1 and 1603, under the leadership of Wilt, Speaker of the Parliament of the Republic, the Dutch and East India Company was established. Just as they created an unprecedented country, now they have created an unprecedented economic era.
2. WIM· Vanderdale, Professor of History, Leiden University, Netherlands: Yes, you can say that. This is the first joint-stock company. In order to raise funds, they issue shares, but not in the modern sense. People come to the company office and write down the borrowed money in their notebooks. The company promised to pay dividends on these shares. This is how the Dutch East India Company raised funds.
Rodwick Wagner, curator of Amsterdam Museum of History, Netherlands:
They raised 6.5 million yuan, almost equivalent to 3 million euros. At that time, the money was worth billions of dollars. With this money, they set up a company. By financing the whole society, the East India Company successfully transformed its scattered wealth into its own capital and expanded overseas. Even the maid of the mayor of Amsterdam became one of the shareholders of the East India Company. Thousands of people are willing to invest their savings in this profitable and risky business activity. On the one hand, it is out of the desire for wealth, and more importantly, because the Dutch government is also one of the shareholders of the East India Company. The government converted some rights that only the state can own into 25,000 guilders and became the shareholders of Indian companies, which greatly increased the authority and reputation of the East India Company.
4. Some experts have said that signing a treaty through negotiation and waging war can make it an independent sovereign entity in Asia or the whole region from South Africa to Japan, and it can operate like a country. After everything was ready, the fleet of the East India Company set sail. The king of Spain almost despised the challenger. However, in just five years after its establishment, the East India Company sent 50 merchant ships overseas every year, exceeding the combined fleet of Spain and Portugal.