Daming: Mixed in Dangzhi County, Beiping

Chapter 45 Exceeding Zhu Di's Expectations Again

Afterwards, Zhu Di waved his hands in disgust, and told Nie Zishi and the prefects and counties to leave.

Seeing this, Guo An stepped forward, ready to go out.

However, before he took two steps, he felt his body sinking, and when he turned his head, Wang Zhen stretched out his hand to hold him tightly at some point.

"Wang Dianshi, what are you doing, let's go?" Guo An urged.

Wang Zhen said in a low voice: "The county lord wait a moment, His Highness has something to ask the county lord!"

"Huh? I can't go yet?"

Guo An was taken aback for a moment, then looked back, and sure enough, he saw Zhu Di still sitting quietly on the throne.

He just stared in the direction of the door with blank eyes, not knowing what he was thinking, and at the same time he was still muttering something.

After waiting for a while, the hall was silent, and Zhu Di hadn't recovered yet.

Guo An and Wang Zhen could only look at each other in dismay!

After another long while, Zhu Di was still frowning and thinking about something, Guo An's legs were already a little numb!

Really unable to stand still, Guo An slowly took a few steps forward, and softly called out to Zhu Di: "Your Highness, Your Highness..."

Wang Zhen was startled, and hurriedly whispered: "The magistrate, don't disturb Your Highness!"

"Ok?"

It's just that Zhu Di above has been woken up and looked at Guo An furiously.

"Guo An, why are you making such a fuss about me?"

"Forehead!"

Guo An looked at Zhu Di speechlessly, "Didn't your Highness ask the lower officials to stay?"

"Brother... put his mother's fart, when will this king leave you?"

Zhu Di directly denied it.

Guo An glanced helplessly at Wang Zhen beside him, and then bowed his hands slightly to Zhu Di to salute, "Your Majesty misunderstood, please forgive me, I will not disturb Your Majesty, I will leave!"

After speaking, he was ready to leave.

Zhu Di widened his eyes, "Wait a minute, since you, the thief officer, has stayed, it's time to show me another account book!"

Guo An turned around and asked with some doubts.

"Your Highness is talking about being an official?"

Zhu Di said angrily, "Apart from you, who else is in the hall?"

Guo An subconsciously glanced at Wang Zhen next to him, but found that Wang Zhen was expressionless and didn't care that Zhu Di was saying that he was not human.

He curled his lips helplessly, and said: "Your Highness has an order, and I will definitely do my best!"

"Hmph, come with me!"

Zhu Di went straight out.

Guo An and Wang Zhi hurriedly followed.

Along the way, they bypassed several halls, and Zhu Di brought Guo An into the study of a hall.

As soon as he entered, a maid brought herbal tea.

After Zhu Di finished his drink, he waved his hand and told all the maids to go down.

Wang Zhen also followed out silently.

"This?"

Guo An was taken aback.

Zhu Di casually handed an account book to Guo An, "Aren't you the best at calculating verbally? Can you give me this account book today?"

"Jingshanzhuang's revenue account book?"

Guo An picked it up and took a look, then nodded confidently.

"Don't worry, Your Highness, the revenue account books of a mere farm will be calculated by the officials soon!"

"Quick calculation!"

"Yes, Your Highness!"

Guo An nodded quickly, then looked up and looked around.

Zhu Di stared and asked, "Why is it not counted?"

Guo An said with a helpless expression: "Your Highness, calculating such a messy account book is easy to be confusing, and the officials need paper to calculate!"

"Paper?"

Zhu Di went straight to the side, took out a stack of clean white papers from the side of the bookshelf, and put them on the table.

Seeing this, Guo An's eyes flashed with envy, he was indeed the king of Yan, and there was a lot of paper in the house.

Then he sat directly on the chair behind the table, picked up the inkstone on the side, studied the ink with one hand, and opened the account book with the other to read.

Zhu Di who was sitting suddenly remembered something, and asked aloud, "How long do you need?"

Guo An didn't raise his head, and said directly: "Your Highness, don't bother me, give me half an hour first!"

"Half an hour?"

Zhu Di, who was about to get up and go out for a walk, subconsciously sat down again, a trace of doubt flashed in his eyes.

"Your Highness, don't make a sound!"

Guo An, who was concentrating on checking the account books, said again.

Zhu Di stared, but remembered something, glanced at the screen behind Guo An, sat down again, and looked at Guo An silently.

Guo An, on the other hand, was still concentrating on flipping through the account books, and the room fell silent, only the sound of Guo An flipping through the pages was left.

Then, there was the sound of writing.

Zhu Di sat quietly on the chair, looking at Guo An boredly.

I don't know how long it took, maybe he was tired of sitting, Zhu Di couldn't help getting up, walked behind Guo An, and watched quietly.

At this time, Guo An had already written two pages, but they were all arranged in Arabic numerals. Zhu Di looked at it for a long time, but he didn't understand it.

Just when Zhu Di was about to leave, Guo An suddenly put down the pen in his hand, stretched his arms upwards, and stretched his lower body vigorously.

"Your Highness, I have already figured it out!"

"Your Highness, Your Highness..."

Looking up and seeing no one, Guo An looked puzzled and couldn't help shouting.

"What are you shouting for?"

Suddenly, a voice came from behind, which directly shocked Guo An.

"Your Highness, why did you come behind the official?"

"Why, this place is my study. I can go wherever I want? You won't allow me?"

"The lower official knows his mistake, the lower official shouldn't talk too much!"

Guo An admitted his mistake decisively, and at the same time got up quickly and got out of the chair.

"Your Highness, please take a look, the officer has already calculated it!"

Zhu Di's eyelids twitched, "Last year, how much money did this king spend and how much money did he earn?"

Guo An glanced at Zhu Di, and said in a low voice, "Your Highness, the Zhuangzi spent a total of 92 taels of silver last year, and received 340 taels of silver, plus 680 shi of grain!"

"Ok?"

Zhu Di's expression froze, "Did you make a mistake in your calculations? I remember that last year, this Zhuangzi spent more than 160 taels of money and earned 240 taels of silver. As for the grain, it was 560 shi!"

Guo An smiled helplessly, "Your Highness, the final account book is indeed the number that His Highness said. However, the real income and expenditure of the farm are calculated by the officials!"

"how can that be?"

Zhu Di's face suddenly became gloomy, and he directly picked up the account book and began to read it.

"Your Highness, didn't you ask the lower officials to check the accounts today?"

Seeing this, Guo An couldn't help feeling something was wrong.

Zhu Di ignored Guo An, but quickly flipped through the account books, and from time to time looked at the two pages Guo An wrote.

Unfortunately, he didn't see anything.

He raised his head and stared at Guo An.

"Your Highness?"

Guo An was stunned, he just calculated the account books, but he didn't provoke this fourth brother Zhu.

"How did you calculate the income and expenditure?" Zhu Di asked.

"Your Highness, please take a look..."

At this moment, Guo An understood, and quickly flipped through the account books, pointing to Zhu Di one by one.

"In this place, to repair the farm house, I bought fifty pieces of wood, fifty yuan each, which was [-] yuan, but in the second half of the year, I actually had to repair the house again, and it was still fifty pieces of wood...

There is also food, the farm has a total of more than 100 acres of fertile land, and a total of more than 400 shi of grain harvested, 680% of which is kept by the tenants, and 560% is handed over to His Highness, which should be [-] shi, but here is [-] shi..."

"and also……"

(End of this chapter)