Liaodong, in the Tenglong Vanguard's camp.
Yu Tonghai and Xue Ping were sitting together, drinking tea as they looked through the account books.
"In the first half of this year, a total of six hundred and thirty thousand taels of silver came in. Three hundred and sixty thousand taels need to be shared with the other three guards, and we still have eight hundred thousand taels of ready silver!" Xue Ping said after finishing the account book.
Yu Tonghai stroked his beard and nodded. "How should this silver be spent?"
Other guard posts worried because they had no money, yet the Tenglong Vanguard had to worry about how to spend its silver.
To be honest, the Tenglong Vanguard's establishment somewhat limited the development of the Tenglong Guard's naval force. These years, Yu Tonghai had first expanded the docks, then built a shipyard, and then produced a large number of warships and merchant ships, yet he still had eight hundred thousand taels of ready silver sitting in his hands with nowhere to spend it.
Xue Ping thought about it and said, "Why not issue the soldiers another round of reward silver?"
"Now? Then do we still issue it at the end of the year?" Yu Tonghai asked.
"Uh!" Xue Ping was somewhat troubled.
Issuing reward silver to the soldiers ought to be the best way to spend silver, but the problem was that this reward silver could not be handed out too often. Once or twice every year was enough.
"Then let's form another fleet!" Xue Ping said.
Yu Tonghai thought about it and said, "Forming a fleet is no problem, but at present we already have four fleets, and the other three guards each have two. That makes ten fleets in total. Add in the fleets of other maritime merchants,