Xinshun 1730

Chapter 1055 Little Trouble

After all, Liu Yu was just standing up for these people.

How to really reclaim wasteland still depends on them themselves.

Coordinating funds, internal strategies of the board of directors, long-term planning, etc., Liu Yu can only give them a little early support at most.

Since you have chosen commercial management, you have to be willing to bet and admit defeat.

Poor management, bankruptcy, debt repayment; or quarrels and disagreements in the internal board of directors; investors hope to see short-term benefits and insufficient capital investment, etc.

Liu Yu didn't care much about these issues.

An area of ​​nearly [-] square miles is beyond his control.

In the end, we can only choose to support one or two companies first, make money and then make a model, and let more capital choose this direction after the Lianghuai Salt Industry collapsed.

After expressing his support for them as a whole, Liu Yu patiently listened to some complaints from these people.

In other words, it is a common inevitability of the transformation of agricultural society to modernization.

In addition to land ownership and enclosure issues, these people mainly complained about several aspects.

The first is to complain that the hired workers have no sense of time, because most of these hired workers used to be farmers. Except for some people from Haimen who were hired at a high price and knew how to grow cotton, most of the hired workers were farmers who lost their land due to disasters.

The board of directors and management directors complained to Liu Yu that it might take three to five years for the company's time system to be promoted.

For example, it's almost spring now.

They set the time to get up at 06 o'clock, eat at 30:07, go to the field by car at 30 o'clock, and start working from [-]:[-] to [-] o'clock.

干到11:30，往回走。这边已经准备好了午饭。下午01:30上工，05:30下工。

From Liu Yu's point of view, these things are very normal, and things that later generations seem to think that they don't need to be cultivated at all are very abnormal here.

In the era Liu Yu lived in, he went to school from an early age, and gradually cultivated the concept of time, punctuality, and teamwork, which is an invisible cultivation.

At this time, it is difficult for these hired farmers to abide by the concept of going to work on time, leaving get off work on time, and eating on time.

After complaining, the management director sighed sincerely: "We really prefer those who have retired from the army, or those new students. At least they go to work on time and eat on time. Need to teach."

Liu Yu didn't have a better way to do this, so he could only say: "Since I chose to do this, there is nothing I can do. Take your time. In three to five months, it will be all right."

"Another one, if we want to solve this problem, we still need to run schools, teach children what time means from an early age, and seamlessly turn school into work."

"I also know that investors are just to make money, and they won't spend money on running schools when they have nothing to do. But this is indeed a long-term solution to this problem."

The school problem is also a long-standing problem.

Reclaiming wasteland today is different from the era when Zhang Jian reclaimed wasteland in later generations.

During Zhang Jian's era, although large and small bloodsheds and bloody enclosures broke out in the land reclamation company.However, in the end, the leader is a person with the feeling of "saving the country by industry", an old number one scholar, with family and country thinking, not a pure capitalist.

But now...

Dashun's current appearance, no matter whether he can't see the need to "save the country" now.

Without feelings, the sole purpose of investors is to make money.

It is also doomed that they cannot invest in the establishment of schools and the like.

Because they found that all the talents they needed could be hired.For example, those who can read and write and study agriculture can just hire them from the new learning system.

For another example, run a school to teach children to read?Then with this money, it is cheaper to hire disaster victims.

Therefore, just like when the Dongyang Trading Company was established, the Dongyang Trading Company obtained a monopoly at the cost of fulfilling their military obligations and helping the Dashun Navy train sailors.

As for these reclamation companies, Liu Yu also imposed obligations on them, or in other words, it was a kind of exchange.

Liu Yu promised that they could enclose the land at a very low price, and he came forward to settle all those who hindered the enclosure, and if there was a large-scale resistance, he would directly go to the army.

The price is that these people need to pay 2% of the total profit every year as various expenses.

This of course also includes education.

There is no need to spend this money in the early stage. In the later stage, Liu Yu will split off the Academy of Sciences and build a specialized agricultural university in northern Jiangsu, as well as supporting elementary school education.

In view of the fact that southern Jiangsu has already carried out the [-]th tax reform, the [-]th tax reform will be implemented in the whole of Jiangsu in the future. After the national tax is handed over, the local government will have some money in its hands.Local governments also need to contribute some to build up the primary education system as much as possible.

Although all investors feel that spending 2% of profits every year will definitely be more expensive than spending less on enclosing land in the long run.

But they also knew that without Liu Yu's platform, their land reclamation company would not be able to operate at all.

These salt households, small farmers, and the merchants behind them have some ways to make them cry.

For example, when the cotton is ripe, setting fire to the cotton field; for example, burning the sheds of the hired workers at night; for example, cutting off irrigation canals;

All of these need to be used as an example, if no one gives them a platform, they will cry to death.

Of course, it is still too early to make a profit, so there is no need to pay the money first.

Now that the conditions have already been determined, the director of management can only say at this time: "My country's high opinion, indeed, only education can be established and cultivated from an early age."

"At the beginning, the board of directors agreed to the conditions of the Duke, but now they are actually willing to pay for the construction of a professional agricultural school first. It's just a matter of building a few more houses."

"We still have to rely on them to improve cotton seeds and breed cattle and sheep."

"Anyway, there is a lot of money invested in the early stage. Since this can please the Duke, everyone is willing to pay this amount of money. I also hope that the Duke will be able to raise his hand in the future. If there are difficulties in business operations and urgently need capital turnover, we will also look to the Duke. The public can support some low-interest loans.”

He also made it clear that a group of investors are willing to pay for the school to please Liu Yu.It's not much different from some wealthy merchants in Songjiang Prefecture who set up a steam engine in a beautiful garden to emit black smoke there.

Of course, it is definitely impossible to ask Liu Yu to help them get low-interest loans just by pleasing them.Since Liu Yu supports and wants to foster a model, some formalities are still required on the surface.

Regarding this request, Liu Yu smiled and said: "Don't worry, I know the difficulty of reclaiming wasteland, and I also know your plight. If you need money urgently in the future, I will help you coordinate."

What he said was sincere, and he was indeed planning to coordinate the loan when the reclamation company had funding problems.

This is no different from the environment of the British enclosure movement, this is northern Jiangsu.

Floods, floods, sea tides, wind disasters... Several major disasters come in turn.

And to really make money here, it is necessary to invest a huge amount of capital in soil improvement and water conservancy projects.

There will be no profit within one or two years, and millions of taels of silver are invested in the construction of water conservancy projects every year.

Moreover, here is a plain that has been silted up, and a seawall needs to be built.

These are large investments, which is why small farmers have no interest in the wasteland here.Small farmers do not have the capital to engage in these things, so they grow directly. Even if the imperial court inspects the pastures and does not catch those who boil salt, the small farmers cannot support it.

And this involves the particularity of joint-stock companies.

For investors, their purpose has never been to realize the modernization of Jiangsu, or to save Dashun a little bit of wealth.

They have one and only one purpose.

get high returns.

This return, the average profit is to be very high.

Once a natural disaster occurs and water conservancy and seawalls need to be repaired, a sum of money may be urgently needed at this time.

And if it makes a profit, investors absolutely don't want to rely on issuing additional shares to relieve financial pressure.

They will naturally be inclined to borrow money and get over it.

Of course, if the reclamation is done, they are also eligible to borrow.The best and most intensive cotton field in Quandashun, which may have the best water conservancy facilities, is used as collateral, and the loan is definitely not a problem.

But the interest on the loan is related to the generally high interest rate of Dashun.

In fact, the biggest possibility for Quandashun's large and low-interest loans can only come from domestic funds.The emperor once lent money to some salt merchants, and used a very low annual interest rate of only 10% to help some merchants.

The banks in Songjiang Prefecture can actually lend money.But this bank is not a bank in essence, but a banknote and silver exchange.

It is the official power that is really in charge of these things, and they can lend money when necessary. The application procedures are too troublesome, but Liu Yu can definitely help solve it.

Another one is that Liu Yu's reputation can help them get loans in Europe with lower interest rates.However, the trouble is that this is land, and Dashun does not allow European capital to set foot in the land.The emperor Xiuhuai River asked the Netherlands for a loan, which was essentially an unsecured loan, borrowed with the crown of the "Empire of China" that stood for 2000 years.

Of course, if you want to borrow money, you can always get around the rules.

In short, Liu Yu's help is needed here, or the court's help is needed.

Generally speaking, when it comes to land, it is best not to borrow money in private, because borrowing money in private is bound to cause trouble.

There have been a lot in France, such as orders plus loans, making a fortune by cheating, and then a little manipulation, the farmers went bankrupt and had to sell their land.

There are also common cases in North America, such as wanting to merge, deliberately digging up aqueducts, or setting fires at maturity, forcing bankruptcy and then merging.

This is all normal.

As far as the current situation is concerned, once the land is developed to grow cotton here, the profits will definitely not be low.

Because Japan does not produce cotton and Nanyang has popularized the consumption habit of Indian cotton cloth, what Dashun needs to do now is to replace Indian cloth with Songjiang cloth.

Even if the European smuggling channel is not opened for the time being, the cotton in the early stage will definitely not lose money and make a lot of money.

Investors are all good people. This kind of trickery, abduction, annexation and annexation have been done and seen a lot, so they still hope to get loans from official channels.

Although in fact the imperial court was even worse, maybe another emperor was not allowed, and the land was directly collected as Huangzhuang.But Liu Yu's reputation is at least good. Compared with those dangers, these investors also feel that it is safer for Liu Yu to come forward to coordinate the loan.

After all, this is northern Jiangsu, where famines occur frequently, so it is impossible not to consider unexpected emergency expenditures against natural disasters.

Liu Yu naturally agreed to this, and also made a promise that if there is a natural disaster within three years, he can lend a sum of money to the company in the early stage.

When I was about to discuss with these people about the follow-up cotton ginning plant, cotton transportation to Songjiang Prefecture, and cottonseed recycling, I was planning to promote Mexican cotton to Quan Dashun to replace short-staple Asian cotton.

A few young people ran in in a panic. They were new students hired by the company, with bloody scratches on their faces.

After seeing the ceremony, he didn't care too much, and said: "My lord, something has happened. There are more than 100 women over there, and some old men and women, surrounded by the reeds. Don't let us set fire to it."

"We didn't dare to set fire, and if it was a man, we would do it. But they found a group of women, as well as old men and old ladies, and they all froze. What should we do?"

(End of this chapter)