On the surface, Yuan Yao currently does not have enough money on hand to expand the scale quickly. If he wants to expand the market for briquettes in the shortest possible time, he will need a large amount of funds to expand it, so setting up a company

The company can perfectly solve this problem.

By establishing a company, you can absorb other people's shares. Yuan Yao used his technical advantages to occupy the majority. He gave away part of the company's shares to some local aristocratic families in Huainan.

Naturally, this group of people will not refuse. They are eager to participate in a steadily profitable business.

After all, this era is not like later generations, with a lot of investment opportunities.

As long as you have money in hand, you are not afraid of not having investment opportunities.

During the Qin and Han dynasties, the status of merchants was very low. During the Qin Dynasty, the state promoted "emphasis on agriculture and suppression of commerce". It believed that farming was the main industry and business was the last industry. Therefore, the merchant class was discriminated against. They could accumulate a large amount of wealth, but the law prohibited them from doing so.

They wear silk clothes and ride in gorgeous cars. They are called "rich but not youthful".

Neither businessmen nor their children could enter politics or serve as officials, and they were more likely to be sent to the frontiers to engage in land reclamation activities than ordinary people.

Therefore, this group of aristocratic families despised businessmen, and from the Spring and Autumn Period and the Warring States Period, they proposed a hierarchical policy of scholars, farmers, industry and commerce.

This group of aristocratic families has people who are the first-class gentry, so how can they become the last-class merchants?

While the Qin Dynasty had this system, the situation of focusing on agriculture and suppressing business had not improved during the Han Dynasty.

You can tell something by looking at the social status of these wealthy locals who had great wealth in the late Han Dynasty.

The Mi family in Xuzhou could be regarded as a first-class merchant family in the late Han Dynasty. Such merchants were extremely wealthy with assets of over 100 million, but they did not receive corresponding social status. Apart from being rich, they had no political formation.

valid status.

They could only rely on the powerful local noble families. Although every governor of Xuzhou would give some face to the Mi family and even win over the Mi family, it was only to seek some financial help from the Mi family and would not allow the Mi family to get involved in the political arena.

At the same time, it can also be seen that although this group of nobles are polite to these businessmen on the surface, in fact, businessmen can only have money because they have money, but they cannot become powerful just because they have money.

However, these aristocratic families all have very double standards.

Although they look down on businessmen and even express disdain for doing business, their family's properties are spread across all walks of life.

Just because of their appearance, their business behavior is just petty theft and cannot be shown openly.

For example, various local aristocratic families in Huainan have many rice shops, restaurants and other businesses operating in Shouchun City.

It's just that these businesses are not run by the wealthy families themselves, but are managed by the servants below.

After all, they still care about face. If they really give up their face and go into business, they will worry about being laughed at by other families.

Therefore, they can only make a small amount of money through this kind of behavior and cannot make their business as big as the Mi family in Xuzhou and the Zhen family in Hebei.

Although they are rich, they really can't find any investment opportunities to convert their money into more money.

The only way they can think of making money is to annex land. In this era, land is the foundation. It is also the key to the continuation of aristocratic families for several or even more than ten generations.

As long as there is land, there will be a harvest, and if there is a harvest, no one will starve to death.

In an era when business was still very weak, Yuan Yao's proposal to open a company and make money was like a bomb that woke up all these wealthy families.

As long as you invest a portion of your money into a company founded by Yuan Yao, you will be able to get a share of the company's income one year later. This kind of transaction is a guaranteed profit at first glance.

These people are all smart people, so they will not miss this opportunity.

Soon someone urged me.

"Sir, how much money do you plan to raise for this company, and how do you invest in it?"

This person asked something that everyone present wanted to ask.

"The funds raised in the early stage do not need to be too much, only 50 million. Part of it will be used to buy food and improve the food of the refugees, so that they can work harder at mining and building roads. The other part will be used to buy carriages and horses.

Briquettes are sold to surrounding counties."

Yuan Yao thought about it for a moment and gave a specific number.

Fifty million is a number that is neither too much nor too little.

If Yuan Yao opened his mouth and asked for hundreds of millions, although this group of people could afford it, the briquettes can only earn tens of millions a year at present. If he invests several hundred million, he is afraid that it will be difficult to recover the capital in a few years. Naturally, these people

It won't be so easy to invest money.

And 50 million is not a small amount, which can allow Yuan Yao to do a lot of things.

It is also a number that these people can accept.

Sure enough, when Yuan Yao said that he only needed to raise 50 million yuan, everyone present breathed a sigh of relief.

If it was only such a small amount of money, it would not even be possible to use the officials of the dynasty. Yuan Shu himself could just wave his hand and allocate a sum of funds directly to Yuan Yao.

As a result, some officials who originally wanted to get their hands on the briquettes became a little uneasy for a while.

Yuan Yao doesn't want much money, so it's probably not their turn to pay.

Yuan Shu also had this idea, and was just about to say that he could give Yuan Yao some money to help him solve the problem of lack of money.

At this moment, Yuan Yao was one step ahead of him and said to the civil and military officials present.

"I plan to take out half of the shares as 500,000 shares and sell them to everyone present at a price of 100 cents per share. Anyone who is interested in briquettes can spend some money to buy shares."

"The starting price is 100 shares, and the maximum is 100,000 shares!"

Of course, Yuan Yao is not willing to directly transfer all the shares to Yuan Shu.

If that was the case, why did he spend so much time thinking about this matter?

The reason for doing these things is purely because it can bring down more wealthy families.

Let these people be completely bound to his chariot.

After they all acquire shares in Bagongshan Briquette Co., Ltd., Yuan Yao can immediately start playing with financial capital.

Especially this group of people, who originally had partisanship in this court.

Yuan Yao wanted to get involved, but without sufficient strength and strong connections, there was no way he could get involved in the relationship system of their group.

But setting up a new company is different.

This is equivalent to opening up a new platform and bringing these people together again.

In the name of the company, re-establish a party and let these people stand on Yuan Yao's side. With this step, they will not be so passive when checking and balancing Zhang Xun at the court meeting.
Chapter completed!