Wang Qi was shocked for a long time before slowly coming back to his senses.

Then he grabbed Yuan Tiangang's arm.

I only heard him say in a pleading tone: "Lord Yuan, this official earnestly requests that this method be taught to my household officials. ”

Yuan Tiangang said with a straight face: "Since the adults need to be lowered, they don't dare to refuse." ”

After listening to Yuan Tiangang's answer, Wang Qi was a little incoherent with excitement.

I just heard him keep muttering to himself: Okay, great, my household finally doesn't have to be with the abacus all day, and it's finally going to get out.

Wang Jue's mood at the moment was very excited.

For a long time, the work of the household department has not been easy.

Every year, the accounts of the state capitals are counted from June, which takes two months.

The next step is to distribute the financial expenses of various places, which is another two months.

Then he will be responsible for the monthly financial work of Chang'an City.

These are fixed accounts.

In addition, it is necessary to budget for the cost of various wars at any time.

Statistics on the situation of disasters in various places, etc.

At the end of the year, there is basically no time for household officials to come down easily.

If this new method of bookkeeping is available, it will be a great time saver in future calculations.

At that time, the household officials will have a respite, just like other departments.

Don't be as tired as you are now.

Thinking of this, he bowed to Yuan Tiangang very seriously.

Yuan Tiangang was so frightened that he hurriedly flashed to the side and said, "Lord Wang, don't be like this, how can the lower officials bear the worship of your lord?" ”

Wang Jue opened his mouth and said: "This official is to thank Lord Yuan for saving me on behalf of the officials of the Ministry of Households, and I also ask Lord Yuan not to refuse." ”

After saying this, he bowed again.

Yuan Tiangang bowed sideways, and then said, "Lord Wang is really admirable for his subordinates to do such a thing. ”

As he spoke, he also saluted Wang Qi.

While the two were talking here, Kong Yingda and the three of them had been watching these children's calculations in shock.

With the close cooperation of the children, stacks of books were copied and then quickly calculated.

Kong Yingda and the three of them were also numb at this time.

An arithmetic professor had just taken the time to ask the kid who was in charge of tidying up.

By this time they already knew what the numbers meant and what the books were classified.

It was because of this that they were even more shocked.

Because this method is much, much stronger than what they have mastered before.

For the next period of time, Kong Yingda and the two professors would come over every day to have a look.

But they're not meant to supervise those students' calculations.

Instead, he listened carefully to Yuan Tiangang's lecture with the household officials.

Wang Jue knows the truth that sharpening knives does not mistake woodcutters.

Therefore, he would set aside an hour every day for the household officials to learn new bookkeeping methods.

It just so happened that not all of the books that had been delivered before.

As time passed, accounts were still being sent from time to time in areas far away from Chang'an City.

As a result, the children's calculation time is getting longer and longer.

In the end, it took more than a month.

During this period, the household officials also studied about the same, and the rest was just continuous practice.

However, when Wang Jue, who was full of excitement, was about to take Yuan Tiangang to Li Shimin on an errand.

An urgent report from a household official made him feel like he was struck by lightning, and the whole person stayed there instantly.

Something happened! Something big is wrong!

This is not just Wang Jue's thoughts at this time, but the thoughts of all the officials in the entire household department.

At this moment when Wang Qi was in a daze, he and Yuan Tiangang were already surrounded by household officials.

These people all had scared expressions on their faces, and they were directly telling others that they had almost made a big mistake.

The household officials had learned the bookkeeping method for a month, so it was natural that they should try it out for themselves.

So someone tried to re-transcribe some of the local account books.

In the beginning, these people were just newbies.

So when I was calculating, I just felt a lot faster, and no one paid attention to the rest.

However, as these people became more proficient, they naturally observed the ledger more carefully when calculating the accounts.

Immediately, someone discovered the anomaly, and then suspected that someone had made a false account.

So they quickly found a few children to help them see.

One look reveals a case of collective corruption that horrifies them.

The journal appears to be very detailed, but it looks chaotic because of the large number of entries in income and expenditure.

This gives some opportunities to fake it.

They tend to keep track of the same expense multiple times in order to reap the benefits.

The method is actually very primitive.

It's nothing more than a certain year, a certain month, and a certain day, the county government renovated a certain wall, and spent a few hundred dollars to buy bricks and stones.

Then a few more workers were hired and how much they were paid.

In a few days, this will appear again on other projects.

However, since it is fake, there is often a phenomenon that is particularly easy to ignore.

That is, the size of the project is different each time, and the money spent will naturally be different.

But these people seldom look through the old accounts.

Therefore, a set of data is often written at random for the sake of convenience.

According to this method, you can always find a name for repairing a wall today, repairing a house tomorrow, and repairing a bridge and road the day after tomorrow.

The same can be done for taxation.

The number reported today is a tax collected on a thousand people, and tomorrow it may become nine hundred.

The most unacceptable thing is that they tend to use the same numbers back and forth for convenience.

This is a bit too distracting.

In the past, when household officials reconciled accounts, they could only accurately check the total number of accounts due to the large number of accounts.

Naturally, there is not much attention paid to the accounts of these segments.

However, now with double-entry accounting, these numbers are taken out separately.

Usually no one pays attention to it when there are hundreds of entries, but now when they are put together, they can't hide it from those who have a heart.

So someone quickly recalculated based on this situation.

After doing the math, I found out that the price of the same brick on this horse had risen in price every few days?

How can the population of the same village fluctuate?

Wang Jue trembled and led everyone to the reckoning room.

Upon entering, he was directed to a pile of problematic ledgers.

What made him even more alarmed was that he was told that it might not be the whole story.

Wang Qi looked at the account book in front of him, and his body trembled like chaff.

It's too big.

He didn't dare to imagine what kind of anger he would have erupted if the emperor learned about it.

After a long time, Wang Jue finally recovered from the shock.

He turned around and pushed away the people around him, staggered and ran in the direction of the Taiji Hall.

Yuan Tiangang was worried that he would fall, so he hurriedly followed.

When he was about to reach the gate of the Taiji Palace, Wang Jue suddenly stopped.

He bowed deeply to Yuan Tiangang, who was full of doubts.

Then he trembled his lips and said, "Lord Yuan, you saved the lives of all the officials in the household!" ”