The war in West Africa is in full swing, but the Beijing-Tianjin area of the Ming Dynasty is as prosperous, busy, and lively as ever. Even though it is already the twelfth lunar month of winter and heavy snow is falling, none of this can affect the prosperity and excitement of the Beijing-Tianjin area.
Seeing that the Chinese New Year is coming soon, factories, workshops, etc. in the Beijing-Tianjin area are also preparing to start their annual holidays. The festive red has begun to decorate the streets and alleys of the entire capital, and vendors of all sizes are gathering their energy.
Get ready for the shopping spree before the Chinese New Year.
As for the large and small commercial firms, factories, workshops, etc. in the capital, the accountants have also become extremely busy. Year-end bonuses need to be calculated and approved one by one, and money is prepared to be distributed to everyone.
More importantly, businesses, factories, workshops, etc. have been busy for a whole year. How much money they have made must be calculated clearly. This is related to the boss's New Year's Eve and next year's plans.
For those commercial banks and factories listed on the Tianjin Stock Exchange, the year-end report and year-end dividends are extremely important matters.
How much money a commercial bank has made over the past year and how much it can distribute as dividends to shareholders are all major events that affect the rise and fall of stock prices, as well as the reputation of the commercial bank.
Whether a commercial bank is trustworthy or not depends very much on whether it can pay dividends to shareholders. A good commercial bank pays dividends every year. The more the dividends, the more the stock price will soar.
Bad business houses have lost money year after year and their signs have to be smashed. In this era that pays attention to credibility and reputation, credibility is worth a thousand pieces of gold. Even the Zhang brothers, who have always been arrogant and domineering, their Burmese Jade Trading Company will lose money at the end of the year.
Use large sums of real money to distribute dividends to shareholders.
They even gave jade stones from Myanmar as a thank you gift according to the number of shares they owned, to thank them for their continued support and care for the Myanmar Jade Trading Company.
Therefore, at the end of the year, young and old men throughout Beijing and Tianjin are talking about stock dividends.
After all, national affairs are ideals, and things that concern your own money are your most immediate interests.
The Tianjin Stock Exchange has become more lively than in the past. There is a long queue at the dividend window. A large number of stocks hold stock certificates and identity certificates and queue up to receive their own investment dividends.
"Old Wang, are you here to receive the dividends too?"
"Yes, Lao Li, how about it? How much can you share this year?"
"Hey, don't mention it. The Xianglin Sugar Industry I bought last year was allocated more than fifty taels of silver. This year, I can only get less than ten taels of silver. And the stock price was eighty taels originally.
It cost 5 taels of silver per share, and now it’s down to 5 taels of silver per share. I’m so angry that I’m going to sell it after the New Year.”
"I also bought Xianglin Sugar, but I just don't understand. Why is it getting worse every year?"
"This year, all sugar industry stocks have fallen miserably, and the efficiency has also been much worse. This is mainly because the production of sucrose has increased sharply, and the price of sugar has dropped a lot, so the efficiency is naturally not as good as before."
"A few years ago, sugar was so expensive that ordinary people couldn't afford it. But now, sugar is much cheaper and ordinary people can afford it. This is why sugar stocks are not doing well.
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"What you said makes sense. Even Ryukyu Sugar's dividend this year is not as good as last year, and the stock price has also fallen a bit, let alone other sugar stocks."
"Yes, yes~"
"Brother, what stocks did you buy?"
"The Nanyun Wine Company I bought is a wine-making company. This year's profits are pretty good. Every ten shares received a dividend of three taels of silver~"
"I know Nanyun Liquor Industry. It seems that the sales have doubled this year."
"It's okay, it's okay. The main reason is that we Ming people now like to drink this wine, the grape wine luminous cup. In addition, in the past two years, all the wine-making businesses in my Ming Dynasty have been very prosperous and the market is very good."
"It's a pity. I wanted to buy it at the beginning of the year, but then I heard someone said that the imperial court intended to control the brewing industry, so I thought it would be risky, so I didn't buy it."
"I remember something happened. At that time, some officials in the court said that brewing wine consumes food, and food is related to the stability of the country, so they reported to the emperor that the development of the wine making industry should be restricted."
"Isn't this nonsense? How old is this? How can there be a shortage of food in the Ming Dynasty now? The food produced in Liaodong is enough to feed our entire Ming Dynasty."
"That's right, so in the end the emperor ignored it. I couldn't finish the food of the Ming Dynasty. I didn't make wine, feed pigs and so on. How could it be left to rot?"
"What's more, Nanyun Winery mainly uses grapes to make wine. Hey, I also received a bottle of wine in the mail. It tastes really good. You can buy it and try it."
"You can all get more or less dividends. The Egyptian Canal stocks I bought are in dire straits. I haven't received a penny yet. I can only watch you here counting the banknotes."
"You have the nerve to tell me, Egypt Canal's stock has increased so many times, it's more than two hundred taels of silver per share. If you had bought it when it was first issued, it would have increased more than two hundred times. Why are you still dissatisfied?
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"Yes, yes, and I heard that the Egyptian canal has almost been dug, and it will be ready to go with it next year and the year after that. It will definitely rise again by then."
"Hehe, it's okay, it's okay~"
The speaker smiled extremely happily. What he was most proud of was that he sold hundreds of shares of Egyptian Canal shares and still holds them until now. The few hundred taels of silver a few years ago are now worth nearly ten dollars.
Ten thousand taels of silver.
"Which stock do you think is the monster king this year?" spanstyle>谷/spanstyle>
As he was talking, someone asked. Anyway, we were bored waiting in line, so naturally we wanted to discuss it for a while.
"If you ask me, it must be the Black Sea Trading Company. The Black Sea Trading Company accounts for 50% of the slave trade in the area around the Black Sea. At the beginning of this year, it was only 5 taels of silver per share, but now it has increased to more than 100 taels of silver per share.
It has increased twenty times, and it is definitely the monster stock of this year~"
"I've also heard about Black Sea Commercial Bank. It's really gone up ridiculously. From the beginning of the year to the end of the year, it hasn't stopped. It's doubled twenty times in one year. It's really scary. A friend of mine bought the stock of Black Sea Commercial Bank. It's like
Get rich overnight.”
"I regret it so much. When I bought the stock, I chose one of the Black Sea Trading Company and the Northern Ginseng Industry. I ended up buying the Northern Ginseng Industry. The price of Huangjinzhou ginseng fell sharply, and the stock did not rise much. At the end of the year, ten shares were distributed as dividends.
It’s just a tael of silver, it’s a waste of money.”
"Hey, I also bought it from the Northern Ginseng Industry. I thought this ginseng was valuable at first, but who knew that it is now better than carrots? I even received a Northern Ginseng yesterday."
"How can you make money selling ginseng like selling slaves? Moreover, it takes time for the ginseng to grow up after being harvested. This slave is different. It can be bought and sold as soon as it changes hands."
"A white slave bought from the Ottoman Empire or the Crimean Tatars only costs more than a dozen taels of silver, but once he changes hands, he can't easily earn more than a dozen taels of silver?"
"Yes, so the stock price of Black Sea Trading Company has been rising."
"If you ask me, the one that has risen the most is Nanyang Rubber!"
"Nanyang Rubber?"
"Don't you have this stock?"
"Yeah, I don't remember that this stock doesn't exist."
"There is no such stock now, but everyone must have heard about the skyrocketing rubber prices, right?"
"I heard it, I heard it. Didn't the newspaper say that the price of this barrel of rubber has now risen to more than fifty taels of silver?"
"A bucket of rubber cost more than fifty taels. That was a few days ago. In the past two days, the price has increased again. A bucket of rubber now sells for more than a hundred taels of silver."
"What the hell is this rubber?"
"One barrel costs a hundred taels of silver. Aren't these dozen barrels going to arrive at a house in Tianjin?"
"Yes, yes, what exactly is this rubber and why is it valuable?"
"You know about bicycles, right?"
"I know~"
"Everyone has seen the tires of bicycles. The tires of bicycles are made of rubber. It is also popular to use rubber tires on four-wheeled carriages nowadays."
"This rubber is a sap secreted by the rubber tree, which is similar to the rosin of the pine tree."
"So that's it. It's no wonder. Bicycles and carriages are so popular now. Among other things, the carriages equipped with rubber tires are much better than the original ones. They are not only more comfortable, but also more durable.
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"Isn't that right? And this bicycle has become very popular this year after it came out last year. I heard that dozens of bicycle factories, large and small, are already planning to set up shop in the Beijing-Tianjin area."
"I also invested in a bicycle factory. The investment was not much, just tens of thousands of taels of silver."
"Hey, when this bicycle factory goes public, you will be selling the original shares."
"Haha, I still have pictures of them now. Although bicycles may look simple, they are actually very technical and not that easy to build."
"It's because of the rapid popularity of bicycles. If young people don't have a bicycle now, they can't go out with their friends. The price of bicycles is also rising again and again. The rubber used to make tires is naturally expensive.
It’s skyrocketed.”
"The key is that the output of this rubber is very low. It takes seven or eight years for rubber trees to produce rubber. Now there is only a small amount of output in Nanyang and Nanjin Island. Do you think its price can rise to the sky?
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"In that case, wouldn't it be cost-effective to plant rubber trees? I have a plantation in Nanyang. I don't make any money growing sugar cane. I think I can plant rubber instead."
"It's too late now. I heard that the rubber tree saplings have also grown to the sky."
"Without rubber, wouldn't these bicycle factories be desperate?"
"What can I do in a hurry? I can only spend money to buy it~"