Qing Yao

Chapter 9: Be Proficient in Business

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There is a new person in the unit. What should the new person do? Can Zhao An ask someone else to teach him?
Sweeping the floor, pouring tea, and wiping the table are basic skills.

Without this basic foundation, unless you have very strong connections, you will not be able to gain a foothold in the company, or your superiors and colleagues will have a bad impression of you.

How can you make progress if your boss and colleagues don’t have a good impression of you?

No matter what era, whether in the officialdom or the workplace, the principles are the same.

Zhao An had a very positive attitude. He didn't feel at all that it was a waste of talent to work as a handyman in the tax bureau, or that he had talent but was not appreciated. On the first day of work, he threw himself into the job without any reservation.

As the saying goes, the beginning is always the hardest.

What's the old saying?

Yes, a brave general must come from the ranks, and a prime minister must be appointed from the prefectures and counties!

With the most solid work experience at the grassroots level, if he is more flexible in his work and behavior, and has a noble person to help him, he may be able to get an official position when that son of a bitch Qianlong is about to die.

As for the future, everything depends on fate.

In short, the starting stage must be solid and must not fall behind.

With such a mentality, Zhao An worked very diligently in the Taxation Department and was as humble as possible. He treated everyone as "Sir" and "elder", even the doorman Wu Laoer, who could not read a single word, and he called him "Uncle".

Every day he would arrive at work earlier than everyone else and would be the last to leave. No matter what the dirty or tiring work was, he would rush to do it without asking anyone else for a second opinion.

As a result, after only a few days on the job, Zhao An had a thorough understanding of all the departments in the Taxation Department and became familiar with more than a hundred of his colleagues. The accounting department was full of praise for Zhao An, the newcomer. The manager Zhang Quan even praised Zhao An to Wang Defa for having a good nephew. Wang Defa was so happy that he specially invited his nephew to his home for a drink.

The most common saying is that if you want to appear respected in front of others, you will suffer behind their backs.

This is what Wang Defa taught his nephew, and it is also his personal experience of working in the department for thirty years. Although he now has some status in the department and is respected by everyone, he is not an official or a clerk after all. Being able to arrange his nephew to work in the department is already the limit of his ability.

Therefore, how far his nephew can go in the future depends entirely on his own luck. If he really can't go on, there is nothing he, as his uncle, can do.

It is true that a blacksmith must be strong himself.

Zhao An naturally took his uncle's teachings to heart, and after working as a handyman in the Taxation Department for half a month, he was finally called in for a "talk" by Zhang Quan, the head of the accounting department, because of his active performance.

The content of the conversation was very official, not much different from the conversations with Zhao An's leaders in his previous life. It was nothing more than praise, and then asking about any difficulties and plans for the unit's development prospects. Then he painted a rosy picture, saying that as long as he worked hard, he would have bread and butter.

After the nonsense, Zhao An’s work assignment came. He was going to work for Wang Tai, the accountant in charge of the third room.

"The Third House is short of staff right now. Zhao An, you must work hard. When your internship is over, I will report you to Ambassador Ding for official appointment."

After saying that, Zhang Quan opened an account book and started looking at it.

Zhao An understood that this meant the conversation was over, and subconsciously said, "Thank you, organization. Thank you for your cultivation of me. I will work hard and live up to your cultivation."

When I came out of the duty room, I was still shuddering with fear: the ideas of my previous life were really integrated into my blood, and I almost let it slip.

If you want to thank someone, you can’t thank the organization, you have to thank the Qing Dynasty and the imperial court!
After a short pause, he hurried to report to Wang Tai from the third room.

There are four calculation rooms in total. If the calculation room itself is a subordinate department of the Taxation Department, then these four rooms are the four responsible groups of this department.

The first house was responsible for collecting commercial taxes, the second house was responsible for collecting taxes on butchers, the third house was responsible for collecting miscellaneous market taxes, and the fourth house was responsible for collecting taxes on the sale of land and houses.

There is no need to say much about commercial taxes. The butcher tax is the tax on selling meat. No matter whether it is pork or mutton, as long as meat is sold within Ganquan County, a certain amount of tax must be paid to the government office every month, which is equivalent to running a meat processing plant business.

Once you pay, they'll stamp the pork. Without it, your meat isn't real and can't be sold. If you force us to sell it, sorry, we'll just take it back and dispose of it harmlessly.

Miscellaneous market taxes are not regular taxes, but typical miscellaneous taxes. There is no fixed time for collection, but as long as the county needs money for anything, this tax must be collected.

The amount of donation is not fixed, it all depends on the mood of the tax collector.

The tax on buying and selling land and houses is literally called property tax.

The Zhang family wanted to sell the house to the Li family. To put their minds at ease, both parties went to the Taxation Bureau to get an official certificate to ensure that the transaction was real and valid, so that they would not argue with each other afterwards.

The question is, why would the government give you proof and guarantee in vain and work for you in vain?

Then pay some taxes.

Hello to me.

Judging from the specific business that the fourth room is responsible for, there is no doubt that the first room makes the most money, followed by the second room, and then the fourth room. The third room assigned to Zhao An makes the least money.

The reason is naturally that there is no count of when to donate taxes or how much to donate.

Unlike the other three rooms, which all have fixed income, you can earn money just by sitting back.

However, as a newcomer, it was impossible for Zhao An to be assigned to the most lucrative room from the beginning. You have to know that his "master" Liu Xiaolou was from the third room, and based on seniority, it was Liu Xiaolou who was assigned to the first room first, not him, the new apprentice.

It now seems that the manager Zhang Quan wanted to assign Zhao An to the third room from the very beginning, otherwise he would not have let Liu Xiaolou from the third room take care of him.

Perhaps due to limited office space or the small number of people, the four house counting teams were "merged" to work in one large room.

There is a group in each of the east, south, west and north directions, and in the middle are several rows of bookshelves filled with various account books and materials.

Liu Xiaolou, who had just returned from the toilet, heard that Zhao An had been assigned to the third room by the manager, and hurriedly took him to see Wang Tai, the person in charge of the third room.

Zhao An knew Wang Tai because he had poured tea and wiped tables for him for half a month.

Judging from his appearance, Wang Tai seems a bit cunning and gives people the impression of being very worldly-wise. However, in actual contact, apart from his occasional sarcastic remarks with colleagues, Wang Tai is a pretty good person.

He was about forty years old and was also a student who failed to pass the examination to become a scholar.

As soon as they entered the accounting room, Liu Xiaolou pulled Zhao An to the side of Wang Tai, who was doing the accounting. "Mr. Wang, Zhao An has been assigned to your office by the manager. What do you think is the best job for him?"

"Oh, this is mine?"

Wang Tai closed the abacus, looked up at Zhao An, smiled and nodded, then asked, "How's your abacus?"

"To answer the question, sir, I'm not very familiar with him."

When it comes to specific business, Zhao Anke doesn't dare to speak out directly and honestly admits that he is a little unfamiliar with using an abacus.

"It doesn't matter if you're not familiar with it, just practice more."

Because there was an account that needed to be checked, Wang Tai asked Liu Xiaolou to go to the treasurer to get an abacus for Zhao An, and then gave Zhao An an old account book that he had checked before, asking him to calculate the income and expenditure in it today.

Of course, the final result of the account was taken away by Wang Tai. This was obviously done to test whether Zhao An was careful.

To be a calculator, you have to be careful.

(End of this chapter)