At this time, it was Master Ramon who came out to play a round, "Your Excellency, you can't blame him entirely, and the current financial situation of the territory is stretched, and he has no money to improve his food, this is already the limit of what he can do." ”

"Even if you are so poor, you can't just find a few stones and put them on the plate to fool me, and you see, there are white maggots crawling in this jam, hey~~ And these sausages still have blood flowing out!"

Although he was too hungry to die, Stannis would rather die than touch the contents of his plate.

It was Robert who rolled his eyes wittily, "Boss, why don't I ask the hunters outside the door to sacrifice a few rabbits to catch them, and stew them in a pot with herbs, it's delicious!"

His words made Stannis's saliva water, "Yo Xi, your conscience is dripping, don't go quickly!"

"Yes, Boss. Robert hurriedly walked out.

While waiting for the delicacies, Stannis's head was not idle, and now he had a lot of questions in his stomach that needed to be solved.

For example, as a dignified earl, why is he so poor?

"By the way, when I went to negotiate with the goblins yesterday, you said that little bit of gold is all my belongings?"

Master Romon nodded, "Yes, this is the money you got from sending Robert to the countryside to scavenge for nothing. ”

Stannis was incredulous, "As an earl, how could I be so poor?"

"Yes, Your Excellency, you are so poor. The old man made up for it.

"This guy ...... No, I mean, how could my finances be so miserable!"

"It's not that you and a certain sycophant eat, drink and have fun every day, plus the previous lord's Excellency kept hundreds of mistresses. As he spoke, Romon glanced at Robert, who was about to walk in with the rabbit, who had already retracted his feet and disappeared.

"Damn! how can being so poor put me on the road to rise, no, I have to figure it out!" Stannis felt for the first time that the knowledge he brought from the real world came in handy.

That's his accounting skills!

Back then, he was also a man known as the little prince of accounting, otherwise, how could he be poached by this famous firm as soon as he graduated.

Although, a year later, he learned that the firm was just looking for a coolie who had less to eat and more to do......

"I have moved all the accounting vouchers related to expenditure income in the last five years to my study. Stannis ordered, and as far back as he could remember, there was a study in the castle, but the body had never been there.

"Accounting vouchers?" the scholar clearly did not understand the term.

"It's the ledger! there's no way this realm doesn't have a record of money coming in and out!" Stannis shouted.

"I know, it's all piled up in the basement. The Bachelor finally remembered that he had always been in charge of the finances of the territory, but he had only simply written down the numbers.

"Move all those things to the study, and I'll take a closer look at them!"

Korodov was still kept in the dark, and he had the impression that the lord had never cared about these things, and had always just reached out and asked for money, "What do you think these things are for?"

Stannis gave him a disdainful look, "I'm going to go bankrupt if I don't look at these things anymore, boss!

Korodov shut up immediately.

Stannis rubbed his hands, the excitement of the sense of mission flowed all over his body, these white skins have almost zero knowledge of the economy, with his strong financial knowledge and brilliant mind, he not only wants to become a duke, but also the richest man in this Western Continent!

Just an hour later, he lost hope for that goal.

He had never seen such a chaotic account, Uncle Zhang, who sold fritters at the door, remembered that he was ten times richer than this, and he was surprised to find that the original numbers could still have such a whimsical order, but he suffered his brain.

Thankfully, the rabbit broth finally regained his strength, and this all-natural game was not something that could be easily eaten by people like him a thousand years later.

After a long day of all-night research, Stannis finally managed to sort out the jumble numbers.

But after figuring out these expenses, his blood almost vomited out of breath.

The first is income, his territory includes a castle and surrounding towns, and three villages, and the main part of the income is the land endowment and the capitation money, because there is no church here, so there is no hope of relying on religion to cheat money.

Some of it was also a merchant tax, but the records were more like the money that was levied on a caravan as it passed through the territory.

All in all, all this mess of income adds up to a total of 2,000 gold coins a year, and since he doesn't know the purchasing power here, he doesn't know how much it is.

As for the expenditure......

It's been five years in a row......

Half of them were taxes paid to the lord's obligations to the empire......

The remaining 80 per cent is spent on the army......

20% for the castle's daily expenses......

Other public expenditures, such as road repairs, disaster relief, and pensions, were all gone, and he began to understand a little why no one in the territory said he was okay.

What's more, there is also a large amount of money for the previous Stennis to eat, drink, and have fun......

Why is this guy such a loser! He was surprised that this place had not been bulldozed.

Looking at the dense amount of debts and the names of creditors, Stennis felt his scalp tingle, and the interest generated by these arrears doubled at an alarming rate every year, and unless a windfall fell from heaven or those creditors died overnight, he could not see any hope of paying it off.

Stannis sighed and fainted on the ledger, he still committed suicide, hoping that next time he could cross a better person.