Wang Tongzhi was closer to Zhang Wenyuan and vaguely heard Liu Yi's bad idea.
He gave Liu Yi a look of disdain.
This guy looks shifty and no one knows how he got close to King Qianhuang.
Fortunately, King Qianhuang did not use this person, otherwise he would be a person who deceives his subordinates and deceives his superiors.
Liu Yi pulled the corner of his lips awkwardly and smiled awkwardly.
"I just mentioned it. If Brother Zhang thinks it's inappropriate, just don't do it."
"I was just trying to give Brother Zhang some good advice, but why did you have to do this?"
Liu Yi snorted lightly, "I'm sorry for being nosy. I think Brother Zhang can come up with a good way to get the money himself."
Anyway, he is not the one who is worried about money.
King Qianhuang didn't ask him to be responsible for managing the accounts.
Zhang Wenyuan pursed his lips, glanced at Liu Yi coldly, and his gaze fell on the account book again.
How could he get the money?
He was not familiar with Qianhuang City at all.
"Do you two have any ideas?!"
Zhang Wenyuan looked up at Wang Tongzhi and Li Shiye.
These two people are old people from Qianhuang City. They are more familiar with Qianhuang City than he is, so they must have some solutions.
Master Li and Wang Tongzhi exchanged a glance, then looked away evasively at Zhang Wenyuan and shook their heads.
"There's no way."
What else could they do? They couldn't turn silver into something else.
Just when they were at a loss and extremely distressed, Shen Yong walked in slowly.
"Have the accounts been reconciled?"
Suddenly hearing Shen Yong's voice, the four of them froze and knelt down in greeting.
"I bow to King Qianhuang, may King Qianhuang be safe and sound..."
"No need to be so polite!" Chen Yong raised his hand and walked directly to the main seat and sat down.
He glanced at the thick stack of account books on the table and raised his brows slightly.
Zhang Wenyuan, who was kneeling beside the desk, quickly stood up, walked to Shen Yong and knelt down.
"The accounts have been reconciled, but—"
"Just say what you want to say." Chen Yong frowned and glanced at Zhang Wenyuan who was grunting.
What problem could there be with the accounts of the prefectural government? It's just that they're short of money.
Zhang Wenyuan continued to speak with a stiff upper lip.
"The prefectural government only has 2,300 taels of silver, which is not enough to pay the soldiers guarding the city."
"Furthermore, Qianhuang City hasn't paid salaries to its soldiers for nearly five months."
"How much silver are you short of?" Shen Yong had known about these situations for a long time and was not surprised.
Zhang Wenyuan was slightly stunned and turned his head to look at Master Li.
He hadn't had time to see how much silver he was short of.
Master Li stepped forward, bowed and replied,
"If we want to make up for the soldiers' salaries for the past few months, we'll need one million taels of silver."
"If I only pay this month's salary, 100,000 taels of silver is more than enough."
"Originally, we didn't need 100,000 taels of silver, but the number of newly recruited soldiers has exceeded the number of veterans, so the salary has naturally doubled."
Zhang Wenyuan frowned and said in surprise,
"Haven't the new recruits and veterans received their grain, oil, rice, and flour this month? Isn't that their salary? Do they need to pay them silver as well?"
They need food, drink, and money. These soldiers are living too well.
Wang Tongzhi glanced at Zhang Wenyuan,
"Master Zhang doesn't know."
"Many soldiers' families are not in Qianhuang City. When they send food, oil, rice and flour back home, they probably get embezzled on the way home."
"So these soldiers want silver, not food, oil, rice, or flour. After all, the barracks also provide food and drink."
"They will save the money and use it when they go home on vacation."
This time, King Qianhuang distributed grain, oil, rice and flour to all the soldiers, and many veterans are already looking for ways to exchange the things for silver.
Especially the meat that cannot be kept, they can’t bear to eat it themselves and have to sell it.
Zhang Wenyuan was slightly stunned and closed his mouth awkwardly.
Liu Yi looked at Shen Yong's sullen face and immediately stepped forward and said,
"King Qianhuang, this salary is too high. It should be reduced."
"Food is so precious, and they still want silver. We're being too generous to them. We need to discipline them properly to prevent them from getting ahead of us—"
Liu Yi saw that they were all looking at him coldly, and his words became less and less confident.
What does that mean?
He was thinking about King Qianhuang and saving him money, so why was he looking at him like that?
He used to give advice to the boss in this way, and the boss really appreciated it.
As a subordinate, you have to save money for your boss and solve his problems.
King Qianhuang had just arrived in Qianhuang City, so he was generous in his efforts to win over the hearts of the people and the army. Now that he has won them over, there is no need to give so many benefits.
Otherwise, if we feed these soldiers' appetites, future expenses will only increase.
Chen Yong glanced at Liu Yi coldly.
"Go to the city gate and build the wall. Go now."
Such a person who manages the accounts is simply a bad apple.
Liu Yi stared at Shen Yong in a daze, his face flushed instantly.
Seeing the murderous intent flashing in Chen Yong's eyes, his heart trembled and he quickly agreed.
".....yes."
Damn it!
The flattery hit the horse's hoof.
Liu Yi retreated with drooping shoulders and a sad look on his face.
Zhang Wenyuan and the other two looked at each other, lowered their heads and dared not say a word.
"Take me to the treasury where the silver is kept."
Shen Yong stood up and walked out with his hands behind his back.
The three of them quickly stood up and followed.
"This is the storeroom where the silver is kept."
After walking out of the accounting office and taking a few steps, I arrived at a locked room.
Master Li quickly took out the key and prepared to open the door.
Originally, the silver was not stored here, but in a special warehouse of the prefectural government office.
The warehouse was as big as one acre of land, and in addition to silver, it also stored various precious items.
But later, all those things were taken by Magistrate Deng to exchange for food from wealthy businessmen.
There were only two boxes of silver left in the warehouse, and they looked a bit miserable.
So Magistrate Deng simply asked them to move the silver to the wing room next to the accounting office.
This side room was also empty, except for the two thousand three hundred taels of silver, which looked a bit shabby.
"Wait!" Chen Yong called out to Master Li and took a look around the room.
This room is not small, about 40 square meters.
A 40-square-meter room should be able to hold 200,000 taels of silver.
Master Li paused, his hand holding the key rested on his chest, and he turned to look at Chen Yong with a puzzled look.
"...Uh, what's the problem?"
Zhang Wenyuan and Wang Tongzhi also looked at Shen Yong in surprise.
Is there something wrong with this house?
At this time, Chen Yong had already opened the takeaway mall, opened the shopping cart, doubled the 100,000 taels of silver in it, and directly purchased 200,000 taels of silver.
【Ding, consumption RMB, account balance RMB...】
The moment the order was completed, the sound of silver colliding suddenly came from the warehouse.
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