Chapter 741 Toad Inspector
When it was about 11 o'clock, Zhu Ping'an stretched himself. The more than 70 account books on the table had been sorted out using the double-entry accounting method. One-third of the box's ledger has been sorted out.
The process of sorting is actually simple addition and subtraction. There is nothing complicated. Ancient account books were all written with brushes. One page only contains five or six simple additions and subtractions.
Zhu Pingan is not good at abacus, but thanks to modern exam-oriented education, Zhu Pingan has mastered no less than three or four kinds of addition and subtraction quick calculation skills, as well as calculation formulas. These modern arithmetic methods are faster than abacus. Dozens of times. It's just that it's a little more troublesome to re-record the accounts using the double-entry accounting table. Otherwise, if it was just calculations, Zhu Pingan could complete a large box of account books in one morning.
After sorting out the account book in his hand, Zhu Pingan noticed that it was already past eleven o'clock. I guess someone is coming to Taicang soon, either to spy on me and check my accounts, or to ask me to have lunch, but the purpose is nothing more than to see how I am doing my accounts.
You can't let them know the true progress of your audit, and you can't put pressure on them. The more you can confuse them, the more proactive you will be.
So, Zhu Pingan stopped, dried the ink on the double-entry accounting table, carefully folded it, and placed it under the pillow on the bed.
Carefully put the account books on the table into the box in order, fold a corner of the bottom account book and make a mark.
Only one account book was left on the table. Open the second page and put it on the table, pressing it down with a ruler.
That's it.
Zhu Pingan finally twitched his lips with satisfaction.
After the rearrangement was completed, Zhu Pingan felt that the official uniform on his body had been wet with sweat, dried and wet again. He had done this several times. At this time, the official uniform on his body was wet with sweat. It's wet again.
Since it was wet, Zhu Pingan simply took off his official uniform, casually put it on a chair, wore only a single coat, drank a cup of herbal tea, then lay on the small bed and fell asleep.
The small bed was against the wall, and the sun could not reach it. The mat on the bed was still relatively cool. When lying on the mat, Zhu Pingan suddenly felt cool and comfortable.
There are seventy-six ledgers this morning, six of which have problems. Arranged according to time, the problematic ledgers began to appear in the second quarter of the 28th year of Jiajing. These six ledgers have a total of If the three thousand two hundred and eighteen taels of silver are not accounted for, it means someone has been corrupted.
I only checked one-third of the ledger of a box and found a deficit of 3,218 taels of silver.
This is just the deficit reflected in the ledger.
Three thousand two hundred and eighteen taels of silver, equivalent to RMB, is about two million RMB.
Although the amount is not comparable to Zhao Dehan, the "Billion-Yuan Director" in the name of the people, to the general public, two million is not a small amount.
Besides, this is only one third of the ledger found in one box. There are still ten boxes that have not been checked.
Haha
Take your time, don’t rush.
Zhu Pingan lay on the small bed, turned over, and took a good rest.
I was busy doing interesting things with Li Shu last night. I did too much and was so obsessed with it for so long that I forgot to sleep and didn't sleep well. I just took this time to catch up on my sleep, otherwise my body would not be able to bear it.
Zhu Pingan was also very talented at sleeping. He lay on the bed and fell asleep within a few minutes.
After a while
the snoring started.
While Zhu Pingan was immersed in sleep, snoring and playing music to himself, someone outside the room came toward the room.
This person is Treasurer Liu from Taicang. He has been accompanying Jia Langzhong in the morning. Just now, Zhao Langzhong came in from outside to take his place. Jia Langzhong asked him to come over and take a look at Zhu Pingan's audit books. How's it going? Let's ask Zhu Ping'an what he wants for lunch.
When Secretary Liu approached the house, he immediately caught a glimpse of the official uniforms under the window of the room. He couldn't help but was shocked. He thought Zhu Pingan was sitting on the chair carefully checking the account books.
Such careful inspection?
Don’t find out anything. Treasurer Liu couldn’t help but feel nervous. He took another step forward, got closer and looked carefully at the window.
Huh.
Secretary Liu could not help but breathed a sigh of relief and smiled when he saw clearly what was happening under the window in the room. Zhu Ping'an was sitting on a chair checking the account books. He was just leaning on the chair. It was just an official uniform, I was just dazzled just now.
But what about Zhu Pingan? Not in the room?
Secretary Liu walked into the room with questions. The sun was shining brightly outside, and the light was very strong. However, the light inside the room was not good. When he walked into the room from the outside, he was temporarily blind. Secretary Liu couldn't see clearly inside the room, so he couldn't help calling softly, " Master Zhu".
The room was very quiet and no echo was heard.
No one?
Secretary Liu was startled, and the next second he heard a thunderous snoring sound, "Snoring."
amount
Turns out he was asleep!
Secretary Liu was startled for a moment, shaking his head and wondering whether to laugh or cry. He thought there was no one there, but it turned out that he was asleep.
At this time, Treasurer Liu had adapted to the light in the room. Looking along the snoring sound, he saw Zhu Pingan, who was wearing single clothes on the small bed, with big letters written on it, and snoring like thunder. The corner of his mouth was drooling. The pillow was wet.
To Secretary Liu, it was no exaggeration to say that Zhu Pingan's snoring was louder than that of the pigs in the Taicang pig pen.
"Master Zhu?"
Secretary Liu called softly again and looked carefully at Zhu Pingan on the bed.
There was no movement at all, and the only response to Secretary Liu was Zhu Ping'an's snoring.
Why do you still audit the bank? !
Looking at Zhu Ping'an who was snoring like thunder, Secretary Liu's face was full of ridicule. He stared at it for two seconds. Secretary Liu turned around gently, walked quietly to the desk, and looked at the desk carefully. pens, inks, paper, inkstones, account books, etc.
Seeing that there was only one account book on the table, Treasurer Liu gently picked up the account book and looked at it. The ridicule on his face became even stronger.
It was obvious that only one page of the account book had been turned over, and the abacus on the table was upside down. It looked like the beads had been moved randomly
After grinding the ink, the brush looked like it had been moved. Treasurer Liu saw this After one o'clock, I looked at the desk carefully again and opened Open the blank rice paper on the side, and you can see a willow tree on it. Under the willow tree is a pond. Under the shade of the tree, a lotus leaf is drawn, and a big toad is lying on the lotus leaf
There are also some blank spaces. A poem: Sitting alone in the pond is like a tiger crouching, nourishing the spirit under the shade of trees.
This sentence ends, there is no more.
Sitting alone in the pond is like a tiger crouching, nourishing the spirit under the shade tree.
After reading this poem, Secretary Liu chuckled lightly, and the sarcasm at the corner of his mouth became more intense. Zhu Ping'an was probably too hot and wanted the shade of a tree to cool down, so he drew such a big toad.
Hehe
Secretary Liu folded the rice paper again according to its original shape and put it back to its original place. Then he looked carefully at the box on the ground and saw that the account books in the box were neatly arranged. , as if he had not moved, the smile on his lips became even thicker.
Secretary Liu walked out of the room gently, without waking Zhu Pingan, but went to Jia Langzhong and Zhao Langzhong.
Soon, Zhu Ping'an only read one page of the account book in the morning, drew a big toad, and lay down in bed, snoring and unable to sleep. The news spread throughout Taicang, and the reputation of the Toad Inspector followed. spread like wildfire. (End of chapter)