my british empire

Chapter 270 Terrible pension
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After Norwich City was taken, the whole of England began to restore calm and peace, and the pockets of our king, the continuous flow of pounds sterling, also began to stop.

You must know that the local militiamen only serve the king for one month a year, and other than that, the rest of the salary is paid by the king.

On February [-], the good news from the northeast of England finally reached London. The nobles and commoners were not at all happy about the news of victory.

In fact, apart from His Majesty the King, no one else in England cared a bit about these two riots.

"Your Majesty, according to the detailed reports of Marquis William and Knight Alexander, our Finance Office calculated the following data in one day!"

Edward reclined on his big seat, lazily opened his eyes, and listened to the report of Luna, the chief steward of the royal family and the director of the royal finance department.

As the housekeeper, Luna can no longer be by Edward's side as before. The affairs of the royal family and court consume most of her time. Except for a few times a day, Edward hardly sees her. .

Edward squinted his eyes slightly, and carefully looked at the girl who had grown up with him, feeling infinite emotion in his heart.

The girl was two years older than him, and she was already 16 years old. In this era when she started getting married at the age of thirteen or fourteen, she was relatively old!
Her long flaxen hair was held up by a red rope, revealing her smooth forehead. On top of her green eyes were two slightly thick eyebrows. A mature and stable atmosphere, even with a domineering feeling.

Of course, this is the feeling in the eyes of ordinary English men. John Bulls, who are used to machismo, will definitely not feel comfortable with this kind of attitude of women over men!
And Edward turned his eyes back and forth on her, and nodded with a smile.

Edward expressed his satisfaction for this kind of capable and beautiful Luna. In this society where women are dependent on men, it is difficult to see such a woman with a different temperament!
A pair of white and tender long legs stood upright, which was extremely alluring to a man.

"It's just that there are no stockings, alas, what a pity!" Edward sighed silently in his heart.

"Your Majesty, in the past three months, the total expenditure of the royal family has reached 16 pounds!"

Luna's red lips parted lightly, her fat white and tender fingers lifted a piece of paper, she glanced sideways at the lazy young king with her beautiful eyes, rolled her eyes playfully, and then said softly.

"Among them, the Devonshire where Alexander Knight is located, spent a total of [-] pounds, which took up to two months, of which [-] pounds were spent on salaries, and [-] pounds were spent on food and weapons!"

"The army led by the Marquis Pall spent 2 pounds, and the total number of troops assembled reached [-], involving the six counties of East England. It took as long as three months!"

"This time the militiamen had a total of nearly 20 casualties, and according to the regulations you promulgated, the total compensation for casualties and disabled soldiers reached nearly [-] pounds!"

The pension regulations that Luna mentioned were issued during the establishment of the Guards. The standard of pensions was [-] pounds for minor injuries, [-] pounds for serious injuries and disabilities, and [-] pounds for the families of those who died. Received from Royal Bank.

For the militiamen, pensions and so on are just floating clouds, basically they have never seen or imagined such a thing.

Serving as a soldier to eat food and make money is the consensus of all ordinary soldiers in Europe and even the world at present. As for the king, England, etc., this word does not exist in the soldiers' minds!

Therefore, Edward has always been entangled in the pension of the militia.

Pension it!The number of militiamen who died is an astronomical figure. It can be said without hesitation that it can directly drag the royal family into bankruptcy.

But if there are pensions, there are many benefits.

First, it can win a lot of hearts for the royal family.

You must know that every militiaman has a large family behind him. If pensions are issued to 1000 people, it can affect at least a few thousand people.

But this time, if pensions are issued to more than 6000 casualties, it will affect at least 5 to [-] soldiers.

And you must know that the total population of England and Wales is only 300 million at this time, which is not a small number.

Therefore, Edward deliberated and decided to issue pensions to the militia, but the standard was directly cut in half, so that the royal family could barely support it!
However, in this way, this figure is also shocking, reaching a huge 20.

These two suppressions of civil riots directly cost as much as 36 yuan, which was almost the income of the royal family for a year.

If his cheap father Henry VIII encountered this incident, his first reaction would be to sell the land, and the second would be to borrow money.

Simply, there was still nearly 30 pounds of income last year that had not been spent, and coupled with the income from pubs and liquor sales in the past few months, the pension could barely be fully paid out.

"Luna, send someone to the Marquis of Pall and Knight Alexander to register in detail, record the wounded and dead soldiers, and try not to miss them!"

When Edward heard such a large number, he felt a little uneasy. He immediately sat up straight and ordered in a loud voice.

Such a huge number, if he does not conduct a detailed investigation and confirm it, he will not worry about the reports of those officials and military officers, and don't underestimate anyone's courage, especially plundering the money of those mud legs.

Don't put the money for buying people's hearts into other people's pockets, wasting his painstaking efforts in vain.

"Yes, Your Majesty, I will send someone to follow up!"

Luna nodded lightly, and agreed. She was not at ease with such a large sum of money. Even if the king didn't say it, she would propose it to the king.

"Well, you can talk to Adler Todd, after all, the money still has to go through the Royal Bank, communicate in advance, and let him pay attention!"

"Okay, I understand!" Luna agreed smartly, and stuck out her pink tongue mischievously. The original dignified director of the financial department of the royal family became a lovely maid.

Immediately, she obediently sat beside the young king, massaging the king's shoulders with her slightly rough palms, with a fawning look.

"You are so busy these days! I haven't seen you for a week?"

Edward fell back, his head lay directly on top of those huge breasts, soft and extremely comfortable.

(End of this chapter)