With Lu Sanlang's words as a foundation, when Duke of Chu Zhang Rui returned and found Zhu Ying in his study, leisurely reading a book and waiting for him to come back, he was naturally angry and amused, but he could do nothing about it. The subsequent contact can be said to be smooth, because Zhu Ying explained the concept of the so-called fund clearly from the beginning.
Funds are only used for investment, which is different from simple shareholding. Funds can be withdrawn at any time. For example, when the situation in the northwest has not been sorted out, and Zhang Shou's research on the optimal cotton varieties in Cangzhou has not yet produced any specific results, there is no way to talk about cotton planting. This huge amount of money is certainly not idle, but used as an investment.
If it was just an investment, then of course he could buy shares, land, and various industries that some wealthy families were in urgent need of money and sold. However, because of the special identities of these investors, if Zhang Shou really went around the world to buy like an investment fund, it would be outrageous, so he had to digest it himself.
Anyway, there is no supervision on funds these days, and the high-quality industries owned by Zhang Shou and Lu Sanlang are the best investment targets. Moreover, the two really need money now, because one is burning money on research and development, and the other is expanding the sales network. They are setting up stalls everywhere and adding staff everywhere, so they naturally have no worries about having money but nowhere to spend it.
Even Zhang Rui, who had just returned to Beijing a few days ago, heard that many people were asking whether the teacher and student couple needed additional capital investment. However, the answers he got were all that they had ample funds - the teacher and student, who had gotten married only a few days before and after, had married wives from wealthy families with large dowries. Why would the investment not be cheap for the Yue family? Why did they need outsiders to intervene
Therefore, when he heard Fatty Lu talking nonsense that when the money was withdrawn, the overall return would be calculated including principal and interest, and then the new value of the hundred gold and silver initially invested would be calculated based on everyone's share - after returning to Beijing, he heard people talk about Zhang Shou's reputation as a money-making boy, and his ears were callused from hearing it, and he couldn't help but chuckle.
"If that's the case, wouldn't it be a huge profit if the Empress Dowager and the three ladies invested their money directly into the businesses of Master Zhang and you, Fatty Lu? Why bother looking for something far away?"
"If it's for wealth, my young master has even presented the blueprints of the spinning wheel and loom to the court, and the formula of glass directly to the emperor. How much is it worth? The ladies are not competing with the people for profits on the spinning wheel and loom. You can use the money to open a glass workshop. Which noble official can compete with them? But does Duke Chu think that the ladies are only interested in wealth?"
Seeing that the fat boy even showed some kind of contempt for the ambitions of a swan, Zhang Rui almost got angry.
However, he had to admit that the four people who took out the money this time really didn't care much about money.
Of course, the Queen Mother doesn't care about money. It's not because her family is rich, nor because her most valued nephew, Duke of Zhao Zhu Jing, is rich, but because the Queen Mother herself is very rich! Ruizong was able to succeed in the throne because the Queen Mother was good at business. Now she must have many people who are unknown to the ministers!
Most noble ladies would go to Qingning Palace and come back to tell everyone how elegant and simple the empress dowager's life was. But his wife had good eyesight and once told him that many things in the empress dowager's Qingning Palace were priceless and low-key. For example, many porcelains from famous kilns in the Song Dynasty, unless you have good eyesight to recognize them, how could you secretly look at the bottom of a cup in Qingning Palace