Li Mengyue coaxed the four babies to sleep and was about to ask Tuanzi why the task of collecting gratitude points had not been completed yet.
You should know that when the locust plague came last year, under her leadership, the entire Qingshan Prefecture did not suffer much loss of grain, but instead allowed the local people to earn a small amount of money.
Later, refugees from Guangfu and Yongkangfu came to Qingshanfu, and she made an indelible contribution to the relief of refugees.
She could say with confidence that if she hadn't provided the food and a large amount of silver, she would not have come up with the idea of building the water conservancy project.
With only 600,000 kilograms of grain allocated by the court, Xie Ruiyuan would never be able to settle hundreds of thousands of refugees.
Even though Xie Ruiyuan had some private property and a lot of daily income, he still had too many expenses to spend, so it was already good enough for him to maintain a balance between income and expenditure every month.
To be honest, she didn't expect that Xie Ruiyuan, a prince, was not as rich as her.
Later, she also asked Xie Ruiyuan where the money went. The 300,000 troops stationed in the northern border were all supported by Xie Ruiyuan. The military pay alone required a lot of silver every year.
This is not the biggest expense. Soldiers who retired from the battlefield had difficulty making a living when they returned to their hometowns due to their disabilities. Xie Ruiyuan took out a large amount of silver and money to subsidize these veterans.
Of course, Xie Ruiyuan did not mean to support these veterans for free, but to provide them with jobs so that they can support themselves.
Even so, the amount of money invested in this every year is an astronomical figure, which is definitely more than the money spent on maintaining an army of 300,000. This is also the reason why Xie Ruiyuan, despite having so many industries, is still short of money and is a poor bachelor.
To be honest, ever since she knew that Xie Ruiyuan was willing to support retired veterans, she had a sense of admiration for Xie Ruiyuan in her heart.
Xie Ruiyuan is a true commander. He can lead soldiers to victory on the battlefield and arrange their lives after the war. He also tries his best to find ways to accommodate soldiers injured on the battlefield.
Although the living conditions are not very good, they can still have enough food and clothing, and they don’t have to beg on the streets and lose their dignity as soldiers.
After she learned that Xie Ruiyuan had done such a thing, she did not stand by and watch, but instead thought about solving the veterans' problem thoroughly from the root.
But even if she had food and money, it would not be easy to actually implement this idea.
You should know that the veterans that Xie Ruiyuan helped were not all from the northern border, there were also veterans from other military regions. In this way, the number of veterans was not just tens of thousands, but an astonishing one hundred thousand.
She still remembered how surprised she was when she first heard this number. If it was tens of thousands, it would be fine, but as many as 100,000 veterans were supported by Xie Ruiyuan alone. What did this mean? She knew it clearly without Xie Ruiyuan's explanation.
Thinking about how Xie Ruiyuan couldn't even come up with a mere one thousand taels of silver in front of her before, she felt that Xie Ruiyuan was too cowardly to be a prince. No matter what, how could he not be able to come up with a mere one thousand taels of silver?
When she learned about the retired veterans, she understood why Xie Ruiyuan had no money, because no matter how much money he had, it would be difficult to support 100,000 people.
Moreover, Xie Ruiyuan was only a prince, not the emperor, and could not legitimately allocate funds from the national treasury. However, the state also gave money to retired veterans at the moment of their retirement, but the money was too little to allow the veterans to maintain their lives.
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