Xiang Haocai didn't know that just before the Chinese New Year, Zhu Kuang had already earned nearly 200 taels of silver in just ten days.

If this approach is followed, Zhu Kuang will only help various merchants do audit work over the past year and will probably make a lot of money. However, Tiansha’s system was bound to be a minor official. It is conceivable that he will never tolerate being a freelancer.

Zhu Kuang is an ambitious person, how could he make an account for the merchant?

If you want to do it, make it bigger!

After finishing work this day, Zhu Kuang went to the market for a walk and bought a pound of meat to go home.

After eating the meat given by Liu Youde, Zhu Kuang has a character who is not happy with meat. He has money in his hands and will not treat himself badly.

When he got home, Mi saw his son coming back with meat, he smiled and said, "Just say it to his mother if you want to eat meat, why did you go to the market by yourself?"

Zhu Kuang smiled and said, "I happened to pass by and I bought it by the way. My mother and Ah Mei are also busy with these jobs at home recently."

Both Mi Shi and Ying Niang Er are interested in people. Since they moved to the house, they have never stopped these days, and they have laid out the house bit by bit.

Although it is a place to rent, Mi said that it is his own home after all, and it cannot be lost.

"Brother, don't you always say that a gentleman stays away from the kitchen?"

"Do you still remember my brother's confusing words? How have you done the homework assigned to you recently?" Zhu Kuang asked with a smile.

"I remember all the words taught by Brother A, but I just didn't write them well." Ying Niang blushed and said.

She thought practicing calligraphy was boring, and it was more interesting than doing needlework.

"Take it slowly, practicing calligraphy is not achieved overnight." Ying Niang is a girl, and Zhu Kuang does not have too high requirements. If you can recognize a few words, you can settle the score in the future.

If you want to live a good life at home, you can’t just rely on your own accounting to make money, or you have to have your own industry. Whether it is land or shop, someone needs to manage it. Naturally, this person can only be Yingniang.

"Mom, can we eat braised pork tonight?"

"As long, don't say it, the braised pork tastes very good." Mi Shi smiled and took the meat to the kitchen.

Zhu Kuang seized the time and taught Yingniang about ten words to let her remember.

"Ying Madam, although you have a good body, it's not good to not exercise at home like this."

When Yingniang heard Zhu Kuang say this, she hurriedly said, "Brother, wouldn't she ask me to follow her to go out for a circle, right?"

Brother goes to the lap every day and looks weird, so she doesn't want to do this.

"It's not that I can do it at home just by going out for a walk. I've learned the Five Animal Show and teach you, so how about you teach me?"

If the original owner Zhu Kuang was in poor health, then the two women in the family were in poor health. They would not go out of the door on weekdays and do needlework when they were free, which was very bad for their health. They still need to exercise more.

"Five Animals Play? I know, I know." Yingniang said happily: "It was created by the legendary genius doctor Hua Tuo."

Zhu Kuang didn't know if this Five Animal Show was the Five Animal Show created by Hua Tuo back then, but it should be.

Therefore, Zhu Kuang nodded.

"Isn't it said that the Five Animal Show has not been passed down?" Yingniang asked curiously.

"I also saw it in a book recently. After practicing both sides, I think it's good." Zhu Kuang pushed the reason to the book. Anyway, the two women at home would not look for books to read even if they had nothing to do.

Sure enough, Ying Niang stopped asking.

However, Yingniang was not very interested in practicing the Five Animal Show, and Zhu Kuang took a lot of effort to make it understand.

In the yamen, the news of Zhu Kuang's account check was not a secret in the county government. After Li Mingcheng learned that Zhu Kuang could really understand the accounts and calculated them very accurately, he couldn't sleep at night.

In the past ten years, he became the county magistrate and did some things that are not well known in the county, even tax revenue is inevitable.

If this is found out, there will be no good results.

It seems that we still have to find a way to drive Zhu Kuang out of the county government.

However, what he didn't expect was that he hadn't thought of a good way to do it, and Zhu Kuang did find out the problem.

But this issue has nothing to do with him, but involves everyone in Lan County.

Just like what Zhu Kuang said himself, if you want to do it, you can make it bigger. This time, he did do a big thing.

But it turned out that Zhu Kuang sorted out the accounts of previous years and found a tax that had inexplicably appeared in it.

When I first saw this tax name, Zhu Kuang found it ridiculous. The Ming Dynasty's taxes were complicated and it was not really covered. Even water hookahs can be used as a tax collection. However, after reading it for more than ten days, Zhu Kuang suddenly realized that there was a problem.

It is not impossible to say that the water hookah tax is not impossible, but Lan County does not plant water hookah. Although the planting method of water hookah cultivation in later generations did reach Lan County and developed well in Lan County, at this time, the local chronicles of Lan County did not show that Lan County actually planted water hookah.

Based on the principle of asking questions if you don’t understand, Zhu Kuang went to find Master Du.

Mr. Du has only been to Lan County for more than a year and has not understood the specific tax situation in Lan County.

"Do you suspect that there is something wrong with this tax?" Mr. Du's first thought was, could it be that the tax collected by local officials in a clever way to make a living?

After all, since the founding of the Ming Dynasty, due to the complex tax revenue, there have been many cases of yamen clerks who deceived their superiors and concealed their subordinates and made a clerk. It is not impossible for such a thing to happen in Lan County.

However, Zhu Kuang's next words made Master Du unable to believe his ears. After Zhu Kuang said his doubts, Master Du was shocked.

"You mean, this tax may be borne by Lan County in the entire Lintao Prefecture?"

If one county bears the taxes of one prefecture, that is, the taxes of the common people in Lan County are much heavier than those of other counties.

It would be fine if Lan County was a wealthy place, but it was very poor here. It was a problem for ordinary people to eat enough. After a year, they drank dilute food for half a year, and there was not enough food for them.

Zhu Kuang shook his head and said, "It's not very certain yet, but it seems like this from the account. If you want to make further confirmation, you need to find an insider to inquire, and in addition to checking relevant information."

If I hadn't known that this matter was very involved, Zhu Kuang wouldn't have thought about it.

When Master Du heard Zhu Kuang say he was looking up the information, he frowned.

"Zhu Kuan, this matter is of great importance and we need to report to the great man."

If things really look like what Zhu Kuang said, this matter is really difficult. Even adults will be involved in it and will be crushed to pieces.

"In this way, I'll bother Master. Let me go back and continue to check the accounts."

Zhu Kuang, who tasted the sweetness, wanted to stay in the yamen for twelve hours a day to check the accounts, but this could only be thought about it.

"You go back today, and I will talk about it later after I report back." Master Du said with a smile on his face.
Chapter completed!