It's better to be an empress than a county magistrate

Chapter 171 Settlement of Accounts

Ling Xiao showed an expression of great pain.

I can still vividly remember the scene of Lu Kui twisting an abacus for me when I was a child.

But there is no other way. We can't let the girl do so many things alone.

Feixue naturally didn't like to settle accounts. She would rather serve tea and water than do the abacus.

Looking at those densely packed numbers made her dizzy.

After calculating the accounts for an hour, Lu Xingchen felt dizzy, after all, he didn't sleep the whole night.

She slumped in the chair, and Feixue and Lingxiao also started to slack off.

Lu Xingchen looked at Feixue and Lingxiao with sharp eyes.

The two of them pretended they saw nothing and tacitly avoided Lu Xingchen's gaze.

"You two are very in tune with each other."

Feixue rolled her eyes at Lingxiao. "Who can be so in tune with him? He is very ambitious and has great aspirations."

Ling Xiao listened to Feixue's sarcastic words and didn't know how to refute.

After all, he couldn't let her know that he secretly liked the girl for the time being.

Feixue snorted.

Just when the three of them didn't want to settle the score, the guards walked in from outside.

"General, there is a man named Jiang Fangtu who wants to see you."

Lu Xingchen stood up from the chair.

"Jiang Fangtu... Is his name Jiang Fangtu?"

The guard nodded, "Yes, sir, he said his name is Jiang Fangtu."

"Hurry, let him in." Lu Xingchen was excited.

Feixue and Lingxiao could hardly suppress the excitement on their faces.

The two of them instantly closed the account books in front of them and piled them in front of Lu Xingchen, with the same tacit understanding.

Jiang Fangtu strode in. He was a little fat, and his body was wobbly, but his steps were very fast.

"Jiang Fangtu pays his respects to the governor." Jiang Fangtu looked up at Lu Xingchen with a smile.

"Why are you here?" Lu Xingchen asked.

"Doesn't the commander-in-chief need a war horse? The best war horses are in the northwest," said Jiang Fangtu.

"I have been in Yongzhou City these past two days, preparing to contact a merchant from the northwest to send a war horse here."

"But suddenly a fight broke out."

"At first I didn't know who attacked. After all, this is King Chen's territory."

"After asking around, I found out that it was the commander-in-chief who attacked us."

"Mr. Su Jun is mighty."

Lu Xingchen also liked listening to Jiang Fangtu talk. He always praised people in such a good way that it was pleasant to listen to.

"Come on, there's no need to worry about the war horses. I had a fight with King Chen and killed him." Lu Xingchen invited Jiang Fangtu to sit next to him.

Jiang Fangtu was a little flattered and didn't dare to sit down.

Lu Xingchen reached out and pressed him down on the chair.

"King Chen has many fine horses under his command. During the first wave of the charge, there were 5,000 war horses."

“What a big scene.”

Jiang Fangtu was dumbfounded.

It is much more cost-effective to capture war horses on the battlefield than to buy them.

"Although some of these war horses were lost, there are still many preserved, enough for me to use temporarily."

"Now I need you to sort out the accounts of Yongzhou City for me. Can you do it?"

Jiang Fangtu nodded repeatedly, "Of course, this is my specialty."

"Okay, that's good." Lu Xingchen looked at Jiang Fangtu with respect.

Jiang Fangtu felt flattered, but also felt like he was being tricked.

Feixue and Lingxiao stood aside obediently and stopped interrupting.

Lu Xingchen looked at Jiang Fangtu's abacus beads being pulled so hard that they were about to fly away, and his eyes were full of admiration.

Lu Xingchen was so handsome that Jiang Fangtu's heart was in turmoil as he looked at him intently.

"General, aren't you a little too ignorant of yourself?" Jiang Fangtu stopped what he was doing.

"What do you mean?"

"Your Excellency the Governor seems to have no clear awareness of his own appearance. I cannot concentrate on my work if you keep staring at me like that. After all, I am also a normal man." Jiang Fangtu showed a helpless expression.

Lu Xingchen said, "I thought you had already managed to remain calm."

"An ordinary woman can do this, but you are the commander-in-chief. And with your appearance..."

"Forgiving the younger one for speaking directly is really hard to do."

"By the way, I also want to tell you, why don't you stop working for your boss and follow me?" Lu Xingchen said.

Jiang Fangtu looked at her in disbelief.

"You can be my special merchant, or you can join a government office, such as the Ministry of Revenue, to manage my finances."

Jiang Fangtu knelt down in front of Lu Xingchen with a plop.

"If the Lord Commander really appreciates me, I will naturally do my best to help him."

He never expected that Lu Xingchen would be able to capture Yongzhou so quickly.

Then the entire Central Plains region is basically in Lu Xingchen's hands.

Lu Xingchen has unlimited possibilities in the future.

Among the four classes of scholars, farmers, merchants and artisans, merchants are the last, and this is true in any era.

If you want to work in the Ministry of Revenue during peacetime, forget it if you don’t have the status of a Jinshi.

This is a chaotic world, and what we need are talented and capable people.

"I am willing to serve the Lord Commander."

"Okay..." Lu Xingchen nodded with satisfaction.

"Then you can be a left assistant minister of the Ministry of Revenue."

Jiang Fangtu looked at Lu Xingchen with disbelief. He was now a minister.

"It would have been fine to give you the title of Shangshu, but the title was given to someone else, so you can only be the Zuo Shilang for now."

"I am very satisfied, very satisfied." Jiang Fangtu smiled from ear to ear.

"Okay, Minister, let's start working." After Lu Xingchen finished speaking, he hummed a little tune and walked out with his hands behind his back.

Just assigning an official position will make her not have to work, and there will still be people to work for her.

Rights are a wonderful thing.

No wonder the world is so bustling. How many people are fighting to the death for power and profit?

In addition to being capable himself, Jiang Fangtu also had a group of accountants who were good at accounting.

Two days later, he had sorted out the accounts of the entire Yongzhou City, including its small land assets and population.

Wei Shijie was indeed an official who knew the current affairs.

He was able to recognize the current situation clearly, so he did not dare to embezzle or accept bribes or bully the people.

In the past seven or eight years, he has never really had the final say in Yongzhou City, he just did things for others.

Lu Xingchen felt that Wei Shijie was reliable, so he still handed over Yongzhou Prefecture to him for governance.

Of course, she had already sent someone to inform Master Guo and asked him to come to Yongzhou City to take charge of the situation.

The task of rectifying the officialdom in Yongzhou has to be left to people like Mr. Guo.

Master Guo is better at these things than her.

Although Yongzhou City is a major military town and a strategic location that must be fought for by military strategists, it is not wealthy due to the constant maintenance of troops.

However, although King Chen had no intention of rebelling, the wealth in his hands was indeed very considerable.

Lu Xingchen made another huge profit.

In addition, King Chen also has a lot of assets in Yongzhou City.

Lu Xingchen put part of it into his own pocket, and gave some of it as rewards to Wei Hu and others.

Of course, the silver in the treasury was also rewarded to the soldiers who fought in the war.

In addition, many soldiers died in the battle of Yongzhou, and a large sum of silver was paid as pension.

To put it bluntly, war is about money. Whether people are alive or dead, money is needed to fill the hole.