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In this way, Zhang Luo became the first female court accountant appointed by the Northern Song Dynasty.
The biggest advantage is that the small warehouse on the west side of the Douyuan Courtyard was immediately refurbished as if it were a new house. Not only the small broken windows were re-pasted with window paper, but also cotton curtains were installed. A carpet, a new charcoal basin, an incense burner, and other small belongings were arranged in the room.
Eunuch Liu was also very filial and sent back Zhang Luo's bedding. It's just that the bedding, compared with the ones sent by the cabinet warehouse, is too old, so it was put into the cabinet and left unused.
When Zhang Luo was sent to Waishengfang to have lunch, there were still people in the palace who hurriedly shoveled the snow from Douyuan Courtyard, and repaired the loose masonry ground. Even the plaque "Douyuanyuan" at the entrance of the gate, which has long gone to nowhere, was hung back. It is said that the three big characters on it are the thin gold body of today's pro-inscribed title.
Master Xu also received favors: he was able to sell the bricks and tiles left by the burned-down main house outside the palace, and he got a penny.
This is what Zhang Luo saw on the way to perform the first mission:
? Master Xu was sweating profusely pushing a small wheelbarrow, swaying here and there on the road that had been cleared of snow but still had some icy debris. The black bricks and tiles that were originally black were burned immediately in the car. A few eunuchs pointed at both sides of Tianjie.
A few elderly people saw Zhang Luo wearing a new waist card and coming with a pen and paper, so they came up and called: "Where is Accountant Zhang going?"
"The Holy Majesty ordered us to sort out the monthly accounts of eunuchs and maids in the palace."
"It's really worthy of favor." The eunuch who spoke also glanced at the wheelbarrow and Master Xu who were more than ten meters away. "The waves behind the Yangtze River drive the waves ahead!"
Master Xu slipped his hand, and a cart full of bricks and tiles were scattered on the ground.
Just as Zhang Luo was going to help, a young eunuch who was able to accompany Huizong came over: "Why is accountant Zhang so slow? The officials are waiting impatiently."
Zhang Luo had no choice but to follow the little eunuch first.
A few palace servants, who seemed to be running with their legs between their legs, approached Master Xu: "Master Xu, take a look at him. That's a serious job."
When approaching the gate of the side hall "Yujian Pavilion", the little eunuch suddenly turned sideways and whispered to Zhang Luo:
"If accountant Zhang sees something today, don't be surprised. Just ask Master Xu and you will know."
Then, there was a sound of whipping coming from the pavilion. Several young eunuchs and court ladies all knelt on the ground and raised their palms. Eunuch Zhang, whom he had seen in the morning, was standing behind the emperor. Next to him was a young eunuch holding a ruler and teaching his raised hands.
"Ah, accountant Zhang, you came just in time. The officials have already seen Master Xu and the previous people remembered the accounts, so they are very confused." Eunuch Zhang explained to Zhang Luo with a smile. "The ones who don't grow up have swallowed a lot. Give me a heavy blow."
Huizong also had a rare dignified expression: "There are such ignorant and shameless moths in the palace. Thinking that Master Xu also accompanied Tong Guan and was responsible for the money and food for going out to fight. He is a good hand in managing money. Looking at it now, this I¡¯m afraid the military will need someone to investigate.¡±
Having said that, the emperor looked at Zhang Luo: "Fortunately, now that I have accountant Zhang, I can sit back and relax."
It was the first time that Zhang Luo was relied on so much by someone, and he was still relied on by the No. 1 boss in the world, his little heart was pounding. She suddenly felt that she was very lucky to be able to come to the Northern Song Dynasty. My piece of He's Bi can also shine.
The emperor gave a few more instructions, and then helped Eunuch Zhang to leave.
The men and women who were beaten went to the apse and dragged in box after box of ledger books.
Zhang Luo sat down and looked at each line carefully. She had only read a few pages before she felt anxious. This account is too muddled to remember, except for the beautiful handwriting, it is simply a stew of beard and eyebrows. For example: In the second year of Chongning, Li Neishi borrowed 5,000 guan for no reason and without the approval of his superiors. In the same year, the wife of Yanfu Palace, Mrs. Wang, borrowed five hundred taels of silver from the inner court, and then hastily changed the five hundred taels into fifty taels with a brush
Zhang Luo asked the maid in charge of sorting out the account books for her: "This is?"
The maid just smiled and shook her head, and the little eunuch who accompanied Zhang Luolai whispered: "Accountant Zhang will ask Master Xu when he turns around."
"Can I ask Master Xu now?"
"Of course. Master Xu is becoming more shameless now, and he doesn't do serious errands. Although he is allowed to deal with the bricks and tiles of Douyuan Courtyard, he can't miss the job." Another young eunuch said cleverly. Zhang Luozheng made this foolish account very angry, and felt that what he said was right, so he asked him to go to Master Xu quickly.
Although Master Xu came, it was two or three hours later.
Zhang Luo almost jumped up because of this account. Every account is more bastard than the last one! So, when she saw Master Xu,The color can eat people:
"Master Xu, what are these?!"
Master Xu was lukewarm, and looked at the rotten dog meat account in a leisurely manner: "This is all in the past."
"Isn't it now that you can't even pay the monthly money?" Zhang Luo almost threw the account book on the ground. "This morning, I saw a lot of people who didn't even have breakfast." Out of the corner of her eye, she could see several old and dilapidated figures appearing outside the window of the Nuan Pavilion. Three or five of them seemed to be so hungry that they couldn't even straighten their waists.
Master Xu was still not in a hurry, nor did he defend himself: "Oh, it's always been like this."
"Always? Is it always right?" Zhang Luo hated such an answer. Master Xu went to sell bricks and tiles when he was free, and he didn't take care of the accounts. No wonder the officials didn't use him. At his age, he was so downcast, could he be so self-willed to degenerate? Zhang Luo felt that if it was her instead, then this small matter in the palace would naturally be in order.
"This Li Neiren's mother passed away, and the official mother-in-law allowed her to borrow money. Although she hasn't paid it back now, she has already left the palace and betrothed to Mrs. Cai You as a concubine."
(Cai You is the most powerful minister next to Cai Jing, Grand Master of the Grand Master. In the Huizong Dynasty, it can almost be said that he was the second most powerful minister among the ministers.)
"The last time she came to the palace to say hello to the empress, someone asked her about the account back then, and said that the palace people at that time made a mistake. It was not five hundred taels, but fifty taels."
Master Xu's second sentence completely annoyed Zhang Luo.
"She said?! She said she didn't borrow it!" Zhang Luo couldn't help spraying Master Xu all over the face.
At this time, there were more and more people outside the warm pavilion. The little eunuchs even opened the warm curtain to see that the stone passage between the outside and the gate of Ninghe Palace was about 700 to 800 meters long and more than ten meters wide, and it was already crowded with old, weak, sick and disabled palace people. Eagerness and hunger were on everyone's face.
Master Xu still drooped his eyelids, with the expression of a dead dog who had been kicked three times:
"Could it be possible for accountant Zhang to really go after the debt? Most of the people who borrowed money are the servants of the Daqing Palace, which Deputy Xu knows well."
The palace people outside exploded.
"Accountant Zhang, call the shots for us!"
"We haven't received the full monthly payment for several years. If we don't pay the monthly payment again, we will starve to death."
"Yes, accountant Zhang, we are hungry. But they took our monthly money and went to Xiaoyu Street, Xuanhuafang, Ruixiang Alley to buy the best houses!"
Zhang Luo was relied on by the old, the weak, the sick and the disabled, and felt that he was Lu Tixia, who was going to fight the town of Guanxi. She did a rough calculation, and there was a loss of more than seven thousand taels of silver in the Moon Palace alone. But as long as I can get back a hair of this old debt, it will be enough. She called the little eunuch angrily, and took her to the Daqing Palace to find someone.
"I don't care who he is, pay back the money he owes."
At this time, another small yellow door squeezed in: "Accountant Zhang, this is the account of the old grain in the Xinghua warehouse of the inner court. The Xinghua warehouse is waiting for your signature to dispose of the moldy old grain."
"Accountant Zhang, don't listen to them. This old grain is not moldy. It's because Xinghua warehouse is going to sell the fat man privately." The little eunuch who sent Zhang Luo came whispered. "Our grandpa Zhang sent them back several times, and now they see you as a newcomer, and you are here to fool people."
Xiao Huangmen's face turned pale with fright: "I don't dare to lie, I beg you to go and see for yourself."
So Zhang Luo led the people inside and outside the warm pavilion to the Xinghua warehouse on the west side of Tianjie. It's a pity that before she could go in, the aging eunuchs and maids behind her rushed in like hungry wolves. At first, Zhang Luo wanted to shout, "Everyone, stop," but she was almost stepped into the pothole in front of the warehouse. The musty smell of grain bales and shouting voices filled the entire front door of Xinghua warehouse. By the time the imperial guards arrived, the Xinghua warehouse had already been "cleaned" clean.
Only Zhang Luo was dumbfounded. She still wanted to call the imperial guards to catch those old palace servants back, when she heard a big young guard in the lead choke:
"This lady! You brought him here, how do the brothers know where to arrest him?"
The two little eunuchs who had been leading the way for Zhang Luo had long since disappeared.
Xiao Huangmen of Xinghuacang and his master, a middle-aged eunuch, and one or two old, weak, sick and disabled here, jumped on the sidelines:
"If this matter spreads to the higher authorities, we will lose our heads!"
"Accountant Zhang, can you check in slowly later? Don't make a fuss."
"Yue Yuhou, please raise your hand high."
"Accountant Zhang, I also beg you to pay some money for Yue Yuhou and the adults to eat wine."
Zhang Luo subconsciously touched his pocket, but it was empty.
The big forbidden soldier Yue Yuhou looked at Zhang Luo's disheveled appearance, and waved his hand: "I won't tell you. There is no need for wine." Then, he led a few of his men away.
Zhang Luo's brain was in a mess. She only felt that her eyes and feet seemed to be shaking. The ground and under the threshold of the Xinghua warehouse were also clean, not even a single grain was left.
After walking for half a mile, Zhang Luo realized that he had been tricked on the first day of work today: there was no food before the Xinghua warehouse was robbed. That's why we never dropped a single rice.
She ran towards Xinghuacang, but saw the little yellow gate that led her here, carrying a small bundle on her back, crawling through the dog hole, and entered a dilapidated courtyard where the roof could not be seen from the outside. (Remember the site URL: www.hlnovel.com)The big forbidden soldier Yue Yuhou looked at Zhang Luo's disheveled appearance, and waved his hand: "I won't tell you. There is no need for wine." Then, he led a few of his men away.
Zhang Luo's brain was in a mess. She only felt that her eyes and feet seemed to be shaking. The ground and under the threshold of the Xinghua warehouse were also clean, not even a single grain was left.
After walking for half a mile, Zhang Luo realized that he had been tricked on the first day of work today: there was no food before the Xinghua warehouse was robbed. That's why we never dropped a single rice.
She ran towards Xinghuacang, but saw the little yellow gate that led her here, carrying a small bundle on her back, crawling through the dog hole, and entered a dilapidated courtyard where the roof could not be seen from the outside. (Remember the site URL: www.hlnovel.com - Didn't finish reading? Add this book to your favoritesI'm a member and bookmarked this chapterCopy the address of this book and recommend it to your friends for pointsChapter error? Click here to report
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