Volume 1: New Person of Great Ming Chapter 21: An Liu Ye

  The title at the beginning is quite elegant, and he looks quite elegant too.

  Although he was over forty years old, he had a dense ring beard, and despite being tailored to fit his body, he still looked tight.

  Xu Yuansuo only glanced at him once, and then didn't dare to look again. It was as if his body was overflowing with a sharp, piercing light, and looking at him for another moment would blind both eyes.

  To be more realistic, it can be said that in traditional Chinese culture, staring at someone is equivalent to provocation.

  Xu Yuansuo didn't want to do such a foolish thing.

  "Older uncle." "Older brother."

  Niu Dalì and Chóu Lǎo Jiǔ came over first to greet them.

  The head of the line is the leader of the whole gang, also known as the "gang leader" in later generations. However, the title of "gang leader" is currently limited to mountain bandits and has not yet entered the urban hooligans.

  He glanced at his old subordinate and then at his dear nephew, his voice low: "What's going on? You're not even eating."

  Niu Dalì immediately responded: "Big Uncle, I've found a neighbor to settle the accounts. Qiū Jiǔgē is being difficult in all sorts of ways. Look, he's even looking for outsiders to verify the calculations."

  Qiu Laojiu has been dug into a hole by Niu Dalie many times, but let's not explain the difficulties first - even if explained, no one would believe it. He said: "Big brother, not an outsider, is Tong'an's old accountant, tight-lipped."

  The head of the line also recognized this accountant, nodded slightly, and looked at Niu Dali again.

  "I've hired a fool from the neighborhood who can only do arithmetic." Niu Dalì explained.

  He glanced at Xu Yuansuo and felt something was off, saying: "Call that idiot over."

  Niu Dalì hastily went over and pulled up Xu Yuansuo, saying in a low voice: "My uncle wants to see you, be clever!"

  Xu Yuansuo, however, knew the importance of financial situation to a company - organization. He often looked for not talented and intelligent people, but honest and reliable confidants. In this case, what's the need for cleverness? Of course, the stupider the better!

  "This, this, is a good beginning." Xu Yuansuo saw the beginning of the line and couldn't say anything else.

  Half is pretending, half is indeed the first in this line with an overwhelming momentum.

  "Those who can afford to look up to me all call me An Liu Ye." The leader said slowly.

  "Sixth Master is well." Xu Yuansu bowed repeatedly.

  An Liu deliberately wanted to create even greater pressure and ignored Xu Yuansu, instructing those around him: "First let the people who are not involved eat."

  Xu Yuansuo turned around and was about to leave, but was pulled back by Niu Dalì.

  "Sixth Master said those unrelated people should eat first..." Xu Yuansu explained in a low voice.

  An Liu Ye almost couldn't hold back his laughter.

  "Get a little smarter!" Niu Dalì bared his teeth and looked like he was in pain.

  "Let him go and eat." Anliu Ye originally wanted to scold Xu Yuansuo, seeing how old-fashioned and foolish he was, so he naturally felt at ease.

  What secrets can the accounts placed here have? What is truly important are the account books that come and go with the yamen clerks, wealthy merchants, and powerful families. Those are the secrets that should not be revealed to outsiders.

  Xu Yuansuo was overjoyed as if he had been granted a great amnesty, and hastily returned to his own seat, taking advantage of the food not being cold yet, he ate with gusto.

  Niu Dalì rubbed his nose: "He's a knowledgeable and down-to-earth neighbor, just an idiot, but he can do math."

  Qiu Laojiu smiled wryly and said, "Where's the calculation? It's simply divine!" Seeing An Liuye didn't understand, Qiu Laojiu again added flavor to his previous account of Xu Yuansuo's performance.

  Niu Dalì stood by and listened with a shocked heart, but couldn't immediately dismantle his own stage, so he could only remain silent and hope that Xu Yuanshuo hadn't miscalculated.

  An Liu Ye listened to this artfully processed world of wonders and asked skeptically: "Is it true or false?"

  "He's just good at arithmetic." Niu Dalì's intellect was insufficient to squeeze out the water content from óu Lǎo Jiǔ's words, and he merely muttered: "It's hard for people not to make mistakes... as long as it's not too excessive, that's fine."

  An Liu Ye looked at the old accountant who was calculating with an abacus and said to Chou Lao Jiu: "You go to Qingsilu and find a few more accountants."

  Qiu Laojiu hehe smiled and ran out like a wild dog off its leash.

  Xu Yuansuo was enjoying his meal when he heard the words "silver shop". He thought to himself: Is this a financial institution from the Ming dynasty? It's said that the ticket number was created by Fu Shan and Gu Yanwu in order to restore the Ming and overthrow the Qing. So what do silver shops operate now? When there's an opportunity, I'll have to go take a look.

  After a while, Old Nine brought three accountants and apprentices. The accountants and apprentices greeted An Liu as "Master", it can be seen that the silver shop was indeed An Liu's property. An Liu handed over the task of calculating accounts and took out Xu Yuansuo's total calculation, feeling surprised in his heart: this fool calculates quickly, and his handwriting is also good? Can a fool who can write and calculate be a fool?

  The abacus sounds quickly formed a chorus, and the old accountant was immediately outdone - his work efficiency was the lowest.

  Unlike Niu Dalie's tension, Xu Yuansuo still ate with relish.

  There were four accountants working with assistants, greatly speeding up the work. In addition, only adding numbers was required, without having to copy or write, so the accounts that were originally expected to be calculated until late at night came out very quickly.

  The accountant of Qingsilu walked up to Anliu and respectfully reported three numbers.

  An Liuye held Xu Yuansuo's total count, his face sank like water.

  "Can't make it? Haha, then I'm sorry!"

  The cow is also tense about going to see the numbers calculated on both sides.

  An Liuye handed both papers over to Qiu Laojiu.

  Qiu Laojiu smiled and took over the paper, but his face immediately fell.

  Niu Dalì realized he had won, but it was really hard to believe: "Didn't Xu Shaizi miscalculate?"

  An Liu Ye looked at Xue Yuan Zuo who was savoring the braised lamb and said calmly, "Go tell him to come and settle accounts with me. Five taels of silver per month."

  "Five ounces!" Old Qiu and Niu Dali both cried out in surprise.

  Xu Yuansuo's ears perked up, and he saw that Niu Dalì and Chóu Lǎo Jiǔ were also looking at him. He vaguely guessed the meaning of ān Liù Yé, but still didn't guess that ān Liù Yé gave a monthly salary, thinking it was five taels for the whole year.

  If it's just five taels a year, it's only slightly more than what the Xu family has, which doesn't constitute temptation.

  "Five taels every month!"

  Xu Yuansuo was so shocked that he almost swallowed his tongue.

  An Liu sat in the chair next to Xu Yuansuo, still with a calm face: "Five taels per month. Board and lodging included."

  Xu Yuansuo rubbed his face: five taels a month, that's sixty taels in a year.

  As a newcomer to the workplace, whether to join a large enterprise with better prospects or a small enterprise with higher salaries is a matter of personal opinion. Generally speaking, if you want to get real training and exercise, large enterprises are still better than small ones. As for those small enterprises that only care about making quick profits, I'm afraid only people without ambition or brains would be tempted by high salaries.

  Xu Yuansuo did not intend to make a mistake on such a simple issue.

  However, Anliu Ye's background must be taken into consideration.

  Moreover, five taels of silver... He wouldn't plan to sack the entire accounting house and leave only him. From a confidentiality principle, doing so indeed lowers the probability of secrets being leaked.

  Xu Yuansuo seemed to have heard his own heartbeat, so he subconsciously stuffed a lump of mutton into his mouth to calm himself down.

  Niu Dalì slapped Xu Yuansu on the back of his head with a loud slap.

  Xu Yuansuo immediately realized that he was being extremely disrespectful, and almost spat out the mutton... but fortunately managed to swallow it down safely.

  "Sixth Master," said Xu Yuansuo, "I come here every month to settle accounts for half a day, and Sixth Master just gives me one or two silver coins."

  An Liu Ye looked at Xu Yuan Zuo with a complex expression.

  Does Xu Yuansuo think he's a big shot? He wants one or two silver coins in just half a day, is this accounting or extortion? Even when our own people go out to collect debts, they don't have such high profits!

  But five taels per month is indeed a sky-high price that I set for myself. Am I supposed to slap my own face right after showing off?

  There are two kinds of fools. One kind is annoying and the other is extremely annoying... Xu Yuanshuo has undoubtedly become the latter.

  "A loyal minister does not serve two masters. I'm offering you a high salary to be my loyal minister, not to haggle over prices." Anliu Ye was indeed a refined old rascal, speaking in a low voice without getting angry.

  Xu Yuansuo spread his hands: "I already have a master, can't abandon my principles for personal gain." He also said: "If I really abandoned my principles, Sixth Master probably wouldn't trust me either."

  "Who is your master?" An Liu Ye said with disdain.

  It seems like I have no choice but to say it...

  Xu Yuansuo could only secretly pray that the Xu family's reputation would provide protection and that no uncontrollable bloody incident would occur.

  "Xu's residence." Xu Yuansuo adjusted his breathing and said in a calm tone: "The Xu Manor."

  This kind of tone is most pretentious when reporting a legendary figure in a plain and unremarkable way!

  His heart was like a million sheep and camels trampling over it.

  "You can go now." An Liu Ye waved his hand, apparently having already labeled Xu Yuan Zuo as "extremely annoying".

  Even when time flew away after Wanli 8 years, the first row of a government office building did not dare to dig under the wall of Lao's home.

  "Uh... " Xu Yuansu hesitated for a moment, looking slightly embarrassed: "Can I finish my meal?"

  An Liu Ye stumbled under his feet and stepped on the stone slab with force: "This land should be repaired!" After that, he didn't even look back and went out.

  Xu Yuansuo let out a big sigh of relief and quickly picked up the dishes with his chopsticks.

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