I led the Goblin Culture to victory.

Chapter 210, Part 8

"Thank you, sir!"

Ziwan nodded excitedly, looking at Li Moss with anticipation.

Li Mosi spoke.

"I'll give you the troll's head and Baron Talis's breastplate, but do you know how you're going to explain that to Baron Talis?"

The head of a troll!

Baron Talis's breastplate!

Ziwan's eyes widened when he heard the names of the two things.

If he takes him back, he won't just be a defeated soldier, but a hero of Baron Talis!

But Li Mosi's subsequent questions stumped him as well.

Yes, how should we explain this?

He had already been defeated in the battle against the goblins, and he had carried the trolls back to the cave along with other prisoners. Baron Talis's breastplate had only recently been lost.

If he could bring those two back with him, he might be mistaken for being in cahoots with the goblins!

What if Baron Taliss becomes suspicious...?

Not only will he suffer, but his family will also inevitably be implicated!

Thinking of this, Ziwang lowered his head.

"My lord, I... I don't know."

Li Mosi waved to him.

"No rush, you should rest first. Think about it slowly after you wake up."

He, who slept half the night before, was exhausted, let alone Ziwang, who was so excited before setting off that he didn't sleep at all.

Zwan himself was aware of this.

"Yes, sir."

He turned and left the main house, dragging away three heads and a butler just like Louis XVI.

"Wow!"

Zi Yi suddenly slumped down in the main seat, her body beginning to slide down.

Being a lord is too tiring!

He couldn't remember any of the tax categories or anything like that.

He looked up at Li Mosi.

"Master, being a lord is so tiring!"

ga-

Zi'an pushed open the kitchen door and carried out two chairs.

"This place is too big—hey!"

She moved a chair behind Li Mosi and another chair next to Zi Yi, then sat down herself.

"Thanks."

Li Mosi also sat down.

"Ugh."

Zi'an leaned back in his chair and sighed.

"These taxes are too much. How are we supposed to live?"

She really didn't understand.

You have to understand, even if no one comes to collect any taxes from her family's land, there won't be enough food for her family to eat all year round.

They can only store food for the winter; on ordinary days, they still need to go to the forest to hunt or gather food.

"Uh-huh?"

The saintess turned her head and looked around, finally looking at Zi'an.

Where is my chair?

Zi'an waved his hand with his eyes closed.

"Move it yourself. Don't you have hands?"

Is this woman really a fool?

"Huh? You!"

Li Mosi covered her mouth, which made Haji Saint angry.

In the end, she dragged a chair over and sat down next to Li Mosi.

Seeing that Hagi Saint had nothing to say, Li Mosi turned to look at his two disciples.

"Have you just calculated how much of the people's harvest these taxes take up?"

Hagi Saint's eyes widened in surprise.

He just came out like that?

real or fake?

My late master could even calculate this?

Ziyi and Zian immediately sat up straight.

"no."

They both shook their heads.

Zi Yi looked distressed.

"I can't remember it at all."

Zi'an nodded.

Me too.

There are some things she hasn't said yet.

That is, she couldn't understand "bovit" or "quato" at all, and could only tell that it was a similar way of calculating as "bushel" often used by slave hunters.

"I haven't taught you 'fractions' yet."

Li Mosi took out an ink block and wrote the word "fraction" directly on the long table, along with its pinyin.

"Fraction?"

Ziyi and Zian tilted their heads and read out the pinyin.

Let's take an example.

"Imagine we have a box of apples... um... a handful of beans."

How come the original owner of this body has never even seen an apple?

This made it impossible for him to even use common expressions found in elementary school textbooks.

"Um."

Ziyi and Zian ignored the apple and nodded.

The saintess looked at Li Mosi with some curiosity.

What is this craftsman going to teach?

Li Mosi then spoke.

"There are ten beans in this handful. If I take five away, how many beans are left?"

This kind of addition and subtraction is not difficult for Ziyi and Zian.

Five.

Li Mosi nodded.

"It's half, right?"

"Um."

Ziyi and Zian nodded.

Li Mosi then spoke.

"If we consider ten beans as a whole, or if we only have one bean in our hand, taking one bean from ten beans or cutting one bean in half and taking it is still half, right?"

"Um."

Ziyi and Zian nodded again.

"Sermisk?"

The pronunciation of Hajisa's words caught the attention of the three masters and disciples.

Seeing Li Mosi looking over, she subconsciously offered an explanation.

"Half in a computational sense means to consider something as a whole and then divide it into half."

Li Mosi blinked.

Are there other different terms used in different ways of classifying words?

"certainly!"

When asked this question, Haki seemed quite enthusiastic.

"Oncia said to take one share out of twelve, Tunisia said to take one share out of three, Quadarian said to take one share out of four, and Syktans said to take one share out of six."

What are the different ways to divide grooves?

Li Mosi was speechless.

It can only be said that this classification method is closely related to the algorithms used to classify various items in this era.

The unit of measurement he used when ordering prisoners to tend the fields is probably "kuaten" in the local language. Two "kuaten" make one "nuk", two "nuk" make one "fadel", and four "fadel" make one "bovit".

A "bovit" is a field that a single ox can plow during the year's working season.

As for the "quato" that Tritan mentioned earlier, it is actually a unit of volume.

The weight of a quart varies depending on the type of wheat.

The calculations are even more complicated.

Li Mosi looked at his two disciples.

"Don't think about that, I'll teach you something simpler."

He used an ink stick to write "1/10" to "10/10" on the long table.

"By doing this, you only need to change the first and last numbers."

The saint squinted at the column he had written.

It seems that's really true!

After finishing writing, he stated the result directly.

"If we consider all the harvest of the people as 'ten'."

Li Mosi held up ten fingers.

All three looked over.

"So the Stern family and the church took the 'eight' from it."

As she spoke, Li Mosi folded up her eight fingers.

The Stern family and the church took a full 80%!

If you really want to calculate it carefully, it's probably even more than that!

Seeing Li Mosi's two fingers still out, Zi Yi, Zi An, and Haji Sheng all fell silent.

"It's alright if the church takes its share; it has to be distributed on the Day of Prayer for Grace anyway."

Haki muttered to himself, as if trying to justify himself.

"Moreover, even if eight-tenths of the harvest is taken, it's still enough for the people to get through the winter, which shows that this place is much better than the outside world."

There are more experts?!

Li Mosi looked at Hagi Saint.

Snapped!

Zi'an slammed his hand on the table and stood up.

"Outside? Where could things get any worse?"

The saintess opened her eyes wide and looked at him, speaking instinctively.

"Then you haven't seen what's happening outside the giant island of the northeast. Many ancient manors and cities have been abandoned and turned into swamps because they can't grow wheat, and the land has become only suitable for growing grass. Everyone is waiting for them to grow into forests again before turning them into farmland..."

Haki Saint's voice was soft and fast, and only Li Mosi, who was closest to her, could barely understand some of the words.

But that was enough for him to understand.

In short—ten thousand years of development have exhausted the resources of many places.

The nobles, on the other hand, only knew how to turn undeveloped areas into farmland and let the previously developed areas recover on their own.

It's no wonder that Baron Talis's estate was only converted to a three-field system in recent decades.

It's not that people who have lived for ten thousand years are too stupid, but that this land has strange numerical calculations.

But none of that matters anymore.

He didn't understand what Haji was talking about regarding Northeast China.

Let's focus on doing the things at hand first.

Li Mosi looked at Zi Yi.

"Think about it, what difficulties do we need to solve right now?"