"Your Majesty, excluding all expenditures for this year, the Imperial Court still has sixteen million taels of silver in reserve in the treasury," Minister of Revenue Fang Yuegong reported, bowing.
Emperor Chongzhen chuckled and said, "Calculated at an annual deficit of eight million taels, this silver can still last us two years! Splendid, simply splendid. You truly are my fine assistants!"
All the members of the cabinet stood in place in silence.
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