Chapter 47: Director of Finance
In the morning, the baby and the stuffy egg were gone, and I didn't know what to do. Pen, fun, and www.biquge.info
Only Daoist Jia accompanied Sun Yi inseparably.
Sun Yi and the Taoist priest threw all the surplus red willow bark from yesterday into the pot and boiled it with water.
The boiled willow bark sap was filtered several times to evaporate the excess water, and Sun poured them into a bowl and let it cool, and now there were some reddish crystals in the bowl.
Sun Yi planned to accumulate these red crystals, add water to dissolve, filter them again, cook them again, and crystallize them again.
In this way, Sun Yi can obtain a solid "willow" with relatively high purity.
With the solid "Liusu", Sun Yi can weigh accurately. When you make pills in the future, you can ensure the exact dosage of each ball.
Sun Yi has always believed that Chinese traditional Chinese medicine is broad and profound, and has accumulated a lot of experience from his predecessors. However, there is a problem with ancient Chinese medicine, that is, it is plausible, and it has never been specifically quantified.
Taking boiling Chinese medicine as an example, no one has ever figured out how long it should be boiled and how much effective concentration it should have in the medicinal soup.
It seems that traditional Chinese medicine has never been tested as rigorously as Western medicine, and there is no concept of cure rate and effective rate.
Sun Yi was born as a programmer and couldn't tolerate this.
Now that "Sayalikova" is to be sold as a commodity, Sun Yi has to make it clear and clear, first fix the effective dose of each pill, and then gradually accumulate data to make it clear how many pills should be taken for headaches, how many pills should be taken for fever, how many times a day to eat, and what are the side effects.
The two of them were busy working, and the sun was falling and they brought Ha Laocai here.
As soon as Ha Laocai entered the "yard", he was about to kowtow to Sun Yi, and Sun Yi hurriedly supported him.
"Don't, our Ironwood Battalion has abolished the rule of kowtowing."
Ri Qitian introduced: "This is the Ha Laocai I mentioned last night, and now he has figured it out and is willing to be the bookkeeper of the caravan." β
As soon as he heard the name of "Ha Laocai", Sun Yi remembered "Huang Shiren" in "The White-Haired Girl".
As the saying goes, there are wrong names, no wrong nicknames. "Ha Lao Cai" translated into Mandarin means "bad landlord".
Last night, Sun Yiyi was not very happy when he heard that the bookkeeper recommended by the sunset was nicknamed "Ha Laocai". However, there was a lack of "professionals" who could settle accounts in the Tiemu camp, so Sun Yi let the sun fall to make peace, but he didn't expect that "Huang Shiren" was not happy, and Sun Yi forgot about it.
Why did this "Huang Shiren" change his mind now?
Ha Laocai bowed to the ground and told the story of how he actually weighed an inch of water, "The grass people have eyes and don't know real people, now come to ask for guilt!" β
Sun Yi couldn't help but be taken aback.
Unexpectedly, among the homeless people who don't know a single word everywhere, there is still a "master" who can do four calculations and find the volume of a cylinder.
Sun Yi asked: "Ha Laocai, are you literate?" β
Ha Laocai replied: "I don't know." β
Sun Yi asked again: "Then how did you learn this...... This one...... Arithmetic? β
Ha Laocai replied: "Several generations of the family have been frugal and have to take care of everything, and they have learned to plan and keep accounts since childhood. β
Sun Yi asked: "How can you keep accounts if you don't know how to read?" β
Ha Laocai replied: "The code is able to write, and the other words are drawing marks." β
The arithmetic symbols of ancient China began to rise from the Southern Song Dynasty and corresponded to the Chinese abacus. One is one, two is two, three is three, four is four, or draw a cross. "Six, seven, eight, nine" respectively draw a short vertical on "one, two, three, four" to indicate the addition of "five". The "five" itself is represented by a circle drawn below a short vertical. The code can be written horizontally or vertically. The code is written quickly, and it is written as a pen, which is called "grass code".
There is an episode in the TV series "Sherlock Holmes" filmed by the Americans that talks about "grass yards", so Sun Yi knows about it.
Sun Yi didn't expect this "Huang Shiren" to be able to calculate, the Tiemu Battalion is now short of food, but it needs a supervisor to live.
Sun Yi asked tentatively,
"Ha Laocai, you used to buy and sell grain, but now there is a shortage of food in the camp, is there any way you can save some food?"
Ha Laocai replied: "Yes!" β
Sun Yi hurriedly asked, "Please speak!" β
Ha Lao Cai said: "The raw grain is fighting, and the net grain is on the catty." β
Ha Laocai explained that when grain is harvested from the ground, it is called raw grain, and what people eat is called net grain. The raw grain is all in its shell. Take rice as an example, rice is the net grain, and rice is the raw grain; In the same way, millet is a net grain, and millet is a raw grain.
Because the net grain is not easy to preserve due to the husking, the grain exists in the form of raw grain during storage. The water content in the raw grain is heavy, and the water content is light. For example, a pound of newly harvested millet is dried with water, and only eighty percent is left in the warehouse. After putting it in the warehouse for a year, the weight is reduced by half. Therefore, the grain industry in the Ming Dynasty only dealt with raw grain in terms of volume, regardless of weight.
Net grain is the opposite. The water in the net grain has basically evaporated, and the weight is relatively stable; Due to the different densities of various net grains, the volume difference is relatively large. For example, the same pound of millet and a pound of corn can be twice as different in volume.
In the day-to-day camp, in order to save trouble, in the past, rations were distributed on the basis of "liters" or "buckets", that is, the volume was the standard. Ha Laocai suggested that in the future, rations should be distributed, and the food should be changed to how much food can be given, so as to save food.
Ha Laocai also suggested that the raw grain should be processed into net grain, and the weight should be discounted by removing the shell. Generally, rice produces seven into three; Millet produces rice from seven into five; Sorghum out of the meter eighty percent. Wheat produces nine percent of black flour, and wheat produces eighty percent of white flour. Here, craftsmanship is very important, such as a good hulling style, rice produces 7 into 3 rice, and people with poor craftsmanship produce only 60 percent of rice. It is recommended to gather the raw grain, select the good handicraft to make the net grain, and then distribute it by the catty.
Sun Yi suddenly realized that there was also a saying about raw grain and finished grain in later generations.
In this way, the people of the Ming Dynasty in the mouth of the stuffy egg ate one pound a meal, referring to the raw grain, which was discounted by seven or six percent, that is, 450 grams of the metric system, and 1 pound of the British system. The pounds in the east and the pounds in the west originally referred to the amount of a meal.
Sun Yi looked at Ha Laocai again and again, and felt that he was not like "Huang Shiren", but more like "Zhou Papi" in "Midnight Chicken Crow".
However, people's skins are reasonable, professional, and praised.
Sun Yi glanced at the sun, and said in his heart, "This Zhou Papi is a bookkeeper." β
Ha Laocai also suggested again,
"If it really comes to that point, there is a way to go out of the way, which is to ask a special trough to divide the grain!"
"The old handle has experience in his hands, as long as he gives money, the trough handle in the grain store can turn nine buckets into one stone, and one stone into nine buckets."
"When the trough handle shakes his hand, he will sprinkle some grain on the ground, and the apprentices in the grain shop will pick up the grain on the ground and clean it again, and he can save 200 catties a day."
Sun Yi couldn't help but pay more attention to Ha Laocai.
Being able to tell the unspoken rules of these industries shows that this person is not bad-hearted.
Sun Yi finally asked him what he was most worried about,
"Ha Laocai, I heard that you used to eat noodles on the street and were hated by others, so you got such a name?"
Ha Laocai's face turned red and said, "Those were all jokes when he was young and vigorous. At that time, I dismissed the account office, stared at the faΓ§ade every day, stayed up half the night at five watches, and every half a month, I treated myself to an old bowl of white noodles. Every time I eat white noodles, I am so happy that I want my neighbors to know that my Ha family is living a good life. β
Sun Yi sighed in his heart, it seems that the landlords of the Ming Dynasty are not easy. Being industrious and thrifty is just the gap between the rich and the poor who eat a bowl of white noodles more than the average person every half a month.
Sun Yi said to the sun: "There is a lack of a person in charge of food and materials in the camp, I want to ask Ha Laocai to be the director, it is called the director of finance, the property of the property, the material of the material, half a level lower than the iron director, by the way, the account of the caravan is also supervised, what do you think?" β
After listening to Ha Laocai's food suggestion, he had long admired it and agreed with it at the moment.
When Ha Laocai heard this, he was about to kneel down again, but Sun Yi hugged him,
"Director Ha, in the future, I will rely on you to be diligent and thrifty, and when our ironwood camp is developed, you will return to your hometown in the future, and you will eat noodles on the street!"