章節 512: Chapter 250: Balanced Revenue and Expenditure_2

Upon hearing this question, Sun Siwen smiled and said, "To answer Your Majesty, these taxes have all been deposited in the treasuries of various prefectures. In the next two months, the tax money will be sent back to the capital and can be checked then."

Seeing his friend's confident response, Lu Yuan's heart finally believed this fact.

And after believing, he felt a burst of joy.

"If there are seven million silver taels for the summer tax in the first half of the year, by the time winter comes, the winter tax should have eight million silver taels. The combined amount would mean that Great Chu would collect fifteen million silver taels in taxes this year." Lu Yuan calculated these figures.

Great Chu inherited the Pre-Yue tax system, which collected taxes twice a year – the Summer Tax in July and the Winter Tax in November.