Records of the Human Emperor Chapter 1272: The Secret History of the Confucian Sect

Chapter 1272: The Secret History of the Confucian Sect

Translated by: Hypersheep325

Edited by: Michyrr

The members of the Confucian Sect were far from the only ones to receive the news. In the Wang Family Residence, Wang Chong was dressed in casual attire, his black hair allowed to hang down, held in place by a single wooden hairpin. Standing at his desk, he exuded both a scholar's elegance and a warrior's solemnity. And in front of him was news from the various prefectures and commanderies.

"Not bad! In this little time, it's already exceeded fifty thousand!"

Wang Chong looked at the letter on the table and smiled. This number was far greater than he had imagined. The daily expenditure was simply astonishing. Even those great clans who had been operating in the capital for two to three hundred years and possessed astonishing wealth couldn't possibly bear this burden. In normal circumstances, no single person or faction would have ever been able to support such vast expense.

But after the Battle of Khorasan, Wang Chong had obtained 1.9 billion taels of gold from Mutasim III. One billion taels of gold had been handed to the Imperial Court, one hundred million had been used to buy the Hyderabad ore mine, and two hundred million had been used for payments, both to the families of soldiers who had died in battle and for the services of the various tribes of the Western Regions and the kingdoms of Greater and Lesser Balur.

This left Wang Chong and Gao Xianzhi with six hundred million taels of gold. It was precisely this vast sum of wealth that allowed Wang Chong to support such an enormous number of body-strengthening schools throughout the empire.

This step was not necessarily to counter Li Junxian and the Confucian Sect. In truth, long before, when he had first obtained this gold, Wang Chong and Gao Xianzhi had discussed in Khorasan how they could use this money to enrich the country and strengthen the people. One of their ideas was to build body-strengthening schools throughout the empire that would teach martial

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