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Ci An did not dare to calculate the debt anymore. He knew in his heart how much the Evil One had spent on training the Xishan Camp.

To be honest, Qing Dynasty's financial situation had eased up by a lot over the past five years, and was much better than the Tongzhi in history!

After the end of the war, the various areas were restored to their original areas. Huguang, Jiangnan and Shuangguang started to recover their taxes first. Following that, the economy of Henan, Shan, Shan and even Gansu started to stabilize!

The economy would naturally recover after the war ended, and most importantly, the new currency that Xiao Letian had brought made the imperial government heave a sigh of relief!

Forging silver coins would gradually abolish the ingots of the ingots. This was equivalent to cutting the waste on the greedy officials below. Just this large sum alone could save more than ten million silver taels a year!

Also, there was the North Ticket's income. Although the North Ticket's current inflation was very high and the market's acceptance was far inferior to Jiangnan's, this was after all the official currency, and once the market had sufficient money supply, the business would naturally flourish!

With a certain level of inflation and the tax revenue from the business stimulus, the annual revenue earned by the imperial government over the past five years had been over thirteen million silver taels!

This was a huge sum of money that he did not even dare to think about before! Back in the days when he was in the war with Long-hair, he could not even issue out the pay of the poor flags of the imperial government.

What would he do if he was rich? The Qing Dynasty and the Chinese people's choice were completely different!

On Xiao Letian's side, once he got the money, he would educate, build infrastructure, invest in industry and raise a modern army, especially the Deep Blue Navy!

Now that the Qing Dynasty was rich, the first thing they did was to make up for the Flag Man's pay, then they would rebuild their army!

The Evil Children's s had used up their large heads, so they also needed money to train their troops. They couldn't forget the threat from the Russian and the brave troops of the Far East!

Ci An was very clear that in the past five years, these sixty thousand soldiers of the Western Mountain had consumed 5 million silver taels on the accounts of the military.

However, this was all fake. In order to guard against the unhurried public outlets of the imperial government, General Gui Six split his military training fees into different categories and repaid them back and forth in the six divisions!

Even Ministry of Internal Affairs had to settle some debts!

The amount of military spending that Xishan Camp had to spend would be between eight million and ten million silver. This was Ci An's estimation, and many people in the imperial government agreed on this amount.

60,000 soldiers of the new army cost less than 10 million, was that not enough? And they even need to change their equipment from generation to generation? Listening to Zai Chun's words, the modern army needed to use the most advanced weapons for a long time!

If new weapons were to appear year after year, wouldn't this unit be supported with several million silver taels a year?

The imperial court was doing nothing but supporting the army?

"Stop, stop …" My son, how could our imperial government have that much money to raise an army! To change equipment every year, when will that be the end of it! "

Ci An suddenly extended his hand to stop Zai Chun's mouth, not allowing the little emperor to speak. Instead, he stared at Cai Bixia and asked, "General Cai … I wants to hear the truth from you! "

"His Majesty said to change equipment. What do you think is worth changing equipment for? How about we open I's eyes? "

Cai Bixia nodded her head, "There really is a new thing that has a purpose to being able to live forever. Since the empress dowager wants to see it for herself, that's fine too … This is a new weapon that our Chinese race has recommended to you! "

From afar, a valiant and formidable looking female soldier ran over, holding a manila folder as she saluted and placed it in Cai Bixia's hands.

"Your Majesty! The Head of the Guards and many of Bavaria's capitalists had invested into a machine factory, and the factory was located in Munich … The Führer named this machinery factory BMW! "

"The most important project for the BMW company now is Duke Qi Bolin's war airship, this is the photo!"

He took out a few black and white photos from the archives. Two of them were photos of when they were still, while the rest were photos of Qi Bolin's airship patrolling over Paris City.

"Your Majesty, take a look at this photo. The war correspondents are trying their best to capture this photo …" The Führer is throwing bombs on the Prism Castle of the outer city of Paris! "

"Qi Bolin's airship is different from ordinary hot air balloons. This is an aircraft with its own power system. As long as the wind does not blow strongly, it will not affect its flight speed!"

"The maximum height of the experiment has been raised to 2000 meters. The load on the entire suspension chamber has reached 7 tons. It can be used in small scale conflicts …"

"The leader gave His Majesty the price of friendship between master and disciple …" "450 thousand silver dollars per ship …"

"How much?" Ci An immediately shouted out, "This thing alone costs 450 thousand silver dollars per ship?"

Cai Bixia laughed bitterly, "Yes, this is just the price of the price... "Daily maintenance requires a lot of money. If His Majesty wants one Air Force Assault Team, he should have at least nine airships!"

"Three, three, three..." This meant that three ships could fight at any time, three ships were on standby, and the remaining three ships could be repaired and repaired … From beginning to end, I guarantee that you will have three trump cards that can be used in battles 24 hours a day! "

"Your Majesty, please be at ease …" The Führer can sell it to you as long as you like! Great Qing's only buyer, no competitor would be able to obtain such a weapon … "

"Later stages include the construction of airship bases, the acquisition of ammunition, spare parts …" The Führer gave His Majesty a package plan! "

"Five million taels of clear treasury is equal to silver. I promise I'll hand it over to His Majesty to form the battle squadron of nine airships within a year and a half!"

"No way!" Ci An immediately shouted, "Such a dark heart. Just nine hot air balloons and you want me to pay five million silver taels for them? Do you think that I am a fool? "

Cai Bixia was not angry at all. "Empress Dowager, this is really a friendship price. If it was purchased from another country, such a supporting contract would have to be worth at least seven million silver taels …"

"Master cherishes her disciple. This is why the price is so low: 5 million!"

Cai Bixia looked at Zai Chun and laughed, "Your Majesty has seen battles of a modern era before. You should know that when the two armies are in a stalemate, sometimes victory or defeat can only be considered one line!"

"One Elite Armament is enough to reverse the entire battle, so naturally, the victor will have all sorts of special privileges …"

"War is always a risky, high-yield investment! Have you forgotten about these basic skills? "

"Information..." I'll stay here. There's no need to rush into such a big business, we can talk about it slowly. I have time! "

"Buy!" Of course I want to buy it! Such a good thing, we must not let it go! " Zai Chun did not even need to nod her head to immediately shout it out.

"No!" Child, are you crazy? Are you just going to let them swindle you out of five million silver? "Where did the Ministry of Revenue get the money to allocate it to you? The Ministry of Revenue is empty …"

"Esteemed Empress Dowager, don't stop me. The imperial court has no money, so I have to buy this airship army even if I have to pay for it with my own money!"