infodatos Chapter 40 Preliminary Investigation
Chapter 40 Preliminary Investigation
Chapter 40
Yu Lin's job is quite leisurely, he stays in his office every day, not noisy, not like those newcomers who just arrived want to gear up for a big fight, and stay in his own place every day. In the three-acre land, no matter what the mundane things are.
With these performances of his, the group of fearful and terrified big shots gradually let down their guard.
Report early every morning, then sleep on the couch and go for a stroll in the main hall of the front yard at noon. Compared with those who asked them to be on guard before, this Yu Wang is simply not a qualified person. eyeliner.
Yu Lin had only met Jiang Zhi once, his nominal uncle, and seeing his face that was [-]% similar to his own, Yu Lin sighed, the genes of the Jiang family are really strong enough to produce beauties.
Jiang Zhi looks much younger than his actual age, with sword-shaped eyebrows and nose bridge, only a little gray on the temples, adding a bit of literati elegance to it.No matter how you look at it, you don't look like a big treacherous minister.
When Jiang Zhi saw him, he didn't flatter and bow his head, nor did he act arrogantly. He was slightly rude, and then taught him a few words like an elder, with a gentle tone and a gentle voice, which Yu Lin listened to very well.
"Uncle, I'm useless, so I just come to your shift to play around. If the people above ask me, you have to speak well for me." Yu Lin called uncle naturally, and said a little gag.
Jiang Zhi kept his face expressionless. Hearing this, he smiled slightly, "King Yu is a late bloomer, so don't underestimate yourself. The emperor values His Royal Highness so much. Your Highness should live up to his cultivation."
Yu Lin laughed, unexpectedly he was exactly the same as Jiang Zhi, the adults standing aside looked at each other in blank dismay, it was the first time seeing such a portrait of his nephew and uncle in this court.
"Uncle is right, I have to rely on my uncle for guidance on weekdays."
Jiang Zhi nodded with a smile, apparently very satisfied with King Yu's respect for him.
"Let the people below bring over this year's Jiangnan tea and northern coal ledgers. You should first learn to read the ledgers, starting from small things."
Yu Lin paused for a moment, this Jiang Zhi dared to let him read the account book?Of course Yu Lin happily agreed.
"If you have any questions, you can ask me. You must study hard, take over the work as soon as possible, and don't be lazy and drink and sleep in the room every day, you know?"
Yu Lin pretended to nod helplessly, and sighed, "The good times are coming to an end."
After Zhao Yu left, someone asked aloud, "Why did your lord teach King Yu to know these account books? Don't lift a stone and hit us in the foot."
"His ambition is not here. Unlike those people in the past, everyone who came to the Ministry of Commerce wanted to show their ambitions. Let King Yu stay in the Ministry of Commerce. The emperor is the most at ease, and we are the most at ease. There is no one better than him. candidates."
The people below looked half-understood, they always followed Jiang Zhi's lead, so they didn't doubt his words.
In the backyard, in the study room, Yu Lin was holding the ledger just delivered from the front yard, smiling strangely, and wondered how Jiang Zhi dared to show him the ledger, since it was a second-hand product that had been processed later.
Yu Lin had studied for an MBA from a famous foreign university before, so of course he could understand these bills, but even if they were simple bills, remembering them in the way of ancient people still made his brain twitch.
Yu Lin took out a rectangular piece of black charcoal brought out from the mansion, found an unused writing brush, tied it to the tip of the brush, took out a piece of white rice paper, and began to check and calculate on it.
He first separated the tea buyers and sellers, and calculated the quantities they sold and bought respectively. This was the simplest part. He didn't need to use a pen at all, and he did the mental calculations directly, and he quickly came up with the answer.Exactly the same as recorded in the ledger.Yu Lin rubbed the corner of his mouth, it was really hard for them to do so well.
There are many varieties of tea, corresponding to the name of the product and the buyer and seller, to make a statistical chart, it would be great if there is a computer, and it can be automatically generated by directly inputting the numbers. Yu Lin draws and draws on straw paper, and his neck hurts from being tired.
While counting, someone knocked on the door, Yu Lin hurriedly packed the blueprints underneath, turned the account books upside down, pretended to be sleepy, and said, "Come in."
After Xiaosi outside came in, he glanced at the upside-down ledger on the case, and a mocking smile appeared on the corner of his mouth, "Your Highness, my lord asked me to come over to deliver some pastries, and I'm worried that your Highness will be hungry."
Yu Lin pretended to be very tired, "Thank you, my lord, I've been watching it all afternoon, and I'm a little hungry."
Xiao Si smiled, "My lord also asked, if His Highness encounters any difficulties, you can go to my lord for advice at any time."
Yu Lin squeezed a pastry into his mouth, took a sip of tea, "No, no, I can understand everything, and I'm reading it with enthusiasm. You go down." He said shaking the ledger in his hand , as if he was afraid that others would know that he could not understand.
Xiao Si suppressed a smile, "Then you can continue, my lord, but this servant has stepped back."
Yu Lin thought that since he couldn't finish reading it this afternoon, he might as well take the account book back to read, so as to save these people from coming over to inquire about the news.He was startled by two or three strikes.
When the time came, Yu Lin tactfully proposed to Jiang Zhi that he wanted to take these account books back to read, "Uncle, see if I can take this account book back to read."
Of course, Jiang Zhi was not afraid that this account book would go out, but he still put on a troubled look on his face, "This is our internal account book, and it should not be taken out. But because King Yu is so humble and studious, I opened this special for His Highness."
Yu Lin cursed secretly in his heart, old fox.But in the end I took the ledger back.
The following two days are commonly known as Sundays in modern times, and there is no need to go to the business department to work. After Yu Lin finished his meal that night, he walked in the yard and went back to his room to continue looking at the books.
Yu Lin worked there for a week, and Jiang Zhi only showed him a flawless account book, which is enough to show how defensive these people are.
Lying on the couch, with a heater in his hand, the ground dragon in the room was full of fire, Yu Lin looked at these huge data, his eyelids were a little clotted, and he tried to finish this part of the calculation.
In the end, there was a problem as expected. Although the total amount was correct, the number of times the imperial court bought and sold was different from the number he finally calculated, and the tax was also different from the actual quantity of goods imported and exported. The difference between the two numbers is quite a lot.There is something tricky about it for sure.
After Yu Lin wrote down the names of the tea houses, money houses, and persons in charge of declarations that had obvious discrepancies in the number, he was about to take a rest. When he raised his eyes, he found an unexpected visitor sitting across from him.
Emperor Chen had been here for a long time, and when he first came in, he saw Zhao Yu lying on the table beside the bed, burying his head in writing and muttering non-stop.The ink-like hair hangs on both sides, and the forehead is slightly low. Standing in front of him, the emperor can see the eyelashes shadowed by the light, dancing with the flames.
"What are you looking at?" Emperor Chen came in and observed for a while, seeing that he seemed to be immersed in his own world unaffected, he couldn't help but make a sound.
Yu Lin raised his eyes and cast a glance, "Settling the score."
Emperor Chen reached out to pick up a piece of straw paper scattered on the ground, and looked at it with a frown. The white paper was full of numbers, and there were a few words written on the top. Looking at the personal names written on it, Chen The emperor rolled his eyes slightly.
"What is this?" Chen Di asked.
"You don't understand." Yu Lin didn't bother to explain to him how he explained these statistical charts to the emperor. Although it was indeed very efficient and convenient to use, there were too many formulas involved, and he couldn't explain them to him one by one.
"Then why did you write these names on it? What do you see?" Chendi asked again.
Only then did Yu Lin raise his head, and said with a serious expression, "These names I wrote, do you think it's weird from the eyeliner you have all over the place?"
Emperor Chen nodded, pointed to one of them and said, "Liu Pi, last year King Xiao was reported to have embezzled gold from Yongxi Gold Mine. After I read it, I felt a little strange, but I couldn't find the problem. Why did you write him out?"
Yu Lin was also very surprised. He didn't expect that Liu Pi belonged to the Xiao Wang Party. He thought he was at most Jiang's lackey, but he didn't expect him to be a heavyweight.He opened the mouth and said, "Jiang Zhi gave me a copy of the production, sales and income of the Northwest Coal Mine. I carefully calculated that a large number of the coal that Liu Pi handled had disappeared. I suspect that he or the person who instructed him I took it privately, and at the same time, I calculated again that some of the coal mines in the transaction with Beijiang this year did not declare taxes."
Emperor Chen listened quietly, with deep eyes, "How much?"
"About three thousand shi." Yu Lin said quietly, three thousand shi is not a small amount, accounting for half of the coal used in this dynasty, and these three thousand shi, no taxes and no bills, to put it bluntly, it was stolen first and then smuggled.
The emperor's face is dark and ugly, he has always been strict in governing officials, and he has no tolerance for officialdom. At this time, he only wants to kill these corrupt officials.
Although Yu Lin didn't want to irritate the Emperor, it was indeed because he failed to manage his officials well, so he hesitated and said, "There is one more thing."
"What else did you find out?" Chen Di put away the killing intent in his heart.
"I have lived in the past five years, have there been floods and droughts?"
"No, there hasn't been a natural disaster in the past ten years." Although Emperor Chen didn't understand why he asked this.
"Your Majesty recalls that there have been major pests in recent years?"
"Nothing." Emperor Chen replied one by one.
"It's strange to say, but as far as the Yunshan Wu tea species in the south of the Yangtze River is concerned, the output has been decreasing year by year in the past five years, and the corresponding price has been increasing. Even the new teas have been fired to the point where it is hard to find. The same The place of origin, the output of common tea leaves is very stable, and the price is also very stable, is it surprising that your Majesty said this?"
Emperor Chen carefully recalled that the brochures sent up every year simply stated that Yunshanwu had reduced production. He looked at the production and didn't seem to feel much less, but the production has been reduced for five consecutive years, which is different from the initial production. In comparison, the number is shockingly small.
Seeing the flickering of the emperor's face, Yu Lin was in a good mood, "It's not the only coincidence, there is also Qingyunjian on Taishan, the reason why I don't need to analyze it?"
Emperor Chen got up and looked at him with complicated eyes for a while, then left without saying a word with a sullen face.
Yu Lin smiled happily, and finally figured out a truth, a proud and conceited king, as long as you tell him that your country is not as prosperous and prosperous as it seems on the surface, and your courtiers are not as loyal as they seem. The emperor must not be able to sit still.
Yu Lin finally found a way not to let Emperor Chen stay overnight.
An emperor in his prime is not afraid of killing and works tirelessly. His country is just like the child he brought up with his own hands. As long as there is a little bit of danger to this child, the emperor will kill him immediately without mercy.
So, he is a good emperor.