This night, Chen Xiao went home and slept soundly.

On this night, Tobe Shangshu and the two waiters were in the main hall room, counting the money and wanting to scold their father.

The 60,000 taels of silver, most of them are one tael and one ingot of silver, so it is 60,000 nails of silver.

They need to calculate the money lent out one by one, and then count enough and arrange it neatly.

Even if it is three people, it is not easy to calculate the borrowed money, count 60,000 nails of silver, put it neatly, and be extremely careful.

So in the middle of the night, the three of them were a little broken.

"Lord Shangshu, I don't want to count, my eyes are ......," Zuo Shilang said.

The right attendant also said, "Yes, my lord, I'm so sleepy......"

How much more is Shangshu not?

However, for the sake of the benefits given by Qingyuan, in order to clean up Chen Xiao, he gritted his teeth and said:

"Go on, it's only half of it, after all the counting, the silver is not right, and he Chen Xiao will be finished."

So, the three of them continued to support.

In the second half of the night, their eyes were full of silver, and they could no longer hold anything else, and everything they saw was silver.

However, at this moment, Chen Xiao is still sleeping comfortably.

This night, for some, is a closed eye.

But for some people, it's the eyes that are closed countless times and then forcibly opened......

Knowing that the next day it was dark and they counted the accounts.

Take a closer look, yes, the silver doesn't match the account!

Because the sum of the silver here is actually a thousand taels more than the account lent out!

What's going on?

For a moment, the three chief officers were stunned.

Tobe Shangshu said: "No, this ...... Not less, but more? And so much more? ”

"My lord, did we count wrong?" The right squire said.

Tobe Shangshu nodded and said, "It could be, it could be ......"

"That'...... What to do? Zuo Shilang asked.

Tobe Shangshu gritted his teeth: "Count again!" ”

"But, I'm going to go to the early court now......" said the right attendant.

Tobe Shangshu suddenly realized, and then walked to the door.

At this time, Chen Xiao came to the main hall early.

"Master Chen, open the door, we're going to the morning court!" Shang Shu spoke.

Chen Xiao opened the door, closed and locked the door again, took the key with him, and said to Chen Xiao:

"Let's go to the early dynasty first, and come back to continue counting!"

Chen Xiao was stunned: "Haven't finished counting yet?" ”

"Uh...... Something went wrong, and the ...... was recounted," Tobe said.

Chen Xiao was speechless: "Okay then! ”

Looking at the back of the three of them leaving, Chen Xiao sneered: "This is what you asked for, I only pit you once, and you have to pit yourself once, I really can't figure it out......"

With that, Chen Xiao sat down and continued to be bored!

And the Tobe Shangshu and the two squires firmly believe that they must have miscounted the silver or miscalculated the account.

Otherwise, how could more money be recovered than lent out?

All the way to the palace, after lining up into the main hall, not long after, the emperor came.

After saying something, the emperor looked at the Tobe Shangshu and the left and right servants of the Tobe, and frowned:

"The head of the household is still the book, and the left and right of the head of the household. You actually dozed off at the court meeting in the main hall? ”

The three of them woke up instantly, and then the head of the household department bowed down and said: "Please atone for your sins, the ministers and the other three, they didn't sleep all night last night......

"Oh? Why is that? The Emperor asked, confused.

Hubu Shangshu said: "Back to Your Majesty, the minister asked an official of the household department to collect back the silver owed by some officials to the household, last night he said that the silver collected is not right, and the ministers are three people, counting overnight, so they ...... Haven't slept all night! ”

"Oh? And what's going on? The Emperor wondered.

Naturally, he knew that some officials liked to borrow money from the household department, and he also knew that it was difficult to recover the money.

Therefore, he was very puzzled, so he asked, "Who is it that went and took back the money?" ”

Hubu Shangshu hesitated for a moment and said: "Back to Your Majesty, yes, the head of the Golden Department, Chen Xiao!" ”

"Him?" The emperor frowned, then thought about it, and said, "I didn't expect that he was also a good hand at collecting accounts." ”

After thinking about it, he asked, "The money has been collected?" ”

"At present, it seems that everything has been taken back, but he himself said that it seems to be wrong, so we only counted it again last night, and the results we got are not right......"

Hearing this, the emperor asked, "How much is missing?" ”

"This ...... Your Majesty, there is no less, but ...... That's about 1,000 taels more......," Tobe Shangshu said.

The emperor was even more surprised, he always collected less accounts, why did he collect more this time?

"Your Majesty, so the minister thinks that this silver is still wrong, and I want to count it again!" Tobe Shangshu said.

He tried his best to confirm the problem that Chen Xiao's accounts were wrong, so as to embarrass Chen Xiao.

The emperor was also very curious about this matter, so he said: "Chen Xiao, the head of the Golden Department of the Ministry of Inheritance! ”

Immediately, the guards with the order went out of the palace, and rode quickly to the main hall of the Golden Department of the Ministry of Households.

Chen Xiao didn't expect that he was going to the palace, so he didn't hesitate and followed him to the palace.

Outside the main hall, Chen Xiao looked up at the euphemistic and domineering hall, and felt a sense of oppression in his heart.

Immediately, he strode in.

Above the main hall, there were hundreds of officials, civil officials on the left and military attachés on the right, standing on both sides, all looking towards Chen Xiao.

Chen Xiao took a deep breath, did not show timidity, walked to the center step by step, and then bowed and saluted: "Minister, Chen Xiao, the director of the Ministry of Finance, has seen Your Majesty......"

"Excuse me!" The emperor spoke: "Chen Xiao, I heard that in the past few days, you have recovered all the accounts borrowed by the household department?" ”

"Back to Your Majesty, this is indeed the case!" Chen Xiao said neither humbly nor arrogantly.

"Well, that's good, but, listening to the book of the household, you seem to think that the account is wrong? And after he counted, it was not right? The Emperor asked again.

Chen Xiao said: "Yes, after the minister counts, the accounts are indeed wrong!" ”

Hubu Shangshu sneered and said, "Director Chen, you tell the official how much difference you made when you counted?" ”

Chen Xiao was stunned, looked at the household book and said, "My lord, the lower official said that it was not right, but he didn't say it, is it bad?" And when I counted it, there were a thousand taels of silver more. ”

Hubu Shangshu was stunned for a moment and said, "You counted, and there are too many?" ”

"That's right, could it be that the adults have found too much in their inventory? How much more? Chen Xiao pretended to be confused.

Tobe Shangshu swallowed his saliva and said, "It's more...... About 1,000 taels ......"

Chen Xiao smiled: "That means that what we counted is the same, all of them are one thousand taels more, oh yes, I remember, when I collected the account of Zhao Dajin, the general of Zhenyuan, he gave a few hundred taels more, and others, some of them also gave a little more, adding up, an extra thousand taels, almost." ”

After Chen Xiao's words came out, Hubu Shangshu was anxious: "Since this is the case, then after you count, the accounts are right, so why do you say that it is wrong?" The three of them stayed up late last night to count ......"

Chen Xiao smiled: "It seems that at that time, you couldn't wait to count the problems, how can you not be an adult?" ”

"You ......" Hubu Shangshu glared at Chen Xiao angrily, he now knows that he has been tricked!