Volume 3: The Land of Jingchu Chapter 284 Two Stacks
Zhang Chunhua arrived in Fuyang and first went to meet several generals, including Jia Xu...
He did not come empty-handed, but also brought letters from Chen Dao and Jia Xu.
Compared to before, he was much more sophisticated and considerate, which made Chen Dao feel warm in his heart, while Jia Xu looked at Zhang Chunhua one more time with cloudy eyes - and even went to see Jingyuan and Ping'er first... Tsk tsk, is he really considerate, or does he have ulterior motives?
Jingyuan was the courtesy name of Jia Xu's eldest son Jia Mu. He also had another daughter, Jia Ping, who was Jia Xu's favorite daughter.
Jia Xu was old enough to be a grandfather in the Eastern Han Dynasty, and with some effort, four generations could live together.
However, he spent half his life in uncertainty. His original wife and son were killed in the displacement. His current wife was his second wife whom he married with the help of Zhang Ji when he was in his thirties, so his children are all young.
"Thank you, Zhang Gongcao, for still thinking about our brothers on the front line." Chen Dao took the letter from home and said with emotion.
Jia Xu kept curling his lips at the side - if it was Zhang Xiu, Jia Xu would just whisper to him: If you can't speak, just shut up!
Those who knew that Chen Dao was just being polite to Zhang Chunhua thought that he was complaining that the other people in the General's Mansion didn't think about the soldiers on the front line, not to mention... in front of the officials of the General's Mansion, he actually called them "brothers"...
Are you afraid that people will suspect that you are forming a clique for personal gain in the military?
Originally, most of the captains and lieutenants in your army are old friends of Bai Ma. How dare you show off like this?
However, apart from Chen Dao, Zhao Yun, Zhang Xiu and others did not think so much, let alone stop Chen Dao.
However, Zhang Chunhua also narrowed her eyes upon hearing this. Although she quickly restrained her expression, Jia Xu still caught it...
"No, no, my lord has always been thinking about the generals on the front line. Once this road is repaired and unblocked, I believe ordinary soldiers will be able to receive letters from home every quarter at the front line." Zhang Chunhua said.
In Jia Xu's opinion, Zhang Chunhua was secretly warning Chen Dao: Don't criticize your lord!
However, Chen Dao said unaware of it: "Hahaha, that's a great thing."
Zhang Chunhua and Jia Xu: ...
The delivery of letters from soldiers home over long distances is very limited even in the general's mansion. After all, these letters are not like military intelligence that can be transmitted through signal towers.
Otherwise... it would be embarrassing enough that hundreds of signal tower clerks along the way had a "sneak peek".
Letters home and the like still depend on "roads" - the Ministry of Works has already experimented with a formula for relatively cheap and high-yield "cement", and is only waiting to free up its hands next year to overhaul official roads.
Soon, the chief secretary and the chief clerk of the army brought a large number of account books and placed them in front of Zhang Chunhua.
"The lord has always trusted you generals, and I was just taking a look." Zhang Chunhua said as he opened the account book and started looking at it, with no intention of letting other assistants interfere.
Zhang Xiu, Zhao Yun and others stayed for a while out of courtesy and then left on the pretext of being "busy with military affairs".
If Zhang Chunhua wasn't a female official, she might not have wasted even this moment ...
However, Jia Xu noticed something, and after winking at Zhang Xiu, he stayed.
Just now... when Zhang Chunhua seemed to be just "flipping through" the books, she would occasionally put some accounts in a different position from other account books, and in many cases, she would look up and smile at Jia Xu.
Jia Xu naturally recognized that many of the books that were treated specially were the ones in which he had falsified accounts!
Although Jia Xu did not think that this was a serious matter, it was just that the army shared more spoils and held more banquets to exchange feelings with local noble families, but... he was still frightened by Zhang Chunhua's smile.
At the same time, Jia Xu was also a little confused. Why could Zhang Chunhua pick out the false accounts he had made with just a glance?
Jia Xu stayed but didn't say anything. Zhang Chunhua just looked at the account books one by one.
After a long time, the thick account books had been sorted out, and Zhang Chunhua specially picked out two small piles, one of which was a thick pile... all of which were tampered with by Jia Xu!
Highly accurate...
"Mr. Jia, Sister Ping'er seems to have found someone she loves in Jinling. She even told me, her elder sister, about it. Can we talk to her alone?" Zhang Chunhua smiled and made a lame excuse, but Jia Xu had to cooperate and dispersed the other clerks in the hall.
"Which boy does Ping'er like?" Jia Xu asked.
Even if the others had already gone down, Jia Xu was still very steady and would never confess.
"Let's be frank, Mr. Jia... These accounts should be familiar to you, right?" Zhang Chunhua pushed the thick stack in front of Jia Xu.
"I bear heavy responsibilities, so naturally I have seen all the accounts and they are all familiar to me." Jia Xu said, still sitting firmly.
"Oh? Then why don't we talk about 'these' first. If this other pile doesn't look familiar to Mr. Jia, we can check it carefully later... 'These' accounts have been touched by someone below, especially this one... It concerns the subsidy from the General's Mansion to the people in the war zone. I can't pretend that I didn't see it!" Zhang Chunhua said, taking out another thinner stack and specially picking out the two books on top.
These accounts were not made by Jia Xu!
However, some of them looked familiar to Jia Xu as well, and he knew that there were problems with these accounts, but... on the one hand, the problem was not serious, so he didn't want to pay attention to it. On the other hand, he also knew that these guys would not affect him if anything happened - they were all dirty deeds of some old bureaucrats in the counties and had nothing to do with the military's jurisdiction.
Jia Xu had originally thought that if he could really find out the truth, he would give it to Zhang Chunhua as a reward so that she wouldn't go back empty-handed.
But now Jia Xu is a little confused...
In such a short time, not only the accounts of those idiots were checked, but also the accounts I made by myself were checked? And they were classified?
Jia Xu was born as a clerk in the Xiliang Army, and spent many years at the grassroots level...
When it comes to accounting, he is an expert at it. Not only does he do it "truthfully", but he can also grasp the scale and ensure that he never "sticks to the pot". Any superior who wants him to take the blame will end up with bad luck without knowing it!
But now... this is because he has been hunting geese for many years and got his eyes pecked by a sparrow?
Jia Xu remained expressionless on the surface, but his mind was already turbulent with countless thoughts.
Zhang Chunhua also enjoyed this feeling - the lord's "account checking secrets" really worked every time!
This is hidden in the library, and Zhang Chunhua found it herself...
Jia Xu was still pretending to be stupid, and Zhang Chunhua did not force him. She first checked the accounts of other people with Jia Xu, and indeed found some daring parasites.
In this way, Jia Xu also understood more clearly that Zhang Chunhua was definitely not trying to be mysterious.
If it weren't for the fact that some of the accounts in the other pile were known only to him and Zhang Xiu, and some were known only to him, and no one else knew about them, Jia Xu would definitely think that there was an "inside man" who tipped off Zhang Chunhua...
