When Li Chengqi walked out of the Ministry of Revenue, his chin was pointing at the sky.
With an abacus under his arm, he looked as though he was floating.
Bi Goo respectfully sent him out with a few pieces of paper in his hands.
"Thank you, King Song. King Song is a great talent." Bi Goo stood outside the door and shouted.
The others were puzzled. What is King Song doing?
"You're too kind." Li Chengqi continued to float into the distance.
Bi Goo opened his mouth, but in the end, he held himself back. Shaking his head, he returned to his room.
Not long later, King Song, who had taken the wrong path, turned around and left in a different direction.
In the office of the Minister of Revenue, Bi Goo ordered someone to bring him an abacus and practice the formula on the table.
"Use the two beads on the table to calculate the weight and the other beads on the table to calculate the weight. Use the beads on the table to calculate the weight of the weight.
Bi Goo muttered as he looked at the abacus.
He realized that the formula was too useful. With this formula, the secrets of those who used the abacus would be rendered useless.
An hour later, Bi Goo memorized the formula. Then, he brought the abacus and the table to the Political Affairs Hall.
As soon as he arrived, the three prime ministers walked out of their respective offices.
"Did you find a solution?" Lu Huaishen was the first to speak.
"Li Yi agreed to use future taxes to pay for it. This way, the Ministry of Revenue will benefit from it." Bi Goo spoke honestly.
"Is he willing to pay the advertising tax for the newspaper?" Zhang Shuo was the second to speak.
"No. He said that the money is useful, and it has something to do with the relay station, intelligence, and education. Thus, we should take care of it."
Bi Gou's expression was calm as he spoke.
The three prime ministers nodded their heads in unison. They admitted that the newspaper matter was too important.
To put it bluntly, the newspaper was in His Majesty's hands.
They believed that if Li Yi said that the advertising fee was useful, it would definitely not be for the Li family's farm.
"Alright." Yao Chong was also reluctant to give Li Yi a large sum of money from the Ministry of Revenue. The war was not over yet.
"Do the three of you know how to calculate by abacus?" Bi Goo said as he placed the abacus back in place.
The three of them: "…"
When it was time for lunch, the four of them went to Li Longji's place and asked to have lunch together.
Li Longji gave him face and called Wei Zhigu over as well.
When they arrived, Wei Zhigu was empty-handed, while Yao Chong and the other three each had an abacus under their armpits.
"Does everyone want to settle accounts with me?" Li Longji was puzzled and joked.
"Your Majesty, Li Yi is a great talent." Bi Goo took out a few pieces of paper from his sleeve.
"We know." Li Longji was even more puzzled. Did Li Yi's talent need to be mentioned again and again?
Wei Zhigu stood to the side in a daze. He didn't understand what was wrong with the four of them. Did they offend Li Yi?
"Your Majesty, please look at this." Bi Goo handed over the mnemonic formula.
Li Longji took it and read it out loud. "One up one, two up two … … one down five to four, two down five to three … … one down nine to one, two down eight to one … …"
As he read, he stopped and looked at the four people's abacus.
"This is the mnemonic formula? Easy to remember and learn. "Li Longji finally understood why Bi Goo praised Li Yi.
Wei Zhigu said, "Li Yi went to rob the accounts again. Ever since the double-entry bookkeeping method was introduced, those who were familiar with the Four Pillars bookkeeping method were no longer popular.
Everyone has their own tricks. Once the mnemonic formula is out, all accounts, including apprentices, can quickly learn it. Even the common people can take a look. "
"I'm afraid that's not the case. This method is simple. Do you all remember the Jiu Jiu Ge Formula? Children can learn it. Li Yi might want to add the mnemonic formula into the mnemonic formula. "
Yao Chong understood Li Yi quite well. Anything that was simple would inevitably become the mnemonic formula in Zhuangzi.
Li Yi wanted to spread it throughout the world. Pinyin was already considered a success in the capital government.
Many large families could only watch helplessly. They couldn't do anything to stop it.
Pinyin helped many people become literate. Even if this generation couldn't take the imperial examinations, they still had children.
They could teach their children to read and wait for their children to take the imperial examinations. They could also find a small official position in the county.
Looking at the proportion of people who took the imperial examinations, most of them were children of officials.
The rest were also taught by officials every generation. Only a small proportion of them learned it on their own.
The aristocratic families wanted to stop it, but they couldn't find a way.
For example, they bought all the newspapers. The Japanese were amazing. They could print 300,000 copies a day. The Li Family Zhuangzi would print the same.
"Very good, very good." Li Longji was happy. He ordered, "Quickly go to the Li Family Zhuangzi and ask if they have the blood sausage made today. If they do, quickly bring it back and add more dishes for the officials. "
Gao Lishi ran away. The others were worried.
"There's nothing to do in the afternoon. Let's eat hotpot and drink some wine."
Li Longji was in a good mood. He prepared to drink wine with the five officials during working hours.
The next day, the mnemonic formula appeared in the newspaper. Sure enough, there were sighs and praises.
"Master, something happened at home. I can't learn the mnemonic formula from you. Disciple kowtows to you."
In Chang 'an City, a shop's accountant brought a young disciple to find him.
As he spoke, he knelt there and kowtowed three times. Then, he got up and left.
In order to learn the mnemonic formula, the disciple had been doing other jobs. The master didn't teach him. He had to wait. When the master was satisfied, he would teach him a little.
It turned out that the young disciple was illiterate. Even if he was literate, he couldn't understand the nine chapters of arithmetic.
Now that he was literate, he read the newspaper with others and worked hard to learn pinyin.
Today, the mnemonic formula appeared in the newspaper. There were so many of them.
Since the master didn't want to teach, what was the point of learning? He found himself an abacus and self-studied according to the newspaper.
"Sigh!" The master sighed. There was one less free labor.
The key was that it wouldn't be easy to find free labor in the future.
"Li Yi, you're harming people." Another accountant with three disciples was even more upset.
In addition to being upset, he found that the mnemonic formula was easier to learn than his own. He quickly changed it.
Soon after, the workers' alliance became busy. Many people wanted to buy an abacus and make it themselves. It wasn't easy to grind the beads.
"Dongzhu, the newspaper is sold out. Everyone still wants to buy more. Do you want to print more?"
Li Yi was waiting for a steamer. Song De came over while he was counting the time.
"Is it the mnemonic formula? The mnemonic formula is printed separately. One copper coin per copy. If not, the cost will be too high. The advertising fees have already been converted. Even if we print more, it won't cost us more. "
Li Yi was distressed about the cost of the newspaper. Since they wanted the mnemonic formula, they had to print it. Those people were too lazy. Why didn't they copy it themselves?
Sure enough, people were very satisfied with the mnemonic formula. One copper coin per copy. Some people even bought ten copies.
In their opinion, copying was easy to make mistakes, but printing was guaranteed to be no problem.
Moreover, they were all superstitious. As long as it was something printed by the Li Family Zhuangzi, it would be faster to learn.
For example, there was a child from a certain family who was studying in the family school.
One day, he suddenly used the back of the newspaper to practice his writing. In less than half a month, his improvement was greater than the previous half a year's practice.
There were many people who believed it. They even proved that their own children were the same.
There were even some family schools that specially found newspapers for their children to learn and practice their writing. It was said that the effect was obvious. Unfortunately, newspapers were not easy to find.
Li Yi didn't care about what others said. His new research had achieved some results.
The new method of making canned food didn't require the use of porcelain bottles.
The new utensils needed to be used together. After that, he would look at the shelf life before promoting it.
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