker of the maritime trade rules. The Prime Minister said that it would be advanced, and as long as the stock is successfully completed, the tight financial expenditure of the court will inevitably be resolved.

Peng Ye looked at the instruction manual and couldn't help but admire the Prime Minister's methods.

The public offering of Nanyang Trading Company is not much related to solving the financial problems of the court, but the Prime Minister also made the two related.

Those who purchase stock coupons must pay the same amount of money (or equivalent in kind) as a deposit to Nanyang Company, and the deposit will be fully refunded after one year.

In other words, if Nanyang Trading Company sells a stock coupon worth 2 million knots (can be a physical discount) this time, it will also receive an additional 2 million knots of deposit. It can be imagined that this deposit will be used by the court to rescue the emergency.

So, financial tensions are not a big deal.

Next year, Beiyang Trading Company will open its shares and come again. Are the court still afraid that it will be tight?

After the two years of rescuing, the court should have also recovered. The Prime Minister easily solved the problem of financial tension.

If you put the money in someone else's hands for a year, you don't even have interest when you return it one year later. If you don't have this loss on weekdays, not many people are willing to suffer this loss, but if you don't suffer this small loss, you will not be able to buy the stock coupons of Nanyang Trading Company.

If you don’t even suffer such a small loss, you deserve to be unable to make a fortune!

Peng Ye felt that even he could figure it out. Those rich businessmen had no idea. Everyone could guess that the prime minister wanted to solve the financial problems with this, but everyone was willing to do so.

First of all, the Prime Minister has a good credit, and the Maritime Bureau has a good credit; secondly, it is an opportunity that many people can't afford to invest in Nanyang Trading Company to participate in maritime trade. Who wouldn't cherish it?

Therefore, even if everyone knows that this is the Prime Minister's open conspiracy, they will "get in the trap" without hesitation.

After closing the book, Peng Ye took out the incense, lit it, inserted it into the incense burner, and then knelt down to the Buddha statue worshipped indoors.
Chapter completed!