After leaving the venue of the blind date conference, Qingji, Sun Wu and Fan Li came to the market again.

All three of them have more than one season!

During the Spring and Autumn Period, the folk atmosphere was still quite open.

When she meets the man she likes, the girl can also muster up the courage and boldly confess, in order to tie the knot and become a good union for a hundred years.

However, Qingji didn't expect that the girl of Wu Kingdom would dare to pursue her love so much.

Suddenly, the three of them, who were like street leaders, saw a cloth village in the market, and there was a noisy sound.

Many pedestrians with good deeds have come up one after another, wanting to see the excitement.

Driven by curiosity, the three of Qingji also squeezed in.

"Shopkeeper, how many times do you want to say so? You're not the right size! ”

"How is it wrong? I'm the standard size! Don't mess around! ”

"Do you dare to find another one to spend and give it a try?"

"How dare I?"

"Good! Wait! ”

Not long after, the middle-aged man who had an argument with the shopkeeper went to another cloth shop to get another degree (similar to a ruler), and then picked up the piece of cloth he had bought and measured it.

The middle-aged man immediately changed color!

"Look! Shop, you marked it with a cloth of one foot and two feet, why is it one foot and three inches at the degree I found? ”

The middle-aged man said indignantly: "You are clearly cheating!" Finagle! ”

"Ah, this ......"

The store was speechless for a while.

In ancient times, the instrument used to measure length was called degrees.

The name of the length unit was produced very early, and in ancient times, it was named based on a certain part of the human body or a certain movement, such as inch, late, ruler, zhang, xun, chang, and so on.

In these names, the ruler is the basic unit of length. The length of one foot is similar to the length of one hand, making it easy to identify.

Therefore, in ancient times, there was a saying that the cloth hand knew the ruler, and the ruler knew it.

In addition, it is a practical unit of measurement depth and constitutes a system in its own right.

There has always been no clear definite number in the relationship between the proportion of the square and the ruler, and it is generally believed that one is four feet, five feet six inches, seven feet, and eight feet, and it is generally considered to be eight feet.

The middle-aged man immediately picked up the degree and cloth in his hand, raised it high towards Li Shu, who was watching nearby, and then said loudly: "Second and third sons, please comment on the second and third sons!" ”

"The cloth that he bought in his cloth shop was secretly changed in size, isn't it fooling customers?"

"If we can't give a reasonable explanation, this matter will never be good today!"

Li Shu, who was watching, was also filled with righteous indignation.

"Profiteers!"

"Although it's only seven inches less, how can I, a Wu person, suffer such a dumb loss?"

"Sue the officer! Don't be selfish! ”

The store owner was also taken aback when he saw this group of excited scenes.

"Second and third sons, don't be impatient!"

The shopkeeper hurriedly calmed down the onlookers for the time being.

Subsequently, the shopkeeper waved to the middle-aged man and said: "Guest, dare to guarantee with credibility, operate with integrity, and Tong Su is not bullied." ”

"If this cloth is really missing size, how about making a wish to compensate for the original price and give this cloth to your feet?"

"The facts are right in front of you, how dare you deny them?"

"Definitely."

The shopkeeper said calmly: "The guest may wish to give this cloth to the degree of this cloth village, whether it is one foot or two feet, or lack of a foot or an inch, you can know at a glance." ”

"Humph! Let's see what you can conjure! ”

The middle-aged man was very angry.

Then, the middle-aged man handed the cloth in his hand to the shopkeeper, and the shopkeeper ordered the little guy to bring his own degree and measure it again.

"One foot and two feet! Correct! ”

"This ...... No way! ”

The middle-aged man raised his eyes and saw the size displayed on the scale, and his eyes suddenly widened, and he looked incredible.

"Shopkeeper, you have a problem with this!"

"Don't talk and stir up right and wrong!"

The shopkeeper snorted coldly and said, "It's obvious that there is a problem with the degree you brought it, how dare you come to the door to pick quarrels and provoke trouble?" ”

"No way!"

The middle-aged man gritted his teeth and said: "I bought a lot of cloth on weekdays, and I noticed that there was a problem with the size of the cloth in Rubuzhuang, so I came to the door to verify." ”

"How can you tarnish people's innocence out of thin air? Say that a certain person comes to the door to pick quarrels and provoke trouble? ”

This time made the onlookers a little confused.

The public says that the public is reasonable, and the mother-in-law says that the mother-in-law is reasonable.

What's right and what's wrong?

The middle-aged man argued with the shopkeeper again, chattering endlessly.

At this time, it is impossible to tell whose degree is wrong!

At this time, Sun Wu, who had been standing on the side and watching for a long time, touched his beard, the corners of his mouth rose, and unconsciously showed a smile of sudden realization.

"Two, can you listen to me?"

Sun Wu squeezed through the crowd and came to the middle-aged man and the shopkeeper to make a gesture.

The two of them were also very convinced when they saw Sun Wuyi's talent and extraordinary bearing.

"Your Excellency has words, but you can speak directly."

The middle-aged man returned the salute.

"Listen to the accent at your feet, is it Wu Ren?"

"Exactly!"

The middle-aged man puffed out his chest proudly.

Sun Wu looked at the shopkeeper again and asked, "Shopkeeper, are you a Qi person?" ”

"It's the people of Qi down there."

The shopkeeper can also hear Sun Wu's accent, just like himself, he is a Qi person, and it is very likely that he is a Chinese near Linzi!

"That's not surprising."

Sun Wu smiled with relief and said, "I have lived in Wu for a long time, and I have also bought a lot of cloth. ”

"It was found that the degree of Wu Di is different from the degree of Qi Di, the standard of Qi Di is slightly shorter, and the standard of Wu Di is slightly longer."

"Shopkeeper, you must have brought it from Qi Di this time, right?"

"This ......"

Only then did the store realize the seriousness of the problem.

This degree of his is indeed brought from the Qi State, and it is the most standard degree of the Qi State, but it is not easy to use in the Wu State at all!

After knowing that there was a problem on his side, the shopkeeper did not mess around, but paid the cloth to the middle-aged man, and claimed that in the future, his cloth village would use all the degrees of Wu Guo.

This farce was solved!

After this incident, Qingji also realized a more serious problem.

"Young uncle, Changqing, my Wu country is now a great businessman, attracting businessmen from the world to enter Wu."

"However, if the cloth is short of a ruler or an inch, if the wine is short of a drink, if the meat is short of a pound or two. Weights and measures are not uniform, I am afraid that civil disputes are continuous, and losses are also different. ”

Qing Ji said earnestly.

"The Lord wants to unify weights and measures?"

Fan Li asked suspiciously.

"Exactly."

Qingji already had this plan in his heart.

It's just like the official language of the kingdom of heaven and earth is not uniform.

Everyone can understand it, but it's very awkward.

Scripts and weights and measures vary from country to country.

But since the other party is doing business in Wu State, he must follow the local customs and do business according to the weights and measures of Wu State.

Even in the previous state of Wu, the weights and measures of various places were not necessarily uniform.

Because of the existence of feudal lords and guards in various places, in order to take advantage of a little advantage, everyone will not make some changes to their weights and measures.

The First Clan

Finagle!