In the county government office, Master Du was talking to the county magistrate Yang Minglian.

He has not calmed down these days. Since Zhu Kuang told the problems he found in the account, Master Du immediately began to investigate. In three days, he finally learned about some of the things he had done, and then came to Yang Minglian to report.

The atmosphere of the conversation was very silent, and for a while, it was silent.

Yang Minglian frowned and wandered back and forth in the study.

He had arranged for Zhukuan to check the accounts before, and only wanted to check all the accounts in Lan County, and only wanted to have some understanding of Lan County, but he had never thought that such a thing would be found.

He was very confused. It would be fine if the matter was not found out. Now that he found out, he couldn't ignore it.

But this matter involves too much. After all, it not only involves Lan County, but also several surrounding counties.

If it is not done well, it will cause trouble with several surrounding counties, and even more so, it will become a protracted war, a war between several counties.

If the trouble starts, the other counties will not tolerate him for their own interests. Some of those counties are everywhere, and it will not be easy to deal with if they deal with themselves together.

I am just a county magistrate, can I bear such a result?

He became an official to benefit the people, but he never thought that he would gain all his future for the people.

This is very obvious. If you are not careful, you will be doomed. Not to mention that the future is ruined, even your life may not be saved.

Can he really take risks?

The matter has been found out, but if I don’t continue to investigate, I will not be willing to accept it.

He felt distressed when he thought that the people of Lan County had already paid a lot of extra taxes over the years.

Such a heavy tax, if it cannot be completely resolved this time, it may become an eternal tax. In other words, the people of Lan County must bear this amount forever, which may not be the tax that their family should bear.

Yang Minglian is so entangled, really very entangled!

How should we choose between future and conscience?

"Sir, this matter is indeed a bit difficult to deal with, but it cannot be ignored." Master Du said after a while.

He was also confused. After being with Lord Yang for so long, how could he not know that this matter involves a lot.

To be fair, he really doesn't want Lord Yang to participate in this matter. After all, Lord Yang has a very good influence on it now. In two years, he may be able to be promoted to another level. At that time, he will not be a seventh-rank county magistrate, but a sixth-rank. It would be really not cost-effective to lose it for these things.

But he also knew what kind of official Lord Yang was.

Even if it's just for the sake of your own conscience, Lord Yang will still take care of this matter in the end.

If Lord Yang doesn't care, he will regret it in the next few decades, but as a master, he can't say these words. He can put forward his own opinions, but he will never help the adults make decisions.

"How is Zhu Kuang now?" Lord Yang suddenly asked.

Lord Yang really looked at Zhu Kuang with a different eye. He admired every capable person. Zhu Kuang was indeed a capable person. Even if he was just a child now, he had the ability to read accounts, and was a talent.

Zhu Kuang discovered this matter, so you must know what Zhu Kuang was thinking.

Master Du smiled and said, "I have arranged for Zhu Kuan to do other things these days, but this kid is also strange and doesn't seem to have any interest in other things."

Master Du still knows Zhu Kuang very well. This kid is afraid that his only interest is to check the accounts. He has not allowed him to check the accounts these days and is bored every day, just about to say whether he can stop coming to the yamen.

Therefore, today Master Du took the initiative to ask him to go home.

"His family wants to open a noodle shop, so I let him go home first."

What else can you do if you don’t go back? You can’t let him keep looking for trouble in the yamen, right?

This can be considered delaying time, but you can't always drag it, right?

"Noodle restaurant? I seemed to have heard before that the Zhu family was not doing well and there were only two women and children at home. How could I open a noodle restaurant?" Lord Yang asked in surprise.

Although many women in this era will make money by showing up in public, Zhu Kuang is now a person in the yamen. Logically speaking, he should not let his mother and girls appear in public.

"Zhu Kuang helped Wan Heshun check the accounts before the Chinese New Year and made a fortune. It is said that he had nearly 200 taels of silver, so it was enough to open a shop." Master Du said.

Lord Yang also knew that Master Du noticed Zhu Kuang because of Wan Heshun's affairs, but he was still very surprised that Zhu Kuang had earned nearly 200 taels of silver when he helped check the accounts.

"I only checked the accounts for a few days and made nearly two hundred taels of silver?"

He is now a seventh-rank official and he earns less than 200 taels of silver a year. This kind of money can be made simply. Since that's the case, why do you still come to the yamen to do?

"It is said that Wan Heshun, who helped Qingshandu, checked the accounts for ten years and found many problems. In order to thank him, Wan Heshun gave him 10% of them." Mr. Du was very clear about this matter.

Yang Minglian smiled. The money was easy to make. Wait. When Master Du saw Zhu Kuang, it seemed that it was the end of the year, and it was only one month before now. How did Zhu Kuang check the ten-year accounts in one month?

Yang Minglian also knew about Wan Heshun from Qingshandu. Although the scale is not as large as that of a county town, it is definitely not small. It is not easy to read the accounts of ten years in a short time, not to mention finding the accounts in question. Zhu Kuang's ability seems to be stronger than what he knows.

"It is said that it only took ten days, and the adults didn't know that Zhu Kuang has read a lot of accounts in our yamen these days, otherwise he would not have discovered such problems." When Master Du said this, he even wondered whether Zhu Kuang's speed of viewing accounts had increased again.

"Ten days?" Yang Minglian whispered, it was too incredible.

If Zhu Kuang was such a capable person, perhaps the operability of this matter would be even stronger.

After pondering for a while, Yang Minglian smiled and said, "I will meet Zhu Kuang tomorrow."

After Zhu Kuang arrived at the county government office, although he arranged a lot of things for Zhu Kuang, Yang Minglian did not meet Zhu Kuang in person.

After all, no matter how capable he is, he is just a servant in the yamen. As a county magistrate, he doesn't need to be particularly accused. If he can get attention from his subordinates, he is already very handsome.

Even so, Zhu Kuang is already a special existence in the yamen.
Chapter completed!