In Gao Pragmatic's view, the equity allocation case carried out in the three major factories in Kaiping for the purpose of private military industry is not a commercial equity allocation in the ordinary sense. It has strong characteristics of the times - the combination of government and business, or to put it bluntly,
One point, collusion between government and businessmen. Of course, if he regards himself as a member of the bureaucratic group, it seems that it should be called a collaboration between the powerful and the capitalists.
To explain this problem, we must first take a look at the general situation of this equity distribution.
The first thing to explain is that Gao Pragmatic did not divide the equity of Jinghua Kaiping Iron and Steel Works among the three major factories at all. He took sole control of it. In the words of later generations, it was called absolute control, and it was "absolute" to the point of 100% -
- Of course, in order not to violate the Ming Law, these shares were all listed in Gao Xiaozhuang's name. As for Gao Xiaozhuang and himself, Gao Xiaozhuang is the private property of Gao Pragmatic... Anyway, the Ming Law does not care about this.
The shares that Gao Jingshi gave away were all from Kaiping Coal Mine and Qianxi Iron Mine. Kaiping Coal Mine gave away 35% of the shares and Qianxi Iron Mine gave away 40% of the shares. Gao Jingshi’s remaining shares are still
Being able to absolutely hold a controlling stake - besides, there is no such thing as a controlling stake these days. According to the general understanding at this time, any industry named "Jinghua" has the final say anyway, and the legal loopholes are so big that it can be said that the wind is being poured out from all sides.
This equity distribution, if calculated purely based on the total book investment Gao Pragmatic sent them, many shareholders actually got a big advantage.
For example, the nobles in Beijing who have already had a good cooperative relationship with Gao Jingshi, most of the investment amounts are calculated at a premium. For example, the Chengguo government directly invested 20,000 taels, and Gao Jingshi credited his family with 40,000 taels as a shareholding.
, this 1:2 ratio is the unified treatment for the Duke level; correspondingly, the treatment of the marquis is slightly worse, the ratio is about 1:1.8; the earl is again, the ratio is 1:1.5.
Overall, the nobles' shareholding caused Gao Yinggang to suffer a direct loss of about 110,000 taels on his books.
But this time, not only nobles and nobles participated in the shares, but also relatives of the state and some civil servants joined in. This is also the biggest difference from Gao Pragmatic's previous businesses.
There are three representative families whose relatives participate in the stock: Chen family, Li family, and Du family.
The reason why these three families are representative families is of course because of the different identities of the people behind them: the Chen family is the natal family of Empress Chen, the Li family is the natal family of Concubine Li, and the Du family is slightly different, and is the family of Emperor Longqing's maternal uncle - although
Du Kangfei passed away long ago, but Long Qing was very kind to her uncle's family, so Gao Pragmatic took her with her.
Due to the practice of the Ming Dynasty, all the concubines came from the families of low-level officials and low-level military officers near Gyeonggi. Therefore, the conditions of these concubines’ natal families were relatively average. If they were allowed to participate in the stock market, they would not be able to get much real money, so Gao Pragmatic gave
Their conditions are much better than those given to the nobles - the ratio is between one to five and one to ten.
However, only two families actually achieved the highest ratio of one to ten: Empress Chen and Concubine Li.
Queen Chen's father, Chen Jingxing, was fifty-nine years old. He was a relatively honest man. His family didn't have much money, but he also knew that being pragmatic could turn stones into gold, so he scraped together some 800 taels to become a shareholder. Gao was pragmatic.
I collected a thousand taels for him, and then bought shares for another ten thousand taels. When Chen Jing walked away, he was extremely grateful.
Concubine Li's family is different. Although her father Li Wei is greedy, because Emperor Longqing is still there at this time, Li Wei does not dare to go too far. Therefore, the family's current wealth is not very rich. He is only a little better than Chen Jingxing.
Two thousand five hundred taels were paid. With a stroke of Gao Pragmatic's pen, the two thousand five hundred taels turned into twenty-five thousand taels and were deposited into the account. Li Wei was so happy that he scratched his head and praised Gao pragmatically.
Speaking of Prime Minister Gao Yude's demeanor, I don't know what the connection is between the two.
The most amazing thing about their family is that not only Li Wei participated in the shares, but also Li Wei's youngest son Li Wenjin actually participated in one share alone. The seventh-ranked eunuch in the royal horse eunuch participated in a thousand taels of shares, and Gao Pragmatic did not care about their family's violation of regulations.
, he generously gave him a share of 10,000 taels of silver. Li Wenjin was overjoyed, and had a meal with Gao Jingshi. During the dinner, he promised Gao Jingshi again and again: from now on, no one will be able to marry the imperial concubine.
Isn’t that the person who said half a word about you Gao Yude in front of me?
As for the civil servants who participate in shares, most of them are Gao Dang and Gao Dang allies, but they are the ones whose status is not that high and their status is not so sensitive. The amount of their shares is also small. Perhaps they are afraid that Gao Gong will misunderstand their character.
The highest amount was only 600 taels, which together was less than 5,000 taels, so Gao Pragmatic doubled it for them.
All these are numerous. Anyway, according to Gao Guoyan's calculations, Gao Pragmatic lost more than 170,000 taels, close to 180,000 taels, on this alone.
If you look at it this way, in terms of losses, Gao Pragmatic may have set a record in the history of the Ming Dynasty.
But is it really true that he lost so much money? Of course not, there is a difference between Gao Pragmatic's accounting and Gao Guoyan's accounting. Gao Guoyan calculated the accounts purely based on the current market conditions, but Gao Guoyan did not.
In Gao Guoyan's calculations, the investment in Kaiping Coal Mine and Qianxi Iron Mine was calculated based on the current land price. This is obviously inaccurate, because when Gao Pragmatic originally bought these lands, these shabby lands were in dilapidated condition.
It was quite cheap, and at that time there were health offices to help evict people, so the price of many land acquisitions was simply negligible. Therefore, when purchasing land, which was originally the most expensive project, Gao Pragmatic's actual expenses were far lower than the book expenses.
In other words, the land purchase cost that accounted for the bulk of Gao Guoyan's loss of 170,000 yuan actually had a lot of water.
As for labor costs, Gao Guoyan included the additional expenses of the mine protection team created by Gao Jingshi into the labor costs. However, Gao Jingshi’s own family knew their own affairs, and Gao Jingshi’s expenses for these people were subsidized.
He never calculated this expense into the mine, so there was a lot of water here.
If all is calculated, Gao Pragmatic actually lost just over 80,000 taels - of course it was a lot, but it was still an astonishing amount of money, but he could already afford it at this moment. Besides, in the future, high-quality assets will be listed to make money.
, among the people who bought the original stocks, who didn’t buy them at low prices and wait for them to rise?
But a more important question is: Was the 80,000 taels of silver really lost at such a loss?
Of course not. Not only does Gao Pragmatic not feel a loss, he also thinks that the 80,000 taels spent is very worthwhile. He has now "bought" many benefits that he could not buy at all.
The advantage is that he has established an interest alliance, an interest alliance that can be said to be powerful both in front of the stage and behind the scenes. He has almost wiped out all the royal relatives, military ministers and nobles near the capital, and even the civil servants have different ideas.
A lot of people got involved in the guise.
With such a background, the promotion of military-industrial privatization is bound to get a lot of help. Even if there may still be opposition from some civil servants, it doesn't hurt - the civil service group as a whole is indeed not afraid of the emperor, but that does not mean that individuals
Civil servants dare to go against the entire noble group.
For example, the Beijing camp is short of personnel and the occupation situation is so serious. Everyone knows that it is a good thing done by the nobles, but why can't it be rectified until now? The civil servants are constantly talking about rectifying the Beijing camp, but the result is that
No one went up to fire the first shot.
So the Xungui Group is a very magical interest group. If you say they are powerful, they usually look gentler and harmless than anyone else, and they look like they can be laughed at. If you say they are not powerful, no matter how awesome you are, they will
The old husband and the favorite officials in the inner court did not dare to confront them.
Later generations of scholars said that the power structure of the Ming Dynasty already had the shadow of the separation of powers. In fact, to a certain extent, it was not unreasonable at all.
As for the royal relatives, especially the relatives of the country, it is actually difficult to call them a "group" on their own, because under the Ming Dynasty's post-election system of concubine selection, these families have no foundation, and their success is nothing more than one dynasty or two dynasties. However,
One dynasty or two dynasties is enough for Gao Pragmatism.
As long as Long Qing still dies young, Empress Chen and Concubine Li will definitely be the ones Gao Pragmatic strives for.
