The Royal Family originally had Baohe and other stores, which were responsible for managing groceries from vendors from all over the world. There were six stores named Baohe, Heyuan, Shunning, Fude, Fuji, and Baoyan. The hall of the Admiral and Eunuch was located in Baohe, all located on Rong Government Street.

Since the Jiajing period, the income of these six shops was collected by the official of the King Yu. During the Wanli period, it was collected by the Virgin Li in the Palace of Cining Palace. Now it is collected by Queen Yi'an Zhang, as the expenses of the inner palace.

Zhu Cixuan did not intend to interfere in this industry because there were too few real excellent assets, and it was completely a re-trading trade. He could only be used as the rouge money for the Empresses, which was really not in line with his identity as the prince. As the prince, of course, he had to make the most of his existing high-quality assets and divest the non-performing assets, so as to obtain the ability to influence the world, rather than just a profit of ten thousand taels of silver.

The Gunpowder Bureau is a potentially excellent asset, but due to business problems, it not only cannot generate income for the country, but also has to swallow up a large amount of treasury. This has been a habit since the Taizu period, so that later emperors took the money for granted and never thought of using the power of the Tian family to support the army.

"The treasury originally sent the three major camps food, equipment, military staff and other silver, and they also had to send the three major camps silver to the Gunpowder Bureau to supply the three major camps. Isn't this a piece of goods sold to the Tian Family twice?" Zhu Cixuan said: "When the temple, the people below were still honest and dared not report it so blatantly. Now I ask for a clear list of expenses, and they dare to report it so randomly. Since that's the case, I'll let them really spend the money to buy it."

"Your Highness, Baohe Liudian or Gunpowder Bureau are all property of the Tian family. As long as your Majesty nods, you can move no matter how you move." Liu Ruoyu said: "But if you ask the three camps to spend money, it will touch the tiger beards of the Dukes and the ministers."

"You old guy, their tiger beard can't be touched, can the lonely dragon scales go against it?" Zhu Cilang sneered: "I want to see who dares to say anything in this matter."

...

The weather has started to turn colder in mid-July, and the chilling air makes people inevitably walk faster.

Zhu Chunchen was wearing court robes and slowly stepped on the bricks of the outer residence of the East Palace. He was not very worried about this visit. He heard about some things about the prince, but he always kept the word "smart". Thinking about the position of the prince, does anyone dare to say that he is "stupid"?

As the twelfth generation of Duke Chengguo, Zhu Chunchen was the legitimate grandson of Zhu Neng, a famous general of Jingnan. In the first year of Chongzhen, he supervised the "Records of Emperor Xizong's Emperor's Border" and became the Taifu in the third year and the governor of the Beijing camp in the ninth year. He was very relied on by the emperor. As the emperor's favorite minister and a meritorious official of the country, he was appointed as the first-rank official and was appointed as the duke and took charge of the country's most "elite" army. It is not an exaggeration to describe Zhu Chunchen as a "high-ranking minister".

However, this prince did not have much loyalty to the emperor. Not only could he not practice the Beijing camp loyally and diligently, he even opened Chaoyang Gate to sacrifice the city when Li Zicheng was approaching Beijing. No matter how bad Chongzhen was, he did not treat Duke Cheng Zhu Chunchen at all. However, this person was able to show off the city. Afterwards, he led all officials to persuade him to advance. This was shameless.

It is already difficult for Zhu Cilang to smile when he sees him.

"You are so good, my grandfather." Zhu Cilang treated Zhu Chunchen with a tribute, returned half of the gift, and said peacefully.

"Because of your great blessing, Your Highness asked, I can live a life of ease." Zhu Chunchen, as a Duke of the State, was granted the title of king for two generations, and there was nothing to be respected against the crown prince.

People’s awe often come from distance. The more people around them, the harder they are to have awe. For the people, the prince is the star king who descends to earth and will take charge of Ziwei in the future. For those nobles and nobles, they know very well that there is no difference between the emperor and ordinary people, and their lives may not be better than them.

Zhu Cixuan was not unhappy because of Zhu Chunchen's attitude, and said slowly: "Mr. Master, governor of the Jingying, do you know how much gunpowder you have to buy in Jingying every year?"

"I have accounts, but I am old and declining, and I can't remember it for a while." Zhu Chunchen frowned slightly.

——As long as you send an internal supervisor to this kind of thing, how can the prince and the duke personally discuss it? It’s too decent!

Zhu Chunchen thought to himself.

"But I remember." Zhu Cilang smiled and recited the annual expenses of the Jingying since the nine years since Chongzhen.

Zhu Chunchen felt cold in his neck when he heard it. One reason was that the prince was obviously prepared, and the other reason was that the people below were too lazy to pretend, and only added and subtracted 1,200 taels from the number of each year would be done. Even an outsider could not help but doubt such stable data.

"I'm just strange," Zhu Cixuan said: "From the 11th year of Chongzhen, the Beijing Camp did not move much, so it was probably enough to buy these gunpowder. From the 11th to the 14th year, the Beijing Camp sent all over the country to suppress the thieves and destroy the enemy. Why did they still use such gunpowder in succession of battle formations?"

This is just a piece of gunpowder, and it starts completely from the reason. Zhu Chunchen's mind turned around and said to him: "Your Highness doesn't know that because the Beijing camp sent out combat, gunpowder was consumed on the battle formation, and the gunpowder used to practice was less. The gunpowder equipment of each of my three battalions was fixed, and it was not allowed to increase or decrease, so it was always stable."

Zhu Cilang nodded slightly: "After the grandfather said this, I understood. It seems that he is still not familiar with the fault of ordinary affairs."

"Your Highness should learn how to govern the country. Just leave such trivial matters to the accountant." Zhu Chunchen relied on his seniority.

Zhu Cilang sneered in his heart.

He had already changed the cash account of the second officer of the Jingying camp over the past seven years into the loan and credit accounting method. Even if the other party flattened the account, he could still use the "Ford Law" to judge whether anyone had done anything.

According to this Ford rule: in a bunch of unmodified numbers, the number that starts with "one" has a chance of appearing about 30% of the total number; the number that starts with "two" has a chance of appearing about 17% of the total number; the number that starts with "three" has a chance of appearing about 12% of the total number... and then it decreases in turn, with the number that starts with eight and nine, the sum of the chance of appearing at most ten% of the total number.

As long as the sample is large enough and the numbers are not modified, this rule will be abide by. In other words, if the numbers are fabricated, the statistical results will greatly deviate from this rule. Auditors five hundred years later use it to conduct preliminary review of whether there is fraud and greatly improve audit efficiency.

This rule was told by the prince in the palace that it was used in the same way as the method of credit and accounting, so you can see whether someone cheated at a glance, and those who do not know this rule will be afraid.

Now this secret has been passed to Yao Tao and has become a secret weapon for the audit of the Eastern Palace.

According to this secret weapon, not to mention eating empty wages and drinking soldiers’ blood, the fraud in the accounts alone has reached a shocking level.

Now, looking at Zhu Chunchen's attitude, he obviously does not intend to plead guilty.
Chapter completed!