Seeing that he was about to succeed, he didn't expect the eldest princess of Yong'an to go out in person, Shi Chang secretly complained, and said with a smile: "Just as the eldest princess was about to learn that Shu Yan had a bad ...... in his heart."

"Needless to say." The eldest princess of Yong'an glanced at him and said, "I know this matter best. Shu Yan didn't lie at all, and I was personally present when Ah Weng entrusted Shu Yan. ”

"What?" Shi Chang couldn't believe it, even Biyu didn't know about this matter, how could the eldest princess of Yong'an get involved?

"Why, you still don't believe me?"

Shi Chang still lowered his head, unwilling to say that he believed it, and he didn't dare to say that he didn't believe it.

"Is it the wat board that Ah Weng left as a voucher when it fell to the ground?"

"Exactly."

The maid who carried it with her thought that the eldest prince of Yong'an was going to inspect the wat board, so she got up and picked it up and wanted to present it with both hands.

The eldest princess of Yong'an waved her hand and said, "I watched Ah Weng hand it over to Shu Yan with my own eyes, and there was a handwriting written by Ah Weng himself on it. Because I was there, I knew what was written. Now I'll recite it to you. You see if it's right or not. ”

Shi Chang hurriedly snatched the wat board from the maid's hand, fearing that the eldest princess of Yong'an would see the handwriting on it. In fact, the handwriting on the wat board is very small, and it is absolutely impossible to read it if you don't hold it in your hand.

The eldest princess of Yong'an smiled coldly, didn't look at it, and read directly behind her back: "Shu Yan holds this wat as if I am in person, if there is a disobedient person, it will not be considered to be killed." If necessary, it can also be sent to the official court. ”

Shi Chang looked at the words on the wat board, word for word, and suddenly lost his arrogance. But he didn't want to admit defeat completely, because he didn't think Shu Yan would be able to find out what was wrong with him.

The eldest princess of Yong'an turned her head and smiled at Shu Yan: "The concubine really doesn't know about this, and he didn't shirk it on purpose, so I ask for your forgiveness." I'm here to check, how do you want to check, just let it go. The rights and wrongs are today, so that everyone can understand, and it is good to give Ah Weng an explanation. ”

With such a big face as the eldest princess of Yong'an, even if she is dissatisfied with Biyu, what else can she say?

"Here is the entire harvest of your 980 acres of land in Shujiazhuang Grange, including 400 acres of rice and 580 acres of millet, let's take a look at the total output first."

The eldest princess of Yong'an nodded and said, "That's good." There are ready-made Hu in the granary, but so many grains, it is too slow to use only one Hu to measure, and then take four Hu, and everyone will measure five Hu together. ”

Shu Yan replied with a smile: "Even if five Hu are measured together, it is too slow, and it is very laborious. I don't need to use a dwarf to measure the yield. ”

"Oh." The eldest princess of Yong'an seemed to understand, "You want to see the weight, right?" Then go get a five-pole scale. ”

Shu Yan hurriedly stopped: "Although the weighing is faster, it is more laborious than using Hu to measure Jialiang." And I think last year's output was calculated in Hu, in order to have a comparison, it is necessary to use Jialiang to count today. ”

Shi Chang reprimanded beside him: "Confused things, Jia Liang's biggest tool is Hu, you don't need Hu, do you use a bucket?" ”

"Still saying I'm confused? You're talking nonsense. If you use a bucket, you are afraid that it will not be dark? Shu Yan glared at Shi Chang, and then continued to say to the eldest princess of Yong'an, "I really don't hide it from the eldest princess." I have a method, I don't need to use a hu or weigh, but to use a ruler. ”

"With a ruler?"

Everyone felt ridiculous when they heard this, and they all muttered quietly.

Shi Chang happened to take the opportunity to attack and said: "How can this be true! Everyone knows that the weighing is weighed, the Jialiang is measured, and the judge is judged. And if you use a ruler to measure Jialiang, isn't it tantamount to using a plan to correct the circle with a moment? Such bullshit people still dare to point fingers here, don't get out of here! ”

Shu Yan raised his eyebrows and said: "Whether you can pass or not, you will see later." In addition, there is the eldest princess here, and it is not your turn to dictate. ”

Although the eldest princess of Yong'an didn't know why, she believed that Shu Yan was a reliable person, so she ordered someone to take a long ruler.

Shu Yan took the ruler, walked to the granary, measured it, and instructed the house slaves: "Fill it with grain." ”

The house slaves were still a little incredulous, and asked, "Just pour it inside without going through Hu?" ”

"Do you want to use Hu to measure?" Shu Yan asked with a smile.

"No, no, no." The house slaves shook their heads again and again. If you use Hu to measure, you need to scoop the grain in the sack into the Hu first, scrape it with a wooden stick to ensure that it is not convex or concave, and then pour it into the granary. This is not only laborious, but also time-consuming. It was they who were tired, and of course the house slaves preferred to untie the bag and pour it directly into the warehouse.

"Are you sure you're not kidding?" The eldest princess of Yong'an looked at the grains that were gradually piling up in the granary and asked Shu Yan.

"He's certainly not kidding."

The eldest princess of Yong'an didn't know who interjected such a sentence, and when she turned her head to see that it was Biyu who was back again, she couldn't help grinning: "How do you know that he is not joking?" ”

After Biyu was dragged back to the room by Ah Miao, she was persuaded and understood the truth, and returned here under Ah Miao's urging. He saw Shu Yan walking into the warehouse with a ruler in his hand to measure, and he knew what it meant. Then he said to the eldest princess of Yong'an: "He wants to use arithmetic methods to calculate Jialiang. ”

"Arithmetic direct extrapolation? Does this method guarantee accuracy? ”

There were so many people present, except for Shu Yan and Biyu, who basically didn't know a single big word. Although Shi Chang and the eldest princess of Yong'an have read some books, they are limited to poetry books. For arithmetic, I only know the most basic addition, subtraction, multiplication and division, where can I know what to calculate the volume of a cylinder.

"Of course it's accurate, and it can even be said to be more accurate than using Hu. Because with Hu once and once measured, there will be more or less errors each time, but this method will not. ”

"To put it simply." Shu Yan picked up a Hu and said, "The reason why Yi Hu is a Hu is that there are prescribed standards. The standard of our dynasty is: one foot three inches and five minutes and five centimeters in diameter, and one foot deep, and its product is three thousand, four hundred and forty-one inches and tenths of an inch. I only need to calculate how many grains there are in the warehouse, and I will know how many grains there are. ”

"I understand that this method is to see the big from the small. The shape of this granary is also round, like a very large husk. I understand the reason, but what is this algorithm? The eldest princess of Yong'an asked curiously.

"Half of the square cang's path, multiply the valley high, multiply three and one minute and four centimeters."

"Uh-what?" The eldest princess of Yong'an looked confused.

"Don't ask. If you say it, you won't count. ”

For Biyu's slightly contemptuous stop, of course the eldest princess of Yongan was not angry.

Shi Chang was embarrassed and said: "Not only does the eldest princess not understand, but I and everyone else will not count." But we can't just listen to what you say, it's only true if it's right. In order for us all to be convinced, both of you must do the math once, and the result will be the same to pass; If there is a disagreement, then it proves that this method is not feasible. ”

Of course Shu Yan doesn't care about Shi Chang's embarrassment. Because he knows a lot about Jade's talents.

Two hours later, all the rice and millet were put into storage.

Shu Yanfu drilled into the warehouse again, flattened the grain surface, and measured the height of the grain filling with a ruler. Of course, Biyu would not climb up and down in the granary in person, so he picked up the ready-made ones and asked Shu Yan directly for the size. The diameter of the two granaries is twenty-four feet, the height of the rice silos is five feet eight inches, and the height of the corn silos is six feet six inches.

After some calculations, both came up with the result.

Biyu said with a smile: "The corn warehouse is only eight inches higher than the rice warehouse, but the accumulation is more than two hundred and fifty more. The yield of rice is ......"

Shu Yan saw that he was about to say the data directly, so he hurriedly stopped: "Let's write down the numbers on paper and then display them separately." Otherwise, your uncle will slander the two of us for colluding and will not admit it. ”

Biyu understood, so he asked for two pieces of paper. The two of them wrote down the numbers on it, and then showed it to everyone together: rice is 1,819 Hu 05 buckets, and millet is 2,007 Hu 05 buckets.

Such a large string of numbers, not only integer pairs, but even fractions are the same.

The eldest princess of Yong'an, with her special identity, can calm Shi Chang, but she must also convince people with reason. If the data of the two people are inconsistent, Shi Chang will use the topic to play, and it will not end well. She was also nervous just now, pinching a handful of sweat. It wasn't until the results were announced that I was overjoyed.

In this way, when the drought harvest is halved this year, Shujiazhuang Pastoral can still harvest 3,890 grains. And last year, when the year was normal, only 2,800 hue were collected, how do you explain it? The eldest princess of Yong'an saved face for Shi Chang, but asked Tian Fudao instead.

Tian Fu was so frightened that he didn't dare to speak, and only looked at Shi Chang.

Shi Chang, as the master of the Shi family, is relatively calm. He glared at Tian Fu and said, "Last year's drought was worse than this year's, have you forgotten?" ”

Tian Fu acted in Shi Chang's eyes, and after Shi Chang's hints, he knew that he couldn't give up resistance, and followed: "Yes, yes, yes." Last year's drought was much worse than this year's. Not only last year, since Gongzi went to Luoyang, there has been almost no good year. There was a two-year flood, then a year's locust plague, and then a drought in the past two years. ”

"Is that really the case?"

"It's true, if the eldest princess doesn't believe it, you can find other Zhuang heads to ask." Shi Chang confirmed. He secretly calculated in his heart: no matter how good Shu Yan is, he can only grasp the actual output of this year, as for the drought and flood situation in previous years, as long as he insists on the disaster, who can do anything? He exchanged glances with Tian Fu, and the faces of the two of them showed smugness.

The eldest princess of Yong'an was really helpless. In previous years, I had been in Luoyang, and I didn't know about the situation in Ruyin, even if I knew that they had misdeeds, what evidence could I come up with?

was anxious, so he heard Shu Yan laugh and said: "It's a clear lie, and you dare to say it!" Are you sure that there will be two years of flooding and then another year of locusts? ”

"Of course. I remember it clearly. After two years of floods, in the third year there was a plague of locusts. The locusts were overwhelming, and the crops were eaten everywhere they went. ”

"But it's not, the big locusts in the sky are dense, and they can't be beaten and can't be stopped, and they can't be driven away, so there's nothing they can do!"

Facing Shi Chang and Tian Fu's singing and harmonizing, Shu Yan said coldly: "What a big locust." Does it have to be seven feet tall? ”

"What do you mean by that? Where are the seven-foot-tall locusts? Shi Chang said strangely.

"Seven feet tall, do you have to say it?"

"You're saying we're locusts?" Shi Chang glared at Shu Yan angrily, "If you don't make your words clear today, I won't be able to spare you." ”

"Oh, you're not a locust. Because you don't even know the habits of locusts, how can you be a locust? Shu Yan first mocked him, and then said, "Locust plagues have always been accompanied by a great drought without exception, or appeared in the next year of the great drought. When did you hear about locusts after a flood? ”

Hearing Shu Yan say this, Shi Chang was a little confused. In his memory, including Tian Fu, there had never been a locust plague in Ruyin, and he knew nothing about the locust plague. The so-called locust plague was completely invented. However, he refused to give in, and replied: "You say that I don't know anything about locusts, but I'm so old, how dare you say that you know something about locust plagues?" ”

"This is thanks to my experience as an official in Luoyang. I had heard of locust plagues three times in the north, and even witnessed them in my first year in Luoyang. Without exception, all of them were accompanied by a major drought. ”

"Who said locust plagues must have come after a great drought? When there is more rain, there will be no locust plague? ”

"Of course not. First of all, after the drought, due to the lack of water, the natural enemies of locusts, such as frogs and birds, will be greatly reduced. Locusts, by contrast, prefer dryness to moisture. The arid environment allows the locusts to grow without fear. In addition, locust eggs are also adapted to dry environments, and a large number of locusts produce a larger number of eggs, so locusts tend to explode in the second year of drought; Conversely, when there is enough rain, there will be a corresponding increase in frogs and birds. And the eggs of locusts are not easy to survive in a moist environment, so how can a locust plague occur? Instead of the locust plague, if you say that there was a major flood in the first two years, it was just a little more rain, and it would not reduce the yield at all. I have interviewed many people, in recent years, the only thing that can really be called a disaster is this year's drought, and Shujiazhuang Grange still has less than 4,000 husks of harvest, which is 1,000 husks more than last year's output you said, how do you explain this? ”

Shi Chang and Tian Fuli are at a loss for words, but they have their own thoughts. Tian Fu didn't dare to say more, but Shi Chang still didn't want to give up his denial, and argued strongly: "Agricultural affairs depend most on the right time and place." Even if there is no catastrophe, it is rare to see a good year. Shujiazhuang Grange relies on the convenience of the Ru River water conservancy, so there will be a good harvest. However, most of the other plots of land do not have the convenience of water conservancy, and are completely dependent on the sky. How can the output of Shujiazhuang represent all the granges owned by my Shi family? Besides, Shujiazhuang Grange has always been in charge of Tian Fu, if you want to explain it and let him explain, I don't know anything. ”

"You?" Tian Fu didn't expect that at the critical time, Shi Chang wanted to pretend to be confused, and wanted to lose the car to protect the handsome, so he pushed himself out.

When the eldest princess Yong'an heard this, she said coldly: "What Uncle said is also right, Tian Fu, as the head of the village, should be directly responsible. I don't want to use lynching, Ah Weng has written very clearly on the wat board, and if necessary, he can be sent to the official to bring it to justice. Tian Fu will hand it over to Shu Yan and take it back to the county. As for the fields of other granges, since Uncle raised an objection and said that he can't generalize to a partial extent, then Shu Yan, you should work harder, put all the plots of my grange into the warehouse like Shujiazhuang just now, measure a real number, and then compare it with the amount in last year's account. I'm also wondering how much it will be this year, if it was 7,000 last year! ”

"Obey the orders of the eldest princess, but today is definitely too late. But please rest assured, the eldest princess, I have fully understood the situation of all the granges of the Shi family, and have sent someone to block it to ensure that there will be no mistakes. ”

Shi Chang was already on the edge of the cliff at this time, unable to advance or retreat. saw Biyu quietly walking past his side and said, "Shu Yan can do what he says." I advise Uncle to admit it quickly, when the time comes, he will really count the total harvest of all the granges, and you will end up even worse. ”

This seems to be said casually, but in fact, this is Biyu really thinking about Uncle and wanting to reduce his guilt. Shi Chang also understood what it meant.