If he really had to pay three thousand Kan, his payroll would explode—he flat-out wouldn't be able to pay the rest of his men.
Oda Nobunaga was also a notorious big spender. For his loyal Samurai like Ikegami Keisuke and Maeda Toshie, their annual salary was usually four or five hundred Kan—never more than a thousand. If it ever went above a thousand, he might as well just hand them some land, so they could make and spend money on their own.
And historical figures like the "monkey" were even more stingy. For example, when Yamana Ichitomu had just joined the monkey, his annual stipend was only twenty Kan. He couldn't even afford a decent horse, and it took Endo Chiyoda secretly selling her dowry and doing business on the side just to outfit him with a good horse and gear—he finally caught the monkey's eye at the Kyoto grand review.
