There were not many people in the Ganlu Palace, except for some eunuchs who were summoned, only Lao Jiu Li Zhi stood aside with an excited face, his eyes flashing eagerly. Although Li Zhen was a little strange in his heart as to why Lao Jiu appeared here, he didn't think much about it, walked quickly to the dragon table, and saluted respectfully: "Erchen has seen my father. ”

Li Shimin's mood looked very good, his face was full of smiles, he raised his hand and said: "Excuse me, Zhen'er, I called you here today to apprentice, well, it's been a long time, and I'll do it for you and the pheasant slave (Li Zhi's nickname), well, the pheasant slave is young and frail, and as a brother, you have to be more compassionate." ”

What? Apprenticeship with the pheasant slave? Is there any mistake? Pity the master who took a lot of effort to worship down, Xiao Jiu took a ride so easily, dog's day, no wonder this apprenticeship ceremony dragged on for so long, dare to love our old man is this idea, I want to bargain with Li and Qin, this is fucking to buy one and bring one away, could it be that the old man is the work of a salesman in later generations? Li Zhen was depressed enough, but in front of her old man, she didn't dare to complain, not only did she not dare to complain, but she also had to pretend to be happy, not to mention how uncomfortable the greasy taste in her heart was.

What to do? Cold salad, the old man has spoken, how can it be Li Zhen's turn to talk more, helpless, Li Zhen had no choice but to accompany and smile: "Yes, Erchen obeys orders, Erchen will definitely take care of the ninth brother." ”

"That's good, you have been stable since childhood, I can be trusted, you are the same age as the pheasant slave, you should be closer to you, go, you wait for the brothers to talk, and you will apprentice early tomorrow morning." Li Shimin was very satisfied with Li Zhen's attitude, and waved his hand with a smile.

Yes, the old man gave an order to evict the guests, and when will he wait if he doesn't leave, Li Zhen respectfully knelt down and kowtowed, and withdrew from the Ganlu Palace, full of taste in his eyes, and was about to sneak out of the palace and go to his own workshop to relax, but unexpectedly, Li Zhi, who came out from behind, hurriedly chased after him, and shouted timidly: "Starling, wait for me." ”

Hey, this puppy day, any good thing can happen, grandma's, I won't talk about apprenticeship at this time, and I will also pick it up when I become an emperor in the future, eh, emperor? Damn it! This guy is the next emperor, yes, that's not to be neglected. Li Zhen suddenly remembered that the goods in front of him might be the next emperor, and under the turn of his mind, he quickly cleaned up all the unhappiness in his stomach, changed to a smiling face and said, "Ninth brother, is there something wrong?" ”

Li Zhen didn't interact with his brothers much since he was young, even if he became famous later, it didn't change much, to put it nicely, it was called steady, but to put it bluntly, it was withdrawn, but, prodigy, even if he was arrogant, it was understandable, wasn't it? And Li Zhisheng is a little timid, he has always been afraid of greeting people, if it weren't for the apprenticeship, he wouldn't have the courage to find Li Zhen, he was originally worried that Li Zhen would give him a look, but when he saw Li Zhen's amiable smile on his face, he was a little at a loss, and his mouth couldn't speak, God knows what he was talking about.

Ha, this kid is really a fucking waste, no wonder he was eaten to death by Wu Meiniang later, hey, damn, this kid is the worst among the brothers, but he can't stand the luck of others, the emperor can be mixed, God is really not long-sighted. Li Zhen looked at Li Zhi, who was half a head shorter than herself, with interest in her eyes, but she didn't bring it to her face, but said with a smile: "Ninth brother, my brother is planning to go for a walk outside the palace, do you want to go?" ”

"Really? That's great! Li Zhi jumped up suddenly, almost startling Li Zhen, but before Li Zhen came back to his senses, Li Zhi became impotent, and said with a sad face: "Starling, the younger brother wants to go, but I am afraid that my father will not agree, if it is...... If so......"

Depend on! It's really a piece of mud that can't support the wall, this cowardice is as small as sesame, dizzy! Listening to Li Zhi's words, Li Zhen was a little angry - according to the Tang system, the underage prince needs to be asked to leave the palace, but no one has ever really complied with it, and the brothers didn't go out for a walk when they were in the palace, the old man never cared about it, of course Li Zhen was the same, and it was Li Zhi's turn to be born, and there were more things. Li Zhen is really too lazy to take this goods out, but after thinking about it, if she offends Li Zhi at this time, then the future will be difficult, right? I had no choice but to smile and said: "Pheasant slave, my brother wants to go and see if the tables and chairs customized for my father have been set up, it can be regarded as a serious matter, just go with my brother, if my father asks, my brother explains it together?" ”

"Hmm." Li Zhike nodded vigorously and said, "Cheng, starling, wait, the younger brother beckons the sedan chair to go." As soon as the voice fell, he turned around and was about to run back, so frightened that Li Zhen was so busy pulling this little bit, just kidding, Li Zhi lived with the eldest grandson queen, if he was allowed to go back to the Chengqing Palace and shouted like this, there was nothing to do, without him, although the old man never forbade the princes to go out of the palace in private, but after all, it was one eye open and one eye closed, not an explicit rule, and the rules in the palace still had to be talked about, right? If it is a fuss, who else can there be besides Li Zhen?

"Pheasant slave, don't bother, my brother's palanquin is wide, enough for our brothers to sit, this come and go, most of it will be noon, and the time may not be able to win, so let's go." Li Zhen smiled and took Li Zhi's hand, patted his thin shoulder, and said angrily. Li Zhi hesitated slightly, but he nodded obediently, followed Li Zhen with excitement on his face, and the two brothers walked towards Min'an Palace with a smile on their faces......

"Yan Ji Craftsman Workshop" in the south gate of Chang'an City outside the Horse Mausoleum area, that place is said to be a generation of Confucian Dong Zhongshu's mausoleum location, there is a legend about Emperor Wu of the Han Dynasty passing through this underground horse, of course, all this is just a false rumor, the reason why Li Zhen chose the workshop here, is not to have any respect for the heart of the former sages, in fact, because this place is the most concentrated place in Chang'an City, the Tang Dynasty ministers live in this vicinity, located here, in addition to the convenience of guests to buy, More importantly, it is convenient for Li Zhen to come here for guidance after studying, and for this reason, Li Zhen also specially asked Yan Ming to purchase a garden that is not too big near this for lunch rest.

Covering an area of nearly 200 acres, the "Yan Ji Craftsman Workshop" is noisy and extraordinary, the storefront at the door of the workshop is full of bargaining sounds, intertwined with the sound of beating and sawing in the workshop, how to make a "noisy" word, Li Zhen often comes here, has long been accustomed to it, but Li Zhi, who came here for the first time, was very curious, staring at the round eyes, looking around, his eyes were full of surprise, just walked to the door of the account room, Li Zhi was attracted by the exquisite carved furniture in the workshop, and he couldn't wait to run close to see what was going on. But he didn't dare to say it directly, and looked at Li Zhen pitifully with a pair of eyes.

Hey, this kid is really yes! Li Zhen saw Li Zhi's thoughts at a glance, and secretly laughed in his heart, and waved his hand to call Yan Qidao, the shopkeeper of the "Yan Ji Craftsman Workshop" who accompanied him: "Seventh uncle, take King Jin to Haosheng to visit the workshop, if King Jin likes something, take it, and write it down in the king's account." ”

Yan Qi is a distant relative of the Yan family, and he is the cousin of Concubine Yan, who is not very old, but he is very old, and he has always been one of the business leaders under Yan Ming. Then he walked to Li Zhi's side and said, "His Royal Highness King Jin, please." Li Zhi had already been itching for a long time, and when he heard that Li Zhen agreed to him to walk around, he immediately jumped up, and he didn't care whether Yan Qi followed or not, he shouted happily, and ran to the workshop, bluffing Yan Qi to chase after him quickly.

Grandma's, others walk horses and dogs, we are much more advanced, let's walk the emperor! Thinking that for a long time in the future, she would have to carry this little tail with herself, Li Zhen couldn't help but smile bitterly, turned around and walked into the account room.

"His Royal Highness the King of Han, all the account books of the Jingshi General Account are here, please take a look at them." As soon as he saw Li Zhen leading people into the door, Yan Qin, the head of the account office, stood up hurriedly, pointed to the thick stack of account books piled on the table, and said respectfully.

Although the "Yan Ji Craftsman Workshop" has been officially put into operation for less than three months, the preparation period has to start at the beginning of the year, and it has been nine months now, Li Zhen has never cared about the accounts, one is the loyalty and trust of the Yan family, and the other is that it has not yet been officially operated, and the problem of accounts is not to worry at all, but now that the business is booming, Li Zhen has to take care of it, not that he has suspicions about the Yan family, but his own business always has to know in his heart, right? Therefore, a few days ago, people came to say hello, saying that they wanted to read the accounts, and at this time, seeing that the accounts were all collected, Li Zhen was not polite, nodded, walked to the table and sat down, did not look at the accounts, and said with a smile: "Yan General Ledger, has the thing that this king explained to be customized last time come out?" ”

"Back to the prince, that thing has been prepared in the morning." Yan Qin responded respectfully, waved his hand, and a bookkeeper stepped forward with a large plate covered with a red cloth in his hand, and gently rested the plate on the table. Li Zhen smiled slightly, reached out and uncovered the red cloth on it, revealing an abacus.

Hey hey, nice! Li Zhen proudly pulled her hands for a while, beat the abacus quickly, and was very excited - in her previous life, Li Zhen's mother was a famous abacus master in the banking system, under her words and deeds, Li Zhen was a abacus master when she was small, and she won the first place in the abacus competition in the city, but later calculators and computers gradually rose, and the abacus was completely eliminated from people's daily life. I was so excited for a while that I almost burst into tears.

"Lord Wang, what is this thing ......" Yan Qin asked a little suspiciously, seeing Li Zhen playing happily.

Don't understand, do you? Hah, that's our secret weapon. Li Zhen smiled and said, "I'll talk about it later, this king has to look at the accounts first." Li Zhen sold a pass, smiled and opened the top account book, only to look at it, immediately dumbfounded - accounting thing Li Zhen is very familiar, not to mention that he studied in graduate school in his previous life, and when he was small, he was lying in his mother's arms to read the accounts, and he was a little confused: not to mention that the account book in the account book was all in Chinese capitals, without a single Arabic numerals, and not to mention that all the accounts recorded in this account book were running accounts, and the input and output items were all mixed together, Let's just say that the additions, additions, subtractions and subtractions in the account book are all messed up, just like a book from heaven.

"Lord Wang, are you okay?" Yan Qin looked at Li Zhen's eyes a little dull, and hurriedly asked with concern.

It's okay? If only it was okay! Li Zhen was full of dissatisfaction in his eyes, but when he thought about it, there was neither professional accounting nor standard bookkeeping in this era, and there was not even an abacus, and it was not the fault of these people in front of him that this account book was like this, and they must be blamed. Li Zhen smiled bitterly, didn't speak, flipped through the account book with his left hand, dialed the abacus with his right hand and opened it, this time it was the turn of the gang of account keepers to look dumbfounded - but seeing Li Zhen's left and right hands flying together, the abacus crackled for a while, and occasionally stopped to make marks on the account books with a red pen, and one by one the account books were quickly thrown aside, but the time of the two pillars of incense, the thick stack of account books had been finished by Li Zhen.

"There is an error in the accounts, three inputs and two outputs are undercounted, oh, the omission has been marked on the account books, if the Yan general ledger is not believed, you may wish to check it." Li Zhen stood up and clapped her hands confidently.

Seven or eight bookkeepers in the account room are all bookkeepers who have been doing most of their lives, although they are very surprised by Li Zhen's fast bookkeeping method, but it is not easy for them to be convinced, it is natural not to believe, a group of bookkeepers immediately began to review, relying on the large number of people, it took a lot of effort, and finally came to a result - it was indeed a mistake, and the bookkeepers in the room all looked at each other, so embarrassed.

"Your Highness is wise, and the little ones are impressed." After being silent for a while, Yan Qin said with admiration: "Lord Wang, can this algorithm ...... Ah, can you teach the little ones? ”

Teaching is naturally to be taught, or let's come up with an abacus to do something, no matter what, these people are all helping us make money, aren't they? But how to teach it is a big problem, grandma's, this thing is really a bit tricky. Li Zhen wants to teach all the things he knows to these bookkeepers, abacus is fine, there are ready-made abacus formulas, so that the big guys practice on their own is no problem, time has passed, naturally familiar, but those modern accounting things in later generations are not so simple, not to mention the whole system is complicated, if you want to teach these people, you have to spend a few years on Li Zhen, even if Li Zhen has that time, but once it spreads, how to explain the origin of this accounting law to his old man, it can't be said that it will be in the previous life, That's ridiculous, isn't it?

Hey, there you have it! Li Zhen frowned and thought for a while, then said with a smile: "If you are sincere in learning, this king can fulfill one or two." ”

Yes, Li Zhen's words had just fallen, and all the people in the room knelt down, kowtowing to each other, which made Li Zhen stunned for a moment before coming back to his senses - this is an excellent way to make a living, can learn hands, even if this group of people leaves the Yan family in the future, they will not worry about having nowhere to go, Li Zhen is giving them a golden job.

"Get up, this king has some mantras and bookkeeping points here, you practice by yourself, if there is something you don't understand, wait for this king to come next time, and ask questions at the same time." In the face of everyone's worship, Li Zhen inevitably felt a little proud in his heart, laughed and waved his hand, signaled everyone to get up, and then picked up the pen and wrote down the abacus recipe on a blank piece of paper, and simplified the later set of accounting methods, using Arabic numerals to represent Chinese capitalization, and at the same time registering the flow account separately according to the input account and the output account, as for the loan and credit method, Li Zhen only wrote down the part of how to register the account, and the rest of the deeper theoretical knowledge such as what to calculate the asset-liability ratio did not mention a word, After all, those things were too difficult for the people of the time, even so, this simplified version still made the bookkeeper who had kept accounts for a lifetime admired, and while sighing, the sycophants were loud, and Li Zhen was secretly intoxicated when he heard it.

"Starling, look." Before Li Zhen was intoxicated, Li Zhi, who was sweating profusely, rushed in, a pair of small hands full of "trophies", all of which were small wood carvings and other gadgets, followed by Yan Qi, who was embarrassed, carrying a bunch of carved chair backs, carved chair legs and other things, which made Li Zhen dumbfounded - the workshop designed by Li Zhen was divided into several workshops according to the principle of assembly line operation, each producing different accessories, and finally assembled and painted, so there were a lot of various gadgets, Li Zhi has been wandering around for so long, and it is not unusual to get so many bits and pieces.

Dizzy, this puppy day, what the hell, such a broken thing is a baby. Li Zhen looked at Li Zhi angrily and funny, but she was not embarrassed to dampen his excitement, so she had to smile and said: "Pheasant slave, it's not early, it's time to go back, you have to go to school from the beginning of tomorrow, my brother will give you a set of tables and chairs, you can pick them yourself, how about sending them to the palace today?" ”

"Really? Oooh, great! I want that set carved with orchids. Li Zhi has been wandering around the workshop for a long time, and he has long been moved by those carved tables and chairs, but he is not embarrassed to say it, and when he heard that Li Zhen was going to give him a set of tables and chairs, he immediately shouted with joy, and even forgot to say thank you, and turned around and ran towards the workshop.

Hey, this stinky boy can really pick, damn, it's a big loss! Li Zhen looked at Li Zhi's back and scolded secretly - the set of tables and chairs carved with orchids is the best, the wood is the best golden silk nanmu, and the orchids are all edged with gold threads.