A Timely Wife

Chengdong locked himself in the house for two days, and came out with a sad face. Li Ruosong was strictly forbidden to set foot in this house for two days, so he could only hide in the study and read a book.

"What's the matter? This is, I didn't think of a solution?" Li Ruosong asked with a smile, propping his head on one hand.

Chengdong rolled his eyes and said angrily: "It's really difficult. I have never been in contact with a businessman in my life. I was just engaged in weapon research and development in my previous life. If you ask me to draw blueprints, I have no problem. If you ask me to Doing business is really killing me. I really don’t know what my grandfather thinks. I don’t have this muscle at all. If you insist on letting me take care of it, I can’t even read the account books, okay? I can still read the account books in our place For a moment, hey, wait, our account book, by the way, Arabic numerals, why didn’t I think of this thing.”

Seeing that Chengdong suddenly became excited, Li Ruosong walked over curiously and said, "Arabic numerals? What are they?"

Cheng Dong pulled Li Ruosong to sit next to him, "Do you still remember when you asked me what I wrote on the blueprint? Do you remember?"

"Well, remember, you told me that this thing is a way of counting on your side, and you will teach me in the future." Li Ruosong replied while recalling.

"Yes, I'm really stupid. Let me tell you, this thing should have been promoted earlier. I just didn't think of it at the time. You see, the counting method we use is one, two, three, four, and the accounting is very simple. And entry, right, the main reason why I can't understand it is that the bookkeeping is too messy to remember, and all the exits and entries only use a simple dichotomy, so bookkeeping is very easy to manipulate.

The most important thing is that there is no concept of zero here. You see, this, three hundred and four, only wrote three and four, with a space in between to represent zero. This is wrong. If you are careless when checking It’s just that hundreds of taels of silver are gone, ah, no wonder there will be such a large deficit at every turn, so it’s so easy to do this kind of trick.

Wakamatsu, look, this is the number I used before, which is one, two, three, four, five, six, seven, eighty-nine, and the circle in front is zero, which corresponds to the one, two, three, four, five, six, seven, eighty-nine here. This kind of number is much more convenient than ours, and you will know how convenient it is when I exchange these accounts. After Cheng Dong finished speaking, he quickly rewrote the accounts on the ledger in Arabic numerals.

Li Ruosong's eyes lit up, and he read while reading: "This thing is good, it's clear at a glance, wait, what is your classification, profit, expense, tax, loss, what is this? Hmm? This way?"

Chengdong divided all accounts from simple entry and exit into four categories, and then explained to Li Ruosong: "Profit is entry. To put it bluntly, it is how much money we earn. Taxes are what we have to pay to the court when we open a shop. The tax and expenses include the bank account issued to the accountant and others, the expenses of purchasing these goods, etc. The loss refers to the loss caused by these things being broken or lost, etc. You see, the dividend is equal to the gross profit minus Expenses minus taxes minus losses, all of these deductions are what we get in the end, and written in Arabic numerals like this, isn’t it very clear?”

Li Ruosong nodded uncontrollably, and said: "It is indeed much simpler, but this kind of number is also easy to manipulate. You see, the Arabic numerals in your mouth are very simple to write. One, isn’t it 100 taels all of a sudden?”

"Well, you are right, so there is another symbol for silver on our side, ￥, this is it, written in the front, it has the effect of preventing people behind from making false accounts, and in addition, this is a lowercase number , the sub-accounts are calculated with lowercase numbers, and the general ledger also needs to use uppercase numbers, which is this one, two, three, four, five, six, seven, eight, nine, see, if you write it like this, it will be difficult to manipulate?" Chengdong demonstrated to Li Ruosong over again.

"Very good, this thing is really good." Li Ruosong was itchy to see it, and after listening to Chengdong's explanation, he took a paper and a pen and copied all the accounts on the ledger in this way. The written ledger is not only much thinner than the previous one, but also more intuitive, and all the ledgers are clear at a glance.

Li Ruosong hugged Chengdong happily and kissed twice, and said: "Fulang, you are really my savior, just wait for me for a while, I will send these two ledgers to my grandfather and the others. All stores use this method of bookkeeping, let us think about how to do it in the future.”

After finishing speaking, Li Ruosong ran away in a gust of wind, and Cheng Dong stood there and continued to think about how to manage the shop with a sad face.Of course, in the end Chengdong still threw this question to Li Ruosong. Chengdong said very high-sounding, I will be responsible for what I understand, and you will be responsible for what you understand.

Li Ruosong could only accept this matter in an angry and funny manner. In fact, Li Ruosong didn't know much, but Li Liang had managed a shop before, so he learned a little bit from him. In addition, although Cheng Dong didn't study business management, But he can still tell some of the truth, and he often visits large supermarkets in modern times. Although he doesn't know how to operate, he can tell Li Ruosong everything he knows. Many things cannot be realized now, but some things can be learned from.

For the next half month, Li Ruosong was busy managing shops. He didn't have the idea that scholars should not do business. In Li Ruosong's view, even if you are the prime minister, you always have to eat and dress. If you don't have money, you What to wear, what kind of books do you read when you have nothing to eat or wear, so Li Ruosong did these things quite smoothly.

In Liujiagou, after Li Qi received the two account books sent back by Li Ruosong, he was a little puzzled at first, but after reading it, he burst out laughing, and then called Li Wu, Li Qi and his wife Li Ruoshan and Zhou Jinyan, Zhou Nuyuan and Zhang Butler were also called over by Li Qi.

Several people discussed in the room all morning, everyone was smiling when they came out, especially Zhou Jinyan, this kid surprised everyone, according to what Li Ruoshan said, this guy is extremely talented in business.From that day on, the Li family caravan and all the stores began to implement this method of bookkeeping. For this reason, Manager Li ran outside for more than three months, and did not rush back until it was almost the Chinese New Year.

"Miss, Qingfeng is back." Haitang said softly standing outside the door.

"Go ask him about the result." A lazy voice came from inside.

Haitang responded and then quietly left the door of the room. Inside the room, the woman was lying on her back on the bed, staring at the bed curtain absently.

Not long after, Haitang came back, knocked on the door three times, opened the door after hearing the word "come in", closed the door tightly after entering the room, walked to the inner room and said: "Miss, the investigation by the Qingjiang Mansion The news is that Li Ruosong's family moved to Qingjiang Mansion in April last year. Li Ruosong's grandfather, Li Qi, was from Liujiagou in Qingjiang Mansion when he was young, and later went to Hejian Mansion. He stayed there for decades. He married a wife and had children there, and passed the Juren examination. For some reason, instead of becoming an official, he went to do business instead.

Li Ruosong is his eldest grandson. The Li family is a little strange. Li Qi himself only married one wife, and his son Li Liang also only married one wife. When Li Ruosong arrived, he married a husband. None of the three generations took concubines. "

Ms. Lin heard the faint envy in Haitang's words, smiled irresistibly, and said, "Continue."

"Yes, miss, the husband Li Ruosong married is indeed from the Hejian Mansion. He is the son of his aunt. The Li family, where his only son was fostered after his uncle and aunt passed away, is the young cousin of the Li family. Ruo Song grew up together since childhood, and Cheng Dong is a twin, and they should have hit it off and got married." Haitang paused at this point, and according to the news from Qingjiang Mansion, this Cheng Dong is definitely not the one that the young lady mentioned. It's a young master.

"What's the news from Songjiang Mansion?" Miss Lin continued to ask.

"It is said that Master Chengdong died last year. It is said that he was robbed and killed while traveling with his husband after he got married, and his body was buried by the local government," Haitang said.

"Huh? Married? Who did you marry?" Miss Lin sat up from the bed and asked.

"Songjiang Li Family^" Haitang replied.

"The Li family? Also surnamed Li? Who is he marrying from the Li family in Songjiang?" Something flashed in Miss Lin's mind, and it disappeared too quickly, so she didn't catch it for a while.

"It is said that he is the sixth young master of the second room of the Li family in Songjiang. His surname is Li and his name is Ruosong." Haitang said word by word.

"What? Also called Li Ruosong?" Miss Lin cried out, and then, realizing that she had lost her composure, she lowered her voice and asked, "But it's from the same family?"

"No, Qingfeng also thought it was too coincidental at the time, so she investigated and found out that the two families are not a family at all." Speaking of this, Haitang also felt a little strange, if it was a coincidence, it was too coincidental.

Ms. Lin thought for a while, and said: "Okay, I know about this, you tell Qingfeng not to continue to investigate, and withdraw our people, Li family, Li family, I remember that Songjiang Li family has a daughter in the palace. She is a concubine, isn't she?"

"This, I don't know." Haitang replied.

"Okay, you can go down." Miss Lin casually took a hairpin and handed it to Haitang.

Haitang happily took the hairpin, thanked her, and walked out gently.

Miss Lin, Lin Qinghui leaned on the bed, thought for a while, smiled, and said to herself: "The Li family, interesting, it seems that whether you can get out of trouble this time depends on the Li family."

After finishing speaking, Lin Qinghui replaced her with a maid to help her wash and change her clothes. Afterwards, she brought a few people to report to her mother, and went straight to the small house where Li Ruosong and Cheng Dong lived.