At the current speed of shipping, it would take an average person’s lifetime to complete these sixty or seventy trips.
After counting the spoils, Yinreng looked at the silver piled on the ground and turned to ask Yinzhi,
"What's the damage?"
"In the more than one month since we arrived on the island, a total of 153 people were killed in battle, four spies were caught, and nineteen people were killed in a storm during the voyage."
Yinzhi looked at the jubilant soldiers outside and said in a deep voice.
"Nearly two hundred people?"
Yinreng frowned.
"The Japanese pirates also had cannons and muskets. Although their number was small, they did cause us some trouble at first."
There was a hint of helplessness in Yinzhi's tone.
In a battle like this, it is difficult for the dead to even have a complete body.
Yinreng also sighed.
"Give them death compensation according to the highest standards."
"That's all we can do."
That night, a bonfire dinner was held in the military camp to celebrate the victory of the soldiers. After discussing with Yinreng and Yinzhi, they planned to transport the looted gold and precious jewelry and corals back to Beijing.
As for silver, apart from spending 600,000 taels as rewards for soldiers and pensions for the dead, the rest went into the warehouses of Weihaiwei and the military factory.
All the money spent on the reconstruction of the military base was paid out of Yinreng's own pocket. In the past year, Yinreng has already invested more than one million taels. If Yin'er had not given him a discount on the wood and ore he needed, he would probably have invested even more.
However, with his current wealth, this one million taels is just a drop in the bucket and nothing at all.
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