Huang Zhiting's last words may sound reasonable at first glance, but they are not.
In the words of the "Book of Rites", a woman in this era is "a woman who obeys others. When she is young, she obeys her father and brother, when she marries, she obeys her husband, and when her husband dies, she obeys her son." Even if she helped her father successfully move town, she even helped her children. Her younger brother took it out of the Qing Dynasty, but theoretically her own Anbang Xuanfu Division belonged to the Huang family before she got married. After she got married, it made sense as a dowry, but after her death, it should belong to her son.
According to the provisions on inheritance in the "Da Ming Hui Dian", in fact, for Huang Zhiting, she helped her future son earn this inheritance. As for who the husband is, it doesn't matter - as long as she has a son, this inheritance The "dowry" will eventually be inherited by her son. Unless she has no offspring, it will belong to her husband's family.
But her saying this does not mean that she does not understand the final issue of "ownership of property rights". She just said that in her heart, Anbang belongs to her in name, but in fact high pragmatism can decide everything.
Perhaps with his high and pragmatic net worth, he could think that this dowry was just average in terms of value, but he knew that this affection was extraordinary.
For him, this is just "a part", for Huang Zhiting, this is "all".
Gao Jingshi stretched out his hand to caress Huang Zhiting's head, and said softly: "If I were really generous, how could I have the nerve to accept such an expensive dowry from you... What should I use as a betrothal gift?"
Huang Zhiting said seriously: "If there are really as many coal mines in Anbang as you said, I think the money we can earn from coal mining alone will not be spent in ten lifetimes. In that case, what's the point of the betrothal gift?"
Well, if Gao Pingshi didn't have such a great cause as saving Ming in his heart, Huang Zhiting's words were indeed no problem. Her An Bang Xuan Phu Division was almost the Quang Ninh Province of Vietnam in later generations. Not to mention anything else, the coal reserves alone are conservatively estimated to be more than 6.5 billion tons. This is still based on Vietnam's shitty exploration level. Yes, in what year and month can we finish digging? Moreover, in addition to coal, there are also many minerals such as iron, copper, and zinc. It is just that Gao Pragmatic has better places to obtain these minerals, so he is 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 was about 5 million cubic meters. In addition to being rich in rice, the province's specialty products include cinnamon, star anise, Panax notoginseng, etc. In addition, its aquaculture accounts for about a quarter of Vietnam's total. There are also two deep-water ports that can berth 150,000-ton giant ships according to the calculation method of later generations... They are completely Feng Shui treasures.
But after all, Gao Pragmatic was not Zhang Fuxu. He squeezed his hands gently and put Huang Zhiting into his arms. He asked her to rest her head against his chest and said softly: "To say that I can't spend all the money, I have so much money now." I’ve already run out of money... and to tell you the truth, I might have run out of money when I was ten years old.”
Huang Zhiting said in surprise: "Ten years old? Aren't your Gao family famous for their integrity? I heard someone said that when your uncle Gao Wenzhenggong passed away, he only had a few hundred acres of land, which was left to him by your grandfather when the family split up a long time ago. , he himself has been an official for decades and has not added an acre of land..."
"My third uncle is indeed poor and happy. His mind is on managing finances for the country, but not for himself." Gao pragmatically smiled, showing a trace of self-deprecation, and said: "But I am different. I am willing to manage finances for the country, but I also like to manage finances for the country." I don’t think there is any conflict with managing my own finances, so as early as ten years ago, I started to develop Jinghua soap, honeycomb briquettes and Jinghua Trading Company. Not long after, I started to develop Kaiping Sanda Factory, followed by Jinghua Infrastructure, Jinghua Private The artillery and musket factories of Hong Kong, Jinghua Shipyard and Jinghua Military Industry... Do you know what the gross profit of these industries of mine was last year?"
Huang Zhiting leaned in his arms and didn't want to move, and said lazily: "I don't know, but seeing how lavishly you spend your money, it must be more than one million taels."
"One million? Haha..." Gao pragmatically smiled: "What year is that in the old almanac? Last year, all parts of Jinghua were added together, and the gross profit had to add a zero on this basis."
Huang Zhiting was not familiar with the expression "add a zero" and was stunned when she heard it.
Gao pragmatic added: "It's over 10 million."
At this time, Huang Zhiting was really frightened, her face and voice changed: "Ten million taels... silver?" She was also in charge of government affairs, so she still had some idea of what ten million taels meant.
But in fact, the number of 10 million taels is normal for Gao Pragmatic, who owns several large private ports and fleets.
Historically, Zheng Zhilong's annual income exceeded 10 million taels just by collecting tolls, which was equivalent to the global income of the most powerful Dutch East India Company at the time. How can this be justified?
It can only be said that the goods produced in China are too hard-hitting in this era. Not only are they important and scarce, but the key is irreplaceability - later Western economists said that world trade at that time was the result of the Spanish. The Americas worked hard to dig up gold and silver, and then all the gold was given to European countries, while most of the silver was transferred to the Ming Dynasty.
This is not over yet. All countries in Europe that can have some trade relations with the Ming Dynasty have also transferred silver obtained through various channels to the Ming Dynasty.
The Ming Dynasty was such a super sponge at that time that the world's silver flowed into the "Galaxy" and flowed into the Ming Dynasty without even filling it up.
Why does it say it's not filled? Europe had a price revolution because the Spanish mined too much gold and silver, which resulted in a series of changes. However, the Ming Dynasty accepted more silver than Europe, but nothing happened, not even a splash.
This shows what? This shows that in the Ming Dynasty at that time, social productivity was quite huge, and the total amount of social surplus wealth was so large that it is difficult to estimate.
This is just like how at the end of the 20th century, Soros and other financial giants were able to plunder Southeast Asia with the power of capital, but they suffered a bloody blow in Hong Kong, which was backed by China. What's shocking is that even if you have a certain amount of leverage, you still don't have the strength to compete with me.
That's why Gao Pragmatic has always felt that as long as Ming Dynasty solves its internal problems, it can solve all external problems.
"Situating in China and governing all nations" is indeed achievable in this era, at least in East Asia.
At this time, Gao pragmatic smiled and said: "There are not more than five people in the world who know this number. Don't tell me."
Huang Zhiting said nervously: "Of course I won't talk nonsense, but you...you are so rich, will you be coveted by others?"
"There may be many people in the world who may covet me, but there is only one person who is a threat." Gao Jingshi sighed slightly: "That is my classmate - the current Holy Master."
"The Emperor?" Huang Zhiting became even more nervous: "Will the Emperor also covet you?"
"Yes, that's why I have to find a way to make it inconvenient for him to do it." Gao pragmatically said: "Why do you think I have to let you Cen and Huang families move to Annan?"
Huang Zhiting was slightly startled and said hesitantly: "I...I thought you just wanted us to give up Guangxi." But she immediately added: "But then when I arrived in Annan, I thought you were doing it because Annan is indeed more beautiful than Guangxi. It’s easy to support so many people under our command—please be honest, I believe you won’t harm me anyway.”
Gao Jingshi said honestly: "It is true that I will not harm you, but I really need you to give up Guangxi... to the emperor and the court."
Huang Zhiting was really startled again.
Gao pragmatic smiled bitterly and sighed, saying: "Otherwise, if I did this in Annan, even if the emperor doesn't care about me because of our years of friendship, I would still end up like a thousand people and end up without any problems. Only you can control it. Guangxi was given to the emperor and the court, so what I did in Annan could be tolerated by scholars both inside and outside the court and all over the world - because no matter what, I was 'strengthening the border' and achieving great justice."
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