Ming Dynasty: I risked my life to teach the prince, the emperor begged me not to die

Chapter 329 Opening a School

Chen Ce returned to Huaihua Hutong, and after returning, he began to cough up blood uncontrollably.

Maybe it was because he walked too much today, or maybe his condition worsened again, he couldn't be sure.

Chen Ce went to the kitchen to boil some medicine, and after drinking it he was still coughing up blood.

He lay weakly on the bed and fell into a sleep in a daze. When he woke up again, it was already noon and he felt a little better.

He didn't feel it so obviously before, but recently he clearly felt that his physical condition was getting worse.

Half of the thirteenth year of Hongzhi had passed, and he had never felt that time had passed so quickly.

When it was dusk, a middle-aged man came into the courtyard. Judging from his age, he was about the same as the Zhang brothers, in his early thirties.

When he saw Chen Ce, he was slightly stunned and asked, "Are you Mr. Chen Ce?"

Chen Ce nodded: "Yeah."

The other party obviously didn't expect that Mr. Chen mentioned by Teacher Xie would be so young, but he didn't look down on Chen Ce because of his youth. He bowed and said, "Thank you, Grand Master, for recommending me to come down and meet Mr. Chen to learn some knowledge about finance and taxation."

"Next week."

Chen Ce hummed and said, "Actually, there is nothing to ask. I thought Xie Jijiu was just saying it casually, but I didn't expect you to really come."

"If you really want to learn about finance and taxation, it would be more direct to go to the Ministry of Revenue to ask for advice."

Zhou Nan shook his head and said, "Teacher Xie said that the Ministry of Revenue learned the fiscal and tax reforms from you."

Chen Ce was a little surprised. From the tone of this guy, it seemed that he looked down on the Ministry of Revenue?
"The Ministry of Revenue is carrying out a commercial tax reform. Now, to pay commercial taxes, you need to calculate your own profits and then go to the Taxation Department to pay taxes."

"There are many components of commercial tax. In summary, it is the income minus the cost and expenses to calculate the profit."

"What are incomes? For example, a textile workshop earns income from selling waste products. Can this also be considered income?"

Chen Ce said: "Yes, the income of the commercial workshop is divided into main operating income and non-operating income."

"Every business has a fixed business scope. When registering a business workshop with the Taxation Department, they should indicate their business scope. All industries must clearly define the standards and scope of their operations..."

Of course, these things fall within the scope of industry and commerce and have nothing to do with accounting and finance.

"How do we divide the costs?"

Chen Ce said: "There are fixed costs. Taking the textile industry as an example, the costs include labor costs, machine purchase costs, and production material costs. Expenses include the purchase of various small items needed in daily textile production, such as scissors, paper, pens, inkstones, and so on."

The accounting industry is a niche industry. Chen Ce felt that if he continued to talk about it, more and more would be derived. Although he was born as an accountant in later generations, he could not copy all the knowledge of later generations to the Ming Dynasty.

At present, he just briefly introduced some simple things to let Zhou Nan understand that with the development of business, the accounting industry can only be improved little by little in practice.

But the accounting talents trained nowadays only need to know how to calculate taxes.

Zhou Nan listened very carefully and nodded repeatedly. He had studied it before, and now listening to Chen Ce's words, he felt a sense of enlightenment, and said with a cupped hand: "I'm grateful for your advice!"

Chen Ce asked doubtfully: "Do you understand everything?"

Zhou Nan hummed and said, "To be honest, I have studied it before. I am very interested in numbers and I like to study these things."

"I have also borrowed some books from the Ministry of Revenue and read them. I can probably understand them all."

Chen Ce pondered for a moment and asked Zhou Nan, "If, I mean if, I ask you to open a college, would you be interested?"

Zhou Nan asked, "Open an accounting school? Recruit talents to teach accounting?"

Chen Ce nodded: "Yeah."

Zhou Nan smiled and said to Chen Ce: "Mr. Chen, this is nothing short of wishful thinking. No one in the Ming Dynasty would spend money to learn this. Not to mention that there were not many scholars in the Ming Dynasty, and the purpose of learning to read and write was to take the imperial examination. Who would give up the imperial examination and spend money to study accounting in school?" "Even if such a school is opened, how many people would sign up to study?"

However, Zhou Nan changed the subject and said, "But I still want to give it a try."

"Well, I paid for the opening of the academy. If there are any questions I can ask Mr. Chen, if we can make money, I will split it equally?"

"Of course, I don't think I can make much money, but it doesn't matter."

Chen Ce became more and more curious about Zhou Nan's identity. Which powerful young man was this? He opened a school and invested money as soon as he said it. He was so decisive and never dragged his feet.

Xie Jijiu was right. He was simply interested in finance and taxation. This could really be considered a heresy in the Ming Dynasty.

Chen Ce shook his head and said, "I am just giving you a suggestion. If you really want to open such a school, I don't need any profit from you. If you don't understand something, you can come to me for free. I will answer your questions with everything I know."

"it is good!"

Zhou Nan bowed and left.

……

Nightfall, Zhou Mansion.

Changning Earl Zhou Yu was furious and pointed at Zhou Nan's nose and cursed: "How ridiculous! How ridiculous!"

"Our Zhou family is a royal family! My elder sister is the Empress Dowager. I have tried my best to send you to the Imperial College, and now you are telling me that you want to open a school?"

"Why the hell do we even have an accounting school?"

"Did you get kicked in the head by a donkey?"

Changning Earl Zhou Yu was the one who was beaten up because of a dispute over land with the Zhang brothers. There were six sons in the family, and Zhou Nan was the youngest.

Almost all the other sons went to the court to take up idle positions, but this youngest son was the only one who was troublesome!

"You should spend some time in the Imperial College. When you have completed your studies, I will arrange for you to be a captain of the Imperial Guard. It will not bring shame to the Zhou family."

"Now tell me what kind of school you want to open? Fine, you can teach Confucianism, but what about accounting?"

Zhou Nan said in a muffled voice: "Dad, what's wrong with the accounting school? Isn't it also about teaching and educating people? Besides, if the school is prosperous, we may be able to open branches across the country. If more people sign up, we can make a lot of money from the tuition fees."

Zhou Yu: “Haha!”

"Ha ha!"

"Whimsical!"

Zhou Nan's five older brothers quickly persuaded Zhou Yu not to be angry with Zhou Nan, and also advised Zhou Nan not to make his father angry again.

Zhou Yu snorted coldly, "Okay! You like to make trouble! Okay, let's do it! I'm not afraid of spending money to set up a school. The Zhou family is rich!"

"But just one thing, if you can't recruit anyone to this crappy school, just go back to the Imperial Academy and study!"

Zhou Nan said: "What if we recruit someone?"

Zhou Yu: "Bullshit! You hired a chicken... Get out, get out now!"

Zhou Yu covered his chest, feeling heartbroken.

"Go check it out! Find out which bastard has bewitched this brat! He is straightforward and inexperienced. He is over 30 years old and acts like a fool. Once he is fooled by others, he will do stupid things!"

Zhou Yu yelled at the steward of the mansion.

(End of this chapter)