Teacher Ke, Can You Use Public Office for Private Gain?

"Hiss~"

Hearing that Uncle Ollie's annual salary was over forty thousand, Li Zhongfa could not help but bare his teeth.

By now, of course, he knew that Li Ye was "pricing in dollars." Those forty-odd thousand were U.S. dollars, not RMB.

"Just now, your Uncle Wen and I looked down from the sky. The grapes and crops in your estate do not even take up half the land. Can this estate of yours make money?"

"I don't know."

Li Ye answered bluntly, "I'll have to ask the accountant before I know that."

Li Zhongfa asked in surprise, "How much does your estate produce in a year, how much does it cost? It's just addition and subtraction, and you still need to ask an accountant?"

Li Ye sighed. "Grandpa, you don't understand. In the Beacon, anyone with even a little income cannot do without an accountant,

because if you are not a professional, you simply cannot figure out how much tax you need to pay, how much tax you can get refunded, or even how much you might be fined.

And accountants, lawyers, and insurance and financial planners are all practitioners in the high-profit industries I mentioned before."

"Here in the Beacon, let's not even mention lawyers. The profession most closely tied to ordinary people is accountants."

"Unless you are homeless or low-income, and the tax department knows there is no oil to squeeze from you and leaves you alone, everyone else—"

Li Ye smiled. "Grandpa, there's a saying in the Beacon: private residences are inviolable. The wind may enter, the rain may enter, the king may not enter—but the taxman can."

"..."

Li Zhongfa froze for a moment, then pointed at the estate's boundary fence. "You mean even the king cannot enter your estate, but the taxman can?"

Li Ye