From Chief to Ball

He pointed to the painting on the wall and said, "Is this drawn by a child?"

"Yes, my daughter. Now she is studying weaving in the school of the poorhouse, and she comes back once a year. We are all like this. When we come back, we will stop doing this. My daughter doesn't know anything."

"What about your man?"

"Working on the docks."

What the woman said was so natural that she didn't even feel that something was wrong.Chen Jian choked suddenly, and asked after a long time, "How long have you been doing this?"

"About two years. When I was working, my fingers grew knuckles. If it turned out that before the Poor Law was changed, as long as the fingers were chopped off, they could receive the minimum living guarantee. It is not possible now, and the finger is not given. Anyone who does not have a finger Those who work must pay close attention to the workhouse..."

Speaking of the word workhouse, the woman trembled all over, as if her already numb heart had touched a block of ice.

"My fingers are swollen and I can't do weaving. How can other jobs compare to those veterans who have been working all year round? No workshop wants me, and I have no land, so I have to spend some money to get a business license to do this. I don’t have this certificate, but I will be arrested and sent to the poorhouse.”

Chen Jian said with a smile: "Then if you do this, won't you also rot all over in the future?"

"That's better than going inside. A few years ago, I heard that the group of people in the council said that people are poor because of laziness, so the workhouse has been reformed. It must be strictly treated. There are often people who are exhausted, so they don't want to enter the poorhouse." In a workhouse, there must be something to do, so people become diligent. It is difficult to live in it, and the corpse can be dissected after death, which is actually good. In the past, when the dissection of the corpse in the workhouse was voluntary, People are often killed by trying to find ways to sell them, and they have to fool the autopsy officer, so some people used to be 'drowned' in the river every year, especially when the medicine class started every year. Now at least we can't be 'drowned' drowned'."

"That's it. If you don't have money, you can only work. You can't be lazy, otherwise you will be arrested and sent to the poorhouse. Only after entering the workhouse do you know that the work in the workshop outside is nothing, so you can only work harder if you can come out. I was arrested. The work injury compensation law has never been practiced, and I can’t pass every vote. Those who don’t have enough property don’t have the right to vote...”

"Didn't your Poor Party say that you want to raise taxes for the rich and build better workhouses? But the rich are in the council, how can they agree? Sooner or later they will die. I just hope that my daughter will die too." It’s fine, decades, it’s okay, right?”

Chen Jian looked up at the woman's eagerly looking eyes, and thought about how fewer people would use the machine in a short period of time after the machine appeared. : "Yes, yes."

The woman took a long breath and said, "The ancestors will protect you, you are really a good person. Just like what Jixia said back then, you will definitely live to the lifespan your ancestors gave you."

Chen Jian smiled back and asked, "Do you believe that you are poor because you are lazy?"

The woman laughed haha, and said: "Anyway, when we were enlightened, the book didn't say so, and I don't know if it has been changed now. At that time, it just told us that we should study because we are poor. If we can be admitted to the public middle school The college is fine. It just tells us that the law is set by the council and represents the will of all Chinese people. Anything that violates the law must be wrong. Let us not break the law. We abide by the rules of the Poor Law, but It’s not that you’re poor because you’re lazy.”

Chen Jian snorted, and asked again: "What did you learn when you were enlightened?"

"The rules set by Ji Xia have been opened for five years, and no one dares to change them. Recognize characters, count, and laws, and then look at where they are. Like our mothers who are all weavers, they learn to weave. You can work. According to the book, enlightenment is to observe discipline and work faster.”

"Tsk, I still left some truth..."

The two chatted for a few more words, estimated the time, Chen Jian got up and bid farewell, without giving another copper, left the smelly alley, and rubbed his head.

On the small pier by the river, Henry Zhang had been waiting so bored. Seeing Chen Jian thinking about the time he had spent before, he smiled maliciously, shook his head and said: "Even if you are poor, you don't have to save it for this, right? Go to the medicine It costs more than thirty copper coins to buy a few mercury fire salt pills from the shop, and besides, those things can easily lose your stuff, so be careful."

"By the way, speaking of this, the person who made the Mercury Fire Nitrate Pill was a prescription that he accidentally made after he got a big sore. It was published in the pamphlet "Herbal Medicine" and patented. It costs a lot to sell one. Give him a copper. If you catch a disease, you can think of a better way, maybe you will get rich, hahaha."

Chen Jian cursed a few more words, boarded the boat, and went down the river.

The closer it is to the sea, the more prosperous it is. Ships filled with coke, rice, coal, cloth, silk or primitive pottery are constantly passing by in the river. The shore is bustling with people. Carrying all kinds of tools and waiting there for work.

The bridge on the river is very special, with a large arc to facilitate the passage of boats. Some trees are planted on both sides of the river bank, and horse-drawn carts move on the flat ground.

The road is very wide, and it is very difficult for a four-wheeled vehicle to turn. The arc is very large. There should be no steering device, but it is very suitable for this kind of wide flat land.The wheels creaked.

There are also people coming and going in the wine shop in Linhe, and a strange smell wafts from time to time. It seems that the clansmen have inherited the delicious habits of the Xia people in the previous life. There is a large row of pottery vats for making soy sauce, and a few guys are stirring there. The shopkeeper behind was sitting in the sun, holding a book and reading with relish.

A fort was built near the pier, several large ships with hard sails were loading and unloading cargo, and there were several ships with soft sails beside them. These were all kinds of rough estimates left by Chen Jian in the book in the last 20 years of his previous life.

The two warships are flying dragon flags, with two cannons at the front and rear, and the bow seems to have a ramming angle. It seems that boarding is still the mainstream.

A group of hired workers chanted to load and unload the goods, and a group of people waited there to pack their own goods. Several large carriages were loaded with boxes of goods, which were accidentally scattered on the ground, and were blown by the wind with rattling noises. It's a box of books.

The person behind was probably a bookseller, wearing a pair of expensive glass glasses, scolded the loader, and carefully checked the books that had fallen on the floor.

Chen Jian jumped off the boat and walked towards the bookseller. Henry Zhang secretly marveled, and thought that this guy is really weird today. I didn’t see him like this even when he was in school. There are all printed books here, but no one wants to read them. The thing is, then go to find the manuscript.

Feeling more and more weird, I couldn't help feeling cold and shivering all over, thinking to myself, is there really such a supernatural thing as a soul possessing a body?

Chapter 4 A glimpse of the whole leopard

Chen Jian walked to the bookseller and looked at the books scattered on the ground. They were all thread-bound, there were a few novels, and some messy books.

"Do you have "Nature" and "Analysis" or something?"

The bookseller adjusted his glasses, glanced at Chen Jian, and asked, "The kind of pamphlets produced by the Academy? You are lucky, you really have them."

After speaking, he stood there, stretched out his hand, and motioned for money.

Seeing Chen Jian's bewildered expression, the bookseller shook his head and said, "Books are for reading. After reading them, what else is there to do except to paste the ceiling and wipe the butt? Most of the money in a book is on the words inside. You If you don’t give me money, how can I give you the book? If it’s any other book, it’s fine, it’s absolutely impossible to get a pamphlet from the Academy.”

"Those who can afford books are not short of the money. How can you do business if you don't trust people so much?"

"If you signed a contract with me, you will definitely buy it if you show it to you. Of course I will show it to you. But you just talk about it, and I don't know you well. How can you trust you?"

Reluctantly, Chen Jian took out the money, patted his thigh and sighed: "The world is declining, people's hearts are not old, morality is degraded, there is no human touch at all, all are steel and bronze machines! It's over! It's over!"

Henry Zhang and the bookseller looked at Chen Jian like a fool, not knowing where his emotion came from.

When he saw the poor people who became prostitutes because of the poor law, Chen Jian didn't say pills; when he saw the huge gap between the rich and the poor, and the cheap old man took kickbacks, he didn't say pills; Regretted, the despair of a pill filled my heart.

With this level of morality, I am afraid that once the fog is opened, the grassroots will be properly occupied by religion; I am afraid that when I walk out of the fog and see Daming, I will be spit on my face: the beauty of obedience is called splendor, and the greatness of etiquette is called Zhixia, why the hell do you look in the mirror and see which one you have taken?How dare a group of barbarians call China China?

Chen Jian thinks about it, the only thing that can be refuted on that day is to let the other party spout wildly, and can only refute like a repeater. This is the real rule of the three generations-at least we are the system of abdication.

It may be that Chen Jian's demeanor is too distorted, the bookseller said with a smile: "Don't say that, nothing in the world happens without a reason, there must be a reason. I can trust other books, only the pamphlets of the Academy , Many people leave after reading it, and don’t buy it. Originally, there was a colleague who did a good job. He put a washbasin next to him, indicating that he could read it after washing his hands, but he can read it here, and he sells a lot of books. Naturally, we sold less. So the remaining few thought about it, calculated carefully and listed the numbers, and then everyone made a rule that no one is allowed to put water basins, otherwise everyone will lose money .Since everyone has signed and everyone abides by it, there is nothing we can do..."

While talking, he collected the money and dug out a few new brochures from inside.

One "Anaithmetic", one "Nature", one "Agronomy", and one "Human".

Looking through the arithmetic, I read the first chapter carefully, and many symbols have changed, but the essence of mathematics has not changed, so I roughly read between the lines.

"A Fourth Algorithm for Sphere Volume, Category: Understanding the World."

"There are three known algorithms: put the ball into the water, the volume of the ball will be the amount of water out; use beeswax or tin ingot to make the ball, weigh it, and deduce the formula in reverse; Subtract the cone from the cube whose diameter is the circle and whose height is the diameter."

"The known theorem: the sum of squares formula.

"Thank you for everything you did."

"If the hemisphere is infinitely sliced, assuming that the thickness is extremely thin, then the sliced ​​slice can be regarded as a cylinder. Then the hemisphere can be regarded as the sum of countless cylindrical slices."

"Then assume that the section is tangent from the hemisphere, the height of each slice is equal, and the number of slices is an element."

"A slice of any arity has a radius of..."

"The addition of arity, from the sum of squares formula, can be deduced..."

"Then if the arity is infinite, then one part of the infinite can be regarded as zero."

"It can be seen from this that the volume of a hemisphere is the cube of the radius multiplied by two-thirds of the circumference. Combining the two into one, it can be known that the volume of the sphere is the cube of the radius multiplied by four-thirds of the circumference."