"Brother Lu, do you plan to stay at the barracks?"
Sun Siwen was surprised by Lu Yuan's idea: "The bandits in the county have been eliminated, and there are no major problems now. I was planning to disband some soldiers in a few months when the county is stable. Why do you bother training more troops?"
There are currently 500 county soldiers in the county, and the money needed to pay their salaries alone amounts to 1,750 silver taels per month, totaling 21,000 silver taels per year.
21,000 silver taels may not seem much; it is only a tenth of what Lu Yuan seized from the city.
However, the fact that 200,000 silver taels could be confiscated from the city was made possible by the decades of accumulation by several local power families and factions.
What took others decades to accumulate, you were able to plunder and make a fortune.
In a normal year, a remote mountain county like Wugang County would only have an annual financial income of 4,000-5,000 silver taels.
