Looking at the documents in his hand, Marshal Maurice had no idea how to extract enough compensation funds from the Empire's finances, which had just nearly collapsed and was now barely holding on, to provide for the families of the fallen Imperial officials.
The Imperial Finance Minister has been killed in action, and a compensation payment of 100 million Imperial coins is required.
The Imperial Finance Lieutenant was killed in action, and 80 million Imperial coins are required as a condolence payment.
The Imperial Treasurer has been killed in action, and a compensation payment of 60 million Imperial coins is required.
The Imperial Finance Minister has been killed in action, and a compensation payment of 40 million Imperial coins is required.
The Imperial Chief Financial Officer has been killed in action, and a compensation payment of 30 million Imperial coins is required.
The Imperial Deputy Chief of Statistics and Finance was killed in action, and a compensation payment of 20 million Imperial coins is required.
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Looking at the list of the dead that filled several pages of documents, Marshal Maurice roughly estimated in his mind that the condolence money for officials with a salary of over one million alone would require billions of imperial coins, not to mention the tens of thousands to hundreds of thousands needed for the numerous lower-ranking imperial officials.
It would probably take tens of billions of imperial coins to compensate the families of these fallen officials.
Let alone an empire whose finances are already somewhat collapsed, even an empire with normally sound finances would need to rack its brains and cut corners from other departments' budgets to possibly make up such a large sum of imperial currency.
After reading the document sent by the Imperial Intelligence Department, Marshal Maurice casually tossed it onto his desk. Although he knew that reporting this to the Emperor would only elicit a dismissive reply, he still decided to report it anyway.
Marshal Maurice picked up the communicator again and reported the recent events to the emperor, who sat upright in the white temple.
"Your Majesty, many things have happened in the Empire recently, almost all because of that person. The most serious of these is that he destroyed dozens of kilometers of streets and factories in the capital in broad daylight."
The people initially thought that the strange creature had returned to the capital, but after being reassured by a large number of imperial patrol members, they calmed down and no riot broke out.
Another major event happened not long ago. He entered the Imperial Finance Headquarters in the palace for some unknown reason. What happened after he entered was unknown to his subordinates. However, when he walked out of the palace, the Imperial Finance Headquarters was empty; everyone had vanished into thin air.
However, this matter has been temporarily stabilized by allocating substitute officials and temporarily transferring personnel from other departments, which has stabilized the imperial finances that were on the verge of collapse. Your Majesty, please do not worry that the imperial finances will collapse.
However, Your Majesty, there were a great many officials who died in these two incidents. With the current imperial finances, it is probably impossible to pay all of them their condolences. There is only one way now: to divide the officials into two groups, pay one group first, and then pay the next group after the imperial finances have stabilized.
However, this might provoke discontent among the families of officials who receive the funds later, potentially leading to small-scale riots.
After compiling all the events that had occurred during this period into a report and submitting it to the Emperor, Marshal Maurice put down his communicator. He had intended to rest for a while, but then he saw the pile of documents on his desk that required his attention.
Sigh~
With another heavy sigh, Marshal Maurice gave up the need for rest, stretched his stiff neck, and began his busy work.
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