Although Xun Yu and his companions anticipated significant expenses, they never imagined they would be this high. The Han Dynasty has seen improvement over the past two years, but the total annual tax revenue barely reaches two hundred billion coins, which is already several times higher than before, nearly the most abundant the government treasury has been in the past two hundred years!
That's the combined total of all the feudal lords, with Liu Xuande alone covering almost seventy percent of that amount.
The rest of the feudal lords together only contribute about seventy billion, a figure that rivals the total tax revenue of the Han Dynasty in most periods.
However, compared to Chen Xi's proposed seven hundred and fifty billion coins, the gap is enormous; it's basically the entire nation's tax revenue for four years. The problem is, the annual tax revenue can't all be allocated to Chen Xi's plan—what if other issues arise?
