Three Kingdoms: From Hulaoguan to Global Hegemony

Chapter 243 Ninety-nine formulas
After about an hour, the grain bags in several tombs were all neatly arranged in squares.

Sun Rui personally went to the open space to wake up Liu Yu and Ma Teng, "The soldiers have arranged the food neatly according to King Zhongshan's order. How should King Zhongshan count the quantity?"

Shi Sunrui was a little impatient, because he felt that it would be difficult to count the number of grain bags piled up in this way.

Liu Yu rubbed his eyes, stretched again, and then pointed to the big piles of grain in front of him and counted them.

"One, two, three..."

Seeing Liu Yu counting the quantity like this, Li Ru walked over in confusion, thinking that the total could be calculated by counting these large grain piles, and he would not believe it even if he was killed.

"A total of 51 square meters, um, 51 bags of grain. By the way, we need to add the 51 bags under us, and the total should be 15 bags!" Liu Yu called Zhou Fang after finishing speaking. Tweety.

Li Ru, on the other hand, was shocked on the spot, and said in disbelief: "This...how did King Zhongshan know this amount!"

Liu Yu smiled slightly and replied, "Of course I counted them one by one!"

Zhou Fang and Cui Di took pens and paper to record one by one during the process of transporting the soldiers, and not only the two of them, but also Li Ru's people followed the whole process, so Li Ru actually knew this amount a long time ago.

But what surprised him was that Liu Yu had been sleeping all the time, and he had calculated the total number of food bags before Zhou Fang and Cui Di came to report that day.

Did Liu Yu really calculate the exact amount just by counting the big grain piles?How is this possible!
Seeing Li Ru's mouth open in surprise, Shi Sun Rui knew that the number counted by Liu Yu this time should match the number counted by Li Ru's people.

At this time, Ma Teng also called his subordinate Xiaoxiao, and asked, "When the grain bags were placed just now, how many bags were transported by the soldiers in total? Do you have specific statistics?"

The Xiaoxiao replied: "General Qi, the five thousand soldiers have all recorded the number of bags they carried, but it will take some time to add them all together."

Ma Teng was not stupid either. After hearing Liu Yu's statistical method, he arranged for each of his men to remember how many bags of grain they had carried, and then add up all these amounts to get the final amount.

A quarter of an hour later, the small school in charge of the calculation sent the final quantity, which was really the 51 bags that Liu Yu said!
Shi Sun Rui fell in admiration after hearing the words, "The king of Zhongshan is a great talent! You have such superb attainments in mathematics, can you tell us your method in detail, so that we can open our eyes!"

"The little tricks are worthless!" Liu Yu cupped his hands humbly, "Actually, I just used ninety-nine formulas to calculate the quantity of each side as [-] bags in advance, and then count how many large grain piles there are. Bags of food."

Liu Yu's algorithm is actually a simple multiplication, and the first-year students of later generations will probably do such a problem.

But no matter whether it is Li Ru, Shi Sun Rui or Ma Teng, none of them have studied arithmetic systematically. Even small schools in the military that specialize in statistics will calculate very slowly when adding large data.

As for multiplication, people who understand it are even rarer.

Although the ninety-nine multiplication formulas have been recorded as early as the Spring and Autumn Period and the Warring States Period, there are very few people who can use them comprehensively and skillfully.

Moreover, the largest number in the Jiujiu formula is ninety-nine 81, and the piles of grain placed by Liu Yu are all ten rows and ten columns, which also involves continuous multiplication, so everyone showed incomprehensible expressions after hearing it.

"Nine-nine formulas? What is that?" Ma Teng looked confused.

Li Ru and Shi Sun Rui looked at each other. Both of them are good at reading. Although they don't like math, they have heard about Jiujiu formulas.

"Nine-nine formulas can't exceed nine at most, but the king of Zhongshan asked the soldiers to arrange..." Li Ru didn't know how to multiply, so he could only look at Shi Sun Rui suspiciously.

"I've seen Jiujiu formulas in ancient books before, but I didn't look at them because I thought they were blunt and difficult to understand. Now it seems that King Zhongshan is very knowledgeable. Not only has he memorized Jiujiu formulas by heart, he should also know how to apply them in a comprehensive manner. It's real!"

Shi Sun Rui gave a thumbs up in admiration, and Liu Yu smiled modestly again.

"Hehe, your lord is absurd. I just have a good teacher, so I understand better than others!"

Now that the quantity on Ma Teng's side was also matched, Shi Sunrui felt that there was no need to check the total amount of grain and grass, and when he heard Liu Yu mentioning his master, Shi Sunrui fixed his eyes on the grain in Zhou Fang's hand. pen and paper.

"Master Kang Xian is indeed a legendary figure, and the nine-nine formulas taught are much better than those recorded in ancient books!"

"...I heard just now that the pencil and the white paper were also invented and improved by Kang Xianfu. I don't know...do you still have any extra white paper in your house?"

Seeing Shi Sun Rui's embarrassed expression, how could Liu Yu not understand what he was thinking.

"Hehe, these two things are indeed made by Master Kang, my master. If Master Shisun likes them, I will send you two. I hope you don't think too little. After all, my master has passed away for a long time, and I left it as a blank sheet of paper. Only a few photos!"

As soon as Liu Yu opened his mouth, he sent out two pieces of high-quality white paper. Both Li Ru and Ma Teng slammed their mouths with envy.

Shi Sunrui was even more excited and his hands were trembling. Early in the morning, he heard about the various legendary inventions of Master Kong.

I originally thought that if I could see one or two of them, I would be lucky enough, but I didn't expect to get the white paper made by Master Kong so easily today.

Paper is very valuable, but the white paper made by Master Kong is a peerless treasure. Sun Rui got two at once, how could he not be extremely excited.

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After the quantity statistics are clear, the next step is the specific division of labor, how to guard and transport the grain.

Liu Yu is the highest commander in charge of supervising this matter, but both Li Ru and Shi Sun Rui represent the opinions of the two factions. If Liu Yu's arrangement is unreasonable, the two of them will definitely oppose it on the spot.

But what surprised the two of them was that Liu Yu's arrangement was impeccable.

He asked Ma Teng's men to be responsible for the guards inside the underground palace, and the people from the Warlord Battalion and the Royalists to be responsible for the ground guards.

When transporting grain and grass into Taicang, Ma Teng's army was the main force, and Han Sui's department was the supervisor and guard.

In the end, he also said that if Li Ru and Shi Sunrui were worried, they could also arrange for people to escort the food and grass into the city along the road.

When the two heard that no matter it was the guard work or the transportation process, there were three groups of people present at the same time, which could not only ensure the maximum safety, but also supervise each other, in case someone on the road changed food or deducted bags one by one.

In addition, they have confirmed the total amount of grain in the underground palace in advance, as long as the grain bags received by Taicang match the total amount, there will be no loopholes or losses.

"Could it be that Liu Yu didn't have the idea of ​​buying this batch of grain at all?" Li Ru touched his beard again in disbelief.

(End of this chapter)