People in Datang have been expelled from school

Chapter 271 The thaumaturgy of infinite wealth

Li Zheng said with a smile: "I'm not talking about you. Others make the books and the money. It's not easy to wipe out the money."

Li Tai said again: "How did you see this?"

"I see much more, you mortals."

Li Zheng raised his eyes and looked at Li Tai, "His Royal Highness Wei Wang, if I were to do the accounting, I could be more greedy than Master Cui Ren."

After speaking, Li Zheng took out a pen and paper and calculated for a long time: "In the second year of Zhenguan alone, Master Cui Ren was greedy for three thousand pens."

"I just said he has a problem." Li Tai pointed to the ledger and said, "I was right, and Wei Zheng was also right. Why should the annual salary of [-] troops be paid out for only six months?"

Li Zheng continued to count: "In the third year of Zhenguan, Cui Renshi was greedy for ink for two thousand pens."

"Cui Renshi is really corrupt?" A familiar voice came.

Li Tai raised his eyes and immediately stood up, "Father."

Li Zheng was also a little taken aback, wondering why Li Shimin and Fang Xuanling had come.

"I've been listening outside for a long time. Li Zheng, you said that Master Cui Ren was greedy for three thousand pens. Do you have evidence?"

"Did I just say that?" Li Zheng looked at Li Tai in confusion.

Li Tai nodded seriously, "You said it."

"Your Majesty, I like to talk nonsense from time to time, Your Majesty will just pretend that I haven't said it."

Li Shimin stared at Li Zheng and said, "Do you know the fate of bullying the king?"

Li Zheng pulled Li Taila to his side and asked: "Fatty, are you playing tricks on me?"

Li Tai was also flustered, "I didn't know Father would come."

"Xuanling, look at these two brats are still whispering in front of me."

Fang Xuanling also said: "Li Zheng, many officials are involved in this. In fact, both the old man and His Majesty know that there must be a problem with the accounts, but there is no evidence."

Li Zheng muttered: "You all know there is a problem, what do you want me to do?"

Li Shimin took Li Tai's place unceremoniously, looked at the account and said, "How did you figure it out?"

Putting down the brush in his hand, Li Zheng said patiently: "The money in the account is correct, the process from taxation to appropriation is also correct, and the reconciliation is correct."

Fang Xuanling also said, "We reconciled the accounts, the account books of the Ministry of Accounts and the accounts of the Ministry of War are correct."

"False accounts are unlikely, and the numbers are correct. In the three years of Zhenguan, the income and taxes were 20 guan, military pay was [-] guan, disaster relief expenditure was [-] guan, and the remaining [-] guan."

Li Zheng went on to say: "Just looking at it this way, of course we can't see the clues, because this is a running account."

"Is there something wrong with the journal?"

"The mistake is the running account."

Li Zheng took out a piece of paper and said, "I will make a magic trick for His Majesty."

Fold the paper and tear it apart into pieces, and then splicing them together to create an extra piece.

After cutting out an extra piece, Li Zheng said, "This small piece is the evidence of Cui Renshi's greed for ink."

Look at this reassembled paper again, it is still a complete square.

Li Tai rubbed his eyes vigorously, "Why is there an extra piece out of thin air?"

"Your Majesty is watching." Li Zheng reassembled the pieces of paper again, and reassembled them into a square in front of Li Shimin's, with an extra corner.

Li Zheng cut a corner and said: "This piece is also evidence of Cui Renshi's greed for ink."

Li Shimin was also a little dumbfounded, "How did you manage to make an extra piece of paper out of thin air?"

Fang Xuanling stared blankly at the paper in front of Li. The paper was originally a square, but after cutting and stitching it was still a square, but there was a small extra piece, and the square was still intact.

"It's still this piece of paper, Your Majesty is looking after it."

Li Zheng spliced ​​the paper together again, up, down, left, and right, and then cut out the extra piece.

"The third piece is also evidence that Master Cui Ren is greedy for ink."

The paper was still the original paper, but a piece was cut out of thin air.

"The piece of paper itself has not changed, how did you create an extra piece out of thin air?"

Li Zheng grinned and said: "Some people call this the thaumaturgy of unlimited wealth."

Li Shimin stared at the piece of paper and said, "If you try to trick me again, I won't let you go!"

"Actually, this is a trick. You are confused by the shape of this piece of paper." Li Zheng took out another piece of paper for comparison. "Does Your Majesty see a change now?"

"Less! The shape has not changed but the size has changed!" Li Tai almost yelled when he came to the conclusion.

Fang Xuanling also said: "But the total amount has indeed changed."

Li Zheng restored the paper to its original form and said: "Because Cui Renshi didn't write the extra military salary into the account at all, because we calculated along the way, as long as we calculated backwards, and calculated the terms of the account from the result he wanted, so it doesn't matter No matter how we look at the accounts, we can’t see it, and we were confused by the first number of the accounts from the beginning.”

"From the first figure in the account, it is easy to start counting from this figure, because the first figure at the beginning is wrong. It is a wrong account that was misled by others and still counting money for others."

Fang Xuanling: "..."

Li Shimin had blue veins popping out of his forehead, thinking to himself that this kid seemed to despise me.

"To make a simple analogy, a fortune teller said that you can't catch fish, but you really can't catch it because they knew in advance that there are no fish in this river."

Li Shimin looked at Li Tai who was on the side, "Do you understand?"

Li Tai held his forehead and said, "Father, I'm a little dizzy."

Fang Xuanling also said, "How did you see it from the beginning?"

"I have a bookkeeping method called the debit and credit bookkeeping method."

Li Zheng made a new account based on one of the accounts in this account book, and said at the same time: "The so-called loan must be repaid. There must be a borrower and a lender. There must be two directions. If you borrow one hundred thousand, then the disaster relief party must also pay ten. Wan Guan is right, but the debit of the [-] Guan has not been written, but three accounts have been written together. The money is not missing because it has flowed into the account department before the account is settled. His Majesty must know where the money came from. .”

After finishing the accounts, Li Zheng handed over his writing to Li Shimin, "Your Majesty now knows what's wrong?"

Li Shimin looked at the digital account above, "The credit side is 11 guan, and the debit side is [-] guan. It's not right."

"That's right, I'm sorry."

Li Shimin slapped the table and shouted angrily: "Li Junxian!"

Li Junxian quickly stood up and knelt down on one knee.

Li Shimin said coldly: "Take Cui Renshi immediately to Dali Temple, and the household department will re-do the accounting!"

Li Tai said in a low voice: "Father, I still want to search Cui Renshi's family property."

"Confiscate Master Cui Ren's property!" Li Shimin gritted his teeth and said.

Li Junxian hurriedly went to work.

Li Shimin said with a dark face: "Li Zheng, I will credit you for this debit and credit bookkeeping method."

"Your Majesty is very polite, and remember to knock on the door next time."

(End of this chapter)