Yang Zhengshan asked Zhou Ren again, "How much grain do we have right now?"
"Reporting to my lord, at present, the yamen's sixteen granaries are all full, with a stored grain reserve of one hundred and sixty thousand shi. In addition, the Finance and Grain Department's warehouse still has eight thousand shi of grain and thirty thousand shi of horse fodder!" Zhou Ren replied.
As a military institution, stockpiling grain was something that had to be done. These years, when it came to silver, they had spent as much as they had, but when it came to grain, they stored as much as they possibly could.
As the saying went, with grain in hand, the heart did not panic.
"What about ready silver?" Yang Zhengshan continued.
"Ready silver!" Zhou Ren thought about it and said, "The silver vault has exactly fifty thousand taels of ready silver. The Finance and Grain Department has over thirty thousand taels of ready silver. In addition, two days ago, exactly thirty thousand taels of ready silver were just allocated to the Engineering Department!"
"There should also be one hundred thousand taels of ready silver over at the docks!"
Tenglong Guard's management of silver and money was rather complicated, because there were many places where silver had to be spent, and every departmental section had its own little treasury.
However, the largest silver vault among them was not the silver vault inside the yamen, but the Naval Force's silver vault.
Because the Naval Force's silver vault included the payment for the merchant ships' goods and the taxes levied on other fleets.
Adding up all the odds and ends, the silver Tenglong Guard could mobilize right now amounted to more than two hundred thousand taels.
This number sounded like quite a lot, but in reality, it was