"Bring the report from the Ministry of Household Affairs."
Li Chen asked Wan Jiaojiao to find the official report sent by the Ministry of Revenue earlier today, read it, and immediately frowned.
Other expenses were still within the normal budget, but today's reward for the three armies cost tens of thousands of taels of silver on the first day alone.
Don't look at this small number. It's just the beginning of the first day. According to the rules, the victory of the army depends on the size of the battle. It can be as short as seven days or as long as one month. Various supplies, food, drinks, and tens of thousands of people are normal.
The expenditure for a day is a huge amount, not to mention the big fish and meat for the reward, the slaughter of cattle and sheep, all of which were bought with money from the imperial court.
In addition, the natural disaster has not yet completely subsided, and the prices of various materials have skyrocketed. Not only the common people feel that they cannot bear it, but even the imperial court cannot bear it.
According to calculations by the Ministry of Accounts, the entire reward will cost at least three to four hundred thousand taels. This is just the cost of the reward. Other military merit rewards, death and disability pensions, each account will not be smaller than this number.
Although North Korea will pay for death and disability pensions, etc., the current account must be paid by the court first.
Seeing that Li Chen was frowning and in a bad mood, Wan Jiaojiao, who had been serving Li Chen for a long time and could probably figure out some of the ways, cautiously said: "Your Highness, the matter of money cannot be solved in a short time, so don't be too cautious.
I’m worried, it’s been like this for so many years.”
Li Chen exhaled and said: "In the past, the imperial court had no money, so it owed officials salaries. All other construction stopped, and those who could not stop owed money. If you can tear down the east wall to make up for the west wall, you can survive like this, but the civil servants can't.
We can owe them salaries, but we cannot owe them the merits earned by these soldiers who put their heads in their belts on the battlefield."
"If you owe it once, the reputation of the court will be ruined. If the country is in trouble in the future, who will do their best for the court? Even if you rely on blood, you still have to fill your stomach."
After saying this, Li Chen sighed softly and said: "That's all, bring all the reports you just read. Today we will arrange all the military merit rewards for this time. We will go through them in the morning tomorrow.
If these are implemented, the soldiers will feel at ease as soon as possible."
Wan Jiaojiao felt a little sorry for His Highness the Crown Prince's hard work, but she didn't dare to stop him. She could only move out the things Li Chen wanted, then quickly went to make a pot of ginseng tea and put it in Li Chen's hand.
Li Chen took the ginseng tea and took a sip, frowning slightly. He had never been used to the taste of ginseng, and he was still the same now. However, Wan Jiaojiao had good intentions, so he swallowed it.
Time always flies when you are busy.
When Li Chen put together the finalized plan, time had already reached midnight.
Normally at this time, he would go back to rest, or find Zhao Rui to relax, but today he did not. Instead, he went directly to the East Palace Side Hall.
The side hall is protected by the most elite masters of Jin Yiwei on three floors outside and three floors outside. Looking at it, twenty or thirty people are constantly patrolling in the open to ensure that there are no dead corners for defense. In the dark, there are several other adjacent houses.
At any time, no less than a hundred elite Jinyiwei troops can rush out.
These people are all the top players in Jinyiwei.
It can be said that the top experts from the Beijing East Factory Headquarters are all here.
In addition, coupled with Sanbao sitting at the door of the side hall and Gong Huiyu on the roof admiring the moon, it can be said that there is truly no blind spot protection. Unless an elite organized army of thousands of people comes over, there will definitely be no protection here.
