Settling the Balance of Accounts, the Life of Master Qian Gu

In the 120th year of Emperor Yong's reign of peace, finance and taxation had long been in ruins under the appearance of prosperity. Silver and copper arbitrage depleted the national treasury, private fields were kept private to fatten aristocratic families, salt privatization was like private money, and millions of grains were lost every year. Xiao Zhi, the number one scholar from a poor family, was sent to a poor county in Qingxi, where he took over thirty thousand taels of bad debt and ended up dead - the first three county magistrates were dismissed or died suddenly, and no one could escape unscathed. No one knew that there was a lame clothed accountant hiding behind him. Shen Gue, the son of the former head of the Department of Household Affairs, was the orphan of the minister responsible for the huge Tongcang case ten years ago. With the iron law that he would never be hired, he lived in seclusion in the countryside for ten years, made plans, and endured ten years of blood feud. In order to investigate old cases and make amends, he entered the game as a secret agent in white and set four rules: no promotion, no ink, no credit, and no name. In a humble house in Qingxi, three years of bad debts were sorted out in half a month, the deficit of 30,000 yuan was made up in three months, and the county magistrate of Tan Mo was dismissed; In the Pingjiang government office, pre-purchasing of canal grain broke the deadlock of grain hoarding, and defeated the mastermind of the family from a distance; In Jiangnan's financial road, the salt citation war disintegrated the century-old monopoly of merchant gangs, and the imperial court regained control of the world's money power; In the central court, the ladder system turns the antagonism between officials and the people into self-locking, and sets the fiscal and taxation rules of a country. Everyone in the world praises Xiao Zhi as a famous official who left his name in history; no one knows what is going on in the account and how to survive in the prosperous age, all because of the unknown accountant. But he can figure out the direction of money flow and the pros and cons of people's hearts, but he can't figure out the eternal iron law - no matter how perfect the system is, it will eventually develop new corruptions. No one can break the cycle of chaos and chaos. "First settle the account, then hold the knife." A financial and taxation chess game that spanned ten years ended today.