Bai Wanyi spread his hands, feeling helpless: "I don't have any money left either. The money I earned from those things has all been thrown away on this farm."
Lu Yan gasped, "Tens of thousands of taels! It's all been spent in just a short time? And wasn't the firearms formula handed over to His Majesty? Why do we still need to research it?"
Bai Wanyi patiently explained, "I originally thought that if I handed the firearm formula to Your Majesty, we wouldn't have to develop it ourselves, but the Crown Prince seems to be interested in firearms and keeps coming to me privately. I can't refuse, so I have no choice but to bite the bullet and research it. Furthermore, the Ministry of Works often calls me over for questioning."
"If our progress here can't keep up with the Ministry of Industry's, how will I respond when we get there?" Bai Wanyi took Lu Yan's hand and asked him to feel the calluses on his palm. "Look, I have calluses on my hands. Isn't this for our future?"
Lu Yan felt sorry for Bai Wanyi and also for the silver: "That's tens of thousands of taels of silver, and it's all gone already? We haven't spent so much silver in all these years at the border."
Deep down, Lu Yan didn't believe what Bai Wanyi said. If it was really the prince who came looking for him on his own initiative, Bai Wanyi would not look at the prince with that kind of eyes.
How much of these tens of thousands of taels of silver did she hide?
Facing Lu Yan's relentless pressure, Bai Wanyi grew increasingly impatient. She counted on her fingers, "How much are the prices at the border? How much are the prices in the capital? Besides, gunpowder is cheap, but the firearms themselves cost money."
"The copper and iron needed to make firearms require a large amount of money. The firewood can't reach the required temperature, so we need to buy coal at a high price... If you don't believe me, there are account books on the farm. We can go and check the accounts."
Bai Wanyi saw Lu Yan walking towards the manor, and thought that he would not go, but he obediently followed his footsteps into the manor.
Bai Wanyi's heart sank.
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