Prodigal Son of the Ming Dynasty

  Chapter 82 Genius

  Seeing Fang Jifan punctured himself, Zhu Houzhao blushed slightly: "Why is someone else's father so good?"

  Fang Jifan was surprised: "I don't know who the father your Highness is talking about?"

"Your father!" Zhu Houzhao glared at him again, then shook his head: "Father is getting more and more violent, obviously he is so kind to all officials, but he is becoming more and more severe to me, I can't live my life Already."

   Another sigh.

  Fang Jifan hurriedly said: "Your Highness has another scar on his body. It's amazing. This is the mark of a real man with iron blood."

  Zhu Houzhao squinted his eyes, as if he was still not happy.

   It seems that this set has been immune.

  Fang Jifan sighed and mourned for him: "Your Highness, being beaten is a common thing in military affairs. It can strengthen the muscles and bones, and strengthen the body."

   "..."

  Fang Jifan suddenly laughed dryly, er... a little embarrassed... then he lowered his head and looked at Zhu Houzhao's copybook, which was full of stacks of manuscripts. Fang Jifan became suspicious. He didn't see that His Royal Highness would work so hard: "What is Your Highness doing?"

"It counts!" Zhu Houzhao immediately bared his teeth: "Do you know why you were beaten yesterday? It's because of counting. Isn't this the end of the year? At the end of the year, the treasury has to convert money and food, and the Ministry of Households needs to check the accounts. My palace yesterday Accompanying the driver in the Nuan Pavilion, listening to Father Huang and Master Liu talking about this matter, Bengong thought to himself, this is a good feeling, and Bengong is also interested in arithmetic, so he told Father Emperor to let the ministers do the math When Father heard this, he became displeased, and said that Ben Gong didn’t study the Four Books well, so why do you want to learn classics and arithmetic?”

  Fang Jifan couldn't help frowning, that's not right, although the status of arithmetic in the Ming Dynasty is not high, it is better than ignorant, and it is still not to the point of being beaten.

When Zhu Houzhao said this, he couldn't help but patted his face lightly, and said with a gloomy expression: "I'm confused..." I broke my head in grief: "I actually made a slip of the tongue, and I replied to my father that this march is a war. Otherwise, how to calculate the number of thieves from the marching pots and stoves; , Arranging troops...is also a method of counting...the result..."

   This is low IQ. Fang Jifan looked at Zhu Houzhao seriously, thinking in his heart, could it be that His Highness the Crown Prince also suffered from mental retardation?

  Hmm...It's possible!

  In addition to the great martial arts of Emperor Taizu Gao and Emperor Wen of this Ming Dynasty, especially after the Tumu Fortress Change, it has become a taboo for the emperor to go out to fight. And the emperor did not think about the art of the emperor, did not study the Four Books and Five Classics, and learned the principles of the sages, but was full of thoughts about fighting and killing, which was even more irresponsible.

  The current atmosphere is like this, and it cannot be changed.

  Zhu Houzhao gritted his teeth: "I must figure it out, even if I get beaten up."

  At the end of the year, even if it is time for the accounting, there are special personnel in the household department to conduct the accounting. Fang Jifan curiously took a copy of the book, and browsed through it at a glance.

  It is roughly: 'In March of the eleventh year of Hongzhi, 110,000 catties of silk, 330,000 pieces of cloth, 93,423 taels of Guanyin, and 540,000 shi of grain were put into the warehouse..."

  Fang Jifan's scalp tingles when he saw the dense data.

The so-called taxes of the Ming Dynasty were mainly in kind, so those who study history took a look at the yearly silver that the Ming Dynasty put into the treasury every year, and it was probably only a few million taels. Compared with other dynasties, it can be said to be low. Fingers crossed. But in fact, the tax money is only a small part of the small head, and the real large-scale storage is silk, tea, grain, even porcelain, and countless other materials. These various materials are the most important items of Ming Dynasty source of wealth.

  It’s just the calculation method of cashier and account entry in this era, which is really primitive and excessive. The personnel of the household department verification are just adding, subtracting and subtracting on the accounts.

  Think about it, a Jiangsu government has such a huge amount of calculations, how about putting it in two capitals and thirteen provinces? This is not the most frightening thing. What is frightening is that there will be losses during the transportation of materials. Since there are accounts, there will naturally be cashiers in the process. Therefore...the accounts of the Ministry of Accounts at the end of the year are extremely large. , and this addition and subtraction algorithm may not be accurate, and it needs to be calculated again and again, and because the amount of calculation is astonishing, it is necessary to have special personnel to carry out the calculation separately, and finally, to summarize.

  Fang Jifan squinted his eyes, looking at the stacks of notebooks on the desk, and couldn't help feeling his scalp tingling.

   Zhu Houzhao's eyes were bloodshot, presumably, he had already stayed up all night just to bet on this.

  Zhu Houzhao actually has a stubborn side, which can be seen from the history that he insisted on sneaking to Datong every now and then, screaming to beat the Tatars.

But...Fang Jifan himself felt his scalp tingle when he saw the densely packed account books. Even the household department had to do the accounting. There were not more than a dozen people. It took many days to check and calculate repeatedly. I am afraid that it might not be able to come up with accurate figures , Your Royal Highness is alone, how can you figure it out.

   Useless work.

  Speaking, Zhu Houzhao buried his eyes on the copybook again, and he couldn't help complaining in a low voice: "Where did I end up just now? It's all your fault, Lao Fang, you have lost my heart."

"Let me figure it out!" Fang Jifan couldn't help complaining about this cheating child, but somehow, he still felt sorry for him. Although the age difference between the two was almost the same, Fang Jifan was a man of two generations, but his mental age was enough to be Zhu Houzhao's eldest brother Seeing Zhu Houzhao like this, Fang Jifan calmed down and said, "Get the account books and show me each one."

  Zhu Houzhao looked at Fang Jifan in surprise: "You can count?"

   "I'm a fortune teller!" Fang Jifan sat down and took out an account book first.

In terms of the level of arithmetic, although Fang Jifan is a liberal arts student, after all, he still has enough advantages over people of this era. To put it bluntly, just throwing in a calculus, Pythagorean theorem, or calculus is enough to make him The ancients improved their arithmetic level for hundreds of years.

  Of course...Fang Jifan doesn't plan to use calculations, because even if he uses his housekeeping skills to check the calculations, it will take him at least a day or two to sort out these account books, so...how to get the real answer?

  It's actually very simple... The annual income and expenses of Hongzhi's eleven years were already in Fang Jifan's mind.

  People who study Ming history don’t just want to study characters. As a scholar, they simply start with characters, which is at the level of civil science. In the last life, they advocated materialism. What is materialism? That is to deduce the social background based on the level of productivity. This is what it means to say that the economic base determines the superstructure.

  So, to study the Ming Dynasty, we must first understand its productivity. Where did the productivity come from? Naturally, it is derived from the annual surplus of its treasury.

  Thus, a real research worker is different from ordinary lovers. Lovers tend to be more biased towards characters, and make their own judgments about history based on whether the characters are good or bad. However, researchers tend to prefer boring data. The success of Zhang Juzheng's reforms is actually closely related to the vast amount of grain, silk, and silver in Naming Records.

  Fang Jifan's memory of these data is still fresh. On the one hand, he has a good memory, and on the other hand, this is his job.

  But knowing the real data of this year's annual income, Fang Jifan can't rush to throw it out. Since he wants to help Zhu Houzhao, then... always pretend to be the same.

  So he began to look down at the account books, muttering words, uttering nonsense such as one three gets three, two three gets six, and the like, looking like an old god.

  Zhu Houzhao couldn't help but look a little suspicious. Lao Fang... really knows how to count?

   Looks very professional.

  He looked down at the boring book full of cases, and simply... handed it over to Fang Jifan.

  So, Fang Jifan pretended to check the account books, and Zhu Houzhao happily poured tea and water for him from the side: "Old Fang, is it cold, do you want to add some coal?"

   "Go aside."

  (end of this chapter)