Chapter 86

Throughout ancient and modern times, military has always been the largest consumption of national wealth, or at least one of them.

Among the 700000 troops that the court of the state of Chu now has, half of them are practicing day and night, and the remaining half belong to the new army, which has been built up from scratch, with weapons and horses, grain and grass tents, weapons and armour There are so many things to buy and prepare. It's time to spend money like water.

According to the statistical documents in Su Mu's hands, hundreds of thousands of soldiers eat horses to chew, and the daily consumption of rice, flour, grain and grass is as much as tens of thousands of stones, not including the necessary meat. Moreover, Zhao Yuanjin never intended to be stingy in this respect. Everything was done according to the high standard of elite and strong army, so the daily expenditure was extremely amazing. If we go to war in the future, the cost will increase greatly.

When the three hundred and fifty thousand new army were equipped with all the equipment and materials and completed training to meet the standard of being able to go to the battlefield, it was estimated that the money in the state treasury of Chu would have to be spent cleanly.

Military affairs cost immeasurable. War is the fastest way to evaporate wealth. After decades of chaos, when the world was reunified, no matter who became the emperor, there would not be much surplus in the imperial treasury. Therefore, from the imperial court to the local government, it is inevitable to live a hard life for some years, and then it will gradually improve.

“…… The day after tomorrow is the new year's day. The palace has prepared some new year gifts, which will be sent to the residence later. "

At the end of the business discussion, Zhao Yuanjin said in a warm voice.

Qin Feng nodded, got up and said to Su Mu and sun Xiangqing, "please go to the warehouse with me and hand over the new batch of goods."

Two important officials readily agreed, saying that if Qin Feng didn't keep on blood transfusion, the government of Chu would not have been able to support it at the speed of nearly ruining his family.

After a moment, the three left the meeting hall by carriage and went to the warehouse area in the corner of the palace.

According to the rules, no one in the palace, except the king and queen of Chu, has the right to ride or ride a horse and can only walk. Of course, he was not restricted by his special status.

The Royal Palace covers an extremely wide area with magnificent specifications, which is almost the same as the imperial palace. After all, Jinling is the ancient capital of several dynasties. There are many palaces left over from the previous dynasty, which were used by Zhao Yuanjing after a little transformation.

"Sir, how many years do you think it will take me to unify the world?"

After a few chatting, Su Mu saw that Qin Feng was in a good mood, so he asked.

Although Qin Feng has been regarded as a national teacher, Zhao Yuanjin and these key officials are still used to match him with his master to show his respect.

"It should be about three years since we have to clean up the tribes of the Hu people on the northern grasslands to wipe out the middle land of Jiuzhou." Qin Feng Road.

Three years, in the main world is about a year, not too long. Originally, Qin Feng was expected to be earlier, but with the variable of the emperor of Qi, the court might be able to hold on for some time.

"Since Sir says so, we have nothing to worry about." Su Mu said with a smile.

Sun Xiangqing hesitated for a moment and said, "Sir, I don't know if sun has an unfeeling request. I don't know if it should be said improperly."

"Lord Sun, it's OK to say so." Qin Feng Road.

"Well, sun's youngest son has reached the age of nine, and his talent is not good enough. He would like to ask his husband to be his teacher. When he is free, he will be very grateful." Sun Xiangqing said.

"Teacher?"

Qin Feng was surprised and immediately laughed: "is Mr. Sun serious?"

The intention of the other party is to be close to yourself and hope to deepen the relationship with yourself in this way. After all, his attitude and many times can influence Zhao Yuanjin's decision.

With this kind of relationship, sun Xiangqing's first assistant position in the court will be more stable in the future, and those who are not on the right path with him will have to worry about this.

"Since Mr. Sun proposed it, of course, he came in good faith. I hope Mr. Sun will approve it." Sun Xiangqing has a sincere tone.

"Well, let me think about it and give you an answer in a few days." Qin Feng Road.

Seeing that he didn't refuse directly, sun Xiangqing knew that there was still hope in this matter. He began to ponder over whether to carefully prepare some gifts to send to the two wives of the national master. With their help to say a few words, the matter should be finished.

The warehouse area is heavily guarded, and many elite soldiers come and visit. In many hidden corners, there are archers and Wang family worshipping masters, as well as masters.

After the three got off the bus and showed their identity, the general on duty immediately ordered the door to be opened and respectfully invited them to enter.

In the spacious hall, there are hundreds of huge wooden boxes with brass corners. If you open one of them, you can see that it is full of newly cast silver ingots, shining brightly.

"It looks like a lot more. It should be able to support for some more time." Qin Feng Road.

"About four or five months, if you don't have the help of your husband."

Su Mu said with a wry smile: "every day, at least 150000 taels of silver will be transported from here to spend. This does not include the consumption of copper, steel, silk and silk cloth. There are too many places where money is needed for the establishment of a new dynasty."In this era, this kind of silver white metal means great wealth, and wealth is the blood of a regime. Once it is lacking, the vitality of the whole regime will be greatly reduced.

He came to an open area, the light flashed past, hundreds of big iron boxes appeared, full of a large.

Su Mu opened one, which was neatly cut silver bars, each of which was five kilograms in size.

"This batch of silver is three million. Please check the amount." Qin Feng said.

"Since it was sent by my husband, what else need to be checked? You can say as much as you want." Sun Xiangqing said with a smile.

It is not the first time for the two sides to cooperate, so there is enough trust in this regard.

Then Qin Feng took out two thousand tons of copper ingots, five thousand tons of steel ingots, and 3500 sets of iron pontoon plate armour respectively. Several main halls were filled to the brim.

"Sir, it costs a lot to cast copper coins. Next time, if it is convenient, you may as well transport more copper ingots." Sun Xiangqing said.

"This is no problem," Qin Feng replied.

Limited to the level of technology, mining and copper smelting in this era is not an easy job, with high cost and low output. In the heyday of the Qi Dynasty, the annual copper output was only 1.3 million jin, which was only a few hundred tons. There is no match for the terror capacity of the main world.

Finally, the three entered a palace with a humble appearance, where the defense was more tight.

After entering it, inside were heavy brass boxes of Phoebe with a total number of 100. The lids of the boxes have been opened, and the inside is full of dazzling gold. All of them are big gold bars with uniform specifications and weighing up to one hundred taels.

Mr. Sun said, "we'd like to make up for the shortage of gold and jade."

It is not difficult to sell in batches on the black market for 300000 taels, which is more than 10 tons. And it's hard to trace it after it's been cut and melted and changed hands several times. Comparatively speaking, those high-grade Jadeites are more troublesome to deal with.

Qin Feng agreed, waving his hand, all the gold disappeared.

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