An Commandery Prince stared blankly at the many cases of banknotes, feeling like he had lived the first half of his life in vain.
He didn't know how long it had been.
Eventually, the officials finished compiling the ledger and presented it to An Commandery Prince and Wang Zong'an.
An Commandery Prince glanced at it and nearly fainted from the shock of the total sum of funds listed.
Six hundred and ninety million Qian Gold.
A full six hundred and ninety million Qian Gold!
Logically, the fund collection should amount to less than twenty million Qian Gold a year. But among the Prominent Families of Shangjing City, there were those with deep reserves; how could they pinch pennies and go through such trouble year after year?
The majority of Prominent Families would pay in one lump sum for ten years, while a minority would pay for fifty years at a time.
For instance, the Gongye Clan and the Wang family both paid particularly large sums.
