Forty-one days after the crossing.

Seeing off Yang Pingwei and his entourage, everyone flocked to the bulletin board again, they were notified yesterday, and there was a decree to be announced today.

When everyone else arrived at the bulletin board, they found a table in the open space, on which were placed several tools, a long wooden bar like a ruler, an iron lump like a weighing stone, and a few barrels and liters.

Qi Yu had been standing in front of the bulletin board and waiting for a while, only to see him holding an iron horn, holding it to his mouth, and saying, "Silence!

Since the moment the bulletin board was erected, Qi Pre has this new position - policy speaker.

What he wants to preach today is a brand-new set of "weights and measures" that Li Kang and the Department of Culture and Education have decided on after several days of "discussions."

Except for the opinions of Zhao Siye and others whose unit names are adopted, the other decimal systems and the like are all Li Kang's meaning, which is close to modern units. The main reason is that the ancient unit system is too painful, one pound sixteen taels, one tael twenty-four baht or something, I don't know which guy came up with a brain pump (maybe people were still calculated according to the five elements gossip yin and yang rotation at that time).

The degree in weights and measures refers to the unit of length, Li Kang did not use modern units such as meters and kilometers, but still used the four-level old-style unit of mile size, and 1 li is equal to 500 feet, 1 foot = 10 inches = 100 points.

Don't look at the name, although it is the same as in ancient times, the length it represents is different, and the "ruler" was forcibly moved to the length of "meter" by Li Kang. And in order to determine the length, Li Kang directly exchanged one bronze strip of one meter, one decimeter, and one centimeter long from the system, and then used it as a benchmark for the carpenter to build the corresponding ruler one foot long, one inch long, and one minute long.

While describing the newly promulgated length unit, Qi Pre took a few wooden rulers on the table and introduced it, and after talking about the length unit, Qi Pre gave everyone a period of time to digest it, and then began to introduce the "quantity".

"Volume" refers to the unit of capacity, which in ancient times was particularly complex, with several sets of teams. Its special names include stone, sheng, bucket, hu, bean, district, kettle, bell, gui, copy, pinch, spoon, he, overflow, and so on. Li Kang sifted through them, and finally only chose the three most well-known units of stone, bucket, and sheng, and the decimal system was used. Moreover, Li Kang also derived the volume unit, which used the set of cubic feet, and stipulated that 1 cubic inch = 1 liter. Of course, the area unit must have also been put forward, and the size of mu and hectare was also determined at one time, and finally 1 mu = 500 square feet, which is smaller than the city mu, 1 hectare = 1000 mu.

Putting down the wooden barrel and the liter in his hand, Qi Yu then picked up the weighing stone placed next to him, checked it with his hand, and said with a smile: "This big scale weighs one catty, and the small one weighs one or two, all of which are new systems." In the future, 'half a catty and eight taels' should be half a catty and five taels. In addition, one tael is fifty grams, and two thousand catties, that is, a thousand kilograms are one ton. Remember them all. ”

That's right, after thinking about it, Li Kangsi decided to add "grams" and "tons". "Stone" has been used as a volumetric unit, and is no longer suitable for a weight unit, and the likes of "Jun" and "baht" are already niche, and people's acceptance is similar to "gram" and "ton", but Li Kang himself prefers to use the familiar "gram" and "ton", so he decisively added these two units.

After all the units of weights and measures were finished, Qi pre-emphasized a new provision, where the word "gong" is added in front of the unit, that is, it is doubled, for example, 1 kilometer is 2 miles, 1 liter is 2 liters, 1 kilogram is equal to 2 catties, and so on.

With the enforcement of new weights and measures, in the first few days, everyone will be a little confused because they are not used to it, but after a long time, coupled with the popularity of measurement tools, subtly, gradually become accustomed to it.

The impact is gratifying, Li Kang does not need to roughly convert every data in his mind, and the construction department and the general division have also eliminated the situation of wrong parts size, and the development of Xin'an Town is moving forward steadily.

In the next ten days, all the basic houses were completed, plus the first batch of ten, a total of 28 houses, three more than expected.

Most of the new barracks have been completed, and the transitional school buildings, hospitals, and canteens have also been completed one after another due to Li Kang's special care, and the rest are mainly the "private residences" of civil and military officials.

But these meat eaters are all lacking in their private homes.

But if you want to say that they are selfless because of their official duties, it would be too much to exalt them, and people's eyes are staring at the "small western-style building" that Li Kang rewarded Yang Pingwei and Feng Wenhan!

Don't talk about them, even Li Kang himself is greedy, who knows that the woodcut stunned wooden house given by the system is so good-looking, if you don't look at the inside (mainly the system building is powered and water), it is more beautiful than the system building, but also comfortable, two floors, herringbone roof, Ming tile, glass windows, a total of eight rooms up and down, the interior is paved with floors, the outer wall is painted with fresh paint, there is a corridor in front of the door, and it comes with a garden full of flowers and plants, the most unsightly thing is that there are two swings in the garden. It's tolerable, it's unbearable!

Look at the wooden house we built ourselves, there is no harm if there is no comparison!

Li Kang regretted it, so he could only look forward to the return of the caravan, and when the purse was over, he would buy a few more buildings and let them live together.

The caravan returned safely fifteen days after its departure, and at the same time brought back more harvest than the first time, and poured a large barrel of oil into the engine of "Xin'an Town".

In addition to more than two hundred and fifty catties of gold and twelve energy blocks, the few catties of seeds that came back with the team at the same time made Li Kang overjoyed.

This is a kind of native grain seed, which is reserved for sowing seeds by the natives themselves in the next spring, because the Tanglin tribe, the first contact of the caravan, does not work hard, so this kind of grain has not been discovered by Yang Pingwei until now, but fortunately, it is not too late!

It's just that the next time the caravan travels, there will be another important task, collect as many seeds as possible, the more the better, there is no upper limit, and it is a long-term task.

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The capital chain reached an unprecedented more than 20,000 yuan, and Li Kang, who had turned into a 10,000-yuan household, first fulfilled his promise and sent ten sets of military uniforms to Ping Zhenqi's team, not only that, but the military uniforms of all the armies were also solved.

Now that the gold is sufficient, it is not appropriate to specialize again, and it is easy to cause cracks in each team.

After that, Li Kang directly spent 18,000 points of gold to buy winter wheat in one go, which was a big step closer to the bottom limit of 1,200 mu of reclamation. It can be expected that if the caravan goes out again, this goal that once made Li Kang desperate will be overachieved.

In addition, in order to balance unevenly, the woodcut stunned wooden house also did not hesitate to exchange four sets, one set was given to Zhang Zhongjing - Li Kang can finally live in his bedroom - the remaining three sets were given to Wang Dafu and Sun Youcai, Zhang Li and Fu Guangxi, Wang Siping and Ping Zhenqi. As for the others, they will either find a good relationship to live with, or they will have to wait for the assigned wooden house to be built.

In this way, the big ones are divided, and the small ones are rewarded with some swords, treasures, and treasures, and everyone has no reason to complain.

After the housing allocation problem was solved, the manpower in the town gradually became idle, and Li Kang couldn't wait to put the road construction plan on the agenda.