Sun Zhifu, who had not been busy for a day, opened his arms as soon as he returned to the study, stretching his waist with all his might, and when he was about to take off his official robe and change his clothes, he heard Li Yang's voice coming from outside the door, "Adults and students Hongting have something to ask to see"

Sun Yuanwu looked back and saw that Li Yang was standing outside the door, so he waved his hand at Li Yang: Hongting, let's come in and talk about something

After entering the house, Li Yang bowed to Sun Yuanwu: "The teacher-student wants to ask you to check the accounts of the treasury

Sun Yuanwu took a deep breath when he heard this: Before Hongting took over the household, didn't Zhou Jie have already checked the accounts of the treasury

Li Yang: The teacher-Zhou Bantou has checked, but the household is in charge of hundreds of thousands of taels of tax silver and hundreds of thousands of deniers of official food in Taizhou Prefecture, and the students still want to check it personally, or I don't feel down-to-earth in my heart

Sun Yuanwu: Hongting, don't have any worries, the accounts of the treasury checked by Zhou Jie have been checked by the government and several adults, and the accounts are sealed after confirming that they are correct

Li Yang: Teacher, the student still wants to confirm it in person, and I hope that the teacher will understand the student's hardships and give him permission

Sun Yuanwu: You are quite stubborn, so tomorrow this government will discuss with a few adults and give you an accurate answer

Li Yang: Then there is a teacher of Lau

As soon as I entered the gate of the government the next day, I was invited to the main hall by a small official, and I entered the house to see the big guys of Taizhou Mansion, except for the guard general Yuan Bin, almost all of them came, and there were fellow acquaintances Jia Mingdong - Governor Lu Ning - General Judge Lu Boren - Hu Sheng of the Inspection Department - Xing Xiong, the foreman of the office - Wu Tong, the foreman of the workshop, what is the circle is the smallest of my official position, so I found a seat by the door and sat down

Seeing that everyone had arrived, the master went to the back hall to invite Lord Sun over, and as soon as Lord Sun came, he went straight to the topic: Li Bantou of the household wanted to check the accounts of the treasury in the past five years, and today the government invited you to listen to your views

Jia Mingdong: Didn't Zhou Jie check the accounts of the adult's treasury a while ago, why do you have to check it again

Sun Yuanwu: Li Bantou is careful, he wants to check the accounts of the treasury himself, otherwise he will always feel unreliable in his heart

At this time, Jia Mingdong glanced at Li Yang: The accounts of the treasury of the lord were sealed after you and a few of us confirmed that they were correct, and according to the opinion of the lower officials, there is no need to check the accounts of the treasury once

Governor Lu Ning: The lower officials also feel that there is no need for that, it is easy to check the accounts of the government treasury, but it is really complicated to do it, and the household houses have to check the accounts, the workshop, the soldiers' rooms, the torture rooms, the ceremonial rooms, and the officials' rooms, and they have to hand over the expenditure accounts of each house in the past five years to the household houses for verification

Xing Xiong, the foreman of the office: What Lord Lu said is very true, take our officials' room as an example, if the household wants to check the accounts of the treasury, the official's room has to check the old accounts that have been checked

Then the team leaders of the other rooms also complained, not that there were not enough people - or that there were too many things on hand to free up, I could understand that these people said a thousand things and ten thousand, but they didn't want me to check the treasury accounts, but the more I did this, the more determined I was to check the treasury accounts, no matter what kind of resistance I encountered, it was imperative to check the treasury accounts

Except for Li Yang, no one was willing to check the accounts, which made Sun Yuanwu, who was the prefect of Taizhou, in a dilemma, on the one hand, his proud protégé, and on the other hand, he was a staff member who had worked with him for many years

It was Li Yang who proposed to check the accounts, so Sun Yuanwu looked at him: Hongting, tell your thoughts to all the adults and colleagues

Li Yang gestured to the people present: My lords-colleague Li Mou has just taken over the house, and I want to know about the belongings of the treasury after checking the accounts

Xing Xiong: Li Bantou: If you want to know about the belongings of the treasury, then don't you just read the account books, why do you have to check the accounts of the treasury?

Li Yang: I don't know how Zhou Jie, the head of the Xing Ban, checked the accounts, but now that I have taken over the household, I have to be responsible for every penny in the treasury - every time there is food, if there is anything missing, I am not the only one to ask

Jia Mingdong: Li Bantou, you are very serious and the official appreciates it, you have to learn more from Li Bantou, Zhou Jie checked the treasury accounts, Master Sun and a few of us have seen it, you don't have any worries

Li Yang: I thank you for your praise, but I think it is safest to confirm it in person, and I ask you to support it

As soon as these words came out, all the people present had gloomy faces, and their eyes were full of disgust when they looked at me, it is estimated that these people have scolded my ancestors for the eighteenth generation in their hearts, and the main hall also fell into silence

I saw Sun Yuanwu's eyes pondering for a moment: Hongting checked the accounts of the treasury, you can put it aside for a while and wait for a while

As soon as Li Yang opened his mouth, "But your lord", Master Sun raised his hand and interrupted his words: Hongting's matter is so decided

When the officials present saw this result, their originally gloomy faces also showed a smile, and then these people talked about it for nearly an hour, and Li Yang also knew the complexity of officialdom during the conversation

And Lu Ning is in charge of the officer's room-ritual room, focusing on personnel promotion-scientific research and some large-scale sacrificial activities, Sun Daren is the number one person in Taizhou Mansion on the surface, but the actual situation is that the three parts of the world are at each other's corners, and no one can control the political situation of Taizhou Mansion by himself

As soon as I returned to the house, Zhang Wen asked me with a smile: Li Bantou, have you received the handwritten message from Master Sun

Li Yang took a deep breath and sighed lightly: No

Zhang Wen saw that Li Yang's face was ugly, so he didn't ask more, and after returning to his seat, Li Yang looked around, he felt that he had made a joke and couldn't raise his head in the house, and at the same time, he also had a question, in the matter of checking the accounts of the treasury, Lord Sun's attitude was to support himself or not, or that today's meeting was Lord Sun borrowing other people's mouths to oppose this matter

So he thought of a way to verify the answer, as soon as noon he came to the back hall study, Master Sun seemed to be in a good mood and was writing with a brush, he stood at the door and tidied up his clothes and bowed: Student Hongting to meet the teacher

Sun Yuanwu raised his head: If it's to check the accounts, you can go back

Li Yang: The teacher and student have a trivial matter, and I would like to ask the teacher to teach me a thing or two

Sun Yuanwu: Then come in and talk about it

After entering the study, Li Yang came to Sun Yuanwu's side, looked down and saw that Master Sun wrote a picture on the copy, "The road to the simple" teacher, you wrote this pair, which is better than those in the literary world

Sun Yuanwu: Why do you like this painting?

Li Yang: Yes, you also know that the student's handwriting is like a chicken, so the student is willing to take a few more glances when he sees good handwriting

"Haha" Sun Yuanwu: If you like this painting, the house will give it to you

Li Yang pretended to be excited, and hurriedly rolled up the words on the table: The student thanked the teacher

Sun Yuanwu: Hongting waits for when you understand these four words, and you will be like a fish in water in the officialdom

Li Yang sighed lightly: The teacher actually said that you talked about the officialdom, and the student also wanted to tell you about the bitterness in his heart

Sun Yuanwu waved his hand at me and motioned to sit down and said, "Then you can come and hear it."

Li Yang: Adults often say that as long as you kick the first three kicks in the industry, then things will be simple, but the student took over the household and kicked the head on the stone, the teacher did not hide from you that I didn't dare to look up when I returned to the household now, I felt that I tossed through and made a joke in the end

Sun Yuanwu: Even if you don't talk about this, you have thought of it, how can you not know your situation in the house, Hongting is not good-skinned in officialdom, you have to put down the shelf and take advantage of the situation not to offend people, don't call anything real so that you can mix in the officialdom

Li Yang: With the temperament of a student, a teacher may not be in officialdom

Sun Yuanwu: You have only been on an errand for a few days, and you have experienced all the things you have experienced in this mansion 20 years ago, serving tea and pouring water to people - insulting people - suffering more injustice than you, you remember everyone's success, behind a little-known hardship and sadness, your learning to taoguang and wait for the opportunity to come, seize the opportunity to make a splash

Li Yang: What you said is reasonable, but the students still want to check the accounts of the government treasury

Sun Yuanwu "tore" and said: Hongting, why are you so stubborn, drinking so much from this mansion to tell you, all in vain

Li Yang: College students don't dare to be sloppy in the slightest, and if the teacher doesn't allow it, ask the teacher to allow the student to resign

When Sun Yuanwu heard that Li Yang was going to resign, he instantly burst into a rage and scolded loudly: What kind of place do you regard as Taizhou Mansion, your family can come and leave as you want, but you are still a scholar and you have no ups and downs at all, it is really a waste of hard work in this mansion

Saying that, he also slapped the table, this is also the first time I have seen Lord Sun get so angry, if this matter is replaced by someone else, it may be difficult to retreat, but if Li Yang recognizes it, then it is useless for anyone to say anything

He bowed to Sun Yuanwu: "Teacher, you once said to the students that the revitalization of Zhejiang starts from Taizhou Mansion, this sentence is still hovering in the minds of students to this day, but if you want to revitalize Taizhou, you have to rectify the rule of officials - encourage production, check the treasury accounts is to make a bottom of the tax revenue of Taizhou Prefecture, integrate the official property and develop industry, so that more people can get rich, so as to create more employment opportunities so that the people have money

Under the rule of the people, the hungry have food, the cold has clothing, the shelter has the learning, the study has the medical treatment, the national peace and security is not the teacher's life's ambition, the teacher's life's ambition is also the student's life's ambition, for this ambition even if the liver and brain are the student's life

The two looked at each other for a while, only to see Sun Yuanwu's eyebrows furrowed and exhaled: Okay - this mansion will make an exception for you today, but you remember that this is the only time

Li Yang bowed deeply to Sun Yuanwu: The student thanked the teacher

There is a way that people are in good spirits when they are happy, Li Yang got Lord Sun's edict with his three-inch incorruptible tongue, he hummed a small song in his mouth and took a proud little square step, as soon as he stepped into the house, Zhang Wen came over: Li Bantou is so happy

Li Yang flashed his edict outward: Brother Zhang, you see Lord Sun's edict, I have invited it, and now I can check the accounts of the treasury

Zhang Wen confirmed the edict in front of everyone: That's too capable, what else can you say with Master Sun's edict

So Li Yang clapped his hands with the officials: Colleagues, let's start checking the accounts

As soon as the officials heard this, they immediately took action to prepare for checking the accounts of the treasury, and at this time Zhang Wenniao quietly pulled me aside: Li Bantou is about to finish work in half an hour, and now the check can't check many accounts, so it is better to let everyone go back early and have a good rest

I looked up at the sky is not how, this is not about to get off work, I remember when I used to go to work, the most annoying thing is to rush off work and work overtime, or the leader stepped on the end of the work to order a few sentences, grinding and chirping a lot of talk can not see a good face, in charge of the household I have a very simple requirement for the officials, do the work that should be done, don't be too tired

Li Yang: Okay-then let everyone go back early, by the way, Brother Zhang has to bother you to help you check the accounts, Hongting is here to thank you

After speaking, he bowed to Zhang Wen, and Zhang Wen hurriedly helped him up when he saw this: Li Bantou, you see that you are outside, they are all colleagues, even if you don't say it, I will do my best, Li Bantou, then I will go back first

Li Yang: Brother Zhang, slow down

At night, Li Yang found a tavern called "Wo Xianju" in the city, it is said that its smoked dried bean curd and sauce shrimp are done well, and the self-brewed small roast is more famous for sleepwalking fairy, and the price is particularly affordable, the proprietress of Wo Xianju is not only beautiful, she plays the lyre that is famous in Taizhou City, in order to eat this meal, as soon as Wo Xianju opens the door in the morning, Li Yang will come to book the table

Check the treasury accounts Li Yang not only has to rely on Zhang Wen, he also has to rely on Tao Wei and a few colleagues who have a good relationship, this meal Li Yang is quite generous, just the signature dishes of Wo Xianju ordered twelve dishes, Sleepwalking Fairy is a jar of people, at the beginning everyone was more restrained, and after a few glasses of wine, the brothers began to call them brothers, this meal Li Yang arranged a few brothers

Tao Wei shook his body and lifted a glass of wine: A few brothers will be in the household in the future, Li Bantou is our eldest brother, let's take the eldest brother as the leader, let's go with the eldest brother

"That's right to Tao Wei - Li Bantou will be our eldest brother in the future, and our brothers will respect you for this glass of wine."

Li Yang also picked up the wine glass: Okay, then we will be our own brothers, and today I will take this opportunity to make a statement to everyone, as long as we twist into a rope for two years - at most two years, I will guarantee that my brother's money bag can be bulged and he can live in a big mansion in the city

This can be regarded as saying that the brothers are in their hearts: Okay-big brother, in the future, our brothers will listen to you

Li Yang: If you have any difficulties in life, or if you encounter any difficulties, just tell me, I will never shirk what can be solved, and I will find a way to help you solve it if it can't be solved

"Big brother, you are really righteous, then our brothers thank you here first"

The next day, the clerks went to work in the household as usual, but today's office atmosphere was completely different from usual, Tao Wei and his brothers nodded to Li Yang Yiyi as soon as they came, Li Yang also waved to the brothers when he saw this, and the officials began to prepare for checking the accounts as soon as they came, Li Yang glanced around and clicked on the number of people and found that Zhang Wen had not yet come

It is said that he came early at this time, but he has not come at this time today, and I am still waiting for him to check the accounts of the treasury, when a voice came from outside the house, "Li Bantou, come here"

Li Yang looked outside the house, and Lord Sun was waving to him outside the house, so Li Yang ran over quickly: I have seen the prefect

Sun Yuanwu: Li Bantou Zhang Wen's mother is sick, he took his mother to Yanzhou Mansion for medical treatment, and it is estimated that it will take half a month to come back

Li Yang: Then I know

Sun Yuanwu: Okay, then you can be busy, the mansion will go back

Since Zhang Wen can't come, he won't wait, after returning to the house, Li Yang divided the officials into two waves, one is responsible for the daily work of the house, and the other wave is dedicated to checking the accounts of the treasury in the past five years

Tao Wei led people to move the sealed account book out of the warehouse, and then distributed the account book evenly according to the number of people, just after checking it I heard Tao Wei shout softly: Big brother, this account book is not right

When Li Yang heard this, he hurriedly walked over: What's wrong

Tao Wei: Big brother, someone has done something on the ledger

Li Yang picked up the ledger and flipped through a few sheets: Are you sure?

Tao Wei: OK - Big brother this account book was checked by me before, in the house errand our brother every time he reconciled, he would leave a unique secret mark on the account book, this account than before twelve more expenses a total of 1098 taels of silver

Li Yang: Where is Tao Wei's account?

Tao Ji: Workshop

Li Yang: Tao Wei, tell your brothers, remove the expenses that can be determined to have been manipulated, and check them according to the accounts you have checked before

Tao Wei: Okay, big brother - then I know what to do

In the next few days, Tao Jie and his brother ate and lived in the house, sleepy on the table to take a nap, hungry to gnaw two mouthfuls of dry food on pickles to deal with a mouthful, on the thatched house is considered to go out to breathe, after seven days of unremitting efforts Tao Jie and a few brothers, the treasury of the past five years of accounts checked, Tao Jie also on the account book to the problem of expenses with a pen circle

When Li Yang checked the checked accounts, he not only broke out in a cold sweat, because there was an account related to him, two years ago, Alan County resettled 60,000 victims, and the state government yamen allocated materials worth 30,000 taels of silver for Alan County, and I signed and received these materials, so I remember very clearly, but the account book recorded that it was indeed the state government yamen, which allocated materials worth 50,000 taels of silver for Alan County

The military room, the workshop, the officer's room, the household room, the torture room, and the ceremonial room all have a deficit of several thousand taels to 10,000 taels of silver, and this time the check of the treasury account is that there is a deficit of nearly 70,000 taels on the books, and then Li Yang took Tao Wei and others to weigh the official silver in the treasury again, and there are 128651 taels of official silver in the treasury, but in fact, there are only 85,671 taels of official silver in the treasury, which is a difference of 42,980 taels of official silver

There were problems with the accounts of the household one after another, and Li Yang also took the opportunity to raid the official warehouse, and the official warehouse had 185,000 quintals of official grain on the account of the household, and after Tao Ji and others checked that there were only 132,000 quintals of official grain in the official warehouse, so far the deficit of the treasury was as much as 150,000 taels