Looking at the shiny and heavy bronze talisman in his hand, Zhou Jun suddenly felt a little emotional about being a laborer in his previous life.
After collecting his thoughts, Zhou Jun saluted Mr. Pang and said, "My boss..."
Pang Gong waved his hand and said: "This title seems too unfamiliar. Our family was all frightened when I heard it."
Zhou Jun was helpless: "Pang Gong..."
Pang Gong: "Yes, that's right."
Zhou Jun: "Things have to be prioritized. I don't know where to start with the renovation of Bachuan Villa?"
Pang Gong thought for a while and said: "This garden is divided into outer garden, middle garden and inner garden. The inner garden is the largest, the outer garden is second, and the middle garden is the smallest. The place where we are talking to you now is the middle garden."
"Although the inner garden is large, it has been in disrepair and has long been abandoned. Snakes and rats are rampant, making it difficult for people to enter, so I ordered people to seal it."
"Therefore, when you repair the Bieyuan, you can start with the Central Garden first."
"There is no need to paint or renovate, just strengthen the structure and fill in the gaps."
"In addition to repairing the Zhongyuan, there is another important thing, which is the repaving of the road."
"When you came here, you also saw that there is a section on the road leading to Bachuan that is full of potholes and waterlogged, making it difficult to walk."
"If we plan to stay longer, the rations our family brought this time will definitely not be enough, and we will have to send someone out to purchase them."
"Since food, charcoal and other items need to be transported back and forth, this road will definitely need to be resurfaced."
"Therefore, road construction is also an important matter."
"By the way, also, our family's trip this time was not long, so we didn't bring the accountant from Shengyefang. If you have time, you can go and hire one."
"As for the withdrawal of all money and goods, you can go to Waiyuan to look for a man named Qiu Yong. He has a knife wound on the base of his right ear, which is easy to identify."
After confirming with Pang Gong what should be done again, Zhou Jun went directly to the outer garden without even bothering to drink water.
In the open air of the outer garden, Zhou Jun saw an old man with gray hair but a strong body, lying leisurely in the corner, taking a nap while basking in the sun.
Zhou Jun walked up to him and saw that his appearance matched Pang Gong's description, so he sang: "May I ask if this old man is Qiu Yong?"
The old man opened his eyes, saw Zhou Jun, stood up quickly, and said with a smile: "What do you want, little man?"
Zhou Jun took out the talisman and said to Qiu Yong: "A certain person entered the Pang Mansion and took over the errand of Pang Gong."
When Qiu Yong saw this, he was even more happy and said: "In this way, we are a family!"
Zhou Jun laughed and chatted for a while, then said: "The Bieyuan Garden has been in disrepair for a long time. Duke Pang ordered me to find someone to repair it. But I want to tell you about this money and silk."
Qiu Yong: "It's easy to talk, but the accountant didn't come with me. How to deal with the accounts?"
Seeing the hesitation on Zhou Jun's face, Qiu Yong added: "Most of the servants in the Pang Mansion are old people from the Wu family. Old soldiers like me can fight and kill people, but they can't do anything about building walls and carpentry."
"Young Master, go and add more people to share the burden. We old slaves are too late to be happy, so how can we cause you any trouble?"
"It's really because the accounts are so important, and the master comes from the palace, so he is very concerned about the accounts. If he doesn't do it right, everyone will be blamed."
Zhou Jun clearly understood that Qiu Yong's eloquent words actually meant the same thing - it's not that I don't want to lend you money, but Mr. Pang attaches great importance to accounts. If there is no accountant, if the accounts are wrong, everyone will be in trouble.
Zhou Jun thought of this and said to Qiu Yong: "Does the old man have any account books from the past with him?"
The latter thought for a while and replied: "Some of them are waste accounts, used as fire starters."
Zhou Jun just wanted to see what method the Pang Mansion used to keep accounts. As for whether it was a waste of accounts, he didn't care.
After Qiu Yong got the account book, Zhou Jun took a rough look at it and found that the large households in the Tang Dynasty still used the single-entry accounting method of the Western Han Dynasty. Although there were two columns, assets, liabilities and other financial items were recorded.
Very rough.
The double-entry accounting method was only discovered during the Ming and Qing Dynasties.
Zhou Jun was a police officer in his previous life, and sometimes he had to help distribute supplies to communities and streets. He also occasionally came into contact with financial accounts, so he probably knew something about this area.
Zhou Jun returned the waste accounts to Qiu Yong and said: "A certain person is a slave Yalang. He has done slave accounts and knows a little bit about it."
Qiu Yong: "Does the young man even know about the accounting affairs?"
Zhou Jun: "Please wait a moment, Mr. Qiu. Let's put the payment aside for now. I'll make an inventory first, and then I'll make a schedule. I'll ask Mr. Pang to take a look at it first."
Zhou Jun thought as he walked towards the side room, he didn't think of this just now. Even in his previous life, whether it was a company or an institution, most of them had to fill in a budget form first if they wanted to make a payment.
You are a new member of Makuya, and the others are not familiar with you. Based on a few words from Pang Gong, you want to advance the money. No matter how you think about it, it is a bit fanciful.
Walking to the desk in the wing room, Zhou Jun spread out the paper, took off the chicken pen, and began to fill in the budget form for purchasing slaves, hiring craftsmen, and repairing houses and roads.
Different from the horizontally loaded inventory list (purchasing quotation sheet with pure text) commonly used in the Tang Dynasty, Zhou Jun used a brush to draw out the table and divided the table into rows and columns.
According to the habits of the previous life, the branch line is serial number, divided into items such as name, unit, quantity, unit price, total, remarks, etc., and columns such as total, taxes and fees are added at the bottom of the table.
After the entire form is completed, the purchase items, prices, quantities, and total payments are clear at a glance.
Zhou Jun wrote seriously, but at some point, he noticed that Hua Yue had also come to his side.
Looking at this intuitive and refreshing quotation, Huayue said in surprise: "This is completely different from the calculation method I have seen before."
Zhou Jun blew the wet ink and said to Hua Yue: "If you replace all the numbers on this with the Arabic numerals I taught you, you will find that this form is simpler and more intuitive."
After saying that, Zhou Jun took the newly prepared quotation and went to the pavilion in Zhongyuan to go to Pang Gong to apply for a budget.
Pang Gong sat on a stone bench, with a Yao Qin in front of him. Yu Ping stood by and lit incense.
Seeing Zhou Jun walking quickly from the outer garden, Pang Gong smiled and said to Yuping: "Look, I told you, Zhou Jun is coming back."
Zhou Jun came to the pavilion, but before he spoke, Pang Gong asked: "You came to our house, but because you met Qiu Yong, that old guy didn't want to advance money to you?"
Zhou Jun shook his head and said: "Although the matter is urgent, it is not common sense to ask for an advance without doing any calculation. Qiu Weng has not released the money, so it is natural."
Pang Gong was stunned and then said: "If you don't advance the money, how will you do anything?"
Zhou Jun took out the budget sheet that had been prepared from his arms and handed it over with both hands: "Repair the house and repave the road. I made a calculation and asked Mr. Pang to read it."
Pang Gong was surprised: "Accounting? It only took less than an hour. Where did you hire the accountant?"
Zhou Jun: "I made it myself."
Pang Gong: "Did you do it? Erlang, please don't trick our family..."
After looking at the calculation sheet handed over by Zhou Jun, Pang Gong took a breath: "This calculation method... this is the first time our family has seen it!"
"Use the sky and the earth as the frame, use the longitude and latitude as the lines, fill in the grids, and see clearly at a glance. This method is interesting!"
After reading the budget sheet, Pang Gong looked deeply at Zhou Jun and said softly: "Zhou Zhoulang, you really surprised our family..."
Zhou Jun lowered his head and said, "Pang Gong, what is the plan for this money?"
Pang Gong took the seal from his waist, stamped it on the paper, and said, "It's accurate."