Chapter 1441 Heading North
At the three-day first shareholders' meeting of Nanhai Group, the distinguished shareholders, as the owners of the company, reviewed and approved the "Nanhai Group Articles of Association" and the "Rules of Procedure for the Three Meetings".
Then, in accordance with the Articles of Association, the members of the Board of Directors and the Supervisory Board were elected and their remuneration was determined.
Among the seven directors, four are from Jiangnan Group. In addition to Zhao Hao, there are Wang Mengxiang, a director of Jiangnan Group, Tang Youde, chairman of the Taiwan Special Administrative Region, and Jin Ke, commander of the Taiwan Garrison and police commissioner.
The other three directors were Liu Zixing, leader of the Chaozhou gentry; Liang Qin, leader of the Guangdong gentry and grandson of former cabinet chief Liang Chu; and Lin Zhennan, president of the Fujian Chamber of Commerce.
Zhao Hao did not take the position of chairman as usual, and gave the position to Wang Mengxiang, whom he invited from Jiangnan. He originally planned to let Liu Zixing take the position of vice chairman, but Mr. Liu refused to take the position, so he gave it to Liang Qin.
Jinke also has a seat on the board of directors because the Nanhai Group is a super company dominated by foreign trade and colonization. Its functions are similar to those of the future British East India Company, so it is extremely dependent on the military for protection. Therefore, it is necessary for the garrison to have a seat on the board of directors to facilitate communication, coordination, and cooperation with the group, and to have its own voice in relevant major decisions.
Needless to say, with Jiangnan Group holding two-thirds of the voting rights, Zhao Hao actually decided on the candidates for both the board of directors and the board of supervisors. But he showed great sincerity, not only allowing Cantonese, Chaoshan and Hujian to have a seat on the board of directors to represent their interests.
In the selection of the board of supervisors, the interests of small shareholders were fully taken into consideration. Four of the seven members of the board of supervisors were from outside the Jiangnan Group system. This made the Fujian and Guangdong shareholders who attended the meeting very satisfied, and they all praised Mr. Zhao for his noble character and broad vision.
Then on the third day, the shareholders' meeting approved the establishment of the group headquarters and several subsidiary companies including Fujian Development Corporation, Guangdong Development Corporation, Nanhai Foreign Trade Corporation, and Nanhai Colonization Corporation. Zhao Hao also made a "Group Development Planning Report".
Zhao Hao pointed out in his report that Fujian and Guangdong are mountainous and densely populated. For hundreds of years, the people have been unable to make a living and have gone abroad to do business. Therefore, if the group wants to develop, it must first take advantage of foreign trade, adjust the local industrial structure, develop export-oriented handicrafts and cash crop planting, and let the people of Fujian and Guangdong make a living outside the land.
The second is to seek land from outside. First, attract people from the two provinces to Taiwan for reclamation on a large scale. In the future, the group will acquire Luzon, Borneo and even the entire Southeast Asia, and even attract people from all over the country to farm. By then, the group will have the most land in the world! The food produced can feed back to Fujian, Guangdong, Jiangsu and Zhejiang, so that the people will not starve because they leave the land. The cash crops grown and the countless mineral deposits can also feed back to domestic industry and commerce, so that the group has more high-quality and low-priced goods to seize the international market!
The third is to unite the Fujian and Guangdong overseas Chinese throughout the Nanyang Islands, firmly control the two golden shipping routes of the East and West Oceans, vigorously develop industry and commerce, and build a South China Sea commercial empire!
Mr. Zhao's speech was very inspiring in itself, and this plan was very much to the taste of the wealthy families in Fujian and Guangdong.
Zhao Hao pointed out the shortcomings of Fujian and Guangdong, and they were all aware of it. The annual taxes of Fujian and Guangdong provinces combined were barely equivalent to that of Suzhou, which showed how difficult it was for the people.
That is why the people of the two provinces went to Southeast Asia generation after generation, because they could not survive there! The local people were so poor that the gentry had no way to exploit them, so they could only seek wealth overseas. This is why almost every household of the gentry along the coast of Fujian and Guangdong was either an investor in maritime merchants or a part of the smuggling industry chain.
In the eyes of the shareholders, Mr. Zhao's plan completely hits the crux of the problems of Fujian and Guangdong provinces. It can play to their strengths and avoid their weaknesses, revitalize the local economy, and play a role in calming the frequent civil unrest in the two provinces. It can also greatly strengthen their interests overseas - each family has clansmen overseas, and most of them have already spread out. If there is no close contact over time, they will be separated from the clan.
Young Master Zhao wants to unite the overseas Chinese in Southeast Asia and control the shipping routes between the East and West Oceans, which will inevitably strengthen their ties with their overseas relatives and greatly increase their influence in Southeast Asia.
For these wealthy people who can pay tens or even millions of taels of silver to buy shares, making money is not the first priority. The most important thing is how to consolidate their own status and increase their own influence. With status and influence, they will definitely make back all their money; without status and influence, the bigger the family business, the harder it is to keep it.
This is the same reason why they are willing to purchase Nanhai Group's stocks at such a high price. In fact, compared to the stock price that may increase several times in the future, they value their status as shareholders of Nanhai Group more!
Anyone who is not a fool can see that the one who will dominate Fujian, Guangdong and even Southeast Asia in the future will be none other than the powerful and wealthy Nanhai Group. Then the shareholders of the Nanhai Group will naturally be the group of people with the highest status and the greatest influence in the two provinces in the future!
Who wants to be left out?
Thunderous applause rang out again and again. The shareholders voted unanimously to approve Mr. Zhao's development plan and authorized the board of directors to formulate a plan and implement Mr. Zhao's plan as soon as possible!
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After the shareholders' meeting was successfully concluded, Zhao Hao, Zhao Liben and Ye, who were recuperating in Yangcheng, left Guangzhou on the Zhenwo Ship and prepared to return to Beijing to prepare for the wedding.
Zhao Liben was very dissatisfied with not being able to get married in his hometown of Xiuning. He said angrily that this arranged marriage must have been the work of that vicious woman!
Zhao Hao had to speak up for his godmother. It was obvious that he had bribed Emperor Longqing with a large sum of money to get this honor, right?
This was the best solution he could think of to marry five wives at once...
Only when he reluctantly promised that he would return to Xiuning to hold another wedding did Zhao Liben stop feeling resentful.
"I just can't understand it. My eldest brother also got married in the capital, so why is grandpa so open-minded?" Zhao Hao asked helplessly, "Why is it different for me?
"You are you and he is him, how can they be the same?" Zhao Liben said as a matter of course: "If Jiangnan Group was founded by me, I would be biased to let you return but not him. But Jiangnan Group was founded by you, and he is the one who feeds you. If I still want to treat you equally, it will hurt him instead."
He half-jokingly said, "Of course, the little property I have will be left to the eldest son's family. You two can only share some of the floating wealth. Don't think I'm biased when the time comes."
The implication is that what's yours is yours, and it has nothing to do with Zhao Xian...
"Grandpa is thinking too far ahead. Considering your old health, you should wait a few decades before considering it." Zhao Hao said with a smile.
"Of course, I'm not old at all!" Zhao Liben first sipped his precious Seven Whips wine with pride, then said half seriously: "But 'people should think ahead'. There are some things that you have to think clearly in advance..."
As he spoke, he shook his head and said, "Marrying five wives at once, even if each wife only has three, and even if half of them have spouts, won't you be in trouble in the future? Just thinking about it makes me feel headache."
"..." Zhao Hao couldn't help but blush and said, "Having three wives and four concubines isn't uncommon these days, right?"
"You don't have any concubines, but the five maids at least have their own imperial decrees. Who dares to say which one is a concubine?" Zhao Liben sneered, "And I think four of your five wives are not good people. It's okay now, but when you have a great-grandson in the future, how can you not make plans for your own child?"
"Grandpa, what you said makes me not want to get married anymore..." Zhao Hao said, not knowing whether to laugh or cry.
"It's too late for you to say this now. What were you doing earlier?" Zhao Liben took a sip of aphrodisiac wine and said proudly, "Learn from grandpa, just date but don't get married, and keep a few tolerant maids, happy and worry-free!"
"Hehehe..." Zhao Hao laughed awkwardly and thought to himself that there was nothing he could do, some people are heart-centered, some people are body-centered. He envied them but could not learn from them.
Who made him never have a love affair in his previous life? Even if he suddenly became loved in this life, he would not be able to become a high-level player who could walk through a sea of flowers without getting a single leaf on him.
"Okay, I won't spoil your fun. Just know that it's hard for a judge to settle family affairs. No matter how powerful you are outside, you still can't do anything to your own son when you return home!" At the end, Zhao Liben gritted his teeth in hatred.
Because they were going to pick up Zhao Shouzheng and go back to Beijing. Zhao Shouzheng had no hope of attending his son's wedding. But the emperor specifically ordered him to report to the capital on the Chaozhou Rebellion and the subsequent Jinghai Operation.
The prefect who disappeared during the Chaozhou Rebellion has not been heard from since, and what happened afterwards is legendary. It is reasonable for the emperor to ask him to come to Beijing to ask and find out in person, right?
But Zhao Liben was convinced that this must be a trick of the vicious woman to abuse her power for personal gain. She would not stop until she had drained his poor penis dry...
So ever since Zhao Shouzheng got off the boat from Nan'ao Island, he had not given this evil creature, who only wanted a lover but not a father, a good look.
Especially after seeing the four great warriors following his son, Zhao Liben was furious, scolding the vicious woman for going too far. What did she think of his son as? Was he her personal property? She had to arrange for someone to watch him when he was not in use! He was so strong and ugly, were they afraid that they would steal from him?
The vicious woman's sinister intentions are evident!
Zhao Liben was about to give some of the beauties from various countries in Southeast Asia that Wu Mengda and others had given him when he left Guangzhou to Zhao Shouzheng. Let him enjoy them! He didn't believe that those four vicious maids would dare to do anything to him!
Zhao Shouzheng was in great pain. Of course, they didn't dare to do anything to him, but they would report everything to Ning An! By then, he would inevitably be whipped, waxed, and tied up with tortoise shells... Damn, it's a little exciting to think about it.
But he was his father, and he could only accept it.
Fortunately, Zhao Hao comforted his old father and Mr. Zhao's wounded heart was healed.
Zhao Shouzheng was very happy that Zhao Hao had married five wives, saying that a good man should marry nine wives, and my son still needed four...
Fortunately, Secretary Ma and Qiaoqiao were not there, otherwise I would have been blaming my old father-in-law.
p.s. Keep writing.
(End of this chapter)
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