It is still one day before the end of the year. Even the poorest families have to re-paste the window paper and paste it with a big word "Fu" to pray for good weather and a good year.

On this great time of celebration, Ye Hua and Li Si took Wang Sanli out of the east gate of the capital and walked east along the official road. During the murder, Ye Hua either led the troops outside to fight or was in the city. He had never carefully seen the scenery of the countryside, especially during the Chinese New Year, which was lively, festive and auspicious, and it was even more unique. Ye Hua enjoyed it greedily, very comfortable.

As for Li Si, his eyes were dripping around, and he was even more enthusiastic than Ye Hua. It was pitiful to say that when he was a child, he could only hide at home because of his identity, and no one played with him.

During the Chinese New Year, I could only lie on the wall, watch other people's children chase and play, and laugh unscrupulously. When I returned to the room, my father often cried bitterly and cursed because he was drunk. When he was in a bad mood, Li Si would be implicated and slapped for no reason.

Later, when my father died, Nian became even more boring. Even if he wanted to get slapped, there was no place.

Later, my mother died. He studied hard with Feng Dao, and in a blink of an eye it took ten years... Looking back on his life for more than thirty years, Li Si wanted to cry!

A lonely heart needs a place to be placed.

Because of this, when he heard Zhou Ehuang playing the piano, he couldn't help but want to pick Wenjun with a piece of piano. Ye Hua has also thought it through the past few days that it is time to solve the lifelong affairs for his senior brother. If this introverted guy causes something bad, he will not be able to explain to the dead master.

"Senior brother, a few days ago, Yang Ye went to Beijing to report his work. His wife Zhe went to pay homage to her grandmother. The old lady mentioned it to me that Zhe's sister is good, tall, handsome, and skillful. She is just eighteen years old this year. How about you? Do you want to get married?"

When Li Si heard this, his eyes widened and he said angrily: "I said junior brother, your senior brother is also a scholarly family. You can find me a wild girl, right?"

Ye Hua smiled and said, "Senior Brother, this is your fault. You can't find a wife in the mirror. What's the point of choosing the same one as you. You need to find one that can complement each other... For example, if you marry a girl from the Zhe family and give birth to a child in the future, you teach him literary talent and your mother teaches him martial arts. This child will be both civil and military, what a great thing!"

Li Si has indeed been single for too long, and was fooled by Ye Hua's nonsense. He thought about it seriously and said in a muffled voice: "I want to see it with my own eyes, don't be like a female yaksha!"

"Don't worry, the Zhe family is not ugly yet!"

Ye Hua made Li Si's marriage a few words. Because of this, he was scolded by Li Si for decades. When he started to mention it, Li Si still gritted his teeth!

Grandma, I'm just obsessed with it and married a man and is jealous!

My wife is jealousy. The problem is that this person is still good at kung fu, and one can beat ten!

If Li Si dares to look at any girl, he will be punished to kneel on the washboard. Where they can use servants, they will definitely not use maids. Even if they use maids, they will be like the unsalted girl on the painting.

Since Li Si married his wife, he has never even pulled the hands of other women. A romantic and elegant scholar Li was so frustrated. After a lifetime, he would only feel bitter and tears when he lifted it up. That would be sad!

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Their brothers chatted, and Wang Sanli didn't dare to interrupt. In fact, he really wanted to tell Li Si that if the bachelor of the school was willing, he would have several sisters, all of whom were scholarly, and they were good at piano, chess, calligraphy and painting!

You can do whatever you want, and if you want, it’s okay to marry you!

Wang Sanli was so brave that he didn't dare to open his mouth, so he naturally missed the opportunity to be his uncle to Li Si, and he lost the shortcut to Zhongnan that he had been struggling for ten years.

He had to hold his tail and pretend to be a grandson carefully.

Ye Hua and his group passed through the Champion City and arrived at Dazhou Academy five miles away.

This is the school that Ye Hua spent money to build back then. Although there are not many years, there are many famous teachers here, the strongest mathematics masters in the world, the most wise craftsman, the best astronomer, water conservancy expert, the most famous doctor... Anyone picks out, they are all famous figures.

But Ye Hua did not come to visit these masters during this trip, but to see the division of the school fields.

Because according to the requirements of this reform, the fields that originally belonged to the school were also exempted. In Japan, Guo Wei once distributed more than 10,000 acres of land to the school, and rented the school land to cultivate, so he did not have to pay the tribute to the court, but only provided the cost of the school.

However, according to the latest reforms, all kinds of official and tax-free land must be cancelled. After verification, only 500 acres of land are retained. As the school's vegetable supply base, half of the land tax can be paid. The remaining land must be cleared again and distributed to the people who have no land and little land.

What Ye Hua wants to see is how to divide the fields.

More than 10,000 acres, but it was so big. Many people came before dawn. They all gathered under a willow tree, waiting anxiously.

It was almost noon that the yamen runners from Kaifeng Prefecture and a gentleman from the school came late.

The teacher in the school was named Lan. He was not good-looking and a little hunched, but he was very respected. In the hearts of the people, he had a simple idea. Teachers were trustworthy in teaching and educating people and their conduct.

The yamen runners of Kaifeng Prefecture bowed to the big guy.

"My fellow villagers, tomorrow is New Year's Eve. In order to let everyone have a stable New Year, I invited Mr. Lan to come over and let him clear the land for everyone and share the land with you! Mr. Lan is the accountant in the school. He has a good ability to calculate, but he learned from the champion Hou. It's amazing!"

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Li Si stood outside the crowd and heard the yamen runners' flattery, and couldn't help but stab Ye Hua.

"Junior brother, do you still have such an old student?"

Ye Hua snorted, all those older than this one, the Taifu Chai Shouli was his student! But Mr. Lan really had no impression, let alone his student.

Maybe it’s the school’s accounting office, and I have read the math materials he compiled.

It is not a good habit to pretend to be a master.

Ye Hua felt suspicious of Mr. Lan... Mr. Lan curled his lips, as if he was very disdainful, "Ahem, I was going to prepare a New Year gift for His Royal Highness, but Wang Tou insisted on pulling me over... Is this kind of thing worth my action? In your eyes, such a little field is bigger than the sky, but in my case, it's just a little bit!"

As he said that, Mr. Lan stretched out his little finger and gestured a finger. He said impatiently: "I still have a lot of things to do, so I can't delay it. Let's start dividing the fields now!"

Mr. Lan looked with his hands behind his back, then strode to the ground and began to measure the land.

He had no tools. With his legs alone, he walked forward and counted, walked out for a while, stopped and asked someone to mark the stick, and continued to move forward. When he reached the end, the land had been divided into more than a dozen pieces.

Mr. Lan did not stop, but walked through the path in the fields and continued to walk downwards. This was the way, all by foot.

Not to mention Ye Hua, even Li Si was shocked.

The so-called "clearing the land of a square" must always use a ruler, otherwise how to determine the size of each step and ensure accuracy. Also, even if the steps are the same, it only means the length is the same, but the width of each piece of land is different and the area is definitely different. How can it be used as a division standard!

Mr. Lan’s approach is really too hasty.

Wang Sanli stood aside and whispered: "Our dynasty continues the practices of the past dynasties, taking five feet as one step and two hundred and forty steps as one acre...but the steps vary in size, so the size of each acre is not close to each other. Sometimes the difference is still quite big!" His voice was not high, and obviously there was a huge trick in it!

In Wang Sanli's memorial, Ye Hua saw the saying "uneven lunge" and witnessed it with his own eyes today and finally understood what was going on.

In rural areas, due to the lack of tools and insufficient computing talents, when dividing land and determining land, "steps" are often used as the unit of measurement.

The left and right feet are forward once, set as one step, and the length is five feet.

In fact, this is not only in rural areas, but also in street stalls. For example, if you extend your arms, it is five feet long. Therefore, most people who sell cloth heads on the street are small, with short wingspan and taking advantage of them... If you sell 1 ft. of cloth and get five feet away like a basketball player, you must pay for it!

As for Fangtian written in Jiuzhe Arithmetic, the one that basically only exists in books, or in some economic and cultural areas, as for ordinary rural areas, has continued the traditional methods for thousands of years, and has almost no change.

When measuring lunges, people with prestigious and knowledgeable rural areas are usually asked to take responsibility, just like Mr. Lan. But it’s hard to say who these people will lean towards.

Wang Sanli pondered for a moment and said, "In addition to the different sizes of lunges, there is also the land and land. The tax difference between medium and low fields is much different. If the medium and low fields are turned into low fields and low fields are turned into medium fields, you can get a lot of benefits."

Ye Hua and Li Si were both smart people. They looked at each other and understood them all.

Whether it is measurement or determination, the gentry and clerk have the final say. They make a fuss on lunges and treat the lower-class fields as medium-class fields. These two hands alone can double the burden on the people!

The so-called equalization of fields is simply a joke if there is no scientific method!

Ye Hua's face gradually turned dark... And in the distance, several young farmers surrounded Mr. Lan. It turned out that when they found that when Mr. Lan divided the fields for others, they were very big. When they reached their heads, their steps were pitifully small and hesitant, just like women, their fields were one-third less than others!

Mr. Lan was also strikingly and threatened loudly: "You are blinded by lard. The court gave you land. What else is there to be dissatisfied with? I am a student of the Champion Marquis. If you don't believe me, you just don't believe in the Champion Marquis! If you believe it or not, I will let the Champion Marquis come over and arrest you all!"
Chapter completed!