Datang: Li Shimin begged me to rebel

In later generations, national bonds can be bought by people every year, so the interest rate is obviously not low. In ancient times, when there was no good investment, the annual interest rate of 5.00% could already attract many people.

There are also a lot of people in the aristocratic family who are more traditional and pursue stability.

"Well, we have no problem, but we have collected some opinions before, and some said that it is possible to invest in the railway, or in other ways, so that they can advance funds to build the railway. I discussed it with the people in the ministry. Having experienced similar things, it seems that His Highness's plan seems to be better." Fang Xuanling nodded.

"Investing in shares? That's okay, but are they willing? Anyway, you can tell them directly that the railway is destined to be in a state of long-term loss." Li Ke said straightforwardly.

"They are definitely willing to do this, but they also have conditions." Fang Xuanling said.

"What conditions?"

"It is to allow them to freely trade the shares in their hands in the future." Fang Xuanling said.

"This is for sure." Li Ke nodded. Since it is a shareholding system, it is normal for shares to be traded. Although Datang does not have a stock market, share trading is just like store trading.

This is not something that is difficult to operate, not to mention that those who can buy and sell these things are not available to ordinary people.

"The second is that after the railway is opened, their idea is that a certain section of the railway, or the trains running on the section of the railway they invested in, will give them priority to reserve a certain proportion of carriages for them to transport goods." Fang Xuanling said the second request.

Li Ke was silent for a moment. He didn't expect these people to see the most important thing of the railway so quickly, that is the capacity, or to put it more bluntly, the carriages.

Think about it, when Li Ke was a child in his previous life, the train carriages were really scarce goods. How many corrupt officials had the authority to distribute them and corrupted huge astronomical sums?

And now, those who are ready to invest have seen the profit point.

In other words, they have seen the most important thing. It doesn't matter if they invest money now, or even lose money. Anyway, they can earn money back from the timeliness of delivery of goods that cannot be earned here.

Even the use of the carriage alone can make a steady profit without losing money, and the timeliness of transportation can greatly support business behavior.

What's more, although the shares themselves don't make money, they are valuable in themselves. Thinking about it this way, the huge amount of money invested in the early stage is not really a loss, it can only be said to be buying a future for myself.

When investing in a certain railway, if there are carriages for transportation that can be reserved, then their family can focus on increasing investment along this railway line or even in several nearby cities.

Li Ke didn't speak, and Fang Xuanling was naturally reluctant to speak, but after a pause, Wei Zheng asked directly: "Your Highness is thinking about this because he is afraid that these people will disrupt the market in the future after they get these priorities. Behavior, is it even possible to affect the operation of Datang Railway?"

"This is impossible. The proportion of shares they can get is the priority, and when the shares are given to them, they can sign a contract in advance to explain the rights of the shares. For example, they can check the accounts, but they only have the right to know. "

"The other thing is that they only have the right to share dividends, buy and sell, etc., and have no right to intervene in business operations." Li Ke shook his head.

"But at that time, these rights of the railway will also be issued, and if they have shares in it, they may collude with local officials." Wei Zheng said directly, the right to supervise belongs to him, and Wei Zheng is naturally very interested in this. concerned.

"This is unavoidable. No matter how perfect the system is, corruption cannot be avoided. This cannot be eliminated. Therefore, we cannot stop doing certain things just because there are disadvantages." Li Ke shook his head.

This kind of corruption has nothing to do with where it is or what policies are implemented. If you want to collude, everything has huge benefits.

There is no other way but to increase the intensity of governance from various aspects such as supervision, review, and punishment.

"Actually, what I'm thinking about is how to make good use of the funds in their hands. Datang has a lot of rich people. If they spend all the money in their hands, then Datang will not know how many times richer and stronger it will be. "Li Ke said with a smile.

"This aspect is not just about building a railway, but there is also a very important thing, that is, those places have the potential for development and economic development, and then these important places can be prioritized for construction, and the railway It will become the vascular network for Datang to transport nutrients." Li Ke said.

Li Ke is really not familiar with this thing. Although he has the construction standards of Chinese railways in history and the order of the front and back, but the times are different, and some things are also different.

And this does not include strategic railways.

"Do you need me to go back and investigate each city?" Fang Xuanling asked.

Although this is looking for a job for himself, Fang Xuanling has always been very serious when working.

"Forget it, leave it to me. In fact, these things are nothing more than points, geographical location, including key elements such as transportation, contacts, and population."

"The second is development potential, such as coastal port cities, such as Hudu, which is now renamed Shanghai, the future development potential is beyond doubt. It should be said that all coastal cities that can build ports have huge development potential. "

"Because the low cost of sea transportation is obvious, not to mention that Datang's navy will be Datang's strategic arm in the future, and it will be the main development direction of Datang. Controlling the sea is equivalent to controlling countless lands by Datang."

"So the convenience of sea transportation and other aspects make port cities very important."

"In addition to these, there are mineral resource-based cities. For some important mineral resource cities, the railway must be built in the first place in the early stage. Many factories cannot be built in every place."

"Even if the factory is built, what about the finished products produced by the factory? It still takes the entire Datang City to digest them. The transportation of these products is also a huge problem."

"The third is the important strategic position. Although some places have no minerals and are not important ports, because of their important strategic positions, these places must be connected by railways." Li Ke summarized some key points of railway transportation. explained.