Chapter 373: Raising Funds

After reaching a cooperation agreement with the Caobang, Lu Songli and Qin Sheng returned to Houcheng without stopping.

After returning to Houcheng, Lu Songli used the name of Liaodong Chamber of Commerce to send invitations to wealthy families in Liaodong County.

This time, in order to solve the problem in Nanyang, the Liaodong Chamber of Commerce and the Ji family will jointly operate the bank, and she will operate remotely.

As a banker, of course, the more money and food you have, the better.

Lu Songli decided to pull these people into the chariot.

This time she acted in the name of the Liaodong Chamber of Commerce, intending to separate the Liaodong Chamber of Commerce from the Liaodong County Sheriff's Office. At least she couldn't let her father endorse the Liaodong Chamber of Commerce so blatantly.

On this day, Lan Bingcheng, Geng Yuan and other wealthy families in Liaodong County received invitations from the Liaodong Chamber of Commerce.

Different from the hesitation and hesitation when they first received Lu Desheng's invitation, this time they responded very actively. Almost everyone arrived at the Liaodong Chamber of Commerce building half an hour early.

They knew very well that although it was the Liaodong Chamber of Commerce that invited them this time, not Lord Lu Deshenglu, the county governor, but who among them didn't know that the Liaodong Chamber of Commerce and the county governor's office were inextricably linked?

When they arrived at the meeting hall of the Liaodong Chamber of Commerce Building, they discovered that there were not many people invited, only seven or eight, but all of them were well-known figures in Liaodong County.

"The president is here!"

When Lu Songli appeared, Lan Bingcheng, Geng Yuan and others were quite surprised.

Since the establishment of the Liaodong Chamber of Commerce, Wu Ren, the general manager, has been in charge of various external affairs.

It is said that there is a guild president above him, and they have all heard about this. However, they have not seen this guild president Shenlong. I was lucky enough to meet him this time, but I didn't expect that the president of the Liaodong Chamber of Commerce was actually a woman.

And this woman is none other than Lu Desheng's second daughter.

Their previous guesses were correct. Sir Lu Desheng Lu indeed had a close relationship with the Liaodong Chamber of Commerce.

The president of the Liaodong Chamber of Commerce is Lu Songli, and Lu Songli and Lu Desheng have a father-daughter relationship, aren't they very close?

Lu Songli walked straight to the main seat and took a seat, and said to everyone present, "Everyone, sit down."

"President Lu, I wonder why you summoned us here for what important matter you have?"

"There is something indeed, and time is precious, so I won't talk nonsense and just talk about it directly. Recently, the Liaodong Chamber of Commerce is planning to make a big deal. As for the deal, of course, the more funds, the better. I wonder if any of you here are interested in getting involved?"

Lu Songli didn't say what he did specifically, but it was not a secret that Wu Ren had just left Liaodong County with a group of people. It's easy for them to think that way.

Everyone present looked at each other, they vaguely heard that Wu Ren led a team out to lay a trade route for the Liaodong Chamber of Commerce. Opening stores in various places does require a lot of money, so the Liaodong Chamber of Commerce is short of money because of this?

Lan Bingcheng boldly asked, "President Lu, how can you get involved?"

Lu Songli glanced at him and said gently, "This is a big deal. Our Liaodong Chamber of Commerce is planning to invest more than three million taels. You have the following three options. The first option is to buy a share and earn In order to share the money according to the shareholding ratio, there is a risk of losing money.”

"The second option is that you can lend money to the Liaodong Chamber of Commerce for half a year or one year, and we will pay interest."

"The third option is to choose not to get involved in this matter."

After Lu Songli finished speaking, no one was willing to withdraw.

Just kidding, they are not stupid, so why quit? Didn’t you see that only eight people received invitations this time? In other words, others who want to get involved are not qualified.

Lu Songli looked around and said, "You really don't have to force this matter. If you don't want to, just leave. I hereby promise that neither I nor my father will blame you for this. The reason why we are raising money from everyone this time Funding, everything is because the Liaodong Chamber of Commerce originated in Liaodong County. If there is a good thing, we must first think about the brothers at home. Only after we are sure that the brothers at home are not willing to get involved, we will consider others. "

As soon as Lu Songli said these words, everyone sat on their chairs and became as firm as a rock. They would not quit, and they were determined not to quit. They did not doubt her words at all. After all, the friendship between the Liaodong Chamber of Commerce and the Ji family, the richest man in the Southland, was obvious to all. In addition to the Ji family, there must be other connections, and there is no shortage of people who can invest money.

Geng Yuan was the first to express his position, "President Lu, the Liaodong Chamber of Commerce has something good in mind for us. We are not the ones who wait and see what is wrong. You can tell us what we are going to do next."

Lu Songli was also very satisfied with the result. She gestured to the side, "Okay, since everyone has chosen not to withdraw, let's continue. There are two pieces of information here, namely the contract terms for buying shares and borrowing money. , you can take a look.”

Lan Bingcheng and Geng Yuan read two contracts and found that whether they were buying shares or borrowing money, there were thresholds, and the minimum investment was one hundred thousand taels.

Lu Songli heard them biting her ears, and she thought, isn't there a threshold? In later generations of private equity funds, the threshold for entry is millions.

"You can go back and discuss this matter. Shen Shi will give you an answer this afternoon." Lu Songli gave them time to discuss.

In the afternoon, Lu Songli waited for everyone's replies.

As the saying goes, if you borrow something, you must repay it, and it is not difficult to borrow again. In addition, the Liaodong Chamber of Commerce has always had a good reputation.

Lan Bingcheng left enough working capital and moved the rest to the Liaodong Chamber of Commerce, a total of 150,000 taels, and he chose to invest in shares.

Geng Yuan was still debating whether to buy shares or borrow money.

He found that borrowing money was actually quite good. The Liaodong Chamber of Commerce offered a 5% interest rate. The interest on 100,000 taels of silver was 500 taels per month, and 6,000 taels per year. The key is that the risk of capital recovery is low.

If you invest, there is a risk of loss.

But Geng Yuan remembered Lan Bingcheng's bad luck, gritted his teeth, took out 100,000 taels, and chose to invest like Lan Bingcheng.

In one day, Lu Songli raised a total of 1.2 million silver.

None of the eight wealthy families she invited withdrew from participating. In fact, several of them joined with relatives to raise more than 100,000 taels and participate in the investment.

Lu Songli didn't care about this.

Then, she withdrew 1.5 million taels from the Liaodong Chamber of Commerce. The premise of her withdrawal of this money was that it would not affect the operation of the Liaodong Chamber of Commerce.

After Qin Heng learned that she was going to use money in large quantities, he gave her 200,000 taels.

In less than a day, Lv Songli raised 2.9 million taels of silver. After discussing with Qin Sheng, she took out 100,000 taels and rounded up to 3 million taels.

These silvers will be transported to Luoyang by Ma Jin and Zhou Da for Ji Daxiu to dispatch.

Various instructions were also issued from Liaodong County, and several waves of people also set out from Liaodong County, some went to Luoyang, some went to Qingzhou, and some went to Chang'an. In the next period of time, Lv Songli will be stationed in Pingguo County.

Pingguo County is a county town on the south side of Liaodong County by the sea.

Next, the news from Nanyang will be transmitted to Pingguo County via Qingzhou and water, and the news will be more timely.

The first stop of Wu Ren's team is Qingzhou, and Ji Dashao was also stuffed into Ma Jin and Zhou Da's team. He will settle down in the Ji's branch in Qingzhou, and together with Wu Ren, he will be responsible for assisting Ji Wuyin.