"I want to re-plan and integrate the measurement system."

In the palace, the four ministers of the cabinet had just taken their seats, and before the small book was spread, they heard Zhu Yunwen's voice.

What kind of moth does the emperor plan to come out of?

"I feel that the current measurement system of my Ming Dynasty is not uniform and standardized from top to bottom, and it is a mess in the clouds, so I want to re-establish a measurement system and completely abolish all the old measuring scales."

The unification of weights and measures is, in a sense, also a way to enhance national strength.

The measurement unit is different, and it is easy for the local government to have a lack of place when measuring the acres of land, because when the local measurement scale is enlarged, it may show that there are only 30 hectares of land, and the government-run system may become 35 hectares, in fact, there is still so much land, and the same amount of grain is produced, but the taxes paid are not the same!

It is impossible for the local people to weigh and collect grain on the spot, and they all pay grain according to the average system of per mu, and if there is less than five hectares of land, it is 500 acres of land, and the Ming Dynasty will lose a cut of expenses invisibly.

However, in some places, the unit of measurement is small, but more than 40 hectares of land are measured, but more than 40 hectares of land are invisibly paid, which will lead to excessive burdens on the people and can easily cause famine.

This is the inconsistency of the measurement system, which invisibly creates a gap between the rich and the poor.

The four of them looked at each other, and they could all think of this, and they all expressed their approval.

The unified measurement system can indeed have the effect of equalizing the wealth and the poor from the side.

"My Ming unit of measurement is too messy."

Zhu Yunwen copied the measuring ruler on the big case: "This is the measuring ruler used by the Ministry of Industry, which is one foot long, and the banknote ruler used by the Weaving Bureau, the so-called one foot is one percent longer than the official ruler, and the curved ruler is shorter than the banknote ruler and longer than the official ruler, and the measuring ruler used for surveying is longer than the curved ruler and shorter than the banknote ruler."

Not to mention that the provinces also make their own so-called convenient cutting and calculation of the measuring tape, this time the flood in Jiangxi, the flood measurement still depends on the step, the nine-foot man's step can be the same as the seven-foot man? It's just a mess! ”

Even the units of length calculation are inconsistent, and it is impossible to calculate the two units of area and volume that naturally extend, so Zhu Yunwen had to standardize these miscellaneous measurement systems, and he copied the international system of units adapted to the first industrial revolution at the end of the eighteenth century.

Zheng He was busy going to Arabia to find nautical charts, and the Ministry of Industry began to think about how to push the steam from pushing the teapot lid to pushing a door, and the industrial revolution of the Ming Dynasty would not exceed a hundred years at the latest, and the existing measurement system was a mess, how to apply it to rigorous scientific creation.

This has nothing to do with admiring foreign flattery, there is a good saying.

"Master Yi's long skills to control it."

Aren't Westerners the same as learning from our inventions first, and then carrying them forward and then bullying us again?

Don't have that kind of vanity and fragile self-esteem, feel sorry for the ancestors if you learn some Western things, and if you want to be embarrassed, it is the emperor Zhu Yunwen to lose, he just wants the people of the Ming Dynasty to sit on the ironclad giant ship and cross the ocean, and then run to the land of John Bull and insert a sign of "white-skinned pigs and dogs are not allowed to enter"!

"Now I can think of it, and I think there are only two units of measurement that I can use at the moment."

Zhu Yunwen stretched out two fingers and said one by one.

"Length and time!"

There are many types in the International System of Units, of course, except for these two basic ones, the others have nothing to do with the current Ming Dynasty for the time being.

"This part of time, I Da Ming Division Heavenly Supervisor, Hui Si Heavenly Supervisor jointly standardize the astronomy, I will not change the big aspect, twelve hours I also think it is very good, in line with the operation of the Heavenly Dao, but after the details are not accurate, what a stick of incense, a cup of tea, when the weather is cold and the day is hot, can the time of a tea cool be the same?

Inside the house and outside the house, can the time of a stick of incense be the same?

I originally asked the Ministry of Industry to make a batch of incense with scales, and put forward the concept of minutes, but later found that I also had some biases and deficiencies, because the burning speed of incense could not be guaranteed, and I had to temporarily abolish it, but the Ministry of Industry has been working hard for the past two years, and they are working hard to expand on the basis of the water clock left by Su Song in the Northern Song Dynasty.

Strive to develop a clock that can be timed without passing through armillary sphere and water transportation activities, and only through mechanical movement. ”

The principle of mechanical watch, China has begun to have eyebrows as early as the Northern Song Dynasty, Su Song studied the water clock, through the armillary sphere, armillary image, water transport and mechanical operation, the time error of the ox to the day is one to two seconds!

If we follow this path, it will not be difficult to push mechanical movement to outlaw other conditions, and the wisdom of the ancestors is impressive.

It's a pity that after the Song and Yuan dynasties, the thinking was rigid, and the Ming and Qing dynasties were even more stagnant, otherwise, maybe even mechanical watches could be studied in the Ming Dynasty!

It doesn't matter, what the ancestor put on hold, Zhu Yunwen is going to restart it for him now.

"Except for the time, the Ministry of Industry is working hard, and the other two aspects are worry-free, and it can be directly stipulated."

Picking up the official ruler casually, Zhu Yunwen said with a straight face.

"From today onwards, all my measurements will be measured in accordance with the standards of the official ruler, the so-called money ruler, measuring ruler, curved ruler are all abolished, at the same time, the measuring ruler of the provinces must be redone in strict accordance with the standard of the official ruler, one zhang ten feet, one more point, one less point is never allowed!

In addition, if there are officials who write a unit of measurement of one step or two steps in the notebook, they should be directly deposed and let him go home and measure his steps slowly, and the Ministry of Industry will hurry up to make a batch of official rulers, from one zhang to one inch, and various specifications will be manufactured in quantities of one thousand or more, and sent to all provincial capitals and counties.

As soon as the official ruler arrives, let the place honestly re-measure it, otherwise I will send someone to investigate in the future, and once I find that there is a discrepancy between the local survey and the official ruler measurement, all of them will be dealt with according to the law of deception. ”

The four of them were again in a voice of command.

The unification of weights and measures was done once by the first emperor of the year, and later when there was a war, the localities did their own thing, and the measurements of the Han Dynasty were changed by the officials themselves, and it was not stabilized until the Tang and Song dynasties.

The Song Dynasty was busy with the economy, and the reason for the cloth tax was specially made a set of three cloth rulers, Taizu established the Ming Dynasty, because of the printing and distribution of treasure money, and added a money ruler, which made the current Ming measurement system a mess.

It's good to be unified, at least worry-free.

"Don't take this thing seriously, measuring a matter is related to the foundation of the country."

Seeing that the four of them looked relaxed, Zhu Yunwen's tone was cold.

"I only give the place a year, where is it not good, at the end of this year, the Ministry of Officials will be inspected, so go back to your hometown and farm."

The four of them got up and stood up and bowed down to receive the order.

"In accordance with His Majesty's holy decree, the cabinet will definitely urge the localities to implement it as soon as possible in conjunction with the Ministry of Industry."