| 11. | Safeguarding the country's borders cost 100, 000 taels per year.
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| 12. | The total military budget came up to about 10 million taels a year.
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| 13. | The Ming increased his annual subsidy to 81, 000 taels of silver.
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| 14. | He went around to some forty villages and collected 80, 000 taels.
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| 15. | The bridge has cost 12, 900 taels.
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| 16. | He received an annual subsidy of 40, 000 taels of silver in 1620.
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| 17. | Yip leaves with 7.5 Taels and his daughter ( Sandra Ng ).
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| 18. | Then she has to pay him back 2 1-2 taels ( ounces ).
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| 19. | One important unit was a tael, a measurement of weight with several different definitions.
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| 20. | Common weights were 50 taels, 10 taels, and 5 down to 1 tael.
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