Lin Rui decided to submit the 'License Security Deposit' he collected to the court after the Forest Cargo Company finished preparing their supplies, and then officially open the port.
In the past, Lin Rui stated during a council meeting before the Divine Palace that once trade ports were opened, it was expected to double the yearly revenue of the court.
Although he hasn't achieved this yet, just the 'License Security Deposit' and 'Land Transfer Fee' this time amounted to a staggering fifty-eight million taels of Divine Gold.
As this was the first instance of legal trade, Lin Rui was exceptionally cautious, issuing only 16,000 cargo spaceship licenses, with each license requiring a deposit of 1,000 taels of Divine Gold.
Sixteen million taels of Divine Gold could be converted to 1.6 billion taels of Magic Silver, or 160 billion federal coins, which is equivalent to a tenth of the court's annual land tax revenue.
