Feng's Shipping Company is a comprehensive enterprise integrating shipbuilding, terminals, shipping, and machinery manufacturing. Although its shipyard is not large in scale and cannot build large ships of 5,000 tons, it cannot support its large number and large output.
Feng's Shipping Company has six shipyards, which are basically used to build various types of ships of small and medium tonnage. The construction speed is extremely fast, and a thousand-ton ship can be launched in a few months.
Therefore, although these shipyards are all medium-sized shipyards and the ships they produce are not large, their total annual ship tonnage ranks second in the country, second only to Jiangnan Shipbuilding Company.
As for Jiangnan Shipbuilding Company, it owns Jiangnan Shipyard, Shanghai Shipyard, Jinling Shipyard, Nantong Shipyard, and Shanghai Second Shipyard, a total of five shipyards!
Its leading business, the shipping business, is even more powerful. It has always been the leader in the freight field. It is also number one in the passenger transportation field, especially in the mid- to low-end passenger transportation field. Even if it is the first, it only has a market share of more than ten percent.
, there is no way, there are too many domestic shipping companies, the market is too big, no matter how strong Feng Shipping Company is, it cannot monopolize the market.
In the field of high-end passenger transportation, although it has never been as good as Yangtze River Shipping, it is still actively exerting its efforts. Their company has also ordered two large-tonnage luxury ocean liners, both of which are more than 4,000 tons.
However, luxury passenger ships of four to five thousand tons are still under construction today, and the largest passenger ship in service is only three thousand tons.
During the inspection, Li Xuan boarded the Yuegong, the flagship of Feng Shipping Company.
This Yuegong is already the second-generation Yuegong of Fung Shipping Company. It has a displacement of 3,000 tons and is larger than the Malacca. It mainly operates coastal and Yangtze River routes.
When Li Xuandeng went up to inspect it, he was probably a little shocked. It wasn't that it was so luxurious, even the armrests were gold-plated, but it was that it was big enough!
This Moon Palace is even bigger than the Navy’s battleship Malacca!
In comparison, Li Xuan felt that the royal family's own royal liner was a bit petty.
The royal liner was a steam liner built in the 20th year of Xuan Ping's reign. Its tonnage was only a thousand tons. Although it was luxuriously decorated, it was not big enough.
If he hadn't planned to take a train all the way during this patrol, Li Xuan would have wanted to directly commandeer the Yuegong to serve as a traveling vessel.
Now that we have boarded the Yuegong of Feng Shipping Company, we cannot favor one over the other. We also have to take a look at the flagship of the Yangtze River Shipping Company, the new Yangtze River.
After all, Li Xuan also knew that the two companies had been fighting fiercely over the years and the competition was fierce. As the emperor, if he only saw the Yuegong and not the new Yangtze, he would probably have a big impact on the Yangtze Shipping Company.
Negative impact.
As the saying goes, a bowl of water must be balanced, so Li Xuan also went to the New Yangtze River next door to see it later.
This new Yangtze River is obviously smaller, with a displacement of only over 2,600 tons, but it is also extremely luxurious, even more luxurious than the Yuegong.
After all, the Yangtze River Shipping Company has long been the number one in high-end passenger transportation, not because of its large ships and fast speeds, but because of its luxurious and incomparable service quality.
When steam passenger ships first came out, Fung Shipping Company actually had an absolute advantage in the field of steam passenger ships. Larger and faster steam passenger ships have always belonged to Fung Shipping Company.
However, many dignitaries still choose to take the Yangtze River Shipping Company's luxury liner, even if the ship is smaller and slower, for no other reason than the comfort and enjoyment of the journey.
Just looking at the Yuegong and the New Yangtze, Li Xuan knew that it seemed that Feng Shipping Company would have to go a long way to squeeze out the Yangtze River Shipping Company and become the number one in the field of luxury passenger ships.
However, this does not affect Li Xuan's importance to Feng's Shipping Company, and in Li Xuan's mind, the Yangtze River Shipping Company, a state-owned enterprise, is actually not as important as Feng's Shipping Company.
First of all, although Feng's Shipping Company is a private company, after so many years of development, it has expanded its shares and capital, and it is still a listed company. In fact, this company is no longer a company of the Feng family. The Feng family is now in this huge company.
The Feng clan only occupies a mere 6.0% of the shares in Wubi Enterprises, and the Feng clan has basically lost control of this huge enterprise.
Other shares of the company are basically controlled by major financial institutions, investors or affiliated companies.
More importantly, more than 70% of this company's shares are circulating in the secondary market.
To some extent, this company is different from large enterprises such as Datang Western Trading Company. It has become a national enterprise and is not a company of a certain family or consortium.
Such an enterprise model is actually Li Xuan’s vision for all types of enterprises in the future.
Li Xuan doesn't like it when a family controls a huge company and then creates some kind of family consortium.
Today's gentry landlords and official gentry capitalists are disgusting enough. Li Xuan doesn't like to develop with the times and then cultivate some consortia. Wouldn't that be causing trouble for himself?
However, private capital will always continue to develop. This development is the general trend. Li Xuan does not intend to stop it, and he is not even willing to stop it. On the contrary, it will add fuel to the flames.
Because official capital such as the Ministry of State-owned Enterprises or the Royal Assets Division cannot always be the lifeblood of controlling various industries.
Core industries related to national defense and people's livelihood require official capital to control, but many other common industries do not have official control.
For example, the textile industry!
In the twenty-sixth year of Xuanping's reign, textile enterprises directly under the Ministry of State-owned Enterprises, local state-owned enterprises, royal assets and other textile enterprises controlled by official capital accounted for more than 60% of the entire textile industry.
This is unhealthy in Li Xuan's opinion.
Official capital should not invest too much in these general industries, but should concentrate its efforts on pillar industries related to national defense and people's livelihood, such as mining, steel, chemicals, machinery, shipbuilding, etc.
What’s the point of competing with private enterprises in the textile industry?
In the future, official capital will inevitably gradually withdraw from some non-core industries, but in the process of withdrawal, private capital conglomeration must be avoided.
A single family can control a huge company, and then even control an entire industry. This is something Li Xuan absolutely does not want to see.
Li Xuan is more willing to see a national enterprise similar to Feng's Shipping Company.
Otherwise, he would not have taken the initiative to ask to come to Feng Shipping Company to take a look this time.
After inspecting Feng's Shipping Company and Yangtze River Shipping Company, when he was about to return to the dock, Li Xuan also specially summoned Wei Bowen, the current general manager of Feng's Shipping Company, and said that Feng's Shipping Company was developing very well, especially in low-cost shipping.
business, making travel more convenient and cheaper for the people of the empire. I hope that Feng's Shipping Company can continue to work hard and go further to provide better services to the people of the empire.
This routine compliment made Wei Bowen quite excited, he guaranteed.
When the stock market opens tomorrow, your company's stock will experience a surge!
As a professional manager, he is currently the professional manager with the highest salary in the entire empire. His only mission is to make the company's stock price higher and make shareholders gain more profits.
As the stock rises, he will be more confident to negotiate with the board of directors for a higher annual salary.
But the board members of Feng Shipping Company may not think so.
The company's stock price is rising because of the praise from Emperor Sheng, which has nothing to do with you Wei Bowen. Besides, you already have an annual salary of hundreds of thousands, and you also have generous incentive bonuses.
The combined annual income is no less than 200,000 yuan!
This is two hundred thousand yuan, not twenty yuan!
I still want to continue to increase my salary, which is a good idea!
In fact, the board of directors of Feng Shipping Company had already thought about firing Wei Bowen and finding another person to manage the company. This person did good things, but the salary was too expensive, 200,000 a year, and they were heartbroken.
Unfortunately, for such a huge empire, it is not easy to find a professional manager who can manage a behemoth like Fung Shipping Company and bring large profits to shareholders.
Li Xuan naturally doesn't understand the internal operations of Feng's Shipping Company, and even if he does, he doesn't care. Anyway, a company with extremely dispersed stocks like Feng's Shipping Company has no so-called real owner, and Wei Bowen is no more.
He is just a professional manager.
Isn't it normal for professional managers to be fired? It would be strange if they couldn't be fired.
After the day's inspection, Li Xuan of course went to bed early. He didn't hold any state banquet like yesterday. The inspections over the past few days also made him a little tired, so he went to bed early and even coached the dance troupe members.
They are all too lazy to give guidance.
The next day, Li Xuan took a long nap and directly pushed back the scheduled formation timetable by two hours. This made the many courtiers, gentry, and entrepreneurs who were waiting outside very helpless.
In particular, several companies that were preparing to be inspected were even a little worried. The Holy Emperor woke up late and started late, so he might temporarily cancel the inspection of some companies.
Not to mention, Li Xuan really did this. Although he was scheduled to inspect five companies today, Li Xuan got up late and was still sleeping at ten o'clock in the morning. Then he got up to freshen up and had brunch.
It was already after eleven o'clock when we set off.
There was not enough time, so Li Xuan directly crossed out the list of two of the companies that he planned to inspect. However, in order to avoid any impact, the companies that were crossed out were less important companies under the Royal Assets Department.
The remaining three companies are the highlight and cannot be crossed out.
Because these three companies are all companies that Li Xuan attaches great importance to. They are core companies that lead the development of the empire's industry. It is impossible not to pay attention to them.