On the contrary, if the military pay is issued by the Governor's Office of the Seventh Army, the final result will definitely be that the military pay is deficient, there is no way to sue, no place to seek justice, and the officers and soldiers will be ruined to the bottom.

As ministers of the court, they knew so many confidential secrets, but they didn't know what the unity of weights and measures would change.

Fang Shiyu continued: "It has been more than 30 years since the founding of the Ming Dynasty. The units of measurement are messy. Some use the Song Dynasty, some use the Yuan Dynasty, some use the Sui and Tang dynasties, and the Liao and Jin dynasties in the northern border.

It seems that the world is peaceful, but the Ming Dynasty was built on a ruin, which is even more abandoned than the establishment of any court.”

"In more than 30 years, the population of the Ming Dynasty has surged, from about 60 million in the fifth year of Hongwu to more than 10 million in the fourth year of Taishi."

"The surge in population has led to greater demand for food and land, including the intersection of the site, Liaodong, and the four major protective palaces that are about to be developed, although they can solve the urgent problem."

"But no matter how many acres of land are in the vast land, they cannot withstand the sparse arable land caused by the surge in population. There is only so much arable land in the Ming Dynasty. In my hands, the one on the left is the central court measurement ruler of the Ministry of Works, which is one foot long."

"The one on the right is the ruler of the Palace Textile Bureau, which is not necessary to compare. It can be seen from the naked eye that the ruler of the Textile Bureau is obviously higher."

"The rulers used to measure the land are also different. I have not found out the specific ones here. "The rulers used to measure the land are also different. I have no detailed data here, but you must know."

"What makes me most trouble is not these. The land in Ganjiang River floods, Jiangxi and Jiangdong has been re-measured. What's ridiculous is that it's so great that the Ming Dynasty, what else can I use? Do I measure it with my pace?"

"Do you don't know, or do local officials not know? A man who is five feet tall, a man who is six feet tall, and even a man who is seven feet tall, a man who is nine feet tall."

"Tell me, can you tell me that you can be the same big step? I'm talking about it. Even if you are of the same height, Lao Xia, are you and Zheng Ci standing up and walking, and see if he has the same result?"

Fang Shiyu was angry. It was already 1,400 years old. It was the 74th year of the Eastern New Year. It was the Ming Dynasty. Is there any measure to use my steps?

Even if they use a ruler with different local data, it would not make Fang Shiyu so angry. Steps? So will there be a result? If the ruler is different, even if the ruler of both sides is different, there is still a calculation standard.

Steps? Pull it down!

Xia Yuanji and Zheng Ci smiled awkwardly, "Your Highness, these are all messy methods, and the court will definitely not use them."

"Yes, of course the court won't use it, so I have asked someone to imprison the newly appointed prefect of Huizhou and the officials of the county and county involved. The Jiangxi governor held accountable and went to Beijing to report his duties!"

Fang Shiyu groaned, and Yang Yu said, "Your Highness, you won't be there."

"Isn't it? After the amount of land is over, should we redistribute it? Do we have to count and pay the grain? In the end, we suffer losses, either the court or the people who cultivate. Is it still a trivial matter?"

Fang Shiyu glanced at it.

"By the way, some time ago, I got news from the Yangzhou Firearm Manufacturing Bureau that the research on steam power has reached a critical moment, and steam engines may be released at any time."

The three ministers looked calm. They didn't know what the steam engine meant. They were busy and had no time to study and observe the steam engine.

Of course, they don’t know that it does not mean that Fang Shiyu doesn’t pay attention to it. At the current speed, Zheng He set sail in July this year, and the Ming Dynasty has already had a complete navigation chart. Zheng He will also circle the earth, loaded with goods, walking and trading along the way.

The Ming Dynasty is opening up trade to the whole world, and preaching its majesty and strength to the whole world, and exporting culture. So far, the imperial court has opened 17 trading ports, allowing local merchants to go to sea by boat.

However, the strength of the folk merchants is limited, and at most they can wander around the South China Sea. They can't go to Dongsheng Shenzhou, and Xiniu Hezhou, and they can't go to Xiniu Hezhou.

However, the rapid development of the Ming Dynasty and the arrival of industrialization, the latest and most recent, can complete basic industrialization within 150 years.

Fang Shiyu doesn't care whether the people will revolution or not, and he can't care so much. The existing measurement system is so messy that it cannot be applied to cautious and rigorous scientific creation.

Fang Shiyu doesn't have that strong ability and is too lazy to think. In his opinion, since there is a ready-made one, there is no need to recreate it.

Learn from the barbarians’ skills to control the barbarians.

The printing technology, compass, gunpowder and other technologies invented by China did not exist in the original Xiniu Hezhou. The Mongolian expedition in the West sent these things over.

Let the people of Xiniu Hezhou learn.

What's more, at this time, Xiniu Hezhou was also in chaos and was not even as good as the Ming Dynasty. Fang Shiyu took it out first, and this measurement system was the measurement system developed by the Ming Dynasty.

People in later generations will only remember that this is the measurement system invented by Taizong as an agent of the emperor, rather than the so-called measurement system of Xiniu Hezhou.

As for why Fang Shiyu was too lazy to think and just moved it? Since there was a clear and feasible path, why did he have to take a path that could not see the light of the dawn and would not know what the road ahead would be?

I feel the stones across the river and step on the suspension bridge. Wouldn’t he be nice to go directly to the suspension bridge?

The weight of the country is a unified standard for the country, so I won’t say much, and there is nothing to say. The most important thing is the length and time.

"In this world, there are many units of measurement and there are endless types. However, except for time and length, the Ming Dynasty was not unified and there were no strict standards. Other Ming Dynasty has developed for thousands of years and has formed a fixed rule."

"I just said the length, I'll talk about it later. Let's talk about the time issue first. I went to Sitianjian some time ago. The Sitianjian in Daming is also very standardized. There is no need to change it for twelve hours. This also agrees with the trajectory of the movement of heaven and earth."

"The change I made in the calendar is nothing. It's okay to have twelve hours, but when I go down, there is a certain letter in a quarter of an hour. But you tell me, what the memorial says is a stick of incense and a cup of tea."

"Light a stick of incense in the house, a stick of incense in the yard, or a stick of incense on the grassland. Tell me, are these three sticks of incense burned at the same time? Similarly, tea is the same."

"Si Tianjian and the Ministry of Industry jointly supervised and worked hard to expand on Su Song's water clock. It has been more than half a year since the supervisor of Si Tianjian told me that he had thought of a solution, which would not require an armillary sphere and water transportation activities."

"The clock that completes the timing by relying solely on mechanical movement."

"I have also achieved great success recently. Although this big clock doesn't look so beautiful, it was studied by the Ministry of Works and the Si Tianjian for a long time before he found out that Zi Chou Yan Mao, Chen Si Wu Wei, Shen You Xu Hai. In twelve hours, this thing can be turned around in one circle and it will be a day. Among them, you may not understand the concept of minute and second."

"I have calculated that the central city of the Ming Dynasty is still Xi'an Prefecture, so I have asked someone to go to Xi'an to study the astronomical phenomena carefully and strive to make this clock reach the standard."

"In addition, this type of hand turns one circle for one minute, and the minute moves fifteen times, a quarter of an hour, and the minute hand turns half a circle for half an hour."

"A minute hand turns around and an hour passes."

"It's Beijing time now, Chen Shi has been nearly a quarter of an hour."

Fang Shiyu actually did not make much changes to the clock, but because Si Tianjian suggested that only twelve hours a day will be set for twelve hours.

How can he make a day pass in just twelve hours, and the clock in later generations takes two rounds to spend a day, that is, twenty-four hours.

I went around twice, which was twenty-four hours.

So, Fang Shiyu doubled the second. If so, the second cycle would be in circles. In the future, the time flow rate was two minutes, and in the Ming Dynasty, it was only one minute.

This is also the reason why it can last twelve hours. In addition, certain changes have been made in digit sorting.

But these changes can be kept silent!

"The time has been roughly finalized. After the people from Sitianjian determine the exact time in Xi'an, they can be announced to the whole country, and they are uniformly called Beijing time. The time standard shall be subject to Xi'an!"

Fang Shiyu has already understood all this. In fact, the time in Beijing in later generations is actually based on the time in Xi'an.

After all, Xi'an is the geographical center of the entire country. It can be best to avoid excessive errors based on it.

"Besides time, this is the official ruler that Zheng Ci and I had been talking to for a long time before we chose. From today on, all measurements in the Ming Dynasty will be standardized according to this ruler.

No matter what other rulers are, those who measure clothes and those who measure land will be abolished. At the same time, the provincial governors, prefectures, counties, towns and guards in various places will be strictly used to measure the rulers as far as the countryside.

"All rulers should be strictly eliminated by taking official rulers as the standard. If you have more or less, you must not fool me with almost or you have less. You should not fool me with almost or use almost to fool the people."

"The people don't understand, I know it in my heart. In addition, ten feet are ten feet, and the Ministry of Revenue is ready to re-measure the land in the world, so I use this ruler."

"In the end, officials from units of measurement such as steps, cups of tea, incense, etc. will be eliminated in the memorials." Fang Shiyu's face was solemn.

There is nothing more terrifying to deal with these old guys in the officialdom than to eliminate fame and fortune.

The elimination of fame means that the sage books he has worked hard to learn throughout his life are in vain.

Zheng Ci went back and seized the time to create official rulers and make some one foot. On the official rulers, the length of one inch must be rigorous.

No other problems arise.

After Fang Shiyu said that, he glanced at Xia Yuanji and Zheng Ci and said, "Is there any problem?"

"Report to Your Highness, no problem, I have recorded it."

Xia Yuanji and Zheng Ci looked indifferent. Since Fang Shiyu said that, the weights and measures must be settled. So there are indeed great omissions in local weights and measures. It is not so convenient to use them, so it is better to plan them.

"The official rule was issued to various counties and counties, requiring local officials to measure the land again and tell them that they have finished measuring and the Ministry of Revenue will measure it."

"The Ministry of Revenue has finished measuring, and the Jinyiwei will go to measure it personally. In the end, I will go to every county and county. The Ming Dynasty is so big that there are always places I can't see, but if I can't measure the actual situation, then don't say that I'm unreasonable at that time!"

The food shortage this year did make Fang Shiyu think a lot. If it weren't for this food shortage, there wouldn't be so many things. After the food shortage appeared, Fang Shiyu realized that it was time to thoroughly measure and survey how many acres of land there were in the world.

Xia Yuanji was slightly stunned, but he was not worried. After all, he was already a senior official, and his annual salary was enough for him to be happy and carefree.

What's more, if you have power in hand, you have to work hard to gain power.

The acting emperor of the Zhu family is not so friendly to officials. He is harmonious and harmonious in his family. Once something happens, all officials in the world know that between mud legs and officials, the Zhu family can only kill officials and not kill people.

From Guo Heng, Kong Yin, Hu Weiyong, to the theft of the official warehouse before Fang Shiyu ascended the throne, and the case of breaking the dam in Jiangnan to deceive the emperor, the Ming Dynasty was less than forty years.

The number of officials who can be considered major cases, together with the beheaded and skinned officials, there are more than 70,000 officials at all levels on the list, and countless people were executed and exiled to Liaodong, Yunnan, and even exiled.

"Let the local officials be more stable. The Jinyiwei has already gone to Fengyang to check the Longxing Car Business. I have received news that the manufacturing standards of this Longxing Car Business do not meet the national customization and have done a lot of things."

"I don't know who the Longxing Car Store is in the court, but it's best not to let me know. Go back to work."

Fang Shiyu waved his hand. A merchant, the local official can’t take him any more. The governor wants to give face to him?

How could it be that he is so damn Xipi, no one in the court protects him?

The three of them looked plain and did not take this matter at all. They bowed and responded: "I'm going to leave!"

Seeing the three of them leaving, Fang Shiyu turned around and walked out together, heading towards Jingyang Palace.

Inner Palace.

As soon as he entered the house, Fang Shiyu saw Princess Qingshen fiddling with piles of newspapers and magazines, and seemed to be too busy to do it forever. Fang Shiyu stepped forward and said, "What? Is it too busy?"

"Your Highness, the fishing ferry is still very important and must be strictly controlled, otherwise I will be worried about chaos."

"Then you can't be so tired. We are here to enjoy it when we marry to the Ming Dynasty. If you have to make you so busy, why don't I find a few eunuchs to take over!"

The Ming Empire Daily is the only official newspaper recognized by the court.

It is not so much the only official newspaper, but rather the first newspaper that the emperor has identified. After all, the report on this thing, what can be raised and what cannot be raised is the final say.
To be continued...