My life skills in Daming Liver

In the days that followed, Su Ze and the Cai family began to compete fiercely. The Cai family filed a lawsuit against Su Ze and "Surprise" to the county government. drag.

You said "Surprise" is defamatory? But the newspaper didn't say that the Cai family is your family member Cai's family.

There is no regulation in the Ming Dynasty these days, what should I do if I slander someone in a newspaper?

Bai Zhixian is a highly motivated Ming bureaucrat.

As a self-motivated bureaucrat, Baizhi County's greatest wish is to avoid accidents in his own place.

For local gentry like Cai Yuanwai, Baizhi County generally does not interfere with them.

Baizhi County of Feihu Gambling Shop turned a blind eye to it. Under normal circumstances, Baizhi County would also give convenience to the Cai family.

Everyone is a scholar, they are all officials, and naturally they are all family members.

However, Baizhi County was also secretly angry when faced with a bunch of things caused by Yuanwai Cai.

The matter of the gambling house is not on the table, but the matter of Xiong Yue is indeed suppressed by the county. If the matter really becomes a big deal, a comment from Baizhi County that creates unjust, false and wrongly decided cases will not be able to escape from Shangguan.

Of course, Baizhi County was also annoyed at the trouble Su Ze caused him. In the final case, both sides hit 50 boards each. "Surprise" must publish in the newspaper to declare that the Cai family in its article is not Mr. Cai's family, and it has to compensate Mr. Cai Twenty taels of silver at home.

Cai Yuanwai was not allowed to sue again, and the two parties signed the Ganjie document. Su Ze smiled slightly. Will anyone believe this kind of statement after it is published?

Of course the Cai family is not willing to let it go, if they don't report this matter, they will naturally report other things.

But the Cai family soon fell into another trouble, and this trouble was related to the foundation of the Cai family. Cai Yuanwai soon gave up chasing and beating Su Ze.

Cai's dyeing workshop is out of business!

Indigo dyeing is needed by ordinary people and low-level scholars. The dyeing workshops scattered throughout Nanping County are the largest industry of the Cai family.

This is also the most important source of income for the Cai family besides the tea garden.

The income of the dyeing workshop dropped sharply, and the Cai family and Su Ze spent a lot of money in a lawsuit, which soon became stretched.

Cai Yuanwai was no longer as calm as before, and personally went to the largest dyeing workshop in his family, and began to check the latest accounts.

The shopkeeper stood tremblingly at the side with his hands down. Cai Yuanwai read the two books, pointed to the two months' books and said:

"Tell me! Why have there been so many fewer people dyeing cloth in the past two months? Even if there is trouble with Japanese pirates, Nanping City is safe. This month, there are even fewer people dyeing cloth than when Nanping was besieged by Japanese pirates! Have you filled your pockets!"

The shopkeeper is a domestic slave of the Cai family, and the deeds are all in the hands of Cai Yuanwai. He was so frightened that he fell to his knees and said:

"Father Cai! It's not a villain who is greedy for ink. The seven dyeing workshops of our Cai family are all like this. They can't all make false accounts together!"

Cai Yuanwai did not speak. Although the shopkeeper of this dyeing workshop had some dirty hands and feet, Cai Yuanwai was an official of the household department and was best at reading accounts, so his subordinates did not dare to go too far.

It is also a common practice for various shopkeepers to take some points from it.

But such a sudden drop in sales, I'm afraid it can't be explained by the greed of the shopkeepers of the seven dyeing workshops.

"what happened?"

The shopkeeper said with a mournful face: "Last month, Yu's cloth shop sold a kind of blue cloth, which said it would not fade after being washed in the sun. At first, I thought it was Yu's propaganda. There is no color-fast fabric in this world. Dye cloth."

"But since last month, our family's business has started to decrease. The younger one went to buy a foot of blue cloth from Yu's family and came back."

The shopkeeper took out a foot of blue cloth from under the counter. Mr. Cai looked at the bright blue color, but he didn't care about it.

In fact, the color of indigo dyeing is also bright, and the Prussian blue fabric does not have much advantage in color.

But the shopkeeper's next sentence was that Yuanwai Cai's expression changed.

"Father Cai, this fabric has been washed ten times."

Cai Yuanwai grabbed the fabric and found traces of rubbing and washing on the fabric, but the whole piece of fabric was still dyed evenly, and there was no uneven color after the indigo water system.

Cai Yuanwai immediately realized the seriousness of the problem. If the whole Nanping County wore clothes with this kind of dye, would his own dyeing workshop still have business?

"What is the price of this fabric?"

The shopkeeper lowered his head and said, "It's no different from ordinary blue cloth."

Cai Yuanwai held back his dizziness and said, "Why didn't you report it last month!"

The shopkeeper quickly said: "Last month, there were not many new blue cloths in the Yujia cloth store. Although they were popular, they couldn't sell a few pieces of cloth for clothes a day, so they didn't report to the government."

"What about this month!?"

"A few days ago, the supply of new blue cloth in Yu's house was suddenly sufficient, and he even opened a new cloth dyeing business, which can dye old clothes with new blue dye..."

Cai Yuanwai couldn't stand upright and almost fainted.

Cai Yuanwai naturally knew the meaning of a dye that was not easy to fade.

If they only sell cloth, the Cai family still has time, but if the Yu family's cloth shop also dyes cloth, then the Cai family will have no business at all.

If other shops do something wrong, Cai Yuanwai has already thought of a way to crack down.

However, Commander Yu is not an ordinary person. Even if he is a more noble civil official and a third-rank commander who has retired from the country, he is not something that he, a member of the household department from the fifth rank, can handle at will.

"Where did this cloth come from! The business of Yu's cloth store has been bad, right?"

The shopkeeper hurriedly said: "According to the information I found from Yu's house, this cloth was sent by Changning Wei."

Changning Guard!

It's Changningwei again!

Cai Yuanwai's teeth were about to be gritted, but he still quickly figured out a way, as long as he finds a few rotten people to go to Yu's cloth shop to make trouble, saying that there is a problem with Yu's dyed cloth, he will definitely suppress Yu's family momentum.

No matter how hard he tried to steal the recipe for dyeing cloth, Yuanwai Cai did not believe that his seven dyeing workshops could not compete with one cloth shop.

But the shopkeeper's next sentence made Mr. Cai feel cold again.

"I heard that the recipe was invented by Mr. Hu, the mine supervisor."

Mine supervisor, Mr. Hu.

Cai Yuanwai naturally knew about this strange eunuch outside Nanping City. Although this Eunuch Hu's reputation was not obvious, the eunuchs in the palace could reveal it to the emperor!

No matter how courageous Mr. Cai is, he would not dare to offend such a person.

Member Cai sat down on the ground, the cloth dyeing business was in decline, what would happen to the food and drink of the dozens of members of the Cai family?

It’s only October now, and the tea garden will not be able to earn income until the spring tea is released around Qingming. Is it possible that the whole family has been drinking northwest wind for half a year?

But Yuanwai Cai probably didn't know that this was part of Su Ze's series of slaps.

Dealing with Cai Yuanwai has entered the stage of soft knife cutting flesh.

Su Ze has temporarily calmed down these days. He goes to the nursing home to give lectures to the children every day, and then he practices calligraphy and solves math problems.

Now Su Ze has three skills that have reached Lv4, namely:

Calligraphy: Lv4, 360/400

Mathematics: Lv4, 152/400

Medicine: Lv4, 95/400

The children in the Nursing Home were all sick after being watched by Su Ze, and their medical skills were still too early for Lv5. Su Ze was going to return to Changning Wei after the lecture on the county school in the middle of the month, and give it to Changning Wei Beishan Village and the mine One inspection tour should be able to upgrade to Lv5.

Math skills depend on Father Pierre.

The old priest searched his memory and wrote the math problems he encountered into a collection of math problems. Su Ze has been brushing this set of math problems these days, and finally got his math to 152/400.

But Su Ze has already cleaned up all the Chinese and foreign mathematics books on hand.

Su Ze had already asked Lin Deqing to look for books on mathematics when he bought the goods. If it didn't work, he had to go to Yuegang to buy books.

I heard that Yuegang has all kinds of books, even if they are foreign language books, Su Ze can learn them as long as he brushes up his language skills.

If you can't find it anymore, you can only go to Macau to find the Jesuit missionaries.

When it comes to missionaries, the overall impression is naturally that of religious lunatics, backward and ignorant magic sticks.

But in fact, since the Middle Ages, priests have always been a class of knowledge.

In fact, if you understand Confucianism as Confucianism, you also understand the political status of the Western priesthood.

For example, in France decades later, the two French prime ministers, Richelieu and Mazarin, were both priests.

During the Ming and Qing Dynasties, many missionaries also entered China. These Jesuit missionaries entered Qintianjian, which promoted the exchange of mathematics between the East and the West.

Wait, astronomy!

Su Ze suddenly thought that there is also a large part of mathematics in astronomy. Isn't the problem of celestial bodies movement a natural mathematics problem?

Or go back to Changningwei to build a telescope?

No, it was illegal to study astronomy privately in the Ming Dynasty.

Qin Tianjian was an official of the inner court in Ming Dynasty, and the so-called inner court official was the emperor's private minister.

Qin Tianjian's responsibilities include "speculating the latitude and longitude of the seven political longitudes, the eclipse of the sun and the moon, the five-star fushimi, the astronomical phenomena of the four seasons, and compiling the calendar." Daily report", and finally there are "calculation of auspicious days, promotion of weddings, exploration of Fengshui in mountains and hills" for the royal family.

Ever since Dong Zhongshu proposed the induction between heaven and man and tried to use prophecy and celestial phenomena to limit imperial power, the feudal rulers of all dynasties began to fight for the right to interpret astronomical phenomena.

In the Ming and Qing Dynasties, centralized rule reached its peak, and the Ming court had the right to interpret the astrology. Emperor Jiajing used the astrology many times to suppress courtiers.

Blame the astronomical phenomena and disasters on the court ministers, and remove the court ministers through astrological abnormalities, which naturally requires the cooperation of Qin Tianjian.

Yes, binoculars.

Telescope stargazing is of course not just for math. Astronomy is of great significance in navigation and positioning, map drawing, and calendar compilation. These things are all critical things without exception.

People need to use the calendar to determine the date of four-season farming. The current calendar "Da Tong Li" has not been revised for more than a hundred years, and the calendar is no longer accurate.

Of course, this is definitely not what Su Ze can do now. Privately practicing the calendar is a more serious crime than privately measuring the astronomy.

You want to revise the calendar, so do you want to revise "History of Ming Dynasty" next?

However, the important role of astronomy in navigation positioning and chart surveying made Su Ze have to study it.

When I go back and set up an observatory, I should be able to learn astronomy skills. Wouldn't it be nice to study astronomy and mathematics at the same time?

Su Ze was still immersed in his beautiful imagination, Fang Ruolan pushed the door in.

Fang Ruolan pretended to be careless and walked in front of Su Ze. She took out a beautifully bound book from her sleeve and casually handed the book to Su Ze.

"Your word is too common compared to literary talent. You may be rejected if you take part in the provincial examination."

"I'll lend you this copybook for copying for a few days. Anyway, my family won't need it for the time being."

Su Ze took it over and took a look, "The Orthographic Letters of Yang Wenzhen's Official Letters"?

I only saw that the characters on this copybook were square and square, each character was horizontal and vertical, neatly written like a woodblock printing script. This is the official font required to be written in the Imperial Examination of the Ming Dynasty - "Taige Style".

As for Duke Yang Wenzhen, he was Yang Shiqi, a famous official in the early Ming Dynasty.

Yang Shiqi is a master of calligraphy. Although this book is a copybook of rubbings, it is also a very precious collection.

Su Ze already had guesses about Fang Ruolan's identity, and the only one who was eligible to collect this book in Yanping Mansion was Fang Zhifu who was a Jinshi.

Sure enough, Su Ze turned to the back and saw a collection stamp of "Xuya Mountain Man".

Su Ze heard that Fangzhifu repaired the pavilion of the back house after he took office as the government office, and personally inscribed "Xu Yating". This seal must be Fangzhifu's collection stamp.

Su Ze looked up at Fang Ruolan, and thanked her, "Thank you Mr. Fang for giving me the book."

"It's a borrowed book. This book is lent to you to copy, and I will return it to me in a few days!"

After Fang Ruolan finished speaking, she picked up the words that Su Ze had just written on the table, frowned and said, "Although this reed pen is easy to use, it is easy to write crookedly if you write too much. You will have a county test next year, so you have to practice hard to be good at it." right."

Su Ze didn't care about Fang Ruolan's nagging, he naturally knew that Fang Ruolan was for his own future.

The writing brush is good for writing characters, but it is not as convenient as the reed pen for writing numbers and calculations.

After the invention of the reed pen, it was basically used by officials with knives and pens in the yamen, or by accountants, and was despised by mainstream literati.

After all, no matter how good you are at mathematics, you can't be an official.

Su Ze wasn't going to change Fang Ruolan's idea either.

Fang Ruolan said again: "I have already proved the method of pushing and gathering the top!"

Fang Ruolan took out a piece of paper, it was a geometry problem, she looked at Su Ze proudly.

A few days ago, Su Ze explained arithmetic to the children, Fang Ruolan also became interested, and listened to it a few times.

Later, when she saw Su Ze doing math problems, she followed suit.

Fang Ruolan is indeed talented and intelligent. She quickly mastered Professor Su Ze's mathematical symbols and was able to solve the problems Su Ze left for the children.

After discovering the joy of arithmetic, Fang Ruolan begged Su Ze to give her some questions.

The Gauss shoelace theorem, which can measure the land, is the mathematical formula Fang Ruolan is most interested in. After Su Ze gave her a bunch of basic mathematical formulas, she unexpectedly deduced the formula abruptly.

Fang Ruolan's face was full of "praise me", and Su Ze praised: "Mr. Fang is really talented in arithmetic!"

Fang Ruolan raised her head proudly, and Su Ze wrote down another question: "I still have questions, do you mind?"

Fang Ruolan thought of the days when she had to burn the lights to do math problems, but she had an unyielding temperament.

She immediately said, "Forget it!"