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"It turns out that in the Tang Dynasty, apprenticeships required so many gifts?"

"You can really learn a lot of knowledge by following the anchor. I have to say that when I took my history class like this, I could get perfect scores every time!"

Yan Kaikai started the live broadcast very early today, because today is Zheng Zhixun's apprenticeship ceremony. He had already agreed with the fans in the live broadcast room that he would live broadcast the apprenticeship ceremony.

Yan Kai himself didn't know what the procedures were for the apprenticeship ceremony, but fortunately, Butler Zheng had already arranged everything, so Yan Kai only had to sit there.

"Can anyone tell me why there are so many apprenticeship ceremonies? I thought it was the same in ancient times as in modern times. As long as you pay enough tuition, it will be fine."

"This is called Liuli Xiu, which contains celery, lotus seeds, red beans, dates, longan, and dried meat sticks! Celery means diligence and studiousness, and excellence in work..."

"Thank you for the popular science. If you didn't tell me, I would still be in the dark. I feel like it's the same as getting married here!"

"Hahaha, we are both Menggu people, and when we get married here, we also use dates and longan, which means having a baby early!"

Yan Kai accepted these six gifts, and then Zheng Zhixun knelt down and offered a cup of tea. The apprenticeship ceremony was completed.

Frowning and drinking the strange-tasting tea, Yan Kai made up his mind to get tea brewed with water as soon as possible!

"Okay, Zheng Zhixun, I hope you can study hard in the future!" According to etiquette at this time, Yan Kai wanted to say something for the occasion, but his level of ancient Chinese was really not good enough, so he could only say something perfunctory, and then he prepared what he said. The abacus was taken out.

"This is a gift from my teacher!"

"Thank you, Master!" Zheng Zhixun had known for a long time that Yan Kai had made a strange thing as a gift for himself. It was said that it was a mathematical tool, but now he finally saw the real thing.

I touched it with my hands, but I didn't understand how it could be used as a calculation tool. There were seven wooden beads in each row, shouldn't there be ten?

"This thing is called an abacus, and this is a table of formulas to be used with the abacus!"

Yan Kai pointed to a piece of paper under the abacus and said, "You will memorize the formula later. I will teach you some terms for using the abacus first."

Butler Zheng was originally leading the apprenticeship ceremony with others, and curious Yan Lao Er and Yan Sao were also invited to watch the ceremony.

Now that Yan Kai suddenly wanted to introduce the use of the abacus, Butler Zheng quickly stopped and drove away all the maids and servants in the house.

Are you kidding, anyone can listen to this kind of thing? Mr. Yan is good at everything, but he doesn't pay much attention to these details.

As for the Yan family, he didn't care. After all, if Yan Kai wanted to teach his family, he couldn't stop him.

However, after Yan Laoer and the others finished reading it, they felt it would be rude to disturb them again, so they left and went home.

After the clearance was completed, Butler Zheng bowed and said, "Mr. Yan, please! I will personally guard the outside. If you need anything, just call me!"

In his opinion, Yan Kai has now accepted Zheng Zhixun as his disciple, which means he is going to teach his master the core skills.

He glanced enviously at the abacus in Zheng Zhixun's hand and planned to leave.

"Butler Zheng, wait!" Yan Kai suddenly spoke, then looked at him and said, "You should also listen!"

"Me?" Butler Zheng's eyes widened, he didn't become a disciple himself!

"Yes, it's not a secret that is not taught." Teaching one is teaching, and teaching two is teaching.

Yan Kai really didn't intend to hide the use of abacus. Could it be that when he started business in Datang in the future, he would have to calculate everything by himself?

The faster the people below can calculate, the higher the efficiency will be!

Even if he has never led a team, Yan Kai also knows that if he doesn't lead a team, he will have to work until death!

Now, as long as I teach Zheng Zhixun and Butler Zheng, when I teach others, I can let Butler Zheng take action.

Of course, now that Zheng Zhixun is participating in a family competition, Yan Kai will no longer teach it to others.

Butler Zheng walked up to Tang Ping in a daze. He really didn't expect that he had a role in learning this!

"Because this is a gift for Zhixun, I just asked someone to give it a shot. Butler Zheng will ask the craftsmen behind to give you another shot and that's it. They do it very quickly."

As he spoke, Tang Ping pointed to the abacus and began to introduce the most basic terms such as empty beads, inner beads, and outer beads.

Originally, he thought he hadn't used it in several years and might not remember it.

But when I really talked about it, I realized that the dead abacus knowledge was constantly attacking me.

Then he took out the table of addition and subtraction formulas and explained them to the two of them with examples while calculating with the abacus.

Zheng Zhixun and Butler Zheng watched Yan Kai's fingers flying up and down, and the mysterious formulas on his lips were all gibbering. With the Arabic numerals taught by Yan Kai, the calculation speed was so much faster.

A Zheng family account book that Butler Zheng brought as an example was calculated by Yan Kai in just a short cup of tea.

It turned out that it took the accounting clerk most of the time to complete this account book.

It is not an exaggeration to say that this speed is one day and one earth.

Yan Kai shook his wrist and said: "I haven't used it for many years, it's a bit rusty!"

One sentence made the two of them almost roll their eyes. What does it mean that it has not been used for many years? Aren't you only 14 years old?

And it doesn’t take long for you to become unfamiliar with each other. If you weren’t unfamiliar with each other, wouldn’t it be...

Even if today's lecture is over, it will be time for the two of them to practice by themselves.

Yan Kai took out a piece of paper from his arms, and on it was the drawing he drew yesterday.

"Zhixun and housekeeper, look at this."

"What is this?"

The two of them looked at it and said that they had never seen it before. They could tell that there were jars and pipes on it.

"This is something I want to collaborate with you two on." Yan Kai pointed at the drawing and said, "This should be called a distiller."

"Alembic? What is it for?"

"Steamed wine, or purified wine!"

Every big family has countless industries, and the Zheng family is a major grain producer in the Tang Dynasty and one of the largest wine merchants.

Making distilled liquor is the first step Yan Kai plans to take.

Because there is a brewery of the Zheng family in this town, and it is under the name of Zheng Zhixun.

However, the two of them still didn't understand the use of steaming or purifying wine.

It wasn't until Yan Kai explained that it was used to increase the alcohol content that the two of them suddenly realized it.

Butler Zheng asked with some confusion: "As the wine heats up, shouldn't it become less and less?"

"Actually, the wine is not strong enough because there is less of something called alcohol and more water. Using my distiller will separate part of the water in the wine. If you look at the weight, the weight of the wine will indeed become less. , but the concentration of the wine will definitely increase."

"I just want to ask if Zhixun is interested in doing the spirits business. If so, we can talk about how to cooperate!"