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Chapter 510: Redefining And Promoting Weights And Measures Simultaneously [Please Subscribe, Please

After what is called a discussion, it is actually notified of the inventory, statistics and verification of the land and acres in the world.

King Zhu Fan of Jin also took another step and glanced at the civil and military ministers below, looking at Pan Youwei with authority:

"The fourth thing is to redefine and promote new weights and measures!!!"

"Today, twenty-four bahts are used as one tael, sixteen taels are used as one catty, thirty catties are used as one jin, and four jins are used as one stone. The conversions between baht, liang, jin, jun, and stone are different, resulting in It is very inconvenient for the people when doing calculations and conversions!"

"There are even many officials, gentry, and merchants who deliberately bully the people because they do not know the conversion method between baht, liang, jin, jun, and stone. They are short of jin or less, deceiving and harming the people.

"And similar things also include big buckets coming in, small buckets coming out, long feet and short feet, etc."

"For the convenience of accounting and conversion for the common people when buying and selling, and to reduce the opportunities for officials, gentry, and merchants to deceive the common people through short-weight, big-little, big-little-little fights, long and short feet, and for the convenience of the imperial court's own statistics."

"Using the size, weight, and length of the country as the standard, all use the decimal system, for example, ten taels is one catty, and re-unify weights and measures."

"During the period of inventorying and verifying the number of acres of land in the world, we will use new weights and measures to conduct statistical inspections and verify the number of acres of land in the world, and in the process, promote it to the entire world!!!"

As the words of King Zhu Fang of Jin fell, there was once again a group of powerful men in the chamber, holding, carrying, or lifting, the new weights and measures tool based on the decimal system that Yan Changqing had made before, and walked to In front of the Minister of Industry.

The so-called new weights and measures are actually the set of weights and measures that Yan Changqing copied from later generations.

Although there are length units such as centimeters, decimeters, meters, etc., and capacity units such as liters, milliliters, cubic meters, cubic decimeters, cubic centimeters, etc., there are also weight units such as money, grams, taels, kilograms, tons, etc.

It sounds weird at first, but after using it a few times.

Zhu Yuanzhang and the princes Zhu Biao, Zhu Xi, Zhu Fan, Zhu Di and other princes were used to it.

After all, this new set of unified decimal weights and measures is indeed much more convenient than the old weights and measures!!!

Just remember the corresponding unit name, and then multiply it by ten times or divide it by ten times when converting.

Therefore, Zhu Yuanzhang and the princes Zhu Biao, Zhu Di, Zhu Fan, Zhu Di and other princes directly adopted the new unified decimal system of weights and measures formulated by Yan Changqing.

Below, the Minister of Industry and Industry looked at the new set of weights and measures in front of him and the "Instruction Manual for New Weights and Measures Units" on it, and couldn't help but twitch the corner of his mouth.

Damn, when did a new set of weights and measures come out?!!

Why didn’t he know that the new decimal system of weights and measures was out?!!

Isn’t he the minister of the Ministry of Industry who is in charge of the tools and fortifications of the world?!!

At the same time, other civil and military officials were in an uproar when they saw the launch of new weights and measures tools.

The civil and military officials of the entire dynasty never thought that Prince Zhu Biao, Zhu Chong, Zhu Gang, Zhu Di and other princes would actually attack weights and measures!!!

You must know that just like the previous inventory and statistics to verify the number of acres of land in the world, the re-determination of weights and measures is also a major event involving the court and the people of the world!!!

As the leader of the civil servants, Song Lian, the Minister of Rites, took a step forward, bowed and saluted:

"Your Highness, the matter of redefining and promoting weights and measures involves all aspects of the world. If we change it rashly, it will definitely cause chaos among the people of the world!!!"

"I ask Your Highness to consider carefully and postpone the implementation!!!"

Song Lian opened his mouth to remonstrate, not to speak to those local officials, gentry, and merchants who used big and small fights, long and short rulers, and lack of pounds to deceive the people.

In fact, he also hated the behavior of deceiving the people such as big fights and small fights, long and short rulers, and missing jin and shaoliang.

But hate is hate. From the beginning of the new year to the present, first the capitation tax was abolished, the policy of dividing land into acres was changed, and then the number of acres of land in the world was inventoried and counted.

These two things alone are enough to keep the imperial court busy from the beginning of this year to the end of the year. If coupled with the re-exit and the promotion of Kangheng, a matter that also involves the people under the bed.

Then the entire imperial court would be really stretched, and there would be a serious shortage of manpower.

Under such circumstances, if we promote new weights and measures, it is not impossible that the people's livelihood of the people in the world will be greatly disrupted.

That's why Song Lian just started to dissuade him, hoping that the implementation of the re-determination of weights and measures could be postponed, for example, next year, and then promoted after the court has more manpower.

Jin Wang Zhu Fan's eyes fell on Song Lian and his expression remained unchanged as he said:

“This re-determination of weights and measures was mainly used by the imperial government when conducting an inventory and verification of the number of acres of land in the world.

"Folks will not be forced to use them this year. Folks can temporarily use the old and new sets of weights and measures in parallel."

"When verifying and counting the number of acres of land in various parts of the world, the imperial court will publish the new standards of weights and measures to the world."

"At the same time, the new weights and measures tools will also be cast into iron statues and placed in various counties across the country for the people to make as a reference."

"During this year, ordinary people can gradually replace the old and new weights and measures on their own."

"So the Minister of Rites does not have to worry about the imperial court forcibly promoting new weights and measures, which will lead to great chaos in the livelihood of the people all over the world."

"But after one year, if during the buying and selling process, there are still people who continue to use old weights and measures, or even privately made non-standard weights and measures, then all of them will be taken away!!!"

After listening to Jin Wang Zhu Fan's words, Song Lian fell silent for a moment, and then retreated to his original position.

After all, Jin King Zhu Fan had already told him that this year, only when the imperial court officials were conducting an inventory and statistics to verify the land acres in the world, they were forced to use new standards of weights and measures.

For the common people, the old and new will go hand in hand this year, and they will not be forced to replace them until next year.

There is a whole year left for the people to buffer, so the redefinition and promotion of new weights and measures will not have such a great impact on the people's well-being.

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Then he naturally has no reason to continue to dissuade, after all, if the new set of weights and measures is really what Jin Wang Zhu Fan said.

So redefining and promoting such new weights and measures is indeed a good thing for the people of the world.

Jin Wang Zhu Fan glanced at the civil and military ministers and noble marquis below, and said in a calm tone:

"Do you have any other opinions on this?"

All the civil and military ministers and noble marquis below were silent.

It’s not that I don’t have any opinions, I just don’t dare to raise them.

After all, the families behind many of them actually relied on behaviors such as big and small buckets, long and short rulers, and missing weights to defraud the people and benefit.

However, these things can be done in private, but they cannot be said, let alone openly!!!

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The only reason that can be openly remonstrated, which may lead to chaos in the people's livelihood, has just been refuted by Jin Wang Zhu Fan.

In addition, the names of a number of civil servants during their lifetime and their posthumous names, as well as the status of Dukes of a number of military commanders and noble marquises, are still threatened and manipulated by princes such as Prince Zhu Biao, Zhu Di, Zhu Fan, and Zhu Di.

Therefore, when King Zhu Fan of the Jin Dynasty wanted to reset and promote new weights and measures, and to deal with matters such as big and small buckets, long and short rulers, and missing jins and ounces, he had to agree tacitly.

Seeing that all the civil and military ministers and noble marquises were silent, King Zhu Fan of Jin looked at the Minister of Works again and ordered:

"Minister of the Ministry of Industry, before the Ministry of Household Affairs, the Censor of the Metropolitan Procuratorate, and the Jin Yiwei begin to conduct inventory and statistics to verify the number of acres of land in the world, we must speed up the production of more than 100,000 sets of new Kangheng Industrial Buildings!!!"

"We must ensure that every county in the country has at least ten new sets of weights and measures."

"After local officials received the new weights and measures issued by the Ministry of Industry, they were under the supervision of the censors and royal guards of the Metropolitan Procuratorate."

"Using those ten new sets of weights and measures as a standard, copy and manufacture more new weights and measures for inventory and statistical verification of the number of acres of land in the world!!!"

The Minister of the Ministry of Industry came out again and bowed to Zhu Yuanzhang who closed his eyes and said nothing:

"My lord, I obey your Majesty's decree!!!"

Then, Jin King Zhu Fan also looked at the Secretary of the Ministry of Finance on the other side and said:

"Minister of the Ministry of Household Affairs, the number of acres of land in the world verified through this inventory will all be recorded and reported using new weights and measures!!!"

Guo Yundao, the Minister of Household Affairs, also stepped forward again and said:

"My lord, I obey the order!!!"

If you are treasonous and unethical, then you should be treasonous and unethical. He just accepted it and got the chance.

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