Started to get rich after exile

Chapter 49 The Weird
The gold, silver and jewels rewarded by the emperor were put into the treasury, and Ming Lanying recalled the account books of the previous years, and filled up the gaps every year after the collection came up, the treasury's silver was cleaner than her face.

However, she hasn't seen it in recent years, but judging from the boxes of silver rewarded by the emperor, at least the treasury is not worse than in previous years.

A large box of account books was brought back to the house, Ming Lanying did not put it in the study, but put it directly in her dormitory. On the other side of the dormitory was a small window and desk, and the light was bright enough for her to use.

The wolf cubs stay in this yard, and they don't like to move when it's hot, so it's just right for them to stay in the house and look at the ledger.

Now Ming Lanying doesn't have to go to the palace every day, Ning'er is also very happy, and doesn't accompany Ye Juelu to the Imperial Guard Barracks, and just stays with her at home.

Once she had a clue about the accounts, Ming Lanying concentrated on following the vines, tying up the piles of manuscript papers every day, and wrote piles of calculation papers. Ninger's job before dinner every day was to help her tear up these calculation papers and soak them in water. .

Ning'er asked what it was for, and Ming Lanying patted his little head, "This is to prevent those who are interested in getting some secrets from these calculation papers. Soaking them in water and mixing them can make paper again, which can save a lot of paper money."

Crush the waste paper and soak it in water for three to seven days, beat it into a smooth pulp, spread it evenly on the dense mesh, spread a piece of old paper, roll it flat with a rolling pin, roll out the moisture in the pulp, and finally dry it Molding will do.Recycled paper is easy to make and can be used. This is also a little trick she knew inadvertently in her previous life.

Ning'er looked at her reverently, "Mother is amazing!"

Ming Lanying looked at almost half a tank of shredded paper, making recycled paper shaker and pulping is manual work, she is busy checking accounts every day, Ninger can only help tear the paper, and the follow-up operations must be handed over to others. But seeing Ning'er's expectant eyes shining, Ming Lanying couldn't help it, so she had to find someone to take him to play.

The emperor asked Ye Juelu to check out the party officials of the Ming family in the household department in three months. It was hard for him to stay at home every day, and he began to go to the military camp every day to do some work, and returned at sunset.

He Bai hadn't come back yet, the servants in the mansion stayed carefully and there was no idler, after thinking about it, Ming Lanying thought of Tai Yi, the leader of the personal guards mentioned by Ye Jue Lv.

Ye Juelu said that if you want to find Tai Yi, you can just go and talk to the guards. There are not many guards in the mansion, and there are only four guards every time you enter the courtyard. Including the four at the gate, there are a total of 24 house guards. .

Ming Lanying put down the account book, took Ning'er to find the guards outside the yard, and opened her mouth to look for Tai Yi.

The guard looked at her in the wrong way. He didn't expect her to know this, and he saluted respectfully, "Madam, please wait a moment."

The guard disappeared at the corner for a moment, and brought back a tall masked man in black, with half-length black hair tied up high, black clothes, black pants, black boots and black belt, tightly wrapped from head to toe, only his A pair of light brown eyes.

Thin shoulders, narrow waist and long legs, 1.8 meters five by visual inspection, but the overall figure looks unexpectedly thin, and the whole body has a dull and strange temperament. It is obvious that people are right in front of them. If you don't pay attention, it is difficult to detect him. very low.

The masked man walked very fast but made no sound, and in the blink of an eye he arrived in front of the couple, knelt on one knee and bowed his head in salute, "Tai Yi sees Madam, young master."

Ming Lanying was taken aback, it was the first time Ning Er saw such a weird person, she hid behind Ming Lanying a little uncomfortable.

"Get up." Ming Lanying looked around Tai Yi in shock, and asked in surprise, "Why are you wearing night clothes in broad daylight?"

Tai Yi was silent, and Ming Lanying couldn't see his expression clearly with his face covered. The guard next to him explained: "Mrs. Hui, the leader has been guarding in the dark all the time. The night clothes... are convenient."

Ming Lanying let out a cry. It turned out that he was doing something shady. She thought that someone was actually wearing night clothes during the day. Although he had a special temperament, as if he had no sense of existence, there was a man in broad daylight wearing No matter how you look at people running around in night clothes, they are very strange.

Ming Lanying rubbed Ning'er's little head, "Ning'er, this is Uncle Taiyi, don't be afraid, he is someone your father trusts."

Ning'er took Ming Lanying's hand and called "Uncle Taiyi" in a low voice.

The light brown eyes stared at Ning'er quietly, and the voice was clear and unwavering, like a calm spring, "...it's brother."

"Brother Tai!"

Taiyi's voice was nice, Ning'er was not afraid, and she smiled sweetly. Mother said that she would not hit the smiling person with her hand, and that it was right to smile when meeting for the first time.

Ming Lanying thought that he couldn't speak, so she looked at him twice in surprise, and gave him the matter of recycled paper, let him do it, and took Ning'er to play.

After Tai Yi knew this, he paused, nodded slowly, "...Yes."

Ming Lanying rolled his eyes at him again in amazement, wondering if the leader of the personal guard was slow to react, or the reflex arc was too long?
"By the way, since I'm bringing Ning'er to make recycled paper, I don't need to wear night clothes. It's a bit strange in broad daylight. I change into normal clothes in the yard during the day."

"...Yes, the subordinates go down and prepare the tools..."

The shredded paper in the vat has been soaked for four or five days, and it has become soft and rotten into an unknown object. The ink color is blurred and mixed with white paper, which is a bit disgusting.

Ning'er and the wolf cub were lying next to the tank and waiting for Tai Yi, Ming Lanying took a wooden stick and fiddled with it, thinking that it would have to be filtered again to turn it into white paper.

Just thinking about how to filter it, Tai Yi asked someone to bring in a bunch of things. Ming Lanying took a look at it with satisfaction. Tai Yi, who had changed into a dark green uniform, looked less gloomy, but his face was still covered with a dark green The mask still only reveals a pair of indifferent light brown eyes, but it feels like he will be a handsome young man.

The wolf cub huddled in place and hid behind the tank. The guards came and went in a hurry, put down their things and left, and the wolf cub reappeared and Tai Yi was startled.

Staring at the snow wolf for a moment, she glanced at Ming Lanying with admiration, and thought to herself: It's a madam, the wolf is a pet!
"Okay, the things are ready, and then you can play on your own, Ning'er, let's study papermaking with brother Taiyi in the yard, mother will read the account book."

"it is good!"

Ming Lanying clearly explained the steps one by one, and the rest is for them to explore by themselves, because she has never done it herself, and only knows the general logic.

Handing Ning'er to Tai Yi with peace of mind, Ming Lanying went back to the house and continued to read the account books, leaving one big and two small eyes staring at each other in the yard.

Ning'er and Xuelang looked at Taiyi at the same time, "Brother Taiyi will do it, right?"

"Aww?"

The pressure came to Taiyi for a while, and Taiyi clenched his fist. He is a secret guard who counts as ten. He can do assassinations, assassinations, scooping news, hunting and making money. Papermaking involves a blind spot of knowledge.

"Young master, wait a moment."

Ning'er blinked, seeing Tai Yi climbed over the courtyard wall and disappeared all of a sudden, glanced at the wide open courtyard door, and then at the high courtyard wall.

"Zaizai, brother Taiyi can fly just like Aunt Hebai! Doesn't it mean that knights don't like to leave the door?"

"Aww!" The wolf cub didn't understand, but the wolf cub was envious.

After a long while, Taiyi turned back again, knelt down in front of Ning'er on one knee, and said in a deep voice: "This subordinate is willing to give it a try for the young master."

Ning'er was a little unaccustomed to posting to the snow wolf cub. Even though sometimes his parents were not in the mansion, the servants in the mansion would show up to take care of him, but when he saw him, he was told not to show a big gift, so Tai Yi This motionless salute made him a little flattered.

"Ah, um, Brother Taiyi, come on..."

After the spring rains, summer is slowly coming. The summer in the capital is less windy, making it even more sultry.

In the yard, Taiyi inquired with his colleagues, and he has some ideas about making recycled paper. As long as it is made today, he will have another skill, rolling up his sleeves and stirring the pulp enthusiastically.

Ming Lanying occasionally raised her head and glanced outside through the window sill, Taiyi kept her head on the job, and Ning'er and the wolf cub couldn't speak each other for a long time, but they could basically get on with each other, shaking her head amusingly.

One day passed, and Ming Lanying was buried in the account books and calculation papers and never came out. Ning'er saw that Taiyi had been stirring for a whole day, so she tried it herself. Taiyi didn't know how to take care of children, so she carefully protected Ning'er, for fear that he would Can't break the bone.

When Ye Juelu came back in the evening with the afterglow of the setting sun, he didn't see his wife waiting for him in the front hall, and he didn't see him in the kitchen or dining room. He went to the yard suspiciously, and saw that there was nothing but a swing in the empty yard. , two more large vats, a large wooden barrel pool, and a pile of wooden shelves.

Ning'er stood on the bench holding a big wooden stick, vigorously stirring the contents of the vat, Tai Yi, the leader of the personal guards, was wearing a dark green uniform, and hurriedly walked around Ning'er.

Tai Yi noticed the extra familiar aura, and quickly turned around to salute, "Master."

Ye Juelu hummed lightly, "What are you doing?"

Ning'er heard the sound and looked back. It was Ye Juelu who had returned from the world, and his eyes lit up, "Daddy, we are making recycled paper, mother taught me!"

Ye Juelu raised his eyebrows, seeing Ning'er's smiling face, he was also happy, but Ming Lanying called Taiyi to take care of the child, although it felt a bit like killing a chicken with a sledgehammer, but it was good for the two of them to be happy, Taiyi It is also very happy to look at.

Looking at the half-open window, "Your mother hasn't come out yet?"

Ning'er just remembered that she was having fun and forgot to accompany her mother, so she quickly dropped the wooden stick and trot into the house, "Mother hasn't had enough eight glasses of water today!"

The law of eight glasses of water was taught by Ming Lanying. At the beginning, she saw that Ning'er didn't like drinking water to coax him to drink, but now Ning'er supervised her to drink water.

Ye Juelu waved to Taiyi, Taiyi nodded and retreated, Ning'er led Ming Lanying out with half-closed eyes, not forgetting to mutter.

"Ning'er didn't accompany mother for a while, and mother forgot to drink water."

Ming Lanying was helplessly educated by her son. After reading the numbers for a day, she was a little dizzy. She didn't find Ye Juelu standing in the yard, and asked, "What time is it? Has your father come back?"

"Daddy?"

Ning'er glanced at Ye Juelu standing in the yard, shook Ming Lanying's hand, "Mother, daddy is here!"

"I'm back." Ye Juelu sighed helplessly, stepped forward and held her other hand, "Let's go have dinner."

Ming Lanying came to her senses belatedly, and didn't notice the hand being held, "You're back, I just have something to tell you, and I always feel that there is something weird about the accounts."

"Well, talk while eating."

At the dinner table, when Ming Lanying talked about the weirdness of the account book, she only remembered to drink the soup in her hand. Ning'er and Ye Juelu only took a bite of the food with chopsticks. After a meal, she didn't remember what she ate.

After Ye Juelu heard the general idea, he raised his eyebrows slightly, "You mean that the total tax revenue in the capital has been slowly increasing since ten years ago?"

"I haven't looked at the account books in recent years, but in the accounts from ten to six years ago, I found that in just four years, the capital's commercial tax and civilian tax have gradually increased. These people came out." Ming Lanying inexplicably ate a little stuffed, took a sip of tea and pressed down, "According to your rules, those who do business, pass by, and live in the capital have to pay various taxes. tax."

"Everyone who does business in the capital will have a document, and has to pay commercial taxes, including city tax, tax, etc. The tax rates vary. Those who pass through the capital need to pay customs duties, and take two out of one hundred according to their own luggage. Calculated, these are not registered in detail, it is difficult to find the source."

"As for those who settle in the capital and those who move their household registration, they must register with the government office, and then the government office will go to the original ancestral home for confirmation. After the settlement is allowed, they must first pay a settlement fee before they are officially settled. After that, they will pay annually. A sum of housing tax is calculated on the basis of [-]% of the annual income, which is registered and the source can be found."

Ming Lanying breathed a sigh of relief, and continued in a deep voice: "The strange thing is that the budget in just four years has increased several times each year, and customs duties and commercial taxes have also gradually increased with a slow monthly ups and downs. It's as if a bunch of people popped up all of a sudden, appearing one after another to live and consume in the capital, but there is no relevant source to investigate."

"...the household registration transfer and settlement fees are also registered by the household department, but the amount is within the normal range, but the housing tax has increased strangely, and it is not the kind of increase that people live well, but a sudden increase every month Some people come out... but there is no source, as if they have lived here all year round..."

"I'm looking at the total tax amount summarized by the Ministry of Household Affairs, maybe I'm thinking too much..."

Ning'er listened ignorantly, but saw that the more the parents talked, the more strange their faces became. She leaned on Ye Juelu's arm with some worry, wanted to say something but yawned uncontrollably, and lay on his feet. The wolf cub beside him also yawned big.

Only then did Ming Lanying realize that it was bedtime, she rubbed Ning'er's little face, "It's time to go to bed, Ning'er will wash up and sleep with Daddy soon."

Ye Juelu hugged the drowsy Ning'er, and raised his hand to gently rub Ming Lanying's head, "I'll check it out, don't think too much, I'm here."

Ming Lanying was taken aback, and immediately turned her head to avoid the hand on top of her head, "I didn't think much about it, I was just doing my job."

Ye Juelu closed his fingers slightly, rubbed his fingertips lightly, recalled the soft hair he touched just now, and hummed lightly.

Ming Lanying patted the wolf cub, she couldn't hold the wolf cub now, so she could only let it get up and walk by itself, and the family of four returned to the yard to rest.

Before going to sleep, Ming Lanying thought in a daze, suddenly ten years ago there was a trend of population increase, could it be that every household in the capital suddenly had multiple births?
　Thank you for the collection of tickets sent by the darlings. If there is something wrong with the writing, I must say it, because sometimes I don’t know if the logic is right or not, so let’s take it as the setting in the text_(:зゝ∠)_
　　
　
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