Daily Intelligence System: Don't Kill Me, Honey! Chapter 2041 - 481: Chen 94’s Million-Silver Betrothal Gifts

Chen Jie handed the paper to Ruyang King and said, "These are my betrothal gifts. I wonder if the Prince is satisfied."

Ruyang King took the betrothal gift list and said, "Thirty shop fronts?"

Chen Jie replied, "These are all shop fronts on the most central streets of Huangzhou Prefecture. Each shop front’s annual rent is no less than five thousand taels."

"Three salt fields?"

Chen Jie said, "These salt fields are located in Mianshui County, with an annual output value of no less than ten thousand taels."

"Five mines?"

"Three iron mines, one copper mine, and a small gold mine. The minimum annual output value is thirty thousand taels."

Hearing this, Ruyang King took a deep breath; this amounts to fifty to sixty thousand taels a year, with dividends every year. If we think about the value alone, these exceed five to six million taels, don’t they?

Right then, Chen Jie continued, "Prince, actually the most valuable is the Huangzhou Prefecture Fifth Textile Factory."

Ruyang King was startled and asked, "More valuable than the gold mine?"

Chen Jie replied, "Annual output value is at least fifty thousand taels."

"Hiss~"

Ruyang King inhaled deeply upon hearing this. With this calculation, not counting anything else, the annual dividends alone are almost a million taels. This...

Ruyang King was completely dumbfounded; how much money is this!

You should know that Ruyang King’s annual income is no more than seven to eight hundred thousand, and Chen Jie suddenly took out so much for Zhao Ya, this...

Zhao Ya also felt that Chen Jie was a bit exaggerated; these betrothal gifts are too valuable. Her man still had Huangzhou Prefecture to manage, and he couldn’t spend all the silver on her.

Thinking about this, Zhao Ya said, "Jiu Si, it’s too much; just a few shop fronts are enough."

Upon hearing this, Chen Jie waved his hand and said, "Oh, it’s not too much; for Yaya, no matter how much it is, it’s not too much."

Ruyang King listened beside them and looked at Chen Jie, saying, "Chen Jiusi, have you thought this through? So much money, if you take it out, be careful Huangzhou Prefecture might collapse."

Chen Jie, upon hearing this, laughed and said, "Don’t worry, Prince, I can still manage this amount of money."

This isn’t Chen Jie bragging. Currently, Chen Jie owns more than two hundred core shop fronts in Huangzhou Prefecture. These shop fronts were ordinary shop fronts, and when Chen Jie bought them, they were acquired at a rate of one thousand taels each.

Later, as Chen Jie attracted investments and with prosperous commerce, the store prices surged, and now the annual rent is three to five thousand taels.

As for the salt fields, Chen Jie controls over a hundred salt fields within the Huangzhou Prefecture area. Most of them have been allocated to government finance, but still, there are more than ten that are Chen Jie’s private assets.

The same goes for the mines and the textile factory. Due to Shen Wansan’s successful financial strategies, the textile factory orders became overwhelming, thus expanding into seven to eight textile factories.

Among them, five, six, seven, eight factories are all private properties of Chen Jie.

Someone might ask, why does Chen Jie keep so many private assets? There are two reasons: First, government finance cannot be spent randomly by oneself, so Chen Jie needs his own private assets, similar to the Emperor’s Inner Treasury.

The second reason is: once these financial assets belong to the government, Hu Weiyong would map them into administrative areas. If Chen Jie wants to reward some meritorious ministers or generals, he can’t use the government’s finance for rewards; he can only divide from his private assets.

After all, in these times, if you don’t have some grain in your hand, the chickens can’t be fooled.

Therefore, Chen Jie has many private assets. Of course, Chen Jie also knows that he can’t let imperial preferences affect the operation of the entire court, so he has one thing he doesn’t touch: land. Despite spending a lot of money each year encouraging the people to reclaim land, Chen Jie didn’t allocate a single piece of land to himself.

The first national policy Chen Jie set for Huangzhou Prefecture is: land belongs to the country, private ownership is forbidden!