In the morning, in the military camp, soldiers were conducting daily training. On the side of the field, Li Li watched several soldiers fiddling with a set of devices.

This set of devices looks like a wheelbarrow. The wooden box on the car is equipped with a large bundle of ropes. The ropes are marked at equal distances, which are the range-finding ropes.

The entire set of devices is called a rope ruler, which consists of three parts: a ruler (rope container), a car body and a rotating shaft.

The ruler body is a wooden frame with a positioning point and a frame, and its positioning point can be inserted into the soil at the starting point of measurement.

Two frames distributed at right angles can fix two "car bodies" respectively.

There is another rotary wheel on the two "car bodies", and there are hemp ropes marked with many marks wrapped around the rotary wheels.

The two "rotating shafts" are used to measure the retraction of the rope ruler at the end.

When measuring the rope ruler, it is generally done by three people, one person fixes the ruler body at the starting point (can be the middle point of the measuring section), and is responsible for recording the readings of the rope ruler on both sides.

The other two men, one side, stretched the rope ruler in the opposite direction to the end of the measuring section to complete a measurement.

Three soldiers completed a measurement on the calibrated open space, and Li Li used a pocket watch to record the time.

Then another set of devices came on the stage.

This device is also installed on a wheelbarrow, but the wheelbarrow is just a simple vehicle, and a soldier lifts something from the wheelbarrow.

Li Li looked closely and saw that it was a wooden box mounted on a cross-shaped rack, with a roll of bamboo strips rolled inside.

The cross containing the wooden box is made of wooden, and the ruler is made of bamboo strips, which is the ruler.

The center of the spinning, the drilling foot is made of iron, and there is a foldable shaking handle on the side.

The entire set of devices is called "measuring ruler".

To use, only two people are needed: one person sets the drill foot of the large tape measure at the starting point of measurement, and the other person pulls the front end of the tape measure forward to reach the end point of measurement.

Together, the two tightened the ruler, and the person at the starting point recorded the length mark on the ruler.

Then, the person at the end let go of the slut, and the person at the starting point turned the handle and took back the slut.

Li Li also timing the measurement process of the slut.

Then, the third set of devices came on stage.

This device looks like a wheel push rod, adding a wheel to the long rod, called the distance measuring wheel, and there is a mechanical counter on the side of the wheel shaft.

The counter has two counting functions: one is to count the number of turns, and the other is to count the rotation length of a single turns (if it is less than one turn).

Press the counter button and the counter is cleared.

The man holds the grip of the long pole, puts the wheel at the measurement starting point, and then pushes the wheel forward.

When the wheel rotates, the mechanical counter on the side of its shaft will start counting.

When the wheel reaches the finish line, lift the wheel, record the number of laps, multiply it by the circumference of the wheel, and add the length of the single lap to obtain the measurement distance.

The distance measuring speed of the distance measuring wheel is very fast. Among the three sets of devices, the distance measuring (measurement) of the same length is the shortest.

And it is lightweight, so it can be carried and operated by one person.

There is no doubt that in terms of paper parameters alone, the distance measuring wheel is the best tool for local governments to measure land.

Is this really the case?

no.

The structure of the range-finding vehicle is simple, but the mechanism of the mechanical counter is not simple (relatively speaking). Even if it is equipped with an iron shell, it is prone to failure due to impacts caused by various reasons.

Most of the components of mechanical counters are made of iron, and they are prone to rust in actual use, so they need to be disassembled and maintained frequently. Grassroots officials do not have this ability.

There will be another problem during use: pushing the distance measuring wheel may not necessarily lead to a straight line, so you have to pull up a long rope or draw a straight line on the ground so that the distance measuring wheel can follow the straight line.

This will increase the workload, and since the rope has been pulled, why not just use the rope ruler to measure it?

If you don’t straighten the rope and draw a straight line, just measure the land in this way, and use a simpler "step rule" with a simpler structure, which is more convenient and simple.

The step gauge is a "man"-shaped tool similar to a compass. The distance between the two legs is fixed (for example, five feet), which is simple and practical.

Therefore, based on the usage experiences in various parts of Xuzhou and comprehensively considering it, it is still a "measuring ruler" (large tape measure) is more useful.

Because after the length exceeds a certain value, the rope is much heavier than the bamboo strips of the same length, so it is very laborious to collect, release and carry.

Moreover, the slackness of the rope will also affect the accuracy of measurement, and this problem does not exist in bamboo strips.

The "measuring ruler" structure is very simple, you can make it by just finding a bamboo carpenter. It is very convenient to repair, relatively durable, and has low production and maintenance costs.

Therefore, the Xuzhou Prefecture Party will present the best measurement tool "measuring ruler" through practice, and present it to the court, which coincides with the court's implementation of the local severance.

The purpose of land severance is to rectify household registration and measure the newly-cited household registration name to collect taxes, so the cheap and easy-to-use "measuring ruler" comes in handy.

Li Li asked the soldiers to pack up their equipment and looked at the well-made distance measuring wheel, which was a pity.

Unfortunately, the scope of implementation of soil rupture is limited, and because of the implementation object, the effect of "open source" may not be very good.

Li Li felt that the court should overcome all difficulties and conduct a real inventory of households and land acres.

Discover as many hidden households and hidden fields as possible and include them under the jurisdiction of the government.

If you can't do it, it is impossible to significantly increase taxes based on the ground break.

It is definitely not easy to find out how many hidden households and fields are under the names of the powerful landlords, but if they don’t do this, the country with dull tide will be rotten day by day.

The world is divided into three parts. When the three countries cannot do anything to each other, the fewer mistakes they make, the more likely they are to "get through" their laughter will be.

But if you want to "get inseparable", the finances must be able to support an army that can at least protect the family.

As Li Li gained an in-depth understanding of some situations in the court, he felt that financial issues were a big problem: the court's annual income was barely enough, and there was almost no surplus, and if he wanted to make a difference, he could not continue.

No matter who comes to be the emperor, you have to face this problem. If you don’t solve it well, you will easily suffer from depression.

Li Li looked at the soldiers training on the school field and remembered himself and Zhang Ying. Zu Qi summarized a set of numbers: estimates of households in three countries.

The population statistics of this era are generally registered in the household registration of the government, which facilitates tax collection.

On average, a household is counted as five.

However, because of the existence of a large number of hidden households and the management of household registration in different countries, the number of registered households is very different from the actual number of households.

The number of registered households in Liang State now has about 1.4 million households.

As for Qi, Qi was transformed from the Eastern Wei Dynasty. Li Li listened to Zu Wei’s introduction that when Wei and Qi were replaced, the number of registered households was about 2 million.

Now Qi State lost Huaibei, but considering that the population has proliferated in the ten years after the Wei Dynasty, it should be no less than 2 million households.

As for Zhou State, the population can only be calculated.

After the rebellion of the Six Towns, the population was lost a lot. When the Erzhu family was defeated and before the Wei Kingdom split, Zu Yu remembered that the number of registered households was about three million.

Wei divided the east and west. Since the Eastern Wei occupied more than 2 million households, the population at the beginning of the Western Wei Dynasty was about one million households.

Later, the Western Wei seized the Yiliang area of ​​Liang State, while the Liang State occupied the Mianbei region of the Western Wei Dynasty. One of them grew and the other was deteriorated. A rough estimate was that the number of households in the Western Wei/Zhou State was about one million households.

Population is the most important resource. Only people have labor, land output, and the army is not short of soldiers.

Therefore, the ranking of national strength of the Three Kingdoms, referring to the number of registered household registrations, is: Qi State (more than 2 million households)> Liang State (about 1.4 million households)> Zhou State (about 1.1 million households).

So, in terms of national strength, it is no problem for Qi to fight two at one.

In fact, the same is true.

However, national strength must be mobilized before it can be transformed into war capabilities, and an effective military system is needed to exert war capabilities and win military victory.

In this regard, Liang Guo was at the bottom.

After the Six Towns Rebellion, Wei divided the core power groups of the East, East and West Wei regimes, all of which originated from the military groups of the Six Towns. The leaders used military power to obtain the power of the prime minister, and then undermined the imperial power to control the government with the domineering government.

The military abilities of the martial heroes who came out of the sea of ​​blood were beyond doubt.

They controlled the court and formed a power center. Such a power group would inevitably have a high efficiency in transforming national strength during wars.

Where is the Liang Kingdom?

The imperial court suppressed military personnel in terms of system construction, which led to the fact that over the past few decades, the general level of generals was low. The Liang army fought against the strong enemy, and small-scale battles were OK, but it was very easy to collapse once the army fought a decisive battle.

After the defeat in Henan last year, the prime ministers also saw that the overall strength of the official army was not good, so they decided to "take peace as the most important thing" and did not expect to win Henan.

I just want to live a peaceful life with my current family business.

This is unacceptable to Li Li, who has just passed his thirties.

It was not that he did not accept peace, nor that he wanted to be a military force, but that he did not accept being a papermaker.

The mess should be rectified instead of being blocked, otherwise even if it is a "good man", I'm afraid I can't survive the other two countries.

Now that the King of Xiangdong has used the land to establish his authority, he may really want to "make a difference", he wants to see who will be in trouble next.
Chapter completed!