Daming Yuanfu

Chapter 777
Huang Zhiting's last sentence sounds reasonable at first glance, but it is not.

Women in this era, in the words of "Book of Rites", are "women who follow others, follow father and brother when they are young, follow husband when married, and follow son when husband dies." My younger brother got a Waiqinghua, but theoretically her own Anbang Xuanfu Division belonged to the Huang family before she got married, and it was acceptable as a dowry after she got married, but it should belong to her son after her death.

According to the provisions on inheritance in the "Da Ming Hui Dian", in fact, for Huang Zhiting, this inheritance is earned by her for her future son, and it doesn't matter who her husband is - as long as she has a son, the inheritance The "dowry" will eventually be inherited by her son, unless she has no descendants, it will belong to her husband's family.

But what she said doesn’t mean that she doesn’t understand the ultimate issue of “ownership of property rights.” She just said that in her heart, Anbang is hers in name, but in fact, Gao Pragmatism can decide everything.

Perhaps with a high and pragmatic net worth, the value of this dowry can be regarded as mediocre, but he knows that this kind of affection is not ordinary.

For him, this is just "a part", for Huang Zhiting, this is "the whole".

Gao Wushi stretched out his hand to caress Huang Zhiting's head, and said softly: "If I'm really Zhang Buxu, how can I have the nerve to accept such an expensive dowry from you... What should I get as a betrothal gift?"

Huang Zhiting said seriously: "If there are as many coal mines in Anbang as you said, I don't think we can spend all the money we can earn from mining coal in ten lifetimes. In that case, what's the point of dowry?"

Uh, if Gao Wushi didn't have the great cause of saving the light in his heart, Huang Zhiting's words were indeed fine.Her Anbang Xuanfu Division is almost the Quang Ninh Province of Vietnam in the future (actually a little bigger), and nothing else is mentioned. The coal reserves alone are conservatively estimated to be more than 65 billion tons. This is still based on that shit in Vietnam With the same level of exploration, when will the excavation be completed?Moreover, in addition to coal, there are also a lot of iron, copper, zinc and other minerals. It's just that there are better places to obtain these minerals, so they are too lazy to develop them.

Not to mention that this place is actually rich in resources such as land, forests, and seafood.In later generations, the province's annual timber output is about 500 million cubic meters. In addition to rice, the province's specialties include cinnamon bark, star anise, and Panax notoginseng.In addition, its aquaculture accounts for about a quarter of all Vietnam.There are also two good deep-water ports that can accommodate 15-ton giant ships according to the calculation methods of later generations... It is a treasure of geomantic omen.

But Gao Wushi is not Zhang Buxu after all, he gently squeezed his hands together, pulled Huang Zhiting into his arms, let her rest her head against his chest, and said softly: "If you say that the money can't be spent, my current The money has long been inexhaustible... Even to tell you the truth, maybe when I was ten years old, the money was already inexhaustible."

Huang Zhiting said in surprise: "Ten years old? Isn't your Gao family known for its integrity? I heard people say that when your uncle Gao Wenzheng passed away, there were only a few hundred acres of land, and it was left to him when your grandfather separated the family long ago. , he himself has been an official for decades, and he hasn't added a single acre of land..."

"My third uncle is indeed peaceful and happy. His mind is on managing money for the country, but not for himself." Gao Wushi smiled, showing a hint of self-mockery, and said, "But I am different. I am willing to manage money for the country, but I also like to do money for the country." I don’t think it conflicts with managing my own money, so as early as ten years ago, I created Jinghua Soap, Honeycomb Coal, and Jinghua Trading Company. Not long after, I started to build the three major factories in Kaiping, followed by Jinghua Infrastructure, Jinghua Private Hong Kong, Jinghua Shipyard, and the artillery factory and gun factory of Jinghua Military Industry... Do you know what the gross profit of my industries was last year?"

Huang Zhiting leaned in his arms and didn't want to move, she said lazily: "I don't know, but seeing how lavish you are, it should be more than 100 million taels."

"100 million? Hehe..." Gao Wushi smiled: "Which year is that old calendar? Last year, all parts of Jinghua were added together, and the gross profit had to add a zero to this basis."

Huang Zhiting was not familiar with the term "add a zero", so she was taken aback when she heard it.

Gao Wushi added: "It's more than ten million."

At this moment, Huang Zhiting was really frightened, her expression and voice changed: "1000 million taels... silver?" She was also in charge of the government affairs of a government, so she still had the concept of 1000 million taels.

But in fact, the amount of 1000 million taels is normal for Gao Pragmatic who owns several large private ports and fleets.

In history, Zheng Zhilong’s tolls alone exceeded 1000 million taels a year, which was equivalent to the global income of the most powerful Dutch East India Company at that time. How can there be any reason for this?
It can only be said that the goods produced in China are too tough in this era, not only the importance and scarcity, but the key is irreplaceability-later Western economists said that the world trade at that time was the Spaniards The Americas worked desperately to mine gold and silver, and all the gold was given to European countries, while most of the silver was handed over to Daming.

This is not over yet, all countries in Europe that can have some trade relations with Daming have also transferred all the silver obtained through various channels to Daming.

In that era, Daming was a super sponge, so much so that the world's silver flowed into the "Galaxy" and flowed into Daming without filling it up.

Why does it say not filled?Europe caused a price revolution because the Spaniards dug too much gold and silver, which caused a series of changes, but Daming accepted more silver than Europe, but nothing happened, not even a splash.

This shows what?It shows that in the Ming Dynasty at that time, the social productivity was quite huge, and the total amount of social surplus wealth was so large that it was difficult to estimate.

This principle is like at the end of the 20th century, financial giants such as Soros were able to rob Southeast Asia with the power of capital, but they met a bloody head in Hong Kong, which was supported by China-my size is not what you can afford with this little money. Shaking, even if you have a certain amount of leverage, you still don't have the strength to wrestle with me.

That's why Gao Pragmatic has always felt that as long as Daming solves internal problems, he can solve any external problems.

"Stay in China and govern all nations" has a real chance to be realized in this era, at least in East Asia.

At this time, Gao Wushi smiled and said: "There are no more than five people in the world who know this number. Don't let me know."

Huang Zhiting said nervously: "Of course I won't talk nonsense, but you...you are so rich, will you be coveted?"

"There may be many people who covet me in the world, but there is only one person who is threatening." Gao Wushi sighed slightly: "It is my classmate—the current Holy One."

"The emperor?" Huang Zhiting became more nervous: "Will the emperor covet it too?"

"Yes, yes, that's why I have to find a way to make it inconvenient for him to start." Gao Wushi said: "Why do you think I have to let your Cen and Huang families move the town to Annan?"

Huang Zhiting was slightly taken aback, and said hesitantly: "I... I thought that you just hoped that we would let Guangxi out." But she immediately added: "But when I arrived in Annan, I felt that you did it because Annan was indeed better than Guangxi." It's easy to feed so many people under our hands-to be honest, I believe you will not harm me anyway."

Gao Wushi said honestly: "I will not harm you, but I really need you to give up Guangxi...to the emperor and the court."

As expected, Huang Zhiting was startled again.

Gao Wushi sighed with a wry smile, and said: "Otherwise, if I do this in Annan, even if the emperor doesn't care about me because of years of affection, I will end up being blamed by everyone and die without a problem. Only you Guangxi was given up to the emperor and the court, and my actions in Annan can be tolerated by the court, inside and outside the court, and by scholars all over the world—because no matter what, I am "holding the border" and taking advantage of the righteousness."
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Thanks to the book friend "Xiao Chengyan" for the reward, thank you!In other words, it's been a long time since I received a tip... It's gone.

(End of this chapter)