Chapter 115 Settlement

It actually started to rain in the next two days.

After the rain stopped, the mountain was covered with a thick white mist.

After the forest was washed, Yun Zhuan took two more breaths of air than usual.

Although she didn't know what the meaning of the necklace given to her by Master Wuxiang was, she carried it with her anyway, hoping that this string of beads blessed by the Buddha's light could bring her some luck.

Today, she will go down the mountain and head to the outskirts of Beijing, living alone in the bamboo garden.

In order to have spies watching her, she lived alone in Zhuyuan as a backup plan.

At the intersection of a narrow path outside Beijing, someone was already waiting for her.

Because this house is also very hidden, it is more suitable for completing the mission.

Ye Shuchen had been waiting there for a long time. The table was already filled with Yun Zhuan's favorite pastries and tea.

"The lady is here?"

Yun Zhuan nodded, then took a wool blanket and spread it on the ground, sat on the ground, and began to check the bills.

All types of taxation are clearly stated above.

The more he looked, the more Yun Zhuan frowned: "The harvest was the best in the first few years after your majesty ascended the throne. There is something wrong with these two accounts because they exempted taxes due to disasters."

Those people probably wouldn't have thought that the audit would be so thorough.

Yun Zhuan was 100% sure that this account book contained a mixture of truth and falsehood, so he had to pick out the problematic items.

There are also many accounts with calculation errors, which also need to be singled out.

The piled-up accounts were indeed a big problem. Yun Ju'an used his other hand to quickly calculate on an abacus while doing mental arithmetic.

If the luck is not favorable in the current year, the tax reduction should be reduced by 50%. Emperor Yuan was quite open-minded. Otherwise, due to natural disasters and man-made calamities, excessive taxation would make life difficult for the people and unbearable.

But this tax reduction was only 20%, which means that even in an unfavorable year, the people still paid 30% more tax.

This extra 30% tax has not been recorded in the accounts. So who has it gone into?

Jiangzhou Prefecture is really a mess.

But he was indeed extremely wealthy, and Yun Zhuan was extremely jealous.

I bit the tip of the brush and learned that the tax on merchants is 40% of their profits, and it is indeed 40% here.

But when the accounts were reviewed, they didn't match.

Yun Zhuan's head was about to explode. He threw the account to Ye Shuchen and took the other accounts.

The first account book was checked over and over again three times, and only after it was correct would Yun Zhuan proceed to the next one.

Day and night, over and over again, Yun Ju'an would bite the tip of a pen while calculating the accounts in his dreams. What was wrong? Yun Ju'an really felt like he was possessed by a demon.

After half a month, the accounts have been cleared up a lot.

She herself seemed to be leading a life even more miserable than that of asceticism. She counted accounts during the day, and in her dreams she dreamed of writing poems poorly and cried out loud.

When she woke up the next morning, she had dark bags under her eyes and her appearance had deteriorated drastically.

Ye Shuchen was not much better than her. After all, he was Ye Guan's grandson, and was no more slow than Yun Zhian in doing things. Thanks to Ye Shuchen's loyalty these days, he was also efficient in doing things.

He is also good at keeping accounts.

The problematic accounts will be copied down, and then re-marked with the pages and annotations, so that they can be verified and resolved in the future, which will be much more convenient.

It took Yun Ju'an twenty days to finally deal with this pile of mess. He was exhausted.

When King Ye knew that Yun Ju'an had finished, he was very pleased and felt that he had not made a mistake in choosing the right person. After arriving at the place and carefully checking it out, he said:

"Can you make this account flawless?"

"Make two copies, one with problems, and re-transcribe it, highlighting the problematic parts."

Accounting?

Yun Zhuan felt that these words were like thunder from a clear sky: "My Lord, why don't you just kill me?"

"I won't let you work for me in vain. How about I help you deal with Grand Tutor She? Recently he has been keeping his eyes on your Yun family. The She family is deeply rooted in the court. With your Yun family's qualifications, it will be difficult to shake them." Yuan Ting came with sincerity.

Yun Zhuan gritted his teeth and immediately cheered up: "Your Highness Prince Ye, watch out! This princess will definitely give you two complete sets of accounts."

It would be bad for anyone to take action, only someone from the royal family could take action so that the Yun family could hide behind.

For the sake of the Yun family, Yun Zhuan ignored the dark clouds before his eyes and began to copy the accounts day and night, and checked the accounts with Ye Shuchen.

On the basis of the original, it has been improved a lot.

At the end of a month, Yun Ju'an handed over the complete account book to King Ye.

It's not that Yuan Ting didn't trust Yun Zhuan, but for the seriousness of the matter, he still asked the people around him to recalculate.

Finally, Yun Ju'an breathed a sigh of relief after receiving a perfect evaluation.

This mess is finally over.

That night, Yun Zhuan quickly returned to Zhuyuan and fell asleep.

I slept for three days.

Duhuo knew what his young lady was doing and did not disturb her.

Even when Qingzhi and Lu'e came to pick people up, they obeyed the instructions and waited outside the door.

Out of concern that Yun Ju'an would feel uncomfortable during his retreat, Qing Zhi even suggested buying some of Yun Ju'an's favorite dishes and bringing them over.

But she didn't expect Yun Zhuan to sleep for several days. Qing Zhi looked at the spoiled food and the tired Yun Zhuan and felt so sad that she burst into tears.

Qingzhi is still a child, so it is normal for her to be afraid. Duhuo knows this in his heart, and he and Lu'e comfort her together.

It was not until the fourth day that Yun Ju'an slowly woke up.

When she woke up, she found that the dark circles under her eyes had almost disappeared.

"This is all thanks to Qingzhi. If she hadn't gone to Baicaotang to get the ointment and applied it to you every day, the dark circles under your eyes wouldn't have disappeared without a trace." Lu'e said with a smile, "Speaking of which, Miss, if I hadn't been watching over you for so long, I would have thought you were out mining in the middle of the night!"

Yun Zhuan was also amused: "Okay, I haven't seen you for a few days, and you look better and better. So where did you go with Qingzhi?"

"I didn't go anywhere, I just went shopping in the famous shops in Shangjing and bought her some small items." Lu'e said this with a relaxed look, "This little girl is really considerate. She even helped me carry things!"

Yun Zhuan raised his eyebrows: "She is so well behaved, young lady, I must give her something good as a reward."

Then he called Qing Zhi over and said to her with a smile: "I am just a layman, I don't have anything good. This table looks heavy in style, but it's not heavy, so I'll give it to you for your enjoyment!"

As he said this, he took off the gold-thread and ruby ​​bracelet on his wrist and gave it to her.

Qing Zhi was not willing to accept it at all and refused vigorously. It was only after Yun Jianan pretended to be angry that she accepted it.

"From now on, just listen to me, young lady, and there will be many benefits!" Yun Ju'an was not bragging. Now that Banban has built up his business outside, she will have a lot more money on her hands.

The things given as rewards are definitely worth showing off!

(End of this chapter)