Yang Zhenshan asked Zhou Ren again, "How much food do we have now?"
"Reporting to you, sir, all sixteen granaries in the government office are full, holding 160,000 Shi of grain. Additionally, the Treasury Division has 8,000 Shi of grain and 30,000 Shi of horse feed!" Zhou Ren replied.
As a military institution, stockpiling food is a necessity, and over the years, they have spent silver as it comes, but have stored as much grain as possible.
As the saying goes, with enough grain in hand, there's no need to panic.
"What about the silver on hand?" Yang Zhenshan continued.
"Silver on hand!" Zhou Ren thought for a moment and said, "The treasury has exactly one hundred thousand taels of silver, the Treasury Division has over thirty thousand taels, and just two days ago, thirty thousand taels were allocated to the Engineering Division!"
"There should also be one hundred thousand taels of silver available at the docks!"
