After careful search and search by the clerks of the warehouse, the old books and documents from the nine years of Datong were sorted out one after another.
However, as Huangfu Mu said, most of these documents are damaged due to poor storage, either moisture or insect-eaten. Even if some are still intact, the paper becomes thin and brittle and lacks toughness, and is no longer resistant to frequent handling and repeated reading.
After seeing this, Li Tai simply stopped ordering him to return to Zhitang and work directly on the spot. He found a free and quiet room in the scripture writing venue, leaving several minor officials here to assist in answering questions, and then began to read these documents carefully.
Huangfu Mu watched for a while and saw Li Tai looking at the paper and focusing without distraction. Although he didn’t know what his specific intention was, he finally felt a little more balanced and stopped disturbing him. He returned to the silence hall to continue what he had not done before.
When people focus on doing things, time passes quickly. When Huangfu Mu in the Zhitang raised his head and looked out the hall, the afterglow of the sunset was pouring into the hall from the west of the sky. Some of the colleagues in the Zhitang had completed the desk affairs, while others were planning to fight at night.
Seeing that Huangfu Mu had stopped the affairs at hand, the officials waiting on the side rushed to enter and presented the summary of today’s matters to the case.
Huangfu Mu looked at these things and found no mistakes. He subconsciously touched his waist to prepare to use a seal. After touching the blank hand, he suddenly remembered that he was no longer a Changshi. He felt a little sad, and then he remembered Li Tai who had stayed in the scripture writing venue before.
“Maybe he has left…”
After walking out of the Zhitang, Huangfu Mu, who had been busy with the case for most of the day, felt hungry and guessed that Li Tai might not have the patience to stay there, and planned to use dinner before asking, but after thinking about it, he still raised his legs and walked towards the direction of the scripture writing site.
When Huangfu Mu came to the scripture writing venue, the sky had completely darkened, and some scripture writing rooms had already lit up. The room where Li Tai was staying in before was even brighter.
Huangfu Mu walked into the room and saw more than a dozen people sitting or standing in the room, all of them were warehouse officials, all of whom were calm and focused. Even when he noticed Huangfu Mu’s arrival, he just nodded and did not say hello.
When Huangfu Mu saw this scene, he was suspicious and turned to the room. The first thing he saw was the workbook and document piled up on the desk was more than half a person high. After passing the piles of document books, he saw Li Tai sitting behind the desk.
“Have these documents been reviewed?”
Looking at the piles of documents that were as high as his chest, Huangfu Mu asked in disbelief.
As he opened his mouth, the quiet atmosphere in the room was suddenly broken. Li Tai stopped reading and copying the movements, and kept laying paper next to him and observing and studying.The Cangcai Army, the Cangcai Army in the Prefecture, suddenly looked up with an unhappy look and shouted, “Who is disturbing… Huangfu Changshi, joining the army…”
Huangfu Mu ignored the Cangcai Army, pushed the few people next to the case to Li Tai’s side, pointed to the pile of books and said to Li Tai, “Has Li Changshi approved these documents?”
Li Tai stopped, and felt that his shoulders and limbs were a little sore and stiff. He stood up in the mat to do some exercises, and nodded to Huangfu Mu, “I just read it roughly.”
As soon as he said this, the Cangcai Army next to him shook his head repeatedly, “The Chief Secretary has recorded all the things in detail and exquisiteness. Such a skillful and skillful management is unprecedented!”
While speaking, the joining army took out the notes that Li Tai had made before, showing them to Huangfu Mu, while explaining the convenience of this way of recording.
In fact, Li Tai did not use any complicated skills. He was just some basic statistical applications. He first sorted out the events and elements that appeared in the document, outlined the frequency of different matters being recorded, and then reviewed the income and expenditure dynamics involved for a period of time, and naturally, he could obtain an overview of the changes in fiscal revenue and expenditure during this period.
There was not much intellectual gap between the ancients and later generations, but the messages that later generations received and needed to process every day were beyond the reach of the ancients. Even if it was a dead house in later generations, what he saw and thought was better than that of an ancient county magistrate.
So when it comes to the extraction and sorting and summary of complicated information, because of the different living environments, future generations must far surpass their predecessors. Of course, some people who give up self-thinking and indulge in public accounts to popularize their curiosity.
Li Tai’s previous subordinates were no longer surprised by his ability with similar talent, but they did not expect that he would be amazed again after coming to Longyou. It can be seen that when a person lacks a sense of accomplishment in life, it may not be possible to regain himself. It is also OK to change the map.
When Huangfu Mu saw the financial revenue and expenditure situation in Qinzhou compiled by Li Tai, he couldn’t help but stare at and exclaim.
He has been doing this for a long time and is naturally aware of many situations, but memories will also blur with the changes of time and energy. The detailed numbers recorded on paper make the memories in his mind become vivid again, and they are very small in and out of each other.
If you only know the state finance, Li Tai’s efforts this afternoon were as hard as his years of hard work! Of course, this is not the only thing he has done in the past few years, but Li Tai’s efficient grasp of state affairs undoubtedly proves that he has a very outstanding talent.
“No wonder my lord praised Li Changshi many times before. I am narrow-minded and only said that I praised him too much because of my preference. Today, I have seen the achievements of Changshi’s affairs as simple as simplicity, and only then can I know what I saw and don’t know what I am. I hope that Changshi can tolerate the previous cold-faced offenses!”
Huangfu Mu XiaoHe carefully put the notes made by Li Tai back on the desk, and then bowed to Li Tai Chang and apologized in a deep voice.
Li Tai was naturally not open-minded. He was also quite unhappy about Huangfu Mu’s attitude towards him before, but he also knew in his heart that because there was such a person who could concentrate on his work, his father-in-law was relieved to arrange for him to stay and take charge of the matters.
So when he saw Huangfu Mu lowering his head to apologize to him with a shame, he did not laugh at the other party for being unaware of Mount Tai. He just said with a generous smile: “I would rather break my eyes with a gentleman than to talk about friendship with a villain. You are open-minded and sincere in joining the army. It was normal for people to suspect each other because you didn’t know it before, so there was no need to worry about it. Regarding state affairs, I still have many doubts in my heart. I hope that Huangfu’s joining the army can give me advice.”
“Please rest assured, but if you have any questions, I will definitely know everything!”
After hearing this, Huangfu Mu hurriedly said that he was not good at interpersonal communication and had already recognized Li Tai in his heart, so he wanted to show more in the matter. But after saying this, his stomach started to rumbling uncontrollably.
This sound was like a signal, and several people in the room were screaming in their stomachs. Although Li Tai ate a lot of breakfast, he felt hungry after hearing the movement. Seeing that it was getting late, he smiled and said, “Today, due to my instructions, the people in the warehouse are very tired. They may not have hot food when they go home, so they will stay in the kitchen for dinner.”
Everyone smiled when they heard this. Although the prefecture has a public kitchen, only the employees who earn the food can enjoy the benefits of meals between morning and evening, and the officials generally have to eat at their own expense.
Generally speaking, no one of the powerful men from a better family will commit themselves to being beaten and punished by the subordinates who will be beaten and scolded at any time, so a meal is also very happy for them.
When Li Tai was flipping through the document, he noticed that the annual material expenses of the provincial government kitchen were not small. The most was the eleventh year of the Datong reign, and the various ingredients and materials consumed throughout the year reached tens of thousands of pieces of silk.
So while dinner was taking advantage of the time, Li Tai personally came to the kitchen on the side of the prefecture to see how good the food standards of Qinzhou’s work meals were. He actually had to eat more than a dozen Gao Aocao every year!