Maintaining the Army

Of course, Qi Xiuyuan couldn't turn all the land occupied by the Jin Kingdom's nobles into military fields in the end. He only managed to snatch about a quarter of the land. The remaining half was returned to the people and the other half was nationalized.

The good news was that he had recruited nearly 20,000 troops, and the Imperial Court actually agreed with his actions. The bad news was that he had to fork out all the military equipment for this group of people.