Siheyuan: I am a trader in both worlds!

Chapter 242 Weights and Measures

Ximen Lang is now really getting closer and closer to becoming a big beast.

Just a month ago, he was a weakling who couldn't even lift anything, but Bai Ling could easily control him with just a flick of her fingers.

But now, in just a month or so, he has become a big beast that can be easily controlled by me.

They say there are only cows that die from exhaustion, but no land that is plowed to death.
But is this really the case?

Looking at Ximen Lang sleeping like a dead pig on the bed, he coaxed him for most of the day, saying that he was really powerless to do it, and finally managed to coax him to sleep.

I glanced at myself in the mirror again and saw myself with dark circles under my eyes, listlessness, and getting thinner day by day.

Bai Ling immediately became deeply suspicious of this statement.

But no matter how much she doubted it, there were some things she had to do.

For example, the dictionary that made Li Huaide lose his composure like that yesterday, no matter what, she had to find out what was so mysterious about it.

Therefore, even Bai Ling was exhausted, very tired.

But she still used her amazing perseverance and climbed out of bed when Ximen Lang finally fell asleep.

After a simple wash, he drove to the headquarters of the special operations detachment as soon as possible.

He didn't exchange any polite words with them. After Lao Luo, Director Wang, Li Huaide and Hao Pingchuan, who had been waiting for a long time, stood up to greet him, he entered the office and went straight to the point, asking Li Huaide who was standing beside him.

"I wanted to ask yesterday, what's going on with that dictionary? Is there anything wrong with it?"

Several people have already gathered around this dictionary
To be more precise, we spent the whole night discussing the massive appendices that came with the dictionary.

It was impossible to hide it at all. At Lao Luo's nod, Li Huaide directly introduced the situation to Bai Ling.

"The dictionary itself isn't anything particularly remarkable. While the vast number of words, the more convenient and efficient phonetic notation, the more practical search for radicals and components, and the comprehensive and rich interpretations are certainly impressive and impeccable, what truly astounds me is the vast amount of appendices."

As he spoke, Li Huaide turned to the end of the Chinese dictionary and placed a large amount of appendix content directly in front of Bai Ling, including a table of Chinese dynasties, a brief table of ethnic minorities, a table of the areas and populations of provinces, autonomous regions, and municipalities directly under the central government, a list of the areas, populations, and capitals of various countries, a table of weights and measures, a table of chemical elements, etc.

Then, Bai Ling was shocked by the huge amount of information in the appendix.

What shocked Bai Ling first must have been the population of later generations.

"14 billion people! There are a full 14 billion people over there! That's a lot of people! No wonder Alang keeps telling me that with just our 5-6 million people, we can easily develop agriculture and set up some industries and we'll have more than enough food to eat."

"Isn't it? Considering the population disparity, compared to them, can't we just develop and have no worries about food and drink? The most outrageous thing is, they have so many people, so many mouths to feed!"

"They can still feed and clothe so many people over there, and they're so prosperous that they're even pursuing all kinds of quality of life! This is really a bit too much!"

Hearing Bai Ling's sentiment, Lao Luo couldn't help but echo it, even though he'd been lamenting it all night. "Yeah, we have over 600 million mouths to feed every day, which already keeps us awake at night. We don't know what to do. And over there, they have more than double that! And that Indian guy even has more people than them!"

"The future generations can support so many people because they relied on hard work, generation after generation, and accumulated wealth. Only then did they finally get to where they are today. But how can India do that? I haven't heard Alang say how well India has developed. How can they support so many people? I can't figure it out."

In other words, Ximen Lang is not here and doesn’t know, otherwise, he would definitely have to follow up with the next sentence.

"Can't figure it out? That's right! Even in the future, after being neighbors for thousands of years, we still can't figure out Ah San's amazing train of thought, let alone you!" (Back then, the master pondered for three days and three nights, but couldn't figure out why Ah San wanted to mess with us.)
As for how they feed so many people and even have the spare capacity to export large amounts of food,
The answer is actually very simple. In India, there are only 100 million high-caste people, and the remaining billions are all cattle and horses serving the upper class.

In the eyes of the upper class, they are not human beings at all!

Since they are no longer considered human beings, naturally, they are not within the scope of their consideration.

But Ximen Lang is not here after all. Although Bai Ling has also been to the afterlife, because she stayed there for too short a time, she had no time to pay attention to Asan, so this answer is destined to have no solution.

So, after just a moment of struggling over this question that had left them with nowhere to think of an answer, they quickly let it go and turned their attention to the second thing that amazed Bai Ling: the measurement system.

Needless to say, weights and measures were already engraved into the genes of the Chinese people by Emperor Qin Shi Huang as early as the Qin Dynasty.

Just like the idea of ​​great unification that has been deeply rooted in the bones, every Chinese knows the benefits of unifying the weights and measures, and this is also the direction that the world of Beijing has been striving for.

However, the old measurement methods were so deeply rooted in people's minds, and they had no better or more complete standards.

Therefore, the moment Bai Ling saw the more complete and convenient measurement table, she immediately took it seriously.

I specifically told Lao Luo about this.

"Lao Luo, we can take our time with other things, but we must take this seriously! Alang has stressed to me many times that our current measurement system is far too chaotic. Some places are still using outdated methods like he, sheng, dou, and hu!"

"Even different regions have their own standards, and the sizes and quantities of containers are entirely determined by their own intuition and experience. How can this work?! There's not even a unified unit of measurement! How can we even talk about communication and development?"

Apart from anything else, the two commonly used rules in the city, namely, one catty equals 16 taels and one chi equals 33.33 centimeters, are enough to annoy Ximen Lang to death.

Not to mention, there is no unified standard for he, sheng, dou and hu.

Seeing that Bai Ling was serious, Lao Luo also became serious.

"Don't worry, I'll report this this afternoon and unify the standards as soon as possible! Also, I'll report everything we discussed yesterday to the commander!"

"But if that happens, a lot of positions will definitely be added, more supplies will be needed, and Alang will definitely have to travel back and forth between the two worlds more frequently."

"I'm not worried about his abilities, I'm just worried about you if something unspeakable happens between him and Xia Yiyi."

　Stuck again.
　　
　
(End of this chapter)