NOVEL NEXT Chapter 48 - Clearing Out Worms! Popularity Surge Again?
With Mia’s help, Richard found it much easier.
The next day, after arriving at the construction site, Richard entered a makeshift tent and called for three accountants.
“They’re here, my lord.” Ellie brought these accountants over.
The three accountants stood in front of the desk.
Richard threw out the three ledgers and said, “Take a look.”
Seeing Richard’s demeanor, the three accountants felt a bit nervous, then picked up the ledgers they had made and silently began to examine them.
As soon as they looked, they found that many errors and doubts had been marked out on the ledgers.
“My lord, it’s my mistake. I didn’t check properly!” One of them said.
Richard looked at him with a calm gaze.
Feeling the silent stare, the accountant began to sweat profusely.
“I’ll redo it.” He said.
“My lord, I’ll redo it too.” The second accountant said.
Richard shifted his gaze to him.
Feeling the terrifying lethality in the calm eyes, the second accountant also felt a chill.
【Poor child, are your legs going weak?】
【Anchor is going to use his death stare again!】
【Hey, why did so many people suddenly come in?】
【Who uploaded the video of the anchor fighting five people yesterday to an external site?】
【I’m new here, what is the anchor doing? Is this a skit?】
Richard didn’t notice that the number of viewers in the chat room was rapidly increasing again.
Thud!
Under Richard’s gaze, in less than a minute, the accountant directly knelt down, knocking his head on the ground.
“Lord, spare me, it’s my fault, I shouldn’t have been greedy!”
The accountant said regretfully.
【Wow, there’s actually something fishy going on!】
【Haha, he got tricked by the anchor!】
【The smile slowly freezes!】
In the chat room, the viewers were thoroughly entertained.
Richard said calmly, “Tell me, what did you do?”
The accountant then confessed in detail.
Actually, the accountant’s trick was quite simple.
On Richard’s construction site, because of the appearance of overtime pay, each person’s daily wages varied. And since many people couldn’t do math, coupled with the lack of bookkeeping habits, now that the wages had become weekly, many people couldn’t figure out how much they should be paid in a week.
So, this accountant deducted one copper coin from the wages of several dozen workers and added it to the wages of his few nephews.
Each nephew only received less than twenty copper coins, which usually wouldn’t raise any suspicion. Moreover, it couldn’t be detected from the ledger, because after all, Richard wasn’t watching every day.
Don’t think it’s a small amount, a few dozen copper coins a week, and after a month, it’s more than a person’s income.
However, this accountant made several mistakes, which were marked by Mia and then noticed by Richard.
Then he was tricked by Richard.
【This accountant actually operated like this, his future is limitless.】
【It’s more like a bleak future!】
【Learned it, if I deduct one yuan from everyone’s account in the country, I’ll be a billionaire.】
【Learned it +1.】
【You know, you get MP~!】
The chat room was particularly lively.
“Pack up and leave with your nephews!”
After listening to the whole thing, Richard ignored the accountant’s pleas and coldly ordered.
“Lord, please don’t drive me away, my family has lived here for generations…”
The accountant still wanted to beg for mercy.
“Take him away.”
Two soldiers came down and forcibly expelled the person.
Immediately after, this accountant, along with his few nephews, was forcibly driven out of the territory by Richard’s soldiers.
The locust plague was coming, and the accountant and his nephews regretted it. They knelt outside the territory begging for mercy, but no one paid any attention to them.
Seeing Richard’s methods were so ruthless, everyone on the territory became as quiet as cicadas in winter.
Actually, with Richard’s high prestige, everyone on the territory was relatively well-behaved.
But occasionally there were worms, especially among those who managed the accounts, which were the most susceptible to breeding worms.
In general, even nobles might not understand the accounts, or they wouldn’t bother to look.
Incidents of nobles being cheated by their own stewards or accountants happened repeatedly.
However, after this round of cleaning up, the remaining two accountants should be thoroughly honest.
Of course, there wasn’t much room left for them to tamper with, because the money was always under Richard’s control, and they were only responsible for tallying everyone’s wages.
Currently, the expenses weren’t significant, barely reaching two gold coins a day, but there needed to be basic rules; otherwise, in the future, when things got bigger, it would be easy for worms to infest everywhere.
With the accounting matters sorted out, Richard inadvertently glanced at the livestream room and was surprised by the number of online viewers.
Because, the number of online viewers in his livestream had unexpectedly surpassed one million!
During this period, the number of viewers in his livestream had been steadily increasing, but it usually stabilized at around seven to eight hundred thousand, and there had never been a case of surpassing one million.