Although Xu Yuan was joking, he was actually quite serious.
Although he never left the house now, the silver he needed was not one bit less; the showdown with his father on New Year's Eve had put the matter of arranging the Sword Sect high on the agenda.
This matter was going to be very expensive.
And not only that, his plan to use Li Junqing to set up in Japan also needed money and provisions.
When Xu Yuan had been a personal guard to Li Qingyan in the Northern Frontier, he had seen the logistic accounts of the Northern Border Army with his own eyes.
During peacetime, an elite battalion of five thousand men needed three to four hundred thousand taels of silver a month for military salaries and spiritual food alone, and during wartime, with military achievement subsidies plus the wear and tear of spiritual blades and war equipment, the various petty items added up would start at no less than seven hundred thousand taels.