Xining Bead Counting

A bead can calculate the money and food in the world, but it cannot calculate the support of people's hearts. During the four years of Xining, there was a flood of new laws. Chen Yan entered the officialdom with his "clear method" arithmetic, and determined to be the most innocent "duzhiguan" in the Song Dynasty. He was proficient in "Nine Chapters" and improved the "Four Pillars". He was able to sort out three years of accumulated malpractice in three days from the messy county government account books. But he soon discovered that the accounts he had to settle were far more than copper coins and rice grains: The life-saving money from Qingmiao Loan has become a "military expenditure limit" that must be completed; The fair ruler of the square field tax cannot measure the invisible acres under the powerful land title; Every good news from the court turned into an additional tax collection document on his desk. This story does not involve time travel or cheating. It just wants to honestly tell the story of how a talented ordinary person is needed, used, and worn out in a huge system, and finally becomes a part of the system itself.