Outside Chang 'an City, on a piece of land in Weinan.
"Old Li, you're really something. It's only been more than a month and you've already done so well!”
Looking around at the vast and empty land, Qin Chuan smiled and said.
With such a spacious land, not to mention the establishment of the winery, even if it was built into a national famous wine industry in the future, it could be used as the headquarters.
"That's right. This is a big plan to earn money.”
"Brother Qin, follow me in and see if there's anything I haven't done well enough." Li Shiming laughed.”
He followed Li Shimin all the way inside. There were already many houses, factories, and warehouses built on this land.
There were many equipment used to make wine in the factory, and the treasury was also filled with grain for making wine.
Many winemakers were resting in their rooms. When they saw them, they came over to greet them.
There were probably more than a hundred people gathered here.
"Old Li, you've already invited over a hundred people, right?" Qin Chuan asked after some thought.”
"One hundred and twenty people. If it's not enough, I'll go and invite some more people over.”
Li Shimin asked as he looked at Qin Chuan. The Shao Fu was in charge of this stall, and there were many wine craftsmen.
"We can still recruit more people."
Qin Chuan nodded and walked with Li Shiming to the room that they were temporarily staying in." Old Li, how much did you spend?”
"These are all small amounts of money.”
Li Shi Min smiled and waved his hand.
He really didn't spend any money. These were all prepared by the Shao Fu for him. Would the Shao Fu dare to ask him for money?
"You're right. We brothers are partners in business, so of course we have to settle accounts clearly. We can't let you suffer losses, right?”
"We'll split it equally." Qin Chuan said seriously.”
"Alright, the receipt of the expenses is here. Take a look.”
Li Shimin handed the receipt to Qin Chuan.
Although the Shao Fu didn't dare to ask him for money, the amount of money was still reported to him, and he kept it.
He came to show it to Qin Chuan when he asked.
Qin Chuan flipped through the bill in his hand and handed it to Qin Xian.
"Uncle Xian, check these documents and record them. The money that we should pay will be sent to the winery's warehouse.”
"Yes, Young Master."
Qin Xian took the bill and walked to the side.
After a while, knocking sounds could be heard in the room.
Li Shimin glanced over and saw Qin Xian calculating an item according to the accounts instead of using a counting rod.
"This is abacus calculation?"
Li Shi Min walked up curiously and asked with uncertainty.
The object was square and made of wood. Wooden beads were strung side by side with wooden sticks.
It looked similar to the abacus he had seen before, but it was different from the abacus that controlled the four seasons and the three elements, each with five beads.
There were seven beads on each stick, separated by a horizontal bar in the middle. There were two beads on the top and five beads on the bottom.
"This is an abacus, a calculation tool I invented based on Xu Yue's abacus.”
Qin Chuan walked over and said.
Abacus originated from the Eastern Han Dynasty, and it was recorded in the Shu Shu Ji Yi written by the Eastern Han mathematician Xu Yue.
However, the abacus used in later generations was not invented during the Eastern Han Dynasty, but during the Song Dynasty.
This deduction was based on the discovery of a wooden abacus bead from the Song Dynasty's old house in Julu, as well as the use of abacus in later generations depicted in the shop in Bianjing City of the Northern Song Dynasty in the painting Along the River During Qingming Festival.
At the end of the year, Qin Chuan accidentally saw Qin Xian calculating the expenses of the Qin family last year, so he invented the abacus in advance.
The abacus was one of China's most enduring inventions. Even in later generations, the abacus had become one of the calculation tools of scientists in difficult times.
"An abacus?"
Li Shi Min looked at this new item and asked,""What is that algorithm? How did these beads represent numbers?”
" From right to left, each stick represents a unit, one, ten, a hundred, a thousand, ten thousand."
"The upper and lower beads represent different numbers. The lower bead represents one, and the upper bead represents five.”
"When the number of beads below reaches five, it will be one in five. When the number of beads on a wooden stick reaches ten, it will be one in ten on the left wooden stick."
Listening to Qin Chuan's explanation and watching Qin Xian's actions, Li Shimin couldn't help but sigh.
"Using this abacus to calculate is much more convenient than using a counting rod!”
"Brother Qin, I admire your talent from the bottom of my heart. You're even so proficient in numbers!”
"Tell me, what else are you good at?”
Li Shiming was pleasantly surprised as if he had just discovered a new continent.
He knew how to govern, how to use troops, how to do business, how to forge farming tools, how to make medicine, how to make wine, how to read physiognomy, and now, how to count!
This little brother is simply too much. Even the ancient sage Tao Zhu Gong, Fan Li, was not so all-rounded!
"I'm good at many things. You'll know in the future.”
Qin Chuan casually waved his hand.
As a transmigrator, he was already numb to the fact that any random invention from the future was an invention that transcended eras.
After calculating, Qin Xian recorded the number on the abacus.
After Qin Xian stopped, Li Shimin, who had been eager to try it out, took the abacus and accidentally glanced at the words that Qin Xian had copied.
He felt a wave of novelty." Huh, what do you mean by this? Why are you drawing circles?"
The words that should have been written to record numbers were replaced with different words, and there were even many circles drawn.
" These are numbers that I invented for easy bookkeeping. They represent ten numbers from zero to nine. The circle you see is zero, which means there's no quantity."
Qin Chuan explained again.
Arabic numbers were much more convenient to write than Chinese characters. The Arabic numbers used in later generations were only formed around the 9th century AD. It was even further back in China.
When he was making an abacus for Qin Xian, he had also taught it to him.
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