Chapter 25 Variables and Quantification (Looking for investment!)
The moonlight is quiet, shining through the west window and falling on the elegant room of Zuixian Tower.
At this time, the atmosphere in the room was very solemn.
Old Zhu held a lit cigarette in his hand, Abiao was sipping his elixir of youth, and Old Zhu was frowning in thought. Only Little Zhu was holding a cigar and smoking hard.
Young people are addicted.
"Let me ask you another question."
Ji Boying's voice broke the solemn atmosphere.
"How long on average can an emperor sit on the throne?"
As soon as this question came out, A Biao and Zhu Di were stunned, and they kept their mouths tightly shut. They did not dare to answer this question. After all, there was only one emperor present, and that was Lao Zhu.
Even Zhu Laosi, he has not yet sat on the throne in Jianwen time and space, he is just a regent.
"Hmm...about thirty years."
Lao Zhu thought for a moment and gave his answer.
Obviously, Lao Zhu was very pragmatic about the matter of lifespan. Unlike those emperors in history who were obsessed with immortality, Lao Zhu clearly understood that everyone has a deadline, and the emperor is no exception.<
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"Five years."
Ji Boying spoke calmly.
‘Five years?!’
‘So short?!’
This number really surprised several people.
"Of course, this number is the average statistics of all emperors since the beginning of the emperor's reign."
Ji Boying, who has been sensitive to numbers since childhood, remembers clearly that from the first emperor Yingzheng to the last emperor Puyi, there were 495 emperors with honorary titles. Excluding the 73 people who were posthumously named, there were actually 422 emperors in power, and the emperor
The total time limit for the existence of the position is 2137 years. On average, the time an emperor sits on the throne is only a short 5.063 years.
At that time, this number was the average statistics obtained by integrating all dynasties.
"In the Ming Dynasty, the average emperor's reign was seventeen years."
This number is also easy to calculate. In the 276th year of Zuo of the Ming Dynasty, there were sixteen emperors. The answer can be obtained by averaging.
When he heard the number 17, Lao Zhu still felt a little relieved. After all, compared with the average number of 5, it had more than tripled in the 17 years of his Ming Dynasty.
"Brother, I wonder what these numbers mean?"
Lao Zhu was listening very seriously. He even stopped smoking the cigarette in his hand and was thinking very seriously, but he still didn't understand the relationship between these numbers.
Zhu Biao and Zhu Di also looked at Ji Boying with puzzled faces, waiting for Ji Boying's answer.
"Let me ask you, if an emperor dies, what is one thing that his prince must do after he ascends the throne?"
Ji Boying continued to ask.
Giving a direct answer was not Ji Boying's original intention. Just as he left questions during the day, it is better to teach people how to fish than to teach them how to fish. He wanted to train the thinking ability of the ancestors of the Lao Zhu family and pass it on.<
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"Of course it's an amnesty."
Zhu Biao blurted out almost without thinking.
It is indeed customary for a new emperor to grant amnesty to the world after he ascends the throne.
Lao Zhu has no answer. He has never been a prince in his life. He has been directly an emperor. How can he know what the prince must do after he ascends the throne? Anyway, the first thing Lao Zhu did when he ascended the throne was to establish the capital. p>
As for Zhu Laosi, he thought that even if he ascended the throne, he would not ascend the throne from the position of prince. To put it nicely, it is Jingnan, and to put it bluntly, it is rebellion. It does not conform to conventional operations and is not of reference.<
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As for Xiao Zhusi, he has never thought about being an emperor now, and of course, he doesn't dare to think about it.
"When a prince ascends the throne, he must enthrone his brothers as princes."
When Ji Boying uttered a sentence, several people were stunned for a moment, and their CPUs were spinning rapidly. Everyone was a smart person. Combining this sentence with what Ji Boying had said before, sparks of wisdom suddenly collided.
"What the Immortal Master means is that it takes more than a hundred years for a prince's descendants to be passed down to an idle clan, and every 17 years there will be several or even a dozen more princes. If this fission continues, the court's finances will still not be able to afford it."<
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Zhu Biao was the first to speak, and he understood.
At this moment, he felt that the sky was high and the clouds were vast, and the world suddenly became brighter.
"Good answer."
Ji Boying glanced at Zhu Biao, and then glanced at Lao Zhu and Zhu Laosi. He also saw a gradual understanding in their eyes, so he didn't explain too much.
After all, there are too many unpredictable factors when it comes to the specific problem of population fission. Although it can be roughly calculated using mathematical multivariate equations, this process is really too troublesome.
As for Xiao Zhusi, let this young man realize it slowly.
"With the change in the number of people as a variable and the total cost as the result, this process is difficult to control because it is impossible to control the fertility of each generation of clan and the overall fission speed of the number of people. These factors will affect the increase of the entire base."
"Therefore, we need to change our thinking and change the perspective of thinking about the problem from "number of people fission" to "sample cost"."
"Do not use the change in the number of people as a variable to calculate the total cost, but use the sample cost as a quantification to calculate the total cost."
"Variables have uncertainty, and quantification can limit the range."
"Listen carefully, what I will say next are the key points, I will only say it once."
Ji Boying knocked on the table with his knuckles. Lao Zhu and others were all concentrating and did not dare to fall asleep at all. They all had a premonition that this was a profound knowledge.
"Cheer up, everyone. If anyone dares not to listen carefully, we will hang him up and whip him."
Lao Zhu reminded him sternly, and his sons were all frightened.
"First, the prince's annual salary will be reduced to 10,000 dan, and hereditary succession will be abolished. In the future, if a descendant of the clan succeeds to the nobility, his salary will be divided by the superior nobility."
After Ji Boying finished speaking, he paused for a moment.
He knew that someone wanted to ask questions.
"Master Immortal, can you please explain in detail how this salary is divided by the superior rank?"
Zhu Laosi frowned. He was very excited because this trip was not in vain. He felt that several big problems that were bothering him were almost solved.
Immortals are worthy of being immortals. Immortals can only say a few words to stop the disturbances caused by mortals.
"Yes, we want to know too."
Lao Zhu also nodded and puffed hard on his cigarette. He felt that he had understood, but he didn't seem to fully understand.
"Let me give you an example."
As Ji Boying spoke, he magically got a handful of fried chestnuts in his hand, which he peeled and ate.
"The prince's annual salary is 10,000 dan. If he has two sons, the two sons and the crown prince will have an annual salary of 5,000 dan. Each of the two sons has two grandsons. These four grandsons and the crown prince
The generals who later attacked and sealed the country received a salary of 2,500 dan."
"The descendants of the future, and so on."
"The distribution of the next generation's salary can be based on the age of the descendants. This can be discussed in practice, but the allocation amount will not change."
"Normally speaking, by the time the fourth generation of descendants reaches their official salary, the first generation must have died."
"So based on three generations, no matter which generation of descendants it is passed down to, the imperial court only needs to pay a maximum of 30,000 shi per year for the children of the same prince."