Later, Li Hao went to the Yamen as usual, and Gu Tingye was also busy with his own affairs and had no time to see Li Hao.
However, in the past few days, Li Hao would make a special trip to the Fa Cao, Si Lu Division, and the Left and Right Military Inspection Courts every day. It was not until no one appealed to Zhu Manniang for several days that he confirmed that the matter had been settled.
At this time, Li Hao was thinking about whether Gu Tingye could successfully marry Yu Yanran without Zhu Manniang's troubles this time. However, it is uncertain that without Zhu Manniang, Gu Tingye may not be so motivated to marry a wife. It is also uncertain whether he will pursue Mrs. Yu later.
After going through these things in Li Hao's mind, he finally had no intention of taking care of them. Anyway, if Gu Tingye really got married and separated, Gu Yankai would not be angry with Gu Tingye and die early. In addition, after the separation of the family, Gu Tingye is not qualified to inherit the title, and the Xiao Qin family may not target Gu Tingye so much again.
If this is the case, Gu Tingye may not have the chance to go to Yuzhou to rescue Zhao Zongquan later, and he doesn't know whether his life is good or not, and whether he can escape this disaster.
But anyway, when Li Hao comes, something has to change. As for what it will look like after the change, Li Hao doesn't know now. He can only wait and see how things will develop later.
At this time, Li Hao had just finished one thing, which was that he spent almost two months to finally recalculate Liucao's account books in recent years using the debit and credit method and Arabic numerals.
After an overall accounting, it was found that there were basically discrepancies in Liucao's accounts. Gong Cao, Hu Cao and Fa Cao were okay, basically there was not much difference, and the difference was only a few thousand taels of silver a year. But the difference between Bing Cao, Shi Cao, and Cang Cao was huge. It ranged from two to thirty thousand taels to as many as hundreds of thousands taels. It was not known who had the difference in silver.
This made Li Hao lament that no official is corrupt. Of course, it is not necessarily all officials who are corrupt. For example, if there is a discrepancy of thousands of taels for meritorious officials, household officials, and legal officials, Li Hao feels that it is more likely that the officials below are bullying them. Hidden up and down, the oil and water are fished out. However, if the amounts of Bing Cao, Shi Cao, and Cang Cao were not concealed by their superiors, their subordinates would not have the guts to do so.
And even this situation was formed under the strict governance of Cai Xiang, the former power magistrate of Kaifeng Prefecture. I can’t imagine how bold these people could be if the Shangguan’s methods were weaker. Therefore, the policy of high salary to support integrity in the Song Dynasty, The actual effect seems not as good as imagined.
However, after Li Hao sorted out the account books, he did not intend to expose them himself. Instead, he followed Ouyang Xiu back to his house with the sorted account books after being released from office.
When they arrived at Ouyang Mansion, after Li Hao and Ouyang Xiu sat down, Ouyang Xiu asked, "You said you had something to tell me when you were in the government office. What was it?"
After Li Hao heard this, he took out the account books compiled using the loan and debit method and gave them to Ouyang Xiu.
After Ouyang Xiu took it with a puzzled look, he flipped through two pages and said, "Isn't this something you made by drawing a talisman? What are the paintings on it and what's their use?"
When Li Hao heard this, he handed over the original six Cao account books and asked Ouyang Xiu to compare them.
Then he explained to Ouyang Xiu the one-to-one correspondence between Arabic numerals and Chinese characters, and then explained to Ouyang Xiu one by one the entry and exit, income and expenditure of the previous accounts.
After Li Hao finished roughly speaking, Ouyang Xiu could basically understand it, so he compared the two account books with each other. After looking at them for a while, he said: "Your accounting method is quite novel, and it looks better than what we use now." The four-pillar inventory method is much simpler. The problem is that this symbol is too easy to be tampered with, such as the two symbols 2 and 3, and the two symbols 1 and 4. Just two strokes will make the difference."
After hearing this, Li Hao said: "Uncle, what I want to show you is this method. As for the specific counting, you can still use the existing figures."
Ouyang Xiu laughed after hearing this and said, "I was wrong about this, but in terms of calculation alone, your method seems feasible."
After hearing this, Li Hao emphasized: "In fact, after I took office, I checked the entire Liucao accounts and found that the accounts themselves are not complicated, but there are many various entry and exit items, and the threshold for using the four-pillar inventory method is quite high after all, so I gave it Those who are willing can take advantage of it and make some changes to benefit from it."
"So I came up with this method. Its biggest advantage is that the entire account calculation is easy to understand. As long as you remember the principle that if there is a debit, there must be a loan, and the debit must be equal. Once the accounts on both sides are not consistent, there will definitely be a problem. This makes it easy to check and verify at any time, and also prevents people who are careful from messing around.”
Ouyang Xiu listened carefully to Li Hao's introduction, picked up two more account books, and said while flipping through: "What you said makes some sense. Please sort out your usage experience. I will arrange for someone to come over and learn it, and then I will order someone to sort it out and try it out." , if it is indeed feasible, I will credit you with it."
But after hearing what Ouyang Xiu said, Li Hao was not very happy. Instead, he asked with some doubts: "My uncle has a long-term vision, and my nephew naturally admires it. However, when my uncle saw the problems in the accounts, he didn't seem to be surprised at all. This made my nephew It’s a little strange.”
After hearing this, Ouyang Xiu laughed and said: "It's just that there are some discrepancies in the accounts, and someone is taking profits from it. I have been an official for more than 20 years. From various state capitals to sitting in the court, I have dealt with all kinds of officials and subordinates. I don’t know how many of them are not those censors who ignore secular affairs and only care about impeachment. In addition, officials’ corruption has always been a disease of the court. You think I haven’t paid attention to it since I came to Kaifeng Mansion.”
Hearing this, Li Hao asked with some confusion: "Then why uncle has not investigated and dealt with this matter, but is more lenient than before. What's the reason?"
After hearing this, Ouyang Xiu explained to Li Hao: "In your opinion, what is Kaifeng Mansion? Do you really think that I can make a decisive decision on the officials under me, or do you think that the officials under Kaifeng Mansion are all groundless duckweeds? I You can handle it if you want to.”
Then he said more pointedly: "Do you know how many of the six Cao Cao have friends with the dignitaries in the capital, and how many people in the left and right military patrols are the disciples of the nobles in the capital." Then he answered himself. : "You don't know any of this, right?"
After Li Hao heard this, he also heard that there was another meaning in it. After thinking for a while, he frowned and said, "My uncle also knows about the incident in Xiaotianshui Lane a few days ago."
Upon hearing this, Ouyang Xiu said: "Do you think you and Gu Tingye can hide what you and Gu Tingye did a few days ago? Now do you know where you went wrong?"
After hearing this, Li Hao simply said: "It's better to ask uncle for advice."
Ouyang Xiu then taught him a lesson: "You are wrong because you think you are a superior official, and you think you can control the people below. So from the beginning to the end, you never thought about whether to check the details of these people, but you just patted your head and thought You used it as soon as you got up, and gave people money, but you didn't expect that people would turn around and sell you.
Moreover, you don’t want to think about how the people in charge of the Military Inspectorate, who have been dealing with the Forbidden Army yamen such as the Majun Division and the Infantry Division all year round, and are also in charge of public security in Bianjing, can have nothing to do with the nobles in Bianjing City.
You just have better luck, and you have accidentally avoided them on important matters. In addition, with Gu Tingye's identity suppressing you, you can escape smoothly this time. Otherwise, because of that woman, there will be no you. Eat the good fruit. "
After hearing this, Li Hao quickly thought about whether there was any evidence in someone else's hands, but when he looked up at Ouyang Xiu's expression, he suddenly came to his senses. If there was really a problem, Ouyang Xiu would not say it so easily. So he thanked: "My nephew, thank you for your uncle's help. It seems that if my uncle hadn't helped to finish it off, my nephew would have been in big trouble."
