C3730 (1/2)

Ci An did not dare to calculate the debt anymore. He knew in his heart how much the Evil One had spent on training the Xishan Camp.

To be honest, Qing Dynasty's financial situation had eased up by a lot over the past five years, and was much better than the Tongzhi in history!

After the end of the war, the various areas were restored to their original areas. Huguang, Jiangnan and Shuangguang started to recover their taxes first. Following that, the economy of Henan, Shan, Shan and even Gansu started to stabilize!

The economy would naturally recover after the war ended, and most importantly, the new currency that Xiao Letian had brought made the imperial government heave a sigh of relief!

Forging silver coins would gradually abolish the ingots of the ingots. This was equivalent to cutting the waste on the greedy officials below. Just this large sum alone could save more than ten million silver taels a year!

Also, there was the North Ticket's income. Although the North Ticket's current inflation was very high and the market's acceptance was far inferior to Jiangnan's, this was after all the official currency, and once the market had sufficient money supply, the business would naturally flourish!

With a certain level of inflation and the tax revenue from the business stimulus, the annual revenue earned by the imperial government over the past five years had been over thirteen million silver taels!

This was a huge sum of money that he did not even dare to think about before! Back in the days when he was in the war with Long-hair, he could not even issue out the pay of the poor flags of the imperial government.

What would he do if he was rich? The Qing Dynasty and the Chinese people's choice were completely different!

On Xiao Letian's side, once he got the money, he would educate, build infrastructure, invest in industry and raise a modern army, especially the Deep Blue Navy!

Now that the Qing Dynasty was rich, the first thing they did was to make up for the Flag Man's pay, then they would rebuild their army!

The Evil Children's s had used up their large heads, so they also needed money to train their troops. They couldn't forget the threat from the Russian and the brave troops of the Far East!

Ci An was very clear that in the past five years, these sixty thousand soldiers of the Western Mountain had consumed 5 million silver taels on the accounts of the military.

However, this was all fake. In order to guard against the unhurried public outlets of the imperial government, General Gui Six split his military training fees into different categories and repaid them back and forth in the six divisions!

Even Ministry of Internal Affairs had to settle some debts!

The amount of military spending that Xishan Camp had to spend would be between eight million and ten million silver. This was Ci An's estimation, and many people in the imperial government agreed on this amount.

60,000 soldiers of the new army cost less than 10 million, was that not enough? And they even need to change their equipment from generation to generation? Listening to Zai Chun's words, the modern army needed to use the most advanced weapons for a long time!

If new weapons were to appear year after year, wouldn't this unit be supported with several million silver taels a year?

The imperial court was doing nothing but supporting the army?

”Stop, stop …” My son, how could our imperial government have that much money to raise an army! To change equipment every year, when will that be the end of it! ”

Ci An suddenly extended his hand to stop Zai Chun's mouth, not allowing the little emperor to speak. Instead, he stared at Cai Bixia and asked, ”General Cai … I wants to hear the truth from you! ”

”His Majesty said to change equipment. What do you think is worth changing equipment for? How about we open I's eyes? ”

Cai Bixia nodded her head, ”There really is a new thing that has a purpose to being able to live forever. Since the empress dowager wants to see it for herself, that's fine too … This is a new weapon that our Chinese race has recommended to you! ”

From afar, a valiant and formidable looking female soldier ran over, holding a manila folder as she saluted and placed it in Cai Bixia's hands.