Old Madam Yu nodded. "That's true. The dirty money that was confiscated previously was from the tails. The real big deal are those that had been stolen by powerful officials at the top…"
The Imperial Court's annual taxes were only around a million taels of silver. In addition to maritime trade, it was only three to four million silver.
However, the amount confiscated previously was already a million taels of silver, which was equivalent to a year's worth of taxes from the Imperial Court.
It was obvious there would be a huge sum of money hidden by the heads.
Yu Youyao was worried. "When you pull a radish out of the ground, dirt comes up along with it. Ye Hanyuan will be busy exterminating the pirates until October at least. When the weather turns cold, the war at sea will be settled. Once the battle is over, it's done. The difficult thing is to deal with the aftermath of the war. To provide food relief, help the people, and rebuild…"
