My bad father abandoned me, so I turned around and killed him

"Yaoyao, even though this matter has little to do with you, Dad still wants to solemnly tell you his decision.

In this life, I have no other woman except your mother, and there will never be any other woman.

There won’t be any other children, you understand?”

Lin Zhengping seemed to be worried that Lin Yaoyao would not believe him, and even wrote a letter of guarantee.

If he breaks his oath today, all his personal assets and the Lin family's property will be unconditionally transferred to them, mother and daughter.

"Dad, are you rich?"

She thought the entire Marquis's Mansion didn't seem wealthy and was supported entirely by her mother's dowry.

"Of course he is rich, but some of his assets are not disclosed publicly. He has special people to help manage them."

He is a great general who is feared by all, but he actually has a lot of gray income.

Whenever they won a war, they would collect a lot of spoils, and it was assumed that the gold and silver and other worldly items were divided among them, the soldiers.

Only a small number of items that symbolize imperial power will be handed over to the court.

This is an unwritten rule.

Lin Zhengping was often on the battlefield, so naturally he collected a lot of spoils of war.

A considerable amount of it was given to his soldiers as subsidies, but the remaining amount was also considerable.

These things would just be a bunch of dead stuff if they were kept, so he simply found someone to help him exchange them for private property, and asked them to help take care of them on a daily basis.

However, these industries are relatively scattered, distributed in various provincial capitals of Fengyin Kingdom, and some are not even within Fengyin itself.

He himself doesn't know how much property he has.

Lin Zhengping, the hands-off boss, only needs to do one thing every year, which is to check the account book at the end of the year and then wait to collect the money.

"What about the years you were away? Where did all the income from your private property go? Did you have someone send it to Jiangnan to give to your grandmother?"

"No, no, no, your grandmother doesn't know about this. Your grandmother only knows about some of the obvious industries.

The businesses I own privately are much more than those.

Anyway, in this life, the next life, or even the next life, as long as you don’t have any bad habits that ruin your family, it will be enough for you to have no worries about food and clothing.”

"So many? I heard from my mother that the Lin family is considered a wealthy family in Jiangnan. How could Dad's private property be even more than that?"

Lin Yaoyao was not after the Lin family's property, but was simply shocked by the amount of Lin Zhengping's private property.

She thought she was rich enough, but when she turned around, she found that her cheap father might be richer than her.

Her wealth was not earned by herself, but Lin Zhengping's wealth was truly earned through his own hard work.

“Most of the Lin family’s wealth is your grandmother’s dowry, as well as the family business passed down from the Lin family’s ancestors.

In fact, the Lin family's ancestral property was not much, and it had already gone downhill by the time it came to your grandfather.

But your grandmother was a real bride.

Your grandmother and I were not favored in the Lin family, but because your grandmother was capable on her own, she did not need to rely on anyone to live.

Your grandmother was a very capable woman. With her business talent, she managed to make the Lin family flourish again."

Jiangnan is still different from the capital.

Most of the aristocratic families in Jiangnan made their fortunes through business. The accumulation of capital over generations made them the overlords of Jiangnan.

Among the four classes of people, scholars, farmers, merchants and artisans, you should know that the status of merchants is very low, but in Jiangnan the status of merchants is quite high.

At least you won't be looked down upon, treated as the lowest of merchants, or be pointed at and scolded for stinking of money.

When capital accumulates to a certain level, people begin to pay attention to the education of their children and grandchildren.

It just so happens that there are many talented people in Jiangnan.

Those wealthy families would spend a lot of money to hire these talented people, set up their own clan schools to let their descendants take the imperial examinations and change their careers.

By the time of Lin Zhengping's generation, the Lin family had more than just the two brothers Lin Zhengfeng.

However, except for Lin Zhengping, the others were all illegitimate children, and were directly separated when they reached a certain age.

Only Lin Zhengfeng never left home after he became an adult because his aunt died early, not to mention that someone found a marriage partner for him.

The Lin family started out as merchants, so the rules in the family are not actually very strict.

Although Old Lady Lin was the mistress, she did not have much real power, as all was held by a concubine at the time.

The aunt only thought about how to win over Mr. Lin's heart and gain more benefits for her children.

Who has the time to arrange a marriage for an unrelated bastard?

In the end, Lin Zhengping's "accident" turned out to be a good thing for Lin Zhengfeng.

But Lin Zhengfeng had nothing to begin with, and the Marquis's Mansion was entirely supported by Qu Manrong's dowry.

Now that she no longer has the support of her dowry, she is naturally extremely poor.

Lin Zhengping is not a fool. It's ok for him to take advantage of the opportunity to become a marquis, but how could he possibly give up his private property?

Over the years, Lin Zhengfeng has worked as a civil servant and naturally understands the various unwritten rules in the officialdom.

He even knows a thing or two about military generals.

For the purpose of private property, Lin Zhengfeng tortured him countless times and interrogated him about the private property countless times.

Lin Zhengping insisted that he had no private property at all.

He would rather let all those things go to waste than hand them over to Lin Zhengfeng.

He's not a fool.

Lin Zhengfeng plotted against him in this way, and the feud between the two could be said to be a life-and-death feud.

He would have to be crazy to hand over his private property to such a mortal enemy.

“I actually had an agreement with those people before.

I am a man who lives on the edge of a knife. If I unfortunately die on the battlefield, those private properties that are not allowed to be seen in public will still be managed by them.

All the business income, except for 10% which is used to pay them, the rest is used to help the brothers in the army. "

Those soldiers who died on the battlefield, or those who were disabled on the battlefield, and their relatives are all eligible for relief.

When he is alive, he can do these things himself. If he dies, those people will do them for him.

Lin Yaoyao didn't ask him why he was so sure that those people would follow his orders.

Don't use people with suspicion, don't use people who are suspicious.

After the crisis of the Lin Group was resolved, wasn’t it directly handed over to professional managers?

It's the same thing.

"Yaoyao, you are the only one who knows about the private property. I will hand it over to you in the future.

Dad hopes you can keep doing those things, and the rest will all be your personal gains."

Lin Zhengping thought she was afraid that he would be short of money in the future, so she simply told him her decision in advance.

"Stop! I don't want it! You should just let someone take care of it!"

Unfortunately, some things would come to her as she wished unless she refused, such as boxes of banknotes and cash.

And the mountains of account books...

Looking at the account books that were almost filling up her entire room, Lin Yaoyao's face turned frighteningly dark.