From Chief to Ball

At the same time, in order to attract more ships to transship through Mincheng, all the business of this marine insurance company is handled in Mincheng Port.

Some ships in neighboring counties also passed through Mincheng in order to obtain insurance qualifications.

After the quick payouts for the two shows, more and more ship owners or cargo owners choose to purchase marine insurance for their ships.

Marine insurance can greatly promote future maritime trade and allow capital to flow into ports, which can be regarded as preparations for the future.

This fire can be said to be effortless, and with the east wind of wealth flowing to Min County and Haimao, it has achieved results in just a few months.

With the establishment of Navigation Insurance Company, some insurance companies in other industries are also preparing. Before the first original life insurance company in Min County was listed, Chen Jian gave this life insurance company in its embryonic state a name. .

Masonic.

Take the meaning of helping each other.

This also caused a very subtle consequence. Later, after the insurance industry became popular, when people in China gathered with relatives and friends, they often heard someone ask: Have you heard of Freemasonry?

Later, after knocking on the door, whenever they heard the word "Masonry", they all acted like they were behind closed doors.

This is a later story, let's not mention it for the time being.

The second fire that Ye Yuanshan burned was the establishment of the "Min County Futures and Stock Exchange" and the "Stock Issuance Qualification Certification Association".

At the beginning of its establishment, it was extremely simple.

The Mo Party mobilized the rural representatives of cooperatives who had established large cooperatives in the surrounding area. He Yuanshan invited big landowners and farm management capitalists from Min County and Nan'an to gather in Min County for a discussion.

Since cotton is a bulk commodity, why do we have to wait until it is harvested before selling it?Why not sell it early and choose how much to plant later?

In addition to cotton, coal, pig iron, rapeseed, raw silk, and yarn can all be tried.Even if it is impossible to perfect the rules like later generations, it will never be perfect without trying.

Representatives of cooperatives, farmers or operating capitalists are very interested in this, and some speculators, normal businessmen, and small workshop owners are also very interested in this.

Taking cotton as an example, Min County officially established a cotton quality assessment institute, and professional cotton merchants evaluate cotton fiber length, lint quality, etc.

Taking fifty catties per pack as the minimum transaction unit, the price is about six or seven silver coins, which is acceptable to small workshops and the minimum acceptable to large merchants.

Cotton is not available now, but it can be grown soon.For small farmers, contracts can be signed by dedicated land speculators; for large landowners and large cooperatives, this in turn reduces risk.

The emergence of the cotton gin made the futures trading of lint possible; the accumulated capital and the money in the hands of speculators made futures trading prosperous in the short term.

With the experience of the last orchid craze, things like futures trading are not difficult to accept.At the beginning, when the rhizomes of the flowers had not yet grown, they traded ahead of time—with the experience of last time, people will be more cautious, after all, they have already understood a little bit the difference between cotton and orchids.

In the long run, it can also have a huge impact on some villages with convenient transportation around the Min River and its tributaries.

Once it is profitable, various capital companies will intervene in rural planting.The small-scale farming economy in Min County will be gradually squeezed and destroyed, either by renting out farmland to specialized planting companies, or by merging and operating, and the connection with the city will gradually deepen.

With futures, there will naturally be stocks.

With the emergence of several huge joint-stock companies such as Standard Oil Works and Marine Insurance Company, futures trading, and the emergence of new industries, the guilds that were gradually suppressed by Chen Jian were on the verge of disintegration. The port prosperity caused by marine insurance, coal prices fell, Under the unique circumstances of Fujian County, such as hiring labor across counties.

Some small-scale joint-stock cooperative workshops or shops have also begun to appear, are they eligible to recruit?This requires a specialized agency to assess.

With the advantage of Mincheng's geographical location, the large amount of idle capital caused by Chen Jian, and the fact that the prototype of the Nan'an Coal, Iron, Chemical and Machinery Manufacturing Industrial Zone is about to take shape, the first development of the financial industry in Min County can have immediate results.

As the first officially established futures and stock trading center, not only Min County, but also businessmen from neighboring counties will choose to trade here.

how to trade?How to collect taxes?How to guarantee?All of this needs to be tried. The steps that Ye Yuan Shan Kua took are not big, but even those small steps are the first step.

After taking these two steps, Ye Yuanshan lit a third fire.

In fact, the third fire had nothing to do with him. This fire should have started long ago, but in order to use it in collusion with He Yuanshan, Chen Jian suppressed it.

The easiest way to achieve political achievements is naturally urban construction.

He Yuanshan is responsible for proposing the slogan of slum transformation and building China's benchmark slums.

Chen Jian and others noticed that the rising house prices and population in Fujian County were profitable capital groups, and they were responsible for helping him realize this slogan.

Buildings are for the poor.

The emergence of cement, sufficient wood, glass, etc. has led to the existence of buildings that are beautiful and shocking from a distance.

In fact, after entering, you will find shortcomings such as small space and extremely inconvenient, but no one who is normally qualified to evaluate will go inside to have a look.

For the poor, when the land is not worth much, if they can live in a red brick building, it is undoubtedly a great progress and enjoyment.

The land may be valuable in the future, but it is not worth much now.

In order to avoid possible black flags and barricades in the future, Chen Jian chose the first batch of slums to be transformed to the south of the commercial building.

There will also be a building similar to the trading company building, and a model block will also be built.

Chen Jian promised that all the demolished poor would be given a glass building, and he only needed to pay a small amount of land fees and a small amount of short-term resettlement fees.

The carpentry factory and hydraulic sawmill in Nan'an Huangde can mass-produce windows, wooden frames and doors in a division of labor.

In addition, he also received a strange commission: Chen Jian asked him to help design a bunch of wooden utensils, asking him to be fun, exquisite, and magical, so that young people who like carpentry can't put it down.Huang De asked Chen Jian what standards this young man follows?

Chen Jian thought for a while, and said: The child of the most expensive noble family.

Huang De thought to himself, which big family child likes to play carpentry?With doubts in my heart, I was still busy organizing the production of wooden frames, thinking about Chen Jian's commission by myself.

In terms of glass windows, the cost of the glass factory controlled by Chen Jian has actually been kept very low.

In addition to the price reduction of coal, as a reward for Chen Jian, Yuanshan allowed Chen Jian to pay the salt tax, and the legal use of salt in the soda workshop was almost negligible.

Some conditions, such as the cement workshop and the price reduction of the brick industry caused by the reduction of stone and coal prices, have also made sufficient preparations for this construction.

The poor buildings are all the same, using the lowest cost model.The room is small, and the toilet and kitchen are downstairs.

By the way, there is also a water tower for pumping water by a water truck, which uses bleach, a by-product of the chemical plant, as a disinfectant.By using pottery pipes and bamboo joints, the first batch of tap water is not sent to the building, but to the kitchen downstairs.

There will be several large water tanks on each floor, and water will be released regularly every day.There is no faucet device, but it is blocked with a wooden plug, which is plugged and pulled regularly to get water.

Arrange a property manager, such as an unemployed old man, to be responsible for keeping an eye on the water pipes every day.If the owner is not at home, he can help to release the water, check whether the cork is broken or not.

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After Ye Yuanshan lit the three fires, he was very excited thinking about his future plans.

Once these three fires are ignited, his reputation and status will be improved again. As long as there are no major changes in the position of Min County Sheriff, it will be as stable as a mountain.

Chen Jian thought that the preparations for the economic foundation of the second road before going to sea were finally completed with some eyebrows.

After going out to sea, a new manual machine is thrown out here, so what happens has nothing to do with him.

In agriculture, the emergence of futures has led to the influx of capital into the countryside, and horse-drawn agricultural machinery can be quickly popularized on large farms.