After rebirth, the wife of the Houfu shark went crazy

Chapter 140 There is a problem with the accounts

"Don't worry, it's just some banditry. Marquis Yonglin will be fine."

Xu Rui could even repel the fierce northerners, so dealing with these bandits should be a piece of cake.

Gulin nodded.

"Your Majesty, I will leave first."

After saying that, he turned and walked towards the carriage.

Anger flashed across Gu Wei's eyes, but it quickly disappeared. With a smile on her face, she shouted towards Gu Lin's back, "Uncle, tomorrow is your concubine selection banquet. Don't forget it."

Gulin did not reply. After the carriage drove away, Gu Wei sighed helplessly and looked at Jiang Xiyu again. "Tomorrow the palace will hold a banquet to select concubines for the King of Qin. If you have nothing to do, please go and join in the fun."

Jiang Xiyu had just noticed Gu Wei's displeasure and thought that things weren't as harmonious between them as they seemed. She really didn't want to join in the fun, but since Gu Wei had already spoken, Jiang Xiyu didn't dare to refuse and bowed and replied, "Yes."

Jiang Xiyu waited until Gu Wei got on the imperial chariot and left before she dared to get on the carriage.

After returning to the Princess's Mansion, Jiang Xiyu saw Gulin's carriage still parked in front of the Prince of Qin's Mansion.

She didn't know whether Gulin was still in the carriage. After all, he had returned a long time ago. So she didn't come over to say hello and went straight back to the Princess's Mansion.

Gulin got off the carriage only after seeing Jiang Xiyu returning home.

"Your Highness, will you attend the concubine selection banquet tomorrow?" Wuyi asked Gulin as he followed him.

Gulin's eyes were deep and he didn't answer.

Jiang Xiyu returned to Jingyuyuan and gave several new medicinal recipes that she had written last night to Nanny Yu, asking her to prepare them. She also called Nanny Wei to the room.

Jiang Xiyu asked Qing'er to bring a box. "This is the account book of the Yonglin Marquis's Mansion this year. Please help me take a look and see if there are any problems."

"Yes." Nanny Wei responded immediately, took a ledger from the box and started reading.

Seeing her standing and looking at the account book, Jiang Xiyu hurriedly said, "Madam, please sit down and take your time to look at it. There are a lot of account books in the Marquis' Mansion. These are only for this year. I guess Madam will have to look at the account books here today."

"it is good."

Only then did Nanny Wei sit down and carefully look through the account books.

Nanny Wei looked very carefully. It took her more than an hour to finish reading the stack of account books in the box and successfully found the problem.

Madam Wei spread out the account books she had first looked at and showed them to Jiang Xiyu. "There are obviously problems with these account books. Someone has obviously falsified the accounts?"

"Someone cooked the books?" Jiang Xiyu was startled and immediately leaned over to take a look.

Nanny Wei pointed out the unreasonable parts in the account book and showed them to Jiang Xiyu.

"Madam, look, these income and expenditure are obviously abnormal. The silk is purchased at 100 taels of silver per piece, and he sells it for 120 taels. Such a profit margin is completely unreasonable. Generally, for something purchased at 100 taels, the profit margin should be at least 30%. This product should be sold for at least 130 taels of silver to be reasonable. And he only sells it for 120 taels, and some even sell for over 80 or 90 taels. Isn't this a loss-making business? Moreover, I guess most of these goods have not been sold and are still in the warehouse."

Jiang Xiyu didn't know much about business before, but after hearing what Wei Ma said, she felt that the price of this account book was indeed unreasonable, and...

"Does this silk cost one hundred taels of silver per piece?"

She remembered that when she got married, the snow satin her father prepared for her was only over one hundred taels of silver per piece, and that was the selling price. According to what Madam Wei said, wouldn't the satin be sold at the price of snow satin?

Seeing that Jiang Xiyu still had some common sense, Nanny Wei said with relief, "This is the most unreasonable thing. The purchase price of ordinary quality silk is about ten taels of silver per piece, and the highest quality silk is no more than thirty taels of silver per piece. But the silk here costs a hundred taels of silver per piece. This price is unbelievably high. It also shows that there is something wrong with the person keeping the accounts."

Jiang Xiyu was shocked again. Ten taels and one hundred taels, the difference is just a little bit, which is also ten times.

And according to the purchase volume recorded in the account book, there would be a difference of tens of thousands of taels of silver this month.

Madam Wei pointed to several other account books and said, "And these too, all of them have problems."

Looking at the places pointed out by Wei Ma, Jiang Xiyu slammed the table in anger and said angrily, "These shopkeepers are so bold that they dare to embezzle the money of the Marquis' Mansion."

These are the account books of the Marquis' Mansion, sent by the shopkeepers of various shops in the Marquis' Mansion. I didn't expect that there would be so many tricks in them.

During the past few days in the mansion, Jiang Xiyu has always been gentle and kind. It was the first time that Nanny Wei saw the Madam lose her temper. Even when facing Lin Rouyu opposite her, Jiang Xiyu was at ease. She seemed to be very angry to be able to lose her temper so much.

Madam Wei quickly consoled her, "Don't be angry, Madam. The account books are all here. The monthly expenditures and income, combined with the goods in the warehouse, can reveal how much money they have embezzled. Now all you have to do is hold your composure and quietly launch a surprise attack on them."

Nanny Wei's words really pointed Jiang Xiyu in a direction.

Aunt Wei was right. She really couldn't get angry now and couldn't alert the enemy.

Jiang Xiyu thought about it and said to Qing'er, "Go get all the account books from previous years."

"Yes." Qing'er didn't expect that those shopkeepers would dare to embezzle the public treasury's money. These public treasury's money were all added by Jiang Xiyu every year. The money they embezzled was actually Jiang Xiyu's money.

Qing'er was so angry that she immediately went to get the account book.

After Qing'er brought the account books, Nanny Wei quickly flipped through them and found that there were problems with the account books for each year.

"There are problems with these account books. The situation was slightly better in the Gengshen year, with only the last two months showing some issues. However, the problems have become increasingly serious since the Gengshen year, and the figures this year have reached an outrageous level."

"Gengshen year?" Jiang Xiyu narrowed her eyes sinisterly. "It was the year I got married."

She got married in July of the Gengshen year. There was no problem with the account book in the first two months of her marriage, but it became worse and worse every year afterwards, so this account book was basically targeting her.

They must have been sure that she would invest money in the public treasury, so they made such an account book for her.

No wonder there were so many shops in the palace, but few of them were profitable. They were constantly running out of money, swallowing up all of her one million taels of dowry. Whether the people behind this were the shopkeepers, Xu Rong, Zheng, or Xu Rui, they were all enough to make Jiang Xiyu's face turn blue with anger.

Nanny Wei also realized something and picked up the oldest account book. "Judging from this account book, there shouldn't be any problems with the previous accounts. The problem only arose after you and the Marquis got married. But this is the account book of the Marquis's residence, so it shouldn't have much to do with you, Madam."