Rise From the Humble

"Hahaha... You didn't see that when I sent the account books over, Zhu Pingan's surprised look was like a frightened dog outside the door, hahaha..."

After ensuring that everything was fine, Zhang Guanku asked Mr. Zhao to lead someone to deliver the account books to Zhu Ping'an. After Dr. Zhao returned from delivering the account books, he returned to the stall to share Zhu Ping'an's surprise with everyone, smiling from ear to ear.

"A frightened native dog... Hahaha, Mr. Zhao, your metaphor is just right. We are amazed..."

In an instant, the stall was filled with laughter and laughter.

I just like to see Zhu Ping'an's surprised look, which makes Zhao Langzhong and others feel an inexplicable sense of accomplishment.

However, if they could see the scene in the secluded room more than a hundred meters away, maybe their laughter would not be so brilliant.

In the secluded house, ten boxes were placed on the ground around the desk, occupying half of the floor space of the room. They were filled with stacks of account books, giving people the feeling of a mountain of accounts and a sea of ​​books.

In the middle of the box.

The young boy who should have been frightened like what Mr. Zhao said was now curling his lips, smiling, and his eyes shining brightly, looking at the sea of ​​account books on the ground as if they were treasures, without any sign of surprise. ….

As the treasury, Taicang should have so many account books. If there were less, Zhu Pingan would be surprised.

It seems that Jia Langzhong and the others moved all the account books of Taicang in the past three years in order to make themselves retreat.

This saves trouble.

I really should thank Langzhong Jia and Langzhong Zhao.

Zhu Ping'an smiled slightly and leaned down to check the ten boxes one by one. There were labels on the boxes, which marked the time of the account books in the boxes. Zhu Pingan chose the earliest box, took out a ledger from the box, took it to the table by the window, poured a cup of tea, opened a page and started reading.

"In April of the 28th year of Jiajing period (Taicang), the silver collected from fish collection was 7,459 taels, four cents and four cents."

This is the limitation of the times. Even the accounting method used by institutions like the Ming Dynasty Treasury cannot transcend the scope of single-entry accounting.

The single-entry accounting method is easy to falsify and cannot be detected. This is why they are so confident.

As far as the account book in hand is concerned, the records are detailed, clear and logical, and there is no flaw at all. If Ming Dynasty were to select the best account book now, this account book, no, strictly speaking, all the account books in it would be enough to be selected.

Zhu Ping'an continued to flip through a few pages, looked at the records, and curled his lips slightly. If he were a native of Ming Dynasty, even if he had been studying accounts since he was a child and was trained as an accountant, he would probably be helpless when encountering these account books. There seems to be no problem with these accounts at all.

This is a common problem with account books in this era. It is easy to falsify. It is difficult for ordinary high-end accounting offices to find problems when doing accounting.

For example, when I helped my father-in-law check the accounts when he won the election, it was only his father-in-law who made false accounts. At that time, all the accounting offices in Huaining County came together and checked for several days but no problem was found.

What's more, this time the accounts were done by the top accountant of the treasury.

However, it is a pity that I am not a native of the Ming Dynasty, but a modern person with hundreds of years of history. Looking at this account book with modern accounting knowledge will be different. There are no holes hidden in it. shape.

Do it again using double-entry accounting, and the evil spirits in the ledger will be revealed for what they are.

Zhu Pingan sat on a chair, drinking tea and looking through the account book in his hand. After finishing a cup of tea, Zhu Pingan also finished flipping through the book.

Putting down the tea cup and the account book, Zhu Pingan reached out from his arms and took out the twenty double-entry accounting sheets he drew last night.

After thinking for a while, he put nineteen of them into the corner of a box.

Defenses can not do without.

Opening the first page of the account book, confirming that it was the earliest one, and then unfolding the double-entry accounting table on the table, Zhu Pingan began to grind the ink. After grinding the ink, he took a small brush from the pen holder. I was dipped in ink and started to use double-entry accounting.

Not complicated

As you keep doing it, you will gradually get better.

The sun outside gradually rose, and the sun began to scorch the sky and the earth again. The watchdog in Taicang began to stick out its tongue and curl up in the shade without moving.

Zhang Guanku was not in his office, but practicing calligraphy in another secluded room in Taicang. There were seven or eight ice basins placed in the room, making the temperature in the room cool and suitable.

Doctor Zhao was not in Taicang at this time, but was working as a prostitute not far from Taicang, holding a charming young woman in his arms. This young woman was originally a widow. Her husband died and she had no children. Her uncle kicked her out in order to fight for the family property. A woman was kicked out of the house. She had no skills and could only use her body. Fortunately, this young woman was unwilling to accept it. Lonely, she had hooked up with wild men before when her husband was still alive, but now she has become a prostitute like a fish in water.

There are five or six prostitutes here, all doing business in Taicang and Shenji Camp not far from Taicang.

In their words, there are no bad cats, only bad birds. If you guard this land, you won't have to worry about running out of business.

Jia Langzhong and three treasurers were playing horse crane in another secluded room in Taicang. There were seven or eight ice basins placed in the room. The room was very cool, but the atmosphere in the room was very hot. Since Jia Langzhong came into contact with After horse hanging, if you don't do a few laps every day, your hands will feel extremely itchy and you will lose energy all day long.

"Song Jiang Wan Wan Guan, hahaha, I'm sorry for touching myself."

After Jia Langzhong touched a card, he laughed. Although he had won a lot of silver, who would think he had won too much.

"Alas, Mr. Jia's luck today is that God will kill God if he stands in the way, and Buddha will kill Buddha if he stands in the way of Buddha."

The rest of the people at the card table looked like they were sighing and complaining, but they were very happy to pay out their money.

"Master Jia, should we go to Zhu Ping'an's place to see if anything goes wrong?" a treasurer at the card table reminded.

"What's there to see? Didn't you listen to the ghost tricks? Even all the accounting offices in the capital can't find any problems even if they spend months, let alone Zhu Ping'an, who can't even do abacus."

"That's right, that's right"

The other two treasurers retorted with a smile.

"What Treasurer Wang said makes sense. Let's go and take a look after a few more rounds."

Jia Langzhong was very lucky at this time and had just played one round. Naturally, he didn't want to leave the card table and said while shuffling the cards.

Make a few more rounds.

The others at the table knew the elegant meaning of Xian Ge and started shuffling the cards together. Naturally, they no longer mentioned going to see Zhu Pingan to check the accounts.

The sun outside is getting higher and higher, and the scorching sunlight shines in through the window. The mottled windows cannot block it at all. The scorching sunlight shines through the window and falls on Zhu Pingan who is writing furiously at the desk. .

At this time, the room was already very hot, and the official uniform on Zhu Pingan's shoulders and back was already very wet. However, Zhu Pingan seemed not to feel anything, and was still concentrating on doing the double-entry accounting form.

There are nine account books that have been sorted out on the desk, and there are only two pages left in the tenth account book in front of you.