As for the ordinary soldier's salary, it takes ten years, five years to save.
If injured and unable to return to the battlefield, relegated to logistics, the salary is even lower.
Emperor Xuanming's face is as calm as water: "Every year the imperial court gives various armies no less than five or six million taels for military expenses, and for a frontier army a soldier's annual expenditure does not exceed twenty taels; with over three hundred thousand soldiers in the Northern Region, there's a discrepancy of half!"
"This is really outrageous."
Chu Heng did not argue this point; having worked in the Ministry of Revenue for two years, he understands the treasury and knows that in these years, the imperial court's annual income is roughly over twenty million taels.
If not for this, having spent a quarter on military expenses, it already shows Emperor Xuanming's attention to the army.
The financial income here does not include grain and cloth and other physical items.
