Chapter 97: Look at the Account Book
Xie Shuangbai was still woken up by Rong Ye. He sat on the bed angrily, looking at the culprit like a cat with its fur standing on end.
Xie Shuangbai, who was in a bad mood after waking up, said angrily, "Rong Ye! You better have something important to do, otherwise you will be in trouble."
After saying that, he waved his fist at him.
Xiaoqiu and Xiaodong, who were serving nearby, were so scared that they lowered their heads even lower.
The master is truly powerful. He dares to speak to the Living King of Hell in the North like this. He is truly the bravest warrior in the Dayin Dynasty.
But the strange thing was that the prince was not angry at all, and he coaxed him to put on his clothes in a gentle voice.
She even wanted to feed him with her own hands, which surprised the four people watching.
Xie Shuangbai didn't know what they were thinking.
He treated Rongye the same as usual, just like in Xiaoshi Village, and he didn't think there was anything wrong.
But this may be the biggest problem in everyone's eyes.
In their eyes, Xie Shuangbai was too casual and dared to do this to the prince.
In Xie Shuangbai's mind, he has always used modern equal thinking when dating Rong Ye.
He did not regard Rong Ye as a prince who was admired by everyone. He only regarded him as an ordinary person who was in love like him.
Perhaps it is because of this attitude that Rongye feels that he is different from others.
After Xie Shuangbai finished his porridge, he asked Rong Ye, "Is the account book in your study?"
Rong Ye: "Well, I'll tell you which ones they are later."
Xie Shuangbai nodded. He was afraid that there might be some secret letter in the study, which would be bad if he accidentally saw it.
He looked at the pile of account books and asked in surprise, "So many?"
“That’s just part of it.”
Xie Shuangbai walked around to the table and picked up an account book at random and started looking at it.
After just looking at a few pictures, he felt a headache.
The ancient accounting method is really complicated and is all in traditional Chinese characters, which is very tiring to read.
He asked, "Who is usually responsible for these accounts?"
Rong Ye ordered his servants to call the person in charge.
All the properties of the palace were handed over to the former manager Pingyuan.
The man was wearing a dark blue robe and looked to be in his forties. He did not have the shrewdness and materialism of a businessman, but looked more like a teacher.
When Yuan Ping saw Rong Ye and him, he immediately bowed and said, "Yuan Ping greets His Majesty, and greets the young master."
Xie Shuangbai looked at the person who came and thought that Yuan Ping was really smart. He had only been in the mansion for a day, but he had already found out everything. It was obvious that he was a man of ulterior motives.
He likes smart and thoughtful people.
Rong Ye said, "Tell me about the Yuanping account book."
Yuan Ping looked at Rong Ye respectfully and said, "Yes, may you have any questions, sir?"
Xie Shuangbai picked up an account book and flipped through a few pages.
"I see the account books are very complicated. I imagine the former shopkeeper must have had a very hard time checking the accounts on a daily basis."
Yuan Ping nodded in agreement, "That's true. The family has so many businesses and the accounts are so complicated that it's really... difficult."
But he changed the subject: "But this is what a villain should do!"
Xie Shuangbai saw the former shopkeeper trying to make amends, thinking that he was looking for trouble, so he said:
"Don't worry, Boss. I called you here today because I have a simple accounting method. Using this method can greatly reduce the difficulty of checking and calculating accounts."
Yuan Ping was obviously very interested. What he said just now was not a lie. It took a lot of time to check the accounts every time, and he was so busy at the end of the year that he couldn't even raise his head. If there was any good method, he would be willing to learn it.
Xie Shuangbai took out the set of financial forms that he had taught Wei Changfeng before.
Debits and credits, income and expenditure, including notes, each item is listed clearly, and you can roughly know the revenue situation of a store by looking at the table.
Yuan Ping immediately understood the merits of this method and praised it highly:
"Young Master, you are so talented! This method will greatly save manpower, keep accounts clear, and reduce corruption!"
"Then I'll have to trouble Shopkeeper Yuan to instruct all the shops to reorganize their accounts according to this method. Just give me the form directly when the time comes."
"Don't worry, sir. I will make sure to explain everything clearly to each shop!" Yuan Ping said excitedly.
Xie Shuangbai smiled and said, "There's one thing I don't understand about you, former shopkeeper. This is the account book for the Yipinzhai shop in the city. I've looked at it and found that business is very bleak. How could it be so bad?"
Xie Shuangbai had learned about this before he opened a shop. There were not many snacks in this era, just some candied fruits and desserts. As long as they were not unpalatable, they could basically survive.
He couldn't understand why Yipinzhai was not making any money but was actually losing money.
"That's right, sir. Yipinzhai's business wasn't this bad before. Last year, the shop's master chef fell ill and resigned and returned home.
After he left, I also searched for a suitable master, but I couldn't find one. It was my fault."
Xie Shuangbai asked again: "What are the famous products of Yipinzhai?"
Yuan Ping was stunned by the question.
Seeing that he didn't understand, Xie Shuangbai explained, "It's the most famous pastry in the store, right?"
Yuan Ping was really stumped by the question. He was in charge of the overall situation and really didn't have time to ask in detail what each shop was most famous for.
Xie Shuangbai knew at a glance that the former shopkeeper probably didn't know about it.
The CEO doesn’t have time to worry about what sells best in a store; he only needs to grasp the overall situation.
"The original shopkeeper will temporarily suspend business. I will make a decision after I have inspected the shop."
Yuanping hesitated to speak, and finally just said okay.
Xie Shuangbai asked about the situation of several shops and then asked the former shopkeeper to go back first.
Yuanping was wearing a thick robe and sweat was breaking out on his forehead as he walked.
Xie Shuangbai looked at the account book and shook his head angrily.
"I took a quick look and saw that you have so many shops, but few are making money and most are losing money. Are you aware of this?"
Xie Shuangbai folded his arms and looked at Rong Ye.
"I rarely cared about these things before."
Xie Shuangbai was so angry that he didn't know what to say: "That's right, the God of War spends all his time fighting wars, so how can he have time to worry about these money-making things?"
He punched Rong Ye: "I think you tricked me here on purpose so that I can clean up your mess!"
Rong Ye smiled and took his hand. "These are not important. I asked you to check the accounts because I wanted you to know what my assets are. They will all be yours from now on! If you don't want to care about it, you don't have to. Someone will take care of it."
This was what made Xie Shuangbai angry.
"How can you lose such a huge business? You are very rich, right? You don't need money to fight a war, right? If you are so rich, why don't you buy more food for the soldiers? Why are you eating soybeans?"
"Don't I know how difficult it is to support so many soldiers? I'm just angry that you don't pay attention. These shops can make money if you pay attention.
If some shops are not doing well, they should be closed or rented out. If that doesn't work, selling them is better than trying to save face!"
"This is just Bin City's account book. What about your assets in other prefectures? This isn't a big deal, but it's not a small one either. You can't just focus on fighting a war. If you don't have money, why would you fight a war? If you have plenty of money, you don't even need to fight a war. Sometimes money really can solve everything, including war."
Maybe he has seen too many wars and ceasefires due to interests in modern times, so he hopes that Rongye has enough money to stop the war and let the people of this world suffer less from the pain of war.
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