vstars Chapter 610 The new pageboy arrives, and the accounts are settled.
Chapter 610 The new pageboy arrives, and the accounts are settled.
Jiang Xiaoqi ordered a consummation contract from the system's shop that was so realistic it was hard to believe, and temporarily gave the system a name.
Is this name okay?
"Very good, thank you for bestowing a name upon me, host. Oh, no, thank you for bestowing a name upon me, young master!"
Jiang Xiaoqi knew she was terrible at naming things, and she racked her brains to come up with this name.
By writing his name on the indenture, the origin of the system could be explained.
"Young master, I'll grind the ink for you."
The system diligently fulfilled its duties as a page, and Jiang Xiaoqi adapted well.
When Li Mo came to call Jiang Xiaoqi for dinner, he naturally met his "new colleague".
Li Mo didn't show any surprise, after all, he was now acting more like a guard.
The young master does indeed lack a page to serve him with writing materials, but this page looks a bit young. I wonder how well he learned etiquette while he was in the brokerage business.
"Li Mo, this is the eleventh day of the month. You should take care of him more often in the future."
"Yes, young master. Brother Shi, it's time for the young master to have dinner. Let's go to the small kitchen to help serve the dishes."
"Okay, okay, Brother Mo."
The system quickly adapted to its new name and new position and followed Li Mo out.
Jiang Xiaoqi felt that Li Mo might have misunderstood the name "Eleven." Did he just call him Brother Shi? Or Brother Shi?
Whatever, they all sound the same, so who cares!
The transformation of the fluffy ball system into the eleventh pageboy only revealed a psychological gap when Jiang Xiaoqi was eating.
In the past, when Jiang Xiaoqi ate, the system could actually sit on the table; it was the kind of system that truly allowed people to sit on the table.
After all, he's not a real cat, so he doesn't shed fur everywhere and is very clean.
Now that he's become the eleventh pageboy, he can only stand behind his host and occasionally help serve the food.
In fact, Li Mo and Wen Bin used to eat together occasionally, but it seemed a bit inappropriate since they had just arrived for the National Day holiday.
However, as a system, it has no desire for food and only eats out of curiosity.
After all, the upgraded Book Boy version of the system still retains the function of replenishing energy by sunbathing.
The Book Boy Eleven is like a portable solar charging panel, allowing you to charge and recharge as you go.
After Jiang Xiaoqi finished dinner, her pageboy, Eleven, wisely brewed a pot of tea. After all, he was used to seeing Wenbin and Li Mo do this before, and as an observer, he was quite familiar with it.
"Thank you!"
"Master Su, um, you're too kind. It's all my duty."
Li Mo brought over the recent account books from Liuxiang Pavilion. It just so happened that it was the end-of-month and beginning-of-month accounting period, and Wenbin had just sent people to deliver them.
"Young Master, the account books that Wenbin sent over, would you like to look at them today or tomorrow?"
"Put it down, I'll look at it in a bit."
Li Mo was not good at keeping accounts, so he put down the account books and left.
"Would you be interested in taking stock of the accounts?" This question was directed at Eleven.
"Alright, as long as the young master can trust me."
What's there to distrust? The system's computing power is comparable to a calculator, and it won't make mistakes. Wouldn't it be foolish not to use this readily available workforce?
“Okay, then we’ll split it in half. Wenbin and the others are using the accounting methods from later generations, which are very clear and concise and won’t take much time.”
They lit the lamps, and each person had a writing brush and a stack of account books.
In less than half an hour, both of them stopped writing.
"how?"
"Manager Wenbin is quite capable; these accounts are perfectly accurate. What about the young master's?"
"Same here. I didn't expect that even with two fewer people helping him, Wenbin could still do such a good job with the accounts. He has really improved again."
Liuxiang Pavilion's net profit also quadrupled, of course, this started after the Second Prince and the Empress began purchasing from Liuxiang Pavilion for a long time.
The imperial family members in the capital used to disdain buying things from ordinary shops, but now, following the Empress, who is a master of promoting products, they have changed their ways.
With the presence of VIP clients like the imperial concubines and the favor of the royal family in the capital, the high-end products of Liuxiang Pavilion are already in short supply.
Therefore, giving the Second Prince tens or hundreds of thousands of dollars to build a ship was not because Jiang Xiaoqi was foolishly generous.
This is all coming from the consumer; I'm just giving the Second Prince and the Empress, these two sales experts, a little bit of a placement fee.
This "slot fee" is actually only one or two tenths of their net profit. Compared with the live-streaming e-commerce hosts of later generations, the commission paid to the Second Prince and his mother is really not that high.
Moreover, this business isn't a one-off deal; there will be ongoing profits.
Of course, depending on the circumstances, he would also sponsor a second or third ship.
After the account books were put together, the second group of people sent by Wenbin arrived.
This time, what was delivered wasn't account books, but real gold and silver.
Liuxiang Pavilion always sets aside a fixed amount of its cash flow to cover daily expenses, and the rest is divided into two parts.
The extra portion would be discreetly transported back to the Jiang family at night and delivered directly to Jiang Xiaoqi's courtyard.
The smaller portion would be deposited directly into the largest money exchange in the capital during the day.
It is said that the owner behind that money shop is related to the Ouyang family. Jiang Xiaoqi neither confirmed nor denied this. He only cared about security and that the money shop would not run away with his money.
As for why he deposited a small portion in a money exchange and brought the majority back to his own home, Jiang Xiaoqi was obviously afraid of attracting too much attention in the capital.
If a small shop deposits large sums of silver into a money exchange every month, it will be impossible for it to remain inconspicuous, no matter how low it tries to keep a low profile.
The small amount deposited has already made many people with shops, businesses, and assets in Beijing extremely envious.
However, the amount of money was far from touching their sensitive nerves and was still within an acceptable range.
If the Jiang family were to deposit all of Liuxiang Pavilion's actual monthly profits into a money exchange, they would likely be in deep trouble.
After all, the Jiang family didn't have deep roots in Beijing; the Liu family was one of their most powerful backers.
Her interactions with the Ouyang family were limited to the occasional interactions between the two old ladies, and as for the Second Prince, few people would take the title of Second Prince's teacher to heart.
Most people just think it's a job that sounds good but actually doesn't offer any real benefits.
After all, who would think that an old woman who spends all her time coaxing a mentally challenged child has a future?
To put it bluntly, Jiang Xiaoqi is what these "smart people" see as a "mother nanny" taking care of children.
So when Liuxiang Pavilion's performance soared, Jiang Xiaoqi's first thought was that he could no longer deposit all the profits into the capital's money exchange every month.
Although money changers are supposed to keep secrets, nothing stays hidden forever.
It's always good to be cautious; after all, better safe than sorry.
Jiang Xiaoqi stored part of the silver that Wenbin sent into her spatial storage, and the rest was kept in her family's private treasury.
He built the slush fund in his own courtyard, which was a way of giving a public account of where the money went.
In reality, the amount of silver stored in the slush fund was less than five percent of the total space.