"What is the relationship between King Guangchang and his brother-in-law?" Wang Xian asked again.
"The relationship is very good, even better than with his biological brother." Long Yao replied.
"Yeah." Wang Xian nodded, indicating that he had nothing more to ask.
Long Yao stood up and left. When he walked to the door, he turned around and begged: "Sir, you have to save him, otherwise he will be killed by those people."
"It's not that serious," Wang Xian said calmly: "If King Guangchang is in danger, I will naturally bear the responsibility."
"Thank you, sir." Long Yao was deeply blessed and then stepped back.
The next day, Magistrate He came to the house again, this time with three large wooden boxes, which were not gold and silver treasures, but full of account books. According to the agreed process, Wang Xian would check the relevant account books as the first step in officially handling the case.
One step, this is what the title should mean.
"All the accounts are here, do you need any manpower for the superior?" After the clerk put down the wooden box, Magistrate He said kindly: "There are still a few accounting rooms in the magistrate's Yamen that can be used. I asked them to put down their work and come here.
How about helping with the difference?”
"Thank you for your kindness, sir, but there's no need for it." Wang Xian said calmly, "I'm a lowly official and it's within my ability."
Magistrate He secretly laughed in his heart, this boy is still a young boy after all. Even if you have a background as a juren, that is two different things from understanding complicated accounts. Besides, even if the old accountant comes to check these accounts, I'm afraid they won't be able to figure it out by the end of the year.
Here comes the clue. Moreover, both parties agreed that the account books would be returned to the feudal lord's office in three days.
"Then I won't disturb you, sir. If you need help, please let me know at any time and I will send someone over at any time." Magistrate He said with a smile.
"Thank you, Mr. Futai. I will certainly not be polite if necessary." Wang Xian smiled and sent him out, closed the door and came back, smiling at each other with Erhei.
"That guy can't believe that your Excellency is the ancestor of the audit team." Erhei laughed. How Wang Xian defeated Li Sihu back then was still fresh in his memory.
"Haha, I am not very good at everything, but I am proficient in this matter." Wang Xian laughed loudly and said, "It's abacus."
Although it sounds easy, the accounts of this province are far from comparable to that of a county. Wang Xian did not dare to neglect at all. From the next moment, he, Erhei and others locked themselves in the room, unable to leave even an inch, and started work forgetting sleep and food.
…
Thunderbolts were hitting the plantains like rain. Wang Xian's left hand quickly moved on the abacus, and his right hand picked up a pen to make notes. When he nodded, Erhei quickly turned a page. When he filled up a piece of paper, Erhei
He took it to the adjacent table and laid it out; after he finished checking one account book, Erhei took another one, and at the same time gave the original one to Mo Wen outside to copy it down... Magistrate He was extremely shrewd, but
I forgot that Wang Xian could just copy down the account book first and look back slowly. It was just that Accountant Wang was eager to understand the situation, so he was in such a hurry.
Seeing Wang Xian finish checking an account in almost half an hour, Erhei couldn't help but admire this guy deeply again... Why didn't you see that he was so powerful when they were hanging out together on the street? Is it true?
Hitting a genius with a stick? He really had the urge to give it to himself, but he gave up the idea after thinking that he would probably not become a genius, but would most likely become an idiot.
Even though he was a genius in checking accounts, it took him three days and three nights to check all the accounts. With eyes like a rabbit, Wang Xian finished writing the last piece of paper, threw away the pen, and stood up with support.
"What's the matter, sir? What's your conclusion?" Erhei and Zhou Yong worked shifts. They didn't need to use their brains, so of course they were as energetic as usual.
"Let me sleep first." Wang Xian didn't even have the energy to go back to the dormitory, so he just went to the small bed in the study room, and as soon as his head touched the pillow, he fell asleep.
Being young is good. After a long sleep in the dark, when I woke up, I was a good man again. Wang Xian rubbed the shit in his eyes and asked Erhei: "How many hours did I sleep?"
"How many hours?" Erhei smiled bitterly and said, "My lord, I slept for a whole hour."
"Oh." Wang Xian nodded and said, "Have the account books been returned?"
"I returned it." Erhei said with a smile: "Then Magistrate He doesn't believe that you can complete the investigation within three days, and thinks that you are embarrassed to show up."
"Well, have you copied down all the accounts?" Wang Xian just got up, his head was still a little swollen, and he had indigestion from Er Hei's joke.
"I copied them all." Erhei said with a smile: "Old Mo is a careful person. Although he is not as good as your master, he should be a good copyer." He said impatiently: "Sir, please interpret the results quickly. Those peach symbols you drew
, I really can’t understand it.”
"It's just that you don't understand." Wang Xian yawned and touched his thunderous belly and said, "Eat first, the emperor still doesn't need hungry soldiers."
"Here comes the meal." Before he could finish his words, Zhou Yong smiled and brought a big tray in. On the plate was a bowl of hot ramen, a plate of cooked beef and mutton, and soy sauce and garlic paste. Wang Xian's index finger moved like a whirlwind.
, Yu Jingjing ate everything, and even drank all the noodle soup.
Patting his bulging belly, Wang Xian burped comfortably and said, "Bring it here."
"Here it is." Erhei hurriedly brought over the pile of paper he had written on. In order to avoid leaking the secret, Wang Xian used pinyin and Arabic numerals, which basically no one could understand.
Wang Xian carefully read what he had written, thought about it for a long time, and sighed.
Erhei's eyes widened. He had been working hard for many days and had been fed up by Wang Xian. He really wanted to know the answer.
Wang Xian sighed again.
"Sir, why are you sighing?" Erhei asked unable to hold back.
"The first sigh is for you. It doesn't feel good to be blind." Wang Xian said with a narrow smile.
"My lord's words..." Erhei said depressedly: "There is no one in the Ming Dynasty who can understand it, right?"
"This is the effect we want." Wang Xian smiled, flicked the pile of paper, raised his eyebrows, and finally got to the point: "The second sigh is because the problem is more serious than imagined. The grain and grass that have arrived in Taiyuan have been transported to Taiyuan.
It’s a huge amount of 4.7 million dan, but now there are only 2.3 million dan that can be checked in the account.”
"Ah?" Erhei was stunned: "Where did all the food go?"
"It was sent to Xuanfu three times and robbed three times in Guangling County. Each time, the loss was more than 700,000 dan." Wang Xian said solemnly: "With the loss of storage and transportation, now only less than half is left."
"The loss is so heavy?" Erhei was so shocked that he couldn't open his mouth and said, "Is there something fishy here?"
"Of course there is." Wang Xian said resolutely: "And it's huge." As he said that, he coldly exposed the lies of Jiangxi officials and said: "A carriage, excluding the weight of the vehicle, has a maximum load of no more than 1,800 kilograms. Even if
All carriages are of this size. How many carriages are needed to transport 700,000 stones of grain and grass at a time?"
"How much...is needed?" Isn't this kind of division operation difficult? Erhei had no choice but to smack his lips and ask.
"More than 46,000 horse-drawn carriages." Wang Xian said in a deep voice: "The civilians and ox-carts sent out each time are well documented. The animals used for the three transportations were less each time. And even the largest one, the ox-carts were used.
The total number of horse-drawn carriages, mules and carts is only 20,000, which cannot even transport 350,000 dan. May I ask how the extra half is transported? Is there a magic weapon like the Qiankun Bag?"
"Hey, how is that possible?" Erhei scratched his head and said: "There is indeed a problem." He said with a smile: "Even if they have the Qiankun bag, there is no way to explain why they don't learn a lesson. They know that there are bandits in Guangling County,
He also has to deliver food to others every time. Could it be that the Shanxi official is the origin of Shen Logistics?" After hanging out with Wang Xian for a long time, he even knew about Shen! Logistics, although he didn't know where it came from.
stem.
As a result, even a heartless guy like him was indignant and said: "Two million one million shi of food, just let them lose it."
"That's right." Wang Xian nodded and said, "But not only the food, but also 60,000 livestock, countless armors and weapons, bows, arrows, guns and cannons."
"Now I finally know why Liu Zijin is so powerful. He was simply fattened by these people." Erhei said angrily.
"I'm afraid Liu Zijin didn't keep these grain carts and horses for himself." Wang Xian sneered: "The Shanxi vassal treasury, Taiyuan treasury, Pingyang Prefecture, Fenzhou Prefecture, which have been in deficit for many years... This year has been a bumper harvest, which has basically made up for the losses in previous years.
"This is the reason why Wang Xian wants the Zhejiang feudal yamen account books that are similar to those of others. A basic principle of modern auditing is to audit the accounts by vertically analyzing each joint and horizontally analyzing each department.
"What are you filling the hole for?" Erhei asked puzzledly: "The loss is not your own."
"Normally, of course, I don't care about myself," Wang Xian spat: "But next year is the year of external inspection, so of course they have to think about their own affairs."
"Shit, isn't this something that happens often in the sixth office of the county government?" Erhei was shocked. In order to cope with inspections, scribes often borrowed money and food from local wealthy households and returned them later. After thinking about it, he said: "No,
They are worse than us. We at least borrowed and paid back, but they just swallowed us up."
"That's right." Wang Xian nodded and said: "Although it can't be seen from the books, judging from the time of changes in money and food, at least half of the money and food was not transported to Datong at all, but was directly divided up in Taiyuan." He paused and said
: "If you follow suit, the money and food shipped to Datong will definitely be peeled off and fall into the hands of Liu Zijin, which is 30% but no more than 40%."
"..." Erhei was so shocked that he couldn't speak.
"What's even more frightening is," Wang Xian's face became more solemn as he said, "They are so unscrupulous. They must have known early on that the food would definitely not be transported to the Xuan Mansion. Otherwise, they would all lose their heads if they couldn't pay the bills.
"Is it difficult, could it be..." Erhei said with difficulty: "They made up their minds early on to divide up half of the money and food, and then let Liu Zi come in to take the blame?"
"Of course, the blame is not in vain. Liu Zijin got at least one-third of the supplies, which is enough for him to develop and grow." Wang Xian nodded.
Erhei was stunned. He knew that Wang Xian's ability to read account books was unparalleled in the world, but he didn't expect that he could see so many terrible problems from the accounts. This was going to cause an earthquake in the officialdom, oh no, it was going to cause everyone to fall to the ground.
Wang Xian's eyes gradually flashed with light, as if he was thinking about breaking the formation after hearing the drums!