Princess Fuyao

Chapter 196
If it weren't for the fact that there are few capable people around the prince, the whole court would have been dominated by him long ago.For the prince, the emperor often feels powerless. In the past few years, he has seen the situation clearly. The prince is just a dou who can't support the wall. The emperor has to focus on the other princes.

The third prince is out, the fourth prince is a monk, and the fifth prince, Zhao Biyun, is a good person. He listens to the emperor honestly and works diligently to assist the prince. Unfortunately, his temper is a bit blunt, but his frankness and enthusiasm have won the love of many courtiers. If there are good ministers The assistant should be able to keep the ancestral business. The fifth prince is considered to be the prince's faction. If the emperor lets him succeed, the prince's people will definitely support him. Unfortunately, except for a few direct ministers, the prince's subordinates are more than loyal and lacking in ability. They are all flatterers or narrow-minded people. I am afraid that at that time, they may not be able to hold their ground.

The sixth prince, Zhao Bisheng, has suddenly matured in the past few years, and he is quite capable in doing things. Back then, Wang Zan had accumulated a lot of connections for him, and now he is the most prestigious among the princes. Even Emperor Jiaming praised him very much.

The seventh prince, Zhao Bifan, was also pretty good, and he was very alert. Unfortunately, because he was young, he was a bit extreme in his actions, and there were quite a few courtiers who supported him. In addition, her mother was good at dancing and had good friends with the princesses who married out of the palace. The sisters and daughters of Emperor Jiaming always spoke well of the Seventh Prince, which made the Emperor have a good impression of him.

The emperor interrupted Wang Zhengyan's words impatiently. He felt very sad. The more the prince looked at it, the more useless he became. Liang Mingrui and his wife refused to stand under their banner, and made groundless criticisms. If they were to be in power in the future, wouldn't the court be full of flattering and treacherous people, and there would be no place for the honest and honest?

"Master Ji has only started for a month, is it too arbitrary to say that she can't do things well?"

Hearing the displeasure in the emperor's tone, Wang Zhengyan's heart skipped a beat. He said that the Lord of Fu County, Longyu, the holy family member, didn't believe in this evil. He didn't expect it to be true.

Weighing it over and over again, Wang Zhengyan suppressed what he was going to say next, and suggested to the emperor in a low voice: "Here in the household department, the emperor has asked Song Guogong to lead people to interrogate him once, and I feel that if Mr. Ji finds a problem, he may not dare to take advantage of Song Guogong's power. To shake things out, it's better to send Master Chen Hong to help her out."

"No need!" Emperor Jiaming was even more annoyed, isn't my son as powerful as a Chen Hong?

In the second month, Fuyao sorted out the accounts, and she handed them over to the second prince, intending for him to listen to Datian, but the emperor sent someone to call her into the Palace of Qinzheng.

Fuyao had no choice but to kneel down and play to the emperor: "There is no problem with the account of the Ministry of Households regarding Jiangnan Salt, and the bank accounts match."

Emperor Jiaming was obviously unwilling: "Master Ji, the court's salt tax has been greatly reduced, what is the so-called?"

"On the books, it seems that the sales of salt are not booming this year, and the common people seem to eat less salt."

Isn't this nonsense? It's okay not to eat anything else, but how can you not eat salt?Emperor Jiaming laughed angrily: "What a Ji Fuyao, has your salt intake decreased this year?"

"No, Your Majesty, I checked with previous years, and the common people did eat less salt, that's why the salt tax was greatly reduced."

Emperor Jiaming understood that the accounts were obviously fake, and Song Guogong only looked at whether the accounts were balanced, so naturally he couldn't find out the problem.

When the second prince asked Fuyao, he had been obsessed with the accounting issue, but he didn't expect the problem to be here. His eyes flashed, and he finally figured out the difference between his consideration and his father's consideration.

As a superior person, he will not be obsessed with the process. He only needs a clear conclusion, and what he wants is the final result. He is paranoid that it is an account problem, so that he has not grasped the key to the problem.

No wonder Father never saw himself as an heir. In the past, he always felt that he was biased. Now that he thought about it, it was his own vision, layout, and way of handling things, which were far from enough.

There is also this Ji Fuyao, who clearly knew the crux of the problem, and when reporting, he found that he was focusing on the wrong direction, but he avoided the serious ones and ignored them without even a single reminder.

Seeing Zhao Bixuan glanced at her sullenly, Fuyao's slightly bowed posture was even more bent, as if he was a little scared.In the eyes of the second prince, her behavior like this is even more like a sign that she doesn't want to serve him, and doesn't want to have more contact with him.

In the imperial court, there are not a few people like this, just because the emperor regards himself as a good minister, and those who want to make a contribution to support him will naturally not come to burn his cold stove.

The second prince curled his lips in disdain, hum, he is still not willing to win over such a person.

"Prince Xuanjun, tomorrow, you go to the household department to find out the salt tax paid by the salt roads in various places in the past few years and the actual sales amount, and report it as soon as possible."

"Yes!" Zhao Bixuan knelt down to salute and was about to quit, suddenly felt that just now, he had made a mistake of not being well-organized, Ji Fuyao wanted to be wise and protect himself, such thoughts were normal, who would want to follow a prince with no future?I shouldn't be as knowledgeable as a little woman, and the prime minister can pull a boat, not to mention that my goal is to be the king of a country, so I should be more modest and respectful.Now that you meet a capable one, you have to find a way to win over her, use sincerity and acquaintance, and let her become your fan.

"Father, my son is dull, I hope to be assisted by Lord Ji!"

"Oh, good!" Emperor Jia Ming glanced at his son appreciatively, then turned his head and said to Fuyao, "Ji Fuyao, tomorrow, you still obey the orders of Prince Xuan and handle the household affairs well!"

"Yes! Long live!" Fuyao felt very aggrieved. Didn't his own performance make the second prince bored?Why did he suddenly change his mind?
Thinking that her hard-working plan was in vain and she still had to be tied to the second prince's chariot, Fuyao felt pain in his heart.

Alas, fate, you can't blame the society!

If she wants to remain neutral, she can't have too much contact with a certain prince. This time, there is no problem with Fuyao's memorial to the emperor and the accounts checked by the household department. She just wants to give a conclusion to the outside world. She doesn't want to get involved too deeply. , who doesn't want to be a certain prince's person, unexpectedly, after thousands of calculations, the last step is still a failure.

He and the second prince Zhao Bixuan also spent more than two months in the household department, but they didn't talk much. They only had seven or eight days to report the progress of the audit. Fuyao can say, to this prince, Little is known.

Maybe Zhao Bixuan thought so too. This time when he returned to the household department, Zhao Bixuan would summon Fuyao to ask about the accounts every two or three days.

On this day, he wanted Fuyao to bring his newly made account book: "If you don't tell me, what does it mean?" Zhao Bixuan seemed to appreciate that ten or so account books could replace several large boxes of running accounts, especially interested.

Fuyao had no choice but to randomly take out a page of accounts and explain in detail the meanings expressed by each number. A leaf of accounts is the contents of a large journal. It’s much easier, how did you come up with this? And this, the same number as a tadpole, it’s also a space-saving one, so it’s easy to check.”

"I didn't come up with this idea. I learned it from a bearded man with blue eyes in the Golden Arrow Collection."

"You also learned from barbarians in bookkeeping?"

"Oh, the barbarian's account books don't have as much content as mine. After learning their method, I improved it myself."

"Well, not bad, good!"

Two days later, because the youngest daughter had a fever, Fuyao asked for a day off. After hearing about it, the second prince sent someone to bring a pack of Qizhen Pill for the child.This is a very common medicine in the modern society she traveled to. Unfortunately, in this society, bezoar is the most natural and original, because several medicines are too rare, and this medicine is only for Ouchi, just like Fuyao. Such a powerful family can only get a limited amount.

Hao Ruomei's second daughter, Liang Liyuan, has a poor appetite and is prone to food accumulation and fever. The child is also allergic to gallinaceous gold, and she almost ate all the children's Qizhen pills that were rewarded by the palace.

Since the Queen Mother passed away, these rewards were rare. Although he was wary of the Second Prince, Fuyao was very grateful for the medicine.

The queen and the prince also wanted to win over Liang Mingrui, but they seemed to have no better way than giving money, or dragging Liang Mingrui to play in the wild, so how could a courtier open his heart to them?For a boss who doesn't understand his subordinates, or even doesn't know their needs, employees can't help him wholeheartedly anyway.

Every two or three days, Zhao Bixuan would ask Fuyao to speak, nothing more than the accounts, checking the contents of the accounts, and whether the account books they consulted were authentic and credible, etc. He analyzed Fuyao's dynamics and progress from these details , In the end, the results were analyzed to be eight-nine.

Although, what they said was all about the case, but the outsiders didn't know about it,
After all, she and the second prince meet almost every day, and discuss issues together. What exactly did they say, because the second prince's people guard the door of the official house, and no one can find out? The news that she might be bribed was reported to the master, so that people with malicious intentions would look at her with ambiguous eyes.

Someone came to insinuate, and Fuyao honestly told her everything she had said to the second prince, but no one would believe it. Could the prince say those trivial things to her?Who are you kidding!And the second prince, Zhao Bixuan, didn't seem to know that other people would think so. After two or three days, he asked Fuyao, "Have you calculated the amount of salt in each province for the past five years?"

"No, there are only eight provinces!"

"Show it to me."

"it is good!"

Fuyao turned around and sent the calculated account book over.Zhao Bixuan looked at the accounts very carefully, and even asked Liang Chengmin, the master sent by Fuyao, to clarify the figures on the accounts before giving up.

(End of this chapter)