In the middle of the night, more than 100 guards sat on the ground on the streets of Taipingfang, and arch fires were everywhere, illuminating the entire street.

Directly in front, in the brightest place, a black board about three zhang wide and one zhang high stood there, and ten ghost-like fonts were drawn on it.

"It's hard, it's hard! It's better to let me wait and fight. Hu Da hammered his head heavily and let out a howl of pain.

The soldiers around them also felt the same way, even if they were allowed to practice at night, it was nothing more than a little harder, but staying up late to study completely stumped these big bosses.

Looking at the reactions of these old brothers, Li Yuanji was also angry, he knew that it was a little unrealistic to let these old men be familiar with the announcement, Li Yuanji didn't think about it at all, he just hoped that the hundred and ten big coarse people could know the Arabic numerals from zero to ten.

After such a simple teaching work, after most of the day's effort, no one was able to memorize it all, let alone combine numbers at will.

"Those who can skillfully use these ten numbers will be given an extra hundred dollars a month in the future." If you don't know the numbers, you can't read the numbers on the flags, and if you can't read the numbers, you can't protect the people who have paid the protection fee.

The number of people who pay protection fees is not very large, but there are hundreds of households, if there is no mark, as long as the flag is hung to give protection, after a long time, there will inevitably be people fishing in troubled waters.

And when these old and coarse people who don't know how to read are on patrol, they can't even recognize the characters, let alone grasp the numbering rules of each lane.

Headache, Li Yuanji felt that he had more headaches than these guys, so he could only sacrifice the last big killing move.

One hundred yuan, which is equivalent to nearly half of the salary every month, Li Yuanji can only use money to stimulate these guys.

"What are you doing in a daze? Why don't you hurry up and teach Lao Tzu to read? After learning that he could increase his salary, Hu Da's interest instantly surged, and he shouted loudly at the down-and-out scholar at the blackboard in front of him.

Ma Zhou nuzzled his mouth and wanted to cry aggrievedly.

He had only studied these ten Arabic numerals for less than half an hour before he could use them proficiently, and in less than a day, he discovered the mystery of them.

Using these simple symbols to replace complex recording methods can greatly simplify the workflow, reduce the workload, and improve work efficiency.

But Ma Zhou also found the drawback of these numbers, that is, they are easy to tamper with, Ma Zhou once tried to change 1 to 7, 3 to 8, and 0 to 9. The rest of the numbers can be changed, but they will be easily recognized when they encounter the Dead Eye, even 0 is not easy to change, and 1 and 3 are the easiest.

Although there are only two numbers, if they are really changed, the consequences can be very serious, 100 can be changed to 700, 3,000 can be changed to 8,000.

Therefore, after Ma Zhou discovered this problem, he immediately found Li Yuanji, put forward his own opinions, and suggested that this kind of number can only be used for simple records, that is, it can only be used for informal records, and then it is still necessary to use formal data to count on the account books.

Let a person who can find such a big problem in two days teach these big men to read and write, and they are going to suffer bears, Ma Zhou instantly felt that he couldn't live this day.

A pair of resentful but resentful eyes looked pitifully at Li Yuanji who was lying on the rocking chair to enjoy the coolness.

As if he had a heart, Li Yuanji felt Ma Zhou's resentful eyes, continued to shake the rocking chair, and said unhurriedly: "Teach them, this king will arrange a big event for you." ”

Ma Zhou sniffed, and at the same time sucked back the tears that were about to overflow, and nodded lightly, for the sake of a better future, endure it!

Continue to bury your head on the blackboard, carefully explain every detail, and it is bound to make these old people who don't know a single big word be able to use it skillfully tonight.

Until the second half of the night, when he was sleepy, Li Yuanji had already finished making people, and Ma Zhou was extremely unwilling to announce the end of class.

After all, it still didn't work, and the angry Ma Zhou repeatedly scolded the children for not being taught, and those big and rough people didn't care, and returned to their respective temporary dormitories with a burst of laughter and fell asleep.

Early the next morning, Li Yuanji took the account book and forty yuan out of Taipingfang.

However, when I passed by the fangmen, I saw a few old acquaintances.

"Your Highness, this person broke into the palace without permission and was stopped by the little one!" Yu Renzheng stood in front of the door of Lifang, with a few small minions, surrounded more than ten people, and invited Li Yuanji to take credit.

Taipingfang has been without people since yesterday, and the gate of the fang is also guarded by the guards of the original Qi Palace, so those who come out of the fang early in the morning must be those nail households who refuse to sign a contract.

Yu Ren failed to catch up with the time to fight a tough battle, but at this time, he felt that he must not retreat, and he must show his presence in front of King Qi.

"Your Highness, forgive me, the little one is planning to sign a contract with Steward Song......" The old man Song fell to his knees with a pop, his wrinkled hands were wiped directly, and two lines of tears flowed down.

"You said to sign sticky notes?" Li Yuanji said in a playful tone, these twenty-three households were isolated by him, and before the Taipingfang was completely cleaned up last night, every household had a soldier handle, that is, the door of the fang was closed last night, and those soldiers were withdrawn after making sure that there were no people.

In the past two days, these twenty-three households have really stayed at home, and they don't know anything about the news outside.

"Forget it this time, this king is very busy and has no time to take care of you." Li Yuanji paused slightly, Old Man Song and the others just wanted to breathe a sigh of relief, and sighed that King Qi was really easy to speak, but the next sentence made Old Man Song and the others completely confused: "Send them home, and if you dare to trespass into this king's mansion, one leg is not enough." ”

Swish......

Old man Song and the others' faces turned pale in an instant, and they all wanted to die in their hearts.

Go home? Go back to Mao's home?

If you don't even have food at home, you have food, and you don't even have firewood, so what can you do at home? Survive for three or five days? And then kick your legs and burp off?

At this moment, these people also completely understood that the King of Qi was not easy to mess with, and they were too big before, and now, their twenty-three households were really starving to death at home, and they had nothing to do with the King of Qi, and they wanted to expect someone to help them out? If someone was willing to help, would they still come this far?

"Your Highness! I don't want the small one, I don't want the demolition money, I just ask His Royal Highness to let the small two go. Old man Song snapped his head suddenly, and a red color appeared in his head in an instant, and even the ground felt a slight tremble.

"I beg Your Highness to spare the little one-horse ......" More than a dozen people behind him also followed closely and kowtowed and begged for mercy.

"That's it, this king is not an unreasonable person, in fact, this king is quite willing to understand your difficulties, since you are now willing to sign the agreement, then sign it, but this price......" The corners of Li Yuanji's mouth rose slightly, and he sneered in his heart. This king doesn't have the spare money to buy so much wasteland, so let's not say that this king bullies you, just one dollar per household! ”

Old man Song and the others were grateful on their faces, but they were crying bitterly in their hearts, this penny ......

lost his wife and broke his army......

But now it's not a matter of money for them, it's about the lives of the family, and they agree if they don't agree.

"Just do what Your Highness says!"

King Qi clearly wanted to trap them, but Old Man Song and they had no choice, who let them be bewitched?

Of course, it is not ordinary people who bewitch them, and neither side is a person they can offend, the so-called fairy fight, which affects the pond fish, refers to people like them.

But this is not their own choice, people come directly to the door, and they agree if they don't agree.

So much so that now Old Man Song and the others can only smash their teeth and swallow them in their stomachs, and they don't dare to divulge the other party's information, so as not to be remembered.