At the end of March, Humou Township was peaceful. There was no water flooding the walls of Daliang, nor was there the continuous war in Taoqiu. Instead, there was a sense of tranquility like a paradise in troubled times.
Spring plowing has ended, and the people who were lucky enough to escape the catastrophe of the war squatted in the fields, looking at the green wild rice with a satisfied smile. The floods under Daliang City, the fierce battle between Wei soldiers and Qin Ruishi, and the survival of Wei's country
, has little to do with the common people at the bottom. If it weren't for the Qin people outside the city who dressed up and had such special accents, they wouldn't even know that their hometown had changed its banner.
The day after Zhang hosted a banquet for Hei Fu, several ox carts set off from Zhang's house in Humo Township and drove slowly to the Qin army's garrison camp. The person escorting these carts was Zhang Fu's son, the 40-year-old Zhang
Zhong.
After shouting to the door to explain his purpose, the camp gate slowly opened, and a group of soldiers lined up. Seeing their steps, armor, and swords, Zhang Zhong remembered the fierce and domineering sword dance yesterday, and couldn't help but feel a little numb.
Fortunately, Hei Fu didn't keep him waiting for long, and he and Zhong Ming soon walked out, raised his hands to Zhang Zhong and said with a smile: "I don't know why I bothered Zhang Zhong to come here."
He glanced at the bullock carts behind Zhang Zhong and asked: "This is..."
Although Zhang Zhong was twice as old as Hei Fu, he had to bow to the Qin official:
"Youyou was ordered to settle in my hometown to maintain the stability of the place and prevent rebels and thieves from entering. However, I heard that there were only more than ten kilograms of rice and grain left in the camp. The stingy man and the three elders were afraid that there would not be enough food for the soldiers, so they ordered me to take some 150 yuan from my home.
Ten stones of corn and thirty stones of cud are here to be given to the tourists for use during the garrison..."
"If you have enough food, you will have enough soldiers. In this way, I can solve my urgent need. I will thank the stingy husband and the three elders in person another day."
Now that Zhang Bo finally learned to be arrogant in front and respectful in back under Zhang Fu's advice, Hei Fu also stretched out his hand to avoid hitting the smiling man, helped Zhang Zhong up and treated him politely.
Hei Fu did not lie, Zhang did solve a big problem for him. Food, clothing and chewing for these fifty people cost at least seventy or eighty dan a month, and the food in the camp was about to run out.
Because of the war, the price of grain in Wei has skyrocketed. In the war zone, it has reached a thousand yuan per meter. Even in Yangwu County, where there is no war, because the summer harvest has not yet arrived, even old rice has reached a high price of several hundred yuan per meter.
.And the currencies of Wei and Qin were different. It was impossible for the officers to fill this big hole by buying it themselves. They could only rely on local wealthy people to provide it.
So Heifu is sincerely grateful.
However, after he asked Li Xian to lead the soldiers to move down the grain and fodder given by Zhang and transport it to the warehouse, Li Xian came over and quietly told Heifu: "Youyou, I did a rough calculation and found that these grain and fodder are not Zhang at all."
The amount Zhong said!”
Hei Fu frowned at first, but then he thought that Zhang Zhong was too big-headed to play tricks in this regard. Seeing that Zhang Zhong was well-spoken and had an honest face, he was not the kind of person who plundered his family's wool.
He understood the reason after thinking about it for a moment.
"I almost forgot, the stones from Wei State are different from the stones from Qin State!"
Today's world is still not unified, and weights and measures are still used in their own way. In terms of volume units, Qin's units are stone, dou, and sheng, while Wei's units are dendrobium, dou, and sheng. Dendrobium and stone can be used interchangeably, but
The specific sizes are different, so deviations are normal.
In terms of weight units, the Qin and Wei Dynasties both used Liang, Yi, and Yi, and there were also differences in the specific weight.
This is still a small gap. After all, Shang Yang’s implementation of a new system of weights and measures in Qin was based on the more advanced Wei at that time. However, Qi, located in the East China Sea, had its own system of weights and measures, which was very different from other countries.
It uses beans, districts, cauldrons, and clocks, and it is a mix of quaternary and decimal systems. I really don’t know how those merchants doing cross-border trade can complete such complicated conversions.
In short, one stone of rice in Wei is slightly less than one stone of rice in Qin.
Hei Fu didn't care about it and had to let Zhang make up the rice according to Qin's weights and measures. Anyway, looking at the quantity, it was enough for them to eat and drink for at least two months.
What's more, because of the Zhang brother who was mentioned at yesterday's banquet, Hei Fu suddenly felt much more pleasing to his eyes when he looked at the Zhang brothers.
…
"Zhang Cang..."
Sitting in the camp, muttering this name, Hei Fu still couldn't believe that Zhang Cang, a great mathematician who lived for more than a hundred years and spanned the Warring States, Qin, and Han Dynasties, could have someone as unreliable as Zhang Bo.
uncle.
However, according to the description of the Zhang brothers, whether they were apprenticed to Xunzi or worked as an official in Xianyang Yushifu of Qin State, they are completely consistent with Zhang Cang's resume, and it should be undoubtedly him.
As a disciple of the great Confucian Xunzi, Zhang Cang's reputation may not be as great as that of his two senior brothers, Li Si and Han Fei. But from the perspective of a modern person, Zhang Cang's contribution to Chinese history and culture exceeds those of the two.
!
As the Zhang brothers said, Zhang Cang loves books as much as his life, sees everything, and knows everything. He is a genius who knows everything about the past and the present. Otherwise, he would not have been conquered by the Yushi Palace as soon as he entered the Qin Dynasty and became the leader of the Qin Dynasty.
librarian……
Of course, he might have followed Li Si's path. Although Tingwei Li Si tricked Han Fei to death out of jealousy, he did not show too much hostility towards Zhang Cang, his younger junior brother whose attributes did not overlap with his.
With someone above him and talent in his heart, Zhang Cang could read books at ease in the Yushi Mansion and continue to enrich his knowledge.
Heifu knew that according to the original history, the hundreds of schools of thought in the Warring States Period would experience a catastrophe more than ten years later. The Qin Dynasty burned poetry and books, which affected the history books of the Six Kingdoms, along with the hundreds of folk sayings, leaving only
An orphan copy is stored in the library of Yushi Mansion. And Zhang Cang may be the manager of these only remaining orphan copies...
A few years later, the Qin Dynasty also fell. Seeing that the books were about to be destroyed, Zhang Cang, who had already taken refuge with Liu Bang, and Xiao He, hurriedly saved some of the laws and regulations, but not too many.
Later, Xiang Yu set off a retaliatory fire in Xianyang, destroying all the remaining voluminous historical classics and academic books hidden in the Qin Palace, leaving not a single word behind.
There was a big break in Chinese culture.
By this time, Zhang Cang's years of accumulation in the Yushi Mansion had shown great value.
The so-called Han Dynasty inherited the Qin system. Some of those laws and regulations were passed down by rote memory by this bookworm, especially the theory of a hundred schools of thought. How much of Chinese culture and the results of the contention of a hundred schools of thought could be preserved after experiencing the catastrophe of the late Qin Dynasty?
Some, Zhang Cang deserves great credit.
Moreover, Zhang Cang not only read a lot, but was also a generalist. Not only did he learn Confucianism from Xunzi, the world's number one academic leader and the culmination of hundreds of schools of thought, he also learned about the nine schools of thought in Jixia, and he also had knowledge of law, music, and calendars.
, astronomy, geography, are very good at it.
But among Zhang Cang's many specialties, the most famous is mathematics.
The famous "Nine Chapters on Arithmetic" was revised by Zhang Cang!
Heifu knew this person because the mathematical problems recorded in this ancient mathematical treatise reached a high level, but were not divorced from reality. They were all used by Zhang Cang to improve the national economy and people's livelihood of the Han family...
It can be said that judging Zhang Cang's achievements from Heifu's modern perspective, he can be called a mathematician or even a scientist.
Craftsmen like Hei Fu's sister-in-law, Hei Fu, can make instruments according to Hei Fu's description and master the techniques, but they cannot summarize the principles and turn them into scientific knowledge.
In this world, Heifu can find countless craftsmen to make utensils on his behalf.
But in this era, there is only one Zhang Cang.
Therefore, in Heifu's imagination, if he wanted to choose an ancient person to slowly teach him the modern subjects at the middle and high school level in his mind, spread them and benefit the world, Zhang Cang would be the best choice. !
So, when the Zhang brothers moved out of Zhang Cang at the banquet that day and tried to scare him, Hei Fu was not worried but happy instead!
Not only did he appear very excited, he also turned his back on the guest and taught Zhang Bo a lesson with sincerity.
Hei Fu said that Zhang Cang has a bright future. As his uncle, Zhang Bo should allow him to work in Xianyang with peace of mind. Therefore, the Zhang family should also keep to themselves, obey the laws and orders, cooperate well with Qin officials, and not cause trouble for Zhang Cang...
Hei Fu can't have direct contact with Zhang Cang yet, but at least he has touched his hometown and knows where he is an official. In this way, if he has the opportunity to go to Xianyang in the future, it will be easy to find him, and he can also lie about being related to Zhang Cang. Friendship will not appear abrupt...
Now it was Zhang Bo's turn, and Zhang Fu was dumbfounded. Although Zhang Cang had no real power, he was an official in Xianyang after all, but this black man was not afraid at all. Instead, he sounded like he was thinking about Zhang Cang, and taught him a lesson. Come on, this is really unreasonable!
As a result, the Zhang brothers' trump card was gone, and instead they felt that Heifu, a lowly official, was a bit unfathomable.
Afterwards, Zhang Fu said to Zhang Bo with great confusion: "That Heifu is obviously a Qin man with no surname. Why is he so bold? Moreover, his words and deeds, and the various methods he used today, are said to be that of a man who commands thousands of people. Commander, I believe it! This person will be an extraordinary person from now on."
Zhang Fu knows the art of fortune-telling and has always been able to recognize people, so Zhang Bo also believed in him. In short, after that banquet game and temptation, Zhang no longer dared to underestimate Hei Fu. Qin people.
Heifu made it clear to them that Wei was bound to fall, and also demonstrated the force of his men. Although there were only fifty men, they could defeat several times the number of young servants and light knights. He seemed to regard himself as the local spokesperson of the Qin army, and any attack on him would An arrogant attitude can be regarded as disobedience to rule. Any murderous rebellion against him will lead to brutal suppression by the Qin army.
Therefore, even though Mrs. Zhang didn't like Hei Fu's presence, she could only accept it with her nose pinched.
For Heifu, although he returned with a great victory in this game, Zhang invited all the virtuous elders in the village to show him his connections and status as the leader of the village. At least before the end of the war, if the Qin army If you want Yangwu and Humou Township to be stable, you cannot do without the Zhang family.
Therefore, Heifu could not do anything to the Zhang family. Without the cooperation of the Zhang family, Qin's rule in this village would probably collapse immediately. The more than fifty Qin soldiers could not leave the camp even for half a month.
Besides, for Zhang Cang's sake, as long as Mr. Zhang is honest, he won't embarrass them.
We are all mature people and will not compete for a moment, so we ended the game and returned to the table, put away our clenched fists, and smiled at each other.
The best way for Mr. Zhang to show his kindness to Mr. Hei was to provide him with food for emergencies.
From that day on, Hei Fu and Zhang had more contacts.
According to the system of the Qin State, the black husband is responsible for hearing lawsuits and collecting taxes; he is responsible for wandering and following the prohibitions on thieves; and the three elders are in charge of education. Everyone performs their duties, and the black husband will not interfere with the local etiquette and customs life, let alone supervise the household registration and taxation.
All he needed was Zhang Bo and Zhang Fu to send him food and help him maintain local order. Everyone cooperated to a limited extent and reached a tacit understanding.
To describe the relationship between the two parties in one sentence, it is: the local local tyrants and evil gentry began to collude with the foreign imperialist invaders to jointly exploit the common people and suppress the passionate patriots.
Time passed slowly like this, and in April, everything was originally peaceful, but Heifu never expected that he would be involved in a famous case in history because of a gossip in the market...