When the group of people carried the young prince back to the palace, Tang Shijin let out a sigh of relief and felt his whole body relaxed.
Qi Yaoling and Zeng Sigu were both from the same family. They exchanged names with each other and sat down to eat together.
Wang Shenxing heard that Zeng Sigu said that his handwriting was "unique", so he asked him: "I remember you had a word before? Did the master change it for you?"
Tang Shijin smiled and said, "I changed it."
The clothes of the police guards were all black. Although Zeng Sigu was in the police factory, he was still a civil servant. His official robe was red, a little red among all the black. So when Tang Shi Jin saw him for the first time, he named him
It's called "Duxiu", which means a branch of unique beauty, and changed the word given by his disgusting father.
The title given to him by his elders and superiors is Zhengchi, so he is now known as the only one to the outside world.
Although he is not good at writing scripts, he is the kind of person with a very calm mind. He is very good at doing some detailed copywriting and organizing work, similar to the compilation of historical records before. Now he works in the Jishi Factory
, has gradually established a firm foothold.
Tang Shijin remembered and said to them: "I asked Lu'er to make something a few days ago, have you seen it?"
Qi Yaoling asked: "Is that a rotating cylinder? Xiaosi gave me one, but I can't understand it."
"Yes," Tang Shijin asked, "Have you seen Xiao Xiu'er?"
Zeng Duxiu shook his head, and Tang Shijin simply sent someone to get some.
As a result, people sent it over, but it was Xu Tianlu who brought it over himself. Tang Shijin knew at the first glance that something was wrong, but he didn't ask him, so he took the things over and showed them to them.
In fact, it is an Arabic numeral operating wheel, also called a digital Rubik's Cube. It has numbers and symbols for addition, subtraction, multiplication and division, and can be calculated by twisting it.
In order to facilitate understanding, Tang Shijin changed its name to Numerical Abacus.
We made two types in total, one is fancy and quite big, it is a children's toy with cute Q-version characters. This kind of preparation is directly put into the "Puzzle Craftsmanship Workshop" in Masandao for sale.
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The other one is made of good wood. It is relatively small, looks delicate and solemn, and is held in the hand like a handle. It also has a tassel hanging down, which is considered an adult version. Next to each number
They all have corresponding Chinese numbers, and all come with instructions with multiplication tables printed on them, which are also bilingual with both words and numbers.
Tang Shijin's idea is to use a subtle method to make everyone get used to this kind of thing just like getting used to the self-ringing bell.
After all, using Arabic numerals to calculate is indeed much faster, and it is more convenient to sort out accounts.
Tang Shijin explained it to them in detail and demonstrated it again. Wang Shenxing and others felt like they were listening to heavenly scriptures, but Zeng Duxiu understood it clearly and slowly turned it around in his hand.
So Tang Shijin made an annotation: "Your Majesty has learned the lesson! If I find an excuse some other time, I will give one to all of you!" She raised the abacus in her hand.
As soon as he heard that the emperor had learned it, Wang Shenxing immediately cheered up and immediately took two, then the instructions, and solemnly put them into his sleeves.
Tang Shijin told the others: "I plan to use this method to keep accounts in the Finance Pavilion from now on! If you don't learn, you will fall behind!"
Immediately, everyone else also became interested and each collected a portion.
Just from this reaction, you can see everyone's temperament.
After dinner, Wang Shenxing and others went back first, and then Tang Shijin and others sat there for a while.
Tang Shijin asked Xu Tianlu: "What do you want from me?"
"Yes," Xu Tianlu came over and gave him a letter: "Master, this is your eternal letter. I just received it yesterday. Take a look."
Tang Shijin took it and looked at it.
Xie Buyu said in the letter that there was a businessman named Chen Shiyuan, whose great-grandfather and father had been to Luzon. The two met and had a very happy conversation. Chen Shiyuan wanted to go to Luzon again. Xie Buyu also had the same intention and asked what he wanted.
To be explained.
Moreover, the letter also mentioned that Chen Shiyuan’s great-grandfather was named Chen Zhenlong, and it was he who brought sweet potatoes to Daqing.
As soon as Tang Shijin heard about Chen Zhenlong, he immediately remembered it.
There is another legend about Chen Zhenlong. It is said that he went to Luzon to do business and discovered that the local sweet potatoes had "six benefits and eight benefits, and the same benefits as five grains." So he ignored the ban of the local authorities and took the risk of twisting the potato vines into the absorbent rope.
Inside, he was secretly brought back to Minzhou for planting, so later generations called him the father of sweet potatoes. Later generations have been promoting this, and now it is actually more popular in Daqing.
Tang Shijin asked: "Have you mentioned this to him?"
Xu Tianlu shook his head: "I didn't mention it. I just told Buyi that the junior uncle was going to be the governor of Fujian and Guangdong. Buyi went there with Yuanxiao. Maybe he heard what the junior uncle said, or maybe
He guessed it himself."
Tang Shijin said: "You go back and tell Zhengzheng and ask him to send a message to check this person out, but I guess it should be fine... Get all the information about Luzon from his family, and then I'll do it here.
Think about how to do it."
Xu Tianlu agreed, and then they separated.
Tang Shijin returned to the palace and saw that his son had not woken up from his nap, so he took a new play book written by Yuan Langxian and read it on the couch. Unexpectedly, he tilted his head and fell asleep accidentally.
When she woke up, it was already dark. It was probably because Yan Baiwei brought her in. It was too warm and she fell asleep a little deeply.
Tang Shijin walked out in a daze. Yan Baiwei turned around and said with a smile: "Are you awake? Are you hungry? Now let's pass on the food?"
Tang Shijin sat down and drank half a cup of tea, feeling completely wilted.
Yan Baiwei stopped asking and continued to play with the child, waiting for her to wake up.
Tang Shijin hadn't forgotten to tell him about Chen Shiyuan.
Today, there are actually maritime merchants in Daqing, but because the technology of sea-going ships is not up to par, maritime trade has always been a narrow escape and has not developed.
So there is a simple way, which is to directly raise the prices of imported goods. Then businessmen will naturally take the risk to do business in this area, and then let nature take its course... and you can get a lot of news from everywhere.
But firstly, it requires countless people’s lives to fill it. Secondly, this is not very efficient, the information obtained is fragmented, and subsequent control is not easy.
After the two discussed it, they decided to play it safe, so they sent Wei Shilei over.
After Wei Shilei passed away, he sent one or two secret letters every month. Although he was young, he had the support of several big men behind him. Coastal officials would only mess with him unless they were out of their mind... But they would not take him too seriously.
That's him.
So after he went there, he slowly explored the people's conditions, found out how many Western missionaries and businessmen there were, and what they had done. At the same time, he looked for shipbuilders and built strong ships at all costs.
Several versions have been produced and put out for testing.
However, this is also in the name of training the Daqing Navy.
You must know that seclusion has always been the safest national policy in the minds of these scholar-bureaucrats.
If you want to expel these missionaries and businessmen, that's fine. Everyone supports it. But if you want to expand trade, then... countless people, including Tao Xiang, will definitely be opposed to it.
If there are really countless people who oppose it, Emperor Yan Baiwei cannot stand up to it.