"What? What did you say? ”

The crown prince Liu Ju, who had just come to Lantian County to take office, was forced to the door by Liu Qu, who was temporarily left to wait for the handover, before his ass was hot.

At this time, Liu Ju looked at Liu Qu with a confused expression.

"Your Highness, there is no money and food in the treasury, and the officials of the county have been in arrears for half a year......" Liu Qu said with a sad face.

"Lantian County is not poor, why has it been in arrears for so long?" Liu Ju looked confused, and as soon as he sat down, he immediately stood up again, as if there was a stove under his ass roasting him.

He really couldn't understand how Liu Ponu had been working for nearly a year without any accidents?

Besides, how many officials are there in a county?

Why can't he make a fortune?

"Hey, isn't this still a matter of the Lan family?" Liu Qu sighed deeply, glanced at the prince, and sighed again in his heart.

Secretly said that the prince was really unlucky, and the emperor wanted to change the prince, but he also met Liu Ponu, a shameless guy.

Liu Qu has been with Liu Ponu for a long time, and he has also summed up some things.

Anyway, don't go against Liu Ponu, that guy has a lot of bad moves, it's just hard to guard.

"Previously, the Lan family forces firmly controlled the entire Lantian County, in addition to the ones handed over to the imperial court every year, the rest of the people who were distributed were greedy, and they almost emptied the entire Lantian County, and this matter was also found out when the Lan family forces were investigated before......

"What they are greedy for is the money of the county government, and the money should be returned to the county government after the matter is lost, so no one reminds the slaves?" Liu Ju frowned.

The affairs of the Lan family were quite noisy at that time, and he had already paid attention to it, but he didn't expect the Lan family to dig such a big pit in Lantian.

And thinking that Liu Ponu could make some achievements in the sinkhole of Lantian, Liu Ju couldn't help but silently give Liu Ponu a thumbs up in his heart, his younger brother is better than himself.

"Your Highness, the money and grain they are greedy for ink belong to stolen money, according to the law, these money will be confiscated and included in the treasury, if the money of the greedy government is returned the same way, and the money of the people is squeezed and handed over to the treasury, this matter will cause a civil uprising if it spreads......," Liu Qu said helplessly.

At the beginning, Liu Qu was still curious about why Liu Ponu wanted to sort out such a unique account, but now it seems that it is ......

Liu Ponu's kid is still far-sighted, and he predicted that this might happen today a few months ago.

Because when he was doing eucalyptus that day, Liu Ponu fished in troubled waters and threw this account into it.

It's just that this matter has not been announced, but if you go to verify the information of the eucalyptus file, you can find this evidence, and it has their signatures on it.

And Liu Ponu himself is the deputy envoy, and the envoy is his father-in-law, so he has the strength to do this kind of thing.

Therefore, now this problem is in front of Liu Ju, and it is an unsolvable problem.

Even if the emperor sent the imperial historian down to investigate, he would definitely not be able to find any problems.

Liu Ju suddenly felt a little pain in his head, he was still thinking about what he had to do to make better results than Liu Ponu before he came, and even he listed one, two, three.

As a result, he didn't expect that when he came up, he was given three stuffy sticks, which directly smashed Liu Ju into a daze.

"That's not right, isn't Lantian a bumper harvest this year? Even if it is handed over to the imperial court, it stands to reason that those who stay should be enough......" Liu Ju suddenly realized something and hurriedly asked.

"That's the case, but this year's harvest has been repaid......" Liu Qu continued to spread his hands, his little heart beating violently.

How dare he imagine that one day he would dare to fool the prince to death?

Although I was a little scared, I felt quite excited......

I just don't know if this is a counterattack by a small person?

"Paying off? What's the debt? Hearing the word repayment, Liu Ju was even more confused, didn't the government get over it by itself if it didn't have any money, or ask the higher authorities to allocate it? Why do you owe it?

"Hey! After the Lan family was investigated and punished, there were too many vacancies in the county, and in order to restore stability as soon as possible and fill these vacancies, the young master first borrowed some money and grain from the mining area, but the government vacancy was too large, and if the full amount of the money was issued, it would probably affect the things in the mining area, so the newly recruited people would temporarily pay half of the money every month, and the rest was planned to wait for the autumn harvest to pay back 20% first, and then make up the rest after the new plough was sold. ”

"Because of the matter of the Lan family, plus the matter of the waterwheel, the people of Lantian are willing to trust the young master, so everyone has no complaints about the first half of the Yulu!"

"Who would have thought that this plan would not be able to catch up with the changes, the director of the mining area said that the imperial court had issued an order for him to prepare to open workshops in the other twelve states at the same time to produce new plows, and it was necessary to ensure that all thirteen workshops in Dahan could be completed and used within next year."

"The court only assigned the task, but did not mention any appropriation, Director Luo was a little overwhelmed by the order of the court, so he had to find me, hoping that the county government could return the money and grain lent by the mining area immediately."

"Although I am not responsible for the mining area, but after all, it is the young master to make it, I still know how much a mining area costs, only with the existing funds in the mining area, at most can only build two more at the same time, Luo is from a humble background, in the early years with the young master worked the battlefield, finally there is today, I agreed to him with this soft heart, but I didn't expect that even if the warehouse was emptied, in the end I still owe more than 400,000 yuan to the mining area......

Liu Qu has a clear eye, and he is talking serious nonsense.

Of course, these are all the words that Liu Ponu told him, he is just acting according to the script.

"In other words, Lantian now has nothing in the treasury, not only does he owe the county officials, but he also owes more than 400,000 yuan to the mining area?" Liu's eyes widened, he couldn't believe it could be true.

"Yes, counting Yulu, it will add up to almost 500,000 yuan......" Liu Qu nodded sincerely.

"That's not right, it's only 100,000 yuan for half a year, why do you owe more than 400,000 yuan?" Liu Ji felt as if he had caught something, and stared at Liu Qudao.

"Your Highness, the remaining more than 300,000 yuan is mainly used to build a waterwheel!"

"Then it won't cost more than 300,000 yuan?" Liu Ju frowned and continued to ask, "If I'm not mistaken, nearly two thousand waterwheels should have been built in Lantian County, right?" It's all made of wood, and it doesn't cost a hundred and fifty dollars for a one......"

Facing Liu Ju's pressing step by step, Liu Qu was not panicked at all.

According to the questions raised by Liu, Liu Ponu had already given him a way to deal with them.

Besides, this is not made up, but what really happened, and it is also something they have done a long time ago, at most, it is just a slight exaggeration in individual links.

"Such a big thing has just happened in the county, and the people are panicking, the young master thinks that the top priority of the county government is to re-establish the people's trust in the government, and said that it is as difficult as connecting a branch that has been broken from a tree again, but even if it is difficult, as an official, it must overcome difficulties to do this."

"The craftsmen are seconded from the mining area, and some of the laborers are recruited from the people in the county, if in the past, the government could directly issue a conscription order, but now it can't, that will intensify the conflict between the government and the people."

"So the young master decided that whoever was willing to come to work, the government not only took care of food and drink, but also gave them a penny as a salary for every watermill that was built."

Liu Qu quietly glanced at Liu Ju and found that although Liu Ju was still frowning, he also partially recognized his statement.

So he continued: "Counting the wages of the craftsmen, the real cost of a waterwheel is actually less than thirty yuan, but the waterwheels are all built in the mining area, and after they are built, they need to be transported to various places and then assembled, so the extra one hundred and twenty dollars are used to pay for the food, drink, and wages of the people." ”

"This is still the young master deliberately turned it into a group of equal people, a task with a close distance, a task with a long distance, everyone has far and near, which avoids a lot of trouble and saves a lot of additional expenses......"

This time it was Liu Ju's turn to be completely stunned, he only knew that the people of Lantian were very enthusiastic about building waterwheels, but he didn't expect that there was such a thing here.

Eat and drink and pay back the money, and put it anywhere, and the people there will be very enthusiastic.

Judging from the results, the effect is indeed very good, Liu Ponu's trick is called buying horse bones, and the prestige and trust lost by the government have returned a lot in an instant.

But from a realistic point of view, Liu Ponu also dug a huge pit for the county government......

It's just that I didn't expect this pit to jump in......

"He didn't worry about it......" Liu Ju looked at Liu Qu with a puzzled face, and stopped halfway through his words.

He originally wanted to say that he hadn't worried about what to do if he couldn't pay the account?

Even if he is in charge of the mining area, but they are two completely different departments, each with its own account book, and in the end, if it is not reconciled, although he succeeds in Lantian County, he will suffer in the mining area.

But Liu Ju suddenly thought of one thing, sell a new plow!

According to Liu Ponu's pricing, that thing can have a profit of 150 yuan if it is sold for one machine, and as long as it can sell 3,000 new plows in Lantian County, it can make up for the previous account.

However, there are more than 10,000 households in Lantian County, and according to Liu Ponu's all-you-can-eat operation, it should not be a big problem to sell four or five thousand new plows in Lantian County.

In other words, Liu Ponu first used the loan to save the reputation and trust of the government, which was a contribution.

Then he vigorously built a watermill to increase the output of Lantian by one to two percent, which was another achievement.

Subsequently, the new plough was sold, so that the output of Lantian continued to increase, which was another achievement.

In the end, because the sale of the new plough not only plugged the previous borrowing loophole, but even allowed the county government to have more money to do more things, which ...... Another achievement?

After all the calculations, Liu Ponu actually used a loan to make four great achievements for himself?

And is it the kind that any one of them is enough to get him promoted?

Although it was very shameless, although this incident made Liu Ju feel uncomfortable when he heard it, uncomfortable, and couldn't even sleep.

But......

Do you really want to sell it for 200 yuan?

With such a high profit, how can I face my conscience?

But if it is not sold at such a high price, how should Liu Ponu face the huge hole left by himself?

Pay out of your own pocket to make it up?

That's 500,000 yuan, even if he is the prince, Liu Ju can't take out 500,000 yuan, and now it's enough to let him take out 100,000 yuan.

Liu Ju opened his mouth, and suddenly felt a sense of weakness all over his body, as if he had been drained of all his strength, and he couldn't care about whether his buttocks were still hot or not.

"Break the slave...... He's still too willful, even if he thinks it's nothing, but he has to think about the rest of the matter......"