Zheng Jiu went and returned, without inviting Xue Jiaoyan.

However, it was not that Xue Jiaoyan refused to come, but went to the Fang Mansion to visit Xue Bowu.

Xue Bo was exhausted and was now resting in the Fang Mansion, and Xue Jiaoyan went to the Fang Mansion to take care of it after knowing it.

Fang Yuan looked at the sky, at this time, it was already more than half of the Shen time, so he didn't plan to continue to work, and drove home.

As soon as I returned, I saw Hongxu and Qingyu settling accounts while boiling water and making tea in the living room, and at the end of the year, I wanted to summarize this year's income and expenditure.

In the past two months, the two have been counting non-stop every day.

Xue Jiaoyan was a guest, and Fang Yuan was not there, so the two of them came out to make tea to entertain her, but Xue Jiaoyan was not in the living room at this time.

"Master, can you find someone to come back and help our sisters?"

"There are too many of these accounts for us to count."

Hongxu cried with a sad face and said aggrievedly.

After moving to Liaozhou this year, income and expenses in all aspects have skyrocketed.

Cement factory, steel plant, White Tiger Club, Chengbei Commercial Street, dividends of various commercial banks and factories, etc.

I didn't have so much work before, but now it has skyrocketed so much at once, which makes the two sisters themselves even more headaches because they don't know much about settling accounts.

Hongxu and Qingyu didn't know how to settle accounts before, but after they took refuge in Fang Yuan, Fang Yuan happened to be short of manpower, so they traveled lightly until now.

"Usually I don't talk about you when you're idle, but now you can't stand it after a month or two?"

Fang Yuan glanced at the red and sat down to drink tea.

There are many expenses of the Fang government that cannot be announced to the public.

For example, Fang Yuan's relationship in Chang'an City has a lot of interests.

If they have a clear account breakdown, that's fine, and it's okay to ask for an individual.

But these two are so stupid, all the accounts are recorded on the same ledger, and they are ugly to death.

"Master, let's subdivide the ledger and invite someone to come, okay?"

The red floc was next to Fang Yuan and said coquettishly.

The young lady on the side was also pitiful and looked at Fang Yuan.

The two sisters had been counting from the beginning of the month to the end of the month, and they had slept late for several days.

"I'll talk about it when we divide it."

Fang Yuan waved his hand and didn't immediately agree.

They said this when they were in Wuling County the previous year.

But it turned out that all the accounts were recorded in the same ledger.

But the two of them only started to get busy in December.

Around mid-to-early November this year, I started to settle accounts non-stop, much earlier than the previous year.

"Uh-huh, good drop."

Both sisters were on the verge of crying.

After pouring tea for Fang Yuan, he immediately settled the account.

Crackling, the abacus of the two sounded.

Not long after, Xue Jiaoyan walked out from the direction of the backyard.

"Fang Tingshi, are you back?"

Xue Jiaoyan smiled and sat down next to Fang Yuan.

"So happy, is Bowu recovering?"

Fang Yuan saw her smiling so happily, thinking that Xue Bowu had woken up.

Xue Bo fell asleep after exhausting his strength, and still hasn't woken up yet.

"Nope."

"Xue Wenbo, that bastard, asked me for my brother and said he could give me money, but I ignored him."

"Fang Tingshi, do you want to give me more money, I can sell my brother to you for a long time."

Xue Jiaoyan frowned at Fang Yuan and said.

"How long?"

Fang Yuan chuckled.

That's exactly what he wants.

"Another year!"

Xue Jiaoyan stretched out a finger and smiled even more.

"Yes, I can give more than that, but there is one condition."

Fang Yuan pondered for a moment and nodded.

"Double as much?!"

"What conditions you can say!"

Xue Jiaoyan was so excited that her face turned red.

His eyes widened, as if he had fallen into a money jar.

"You can't unilaterally break the contract!"

"The extra part will be given in a year!"

Fang Yuan said in a deep voice.

"No problem, no problem."

"What about the contract, let's re-sign!"

Xue Jiaoyan shouted excitedly.

As he spoke, he took the white paper from the red lady on the side.

Then he took out the contract he had signed with Fang Yuan before, and wrote another copy according to it, and changed the price, time, and breach of contract.

In less than a quarter of an hour, the new contract was successfully signed, and Xue Jiaoyan smiled like a child holding the new contract.

Fang Yuan looked at it, and he actually felt that he had lost money, and he really wanted to change the number of years to be a little longer.

But after thinking about it, forget it, and if you have the opportunity in the future, you can renew the contract again.

Xue Jiaoyan carefully took the contract back into her arms and returned the pen to the red floc.

At this time, she finally noticed that Hongxu and Qingyu were settling accounts.

"Workers are 1,650 yuan, and 50 yuan per person is 82 and 500 yuan."

Xue Jiaoyan blurted out.

And this number, Qing Yuan is constantly calculating, and her fingers are almost swollen.

"That's right, it's eighty-two and five hundred texts!"

"Miss Xue, you are so powerful, what about this, what about this?"

Qing Yuan was calculating about the same, and the abacus quickly came up with the answer, and immediately knew that Xue Jiaoyan was right.

Then he wrote the number down and pointed to one of the places and asked.

"Thirty yuan was advanced, and twenty-four five hundred and eighty yuan were used to buy materials, and twenty-five workers had two yuan per day each, and they worked for a total of seventy-nine days, which is the remaining four hundred and seventy yuan."

Xue Jiaoyan finished reading the accounts, and calculated the number in a moment.

"Wow, Sister Yan, you're so amazing!"

Hongxu and Qing Yu suddenly showed adoring eyes.

Unconsciously, she changed directly from Miss Xue to Sister Yan, and the change was huge.

Fang Yuan looked at it, and his heart was also extremely shocked.

He tried to do the math, but it took him a few minutes to figure it out.

This is still calculated based on the learned addition, subtraction, multiplication, and division operations.

And Xue Jiaoyan only calculated it so quickly without the blessing of arithmetic in later generations.

Genius, great arithmetic genius!

"Xue Jiaoyan, there is a shortage of settlers in my house, are you interested?"

"One hundred per month, including food and accommodation, you move here to live, and it is convenient to see your brother."

Fang Yuan raised the heart of solicitation.

Such a powerful arithmetic genius, it would be a pity not to solicit.

In the Fang Mansion, the red floc and the young lady are theoretically also 100 yuan per month.

However, they usually take more and eat more, and Fang Yuan didn't care.

"A hundred dollars a month?!"

"I'm interested, I'm very interested."

Xue Jiaoyan exclaimed.

Hearing that there was a hundred dollars a month, she didn't even notice what Fang Yuan said later.

"Then you can take some time to move over."

Fang Yuan was slightly stunned, then smiled.

I didn't expect it to be so easy to win.

knew that Xue Jiaoyan loved money, but she didn't expect to love money so much.

"I won't do it tomorrow, I'll move in tonight."

Xue Jiaoyan hurriedly said.

She quickly got up and ran excitedly in the direction of the gate.

Maybe it was because she was wearing too many clothes, and she was swollen and couldn't run, so she fell to the ground with a pop.

Fang Yuan and Hongxu were startled, and hurriedly got up to help her, but she had already gotten up.

"You wait for me, I'll move here tonight."

Xue Jiaoyan dropped a sentence and ran again.

It was only a few runs and another fall, and then it left the sight of Fang Yuan and the others.

Fang Yuan and the others glanced at each other, their faces were very weird, one moment they admired the other party's arithmetic, and the next moment

At night, Xue Jiaoyan really moved in.

But she moved in with her old housekeeper couple.

said that he had lived with Lin Bo for a long time, and it was not good to leave the two of them in Xue Mansion, so they came over together.

The Fang family has a big business, and there has never been a housekeeper, they are all in charge of Hongxu and Qingyao, and many housekeepers have no opinion when they come to Fang Yuan.

A few days later, November ended and December arrived.

On the first day of the Lunar New Year, the three counties ordered all to pay taxes at the Assassin's Mansion.

Fang Yuan was handed over to the imperial court in mid-December, and the local county order was handed over on the first day of the new year.

"Fang Thorn History, this is the tax situation of this county, please take a look."

In the conference room, Wang Chengzhe and the three handed the tax list to Fang Yuan.

Fang Yuan took it and directly liquidated it with Sihu and his assistant on the side.

Taxes are counted on the spot, and they can only be left after they are confirmed.

This year, the crop harvest in one city and three counties in Liaozhou was not good, but because of the arrival of Fang Yuan, many people made money, and all they handed over was money.

"Fang Thorn History, this year's drought in Guannei Province, there are many affected areas in Hedong Province, presumably many states and counties in Hedong Province are unable to meet the tax standards."

"But the taxes of one city and three counties in Liaozhou are sufficient, if we hand it over in advance, maybe the imperial court will be overjoyed and give us some rewards in Liaozhou."

Sun Tae-ha proposed.

The Pingcheng County he administered was the farthest away from Liaozhou City.

Comparatively speaking, the development of Pingcheng County is not as good as that of the other two counties.

But after Sun Taihe became the county magistrate, he immediately transferred his family's business.

As the resume says, it is trying to keep up with the development of Shangzhou City, and many people in Pingcheng County have been employed.

"Indeed."

"Xia Guan also has this idea."

Zhou Kaile said respectfully.

He also had this idea and wanted to say it.

It's a pity that Sun Taihe said it in advance, what a pity.

"That's a good idea."

"After counting the taxes of each county, the official will send them to Chang'an City."

Fang Yuan pondered for a moment, and also felt that it was a good offense.

When he was in Wuling County, he didn't want people to know that a small place was developing so well that he wouldn't be targeted.

But when he came to Liaozhou, he has become a thorn in history, and he belongs to a prince, so he should shine his own light at this time.

In this way, it can attract the attention of the high-level more, be more able to get the policy tilt of the imperial court, and the road to promotion in the future will be much smoother.

"Wise adults!"

Zhou Kaile and the three of them saluted together.

The overall benefits of Liaozhou are also related to their three county orders.

At the beginning of the Tang Dynasty, the people's taxes were not heavy, and the proportion of payment was forty taxes one.

In other words, the harvest is forty catties and the tax is paid one catty.

If there is no food, the local price of food is converted.

In the afternoon, the tax count was completed and the three left.

After they left, Fang Yuan asked people to pack up.

The next day, it was sent to Chang'an City.

Chang'an City Palace.

Li Shimin held a simple high-level meeting in the imperial study.

A few days ago, Tang Jian, the secretary of the household department, wrote a letter on the issue of reducing or reducing taxes in various parts of Kannai Province and Hedong Province.

"Your Majesty, the minister thinks that this year's Kannai Province has been greatly drought, and Hedong Province and other places have been affected, and the harvest has dropped sharply, so it is reasonable to reduce the response tax."

Tang Jian expressed his opinion.

He submitted his report at the end of November, and it was only today on the third day of December that he had time to hold a discussion.

"Tax exemption is a good thing."

"But the imperial court is about to start a war against the Eastern Turks, which is related to the fortunes of the country, will the tax exemption at this time lead to the problem of not being able to provide grain and grass in the future?"

Li Jing, the secretary of the military department, was the first to speak.

Whether it is tax-free or not, he never participates in discussions and interferes.

However, the war is imminent, and the grain and grass must be prepared, otherwise the war will not be able to start.

In the middle of the war, if the army is disturbed due to the lack of food and grass, it may lead to the possibility of defeat.

"The drought in Kannai is well known, and Hedong Province and other places have been affected, and everyone knows that I support tax reductions and exemptions."

"But the war against the Eastern Turks, the opportunity must not be lost, and if the opportunity is missed, there may not be such a good opportunity, will the tax reduction and exemption affect the grain and grass?"

The right servant shot Du Ruhui Zhengse.

In times of great calamity, it is normal to reduce taxes.

But now the situation is different, and the imperial court is deciding to go to war against the Eastern Turks.

War against the Eastern Turks is rare, and if it is missed, it may be trampled on.

"Dai Shangshu, how many states and counties now say that they are not enough to collect taxes?"

Li Shimin looked at Tang Jian and asked.

Similarly, Li Shimin did not want to influence the war against the Eastern Turks.

The shame of Weishui is like a fish choking, and if the Eastern Turks recover, the Tang Dynasty will be in danger and will have to fight.

"All 81 prefectures in 18 prefectures in Kannai Province said that there is a serious shortage of tax revenue this year."

"Of the 73 counties in 18 states in Hedong Province, 46 counties in 11 states said there was a serious shortage of tax revenue, 3 states and 12 counties said there was a slight shortfall, and 4 states and 13 counties said there was no problem.

Tang Jian took out the account book of the household department and read.

Before paying the tax, there will be a document sent to the household department to explain the situation.

If there is a shortage of taxes, we will ask for instructions in advance, and the imperial court will give corresponding guidelines, whether to forcibly collect or reduce the part, and so on.

"Huh?"

Li Shimin and the others looked at Tang Jiandao puzzled.

Suddenly, there was a huh, which puzzled everyone.

"Liaozhou has paid all the taxes of one city and three counties, and it has reached the household department."

Tang Jian's face was strange.

In previous years, taxes in various places would arrive one after another after the middle of the year.

Liaozhou, as a prefecture and county affected by the drought in Hedong Province, was the first to pay taxes, and so early.

"Liaozhou?!"

Li Shimin's eyes lit up,

Fang Yuan immediately came to mind.

There were also many people at the scene whose expressions changed slightly.

For example, Du Ruhui, he also thought of Fang Yuan, and a relieved smile appeared on the corner of his mouth.

There are also Li Jing, the eldest grandson Wuji and Wang Jue, all three of them have inquired about Fang Yuan, but they didn't expect to hear Fang Yuan again now.

"It's Liaozhou, Hedong Province."

"Your Majesty, this Liaozhou is really exemplary."

Tang Jian said with a smile.

Tobe's favorite is the one who actively pays the money.

Although he exempted taxes for people everywhere, he liked it even more when he paid for it.

"Yes, a good example!"

"I remember, Liaozhou Thorn History is still an acting Thorn History, right?"

Li Shimin said with a smile.

"Yes, the acting Liaozhou Assassin Shi Fang originated from the eighth day of the seventh month of the second year of Zhenguan, and he is now twenty-four years old."

The eldest grandson Wuji said.

"Set an example, and the court will naturally be rewarded."

"It's just that I'm only twenty-four years old, is it a little younger to change to Zheng?"

Li Shimin muttered.

His eyes swept to the high-level present.

"Twenty-four is indeed younger."

"Or let him be promoted again next year at twenty-five?"

Du Ruhui nodded thoughtfully, and then proposed.

Everyone listened, stunned, and all felt weird.

Next year's twenty-fifth will be less than a month, not long, still very young.

"Du Xiang is wise."

"The eldest grandson Shangshu ordered the officials to issue a document and promoted Fang Yuan to act as the Liaozhou Thorn History, which took effect on January 1 of the third year of Zhenguan."

Li Shimin glanced at Du Ruhui and smiled knowingly.

Immediately issued an order to Sun Wuji, the chief secretary of the Ministry of Officials.

"Obey."

The eldest grandson Wuji pondered for a moment.

When he saw that there was no objection, he got up and took the order.

After the meeting, a promotion document was sent to Liaozhou.

(End of chapter)