Chapter 39: How much money will thousands of male concubines eat? 1
How much does it cost to eat thousands of male concubines?
After coming out of Yining Pavilion, Ting Qingyu breathed a sigh of relief. In the past few days, she had been going around, from Xueze to Xiao Wen to Wen Bai, and she felt that she was living the same life pattern as an emperor and a concubine.
Although I'm not tired, I feel really depressed.
After walking a few steps, the potted plants beside the corridor were in bloom, and there were also withered flowers. Aunt Li ordered people to move bags of sacks into the hall. The porters outside saw Ting Qingyu curling up.
When she came, they couldn't help but look at her with strange eyes.
Upon seeing this, Grandma Li hurriedly came over to greet her.[
"Princess, you'd better stay away from these servants..."
"It's okay. I heard that the entire palace is managed by grandma. Thank you for your hard work." Ting Qingyu smiled faintly and did the math in her mind. There are thousands of male concubines here, plus a few more.
Hundreds of guards, I don’t know how much rice they eat in a day.
"Princess, you're welcome! Here are last month's account books, please take a look at them, Princess." Nanny Li smiled, as if a yellow chrysanthemum had bloomed on her face.
Ting Qingyu was stunned for a moment. Although she had great trust in Aunt Li, and... she was not a real princess in the first place, so she naturally didn't care much about the expenses of this palace. But she was interested in knowing that there were thousands of male concubines in this palace.
How much do you eat with 600 guards in a day?
"Okay, let me take a look." Ting Qingyu took it with a smile. Xiu'er looked around and found that the male concubines all appeared in the corridor of the pavilion at about the same time, quietly paying attention to the princess's every move.
Ting Qingyu turned to the first page, which showed the expenses on the first day of last month. Rice cost one hundred and fifty dan, as well as other vegetables, clothing, silk, etc., plus other miscellaneous things, for a total of one day.
Two hundred and fifty taels of silver are available.
Although Ting Qingyu was not sure how many kilograms a stone was, she also understood that silver was a symbol of wealth in this era. Two hundred and fifty taels of silver should be considered a large expense.
Seeing the puzzled expression on Ting Qingyu's face, Nanny Li asked in a low voice with some worry, "Princess, what do you think is wrong? I just jotted down these numbers bit by bit..."