Chapter 47 Abacus (2)
Zhang Yue stood up and pushed open the door. In the yard, the young people from Tian Li family were sweating profusely under the shade of the trees, preparing to make the bamboos into bamboo slips.
Now, the best-selling product in Jiating is the bamboo slips.
A scholar has to copy two or three volumes of book scripts every day, and needs dozens of kilograms of bamboo slips.
Although they are all poor people, in fact, most of them are children of well-off families and even wealthy merchants.
At this time, the Han Dynasty also had a very interesting system.
Want to be an official? Or want to get a recommendation?
First of all, your production meets the standards.
It has a lot of voting property quotas in the eighteenth and nineteenth centuries of later generations.
Not to mention being recommended by paupers.
Even a clerk cannot be a clerk!
The Han Dynasty's official selection limit was as high as ten in the time of Emperor Taizong.
In other words, at that time, even clerks could not be regarded as clerks with a family property of less than 100,000 yuan!
It was changed to the Five Abacus only during the reign of the late emperor, and it has continued to this day.
In other words, the so-called poor people are actually not poor at all.
Everyone's property is worth at least 50,000 yuan.
It belongs to a middle-class family and a well-off household.
For these people, although they may be asked to take hundreds of thousands of dollars to buy and donate officials, they cannot take it out.
But there are still three to five thousand coins.
Therefore, the bamboo slips in Jiating are sold out.
Every day, these scholars need thousands of pounds of bamboo slips to copy.
Relying on the seven young people from the Tian Li family, they were too busy.
It would be amazing that they could make up at most one thousand kilograms of bamboo slips a day!
So, other people followed.
Ten kilograms of bamboo slips are priced at a price with clear marks, so you can never deceive the old man.
The scholars are happy to be free and can concentrate on copying the book, communicating with friends, and sharing their experiences.
The people make some pocket money and subsidize their household income.
The Tian brothers and Li Kunzhong made a lot of money.
Every day, one thousand pounds of bamboo slips are sold for 100 five-zhu coins!
It’s still the Wuzhu cast by Shaofu, which is full of weight and has no doping!
One such Wuzhu coins can reach three pod coins that can be privately minted in the local area!
Even at the current price of grain, you can buy a stone of corn!
Thirty stones of corn are recorded in one month!
They used to farm for the Zhang family to work hard. After a year, after paying rent and taxes and deducting rations, they could not have left so much corn.
Of course, Zhang Yue would not compete with them for such a small amount of money.
Just take one for every hundred dollars symbolically, as a filial piety to your master, and all the rest will be freely distributed to them.
This made the seven people very happy.
Every night when I sleep, I always sleep with Wuzhu coins.
When working, I was very active and worked very hard.
Seeing Zhang Yue go out, the seven people immediately put down their work and stood up to say hello: "Lord..."
"Where is sister-in-law?" Zhang Yue looked around and asked.
"Report to the lord, the lord is now observing the raising of silkworms at the Zhao Zhuang family in the village..." Tian He replied immediately.
"Oh..." Zhang Yue nodded. In the original owner's memory, his sister-in-law wanted to learn silkworm breeding and silk drawing techniques for a long time.
Unfortunately, there has never been a chance.
Now, it's her that she got what she wants.
Zhang Yue naturally had 100 support for his sister-in-law's idea of raising silkworms and drawing silk.
"Whose carpentry work is the best among the Jia Pavilion?" Zhang Yue asked.
"Lord, my father is a carpenter..." Li Miao raised his hand and said, "More than ten years ago, my father had gone to Chang'an City to build Mingguang Palace!"
"We brothers also followed our father and learned carpentry. If the lord wants to do something, just tell us..." Li Miao said proudly.
People in Guanzhong have been proud of having a technology since ancient times.
This is a fine tradition that has been passed down since the beginning of Shangjun.
During the Warring States Period, the machinery, metallurgy and foundry industries of Qin were the most advantageous projects of the nation.
Until now, this tradition has not been abandoned!
The working people in Guanzhong once created a miracle speed at the beginning of the Han Dynasty to build the outer wall of Chang'an City in 100 days!
Yang Chengyan, the master of Shaofu who was responsible for building the city, was therefore named Wuhou and was listed as a marquis.
As for now...
As long as you go to Chang'an City to see the magnificent, luxurious and luxurious palaces.
Look at Jianzhang Palace, Mingguang Palace, Shanglin Garden.
You can know the ability of Han craftsmen.
Zhang Yue was happy when he heard this. He actually had a carpenter under his command, and he was a carpenter who had participated in the Mingguang Palace project?
Very good!
The palace construction project of the Han palace is itself a training camp for training and cultivating craftsmen's skills.
The original owner's memory tells him that more than 60 years ago, when Zhang Cang, the Wenhou of Peking, served as the prime minister of the Han Dynasty, under his presidency, the Han Dynasty completed the technical hierarchy system and unification of weights and measures for carpenters, blacksmiths and bricklayers.
After Zhang Cang's death, the final conclusion was that he had the reputation of "if all craftsmen are used as old products in the world."
The meaning of this sentence is to formulate measurement standards for all craftsmen and regulate craftsmen in the world.
Therefore, basically, the craftsman who comes back from the palace must be qualified craftsmen.
The best of these people may be uneducated or illiterate.
But it can create jaw-dropping works of art.
Of course, such a master craftsman is basically impossible to appear in Nanling County and be a tenant for the Zhang family.
However, Li San's craftsmanship should be nothing wrong.
So, Zhang Yue said: "You can help me make an object..."
He picked up a branch, drew it on the ground, and drew a rough look according to the abacus in his memory.
Then he explained: "It's probably like this, but the beads should be round and smooth... Can they be made?"
"Yes!" Li Miao leaned forward and patted his chest and said, "It's enough to send the bus to us brothers, and you can almost do it at night..."
For him, the square object drawn on the ground was not difficult to make. It could even be said to be a simple task.
It may take some effort to polish the beads.
"Good!" Zhang Yue was overjoyed when he heard this. As long as this abacus was made, it would be a killing weapon!
"Then there will be Lao Xian Kunzhong..." Zhang Yue bowed with a smile: "If you can, do more, I will use it..."
"No!" The four brothers Li Miao immediately bowed: "I will never let down the lord's trust!"
Then, the four brothers ran home happily and went to find their father to ask for carpenter tools.
Then, I found some shabby wood in the village, took saws and rulers and other utensils, and started to work hard.
When it was dusk, four simple abacuses about one foot long and five or six inches wide were placed in front of Zhang Yue.
"Lord... Is it possible?" Li Miao said as if he had treasure: "If this doesn't work, we will change it..."
Zhang Yue picked up an abacus, weighed it in his hand, then reached out and pulled the abacus beads. It felt a bit rough and the tentacles were not very friendly.
But at least it can be used!
It’s fine if you can use it. There is no need to pursue any exquisiteness in the current conditions.
"It's OK!" Zhang Yue said with a smile: "Thank you hard for Xian Kunzhong..."
With the abacus, it is time to go back to the abacus formula.
Unfortunately, Jin Yumu and others' CDs have not improved yet.
The first Jinyu wood plant has just grown to one foot tall. From time to time, it will take almost a month for the cooling CD of Jinyu wood to improve.
Chapter completed!