Don't move, this child bride is not easy to mess with.

Although the salaries of officials in the imperial court were extremely low, they could not support the large number of people. There are hundreds of thousands of officials registered in the Ministry of Civil Affairs. No matter what, it costs five to six million taels of silver.

In this dynasty system, the vassal king cannot participate in politics, let alone join the army, and cannot leave the fiefdom. In fact, the clan is imprisoned. Then they have no choice but to have children as their only pleasure.

Therefore, over a hundred years, there were hundreds of thousands of clans supported by the imperial court. This is another five to six million silver expenses.

This does not include the operating costs of maintaining the various departments and offices of the imperial court. In short, if calculated, the annual income of the imperial court is only half of the normal expenses!

What should I do if I don’t have enough money? Naturally, it is to increase revenue and reduce expenditure. How to open source? Apart from imposing various miscellaneous taxes to exploit ordinary people, is there any other good way?

As for reducing expenditures, official salaries are extremely low, and the emperor's annual salary is not much. The vassals everywhere have imposed such severe restrictions, and they must make people live a decent life.

Therefore, we can only think about military spending. Therefore, the local guards, the nine-border troops, and even the soldiers in the Beijing camp were in arrears for a long time. Often when there is a war, money is spent.

Given the existence of these long-standing disadvantages, it is natural that military families would flee, soldiers would have pay disputes, and even mutiny, etc., one after another. Although such an army is large in number, how can it have combat effectiveness?

When Xie Chengan entered Zijing Pass, he was filled with hatred when he found that the mountains and forests outside the pass were bare and unable to support his ambush plan. In fact, how can we blame the guards?

The imperial court did not pay salaries, and the soldiers were even poorer than the farmers. Naturally, they had to find some way out.

However, the imperial court will not reduce the number of soldiers and reduce the number of officials. Just because in addition to the Beijing camp, the other two million soldiers actually have to work in the fields. There are 100 million acres of land farmed by the army across the country. If there are fewer people, who can farm the land?

Originally, these military camps could support two to three million soldiers, but there were corrupt officers at all levels, clans and powerful men from all over the country invaded the fields, and they had to pay land taxes like farmers. The military garrison strategy had actually collapsed before the Supreme Emperor's defeat.

Three feet of ice does not freeze in one day. Whose family is not short of money?

Su Mulan took stock of her property and felt that she was now richer than the emperor! The key is that she doesn't have much expenses. I'm afraid the cash in the treasury is not as much as hers!

With her current net worth, she can afford to take milk baths every day. It feels so good to have money!

Su Mulan was scared just thinking about it if she were to liquidate all those gold and silver utensils, jewelry, etc. again. Then there must be a family fortune of fifty million taels?

There is too much money, which is just a number. With the amount of people she has in Su Zhai, she can't even spend a ten thousandth of the money if she opens the door.

Apart from the fact that there are no electronic products such as mobile phones, computers, and the Internet, life is better in this world. No, it should be said that as long as you have money, you can live a beautiful life anywhere.

If Yu, Su Xiaobai and Su Xier knew that Su Mulan had so much money, they would be scared to death. In their impression, Su Mulan should have one hundred thousand to two hundred thousand taels of silver.

This is already the largest amount they can imagine. Just because Su Mulan had spent 100,000 taels of silver and bought 150,000 shi of grain.

Yu thought that Su Mulan was risking all her wealth to buy grain so that she could hoard it and sell it when the price was high. Although this is a bit unethical, how dare she interfere with the eldest daughter's affairs.

Besides, the Yu family is not that high-minded. The more money the Su family can make, the better. Who cares whether others live or die?

Su Xiaobai knew that Su Mulan bought grain for disaster relief. But he also silently calculated that the amount of money Su Mulan had earned from selling stewed vegetables, snacks, and story books over the years was probably only one hundred thousand taels.

Although "The Story of the Stone" was more popular, it only made fifty thousand taels of silver. He saw with his own eyes the bookstore shopkeeper delivering banknotes to his door.

He also secretly praised himself as his eldest sister. You actually use all your wealth to buy food to help the victims and refugees. What kind of sentiment is this? This is really considering the people of the world as the people, and only the eldest sister should sit on the dragon throne!

As for Su Xi'er, she didn't have much idea. She only knew that her eldest sister had a lot of money. But since she recognized Jiang as her godmother, she felt that Su Mulan might not be as rich as Jiang.

Now Su Xi'er has really become the eldest lady of Xiangxiu Tower! The female shopkeeper's attitude changed once she learned that Su Xi'er had accepted the boss as her godmother.

Originally, she just looked at the young master Xie Chengan's face and was polite to the Su sisters. After all, Su Mulan had not married into the family and was not yet a young mistress.

But when Su Xier accepted Jiang as her godmother, the female shopkeeper could no longer take it easy to get to know her and treat her like a little girl. She always responded to Xi'er's requests and answered all her questions, and was deeply afraid of offending him in the slightest.

From the words of this female shopkeeper, Su Xier had a clear idea of ​​the Jiang family's wealth.

The ancestors of the Jiang family originally started their business with mulberry silkworms. By Mr. Jiang's generation, the family's weaving industry had already reached a small scale.

The Jiang family has ten Ruyun Jinzhuang damask machines. The Jiang family produces more than 300,000 pieces of satin, silk, damask, yarn, Songjiang cloth and other items every year.

Of course, within the clan, within the clan. Jiang is not responsible for the textile industry, but specializes in the sale of high-end fabrics and high-end garments. Xiangxiu Lou opened all over Jiangnan and Jiangbei provinces, and there were Xiangxiu Lou shops in more than 20 cities.

There are also dozens of other silk and satin shops, fabric shops, shoe and hat shops, Jifu shops, and jewelry shops. The female shopkeeper is a close confidant of the Jiang family, but she knows that the Jiang family receives at least one hundred thousand taels of silver every year.

It's just that the money spent on the Xie family over the years is only twenty to thirty thousand taels every year. There are also 20,000 to 30,000 taels of silver returned to the clan. In addition to the expenses of Xie and Jiang's two sons and a group of servants, the expenses were 20,000 to 30,000 taels.

Therefore, in the past twenty years, the Jiang family has only saved four to five million taels of silver.

Although these female shopkeepers cannot know exactly, they can still make an estimate.

When Su Xi'er learned that her godmother had so much money, she naturally felt that Jiang was richer than Su Mulan. After all, in her eyes, Su Mulan only had Mulan Zhai before, earning only 10,000 to 20,000 silver a year.

Nowadays, Mulan Zhai has been merged into the tea house. Although the business is quite good due to the three major plays every ten days, due to the natural disasters this year, not many people have the time to go to the tea house to watch the plays.

Although she knew that Su Mulan had other income, such as story books and the like, how could it be as much money as the Jiang family's dozens of shops?

But Su Xi'er didn't know that Jiang was also worried about money now.

In fact, Jiang's net worth is indeed quite high. But most of it was invested in shops and a few farms. The cash she can usually withdraw is only tens of thousands of taels.

But of these tens of thousands of taels in cash, she first gave Xie Chengan 10,000 taels to buy a house in Qinghan Fucheng. Later, Xie Cheng'an got the vacancy of Anlan County Magistrate, and Jiang supported him with 30,000 taels of silver.

This year, due to the great changes in the imperial court, not only hundreds of thousands of soldiers were lost, but the two major battles also left the national treasury in ruins.

Coupled with the fact that a natural disaster affected several provinces, the gentry and wealthy households in various places who originally had money were afraid to spend as much as they could.