The Daily Life of the Daughter of a Minor Official Chapter 248

Chapter 248 Accounting Room Grain

Su Ruojin returned Li Xiuzhu's deed of betrayal to her, "Where you want to go is your freedom. I will not wish you a smooth journey, nor will I curse you to die on the way. Will you be able to reach Liaoxia Kingdom?" Finding your mother is your own business."

Li Xiuzhu fell to the ground and cried loudly, "Little boss..."

Su Ruojin stood up and left the reception hall.

"Xiao Dongjia..." Li Xiuzhu muttered to himself as he looked at Xiao Dongjia's back.

Mao Ya waited until she had cried enough before bringing two bundles over, "Here are the clothes you wore at Su's house, and the expenses the little boss gave you."

Li Xiuzhu looked up in surprise and looked at her in disbelief, "Cang Guang?"

"Jin Niang said that your current body is not suitable for long journeys. You should wait until you are in good health before setting off next spring."

"I..." She betrayed Xiaodong's family, but she didn't expect that Xiaodong's family would still...

Mao Ya put the baggage at her feet, "But the Su family is no longer suitable for you to stay. Manager Hua has found a safe and affordable inn for you. You can stay there until next spring. The room and board expenses have been paid. I don't want you." Don't worry, just take care of yourself and go find your mother.”

Li Xiuzhu solemnly kowtowed three times in the direction Su Ruojin left. After kowtowing, he picked up two bags and left Su's house, going to the inn Huaping booked for him.

Sitting in the inn, holding her baggage, she knew very well that once she left Bianjing next spring, she would never see the Su family again in this life.

After seeing off Li Xiuzhu, Hua Ping asked Su Erniang, "If spring starts next year..."

As if she knew what he was going to ask, Su Ruojin turned around and replied directly: "No, before the Chinese New Year, King Yan will definitely return to the court and ascend the throne."

"You are so sure about Liaoxia people..."

"Yes."

"Why?"

Huaping was puzzled. He followed the young lady all day long and didn't have any contact with anyone in particular. How did he know that this battle would end during the New Year?

Su Ruojin frowned, "Do you think the Yin Dynasty was the only one affected?"

Huaping:…

Su Ruojin originally wanted to go back to her parents in Wei County, but she didn't expect Su Yanzu to find her and ask her for help.

"Being your accountant?" Su Ruojin was quite surprised when she heard this, "Under such circumstances, my uncle's shop is still doing business?"

Su Yanzu shook his head, "No."

What is that? Su Ruojin looked at him doubtfully. If there was no business, what would he do as an accountant?

Su Yanzu asked Hua Ping and others to go out.

Huaping looked at Su Ruojin.

But as my brother-in-law, Su Ruojin signaled that it was okay and asked everyone in the living room to go out except for the two of them.

"What does uncle want to say?"

Su Yanzu said: "The new emperor and General Ning are still on the way to pursue the Liaoxia people, but as you know, when the two armies are fighting, the soldiers and horses have not moved, and the food and grass go first. Now the fight has reached a fever pitch, and it is also a time when there is a large need for food, grass, and winter clothes for the war horses. , the new emperor asked the King of Jin to organize grain merchants to raise grain. I am not only one of the grain merchants, but also the princess. The King of Jin has entrusted me with coordinating the quantity of grain. I would like to ask you to help me. "

"Uncle, are you kidding me?"

"I have seen the account books you made. They are clear and easy to check."

Su Ruojin: ...She uses the modern double-entry accounting method, which is of course convenient, practical and easy to check.

"Didn't you say that every man is responsible for the rise and fall of a country? He should be considered as contributing to the court."

Su Ruojin:…

Seeing the young lady's hesitation, Su Yanzu added, "The Holy Lord's main support is Prince Zhao Xiaojun."

Sure enough, the person who knew her well was his brother-in-law. He grabbed her with just one word and glared at him, "You are awesome!"

Su Yanzu laughed when his niece glared at her, "Even if you agree."

Su Ruojin rolled her eyes again, "I'll leave the accounting method to you."

"Alright."

So simple? Why does it feel like she is waiting for her right here, "Uncle, are you deceiving me?"

"No." Su Yanzu quickly denied, "I sincerely ask for your help, but if you teach others, use more hands."

Su Ruojin…

I don't want to say it, I feel tired. He was actually dragged into working as a laborer.

Since the new emperor has not yet come back to ascend the throne, the capital has no owner. It seems peaceful, but in fact there is an undercurrent.

The King of Jin was the spokesperson of the Zhao family. In order to support King Yan who was fighting abroad, he united all the people who could be united. Su Ruojin knew about Princess Yuehua, the family of Prince Wei, Shilang Fan, etc.

Every day, many bills are remitted to the princess's mansion. Su Yanzu's official room has become the center of the accounting room. The detailed accounts are imported to form a general ledger, and then the general ledger issues the budget. One by one, the new emperor's logistics work is carried out in an orderly manner. .

Princess Yuehua didn't expect that Su Yanzu would ask his niece to come over for help. At first, she thought that he was just taking care of her niece who was bored in the capital. She didn't expect that her chief steward came to reply. The little lady turned out to be an expert in accounting.

"Is it really that powerful?"

The chief steward said, "Yes, Your Highness, the young lady can calculate the accounts quickly and accurately without calculations or beads, and it is 100% correct." The ancients calculated by starting with a small wooden stick, called Calculation. Later, with the development of production, calculations using small wooden sticks were restricted, so people invented a more advanced calculation tool-the abacus.

It is what the steward calls abacus arithmetic, but it is not popular at all. Only a handful of people have mastered this technology. Such masters can be encountered in the Chaoting Household Department.

To mobilize grain from thousands of merchants and transport large quantities of grain to the location of the war, not to mention how many carriages, horses, ships, and labor are needed. At the management level, it also requires accounting clerks to count the number.

The carriages, horses, labor, and food were all in place, but because they were not managed properly, they were eventually embezzled and fell into the hands of the new emperor because of poor calculations. Not to mention the delay in fighting, if not careful, the throne of King Yan might be lost to the Empress Dowager. The descendants of the crown prince or the new emperor.

This is why King Jin and Princess Yuehua attach great importance to the food account.

Princess Yuehua went to Su Yanzu's office. It wasn't that she didn't believe Su Ruojin, but she was curious about why a little lady was more powerful than all the male accountants.

At this moment, Su Ruojin was not in the accounting room, but was taken to the Duifang Grain Warehouse by Su Yanzu.

"Ajin, check for me. Are there any shortages in these piles of grain?"

The two or three men following Su Yanzu glanced at the twelve or thirteen-year-old lady, and then at the piles and hills of food. Why? Is it too weighing to carry sack after sack?

Su Ruojin looked at the stack of grain piled up on the top of a hill and asked, "How are they stacked? Are they stacked evenly?"

Su Yanzu motioned to the man guarding the warehouse to come over and answer.

When Morikura Man saw the princess's confidant, he was nervous and tongue-tied, "Just...just code it like this, code it...evenly."

Su Ruojin: ...If I reply, it's the same as if I didn't reply.

Su Yanzu saw that this person was unclear about his answer, so he asked someone to find the **** who was stacking grain. He gestured for a while. Su Ruojin understood, found paper and pen, and drew a simple diagram of what the **** said.

"Is that so?"

The soldier took a look and nodded quickly, "That's right, it's just a pile of stuff."

Su Ruojin asked him to see clearly, "I marked the number of layers and the quantity of each layer. You can take another look, right?"

"That's right, that's for sure."

Su Ruojin nodded and used two or three formulas. After a while, he calculated the grain in this granary. "Based on bags, there should be 711 bags. If the weight of each bag is not missing a pound, There should be six thousand two hundred and thirty kilograms of grain here."

Su Yanli took out the detailed list and summary list of this warehouse. It said 809 packages, with a total weight of 7,090 jins. "

The soldier shouted: "Impossible...impossible..."

Su Ruojin said: "Unless you don't put it like the drawings, it won't be wrong."

"Of course... of course." The soldier's eyes flashed.

Morikura Man screamed, "She didn't count. How could it be accurate just by looking at her like this?"

The two or three men who followed Su Yanzu didn't agree with a little lady standing here talking nonsense.

Su Ruojin lowered his shoulders and said, "Uncle, with my method, the seven stacks here, as long as they are arranged neatly, will be different from each other by one bag at most. Unless they tamper with it, that's all."

Su Yanzu saw his little niece's relaxed and confident eyes, turned around and shouted, "Come here, go through all seven stacks."

Morikurao and the soldier looked at each other and stood still.

Su Yanzu asked his supervisor to find Lifu and re-stack them one by one. When the stack was finished, he found that the number of packages was the same as what Su Ruojin had reported.

Shoukura Man's face suddenly turned pale, "How is it possible...How is it possible..."

The soldier thumped his head and knelt down: "Sir, it's none of my business, it's all them... they asked me to do this."

The two or three men who were following Su Yanzu just now all had bad expressions on their faces, but they did not kneel down.

These three people are respectively the grain merchant, the warehouse secretary of the Ministry of Household Affairs, and the chief clerk of the Privy Council in charge of grain.

Su Yanzu snorted coldly, "One warehouse is short of nearly a hundred bags of grain. Very good. I'll go back to Prince Jin and the Princess right away." After saying that, he motioned for his niece to go first, and he followed.

There was a war going on, and the emperor was actually fighting in person. Corruption was actually happening in the rear. Su Ruojin sighed secretly. Will these people be willing to stop only after the country is destroyed?

But she's not naive either. This kind of thing happens all the time. Shouldn't she have calculated so accurately just now? Will...

"Won't."

Su Yanzu seemed to know that his niece had accurately regretted it, so he reassured her, "The new emperor will remember Ah Jin's contribution."

"No, please don't." Su Ruojin was so frightened that she quickly stopped, "Uncle, what I did today is to tell them not to cause harm to the country and the people. Some people can see that they are greedy."

"Ah Jin did the right thing, I will..."

Su Yanzu wanted to report the credit to her again, but she quickly stopped him, "Uncle, you understand so well, you know why I don't want to take the credit."

Of course he knew, but she was the one who found out the discrepancies in the accounts, so she should...

Su Ruojin waved her hand again, "Uncle, why is this happening? You know better than me, so don't scare me."

Su Yanzu had no choice but to nod in agreement, then put the matter down and asked Her Highness the Princess not to declare Yang.

Princess Yuehua smiled and said, "I didn't expect that all of you, the Su family, like to do practical things."

Su Yanzu cupped his hands and said, "Your Highness, you are so complimentary."

Chapter end