Chapter: 3654

A 50 million yuan villa with a 20 million yuan renovation can be moved in right away, and he can sell it for 100 million yuan and feel it's a great deal.

And the purchased villa requires various items to be added, including daily necessities, cars, yachts, and even helicopters.

Besides that, it also needs massive human resources and materials to maintain, so as to ensure that it can be lived in at any time and has staff providing services.

So this 100 million yuan villa he bought might need to spend another few tens of millions on buying a car, yacht, and helicopter.

Then those things would have high depreciation costs, shocking, with an annual depreciation of 10 million yuan, and the maintenance costs for the entire villa and equipment would also be over 1 million yuan, not to mention personnel salaries, which is absolutely astronomical.

In other words, if he just lets the house sit there without moving, it would cost him 20 million yuan a year.

If he goes on two more trips in the next year, these costs would increase even further.

Five years later, let's calculate again. The original value of this villa might have indeed increased to over a billion, even exceeding one billion.

But the maintenance costs and depreciation costs poured in during these five years would at least be several billion.

When he bought it, it was worth one billion, but after spending several billion, he could only sell it for a billion or so. Can this be considered an investment?

Before, it was because the Ye family had plenty of money, so he would spend several billion to tens of billions every year through various means and didn't even count it as anything in the family.

But now if he lets him go to manage the Ye Tao family's business, that's like putting a pig in charge of an ant colony. Can the pig do a good job leading? These ants would work their heads off for nothing, not even being able to feed themselves, and still might not be able to feed the pig.

Lei Hongyan knew Lei Changkong's caliber long ago. At this moment, he was afraid that Lei Changkong had actually gone ahead and spent all his family's accumulated assets, so he didn't dare scold Lei Duan for it. He knelt down on the ground and exclaimed: "Family head, I'm wrong... I'll confess to you... Our family has been my son Ye Tao making decisions all these years! Just now, I was still harboring private thoughts and wanted my son to return to manage the family affairs..."

Ye Tao's face turned white with fright, and he blurted out: "Family head... please let my father go back and handle the family's assets. I'll definitely stay in the country and work hard for the main family!"

Lei Duan's expression suddenly turned cold as ice, and he rebuked loudly: "You two are really big-brained! You've fled at night without a care, and now you're still lying through your teeth instead of repenting. It seems like you guys in this branch don't even take the main family seriously!"

Lei Hongyan was startled by these words and hastily begged: "Family head... I just made a one-time mistake and didn't mean to not take the main family seriously... After all, our branches have today's prosperity thanks to the main family..."

Lei Duan let out a cold sneer, looked at everyone, and shouted loudly: "In the past, the era of peace and prosperity hid too many problems and pollution within the Ye family. If it weren't for this calamity, I would have thought that the Ye family was truly prosperous and flourishing! Now it seems like everything is just a false appearance."

"As for this, Ye Tao cleared his throat and continued to say: 'From now on, these problems must be thoroughly resolved! No matter whether your businesses are related to the Ye family or not, everyone must put the main family's interests first!'"

"'If you all perform well, you can still continue with your original business with the Ye family, and the Ye family's new industries will also give you some opportunities in the future. My slogan is just eight characters: I support you, and you support me!'"

"'But if you all continue to do as you please, I not only will sever ties with the main family and your businesses, but also settle the accounts for all the assistance and support provided by the main family over many years, calculating interest at a high rate. If you refuse to acknowledge it, I have ways to collect from you!'"

"'Who has any objections? You can express them now!''"

"The crowd heard this and immediately looked anxious, hastily vowing to behave well in the future."

"Ye Tao saw that no one had any objections and continued to say: 'Well, since all of you are willing to choose to behave well, there's a tricky matter at hand that requires your collective efforts for the main family.'"

"The crowd was staring intently at Ye Tao, unsure what kind of tricky matter Ye Tao was referring to."

"Ye Tao said calmly at this moment: 'The subordinates of the Ye family are just like you - as soon as they saw the Million Dragon Hall's messenger arrive, they all ran away. In the future, the main family will have no one to rely on. It will likely be laughed out of town if spread. Therefore, before the end of this month, each family must select two young successors from direct relatives and send them to serve the main family! First, fill in the gap left by the subordinates for me!'" JrNovels.com