Reborn with Consumption System-Chapter 588 - 262: Fishing Master

On the afternoon of the 11th, just before work ended, Assistant Liang returned to the company with the financial manager, Liu Xiaofang.

"Boss, mission accomplished!" The young assistant was particularly excited, her cheeks flushed red.

Han Lie watched her with a smile as she placed Zhongmei's corporate seal and financial seal into the safe, then asked casually, "Were the bank and the people from Ming Capital cooperative?"

"Extremely cooperative!"

Han Lie nodded. "Have you clarified the transfer and auditing processes?"

Liang Wu blushed and shook her head. "The transfer itself is fine, but I don't quite understand Ming Capital's project budget. We might need assistance from the supervisory company in the future..."

"Don't trust the supervisors completely. President Pan will send someone to assist you. Just safeguard the company seals and keep me updated promptly," Han Lie said with a reassuring smile, then glanced at the company's account deposit slip.

Today was the day Han Lie collected the intermediary fee for the Ming Capital project. SAIC had only signed one project capital contribution agreement, so their involvement followed the project, and they would collect the principal and interest at maturity. Entities like banks, trusts, and securities companies also typically charged at the backend. Han Lie's intermediary fee, however, similar to appraisal, accounting, and legal fees, was a front-end charge. This was a business-to-business transaction, with the fee collected by Zhongmei. Ming Capital's backend expenditures totaled 14.7%, and their front-end expenditures were 2.8%. Therefore, Zhongmei was supposed to receive a transfer of exactly 70 million today. Since Ming Capital had already prepaid 20 million to Zhongmei, and another 50 million had just been paid to cover the balance, the amount was correct. 𝕗𝗿𝕖𝐞𝐰𝗲𝕓𝐧𝕠𝕧𝗲𝐥.𝚌𝐨𝚖

After deducting the 5 million paid to Liu Minghao's law firm, 1.8 million to the accounting firm, and 8.6 million to the appraisal company, a total of 54.6 million remained on the books. And this was just Han Lie's income for the current year. Over the remaining six months of next year, Ming Capital was due to pay Zhongmei another 35 million. However, since legal, appraisal, and other costs were one-time charges, Han Lie wouldn't need to make these expenditures next year. This would leave a net of 35 million, bringing his total income from this deal to 89.6 million.

Zhongmei enjoyed tax incentives in the financial park, resulting in a total tax rate of about 16%. Therefore, the net income this year would be 45.86 million, and 29.4 million next year. If Han Lie wanted to use this money for personal consumption, he could transfer it to his personal card as dividends. After paying a 20% personal income tax on it, he could then legally spend the money as he pleased.

Tax evasion was never an option, not in this lifetime. Brother Lie had always aspired to be a role model for tax contributors~~~

"Call Manager Liu over."

After Financial Manager Liu Xiaofang arrived, Han Lie instructed, "Transfer 36.69 million to my personal card as dividends, and you handle the tax filing for the remainder."

"Yes, Leader," Liu Xiaofang responded proactively. "Should I..."

"No, file it normally."

Brother Lie didn't even want to hear it; he knew the tax authorities all too well.

On the way back to the hotel after work, Han Lie opened the system panel and thoroughly reviewed his attributes and skills.

[Host: Han Lie]

[Attributes: Intelligence 80, All Others 79]

[Knowledge: 10 Fields, Level 4]

[Skills: 16 Fields, Level 4]

[Cash: 37.52 million]

[Experience: 870,000]

[Talent: Situation Assessment]

[Traits: Sugar Daddy, Immortal Drunkard·Slightly Tipsy]

[Consumption Gift: Each time you spend, there's a 2% chance of triggering, granting a mysterious gift.]

[Consumption Critical: Each time you spend, there's a 5% chance of triggering, granting a monetary reward 2-10 times the amount spent.]

His intelligence had risen due to the Sutra of the Medicine Buddha, which saved him 10 million experience points. Once his attributes reached a higher level, the scripture could be utilized once more, saving even more experience. All his knowledge and skills had been raised to just past Level 4, reaching a professional standard. To advance further, each field would require 10 million consumption experience points, which were hard to come by. Consequently, only his stock trading skill was approaching Level 5—well, it was about halfway there.

From the current situation, it was clear that Han Lie could easily acquire a broad range of knowledge and skills, but achieving true expertise was extremely difficult. Raising a single field of knowledge to Level 5 required 10 million experience points, and Level 5 was merely the threshold of expertise. This suggested an experience bar of several hundred million more to reach the pinnacle; the cost of becoming a grandmaster was exceedingly high. The main issue was that his eight primary attributes were even more starved for experience. First, he needed to max out his top-tier intelligence. Then, he would work on Constitution and Special attributes simultaneously, followed by Health. After that, Looks and Physique were still waiting... Even if he temporarily ignored Strength and Agility, Intelligence was short by 90 million experience points. Boyfriend Power needed 200 million, Sustained Combat needed 100 million, and Humanoid Walking Aphrodisiac required another 200 million... Han Lie was distressed. Where on earth was he going to get that much experience?!

There were only two truly reliable ways to earn consumption experience through spending—one was buying alcohol; the Immortal Drunkard trait provided three times the consumption experience. The other was spending money on women; the Sugar Daddy trait provided two times the consumption experience. Buying alcohol and then plying women with it theoretically meant six times the experience.

However, what decent girl could withstand such reckless treatment? If he didn't accumulate much experience but instead ended up nurturing a drunkard, and his future father-in-law came calling with a knife, it would be difficult to explain...

Brother Lie sighed. The road to leveling up felt both long and distant.

The only piece of good news, perhaps, was that he finally had the money to spend as he pleased. Under normal circumstances, without buying cars or houses, trying to spend 37 million in a year was no easy feat. Spending even 20% of that sum would be enough to make an ordinary man indulge himself to the point of kidney failure... For a moment, Han Lie genuinely didn't know how he should spend it. The only definite expenditure he had in mind was to buy a villa for his parents back in Dream City, acquire two commercial properties for them, and a car for each parent. That would probably cost around 20 million?