Traveling through history leaving a name

Chapter 6 Enlistment
"My lord, we really know how to read and write. I didn't lie to you. If you don't believe me, you can test us." Seeing that Ding Ergou misunderstood, Du Fu hurriedly defended loudly.

"My lord, please give us a chance, we can really read and write." Li Bai also stood up and said.

"Sir, please test us, we won't lie to you." Wang Anshi also said.

"Okay, since you all said that you can read and write, I will test you." Ding Ergou saw a group of people who always said that they could read and write. After thinking about it, he decided to test them.

These days, anyone who can read and write is respected, and someone who can write, read, and settle accounts can at least be a logistics secretary in the army.

"My lord, just test us." Du Fu said to Ding Ergou.

"Then let me ask you, how much food do 1 soldiers have to eat a year if a soldier eats a catty and two taels a day?" Ding Ergou asked Du Fu.

"Returning to my lord, one person eats one catty and two taels of rice a day, and 1 people need to eat 1 rice. There are 360 ​​five days in a year, and you have to eat..."

Du Fu squatted on the ground and wrote and scratched by hand. After a few seconds, he replied: "1 people need to eat 430 million catties a year."

"is it?"

Hearing Du Fu's answer, Ding Ergou himself was a little dazed. He just asked questions casually. In fact, he didn't know how to settle accounts at all. Now that the answer came out, he didn't know if the answer was true.

However, he wouldn't bother with this issue, so he turned his attention to Li Bai.

"What's your name?"

"My lord, my name is Li Bai."

"Li Bai, right? You said you can read and write, so let me say a few words and you write them on the ground." Ding Ergou said to Li Bai.

"Okay." Li Bai agreed, squatted down quickly, picked up a stone from the ground, and prepared to write.

"Well, you write, one, two, three, four, five, six, seven, eight, ninety, then write a D, and then a dog, let me see." Ding Ergou said to Li Bai.

"Good sir." Hearing Ding Ergou's words, Li Bai hurriedly wrote on the ground.

Seeing the one, two, and three written by Li Bai, he nodded secretly. He knew these words, and there was no mistake in the last one.

It seems that the person in front of him can read and write. As for the others, he still needs to take a test.

"Follow me those of you who can read and write." Ding Ergou said to a dozen people in Erdaogou Village.

Then he turned around and said to the junior officers who were selecting candidates: "You guys continue to choose, I will show these people to Mr. Liu."

Under everyone's envious eyes, Du Fu and his party followed Ding Ergou and left the school grounds.

Ding Ergou led a group of Du Fu to walk in the barracks for more than ten minutes, and came to a courtyard.

This is where the logistics of Yuan Xi's military camp is dispatched, and the people who work here are all scribes who record the allocation of grain and grass.

After Ding Ergou brought Du Fu and a group of people here, he notified a guard at the gate and asked to see Mr. Liu.

"Ding Ergou, what are you looking for me for?"

Soon, Master Liu, whom Ding Ergou was talking about, came out. He was a five or sixty-year-old man, dressed in a Confucian shirt, and quite capable.

"My lord, there are some people here who say they can read and write, so I specially brought them here for you to palm your eyes." Ding Ergou said respectfully to the little old man.

"It's them?" The little old man pointed to Du Fu's group and asked.

"Yes, it's them." Ding Ergou said to the little old man, "They say they can read and write, and they can also do accounting."

"Oh? Really, then you bring them with me." The little old man said to Ding Ergou.

Led by the little old man, Du Fu and his group followed into a room.

Next, the little old man asked someone to find some account books.

"See if you can understand." The old man said.

Li Bai, Du Fu and the others each got a ledger. Hearing this, a group of people quickly looked through the ledger in their hands.

This account book records the amount of food allocated by the army.

"Can you understand it?" The little old man leaned in front of Du Fu and asked.

"I can understand." Du Fu said quickly.

"What does this write?" The little old man pointed to a passage and asked Du Fu.

"February fourteenth, the second battalion of Xiaoqi, ten stones of wheat and twenty stones of millet." Du Fu replied.

"What about this part?"

"On February [-]th, four battalions of roaring tigers, fifteen stones of wheat and thirty stones of millet."

"This paragraph."

"February 29, Xiaoqi Fifth Battalion, 29 stones of wheat and [-] stones of millet."

"Yes, it seems that you really know how to read and write." The little old man was very satisfied with Du Fu's answer.

He happened to be short of some people who could read and write. Whether it was food allocation or other allocations, many people were needed to help record.

"Calculate the total amount of food allocated on this page, and see how much food has been allocated in total." The little old man pointed to a page of account books and said to Du Fu.

Next, he turned his attention to Li Bai and his group, mainly asking questions to see if they could read and write.

"Sir, I'll figure it out."

Soon, Du Fu calculated the number of accounts on that page.

"How much is it?" the little old man asked Du Fu.

"Sir, on this page of the account book, a total of 280 six shi and five dou of grain were allocated, including 180 shi of wheat and [-] shi and five dou of millet." Du Fu replied.

"Go and do the math and see if he's right." Hearing Du Fu's answer, the little old man appointed a subordinate to do the math.

Soon, the answer was calculated, and Du Fu's answer was not wrong at all.

Half an hour later, the little old man also checked everyone's background.

All can read and write, and can do accounts.

"I happen to be short of some subordinates who can write and count, so you all stay here." Finally, the little old man said to everyone.

"Thank you, my lord." Li Bai and Du Fu hurriedly thanked them.

"Ding Ergou, you did a good job this time." Finally, the little old man did not forget to praise Ding Ergou.

Hearing the little old man's praise, Ding Ergou was so happy that he almost grinned to his ears.

"It's all adults, you know the pearl with your eyes, and the villain is just sending people here."

"Go to the cashier and get five hundred dollars. I'll accept these people. If there are still people who can read and write and settle accounts in the future, you can send them to me."

"Okay, the villain knows."

Ding Ergou left happily, while Du Fu and his group were left behind by the little old man, who were mainly responsible for keeping accounts, copying documents, and counting supplies.

"You say, if there is no teacher, what will our end be like?"

Once, when a group of people got together, Wang Wei asked everyone.

"Without a teacher, we would not be able to read and write. If we could not read and read, we would become ordinary soldiers, and we might die in battle one day." Li Bai said.

Talking about the teacher, a group of people were all amazed. They felt very lucky to be able to learn knowledge from the teacher.

"I presented Mr. Zhao with the table double-entry bookkeeping method that the teacher taught us. Mr. Zhao was very happy after reading it. Maybe we will use double-entry bookkeeping in the future." Du Fu said to everyone.

"Isn't it a little bad for us to tell others what the teacher taught?" Wang Anshi whispered in the crowd.

"What's wrong with this? The teacher said that the purpose of teaching us is to apply what we have learned." Li Bai said.

"I presented a quill to Mr. Zhao. Mr. Zhao was very happy to see that the quill can save yellow paper when writing with a quill. He asked me to make more for him." Li Bai also said.

"I made a suggestion to Mr. Zhao. The main suggestion is that Mr. Zhao should store and record the materials in categories, so that food materials with a near-expiration date can be prioritized and not wasted."

"I also made a suggestion..."

(End of this chapter)