Wang Erniu led a group of handlers to respectfully receive the newly promulgated ruler of Lord Lidel, and solemnly left the master's shack with a willow stick. Pen @ fun @ pavilion wWw. ｂｉｑUｇE。 ｉｎｆｏ

Turning the corner, it is estimated that Lord Lidel can't see it, and the formulas are immediately fighting for me into a mess, someone took a straw rope and measured the length of a zhang, and trotted all the way to start measuring the land, estimating and discussing the size of an acre of land.

The people who got up early participated in it, and for a time the discussion in the Tiemu camp was to divide the fields and land, and a hundred zhang was one acre, and the "ruler made in heaven and earth" was one of 120 million in the circumference of the earth, and a square foot was no more than one thousand taels of water.

The more the news spread, the more people did not believe it.

Ha Laocai didn't believe it.

Ha Laocai was originally a small rich man in Fugu County, Yan'an Prefecture, Shaanxi, with 100 acres of land at home, and also opened a grain store in the county seat.

Fugu County crosses the Yellow River and is the Shanxi River, both of which are important border trade towns. Since the generation of Ha Laocai's grandfather, the imperial court has implemented the "Open China Law" and allowed private merchants to transport grain to the border towns in exchange for "salt introduction", and the grain business in Fugu and Hequ has become more and more prosperous, and the family fortune of the Ha family has gradually improved.

When Ha Laocai's generation arrived, Ha Laocai dismissed the bookkeeper in the grain shop, and personally ran the abacus, staring at the shop business every day, and actually expanded the storefront, and the Ha family could eat a meal of white noodles in ten and a half days!

Every time he eats white noodles, Ha Laocai raises a big bowl and squats on the stone mill in front of the shop door.

Take a pair of long chopsticks, pick, mix, mix, pick, each chopstick is one foot high, just don't eat, just show people.

Every time I don't mix the white noodles for half an hour, Ha Laocai's noodles can't be eaten in my mouth.

came and went, and Ha Laocai got the name of "Ha Laocai".

"Ha", as a surname, is found in the Song Dynasty's "Hundred Family Names".

"Ha", in Shaanxi dialect, has several meanings.

If a person can't see with his eyes, it is this person's "eyes";

If a person's ears can't hear, it's that person's "ears";

If a person's nose can't smell, it is this person's "nose";

Regarding the behavior of "Ha Laocai" eating white noodles on the street, the unanimous opinion of the big guys is that he is "hearty", "ha", and "hated".

It's a pity that Ha Laocai's happy life didn't last long.

As soon as Emperor Chongzhen ascended the throne, there was a famine in Yan'an Mansion, followed by the uprising of the displaced people, the mutiny of the border army, and the grain shop of Ha Laocai was robbed several times.

The business couldn't go on, so Ha Laocai closed the shop, packed his luggage, and took the whole family across the Yellow River to Shanxi to avoid trouble. didn't expect to run into the "Hong Bing" of Hong Chengchou, the governor of Yansui, but the "Hong Bing" suddenly robbed the Ha family of several lifetime savings, and the family has been broken since then.

Ha Laocai traveled all the way and followed the displaced people to the Wolf Mountain River.

I came to him at the end of the day last night, saying that a caravan was going to be set up in the camp, and the "slippery ghost" was in charge of the shopkeeper, and there was a lack of a bookkeeper, so he wanted to ask him to come out.

Ha Laocai did not agree.

The "slippery ghost" is just a shopkeeper, he can plan with both hands, and he has also accumulated a family business with careful budgeting, and he is also a "wealthy owner", how can he be subservient to the hands of a shopkeeper?

- Unless Lord Lidel personally comes to invite him, this matter can only be discussed.

But left and right, Lord Lidel just didn't come.

However, this "ruler made in heaven and earth" has come more and more.

It is rumored in the camp that this ruler was measured by Lord Lidel when he was in the sky, and at that time Lord Lidel recorded the length of the ruler in the "Book of Heaven".

Ha Laocai didn't believe it in his heart, and thought that it was an uninformed homeless person who spread the rumor.

No one has ever seen how long the circumference of the earth is, and if you say that it is 1 in 120 million or 1 in 200 million, no one can know whether it is right or wrong.

A square foot filled with water is exactly 1,000 taels, this can't deceive people who understand!

Ha Laocai also went to compare a "ruler of heaven and earth" back, measured it with his own tape measure, split and cracked a dozen abacus, and got the length of the new ruler of one inch.

-- Since one square foot is filled with 1,000 taels, then a "square inch" one inch long, one inch wide, and one inch high must be filled with water for one tael.

Ha Laocai found his own ancestral porcelain bottle for several generations. The rules of the Ha family are strict, and there is a fixed number of how much oil is put in a meal, so the oil bottle of the Ha family is also special, the top and bottom are generally thick, and the inner wall of the bottle body is also engraved with marks.

Ha Laocai slammed the abacus for a while, and then made a mark between the two marks on the inner wall of the oil bottle. To this mark, the water in the bottle is not too much and no less, which is exactly a "square inch".

Ha Laocai carefully weighed the weight of the empty bottle with the scale of silver.

Slowly add water to the bottle, and stop immediately when you reach the mark.

Weighing the weight of the bottle again, Ha Laocai was horrified, and the bottle fell to the ground with a click.

The bottle of water, no more, no less, is a tael heavier than an empty bottle!

After being stunned for a moment, Ha Laocai slapped himself in the mouth, turned around and walked out.