"Thank you for your support. I can assure you that this is definitely a profitable business. Next, everyone will obtain a large amount of wealth through this medicine!”Yuan Kewen said with a smile.
The expressions of the envoys were not too good. They were representing their country this time and had spent a huge sum of money to get the patent license from Yuan Kewen.
The three patent permits added up to a total of 56 million pounds.
One had to know that the annual revenue of the Empire of the Sun Never Sets was only 200 million pounds.
This time, Yuan Kewen directly obtained a quarter of the annual revenue of the Empire of the Sun Never Sets.
Of course, the wealth of the Sun Never Sets Empire came from other sources besides financial income. Especially the exploitation of the colonies. The Indian colony alone could provide 100 million pounds of income to the empire every year.
It was because of this that the Sun Never Sets Empire was able to maintain the strongest navy in the world.
Therefore, the Indian colony could be said to be the lifeblood of the empire and could not be lost.
If any country dared to touch the Indian colony, the people of Sun Never Sets would fight to the death.
"Second Young Master, this is simply unbelievable. They were actually willing to pay so much money for this!”Yang Du was extremely excited.
This was equivalent to a huge sum of 224 million taels of silver!
One had to know that last year, when the Qing Empire was destroyed, the financial revenue was only 300 million taels of silver.
This was also because of the increase in various taxes.
For example, the land tax had reached more than 48 million taels of silver, the salt tax had reached more than 46 million taels of silver, and the levy and customs duty had both reached more than 43 million taels of silver.
However, although there were many taxes, there were more places to spend money.
Especially the southern provinces, which had already begun to withhold taxes. This caused the Beiyang government's financial income to drop a lot.
Yuan Kewen had obtained 220 million taels of silver in one go. This was definitely a huge sum of money.
"Alright, Xi Zi, now you believe that we have enough money to build the northeast!”Yuan Kewen said with a smile.
Yang Du nodded repeatedly.
He was now worshipping Yuan Kewen like a god.
Or rather, the image of a wise ruler in his mind was becoming clearer and clearer. This was clearly Yuan Kewen!
However, Yuan Kewen didn't have time to be happy for long. That night, his cheap old man, Yuan Datou, brought the cabinet chief Tang Shaoyi, the finance chief Zhou Xuexi, the acting foreign affairs chief Hu Weide, and others to the door.
Yuan Kewen wasn't surprised at all.
He knew very well that the movements of the wind and grass in Yanjing City could not be hidden from Big Head Yuan.
"Father, what's the matter?" Yuan Kewen asked.
Big Head Yuan looked deeply at Yuan Kewen and said,""I really underestimated you! I didn't expect you to become the richest man in Yan Huang!”
Yuan Kewen smiled embarrassedly." Father, you must be joking. I only got some money from the foreigners."”
"Second Young Master is too modest. If 220 million taels of silver can only be considered a small amount, then I, as the chief financial officer, am simply too ashamed!”Zhou Xuexi said.
"Uncle Zhou, you flatter me. I don't deserve it!”Yuan Kewen quickly said.
"Alright, I won't beat around the bush with you. Now that Beiyang's finances are empty, since you've got so much money, why don't you lend some to the government first?”Big Head Yuan spoke.
Yuan Kewen couldn't help but roll his eyes.
"Father, how can a father borrow money from his son!”
It was rare for Big Head Yuan to blush.
"Second Young Master, the Grand President is not borrowing money for himself, but for Beiyang. These are two different things." Tang Shaoyi said.
Yuan Kewen knew that it was impossible for him to keep the money for himself.
Even if he earned it himself, even if he was Yuan Datou's son.
If the entire Beiyang learned of this news, they would definitely be extremely jealous.
At that time, he would probably incur the wrath of the public.
With Yuan Kewen's current strength, it was simply not enough to keep this money.
Moreover, the current Beiyang government was indeed very accurate. The national treasury was so empty that rats could run away.
The Southern Cannon Party intercepted taxes. They owed taxes for all sorts of reasons.
Beiyang needed a large amount of money to expand its army.
During this period of time, Yuan Datou and the other big shots of Beiyang were extremely anxious.
Now, Yuan Kewen had gotten so much money.
If he wasn't Yuan Datou's son, why would these Beiyang big shots talk nonsense with him? He directly snatched it.
"Alright, Father, uncles, how much do you need to borrow?”Yuan Kewen asked.
"Two hundred million taels of silver!" Zhou Xuexi, the chief financial officer, spoke.
Yuan Kewen was instantly annoyed.
"Uncle Zhou, if it's this amount, then forget it. I'm so bold. I won't lend it!”
"Kewen, you left behind twenty million taels of silver, it should be enough to spend. As for the rest, I'll lend them to Beiyang first. I'll return it to you when I have the money!" Big Head Yuan also spoke.
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