Medicinal Grain and Payroll Silver, Prince Wo Yila

Chu Danqing carefully inquired about these so-called medicinal provisions and pay and came to understand what they were.

Just as he had guessed, they were a form of military pay.

Only, the medicinal materials were supplied exclusively to generals and officers who practiced martial arts, while the grain went to ordinary soldiers.

From Zhou Siquan, he also learned that these supplies inevitably suffered exploitation. The good things in the medicinal pay had long since been swapped out.

As for the grain pay, receiving fifty percent of old grain on the books was already considered quite good.

Fortunately, this time the supplies were for all of Yujian Pass. If quality fell short, quantity made up for it.

Hearing this, Chu Danqing was rather surprised. The Imperial Court even dared to withhold supplies meant for the frontier army?

Zhou Siquan, however, acted as though this were entirely commonplace.

No wonder Zhou Siquan had become a bandit so readily.

As for what would happen to Yujian Pass without this batch of medicinal provisions and pay?

Nothing much would happen. They would simply make the Imperial Court replenish it.

After all, the responsibility would not be theirs to bear.

Nor did they need to worry that the Imperial Court would refuse. They only dared to skim off the top; they did not dare deny it outright.

Listening to Zhou Siquan's tone, Chu Danqing strongly suspected that he had used this very method to plunder medicinal provisions and pay before.

He would simply seize them, claim they had never arrived, and make the Imperial Court issue replacements.

If he did it once or twice, even if the Imperial Court knew, they would not investigate too deeply.

After all, for those people in the Imperial Court, it meant another layer of grease to skim, while someone