"Your Highness...... The minister is back......" Zhang Yue walked up to Liu Jin, bowed slightly, and then bowed to other colleagues in the official office: "All the gentlemen are well!" ”

"Zhang Shizhong is good!" He was answered with a neat salute.

Before he left Chang'an, he had given everyone two tasks - to find out the hydrological data of Xinfeng County; Find out the gentry and official class in Xinfeng County.

In the beginning, no one understood the meaning of these two jobs.

Until they start to mobilize their forces to look up the relevant information.

Gong Yu and other students used their status as students to transfer several cars of documents from Shiqu Pavilion, Lantai and Jing Zhaoyin.

These are all reports of the local area of Xinfeng County.

The second generation of officials like Sang Jun used his identity and resources to get hundreds of volumes of relevant materials from Dasi Nong.

An old fritter like Chen Wannian gave full play to his advantages and got some data from many grassroots officials who would not report.

Then, the crowd began to bury their heads in sorting through this information and data.

At this time, they discovered Zhang Yue's power.

Almost all the materials and information they searched for were corroborated by the two forms that Zhang Yue had hung in the official office.

The number of officials in Xinfeng, the land area of Xinfeng, the economic situation of Xinfeng, and the information they found can all correspond to the two tables made by Zhang Yue.

Everyone was finally convinced!

If you can do your job so meticulously, such a boss is certainly worth following!

What made them even more convinced was that as they began to search, consult, and count relevant information.

Everyone found that unconsciously, the general situation and basic situation of Xinfeng County were quietly imprinted in their brains.

Now, even Gong Yu and others, as long as they close their eyes every day, what comes to their minds is the basic data of the township pavilions in Xinfeng County.

How many rivers and streams are there in a township?

What is the land situation like? What is the population? What are the main crops? How much does the farmer burden per year?

Until this time, a sense of reverence arose in everyone's hearts.

Before Zhang Shizhong left, the two jobs that he casually explained made everyone have a basic understanding of Xinfeng's situation in their hearts!

Its political skills are like this, can An succeed?

"Zhang Shizhong is back......" Liu Jin took Zhang Yue's hand and walked into the main hall of the official office.

The sunlight came in directly through the window, and the next to the form left by Zhang Yue before leaving was already covered with various related cloths.

These are all cloth cloths by Gong Yu and other students, imitating Zhang Yue's tabular form, listing the relevant data they found and counted.

If you look closely, there are almost a dozen copies.

Integrate the relevant data and public information reported by Xinfeng County to the superiors.

Zhang Yue looked at these tables, although the imitation was very immature, but it was already very good.

He stepped forward and looked up at the stats on it.

Liu Jin said beside him: "This is what Gu and Zhujun have done together in the past few days, take a look at the waiting, is there a problem?" ”

When he said this, Liu Jin was proud in his heart.

Zhang Yue had only been away for a little more than four days, and he and the students had completed this matter.

Although in the middle, he used his privileges and mobilized many Lantai Shangshu to help.

But, when he did this, he was personally involved.

Because of this, I know a lot of grassroots situations that I didn't know before, or even heard of.

In his heart now, he can even have a general impression of Xinfeng's specific situation.

For example, he was able to memorize Xinfeng's per capita land area, average tax burden, and major rivers.

There is a sense of pleasure and accomplishment in the county.

Zhang Yue looked at the situation listed on these cloths, although it was a little messy, and the statistics were too complicated.

But after the enhancement of space, his computing power and computing power are simply a bug.

He found a piece of cloth, picked up the pen and ink, and then waved the pen to make it.

After a while, a completely new table was created.

"Your Highness and the gentlemen, they have done a good job, but it is a little more cumbersome, and the ministers have simplified it, and the statistics are roughly here......" He took the cloth and pasted it on the wall.

Liu Jin and everyone looked over, and they were all slapping the case, shouting happily.

Compared to their toddlers, imitate the dozen or so forms they made.

Zhang Yue's current form is clear at a glance.

"It turns out that it can be ...... like this," Liu Jin muttered in his heart, feeling that he had learned something new.

Everyone else nodded.

Especially Gongyu Wang Ji and others, their eyes lit up.

Even if they just learn the art of making such a table, they will be able to govern the land in the future!

Compared to those tables that they had previously made.

The table in front of me is called real statistics!

Originally, the table they made was to count the acres of land and the situation of officials one by one according to the township.

However, Zhang Yue gathered all the things on the form together.

According to the township and pavilion as a unit, record one by one.

Next to the village pavilion, some strange symbols were also written.

I don't know what it means, but it looks amazing.

What's more, now, just by looking at this table, the distribution of officials, land and population in the entire Xinfeng is clear at a glance.

"Zhang Shizhong, what do these symbols mean?" Liu Jin asked softly.

Symbols have long existed in China.

For example, in the ancient Book of Changes, there are 64 hexagrams of yin and yang, each of which has a corresponding exclusive symbol.

The ancient tortoiseshell devourers, astrologers, and yin-yang factions also have their own exclusive symbols, which are used to measure the ups and downs of fate and the direction of the stars.

At the beginning, the imperial historian Erkuan and the Taishi Ling Sima Qian were jointly commissioned to compile, and they used a lot of professional knowledge and professional symbols of astrologers and yin-yang families to measure the sun, moon and stars.

It's just that compared with these symbols in front of you, those symbols are undoubtedly very obscure, and these simplified numbers and symbols that Zhang Yue is engaged in, as long as you explain them, you can understand the meaning.

Zhang Yue smiled and explained: "This is some simplified symbols and simplified numbers that the minister researched by himself in order to be lazy......"

"1234567890, corresponding to one, two, three, four, five, six, seven, eight, nine, ......"

"% corresponds to percentages, / corresponds to ......"

Zhang Yue explained the numbers and symbols in the appendix on the form to everyone.

Everyone listened, and they were all thoughtful.

Is it just to be lazy?

I'm afraid not!

Young people such as Liu Jin and Gong Yu have a strong ability to accept it, and soon found that if there are these simplified numbers and symbols to be used as calculations, I am afraid that they will ...... It's much more convenient than before.

It's just that......

"Aren't you afraid of criticism?" Liu Jin asked.

"Who will judge me?" Zhang Yue asked rhetorically.

If it were in other dynasties, in an era of strict ideological imprisonment, Zhang Yue might be risky to play like this, and he might be besieged.

But in a dynasty as drastically changing as the Western Han Dynasty, he was not the only one who stood out from the rest.

"Your Royal Highness, before today's son ascended the throne, the world still used Xiaosu as the text, but after Yuanguang, Lishu gradually became popular, and now only a few nobles and doctors insist on using Xiaoshu......"

"The first king made words for the convenience of the people, and his standard was to simplify the complex......"

"When the three generations were in the time, the knotted rope was recorded, and when it came to the Xia Hou clan, there was a matter of recording national events on the Ding Bell......"

"This is the inscription, the inscription is obscure, the ancestors and sages of the Zong Zhou Dynasty, so they invented the Great Compilation, and in the Qin Dynasty, there was a more concise small compilation and Lishu ......"

"In the opinion of the ministers, writing is only a tool invented by the first kings for the people to use, to help educate and educate the people......"

"The simpler nature is, the better it can be read......"

"Especially the number and the corresponding calculation program, the simpler the better......"

When everyone heard this, they all nodded secretly.

Liu Jin, in particular, agreed with what Zhang Yue said.

Because, Lao Liu's family is a family that loves change and likes to engage in change.

From Emperor Gao to the present, after the Son of Heaven ascended the throne, he liked to carry out a big or small new policy to show his benevolence and care for the people of the world.

Today, he even simply 'dismissed a hundred schools of thought and respected Confucianism'.

Even the attributes of the country have changed.

When the first emperor, the Han family also considered themselves to be water virtue and black.

Today, it has become Huode Shangchi.

Even the calendar has been changed, from the past calendar to the primordial calendar.

The beginning of the year changed from winter and October to the first month.

As for the text, it has evolved from a small compilation in the past to a current official script.

The great changes are probably second only to the book of Qin Shi Huang back then, and the car is on the same track.

And the old Liu family has a set of strict rhetoric and theories about this.

As today's son said: Three generations are different, and the five emperors do not return to each other.

Therefore, changing the law and restructuring is not taboo in the Han Dynasty, on the contrary, who wants to come to power and not play with the reform and reform, it is called strange!

In comparison, Zhang Yue's simplified numbers and symbols are drizzling.

Moreover, Zhang Yue did not say that he would force them to be promoted and let everyone learn to use them.

That's even less of a problem.

Could it be that the law of the state still cares, and private individuals themselves do a set of substitute symbols?

Qin Shi Huang would not do such a thing!

This is also something that Zhang Yue has been thinking about for a long time and discovered.

So, he decisively took out the long-planned Arabic numerals and the symbols of later generations.

It's both for change and convenience.

Zhang Yue continued: "Ladies and gentlemen, please see, now, through this table and the number symbols on it, do we have a better understanding of Xinfeng's situation? ”

Everyone nodded.

That's true.

In the past, although the table they made by themselves was clear, it was not as clear as the table in front of them and the summary above.

Now, as long as you look at the content of this table in front of you, the composition of the entire Xinfeng's officials, the land situation, and the average tax burden are clear at a glance.

"Zhang Shizhong is really talented!" Sang Jun said convincingly: "The lower official dares to ask the servant to simplify the production and statistics of numbers, symbols and tables to teach the big Sinong!" ”

If his father's Dasi Nong Yamen gets these, combined with the abacus and abacus method, the statistical efficiency will be greatly increased!

When the plan is put on in October this year, the Dasi Nong Yamen will be a blockbuster, so that the Son of Heaven will be happy!