"This year, we made a profit of 757,645 spirit stones. Fifty percent of our income came from market rents, thirty percent from puppet beasts, and twenty percent from the profits of other businesses. Our expenditures totaled 454,830 spirit stones: fifty percent for clan members' salaries, thirty percent for raw materials, and twenty percent for social obligations."
This profit did not include the merchant association's earnings. When the merchant association escorted goods to the Central Plains Cultivation World, a round trip took at least five or six years; if it took over ten years, that was perfectly normal as well.
From rent collection alone, the Wang Family earned several hundred thousand spirit stones every year. Beyond rent, puppet beasts were their second-largest source of income. Since complete sets of puppet beasts had been introduced, they had been immensely popular. The Wang Family was still expanding its workforce, mainly because its territory was too vast. They had footholds in the Eastern Wasteland, the Central Plains, and the Northern Frontier, yet there were too few clan members to keep them under control. Furthermore, the Townsea Sect ruins also required manpower.
In the short term, the number of Wang Family members would not increase by much. They could only strengthen themselves by recruiting rogue cultivators and cultivators from small families.
Wang Mengbin and Wang Qiuming were stationed on Silver Serpent Island in the Red Moon Sea Region, Wang Qiuxin was stationed at the Cloud Sea Sect, Wang Youyu and Wang Rongmiao were stationed on Boat Mountain Island in the Golden Toad Sea Region, Wang Qingqi and Wang Tianqi were stationed at the market, while Wang Qingqing, Wang Qingling, Wang Mengfen, Wang Qingjun, Wang Tianwen, and Ye Haitang were stationed on Azure Lotus Island. Of them, Wang Qingjun and Wang Tianwen were not highly cultivated,