Chapter 5: Careful but ruthless
More than a dozen stewards in the West Flower Hall sat upright, looking at the door curtain for a while, a thin figure walked in, followed by a group of girls and women who were very magnificent, everyone was shocked, and they hurriedly got up and saluted respectfully, "I've seen the girl." ”
Rao is the main family in front of him is only fourteen years old, but since the death of his wife, she has been pressed down by a series of means, and the floating people's hearts have been pressed, and no one dares to underestimate it.
The stewards who relied on their age to dominate the main family had long been removed from the list, and the stewards who were not used by the Fu family would not dare to be used by other families in Luyang Mansion, and those few people had no hope of surviving and could only drag their families away from home.
Although people are small, their hearts are ruthless.
"Sit down." Fu Yuanling sat down on the main seat, his clear and sharp eyes swept over everyone, and the corners of his mouth slowly hooked up a smile, "I have to work hard for you to run again, but the New Year is approaching, and the day of payment has arrived, but it can't be delayed." ”
"What the girl said is that paying accounts twice a year is an old rule in the house, and it should be."
"Yes, it should be."
The stewards echoed the voice, and there was a small burden on the small table of hollow carved camphor wood beside them, and they all opened the burden to reveal a stack of account books.
"This year, there is little rain in the south, the drought is a bit heavy, and the harvest in the fields is three percent less than last year. Our Fuji Grange began to dig ponds to store water and build ditches, the drought was lighter, the tenants received the favor of their wives and girls for many years, and took turns to carry water day and night to water the ground during the drought, and although this year was slightly less than last year, the total silver harvest of the thirteen Granges was 9,817 taels. ”
He Ping, the chief steward in charge of the grange and fields, replied without impatience, neither greedy nor modest, and his body was straight and straight.
Everyone was dry, and they lost the least, only a thousand taels of silver less than last year.
cautiously looked at the girl's expression, but the girl's expression was as usual, and she couldn't see her joy or anger, and he had no bottom in his heart, so he had to sit back after replying, and his heart was drumming.
Next, there are the stewards of silk villages, tea shops, medicinal herb shops, rice shops and other shops in various places, but these are all small money, adding up to only more than 100,000 taels.
The highlight is the three ore veins owned by the Fu family, a jade mine, a coal mine, and a gold mine.
The industries in these three places are all secret businesses, and others only think that the Fu family only has a grange and some shops to do business, but they don't know that there is such a big business.
The steward in charge of the three veins did not reconcile with these stewards, but was a day behind them.
At this time, after Fu Yuanling listened to the replies of the stewards, there was finally a slight smile between his eyebrows, "The overall income of this year is two percent higher than that of last year, and it is all the credit of the stewards, and you have worked hard." ”
Everyone was busy and didn't dare, no one dared to underestimate this big girl, when Mrs. used to be in charge, she would have loose sews and close her eyes.
But the one on the seat, it was really an iron bread and six relatives didn't recognize it.
If you can't find out, once you find out the impropriety in the accounts, think about the fate of the few stewards in front of you, where do they dare to make small moves.
After Fu Yuanling finished speaking, he turned his head around, and looked at everyone still speaking softly, "First move the account books and ask the account clerk to check the accounts, and a few stewards will stay one step, I have something important to discuss with you." ”
The stewards looked at each other, not knowing what was going on with the eldest girl, but no one dared to say a word, so they could only respond.
The account room that checked the accounts was already waiting in the side hall, and Yuan Li took a group of rough mothers-in-law to move the account books over with their hands and feet, and the flower hall was quiet again in the blink of an eye.