"What's your original name?" Since he bought someone, Liu Sheng will never return it, not to mention that after he repaid the price, this price is also quite favorable.

"Marne." Marne said with a smile.

"Horses?" Liu Sheng frowned, "This doesn't sound like a good name." ”

"Please give me a name." Ma En was also clever, looked at Liu Sheng, and immediately bowed to Zhao Liusi.

He has been in the Central Plains for a long time, and he also knows that after buying slaves here, he likes to rename them.

Zhao Liusi really has no experience in this, Chunxiang Xiaoman and others were all made by people after she came over, and if she wanted her to name people again, she really couldn't treat people as cats and dogs.

"By the way, what do you like?" Zhao Liusi was smart, "If you want to choose, what name do you want to call." ”

"Sisi!" Liu Sheng frowned, and just wanted to teach Zhao Liusi such a disgraceful lesson, when he heard Ma Enxi open his mouth and say, "Yuanbao, I like Yuanbao the most, it's round, it's good-looking." ”

"Poof, you really have an idea." This time, even Liu Sheng was amused.

"Then you call it Yuanbao." Zhao Liusi found that he and Ma En's preferences were the same, and he was happy at the moment, so he opened his mouth and said, "My surname is Zhao, well, I don't like this surname." Willow, not too good. …… In this way, you give yourself a surname. ”

Yuan: "Then I'll call Zheng Duobao." "The uncle who rescued me from the camel pile in the first place is surnamed Zheng, and if he hadn't found me, I would have starved to death in the camel pile." ”

"Okay, then it's called Zheng Yuanbao."

"It's nonsense." Liu Sheng was very dissatisfied with this, in his opinion, giving a name to a bought slave and maid was the same as branding a bought horse, it was an act of swearing sovereignty, how could Zhao Liusi give it away so easily.

"What you said," Zhao Liusi stretched out his finger with a smile, "Since you gave it to me, I have the final say, how to deal with it should be according to my preference, you can't interfere." ”

"Okay." After Liu Sheng and Zhao Liusi looked at each other for a moment, they chose to believe Zhao Liusi.

He is teaching Zhao Liusi step by step, just like helping a child to walk, occasionally going off the wrong path, teaching slowly, if she is reprimanded loudly, or directly deprived of her right to walk, then she will not be able to learn.

After naming Zheng Yuanbao, Liu Sheng did a simple test on him, and unexpectedly found that he knew more Chinese characters than Zhao Liusi's, so he let him go to the back to read a book, let him study at the same time, and prepare to be a scholar for Zhao Liusi. After all, he is really young, and even if he has that use, he has to be raised a little older.

After Zheng Duobao left, Liu Sheng asked Zhao Liusi to sit behind the screen and listen to him meet with the stewards everywhere. The Liu family started as a trader, and at first it was just an intermediary dealer, transferring silk, tea bricks, and porcelain from the south of the Yangtze River to the Hu merchants through the Silk Road, and then reselling the spices, gems, and gold of the Hu merchants to the big merchants in the south of the Yangtze River. After several generations of accumulation, they were not satisfied with being a middleman, but also began to form their own caravanserais, selling goods on the Silk Road on the one hand, and goods on the other hand. In fact, over the years, the profits of domestic traders have exceeded those of overseas trade.

Zhao Liusi sat behind the screen and watched Liu Sheng busy like a spinning top, constantly meeting with the stewards of various caravans, including their own families, some cooperatives, some Han people, some Hu people, some Fanbang people, and some people of mixed Hu and Han descent.

"You're so busy every day?" When it was time to break at noon, Zhao Liusi came out from behind the screen and handed Liu Sheng a cup of tea.

"It's not all that busy." Liu Sheng rubbed his throat and said, "The main reason is that it happened to be the day when some caravans set off recently, and it will take more than a year to save them, so it is not okay not to explain it clearly." In addition, the imperial court suddenly needed a large number of horses, and when we first obtained the permit, we had the obligation to pay taxes on horses, and we had to gather enough horses. ”

Zhao Liusi nodded as if he didn't understand.

"It doesn't matter if you don't understand these things, you know Xiao Gui Cao and follow it. The road is marked in front, as long as you don't add to the chaos. Specific affairs, there are the following shopkeepers to deal with, our family gave them dry shares, everyone is a prosperous and a loss-making relationship, do not worry about their dissatisfaction. Liu Sheng said slowly, and then told her, "What you want to learn is the way of employing people, the superior does not have to bow down to everything, select the virtuous and capable, emphasize faith and harmony, pick up the ability and let it go, then it is good to follow it, but it can be carried out." ”

Zhao Liusi nodded again and again after hearing this, but after smacking it, he shook his head and looked at Liu Sheng, "It's easy for you to say, but this chicken soup is useless." You see, we all know that putting the right people in the right places can get great results, but the key is, what is meritocracy? The bad guy doesn't write a bad word on his face, and sometimes the most useless person shows the most useful. ”

"This," Liu Sheng was rarely stuck. After a moment, he shook his head and said. "Forget it, looking at people is a long-term process, I'll teach you slowly, you learn to read the ledger first."

Liu Sheng said as he picked up the account book next to him, "No one will come in the afternoon, I will concentrate on teaching you to read the accounts." ”

"Oh, good." Zhao Liusi was a little weak-hearted, but he wasn't too afraid.

Although she did not graduate from the accounting major, she also received a higher education in college, so she didn't believe that he gritted his teeth and learned from death, and he could still lose to an ancient man a thousand years ago.

**

However, when the two of them really started to study after eating in the afternoon, Zhao Liusi's eyes were still dizzy into mosquito coils.

She finally knew why finance and accounting should be a special discipline, which is simply not for people to learn.

"Okay, don't be discouraged, anyway, there is a special bookkeeper to teach you when you look at the account book," Liu Sheng comforted her, "You first learn to read the general ledger and see whether you are making money or losing money." ”

"You have learned much faster than others," Liu Sheng looked at Zhao Liusi and praised, "You are very smart, it has been wasted for so many years." ”

"You are your own child, no matter how good you look," Zhao Liusi said without confidence, and then flipped through the account book in his hand, "However, these accounts are too strange, they turned out to be accounts from fourteen years ago." ”

"That's right, I got it for someone." Anyway, there was no one around, and Liu Sheng didn't hide it, and roughly said that he had reached a cooperation with Yan Ran, "Hu Aniu we are looking for, the Yan Ran you know also has something to find him." It just so happened that both of us found out that the cause of Hu Aniu's death was strange, and we both felt that we might be targeted, so we agreed to help each other investigate. ”

"That's great." Zhao Liusi, who had already watched the whole journey as a cat, pretended not to know anything and posed in surprise.

"What's so good, if it weren't for the last resort, I wouldn't work with that nasty little white face." Liu Sheng pursed his lips, and then opened another ledger next to him.

"Then why don't you go out and help him check." Zhao Liusi lay there and looked at Liu Sheng, suspecting that he was passive and slacking off.

"Well, I'm not investigating." Liu Sheng patted the ledger in his hand.

"Ledger?" Zhao Liusi was surprised, "What can you find out about more than ten years of old accounts?" ”

"Do you think I'll go and ask Tiger Ben now, what can I find?" Liu Sheng said disdainfully, "Yan Ran works in the yamen, if he can find something, he will definitely be able to find it in his location, if he can't find it either, it means that it is impossible for others to find it." ”

"Didn't you say you'd heard the name?" Zhao Liusi nodded, but he didn't give up.

"Well, I've heard it, but it's been so long that I don't remember where I've heard it." Liu Sheng patted the account book, "The human brain is far less clear than the black and white words. ”

"There will be news of the tiger on this?" Zhao Liusi was surprised.

"There are far more things in the ledger than the average person thinks of medicine." Liu Sheng stroked the ledger, as if stroking his lover, "Although there is no tiger ben, it is in the project details." ”

"Ahh Zhao Liusi covered his mouth in surprise.

"Yan Ran talked about the Tiger Ben and the battle of Chiyue Mountain, the battle of Chiyue Mountain, master, it is your grandfather, who is still alive. He was on duty in the Yamen, and he was also one of the important forces in organizing the local resistance, and when I came back, I was thinking, this kind of errand with oil and water, the master refused to intervene. Liu Sheng nodded and said.

"Oil and water," Zhao Liusi felt that her thinking was really very different from that of these businessmen, just like her, when she thought of war, she could only think of the dead and the miserable.

"As soon as the army sounds, there are ten thousand taels of gold." Liu Sheng rolled her eyes and knocked on her head with hatred, "So many people eat and drink Lazar, what kind of business do you say." Since he is in charge of these, it is not difficult for him to leak some business for his caravan if his hands are loose. As long as things are not broken, it is more reassuring to leave it to your own people than outsiders. ”

"Okay. You have a point. Zhao Liusi nodded and learned a trick, "So my grandfather lost the matter of grain and grass to his family?" ”

"What do you want, such a big fat meat as grain and grass, where is a small bureaucrat stuffed on the top of the wheel to intervene." Liu Sheng shook his head, and then said, "The errand that the master brought over is to repair weapons. ”

"At that time, the war was tense, the ordnance reserves were insufficient, and many of the armor and weapons obtained after the war were damaged, and they needed to be repaired and reused. It is impossible for the imperial court to send craftsmen, and there is not a lot of oil and water for this errand, so they all find local workshops to build it. The lord himself hired a large number of blacksmiths, rented a house on the edge of the city and opened a workshop, and dozens of iron furnaces worked day and night, earning a lot of money. It was in those ledgers that I found the word "tiger". ”

"If you keep accounts, it is impossible to remember the full name, if there is no Yan Ran, I may not be able to associate with the tiger, it may represent the tiger. So I'm looking at how many weapons this team repairs every day...... An army, if it is alive, must repair its weapons every day. At least every few days. If he doesn't trim it again, then it's very likely to ......" Liu Sheng spread his hands and made a burp gesture.

"That's a lot of trouble." Zhao Liu thought for a while and asked, "Is there still the shopkeeper at that time?" If there are any who are still alive, you might as well call people and ask, maybe they know more about the tigers. ”

"I'll just say you're inexperienced." Yan Ran rolled her eyes when she heard this, "If Hu Aniu's death is really related to Yan Ran's investigation of the Tiger Ben Army, you say that I sent such a big thorn to send my subordinates to inquire, wouldn't I expose myself?" ”