The public money YAMASHIROYA had borrowed was approximately 650,000 yen in total, which was an enormous amount of money as much as 1% of the annual national revenue at that time (according to the page 53 of "Aritomo Yamagata" written by Michio FUJIMURA, it was 12% of the national revenue).
山城屋の借り出した公金は総額約65万円、当時の国家歳入の1%という途方もない額であった（藤村道生『山縣有朋』53ページによれば「歳入の12%」）。