Chapter 17 The Second Function of the Temple
"The number is right, good. Husband, this is your IOU, please keep it.'" , Li Chen first got a powerful monk next to him, and after confirming that the number received was correct, he smiled and handed out an IOU, "I wish Linglang to give birth to a noble son early, and my father-in-law will hug the big fat grandson as soon as possible."
Next, it was a young man, this young man first talked to Hui Zen Master, and then came over, when he came, he also carried a bag of grain, he first handed the grain to the monk to weigh it, the monk weighed too much, and Li Chen hugged a number.
"Chen Shilang, this is your IOU, Lingtang has such a filial son as you, he will definitely live a long life and live a long life." , Chen Shilang took the IOU, put it in his arms, and left with a smile.
Li Chen wiped the sweat on his head, the weather has slowly cooled down, but there are many things today, which makes him a little tired.
"Thirteen Lang, today's matter is over. Thank you for your hard work.'" Zen Master Huiming walked over and said, "After that, this matter will also be handed over to you."
"Zen Master, I don't know, it turns out that temples can also be loaned." "Lending? Oh, in fact, many temples have a good idea.'" , quality lifting. Lifters, raise loans to take double the profits. The pledgee, with material money, count the months and take its profits.
The pledge is to borrow money in the Tang Dynasty. For example, it is usury, and pledge is mortgage borrowing. Of course, there was also a saying about borrowing in the Tang Dynasty, but borrowing mostly refers to things, and you have to return them. For example, if the government lends cattle to the people to plough the fields, and they have to pay it back when they are used up, that is, they borrow. And if the money is to be mortgaged and borrowed, it is a pledge.
Li Chen didn't know these for a while, in the original Li Chen's physical memory, there was no such concept, but he was a dignified prince or a king of light, there was no need to raise questions at all, or in other words, the original owner was probably so stupid that he didn't even know how to raise questions.
"This is also the abbot's mercy. Seeing many good believers, because of their urgent needs, they had to pledge themselves to some mansions, and in the end they were forced to sell their land to pay off their debts, and they could not even keep their wives and children. Hui Ming sighed, "The abbot is merciful, so he will be in the mountain gate and the good faith, and let him tide over the difficulties."
Li Chen did not comment on this, because he didn't know if the other usury was really as Huiming said, eating people without spitting out bones, not forcing people to die and their wives to be separated. However, according to his understanding of the Longevity Temple, the interest of the Longevity Temple should not be high, only 20%. In ancient times, this kind of interest was really low.
Seeing that there was nothing to do today, Li Chen took a few powerful monks and moved the bunch of people to pay off the debts, get money, cloth, and grain into the warehouse. Count the numbers, position them, and lock the door. Li Chen rubbed his chin and returned to his tent room.
The treasury is not far from the tent, and on the short road, Li Chen complained again, Datang is inconvenient, or the Longevity Temple is too compassionate. All the money that was lent out was money, and the result was a lot of grain, cloth, and so on. People moved over, and they moved to death. They have to go into storage, and they are in trouble.
It's troublesome to even pay the money, and the money is very heavy. Tens of thousands of dollars, but only a few dozen, the weight is not light, and the people who move it are also moving to the death. Want to know the weight? Go collect tens of thousands of change by yourself and see if you can move it?
When I returned to the tent, I saw Li Chen take out a stack of thick things, and the cover was written as debt. This is the account book, he registered a new account book overnight, if you want to know what it looks like, Li Chen can describe it. It looks like a Buddhist scripture.
What does a sutra look like? Aren't Buddhist scriptures just books? Wrong, the appearance is very different from the current books, and it is also very different from the ancient thread-bound books that everyone imagined.
Thread-bound books have to appear, probably until the Song Dynasty. In the Tang Dynasty, the species went from handwriting to printing. Most of the books were written by hand, and very few were printed, most of which were Buddhist scriptures. For ordinary readers, it is not easy to buy new books, and they usually have to copy them by hand.
Therefore, the form of books in the Tang Dynasty can be seen from an old account book picked up in Li Chen's hand, like a scroll. It looks like a stick in the middle, and then a roll of paper wraps it. The tip will appear triangular.
If you don't know, you can imagine that the Japanese ninja got that kind of secret trick, and the way he bit his mouth to perform ninjutsu, it was a book in the Tang Dynasty. Inherited the way of using bamboo slips, with rolls.
Therefore, if you are in the TV series and see a study room full of wire-bound books, it is definitely not about the Tang Dynasty, if it is the Tang Dynasty, it should be the Tang Dynasty in a different time and space. Eighty percent of them have long had traversers, and the printing technique was popularized in Datang in advance.
The new style of books is the style of Buddhist scriptures, and the printing technology has to be used, giving Buddhist scriptures a new style. If you want to know what it looks like, you can know from a new account book in Li Chen's hand.
I saw Li Chen take out a scroll and spread it out, concentrating on addition and subtraction. There is a sand table next to it, this is not the habit of the Tang people, this is Li Chen's preparation, there is no computer to get the age, he is not very good at using an abacus, so he simply made a sand table, when he wants to calculate, he writes and draws on the sand table, and erases him when he doesn't need it.
Then Li Chen took the number and recorded it as something that can often be seen in TV dramas and is like a fold, that is, what the Buddhist scriptures look like.
"Am I asking for trouble...", Li Chen was busy all afternoon, busy registering the accounts collected today. In fact, it should have been very simple, if you use the traditional Tang Dynasty bookkeeping method.
It's a very simple thing, and Li Chen made him very complicated. Because Li Chen changed the traditional flow account to double-entry accounting.
Double-entry accounting, in fact, is not complicated. Mainly, it is that OnePlus must have a subtraction cooperation. Let's say you collected a lot of money today. Then one plus means that the temple's income has increased. If it is reduced, it will be reduced on the side of the debt. Meaning, lending debt has decreased.
Double-entry bookkeeping is not complicated, as far as Li Chen knows, it seems that someone has used it for a long time. It's not China, it seems that the trade is more developed than the Arabs. Of course, Li Chen has not studied the history of double-entry accounting, as long as he can use it.
"It doesn't seem to be necessary at all, there aren't many strange things in the temple. To do this, it's almost to cause trouble for yourself. Traditionally, it would have been nice to simply record the amount of income and expenditure, but when I did this, the workload was doubled." , Li Chen bit the tip of the pen, he can use a little brush now, he gets accounts sporadically, Li Chen will use charcoal, if he wants to officially record it in the account book, he will use a brush.
"It's a little more troublesome. It's time to take a break.'" Li Chen put the account book that he had memorized and cleaned it up. Walking out of the tent, "It's a nice view, and the income is secure. Maybe it's a good place to live.'"
Where the temple of longevity is located, the mountains and rivers are beautiful. From the Changshou Temple, you can overlook the Han River and the Mudanjiang River. The life of the people here is not bad, and there must be mountain springs near the mountains that can be irrigated.
There are also waterwheels in the distance, and the last time Li Chen went to the countryside to collect rent, he also saw several large waterwheels, leading water to high places to facilitate irrigation. In ancient times, when the sky was watching, there was water to irrigate, and the harvest must have been very good.
will make the account books so troublesome, Li Chen was very selfish at first. Because he didn't know how long he could do this bookkeeping work. Make the account book a little more complicated, you can't understand it if you don't listen to his explanation, in case someone wants to change the account room one day, he will be unhappy, and he will not do it, it depends on what you do.
For the future, Li Chen has thought about it. The main reason for doing this is that I don't want my plans to be disrupted. likes to get him step by step, and I hate it when people mess up his plans. The ledger is mainly for the prevention of a hand.
His plan was to settle down for a while, to understand the differences between the society of about 1,200 years ago and the society of the 21st century, and then he would see how to make a fortune based on what he knew.
Suddenly arrived at a new environment, the most important thing is to collect information, so that Li Chen can wait for the opportunity. He would not think that he could travel to ancient times and become a king. The tiger's body was shocked, and immediately the little brother bowed down. casually took out a little new trick, and immediately someone came up, crying and shouting to sell him something, and he would take whatever he wanted.
There's an old saying that people do things. Li Chende's view is that people are all good and bad things. If you rely on yourself to be a cross-traveler, you will treat the ancients as idiots. Then you will eventually find out that you are the idiot.
Those who are really powerful and elite don't need any advanced knowledge, they just need to seize the opportunity. Like Apple's Jabeth, was APPLEII invented by him? No.
MAKE NO MISTAKE ABOUT IT, APPLE
The birth of II has nothing to do with Jabs. THE REAL APPLEII IS STEPHEN. Gary. Woznik invented. Jabs is the one who spotted this business opportunity and promoted it. Let him do it himself? Macintosh's defeat is the result of his dominance.
It's not that Jabs can't do it, but I want to say that if you have advanced technology and good things in your hands, you will definitely be able to push it out and make money every day.
If you think that with some advanced technology in your hands, what distilled spirits, what cement, soap, and matches can get the formula, you can immediately mix and become rich in a place where you are not familiar with life, customs and culture, then you are definitely daydreaming.
Li Chen decided, first have a stable life, under observation, what business opportunities are there, you can get rich. As for the other questions that follow, when you have money, you will talk about it, because having money is not everything, but not having money is absolutely impossible.
"I really didn't mean it, I didn't mean it. Double-entry accounting is really better, yes, that's right. In case one day everyone breaks up and doesn't understand, it's not my responsibility.'"
Li Chen hypnotically alleviated his guilt, and the Longevity Temple made him feel good, or Wang Erniang specially arranged it for him, as if he was sorry for the temple. He always felt that one day, the temple would definitely have a headache for him to leave an account.