Dong Shuheng was still paying attention to the issuance of bonds and stocks in Shanghai while still on the boat.
Fortunately, the stocks will not be issued until the exchange is officially established.
But railroad bonds are issued in advance.
If there is an upset, China's fiscal policy may have to change in the future.
Bonds are a good thing, allowing many things the government wants to do to be realized in advance.
In particular, China is in dire straits and there are too many places that need to be built.
If only the government invests, it will definitely disrupt China’s monetary order.
But when issuing bonds is different.
Bonds are an investment for the people. Funds are raised through the issuance of bonds to carry out construction activities.
It is equivalent to the government taking people's money to invest. This is completely different from the government directly using the money it obtains to invest.
Because the funds raised by bonds also come from the private sector.
After investing in large-scale projects, these currencies will return to the private sector, so the private currency holdings will actually remain unchanged.
With these 30 million, Dong Shuheng's original plan of 10,000 kilometers of railways in three years actually seemed a bit conservative.
There is also an addition that can be made to this plan.
The issuance of the first bond is related to people’s confidence in government bonds.
This kind of thing that relies on credit support is so delicate and fragile.
Sometimes just a little flaw can make people's distrust infinitely expand.
Before the National Debt haircut, Dong Shuheng even asked Hu Guangyong to secretly find a few supports. However, these supports were not used in the end.
In Dong Shuheng's eyes, most Chinese people are conservative, especially those wealthy gentry and landlords.
But I didn’t expect that the gentry would be the ones buying the most railway bonds this time. Of course, the old wealthy people in Shanxi also accounted for a large part.
To purchase bonds you must use Chinese dollars.
There has always been a practice in China's banking system that if the amount of Chinese yuan exchanged is huge, it can be done on-site.
For example, those wealthy people in Shanxi hid their silver winter melons in the cellar. Most people couldn't even move them.
Besides, it's not safe to move it to the street.
This gave rise to door-to-door service.
Banks have specialized security forces and equipment to deal with these big bankers.
This situation frequently occurred during the issuance of railway bonds.
Many gentry were not big in business, and all they had in their hands were silver ingots that had been stored for who knows how many years. If they were put in their hands, they would be dead.
So why are these iron roosters willing to pluck their feathers?
Dong Shuheng did not expect that the patriotic propaganda in the newspapers played a big role in this bond haircut.
In fact, many wealthy people are here to flatter the new regime.
Especially those old wealthy people in Shanxi, they are very familiar with it.
Dong Shuheng's purpose is also very simple, which is to extract these dead money from the private sector.
Historically, the turbulent times in the late Manchu Dynasty left an unknown amount of money buried under the land of China.
When the owner's family suddenly encountered an accident, the money was buried underground and no one knew about it. In this way, it completely lost its value.
The Ministry of Finance did a very good job in this bond issuance. They already know the power of using the media.
At present, Western countries have already learned to use the media.
For example, before the Crimean War, the British had already exaggerated the brutality of Tsarist Russia in the media and the threat that Tsarist Russia posed to the entire Europe and the British Empire.
This will reduce people's anti-war sentiment and gain more people's support for the war.
These newspapers entered China via ships and entered Dong Shuheng's field of vision.
To this end, Dong Shuheng specially convened a special meeting with his subordinates to discuss how to make good use of public opinion at work and how to make good use of propaganda methods such as newspapers and magazines.
The hawkers on the street still know how to shout when they walk through the streets!
The government's work is often similar to how vendors do business. The people are the customers of the government. To make them recognize you and support you, publicity work is indispensable.
Use more publicity methods, and sometimes things will get twice the result with half the effort.
As for stocks, Dong Shuheng doesn’t need to worry. Stocks are actually a zero-sum game.
Even if it is tepid at the beginning, it doesn't matter much. Chinese companies don't have much difficulty in financing now.
After all, those who are able to run big companies in the city these days are people with family backgrounds.
Moreover, many people regard the company as their own family business and are unwilling to take part of their shares in a public offering.
Wouldn't it be nice if the company was completely in the hands of the family?
Many people think so.
Everyone feels that if they allocate part of the company's shares to others, they will have more funds in hand. At that time, they will have the final say on the company, but as a listed company, it will be subject to strict supervision by the Chinese government.
So does this company still completely belong to our family? Everyone will calculate this in their hearts.
In the initial stage of China's industrial and commercial development, it is normal for such a situation to occur.
Therefore, most of the companies listed this time are state-owned enterprises.
And many of them are newly established state-owned enterprises. They cover a wide range of fields.
There are mining, mechanical processing, pharmaceuticals, textiles, and even agricultural reclamation.
There are many companies with new faces, and these are industries that Dong Shuheng is very optimistic about. However, the initial investment is relatively large.
For example, the Turpan Wine Industry aims to establish large-scale vineyards in the Turpan area to produce wine.
The wine of the Western Regions is already very famous, but it was just that the Western Regions were in chaos before and no one was engaged in this industry.
Another example is the Balkash Lake (now renamed Yibohai by China) potash factory.
The Yibohai area is rich in mineral resources. Everyone knows where it is because Suiye City, where Li Bai was born, is to the south of the Yibohai.
Dong Shuheng has ordered Zuo Jigao to rebuild Suiye City in the Chu River Basin. The symbolic significance of this matter is very strong.
When this news first appeared, it caused a stir in China.
The Chinese people all have a dream of the Han and Tang Dynasties in their hearts. These names that had disappeared in the long river of history have allowed the Chinese people, who had been filled with servility in their minds by the Manchu Qing Dynasty, to regain the confidence of the people of a great country.
This time there are four companies in the Western Regions and several companies in the Far East. They are mainly in the mining industry.
There is no way. The initial investment in the mining industry is relatively large and requires a lot of effort. Especially in remote areas, the mining industry also needs to take the cost of transportation into consideration.
But the returns from the mining industry are also relatively high. After all, in today's China, as long as mineral resources are dug out of the ground, there is no need to worry about sales.
Because now Dong Shuheng is in the stage of mining, fighting monsters and gaining experience.
Of course, there are also some private enterprises among these companies.
Most of them are businessmen who are relatively familiar with Dong Shuheng. Based on their trust in Dong Shuheng's vision, they put part of the company's shares into circulation.
These businessmen who are close to Dong Shuheng have expanded rapidly in recent years. They are different from traditional Chinese businessmen.
However, the funds they have on hand are relatively tight now. If they want to continue to expand the company, they must take the path of public offering.
They also found that this public offering method was less threatening to their status as major shareholders.
Because except for myself, other shareholders are very scattered.
They have been cooperating with Dong Shuheng in business and have great trust in Dong Shuheng's business vision.
The Westpac Development Company we just negotiated did not catch up with this wave of public announcements.
According to the plan discussed by Dong Shuheng and a group of businessmen, this company will also be publicly offered by then. Moreover, this is a very large company, and the investment may cost tens of millions of Chinese yuan, or even more.
In Shanghai, Tank returned home after a busy day at the car dealership.
Although he is still a strong man physically and the fierceness on his face has not disappeared, in fact he has not fought or killed for a long time.
A layer of fat has grown on his belly.
Tank's wife is also taller and stronger than ordinary women. Everyone says that Tank is too narcissistic about her body shape.
I found a wife who looks like me. Although it doesn’t match ordinary people’s aesthetics, as long as Tank likes her, that’s fine.
According to Tank's own opinion, ordinary thin women simply cannot withstand his own pressure.
It would be troublesome if someone died on the wedding night.
Tank's current wife comes from a martial arts family, and her family owns a martial arts school. She is a taijutsu practitioner and has been training her body since she was a child. Most men are no match for her.
Because of the surprise in the sky, the family was not prepared to let her family go, because even the girl's family felt that no one would marry their own daughter.
Therefore, when Tank came to propose marriage, he only asked for a symbolic gift, but the dowry was extremely rich.
Tank has also saved some money in the past two years. The house is a benefit given to him by the intelligence department as an old man.
A villa on the banks of the Suzhou River. It can be regarded as taking special care of him, an old man in the ministry.
A villa like this costs thousands of dollars in Shanghai.
Tank also had several thousand dollars in savings, and this time there was a stock issuance in Shanghai. He thought that the wife at home was pregnant with a baby.
Their children will definitely be big in the future, and they will be able to eat.
Tank still remembers that when he was a child, he was almost thrown away by his family because he was too good at eating. If he hadn't been very strong at a young age and could work like an adult, he might not have grown up.
Now that I am going to have a child, I must not let my child starve.
"Xiu'er, I'm going to buy some stocks. This is China's first stock issuance. It will definitely rise sharply in the future. This is how our president does things."
Tank's wife's name has nothing to do with his appearance.
It's just that she is a woman after all, so she can't be called Da Zhuang or Qiang Sen.
"Husband, it's up to you to decide. Xiu'er feels that although her husband is not as good as her in martial arts, he has a good mind. She usually obeys her husband's arrangements for matters at home."
"Sir, I've also heard that buying stocks requires capital verification. I have 5,000 yuan here, why don't you use it to buy it too. You must be right to listen to our president." Xiu'er knew that her husband was doing it for
For public service.
So maybe the husband has his own inside information on this matter.
"Xiu'er, this is your dowry money, and this stock is also risky." Tank said.
Newspapers have made it very clear that stocks are risky. If the company that issued the stocks has problems, goes bankrupt, or is illegally shut down, then their stocks will face the risk of delisting.
By that time, the stocks in their hands may be just a piece of waste paper.
Tank knew that there was no need to worry this time, because the first batch of listed companies were all high-quality companies, and most of them were state-owned companies. Now China is booming.
In the future, these state-owned enterprises will become very large enterprises, and their stocks may increase hundreds of times by then.
Most people now have no concept of stock trading. The stocks advertised in newspapers are also a way of investment.
Tank also wants to invest a sum of money for his children. How much money can he make from his own salary alone?
People are like this. People who are originally selfless will become selfish when facing their own children.
"At home, you take charge of the things that require thinking. Only the things that require hands-on work should come to me," Xiu'er said.
"Since we want to invest, we should invest as much as possible. If we keep the money at home, we can only put it in the bank and earn a little interest."
"Besides, our family doesn't have anything urgent to do with money."
"Okay, I'll do it then. Let's invest in several state-owned enterprises separately."
Tank was very happy because of his wife's understanding. Those who once laughed at him for marrying a big wife are blind.
At the same time, Dong Shuheng's fleet finally arrived in Shanghai. It should have arrived earlier.
But Dong Shuheng stopped for a moment when passing by Jiangyin Fortress and Wusong Fortress.
Jiangyin Fortress is now divided into two parts, one is on the opposite side of Jingjiang.
The fortress groups on both sides of the strait just surround this most important section of the Yangtze River, forming a three-dimensional river defense system with no dead ends.
Jiangyin Fortress now has twenty giant 350mm coastal defense guns, fifty 280mm coastal defense guns, and more than one hundred 155mm coastal defense guns. It can be said that the firepower is excessive.
All artillery is wrapped in permanent fortifications. If the enemy fleet wants to enter the hinterland of China from the river, even the strongest British fleet in Europe is impossible.
Unless the British can pull out a World War I battleship.
Just recently, the fortress has added permanent infantry fortifications and installed a machine gun fort. This has increased the fortress's land defense capabilities.
The same is true for Wusong Fortress. When this fortress was originally built, there was considerable opposition from Britain, France and other countries.
If this fortress is completed, they will really need to be obedient citizens of China with their tail between their legs in Shanghai.
I don’t know how much Dong Shuheng spent on this matter. He personally went to talk to the ministers of the two countries.
It happened that the Crimean War broke out. The two sides reached greater cooperation, so this fortress was built half-finished.
However, part of the fortress at the old site was retained, and this part was built into a heritage park for Dong Shuheng.
Inside, the dilapidated scene is still the same as when the fortress was captured by the British army.
A sculpture was built in the center of the park to commemorate Chen Huacheng, a Qing general who fought here to resist the British.
In June 1842, the British fleet arrived at the mouth of the Yangtze River, preparing for a large-scale invasion. Chen Huacheng and all the officers and soldiers expressed their willingness to fight the invaders to the death.
At dawn on June 16, British ships swarmed in and attacked the fort. The cannons kept firing, smoke filled the air, flames rose, and shrapnel flew everywhere.
When the war was at its fiercest, Chen Huacheng personally stepped forward and opened fire. He sank the enemy ship at the forefront. The artillery battle lasted for more than two hours, sinking and damaging four enemy ships, killing and injuring them.
Injured a large number of British troops.
When the invaders were in chaos, the governor of Liangjiang who was stationed in Baoshan was frightened by the enemy's shells and fled, causing chaos among the entire army.
The enemy took the opportunity to land in the Baoshan area, leaving Chen Huacheng under attack from both sides. At this critical moment, the general asked Chen Huacheng to evacuate the fort quickly.
Chen Huacheng looked up at the sky and said boldly: "I have been ordered to remove the thieves and advance without retreating. I will serve the country with my death." He pulled out his saber and led the soldiers to fight hand-to-hand with the enemy who climbed onto the fort.
During the fight, Chen Huacheng was injured in many places, and his shirt was dyed red with blood. After killing several enemies, Chen Huacheng eventually bled too much and died heroically on the fort.
Some people had objections to this statue of Dong Shuheng. The reason was that Chen Huacheng was a general of the Qing army.
However, Dong Shuheng said that the national heroes of any tribal dynasty deserve the respect of the Chinese people. They are the backbone of China.
Later, Dong Shuheng established memorial parks in Zhejiang, Guangdong and other places to commemorate those heroes who sacrificed their lives in the Anti-British War.