Song Lingzhi, the late emperor's legitimate daughter, was thrown into the abandoned city of Lingnan, and everyone was waiting for her to die.
At the beginning, the gate collapsed, the roof leaked, and there was only three taels of silver left in the warehouse. All of his subordinates were the old, weak, sick, and disabled who had not been paid for five months.
Song Lingzhi took out his charcoal pen and calmly calculated an account:
The house collapsed? Just chop it up and use it as firewood.
No meat to eat? The smooth and oily mouse in the corner can still taste a bit meaty when cut into cubes and stir-fried.
In order to survive, the wealthy princess wore out the soles of her shoes, and led her men to find salty springs, set up large pots, and purify fine salt, and she just found a way to become rich every day in this remote and poor country.
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Shen Du, the former editor of the Hanlin Academy, was demoted to Lingnan. He originally wanted to visit the down-and-out princess who was rumored to be weak and easily bullied.
As a result, as soon as he knocked on the door, the door of the princess's mansion collapsed.
Under the moonlight, the princess who was supposed to be crying in the ruins was squatting in front of three large iron pots boiling salt.
She looked him up and down and threw an account book that looked like ghostly drawings into his arms: "Does the handwriting look good? Can you do the accounting? Great, I happen to be short of an accounting office. I will finish the calculation tonight and hand it over early tomorrow morning."
Shen Du looked at the account book in his hand: "?"
Later, those in the capital who were waiting to see Song Lingzhi's joke were all dumbfounded.
That rotten city that leaked rain, was actually built by her into a city that never sleeps and is the most wealthy in the world!
And the cold and powerful official with a bright future was following behind the princess, adjusting his abacus and whispering: "Princess, I have made another hundred thousand taels today. Can I pay off the salary that I have been owed for three years?"
