Chapter 485: Wait for me to dig out the mouse hole
From the mouse hole in the house, you can take out one thousand three hundred taels of silver to renovate the Dongfeng Building?
Chun Changshou was quite skeptical about Jia Lian's drunken words.
It's not that he doubted that there wasn't such a big "mouse hole" in the Rongguo Mansion, where the family had a big business. Who didn't know that the servants of the Jia family were keeping accounts outside and could get away with three to five thousand taels of silver?
The question is whether Mr. Lian can afford such a big "mouse hole".
What if the person sitting in the "rat cave" is not a rat, but Wu Song?
If Mistress "Wu Song" Lian Er shows off her power, even if "Tiger Lord" Er Ye Lian can find the money, he won't have the life to spend it, right?
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Chun Changshou is a kind-hearted person, but he always feels that Erye Lian’s life is more important than Dongfeng Tower.
After much hesitation, he still took Jia Lian’s arm and whispered:
"Second Master, why don't we rush to renovate Dongfeng Building first?
I think the cost of converting the entire Jixian Building into private seating is limited, so we might as well do this first.
Then when Jixian Tower makes money later, we will have time to clean up Dongfeng Tower.
You don’t have to spend all your money at the same time. Wouldn’t that make things difficult for yourself?”
Jia Lian heard it immediately. Chun Changshou was afraid that Jia Lian would be embarrassed because he had no money, and that he would risk getting money and be caught by his wife.
After all, the "henpecked tiger king" slogan on Mr. Lian's head is too deeply rooted in people's hearts.
Jia Lian patted Chun Changshou heavily on the shoulder:
"Lao Chun, don't worry, I know the money thing. You have a lot of work in these two restaurants.
You go back quickly today to recuperate your energy. Get up early tomorrow morning and go find a carpenter. Within ten days, the entire Xian Building will be converted into a seating area. The staff on both sides will be deployed, and the accounts will be straightened out as soon as possible. p>
If there's anything you can't handle, come to me quickly without delay.
I'll prepare the money and find someone to make the designs. In ten days, our Dongfeng Tower will start construction."
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Early the next morning, except for a few gatekeepers, all the male servants in the outer courtyard of the Jia Mansion were called.
Hundreds of people stood in a dark place filling a courtyard.
At this time, Jia Yun, as the new general manager of Rongguo Mansion, had ordered the servants to queue up according to their duties according to Jia Lian's instructions.
When Jia Lian came out of the inner house, a servant shouted:
"Second Master Lian is here."
Immediately everyone knelt down.
Jia Lian saw that Jia Yun was indeed at the front of each queue, and someone was arranged to hold a wooden sign. Jia Lian looked over one by one, and saw that it said general manager's room, accounting room, bank, granary, farm, purchasing, manufacturing, and kitchen.
, teahouse, pharmacy, concierge, stable, carriage, needlework, gold and silver utensils, etc.
Counting silently in my mind, there are twenty-seven in total.
Jia Lian not only frowned secretly:
It is a good thing to have a clear division of labor, and it is also a good thing for everyone to perform their own duties, but it is not a good thing if the organizational structure is too complex and the personnel are too bloated.
The current organization of Rongguo Mansion is so bloated that it is almost catching up with the "system".
No, these minions are really "within the system".
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Rongguo Mansion has a strict institutional setup with a clear division of labor and collaboration. If the supervision mechanism is intact, it is really a "system".
The slaves of the Rongguo Mansion are well-paid, have little work, are decent, and have backers. Of course, they are also slaves with "establishment" within the "system".
The slaves who are not slaves "have children", or they have been selected through layers and asked to find connections, but ordinary people really can't get in.
In the original book "A Dream of Red Mansions", the management center of Rongguo Mansion is called the "Prime Minister's Room".
The managers of the Prime Minister's Office are responsible for the arrangement and coordination of all matters in the entire mansion according to the instructions given by their master. The basis for their work is "the old rules passed down by the ancestors of the Jia Mansion".
With the "house rules" of "old rules", even the master cannot break the rules at will.
Not only the affairs of the outer house are like this, but also any maid in the inner house who is sick must be reported to the Prime Minister's Office first.
If the Prime Minister's Office issues an order to ask a doctor for consultation, all relevant medical expenses will be borne by the "official".
However, the Prime Minister's Office will also be informed that this maid is sick. In order to avoid infecting other people, the sick maid will immediately move out of Rongguo Mansion and go home to recuperate. Only after she is confirmed to have recovered can she work in the government again. p>
If you are like Baoyu who feels sorry for the maid, feels that the conditions at home are not conducive to recuperation, and does not want the maid to go home to recuperate, you can only secretly hire a doctor yourself, and be responsible for all the expenses of the doctor buying medicine.
The leadership team of the Prime Minister's Office is composed of the four housekeepers "Lai, Lin, Shan, and Wu".
In order of status, Lai Da, who has the highest status, is called "Uncle Lai" by his subordinates, Lin Zhixiao, who has the second highest status, is called "Second Master Lin", Shan Daliang is called "Shan Third Master", and Wu Xindeng is called "Fourth Master Wu".<
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Although Wu Xindeng is just "Fourth Master Wu" here, he is in charge of the fattest jobs in the Rongguo Mansion - the accountant, the grain warehouse, the bank and the purchase. These four big pieces of fat, let alone a bite, are...
If you touch it, your hands will be covered with oil, which is enough for an ordinary slave to lick for a year and a half.
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It is said that the rules and regulations in the Jia family's accounting room are quite strict. Everything is done according to the rules. There is a series of procedures for receiving money, and even the master is no exception.
For example, Wang Xifeng is in charge of the monthly money for each room in the inner house.
In fact, the general ledger is calculated by the accountant, and the prime minister's office is responsible for collecting it from the bank, and then the housekeeper's wife hands it to Wang Xifeng. Wang Xifeng is only responsible for distributing it according to the head.
The only loophole that Wang Xifeng could take advantage of was that after getting the money from the accountant, he did not distribute it, but took the time to make a loan shark. After waiting ten and a half months, he quickly recovered the principal and distributed it to the inner house according to the amount.
What everyone earns in the middle is just the interest of these ten days and a half.
From this alone, Wang Xifeng can earn thousands of taels of "pass-through benefits" in one year.
If Wang Xifeng, a woman in an inner house, is like this, then what about Wu Xindeng, who really manages accounts and money?
Think about how fat he must be?
Wu Xindeng was in charge of the external accounting office, and Wu Xindeng's wife was in charge of the internal accounting office. The couple firmly controlled the money pockets of the Jia family.
Wu Xindeng's younger brother Wu Xinzhu is in charge of the bank, so it is more convenient to withdraw money.
Wu Xindeng's daughter married Lai Shangning, the son of Lai Er, the housekeeper of Ningguo Mansion, and now she and the housekeeper "Uncle Lai" truly became a "family".
Wu Xindeng's nephew married Mrs. Wang's companion, the niece of Zheng Hua's family, and now he has Mrs. Wang as a "big supporter".
The steward of the granary is Dai Liang, the uncle of Yu Lu, who is in charge of silver and rice. Yu Lu's nephew made money and became a member of the Zheng Hua family, called Grandma Qian. Through Zheng Hua, he also controlled the granary.
This group of people, in a series of intrigues, covering up the sky and the sun, took out the Jia family to pieces like a hamster, can they still pay it off?
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According to Jia Lian's instructions three days ago, today is the day to officially dig out the mouse hole.
This couldn't be done in a short time, so Jia Lian had already ordered Jia Yun to prepare the south hall between the inside of Yimen and the outside of Neiyi.
Jia Lian sat in the middle, followed by Jia Yun and Xing'er.
There is a row of tables on the left, and Long'er is leading more than a dozen accounting clerks.
They had already followed Jia Lian's instructions and carefully recorded all the corruption handed over in the past three days, and calculated each account and the general account of each family.
There is also a row of tables on the right side of Jia Lian. On the table are the account books that have been copied and calculated for everyone's Tan Mo. Su Ming, Caiming and others are responsible for checking.
Lin Zhixiao held the roster in his hand and was responsible for calling people in order to "pass the hall".
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Everyone stood outside the ceremony gate, wondering which "unlucky guy" would be sneaked in for the first time.
Because the scariest thing is the oil pan!
In front of the hall where Jia Lian is sitting now, there is a big oil pan!
The red flames licked the dark bottom of the pot, and in the large pot over three feet, the hot oil bubbled "Gurgling".