After determining the proportion of Jiangnan Bank shares and the amount of each person's investment, the bank charter was established, and the bank number named Jiangnan Bank was confirmed.

The thirty-seven people who arrived, including Li Guodong and Shui Tailiang, had a total of 39 shareholders. The largest shareholder was Zhao Xiancheng, the shopkeeper of Dadewang Shop. He represented Li Guodong and invested 2.3 million taels of silver; the second largest shareholder was Zheng Zhilong, invested 2.2 million taels of silver; the agent of Shui Tailiang was the third largest shareholder, invested 1.8 million taels of silver; Lu Xiangsheng's younger brother Lu Xiang was also the fourth largest shareholder, invested 1.5 million taels of silver; Chen Yujie, Chen Zilong and Fang Yizhi each represented their family and invested 1 million taels of silver; the remaining shareholders each contributed between tens of thousands of taels and eight hundred thousand taels of silver.

Jiangnan Bank has a total capital of 25 million taels of silver. After having these funds, it can be established in Suzhou.

The reason I chose the address in Suzhou is that Suzhou is the base camp of the Donglin Party, and Nanjing is the second capital of the Ming Dynasty. It is too close to the Xungui Group. If it is opened in Nanjing, it is only a matter of causing trouble.

Li Guodong said that he would let someone go to the palace to find Emperor Chongzhen to solve the problem. In fact, he had no intention of asking the emperor for advice, because there was no need at all. Emperor Chongzhen could only stay in the capital for less than three years. After Li Zicheng entered the capital, the cards would be washed again. At that time, Chongzhen would rescue him and escort him to Nanjing. Once Emperor Chongzhen arrived in Nanjing, then Li Guodong proposed a strategy to strengthen the country, what else could Chongzhen do except obey his advice? If he didn't listen? It's okay, then don't go to the northern expedition, throw away the capital, and become an unworthy descendant of his ancestors and ancestors. He was a serious crime. At that time, Chongzhen would definitely think about the north to settle the Central Plains every day and fight back to the capital.

Jiangnan Bank was built in Suzhou City, and the construction project was carried out by Li Guodong's engineers. After choosing the location, the two acres of blocks will be cleaned up. The location chosen by the water is originally a civilian area in the city. Most of the people living there are low-income people such as craftsmen, hired workers, hawkers, etc. Jiangnan Bank will resettle them with new residences, and the new residences are also in the city. Engineers will build some new buildings to provide them with relocated civilians.

The main project of the bank will be a five-story cement building, which is expected to take more than a year to complete. After the Jiangnan Bank building is completed, Li Guodong will build a bank building in Shanghai County, Songjiang Prefecture, and Jiangnan Bank will move to Shanghai in the future. In addition, branches will definitely be opened in Nanjing, Wuchang, Changsha, Hangzhou, Nanchang, Fuzhou, Quanzhou, Guangzhou and other places.

As for Beijing, Li Guodong does not plan to open a bank in the capital for the time being, and he will probably have to make a profit in the end Li Zicheng and Dorgon.

In this prosperous era, Huai'an and Yangzhou will open two small branches, and they will retreat before the Qing army comes.

Banks can not only make a lot of money, but after the Qing Dynasty enters the pass, Li Guodong's military expenditure will be insufficient, and he can also use Zhao Xiancheng's identity as the shopkeeper to borrow money from the bank as military expenditure.

As for the Construction Bank Building and opening a bank, I will leave it to Zhao Xiancheng to do it next. Li Guodong has other things to do.

Zhang Huangyan and Chen Yujie followed Li Guodong and visited near Suzhou.

On the land of Jiangnan, large-scale workshops sprung up like mushrooms after a rain. Many merchants and landlords have now become factory owners. The largest number of workshops are textile factories, which produce silk and cotton cloth.

The status of the textile industry in the world in the Ming Dynasty was equivalent to that of Britain after the Industrial Revolution. Various cotton, linen and silk were not only sold on Eurasian continent and Southeast Asian islands, but also sold to the American continent. Even the Indians wore cotton and linen produced by the Ming Dynasty. Of course, the cloth worn by the Indians was purchased by Western colonists from the Ming Dynasty, then transported to the Americas, and sold to the Indians at high prices. Ordinary Indians naturally could not afford cotton and linen. They only had a cowhide around their waists, had no clothes on their upper body, and had feathers on their heads, and some feathers covered their bodies. Only those small leaders, chiefs, and others could afford cotton and linen products.

Looking at the prosperous workshop of Jiangnan, Li Guodong sighed in his heart: If the Qing Dynasty had not entered the pass, Jiangnan might have really entered capitalism, and the Donglin Party might have become China's first bourgeois party, and it would not have left so many infamous in later generations.

Of course, all gentry who did not collect at night could be transformed. For salt merchants and grain, after Chongzhen went south in the future, Li Guodong was preparing to crack down on salt merchants and grain merchants. The salt merchants were rich enough to rival the country, but they colluded with the officials of the court and colluded with each other. The salt tax paid every year was less than one-tenth, and most of the money was corrupted by officials. Grain merchants were not good things. In the season of grain harvest, they should lower the grain prices as much as possible; in the season of green and yellow, they raised the grain prices and made a lot of money.

After the bank's preparations were all ready, Li Guodong invited all shareholders in the medicine shop he bought in Suzhou.

The medicine garden is a famous garden. The original owner was Wen Zhenmeng. Later, Wen Zhenmeng offended Wen Tiren and was driven back to his hometown. From then on, his family fell into ruin. So Li Guodong bought the garden through Yang Sichang's relationship and regarded it as his stronghold in Suzhou. When Wen Tiren was consolidating the Donglin Party, Yang Sichang helped a lot.

The first hot dish was served, which was the staple food. It looked a bit like fried rice noodles, but the color was darker and not like fried noodles.

Li Guodong introduced: "Come on, everyone, try this fried noodles. Put your stomach on before drinking."

People stretched out their chopsticks, picked them up and put them into their mouths, and found that the fried noodles tasted quite good, and everyone shouted delicious.

"Actually, the main raw material of this powder is sweet potatoes." Li Guodong said with a smile.

Chen Yujie was shocked: "Students know that sweet potatoes are something that can be eaten once a day, which is a thing that fills the stomach. They eat them occasionally well, but it feels uncomfortable to eat too much. I didn't expect that these sweet potatoes can make such delicious food."

"I didn't expect that this cheap sweet potato could make such delicious food." Lu Xiangsheng sighed. More than three years ago, when he and Li Guodong were trapped in Jiazhuang, Julu, he ate many sweet potatoes. Tens of thousands of troops relied on sweet potatoes to fill his stomach and finally achieved the Julu victory.

When I was in Julu, Lu Xiangsheng felt nauseous when he saw sweet potatoes, but the fried noodles could not taste the sweet potatoes at all.

In addition to the main ingredients of sweet potato vermicelli, the auxiliary ingredients used are very particular. Add oysters, shrimps, dried cuttlefish, mushrooms, pork and eggs, and add broth to season. Finally, add a little kelp MSG, which is naturally delicious. But kelp MSG is too expensive, and the production method is actually very simple. Stew the kelp and evaporate the stewed soup. The crystals left after drying are kelp MSG.

But Li Guodong didn't know how to extract MSG from grains. If he knew how to make it, he would make MSG, which would be a profitable business.

The second dish is beef stewed with potatoes, and the dishes behind include stir-fried peppers, mushrooms, steamed yellow croaker and other dishes. All dishes are added with some new crops. The last sweet food is corn pumpkin cake and corn mung bean cake.

"Everyone, how do you feel about this meal?" Li Guodong asked.

"It's really good! Wu Weibo's chef is good at craftsmanship." Everyone praised.

"You may not dare to make a variety of new crops before. Now you can let the tenants grow them. These things have little requirements for land, they can be planted on the hillside, and the yield is extremely high. As for sales, Li can help sell them."
Chapter completed!