Chapter 1326: Side Story: Having the Whole World in View (3)
Afraid that Little Leopard would exhaust his savings, Little Fu personally helped to calculate the cost of recruiting soldiers and buying horses.
He didn’t have much money either!
Little Fu had spent a lot of money in the past three years. To have been only at a slight disadvantage when it’s just him alone against the few young princes, he’d depended on his intelligence and money.
Though the princes had power in the palace, Little Fu was rich. Whenever they used their power to bully him, he would use money to attack back.
The palace servants in the Royal School and the imperial kitchen had all received bribes from him.
Fortunately, with a monthly allowance of 20 taels of silver, he was truly rich. In addition to the profits from his investments in sea trade, pearl aqua farms, and so on, and his mother’s help from time to time, what Little Fu did not lack the most was money.
But no matter how much he had, it wasn’t enough for him to splurge like this.
Moreover, it had become a tradition for the children of the three families to do charity. Every year, he had to fork out a portion of his money to the person-in-charge of the Treasure-Bear Academy to sponsor the poor students’ studies.
Therefore, Little Fu realized that he seemed to have become poor.
In order not to let Little Leopard waste his money, he found an abacus to help him calculate the cost of recruiting soldiers and buying horses.
Then, the two children realized that they were actually quite poor. With the amount of money that they had, they could only recruit a team of less than 500 people.
They asked the head of the guards about the cost of hiring soldiers and buying horses. Since these people were all from the military, they knew about such things.