I want to be emperor

Chapter 588 Joint Stocks and Indian Ocean Trade
Liu Jiaquan's proposal made it difficult for the people of Luohua Shipyard to make a decision for a while.

In fact, it was not that no one wanted to invest in them before, but they were ordinary businessmen who saw an opportunity and wanted to enter the shipbuilding industry. They were all rejected by Luo Qixiong and the others.

There is not much money, and it has nothing to do with shipbuilding, so it cannot bring essential benefits to Luo Hua Shipyard. They came to buy shares because they came to hold Luo Qixiong's thighs and want to pick up cheap ones. Under such circumstances, how could Luo Qixiong and the others easily promise.

It's not that Luo Qixiong doesn't know that people like himself are valuable.

Why did the Finance Bank provide them with an unsecured low-interest loan of 1 taels of silver? It's not because their technical team is strong enough, and they provide loans for the sake of their technical team.

In addition, there are also some really powerful big bosses who want to invest, but these big bosses are not easy to deal with!
Some of them have nothing to offer other than money... and this kind of investment is actually useless to many entrepreneurial teams with real strength and ambition. When they attract investment, they not only need money, but also investors. various contacts and channels.

Just paying money and wanting the shares of a start-up company that can be seen to grow up with the naked eye... It's a beautiful idea.

In addition to having money, you have to come up with things that can help the company grow faster, whether it's contacts, channels, technology, or cooperation. In short, there must be something other than funds.

Luo Qixiong and his group, Luohua Shipyard, are very popular in the industry, and they belong to this kind of good project with great potential, which will skyrocket as soon as it encounters the east wind.

Therefore, it is not enough to want to participate only if you have money.

In addition, there are some big bosses with money and resources who want to invest, but they want most of the shares at once.

It is said to be an investment, but it is more like hiring someone... No matter how bad it is, it is the kind of acquisition.

How should I put it, these people are basically the same as the Li family. If they want to enter the shipyard, it is impossible to simply get a share. The dividend is as simple as that. They want to build a shipyard that belongs to them, so control is a must. of.

Without control, they would rather build a shipyard that is not as good as it is, and then slowly toss and grow bigger and stronger, rather than use their own funds and network channels to make wedding dresses for others.

In order to enter the shipyard, the Li family bought a medium-sized shipyard first, and then invested a lot of money in technology upgrades, poaching people everywhere, purchasing equipment, etc., and forcibly spent money to build a Li's shipyard.

Most of the other businessmen who have a lot of money and want to enter the shipyard also think this way.

But Luo Qixiong would be damned if he could agree to them.

The reason why Luo Qixiong came out to start a business was, of course, for the sake of prosperity and wealth on the one hand, but on the other hand, it was also for independence, to be the master of his own house, without having to look at his boss's face.

Those people want to be his boss... bullshit!
So to a certain extent, Luo Hua Shipyard is short of money, but it is not short of money. As long as Luo Qixiong gives up his ambitions and relinquishes control of the shipyard, he can find a large amount of investment in minutes.

But Luo Qixiong didn't want to!
So the current situation of Luohua Shipyard is more embarrassing.

At this time, Liu Jiaquan appeared 1
money?Liuhe Trading Company dare not say too much, but a dozen or 20 taels of silver is a trivial matter... Although Liuhe Trading Company is inconspicuous, they are really rich.

The Liu family does not have any network channels other than money. Of course, Liu Jiaquan does not have any network channels in the shipbuilding industry itself, but he has orders... First of all, Liuhe Trading Company's own orders. Liu Jiaquan has great ambitions in overseas trade. , He has long wanted to build a few large armed merchant ships that can really go to the ocean. As long as he has money, he will dare to shoot some remote routes in the South China Sea, and even venture into the Indian Ocean.

Looking at the dozens of trading companies in the Great Chu Empire that have ocean-going trade licenses, so far, only the three major trading companies have dared to run the Indian Ocean route. The west coast of the Indian peninsula is only a circle around the east coast of the Indian peninsula and Myanmar.

If there is a thousand-ton large ship, the Liu family will all plan to go to the west coast of India, or even West Asia and North Africa.

If you can successfully open up a new route, the profit will be more than stealing money!
Under such circumstances, the Liuhe Trading Company is very urgent for new large sea ships. If possible, it is best to order two or even three ships.

In addition to Liuhe Trading Company's own orders, Liu Jiaquan is also sure that he can get a batch of orders for new large-scale ships from other trading companies.

There are quite a few shipping companies that want new large-scale ships, but they can't get them now, because there are only three shipyards in China that can build large-scale ships, and the orders are basically filled by the three major trading companies affiliated to the Ministry of Industry and the Navy. It is no longer possible to squeeze out production capacity to other private trading companies.

As for other shipyards who also want this cake, but are not strong enough and have no successful precedents, it is difficult for other trading companies to believe it.

You don't even have a technical team and a large shipyard, and you don't have any successful experience. Just a small broken shipyard, you want me to place an order?It's really not money!

In addition to these conditions, Liu Jiaquan also proposed that he would not seek to occupy the control of Luohua Shipyard, and that the shares did not need to be large, only [-]%.

For the 3% of the shares, Liuhe Trading Company can contribute 10 taels. After taking the shares, the total share capital of Luohua Shipyard will reach [-] taels. Luo Qixiong and his technical team will hold [-]% of the shares, and Liuhe Trading Company will occupy [-]%.

This means that Liu Jiaquan has set the value of their technical team at tens of thousands of taels of silver. As for the small broken workshops outside the technical team, those things are not worth a few dollars.

At the same time, he promised that as long as he invests, he will immediately send at least two start-up orders for large sea ships, and a deposit of 5 taels of silver will be provided for each order.

Two orders, a total deposit of 10 taels of silver!
As long as Luo Qixiong agrees to Liu Jiaquan's conditions, it means that Luohua Shipyard can get 13 taels of cash in one go.

With the 13 silver, the Luohua Shipyard can be truly established. With such sufficient funds, the speed of its commissioning will not be much worse than that of the original Li's Shipyard during the expansion period.

Of course, in addition to the shares, Liu Jiaquan also has another condition, that is, to obtain the order priority of this shipyard. Of course, this priority is under the condition of the same price.

Regarding this, Luo Qixiong and the others had no objections. Once Liu Jiaquan became a shareholder, he would be a shareholder. As a shareholder, it would be reasonable to have the priority to obtain an order at the same price.

After comprehensive consideration, Luo Qixiong and the others finally agreed.

How should I put it, besides Liu Jiaquan, there is really no other person who does not want to control the right, and can take out more than 10 taels of silver to accompany them to play shipbuilding, even if [-] taels of silver is a deposit model .

This deposit is not safe, in case Luohua Shipyard fails to start up in the end, and if it becomes insolvent, let alone compensation for breach of contract, this deposit will not be recovered...

After the two parties negotiated the detailed conditions, the contract was formally signed soon, and the equity conversion registration was carried out in the Ministry of Industry and Commerce, which legally confirmed the investment transaction this time.

As a result, Liuhe Trading Company became the second largest shareholder of Luohua Shipyard.

The largest shareholder is Songjiang Shipbuilding Trading Company, which was founded by Luo Qixiong and his technical team, and the second largest shareholder is Liuhe Trading Company.

Songjiang Shipbuilding Trading Company was established by Luo Qixiong together with his technical team in order to avoid losing control. In this trading company, Luo Qixiong holds more than half of the shares so he has control.

After having this control right, if you take a share in Luohua Shipyard in the name of Songjiang Shipbuilding Trading Company, you can avoid Liu Jiaquan or others from changing the management right by buying other people's shares in the future.

Luo Qixiong has a strong obsession with being the master of the house, and he has been on guard from the beginning.

Of course, Liu Jiaquan had no objection to this. He only wanted [-]% of the shares, plus the priority of orders. As for the right to operate, he didn't know how to build ships.

As long as Luohua Shipyard makes money for him, and at the same time continuously provides him with more and better new ships when needed, then that is enough.

Why are the trading companies directly under the three major industrial ministries able to run the Indian Ocean route now, and occupy a dominant position in Nanyang and Dongyang? The government-run large shipyard has a great relationship.

Now only they can get large-tonnage new sea ships, other trading companies cannot.

Even after Li's Shipyard popped up, they directly spent a lot of money and directly covered the production capacity of Li's Shipyard for the next four to five years...

Only with the new type of seagoing ships can they create more lucrative profits than other trading companies.

The routes that can be run by a small Fuchuan carrying two to three hundred tons of cargo, and the routes that can be run by a new type of seagoing ship carrying seven to eight hundred tons, or even large ships carrying a thousand tons of cargo, are two different things in terms of profit!
And when Liu Jiaquan and Luo Qixiong reached a cooperation, while investing in shipbuilding and stealing money, they also hoped to wait until next year or two to get involved in new and more lucrative routes, especially the Indian Ocean route.

The Nanyang Trading Company directly under the Ministry of Industry sent a fleet to the Indian Ocean for trade, and it has officially set sail from Songjiang Shanghai Port in the late autumn monsoon from north to south.

This is the second time that the Nanyang Trading Company has sent a fleet to the Indian Ocean for trade. Its target is not only Burma and the east coast of the Indian Peninsula.

In addition, it is also preparing to go to the west coast of the Indian Ocean, even West Asia and even East Africa.

Trade is secondary, mainly for exploring the way.

Going around the Indian peninsula to the west coast of the Indian peninsula is a brand new challenge for Nanyang trading companies, and they need to face unfamiliar seas.

Not having a nautical chart and not being familiar with the routes along the way means risks for sailing in the age of sails... Although the Great Chu Empire has reached corresponding trade opening agreements with Britain, the Portuguese and the Netherlands.

But they only allow you to go to a number of ports they designate for trade, and promise not to directly send warships to attack the merchant ships of the Great Chu Empire.

He wouldn't be kind enough to give you all the nautical charts, and he couldn't control or acquiesce in some private sea attacks.

In addition, the Great Chu Empire has not yet reached some official trade agreements with Persia, Ottoman and other countries in West Asia. It is also unknown whether their own ships can dock and trade smoothly after they go there.

Therefore, the risks of going to the Indian Ocean for trade this time are huge, so the Nanyang Trading Company is also extremely cautious. The smallest ship sailing is a new type of large ship with a full load displacement of more than 700 tons.

The largest is a large new sea ship manufactured by Songjiang Naval Shipyard, which has just been delivered to Nanyang Trading Company. Its full-load displacement has reached more than 500 tons. This tonnage is comparable to that of Jinling-class battleships.

Of course, although the tonnage is sufficient, there is still a big difference between an armed merchant ship and a warship. In order to carry more cargo, the firepower of an armed merchant ship is far from being comparable to that of a warship.

However, such a huge armed merchant ship, even if its firepower cannot be compared with professional warships, it is still not far behind, and ordinary pirates have to go around.

A 700-ton flagship Shenghe, two armed merchant ships with a displacement of [-] tons, and three armed merchant ships with a displacement of more than [-] tons.

The entire fleet has six ships!
There are more than 200 long-barreled naval guns of various types alone, and there are more than 2000 ordinary crew members and armed crew members.

With an armed trading fleet of this size, ordinary pirates would have to take a detour when they saw it. Even if they encountered the main fleet of some countries, they would still be capable of fighting.

What's more, the Great Chu Empire Navy also sent a fleet to escort in the name of escort and training.

After all, the Nanyang Trading Company's trading fleet this time, not to mention the ships and personnel themselves, but the various goods carried on them are also of high value.

Among the thousands of tons of various trade materials, in addition to the three traditional trade commodities of silk, porcelain, and tea, there are also various fine iron products such as cloth, plate armor, cold weapons, and hardware, and then there are the most recent ones in the imperial industry. Glass, soap, perfume and all kinds of these new industrial products appeared soon.

And these goods are worth millions!

Most of them were purchased by Nanyang Trading Company on credit and loans. If you let Nanyang Trading Company directly pay for the purchase, it would not be worth so much money if they sold their entire company.

If something happens to this fleet, the Nanyang Trading Company will go bankrupt in minutes, and it will also involve a lot of downstream manufacturers and financial institutions that provide loan support.

In order to ensure the absolute safety of this expensive trade fleet, the Great Chu Empire Navy will send a fleet to escort it!
This squadron will consist of two Jinling-class battleships, two cruisers and four frigates.

Its strength is quite strong, at least in the South Seas, even the Dutch have to be careful when they see it.

Of course, in order to avoid misunderstandings by other countries, especially the Dutch and Portuguese who have been guarding against the official forces of the Great Chu Empire from entering the Indian Ocean in the past year, this squadron will also notify the Dutch, Portuguese and the Philippines before sailing. The Spaniards also informed the English.

It is stated that this naval fleet is going to the Indian Ocean to escort the merchant fleet, and it does not intend to change the trade status quo in the South China Sea and the Indian Ocean. Don't be nervous, let alone make trouble!
The active announcement is not only to eliminate misunderstandings, but also to use the colonial ports controlled by these countries to replenish supplies.

Ships go to sea. Although sailing ships can theoretically have unlimited power, the supplies such as food and fresh water on board are limited.

Even if it is possible to carry a large amount of canned food to the sea, it can ensure that the food will not rot for a long time, but the quantity is limited, and it will be eaten up after a long time.

What's more, fresh water is more troublesome than food.

Fresh water is not easy to store, and it will deteriorate over time due to various microorganisms and bacteria in the air, plus necessary consumption.

Due to the limitation of food and fresh water, it is very important to make the replenishment of the ship after going out to sea.

Then if there is wind and waves after going out to sea, the ship, especially the sail, may be damaged.

In this way, it becomes necessary to seek ports in other countries for supplementation or even repairs.

Of course, it’s okay if these European colonial countries don’t cooperate. The coastlines of Southeast Asia and India are so long, not all places are controlled by them, and most of them are actually the territories of the indigenous people.

When it is really necessary, the fleet of the Great Chu Empire can also go directly to the ports under the control of those natives for replenishment or repairs.

Even if there is no port, just find a place to anchor, and then row a small boat ashore to collect some fresh water and food or carry out emergency repairs.

These are necessary technologies for ocean voyages in the age of great voyages.

A huge merchant fleet loaded with goods worth millions, sailed one after another under the escort of the naval fleet, forming a large fleet of dozens of large ships.

Then, taking advantage of the monsoon in early winter, they went all the way south, carried out the last supply and rest in Guangzhou, and loaded some trade goods in Guangzhou.

The fleet left Guangzhou and went all the way south to the Straits of Malacca!

(End of this chapter)