parentshiftbook Chapter 457: Redefine Weights And Measures To Prepare For The Foundation Of Industrialization [Pleas
Chapter 457: Redefine Weights And Measures To Prepare For The Foundation Of Industrialization [Pleas
"I was just talking about kilograms and liang, and by the way, I also want to talk about weights and measures.
"Why are measures and quantities both in decimal, but scale is not in decimal?!!"
“Today, twenty-four baht is used as one tael, sixteen taels is used as one catty, thirty catties is used as one pound, and four baht is used as one stone. Don’t you think this conversion is very cumbersome and inconvenient?!!
“The conversions between baht, liang, catty, jun, and stone are all different, which makes it very inconvenient for people to calculate and convert.
"There are even many gentry and merchants who deliberately bully the people into not knowing the conversion methods between baht, liang, jin, jun, and stone. They are short of jin or less, deceiving and harming the people."
"And similar things also include big buckets coming in, small buckets coming out, long rulers and short rulers, etc.!!!"
"For the convenience of accounting and conversion for the common people, as well as to reduce the possibility of the gentry and merchants deceiving the common people through the lack of jins and ounces, big and small fights, long and short rulers, as well as the convenience of the imperial court's own statistics."
"It is suggested that Your Majesty take advantage of the upcoming inventory to determine the number of acres of land in the world, formulate the sand table model of the Great Tomorrow, and re-unify the weights and measures of the world! 17!!
"Using the size, weight, and length of the country as the standard, all decimals are used, for example, ten taels is one catty. During the period of inventory and verification of the land and acres of the world, the whole world will be implemented!!!"
Yan Changqing looked at Zhu Yuanzhang below and suggested with a very serious expression.
Although the Qin Emperor unified weights and measures, it was indeed a great good thing.
But, Damn, why are "degree" and "quantity" both in decimal, but "weight" is not in decimal?!!
To convert baht to two, use the 24-digit system!
To convert liang into kilograms, I use the hexadecimal system!!
When converting kilograms into average weight, his mother-in-law uses the hexadecimal system!!!
In the end, they were all converted into stones, and the purpose was the four-lecture system!!!
Yan Changqing just wants to say which "crouching dragon and phoenix chick" came up with the "weight" conversion method?!!
[Oh, it seems that Li Si's "crouching dragon and phoenix chick" came up with it!!!]
Yan Changqing thought expressionlessly.
It is said that at that time, the Qin Emperor ordered the unification of weights and measures, and the person responsible for formulating the standards of weights and measures was Prime Minister Li Si.
Li Si successfully formulated the standards for length and capacity, but in terms of weight, he couldn't figure out how many taels should be considered as a bed.
So he asked Qin Huangzheng for instructions, and Qin Huangzheng's instructions only contained four words written in small seal script: "The world is fair."
Li Si was still confused after seeing this instruction. What standard was this?
So Li Si thought about it, and in order to avoid being held accountable for problems in the future, he decided to use the number of strokes of the four characters "The world is fair" instructed by Qin Shihuang Xiaozhuan as the standard.
In this way, if something goes wrong in the future, there will be a way to avoid liability.
So the standard was set that one pound equals sixteen taels.
In this regard, Yan Changqing does not know whether it is true or false.
However, if it is true, Yan Changqing just wants to grab Li Si's collar and ask:
"Are you stupid?!"
His mother-in-law, when it was established that ten feet are equal to one zhang, why didn’t he see you undecided and ask Qin Huangzheng for instructions?!!
When we decided to make ten liters a fight, why didn't I see you undecided and ask Qin Anzheng for instructions?!!
As a result, when it was time to make a decision, you suddenly couldn't make up your mind and thought of asking Qin Huangzheng for instructions?!
And if so, why aren’t the length and capacity changed to hexadecimal?!!
In short, Yan Changqing is very annoyed with the measurement standard of "weight" which is a mixture of 24-base, hexadecimal, 30-base and 4-base.
It happened that Zhu Yuanzhang was also preparing to inventory and verify the number of acres of land in the world, so he asked Zhu Yuanzhang to take this opportunity to re-assess the weights and measures!!!
Moreover, only Zhu Yuanzhang could do things like reassessing weights and measures, and it was only possible to implement it during the Hongwu period of the Ming Dynasty.
Because the Ming Dynasty has just been established for more than ten years, the implementation of new weights and measures at this time will not have a particularly chaotic impact on the people of the world.
In addition, as the founding monarch, Zhu Yuanzhang's own prestige is unmatched. If he wants to re-evaluate weights and measures, no one can stop him.
But once the Hongwu period of the Ming Dynasty passed, after Zhu Yuanzhang passed away, and Prince Zhu Biao, Zhu Di, Zhu Fan, Zhu Di and other princes succeeded to the throne, they became the second emperor of the Ming Dynasty.
Then it would be even more difficult to re-evaluate weights and measures at that time.
On the one hand, it is because at that time, the people of the world had been using the original weights and measures for decades. If new weights and measures were to be replaced at this time, it would be extremely easy to cause confusion among the people.
On the other hand, the civil and military officials, noble marquises, subordinate officials, gentry, wealthy households, and landlords all over the world who benefited from the old weights and measures will also try their best to prevent the re-evaluation of weights and measures.
And can the second-generation emperors of the Ming Dynasty, such as Prince Zhu Biao, Zhu Xi, Zhu Fan, and Zhu Di, have such great prestige that they can overwhelm a large number of civil and military officials, noble marquises, subordinate officials, gentry, and wealthy people like Zhu Yuanzhang? Households and landowners also need to put a question mark on them.
In addition, there is another most important reason, that is, Yan Changqing is preparing to lay the foundation for future industrialization!!!
Or in other words, it is a prerequisite preparation for the future industrialization foundation!!!
After all, if you want to enter industrialization in the future, then the current elaborate weights and measures system will definitely not work.
Because the synonym for industrialization is assembly line production!!!
The premise of assembly line production is to have a unified, standard and simple weights and measures system!!!
Only with a unified, standard, and simple weights and measures system can it be possible to split the items that were originally difficult to produce into standard parts that are relatively difficult to produce.
Similarly, only by reducing the difficulty of manufacturing finished products to that of standard parts can we be able to train a large number of craftsman apprentices who can produce these standard parts in a short period of time.
Similarly, only by having a large number of craftsman apprentices can we produce a large number of standard parts!!!
Similarly, only by having a large number of standard parts can we rely on the assembly line to quickly assemble these standard parts into finished products.
Finally, the finished objects are continuously and rapidly produced like an assembly line.
And this is the meaning of having a unified, standard and simple weights and measures system, and it is also its most important meaning!!!
Even if Yan Changqing didn't happen to think of weights and measures this time, he would be ready to start production on the assembly line later.
By then, after discovering the problems with the existing weights and measures, he would also find reasons to suggest Zhu Yuanzhang re-evaluate the weights and measures.
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