Chapter 271: Auditing
Piracy detected! Except for the first day, Gu Yanzhang did not go to the treasury for the next few days.
Ganzhou is not a big state, but it is not small, Tang Fengxian has been here for three years, longer than this Zhizhou, and naturally handles a lot of accounts.
Xu Ming looked carefully, took two subordinates, and checked for four or five days before he could check the accounts and warehouses.
On the last day, he said hello to the officials sent by Tang Fengxian to take care of him, and explained that the other party called the officials in charge of the treasury account in.
"There are some places that villains can't understand." He said with a solemn face.
As Xu Ming spoke, he ordered the servant to take down a copy of the account book that had been moved to the table and had been piled high, turn over a marked page, and point to one of the numbers.
"The voucher is 8,000 stones, but when I got to the place, there were only 3,000 stones left, and now I only gave a seal, but I didn't say anything."
The official looked down, smiled as well, and said, "This is the autumn grain transferred from Ganxian County, and it is inevitable that there will be some loss during transportation, and Tang Tong's judgment has been approved." ”
Xu Ming let out an "oh" and said with a smile: "Even if Tang Tong has approved it, the servant who transports it needs to draw a charge and receive the punishment?" Otherwise, your procedures are not complete. ”
The official's face changed, but he smiled and said, "Yes, yes, I'll go and ask for instructions now." ”
As he spoke, he was about to go out.
However, Xu Ming nodded at the stacks of tall account books in front of him, and said tepidly: "Don't be busy first, there are still many places here, the villain can't understand it, and I want you to help me solve it." ”
The clerk looked up and saw that there were hundreds of bamboo sticks in dozens of account books, looking at the dense and irrelevant people who taught him, and he couldn't help but jump in his heart.
He only heard Xu Ming give a few examples, and then smiled: "I'll talk about it with the general judgment." ”
Sure enough, he took the account book and walked out.
Tang Fengxian received the report from the officials, and looked at the account book in his hand, and his face couldn't help but turn a little blue.
In the past three years, in addition to using as much minister's money as possible, he has also gained a lot of benefits from the state capital, most of which have been smoothed out, but there are always some that are extremely laborious to wipe.
After all, his own family is only a magistrate for three years, and he can't compare to those officials who have been in business for many years, as long as the trouble is not too big, and he can clean up the whole thing as he wants to toss in the treasury.
Besides, he is a court official after all, and although he has ordered his subordinates to do many things, it is impossible to keep an eye on the details in person, and there will inevitably be some inappropriate places.
In fact, as long as you don't die, open one eye and close one eye, it will pass, even if someone from the DPRK and China comes to check it, Tai Ban can't see the problem. But at this time, Gu Yanzhang's staff pulled them out one by one, and wanted to wipe his butt again, but he was in trouble.
It's too late to change the account books, one ring after another, and I want to redo a set of accounts, not one or twenty days, where can I do it neatly, but he is in a hurry, and he has to go back to the capital to wait.
Although the other party gave him permission to do that errand, it was also spread outside, but after all, the official document had not been issued, and he could not be removed for a day, and he would not dare to rest assured for a day, so he still had to go back to Beijing as soon as possible to guard.
Now we can only fill the shortfall......
Tang Fengxian sent the officials who came to report, called his staff and the account room, and went to the treasury together.
It was empty, and at some point, the staff member named Xu Ming had already left with his men.
The ledger full of bamboo sticks on the table was still quietly overlapping, as high as a mountain, and the bamboo skewers forked out of each other were straight at his face, as if they were splitting their legs and sticking their waists to provoke him.
- Come on, come and smoke me!
Tang Fengxian hated so much that the green tendons on his forehead were about to burst out.
The staff and the bookkeepers hurriedly stepped forward and counted the marked places one by one, and after more than half an hour, the specific numbers came out.
It's about 70,000.
Tang Fengxian gasped.
If it is one or two thousand, he will have a burst of blood, grit his teeth and fill it back.
But these 70,000 are too many!
You must know that although he has made a lot of money in the past few years, most of it has been taken to Beijing to be dotted, and to make so much money at this moment, it is almost like a rooster shedding his hair and his tail is bald.
For a moment, Tang Fengxian was a little hesitant.
He thought about it and went straight to Gu Yanzhang.
"Gu Mou was appointed as an official for the first time, and he couldn't help but feel apprehensive in his heart, when he first arrived, everything was unfamiliar, so he had to do things according to the rules, lest he disappoint the emperor's order. Fortunately, I have a deed of judgment, and I am waiting for your more guidance. ”
Gu Yanzhang's words were not leaky.
Tang Fengxian gritted his teeth when he heard this.
He didn't dare to go any further.
It is said that in the Liangshan Academy, he has always been the first to come out on top, and how proud he is in his bones, just think about it.
I heard the news that in front of the Yanzhou Formation, this surnamed Gu also offered hundreds of millions of family wealth.
How can such a person be short of money!
It is impossible to buy with money, and it is impossible to threaten with words - his own family is not as good as Wu Zhizhou, he has such a background and such a brother-in-law, but he is just a state official with no background and no power.
Tang Fengxian held his breath, said a few perfunctory words, and then left.
When he returned to the state office, he thought about it for a long time, was ruthless, prepared a thick courtesy, and quietly invited Xu Ming out.
Half an hour later, the steward who had been ordered to contact Xu Ming stood in front of him with his head bowed.
"He doesn't like it?!"
Tang Fengxian was a little shocked.
The steward secretly complained in his heart, and did not know what to do to make a good expression, so he hesitated for a while, and after thinking for a long time, he still did not know how to whitewash his words, so as not to slap his master in the face like that.
He saw that Tang Fengxian was already a little impatient, so he had to say embarrassedly: "The surname is Xu...... In the past, it seemed that he was a big shopkeeper in the capital, and he was used to seeing gold and silver exchanges, so he didn't particularly look down on the villain, and he just wanted to rely on the Gu official to get a good background...... It is estimated that this makes money from silver, and cannot be bought......"
The steward has already rounded up his words, but he might as well not go on an errand alone this day, and the brother-in-law in front of him will go with him.
Sure enough, in the evening, Tang Fengxian returned to the back office and went to find his wife, but only after changing his clothes and leaving the inner wing room, he heard his brother-in-law talking outside.
"I don't know where the people came from, three hundred taels of silver, converted into copper coins, and there are eight or nine hundred yuan for good and bad people, don't forget it, and throw the silver ticket out to show me! Haven't I seen silver money when I was a master?! ”
The brother-in-law spewed fire in his nose, and complained to his sister: "Sister, you asked your brother-in-law to inquire clearly before doing things, I went to help him do this errand, and my face was lost, I brought two hundred taels over, but others directly took a silver ticket of five thousand taels, or a ticket number of 20 years!" ”
"You whisper......"
"Can't say a few words in front of you? See my face? I was swollen by that silver ticket! ”