At this time, it was the time to count the income of the various granges in the house, and these stewards and grandmothers in the inner courtyard counted these accounts as early as possible and sent them over, which was also specially ordered by Erf, after all, the accounts sent by these granges are related to the dividends that the farmers in the granges everywhere can share, and the sooner they are thoroughly calculated, the dividends can be distributed as soon as possible.

The farmers on the grange have worked hard all year and looked forward to the whole year, and she also wants to make these farmers feel at ease as soon as possible.

On the kang table in front of Erfu, there is a thick stack of account books, don't look at it seems to be a lot, but it is far from seeing so much, because in this era, there are not many people who can read and hyphenate, and there are even fewer people who can write with a small hand, at least those heads in the fourth master's grange will not know, counting on these rough people to record a lot of accounts clearly, they need a thick book.

She counted the accounts with a pen and an abacus in the other, and the more she counted, the more upset she became, because the accounts were too messy.

If she hadn't counted the two books and confirmed that she hadn't found any problems in them, she couldn't help but suspect that Zhuang Tou wanted to use this method to covet the profits of the Mo Mansion, and it was really hard to see how the housekeepers had managed to complete these accounts in a few days.

"This one is fine!" Count another one, and Elof muttered and stretched.

Then, while leaving her own autograph on the last page of the account book, she took the private seal placed next to it and stamped it, and after doing this, Shilan and her family were able to send this account book to the public treasury for preservation, which also means that the accounts of this grange this year are completely accounted for, and the dividends that should be distributed to those farmers can be distributed.

Although it was hard work, Erph was greatly satisfied.

The fourth master was ordered to recover the arrears, and proposed that the gentry pay taxes as a whole, which can be said to have offended the civil and military of the Manchu Dynasty and the scholars of the world, and wanted to reverse his reputation among the people, and could not do anything to buy people's hearts openly, Erfu had no choice but to propose to think from these poor tenants who rented the fields in the mansion.

Giving dividends to tenants is definitely a rare thing that has happened for the first time in the world.

Erfu was afraid that the head of the village and the housekeeper were not satisfied, and there was no precedent to follow, so she had to endure the nausea, and calculate the details of the accounts one by one, and wait until next year There is no need to be so troublesome, and it is enough to randomly check a few accounts.

"Affix the seal, list the details, and when these account books here are counted, they will be sent to Mama Qin. She pushed the counted ledger to Shilan and commanded in a low voice.

After speaking, she picked up another account book and calculated it carefully.

Shilan and Shiqing are also not idle, because they also need to transcribe the details to file, so that they can be checked in the future, after all, it is not easy to check these messy account books, and there are really a lot of industries in the mansion, so you can't go into the dusty warehouse every time you want to check it, so as early as the day when Erfu became the Fujin of the mansion, Erfu set such a rule.

The accounts are sent to the government, and after confirming that they are correct, the general ledger and sub-ledgers are copied, and the running accounts are returned to the treasury for storage.

At this time, Erfu wondered if it was time to urge the mountain chief of the Boundless Academy to work hard to set up such a vocational college, not to let this academy become an ornament, and those children who had achieved success in their studies should also let them leave the academy and find an errand to support themselves, so that they could also hire the next batch of accounting offices who knew actuarial accounts.

She was thinking in a mess, but the movements in her hands did not stop, crackling and plucking the abacus beads.

Erfu was so busy for most of the day, even Xiao Qi came to the main courtyard to say goodbye to herself, she didn't have time to pay attention, and even temporarily grabbed Xiao Qi and herself to count the accounts, until the sky outside was getting dark, she sat up straight and stopped what she was doing.

"It's getting dark, light the lamps!" she whispered, pointing to the candlestick in the corner of the room.

After saying that, Erfu did not intend to get up and move, she rubbed her sore shoulders with one hand, and pushed the accounts arranged on the kang table to the side with the other, then stretched out her arms and legs and stretched her waist, and then leaned back on the pillow by the window relaxedly.

After lying down for a while, she looked at Shilan and the others who were lying on the kang table and kept copying, and said softly: "You guys also rest, it's dark, it's easy to hurt your eyes, and besides, you should get up and move your muscles and bones!"

"Eniang, Xiao Qi really can't understand you.

These housekeepers and grandmothers have already counted the accounts, you can look through the two books casually to see if the housekeepers and grandmothers and the village head have colluded and greedy for ink, so why bother to work so hard to calculate it yourself, don't you often say that there is no doubt about employing people, you are obviously saying one thing, doing another!" Xiao Qi picked up the herbal tea, took a sip slightly, and joked with a smile.

When Erfu heard this, he turned his head to look at Xiao Qi, who was lying on the other side stretching his waist, and said with a smile: "Don't be suspicious, don't be suspicious, this is good, but it's about money, you still have to be cautious, and Eniang doesn't believe in Qin Mama, it's just that this time the accounts are related to the dividends shared by hundreds of tenants in the house, and there is no room for mistakes, and it's the first day, so you have to be extra careful, and you don't need to be like this next year." ”

"Give dividends to tenants, Eniang, you are too generous!" Xiao Qi muttered with some incomprehension.

Erfu smiled, casually picked up an account book that had not yet been calculated, looked at it, and replied softly: "You often go in and out of the houses of your cousins and uncles, and you have frequent contacts with your cousins and sisters, so you should know more or less about the things that go up, and you should understand the difficulties of your Amma.

You know, when the emperor saw that there was not much silver left in the treasury, he ordered you Ama to pay off the loan arrears of the courtiers in the treasury, this is a chore, as the so-called borrowing money is easy, but it is difficult to ask for money, you Ama provoked the civil and military of the Manchu Dynasty to be unhappy, and now he proposes that the gentry pay taxes as a whole, which offends the scholars all over the world, Eniang has no other way to share the worries for your Amma, so she can only come up with such a stupid idea to save your reputation for Amma. ”

After saying that, she smiled wryly again.

Because she felt that what she had done was not enough to save the reputation of the fourth master that had been smeared.

Shinong industry and commerce, farmers seem to have a high status, but they have no right to speak, not to mention those literate and hyphenated readers, even the last businessmen are not as good, it is too stupid to expect the peasants who face the loess with their backs to the sky to save the reputation of the fourth master.

But she really has no other way, because any kind of thing that buys people's hearts can be done by the emperor, gentry, businessmen, and even people in the whole world, but the prince can't do it.

"Ama is too upright!" Xiao Qi also turned bitter when he heard this.

Erfu smiled and shook her head, because she didn't agree with Xiao Qi's statement.

She doesn't think that the fourth master is wrong with integrity and self-denial, nor does she think that the fourth master is wrong with rectifying the officialdom, but it is the mistake of those officials who have long forgotten to be diligent and love the people, in order to show Emperor Kangxi their own integrity, in vain Emperor Kangxi's compassion for officials, unscrupulously borrowed silver from the treasury, borrowed but did not pay it back, stunned to borrow the huge treasury empty, the fourth master was ordered to recover, it was a matter of course, but in their opinion, it became a big mistake, and they also shamelessly slandered the reputation of the fourth master, which was extremely hateful.

Besides, the matter of the gentry paying taxes as a whole should be taken for granted.

Now some officials and gentry rely on their status to be exempt from paying taxes, and they have to make money by themselves, and they also have to avoid taxes for some rich gentry who take refuge in them, and if this goes on for a long time, the country will be completely hollowed out by them.

Because of this, Erfu raised his hands and feet in favor of the fourth master's choice.

However, Xiao Qi is still young and doesn't understand these things, and she is a native of ancient times, so she can't see these drawbacks, so she thinks it's her Amma's fault for being too upright.

"It is our responsibility to pay taxes according to the rules, because the laws of all dynasties were set by officials, and the emperor had to rely on officials to govern the world, which made the gentry a special existence. Erff dropped the ledger in her hand and complained with an unhappy face.

In her opinion, this is the same as the marriage law that has been complained about by countless women in later generations, men always favor men.

In modern times, she has seen a certain picture countless times in TV dramas, the plaintiff is kneeling on the ground, and the defendant is sitting next to him steadily and proudly, but at that time she watched the interpretation of later generations, but after coming to this era, she has seen this kind of picture several times with her own eyes, which is really ridiculous.

If it weren't for the fact that she knew that she couldn't fight the entire era alone, she would have wanted to overthrow the entire ruling class.

Although this statement is a bit exaggerated, after all, she is also a member of the ruling class now, and if she really overthrows the entire ruling class, she will also be unlucky, but she really wants to change some kind of vice in this era, such as the distinction between high and low, such as bowing down to vices.

Thinking of this, she turned her head to look at Shilan, who was beating her legs, and secretly despised herself in her heart.

Because she felt that she was so hypocritical, and thought that she wanted to overthrow some vices, and it was so despicable that she was enjoying such vices, and it was fortunate that she had never said these things to others, otherwise she would have been so ashamed that she would have found a crack in the ground.

She turned her head to look at Xiao Qi who seemed to be thinking about something, and said with a smile: "Don't think about those things that are not needed, let's rest obediently, you have been busy with Eniang for most of the day, and you are also tired!"

When Xiao Qi heard this, he looked back with a smile and replied, "Xiao Qi is not tired at all. ”

"Yes, you are the same as your Amma, that muscles and bones are all made of iron, and Eniang is about to fall apart!" Erph said with a roll of her eyes.

Xiao Qi smiled, got up from the kang with a bone, most of his body was lying on the kang table, his head came to Erfu, and said coquettishly with a wicked smile: "Xu is Eniang is too squeamish, Xiao Qi not only has to read and learn words with Mr. every day, stroke the piano and make music, but also learn the way of governing the family with Aunt Yuxiu, in addition, I have to write fifty big characters every day, and follow the little girls to do embroidery work, I have long been used to it!"

"At your age, it's time to learn something hard, and E-Niang has already survived that year!"

Speaking of these things, Erf was a little embarrassed.

Because the original owner of this era has a very rich childhood, loves to play, loves to make trouble, and can play whatever she wants, just like a mountain girl climbing trees and digging birds' nests, but Erph herself has a very sad childhood, six years of primary school, three years of junior high school, three years of high school, and four years of college, it can really be said that there is no easy day, but her bitter and miserable experience can't be said to anyone, so that she is now educating Xiaoqi to have a feeling of shortness of heart.

Fortunately, Xiao Qi is a sensible and well-behaved good boy, and he did not open his mouth to expose Erfu's lies.

She smiled and stretched out her hands stained with ink, and said coquettishly: "E-Niang has worked hard, but E-Niang also has to hurt Xiao Qi, you see that Xiao Qi's hands have become rough, you can give Xiao Qi the bottle of honey pearl paste in your room!"

"If you like it, go and get it, the things in this house, don't just dispose of it. Erff replied with a smile, and at the same time picked up the wet handkerchief at hand to wipe the ink stains on Xiao Qi's hands, because she was afraid that Xiao Qi's naughty girl would leave the black handprints on her body, if she was too lazy to move, she would grab Xiao Qi and go to the clean room to wash her hands.

However, before Erfu opened his mouth to urge Xiao Qi to wash his dirty hands, Xiao Qi had already consciously washed his hands.

Because Shiqing came in from outside with two plates of delicate dim sum.

"Clean these up, and then put the snacks here, Xiao Qi's girl loves to eat these sweet snacks, just put them on her side, and then twist a wet handkerchief for me, so that I can also wipe my hands, I'm really too lazy to wash my hands in the clean room, let me lie dirty for a while!" she pointed to the kang table full of ledgers and commanded in a low voice.

When Shiqing heard this, she couldn't help but laugh out loud.

"Laugh, this is your master, I don't bother to move, otherwise I must smear a few black handprints on your face, and see if you can laugh when the time comes!"

But Shiqing smiled like this, she was embarrassed to lie down like this, it was too embarrassing.

Erfu took a few deep breaths in a row, cheered herself up in her heart, sat up with a flat mouth, and followed Xiao Qi's footsteps to the clean room to wash her dirty hands.

At the moment when she just walked to the washbasin stand, Xiao Qi turned around......

"Hee-hee, E-niang, you're here!" she greeted happily, and before she could hear Erf's reply, she playfully flicked the droplets of water on her hands into Erfu's eyes......

Cool droplets of water fell on Erph's cheeks without the slightest warning.

Erf stood there with a bewildered expression......