The next morning, Zhao Hao took a bus to the Xishan Company headquarters in Dashalan to attend the temporary board of directors.

There are four corridors, and the three-story bronze pattern canopy is embedded with a plaque written by an imperial pen - "Royal Xishan Coal Industry". The gilded font shines brightly in the sunlight.

Under the plaque, there were constantly well-dressed gentry and merchants climbing up the black marble steps.

Beside the open colorful glass door, the doorman stood wearing uniform black clothes, cowhide boots, and thorny iron sticks, watching the crowd in and out with vigilantly.

Seeing Zhao Hao's carriage stop outside the store, Wu Yu, who was guarding the door early in the morning, quickly stepped forward and opened the car door, and whispered to Zhao Hao: "There are many people in front of you, please come in through the back door."

"No need, watch the fun and go up." Mr. Zhao jumped out of the car by himself. He wore a fluttering scarf and a sexy light red Taoist robe, a pair of silk cloud shoes, and flirted with folding fans.

When I entered the store, I suddenly realized the sunlight in front of me. The morning sun shone through the glass roof with complex patterns, illuminating the three-story empty hall, which was bright and spacious.

In the hall, there were rows of long chairs, and the chairs were basically filled with people. A servant walked around with tea trays and poured water for customers.

While chatting, the customers were nervously watching the water signs hanging out behind the mahogany counter.

The white water signs are the stocks registered for sale today. Each water sign is a separate commission, with the number of shares to be sold and the reserve price per share.

The stock broker behind the counter bids in turn, and the customers bid for it. The higher the price will get it. Then the broker picks the corresponding water card from the wall and asks the buyer to trade at the counter. The broker continues to sell the next water card.

These were all figured out by Fatty Sun and the others themselves. Zhao Hao didn't know about it in advance, so he found an empty seat and sat down to see how the buyer bids.

At first, he saw that the buyers were very enthusiastic about raising prices, and he thought that Xishan Company deliberately raised the price by auction. But after looking at it for a while, he found that it was not, because all the stocks entrusted for sale today, the odd and the lowest price were all hung on the wall.

This transparent operation makes it impossible for buyers to bid too high for a certain order. If the price increase exceeds the psychological valuation, you will wait for the order to be placed. There is no need to grab the lead for a certain order.

So although the buyer bid enthusiastically, he increased the price properly. After Zhao Hao took a cup of tea, no one paid more than 60 taels of unit price.

This made him sigh again, "There are really talented people," at least for the moment, this system can prevent the stock price from fluctuating too much, so as to protect the interests of both buyers and sellers."

The only drawback is that currently there are only two stocks listed in the hall, namely Xishan Company and Lugouqiao Company, and no third stock is sold.

When Zhao Hao was in Jiangnan, he clearly heard that many companies in Beijing were following the trend and transformed into joint-stock companies. He also began to try to issue stocks. I don’t know if it was Xishan Company’s xenophobia or those companies were unwilling to mix with it. In short, this is not a stock trading center, but it can only be regarded as an exchange of its own stocks.

Zhao Hao silently set the time, and for about a quarter of an hour, he sold seven or eight shares of Xishan Company, with a total of more than one hundred shares. Lugouqiao Company also sold six or seven or seven shares, with seven or eighty shares, and the stock price was actually close to the level of Xishan Company, almost fifty taels of silver per share.

This is rather nonsense. After all, Lugouqiao Company is just a processing and sales company. How can it be similar to a resource-based company like Xishan Company?

Zhao Hao raised this question to the buyer beside him, and the answer he got was that because Lugouqiao Company is the major shareholder of Xishan Company. Isn’t owning shares of Lugouqiao Company equivalent to owning shares of Xishan Company? So the stock prices of the two are similar, which is very reasonable.

Mr. Zhao was actually confused. This was completely the same as Yahoo's stock price, which was supported by Alibaba. It seemed that investors' innocence and cuteness were not distinguished from time and space.

He wanted to continue chatting with these "lovely investors", but the directors had already arrived. He had to get up and leave the trading hall and prepare to go upstairs.

At the entrance of the stairs, two security guards stood, and the idle people were allowed to go. If it weren't for the Fatty Tang and Sun Dawu coming down, Zhao Hao wouldn't have been able to go up to the second floor.

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On the third floor, the directors and supervisors of Xishan Company were all at the entrance of the conference hall to welcome Mr. Zhao, who had been missing for a long time.

Zhao Hao showed an intimate smile, greeted them one by one, and walked into the conference hall surrounded by everyone.

Dingguo Duke Xu Wenbi, Zhu Shimao with his neck tilted, Li Fang, Ji Eunuch, Zhao Xian, Wu Kangyuan, Tang Youde, Sun Dawu, Guo Da and other members of the board of directors, as well as British Duke and Zhang Qianfa who attended the meeting, all sat at the long mahogany table.

His Highness the eldest princess is busy today, and Zhao Hao is free to take the lead and sit down on the second chair beside him.

After the maids served tea for the directors and supervisors, Wu Yu led all unrelated people to wait and personally guarded outside the meeting hall.

The bright sunshine in the capital shone warmly through the large glass windows. Mr. Zhao smiled and praised everyone and said, "The transaction hall on the first floor is good, and it looks very active."

"Before the dividend at the end of the year, the transaction was much higher than now." Xu Wenbi on the opposite side said with some dissatisfaction: "After the New Year, it has been dull and only sold two or three thousand shares a day."

Several directors also nodded and agreed.

"The turnover is not low." Zhao Hao calculated briefly. Xishan Company had a total of 1.4 million shares, and no more than 200,000 shares circulating outside. The turnover rate of more than 1% cannot be considered low at this stage.

"I think you think the stock price cannot rise, right?" He understood in a blink of an eye, what these guys really think.

The directors were told and laughed. The company's stock price has been soaring for a year, which has already made their appetites. Now that the stock price has entered the platform period, they are starting to be anxious.

"Don't worry, I'll help you at least double the stock price again, how about it?" Seeing Mr. Zhao smiled.

"Then the relationship is good!" The directors were overjoyed when they heard this. They dreamed that they were looking forward to the rise and rise.

"Young master, do you also want Xishan Company to produce cement?" Zhu Shimao asked with his neck tilted.

After browsing the floor, everyone's eyes were staring at Mr. Zhao, whose eyes were even more enthusiastic than the sunlight outside the window.

The name of cement concrete has long been passed down from Jiangnan to the capital. In Beijing, where the political atmosphere is stronger, cement, an infrastructure artifact, is naturally more attractive.

Moreover, the inventor of cement is Mr. Zhao, the founder of Xishan Company. The directors have long been salivating.

"That's it," Mr. Zhao played Tai Chi and smiled and said to the directors: "I can't just say the final word. Because I have transferred the patent to Jiangnan Group, such strategic assets must of course be decided by the group board of directors."

Jiangnan Group does not issue shares publicly, so all the company's situation is opaque. The outside world doesn't even know which directors of the group are, so naturally there is no way to know the group's equity structure.

In the eyes of the directors of Xishan Company, Mr. Zhao has only been to Jiangnan for less than a year. If he can quickly become bigger and stronger, he will definitely give up a lot of benefits and get the full support of Jiangnan Haoshi Home. Therefore, everyone is convinced of Zhao Hao's excuses. No one expected that he actually reversed the Jiangnan Group and made a big move, and he did not have the decentralization and enlightenment of Xishan Company at all.

The pragmatist Mr. Zhao will not stick to any form, but will only choose the most suitable one.

"It should be, it should be." So the directors understood one after another, and then Baba asked: "Then the trouble boy asked the Jiangnan Group Board of Directors. They would like to ask if they had any requests. It would be easy to discuss it if they made money together."

"Because I have shares on both sides, I must avoid this matter." Zhao Hao replied seriously: "But I can serve both sides as a memoto, but I will not interfere in the decision-making, whether it is Jiangnan Group or Xishan Company."

"I understand." With the previous experience of merging with Lugouqiao Company, the directors all know the "principle of avoidance of related shareholders", so Mr. Zhao doesn't need to worry too much.

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After adding water again, Eunuch Li, who was quite masculine, asked: "It seems that the young master has another way to make money in addition to cement?"

"Director Li's 'way to make money' is good." Zhao Hao nodded and smiled at everyone: "Yes, my young master's path of wealth comes from the road. It is not a dry road or a river, but a sea road!"

"Transport rice from the sea from the north?" Li Fang blurted out, and the shareholders did not show any surprise. It was obvious that the scene of Mr. Zhao and his godmother entering Beijing the day before yesterday had already spread throughout the capital.

"It's all my own people, there's no need to be so careful." Mr. Zhao smiled at Li Fang, and a burst of laughter rang out in the conference hall.

"We just want to transport grain from the sea!" Zhao Hao slapped the table and stood up, decisively: "Jiangnan Group has made a decision to formally invite Xishan Company to cooperate north and south, Yucheng!"

"When I was in Jiangnan, the chairman and I had already discussed it, and she agreed." Everyone heard Zhao Hao say in a deep voice: "And I personally went on the sea route to actually survey it. In just ten days, we arrived at Dagukou, Tianjin from Chongming."

The old lady nodded, saying that the eldest princess fully supported the cooperation with Jiangnan Company and had authorized him to vote for it. The reason why she was absent today was just because she didn't want to put pressure on everyone so that the directors could vote from their heart.

The directors all thanked the eldest princess for her considerateness. It is really necessary to think carefully about this matter before she can decide.

Everyone whispered to each other. Although the benefits of shipping grains in sea are great, they can also cause big trouble.

Zhao Hao had long expected that they would react like this, so he announced:

"In addition, sea transportation of grain is just a means. The real purpose of Jiangnan Group is to break the Jiangnan Sea ban and restore maritime trade through this matter!"

His sharp eyes swept across everyone and said word by word: "So the future shipping company will have exclusive overseas trade rights in the Jiangnan region!"

"Wow...", all the directors were in a state of excitement, and they were unsure of what they had just now.
Chapter completed!