Li Chengyang was a little desperate for the official position of the Tang Dynasty, the previous Ministry of Industry Shangshu Duan Lun, I don't know if it was because of the influence of the former prince, or because he was demoted because of the recommendation of craftsmen to Li Yuan in the seventh year of Wude, and he never showed up from beginning to end.

There is no chief official in such an important department as the household department, Li Chengyang angrily asked for a long time who the household department secretary is, he wants to ask these chief officials, what is going on?

Wang Yun touched the beard of the white flower, and looked at Li Chengyang calmly and scolded the Hubu Shangshu, and waited until Li Chengyang finished scolding, then he replied slowly: "Your Royal Highness, this Hubu Shangshu was originally the concurrent of His Royal Highness the Prince, and today's prince's affairs are quite complicated, but it makes His Royal Highness the King of Qin angry for no reason, and the minister will go to the East Palace to recommend to His Royal Highness the Prince, and must not let the King of Qin be angry again." ”。

Li Chengyang didn't kneel down for him, a good prince didn't go to be, and he also worked part-time as a household secretary, and he couldn't control the household department when he was a household secretary, and he was embarrassed to let him supervise and re-check the accounts.

Thinking of the way the eldest grandson pulled his ears viciously while shedding tears, he shivered fiercely, and smiled kindly at Wang Yun's little old man:

"Oh Wang, you just heard something barking here, it stinks, it stinks, you have to clean up the household in the future, and you can't let any messy people enter this household."

"Yes, I don't know what I heard just now, the old minister is old, dizzy and dizzy, your Royal Highness, this person is old, no one wants it, pity me this bad old man, trembling every day, that's thinking day and night, but it can be regarded as looking forward to you" Wang Yun didn't know what he was thinking, so he let go of this matter after a haha.

"How can adults say that they are old, I think Lord Wang should be old and strong, your ear problem, I will find you a doctor when I go back, and keep it the same as when you were young" People who are interested can always get more preferential treatment, and take Wang Yun's hand and let him introduce the general situation of the household.

I thought that the household department only had some role in collecting taxes, which was equivalent to the piggy bank of the Tang Dynasty, but who knew that the little old man introduced it, and then found that the household department was far underestimated, and the entire Datang, as long as it can have a relationship with money, must go through the household department, which is the heart of money circulation, and the Ministry of Industry, the lower household department, the degree branch, the gold department, and the warehouse department, and there are their own small divisions under the division, and the shelves are not too large than the Ministry of Industry.

This time he was ordered to supervise and inspect the accounts of the entire household department, and all departments had to move, and taxation was only one aspect, among which there were a series of issues such as ascertaining land properties, clarifying household registration, and dealing with land mergers.

told Wang Yun that he came to supervise this time, he would not interfere in anything, what should you be busy with, just treat him as if he did not exist as the King of Qin.

Listen more and see more is Li Shimin's plan of action for him, he himself plans to do so, there is no need to say how complicated a country's tax problem is, Li Chengyang's two lives add up to pay taxes when he won the lottery, and his understanding of this aspect is completely white, so he is not ready to point fingers here to cause chaos for others.

Go to the main office of the household department to see, there are dozens of people who are counting and raising money in one hand and the account book is facing there, the huge main office seems to be a little crowded, many people have been sweating like rain, but looking around, there is no fan, there is no ice, and now the threshold of the ice control department is about to be broken, the household department as a center specializing in managing money, why don't you even have these things?

Asked the little old man, Wang Yun smiled helplessly: "Most of these account books are made of paper, and it is not easy to sort them out, and they will be kept in the future, and the fan ministers will also use them, the wind is too strong, once it blows up, the account books are blown up, and the time spent is unknown, and the ice is not enough, the account books touch the water, and the ink melts, which is a waste of the entire account book, which is a great sin, we dare not try."

Looking at the hard-working auditors, they pouted, most of these people were Jinshi in the past imperial examinations, and most of the high-ranking people entered the Hanlin Academy and Menxia Province, allowing them to get in touch with officialdom in advance, and when they had more experience, they would be released as officials, and those with low rankings had to join various departments to do chores, looking forward to one day when they would rise to prominence.

Now this group of people with dreams are full of dry intentions, even if the placket is soaked, there is no patience, sure enough, dreams are the driving force of people, and they are weak on weekdays, and now they have the opportunity to perform, and they can't wait to die in the account books immediately.

I couldn't stand it anymore, most of them were almost middle-aged, and there were even a few gray-haired old jinshi who were coughing and flipping through the account books, and went out to ask Li Shi to go to the Ministry of Works to bring two fans over, and by the way, bring a few pieces of ice.

The little old man didn't stop him, he said everything he had to say, King Qin is not a fool, since he knows that he has made a taboo and still asks people to prepare, he must have a point in his heart.

It didn't take long for Li Shi to come back, and the current Ministry of Industry was like her own home to her, the prime minister's seven-rank official in front of the door, not to mention her, the personal guard of King Qin, waiting outside the door every day because she didn't want to break the rules, but it didn't mean that anyone could stop her.

Li Chengyang arranged for Li Shi to put the ice behind the fan, and found two subordinates from the household to come and shake the fan far away from the main hall.

After a while, the heat in the main hall dissipated, and then he returned to the main seat with the little old man, and began to look at everyone in a daze.

The Jinshi glanced at Li Chengyang gratefully, and then moved with greater enthusiasm, King Qin was looking at them, if they were taken care of, wouldn't they have waited in vain for a few years in the household department?

After sitting for a while, Li Chengyang began to get bored, and the quiet needles around him could be heard, and the little old man was walking around everyone, looking at the accounts in people's hands from time to time, sometimes nodding, and sometimes pointing softly, so that Li Chengyang had the illusion that the people below were candidates for the college entrance examination, and he and the little old man were invigilators.

Boredom, Li Chengyang took an account book and read it, I don't know if you have this experience, for example, when I was squatting in the toilet, I didn't have anything in my hand, I could look at the manual of Head & Shoulders for a long time, and I was very serious.

Li Chengyang is also in this state, carefully reading word by word, and after reading it for a while, Li Chengyang slowly felt that something was wrong, the whole account book was messy, and only two words were used throughout: "out" and "in".

For example, this account book of the inner purchase of the palace: buy mutton, and pay a hundred taels.

Another example is the tax of rents in Chang'an County: household rents: one million stones.

No, I don't know how much mutton I bought, and I don't know how many households I bought when I collected taxes, if I let him operate it, they would get ninety-nine taels when he bought mutton, and he could deduct half of the tax system.

How can this be the account book of the Tang Dynasty, no wonder there were so many corrupt officials in ancient times, although there are not many people who know words, but any person who knows words can understand the catty in it.

Pulled the little old man and asked, only to know that the household department still has a special household registration can be viewed, compared with the number of people on the household registration and the amount of tax, the current tax system is a Ding man, that is, a man over the age of 21 pays two stone corn, according to the different regions, you can use cloth, silk and other things instead, the household registration is revised every year, no one can do it on this.

As for how much mutton to buy for a hundred taels? That's not clear, after all, the palace is so big, the nobles are all over the place, and it's the best to go out to buy royal supplies, no one can figure out this money, who will care about him?

Knowing that there is a household registration to refer to, Li Chengyang relaxed, taxation is the foundation of a country, if it is as sloppy as he imagined, then it is really not the Tang Dynasty in his impression, in general, it is okay.

Li Chengyang, who breathed a sigh of relief, no longer bothered about the problem of sheep, the expenses in the palace will be taken care of by the eldest grandson in the future, and when they encounter it later, there must be a cat, but it should not be too much.

After such a toss, he couldn't sit down, so he followed the little old man around the jinshi to feel the taste of invigilation that he had never experienced at the beginning.

After a circle, it was meaningless, and he walked behind a young man and stared at him to settle accounts, Li Chengyang knew this kind of thing, but he hadn't seen it, and the young man turned a page, and then picked up the calculation chip in his hand and fiddled with it, and his mouth was still chattering as if he was talking about something, and it took a long time to stop the calculation chip in his hand, and then he took a pen and wrote it down on the paper, and then turned a new page.

Li Chengyang stared at it for a long time, the brush was originally large, and there were few accounts on a page, Li Chengyang just glanced at it a few times and calculated the answer in his heart, since the young man used the time of tea, at first he thought that this kid was lazy, who knew that after a few glances at the few people next to him, they were all the same charter, the same as grinding foreign workers, and then I understood that people are like this, and I heard the little old man say that the audit should be repeated three times before the results can be submitted to Li Shimin.

Li Chengyang thought about it carefully, dozens of people checked together, according to the little old man, about three days to check once, ten days to check the account books of this room three times, although the account books are many, but in fact there is not much content, if the brush words are replaced with the current standard font, an account book is about a dozen pages, so calculated, a room full of account books is not much, but it took dozens of people ten days to spend in vain.

Li Chengyang stopped talking, lowered his head and didn't know what he was thinking, Wang Yun saw King Qin in a daze, and didn't dare to go up to disturb, so he had to continue his great cause of turning in circles.

It wasn't until it was dark and transparent that the people in the main hall stopped, and there was no open fire in the hall, for fear of burning the account books, everyone got up and said goodbye, and Li Chengyang also returned to the East Palace.

did not go back to the side courtyard directly, but walked straight into Li Shimin's study, Li Shimin asked him to often inform the household of things, today is the first day, he is ready to go and talk about it, by the way, there are some ideas that need Li Shimin's consent.

Pushing open the door, Li Shimin was burying his head on the desk to deal with government affairs, there was still a dinner plate on the side, the things on the plate did not move at all, touched it, the food was already cold, and I don't know if Li Shimin will feel hungry.