The old man said: "These are all methods they came up with to torture people, and the 'tired cow' is that they colluded with the people of the government to borrow a hundred and ten catties of heavy flail from the government, and brought it to those who could not afford to pay the rent, and put it under the sun. ”

"The boccia ball is a little more troublesome, they have a big basket, the mouth of the big basket has a button, the two baskets are put together mouth-to-mouth, close the mouth, the two baskets are connected together, they put people in, and then close the mouth of the basket, and people can't get out of it, and then they put the basket on the ground, kick it, and the basket rolls on the ground, just like a ball."

Lin Yuan echoed: "It seems that they are really not things. Then he asked, "What is their salary higher than yours?" And ten times higher? ”

The old man smiled ashamedly and said: "It's not a secret, among us people, only the people from the rent collection bureau know how to measure and liquidate the land, some of us are carpenters, some are blacksmiths, and some are dyeing mills. ”

Yang Xiaolin asked on the side, "Is it difficult to liquidate the land?" What do you don't understand? ”

The old man smiled helplessly and said, "Anyway, we haven't done it, and everything is said by the people from the Rent Collection Bureau." ”

Lin Yuan said: "The liquidation of land was carried out in the Ming Dynasty, and the Ming Dynasty carried out nationwide land liquidation, since it is nationwide, it will take a lot of people, if the liquidation method is difficult, then there are fewer people, so it is not very difficult to liquidate the land, I know a way." ”

The old man smiled and asked, "Are you talking about the method of 'measuring the four sides and taking half of the opposite side'?" ”

Lin Yuan asked: "What is 'measure the four sides and take half of the opposite side'?" ”

The old man said with a smile: "It is the original method of measuring the land, our county once liquidated once, at that time the liquidation people used a thing called 'bow', and the rent collection bureau also used this kind of thing, this kind of thing is very similar to the compass we use to do carpenter's work, there are two open feet, when the measurement is turned one by one, it is considered a step, walk around a piece of land, and after walking, how many steps on each side of the land are calculated." ”

Lin Yuan nodded and asked with a smile, "What does that have to do with 'taking half on the opposite side'?" ”

The old man smiled: "Don't worry, let me speak slowly." The old man said and picked up the chopsticks, dipped in some water, and drew a quadrilateral on the table, the four sides are not equal, the old man continued: "This shape is the shape of the land, most of the land is not square, all of them are so unequal on the four sides, called 'four unequal fields', do you know how to solve how many acres of land there are?" ”

Lin Yuan thought to himself: "Isn't this a problem of finding the area of an unequal quadrilateral?" However, it is impossible to find the area of the four sides of the road alone, because the area is not unique, you must know an angle of the road, and then cut the quadrilateral into two triangles, and then use several trigonometric formulas to solve the area of the quadrilateral. However, Lin Yuan didn't say this way, but looked at the old man and asked, "How to solve it?" ”

The old man said: "At that time, the method of liquidation was: four sides have two groups of opposite sides, add the length of the opposite sides together, and then take half to get two numbers, and then multiply these two numbers, which is the big smile of this land, but the people of the rent collection bureau said that this method is not good, so the size of the calculation is larger than the actual one, and they have a better way!" ”

Lin Yuan asked, "Then what is their method?" ”

The old man replied, "They won't say! There are also mysterious tools, but the adults seem to believe in their methods, so just follow them, we don't say much, there has been a war recently, and the carpenter is not good at work, and it is good to have a salary of five yuan. ”

Lin Yuan asked, "What is the mysterious tool?" ”

The old man said, "It is said that we can accurately measure the size of the land, and we don't know how to do it. ”

Lin Yuan smiled: "So that's the case." ”

When the old man heard Lin Yuan's words, he smiled and said, "If there is nothing to do, I will leave first." Lin Yuan said a few polite words, the old man got up to leave, Lin Yuan pointed to the window of the rent collection bureau to collect the money and said, "Do you say that this group of people from the rent collection bureau are bastards?" ”

Yang Xiaolin said: "If what the old man said is true, this group of people is indeed not a thing!" ”

Lin Yuan smiled: "That old man doesn't need to lie to us, so his words shouldn't be fake, let's go and teach them some lessons!" ”

Yang Xiaolin's eyes lit up when he heard this, and he nodded and said, "Okay!" ”

Lin Yuan stood up, threw the tea money on the table, and said to Yang Xiaolin, "Let's go!" As soon as Lin Yuan came to the window, the salaried person inside asked without raising his head: "What's your name?" ”

Lin Yuan said: "Lin Yuan! ”

The person inside smiled and said, "I actually have the same name as Lin Shuai!" Then he picked up the ledger at hand, flipped through it, and said, "There is no such person!" This is where the old men of the Rent Collection Bureau get their salaries, should you go over there? ”

Lin Yuan said with a smile: "You can give me all the salaries of the old men of the rent collection bureau, they are all waste anyway." ”

The man inside frowned and said in surprise, "What are you doing?" How dare you come here to go wild! If you go out and take a look, there is the governor's yamen on the side! Hurry up and go, beware of catching you! ”

Lin Yuan smiled and said, "How can I be afraid of catching fast!" Hurry up and give me the money, or I'll go in and rob it!" ”

When the man inside heard this, he stood up and said in a panic: "In broad daylight, are you trying to rob?" ”

Lin Yuan smiled indifferently and said, "It's not a robbery, it's that I can't see the money being ruined by those wastes!" ”

At this time, the group of people on the side also noticed Lin Yuan, they dared to be angry with the people of the rent collection bureau, and now when they saw Lin Yuan wanting to rob the rent collection bureau of everyone's money, they were all secretly happy in their hearts, smiling and watching the excitement.

The man inside turned around and shouted inside, "Come on, hurry up, someone is going to rob money!" ”

Lin Yuan smiled when he heard the man's panicked voice, turned back to Yang Xiaolin and said, "Let's go in and get it ourselves." ”

The inside and outside of the window are separated by a wooden partition, and the wood is carved into a small lattice, Yang Xiaolin nodded at Lin Yuan, punched out, and hit the wooden lattice hard, these woods are very thin, and they were suddenly broken after being punched, so a big hole appeared in the wooden partition!

Everyone on the side cheered when they saw this, Yang Xiaolin grabbed the wooden partition with both hands and shook it violently, only to hear a "click", and the wooden partition was pulled down from it! The crowd applauded again, and Yang Xiaolin jumped on the high platform and entered inside!

The people inside saw that Yang Xiaolin actually pulled off the wooden partition and jumped in, so frightened that he screamed "wow" and fled, Yang Xiaolin reached out and grabbed a stack of envelopes, and said to Lin Yuan: "Look, there is a lot of money here!" ”

Lin Yuan stretched out his hand to take an envelope, poured the money inside into his hand, revealing all the "big bills" of one yuan, and there were fifty in one envelope, no wonder the envelope was so full! Lin Yuan took the banknote in his hand, threw it over everyone, and said with a smile: "Everyone, take it!" Rob the rich and give to the poor! ”