Qin Qingyao was still waiting for him to come back for dinner at the palace. Why didn't he come back all day after going to the palace? Was he angry because he kicked him out of bed yesterday?
"Husband, you're back!"
When Qin Qingyao saw Dugu Yu appear, she flew over to him. Dugu Yu took the opportunity to hug her and kissed her on the face very quickly, so quickly that Qin Qingyao thought she was hallucinating.
"What kept you busy today?"
"Well, I've been on vacation for half a month, and a lot of things have piled up."
Qin Qingyao looked at the large box in Zhao Jinghan's arms, "Are those the same?"
"Um."
"Then let's eat first, and then you can watch it after dinner, okay?"
"good."
Dugu Yu didn't feel very hungry at the Ministry of War, but when he returned to his own dining table, his stomach started growling. He ate more today than usual.
It might have something to do with Qin Qingyao's attentiveness in picking up food.
After dinner, he walked with Qin Qingyao for a while, then hurried back to the study.
Qin Qingyao was freezing outside alone and didn't want to walk around anymore, so she went to the study to accompany him.
In the study, Dugu Yu was reading, writing, and calculating on the abacus.
"What are you looking at, honey? Can I see it?"
"The account book of the military camp's expenses for the past year."
Logically speaking, outsiders are not allowed to see it, but Dugu Yu feels that even if Qin Qingyao sees it, she may not understand it.
After all, when she was reading, she didn't read as much as she asked him. Not only did she not understand the meaning, she also didn't recognize many words. She was basically semi-illiterate.
But what a coincidence, she just happened to know all the capital Chinese characters such as 壹贰叁肆五六７, etc.
Moreover, the simplest addition, subtraction, multiplication and division, although the numbers are huge, are completely trouble-free for her.
Apart from converting it into Arabic numerals, there is no technical content.
"Husband, there are so many account books here? Do you want to calculate them all from the beginning?"
"This is just a small part. Food and military pay are the top priorities for the soldiers. How can we not know clearly?"
"Oh. Then let me help you calculate it."
Qin Qingyao ran to the kitchen, took out a duck feather, then took the rice paper and inkstone to do her calculations, and stopped hanging out with Dugu Yu.
Dugu Yu was speechless when he saw the duck feather, and he ignored her.
Later, he found that she was calculating very seriously and did not ask him any questions, so he walked over and took a look.
I found that she had written a lot of small circles on the paper with duck feathers...
Qin Qingyao was listing arithmetic equations, so the numbers were stacked up. In order to facilitate subsequent checking and comparison, each arithmetic equation was written very neatly.
The account book number, specific content, and month of the account are all clearly written.
But no one can understand it except herself.
The military has account books every month, summaries every quarter, and a big summary at the end of the year, so there can be no mistakes.
Otherwise, if there is a shortage, you will have to make up for it yourself. If there is a surplus, you will be found out and accused of embezzling military funds and defrauding the national treasury. You will never be able to clear your name even if you jump into the Yellow River.
Qin Qingyao was settling accounts with the Yanling Army.
Starting from January last year, we calculate it month by month and quarter by quarter.
"Sir, can I ask you a question?"
"What?"
"Your Yanling Army has 20,000 men, 2,000 personal guards, and 200 close bodyguards, right?"
"right."
"Nothing has changed in a whole year? No one leaves and no one comes?" She remembered that Zhao Xiaohe really wanted to join the Yanling Army. If no one gave up his seat, how could he get in?
"There may be small changes, but generally, unless they are significant, they will not be reflected in the accounts."
"Oh, I see."
Dugu Yu used to think that Qin Qingyao was probably illiterate, but today he discovered that Qin Qingyao was very fast at calculating accounts.
He had just finished reading two books, and Qin Qingyao already had five account books piled up at hand.
"Have you finished reading those?"
"Yeah, I've finished reading it."
But you didn’t even take an abacus…
Dugu Yu didn't say anything else, as long as she was happy.
Finally, when the two of them were busy until midnight, Dugu Yu brought back twenty-seven account books. He read five of them, and Qin Qingyao had already finished reading all twelve account books of the Yanling Army from October last year to October this year.
She stretched and yawned, "Honey, it's late, shall we go to bed?"
Dugu Yu was also very sleepy. He didn't sleep all night yesterday and had been dealing with documents and looking at account books all day today. There were still many things waiting for him tomorrow. If he didn't rest, he would not be able to hold on any longer.
But there is still a lot of work to be done...
"Go back to your room and sleep first. I'll watch for a while."
Qin Qingyao walked over and snuggled into Dugu Yu's arms, looking like she was so sleepy that she couldn't even open her eyes.
"No, I want my husband to sleep with me!"
Dugu Yu touched her face distressedly and said, "Okay, let's sleep together."
Anyway, even if he stayed up all night, he wouldn't be able to finish all the work. He carried Qin Qingyao back to the house, and the two of them quickly washed up and went to bed.
Qin Qingyao hugged Dugu Yu's neck, and after he fell asleep, she secretly opened her eyes. Although she was really sleepy, she felt really distressed when she saw how hard Dugu Yu was working.
I have dark circles under my eyes.
She kissed Dugu Yu's eyes, but he didn't wake up. She touched his face, but he didn't respond either.
Just as she was about to climb out of his arms, Dugu Yu grabbed her and hugged her back. Qin Qingyao covered her mouth and giggled, feeling satisfied and energetic. With her husband's love, she was not sleepy at all.
After giving him a kiss on the cheek, Paji leaned over and whispered in his ear, "Honey, I need to get up and go to the bathroom!"
Dugu Yu did not wake up, but he let go of her hand. Qin Qingyao got out of bed, put on some clothes casually, wrapped herself in Dugu Yu's big cloak, and went to the study.
The guard was startled by her sneaky look, "Princess, what can I do for you?"
"Well, there are some things I haven't finished reading. Can you hold the lamp for me and make me a cup of hot tea?"
Guard: “…”
"Yes, I understand."
Qin Qingyao yawned as she sat in Dugu Yu's seat, took her own duck feather pen, and began to look at the remaining account books.
The general ledger of the Yanling Army for the last quarter of last year and the first three quarters of this year.
She calculated very quickly because she remembered all the accounts of the Yanling Army very clearly and there were no mistakes.
Then she started to read what Dugu Yu had not finished. It was freezing cold in November, and her hands were frozen after reading two account books. The guards quickly lit a brazier for her.
After three pots of hot tea, the guard came in for the fifth time to announce the time, "Princess, it's already Yin hour. The prince will soon be getting up to attend court."
"I understand. I'll be right back."
Qin Qingyao was not sleepy at all now, and her mind was highly focused, because she actually found something wrong in the account books of the 200,000 soldiers and horses in the northwest camp under Dugu Yu.
In fact, this move was very secretive. If Qin Qingyao had not looked at the accounts of the Yanling Army first, she would not have been able to find any loopholes.
These 200,000 soldiers are given four sets of military uniforms every season, plus clothes, shoes, weapons, etc. for daily training.
However, the price of the fabric purchased at the same time in the same quarter is completely different from that purchased by the Yanling Army?
The prices of the upper, middle and lower grade fabrics they use for different parts of the body are very close. The lowest grade coarse linen is not much different in price from the highest grade cotton. Isn't this a weird thing?
If we calculate based on the price of fabric purchased by the Yanling Army, just for clothing production, an army of 200,000 soldiers would eat up at least a million taels of silver in price difference every quarter. How can this be considered a concept?!
On paper, everything seemed perfect, but it didn't stand up to scrutiny.
Moreover, last winter, these 200,000 soldiers purchased 200,000 cotton-padded clothes, but the total amount of cloth they used on paper was nearly twenty times that of the 20,000 Yanling Army, and the amount of cotton was far more than twenty times that of the Yanling Army.
In other words, the silver spent on supporting these 200,000 ordinary soldiers is enough to support 400,000 Yanling soldiers. Isn't this a joke?
Are the cotton clothes in this military camp particularly thick?
Qin Qingyao absolutely did not believe that Dugu Yu would mistreat the Yanling Army. Their training intensity was higher, and their clothes and shoes wore out faster, so the things they used should be better and more numerous.
But obviously, the per capita consumption of the 200,000 soldiers in that military camp is much greater than the per capita consumption of the Yanling Army on paper!
"Wu Gang? Wu Yu? Is anyone there?"
"Princess, your subordinate Qi Mo is here. It's my turn now!"
"Thank you for your hard work. Come in for a moment."
"What are your orders, Princess?"
Qin Qingyao pointed at the cover of the account book and asked, "You know this military camp, right?"
"I know."
"Tell the three of them to pick two of them and go to this barracks tomorrow and find all the military uniforms worn by the soldiers from October last year to October this year, especially the winter cotton-padded clothes, and bring them back."
Qi Mo, "But if they're all taken away, then we'll have nothing to wear..."
Qin Qingyao was speechless. "Are you stupid? Who told you to catch someone and take it?"
"Why don't you find a few more people and each of them bring one piece? Take the ones that are worn out and can't be worn, or just bring a few new sets of clothes and go exchange them with them!"
"But! This matter must be done in secret and must not attract attention. Do you understand?"
"yes!"
"Also, go get a set of each from the Yanling Army. Is that okay?"
"no problem."
"Go back to sleep. I'm going to sleep too. You don't have to stay with me."
"yes!"
Qin Qingyao sorted out the fifteen accounts of the Yanling Army and found nothing wrong with them. Then he collected all the calculation papers used to calculate the account books of the Northwest Camp.
She didn't quite understand whether there was something wrong with the account book or she was overthinking it, so she had to see the clothes first.
However, there are still some mistakes in this account book. It’s not a big problem. There are tens of thousands or hundreds of thousands of dollars. I don’t know if it’s a calculation error, but Qin Qingyao wrote them down.
Any errors in any account and the amount of discrepancies were translated into "壹贰叁" and written neatly at the bottom of the account book.
She finished reading the remaining seven account books overnight.
Dugu Yu brought back twenty-seven account books, five of which he read himself and Qin Qingyao read twenty.
Back in bed, Qin Qingyao's hands and feet were so cold that she was almost frozen. She crawled into the quilt and didn't dare get too close to Dugu Yu for fear of catching him cold. As a result, he pulled her over.
Dugu Yu touched her cold hand and held it.
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