Considering the miscellaneous items including food, fodder, and military equipment, the expenses would probably exceed eight million silver tales. At this thought, Su Xuange couldn't help but feel a headache.
Although it was not impossible for the kingdom of Ninghai to raise such funds and supplies with its national strength, it was not easy.
Nowadays, he had to allocate two million silver tales and one million stones of grain to Lu Yuan every year as protection money.
At the same time, the salaries of bureaucrats at all levels, local administrative expenses, and local prefecture and county military salary would also take up to three or four million silver tales per year.
Adding up these expenses, the annual expenditure of Ninghai Country amounted to almost six million silver tales, which was already more than half of his total annual income.
