Three Kingdoms: From Hulaoguan to Global Hegemony

Chapter 254 Competing for posts, ghost drawing symbols
Tweety?Zhou Fang?who are they?

All the ministers didn't even know who these two people Liu Yu was talking about. They didn't realize that Liu Yu had left these two important positions to himself until they saw Cui Zhou and others coming to thank him with Yang Xiu. people.

"The king of Zhongshan has been careless. The supervisor is an important position, responsible for the accounts in Taicang, and Dian Shi needs someone who is proficient in mathematics to take on the important position of statistics. The old man still feels..."

Wang Yun was about to recommend his person, but was interrupted by Liu Yu's laughter.

"Hahaha... The person I recommended is a genius in mathematics. If you don't believe me, let them compete with the people you brought to see who can count the total amount of food delivered by General Ma Teng first."

Liu Yu knew that his arrangement would definitely not satisfy the ministers, so he proposed to let everyone compete fairly, and those who are capable should live.

And the grain and grass brought by Ma Teng have not yet entered the warehouse, and now he is the only one who knows the total number, and even Liu Yu does not know how many bags of this batch of grain and grass will be, so the competition will definitely be very fair.

The adults looked at each other, and felt that it was not an option to continue arguing, so they agreed to Liu Yu's proposal to compete for posts.

"Okay, let's do it according to King Zhongshan's wishes!" After Wang Yun finished speaking, he was about to send his men to occupy the best place for storage, but his move made Liu Yu laugh again on the spot.

"What's the meaning of Master Situ? Could it be that you want your subordinates to count the records bag by bag? If it's just a simple comparison of the number of records, how difficult is it!"

Although Wang Yun is an expensive Situ, he is not proficient in arithmetic. He thinks that arithmetic is simply one plus one, and recording the quantity of each bag in storage has always been the most commonly used statistical method in Taicang.

So Wang Yun was puzzled and asked: "Don't count the number one by one at the door? Could it be that you move all the food into Taicang first, and then ask someone to go to count it? But this will not greatly reduce the accuracy of the statistics!"

Liu Yu snapped his fingers after hearing this, and said with a smile: "It is precisely to increase the difficulty, only in this way can we test whether these people are really proficient in arithmetic!"

Officials are different from officials. Officials are office workers who directly handle and handle some basic matters, so they need to be proficient in some professional skills.

Places like Taicang, for example, especially need talents who understand accounts and arithmetic.

……

After deciding on the items and rules of the competition, Liu Yu ordered Ma Teng to command the soldiers to move the grain into Taicang and place it in irregular piles.

And all the people participating in the competition must avoid it first, and are not allowed to enter the warehouse in advance.

Sun Rui, the chief farmer, had seen Liu Yu's arithmetic level in the underground palace before, and they were worried that Cui Di and Zhou Fang might have received his personal instruction, so they couldn't help feeling a little nervous.

"I ordered you to find the operator, but is he proficient in... multiplication?"

"Master Shisun, please don't worry, the person I have invited here is the person with the best arithmetic in the city. The multiplication you mentioned is nothing to worry about!"

When Shi Sun Rui heard that his subordinates had invited the best calculator in the city, he felt a little more at ease.

Li Ru on the other side also knew that Liu Yu was proficient in arithmetic, so he asked the people invited to stay with Cui Di and Zhou Fang as much as possible.

If it can be faster than their statistics, then it's fine, if it's better to take the opportunity to copy a copy, it's fine.

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Half an hour later, Ma Teng's people finished moving, and all the candidates who participated in the competition for the positions of supervisor and pianshi entered Taicang with their pens and ink.

There were five or six grain piles of different sizes in Taicang, and someone started to count them one by one as soon as they got up. Liu Yu shook his head directly when he saw such a person.

It's ridiculous for Xindao to apply for a job in Taicang even if he doesn't even know the most basic statistical methods.

However, there are many people who are proficient in arithmetic among those who participated in the competition. I saw that the arithmetician recruited by Shi Sun Rui only counted the vertical and horizontal numbers of each pile of grain, and then went to count the total number of grain piles.

It looked like the man knew multiplication, and probably double multiplication.

But when Liu Yu saw the man clumsily counting and calculating with a brush and bamboo slips, he lost interest in him.

Because he knew that even if that person could multiply, he would not be as fast as Cui Di and Zhou Fang in calculating or writing.

In the end, the whereabouts of the two other people made Liu Yu look very funny. They were all sent by Li Ru.

The two were still trying to count the food bags at first, but when they saw that Cui Di and Zhou Fang had finished counting and were about to calculate the total, they all gave up their work and stretched their heads to look at Cui Di and Zhou Fang paper in hand.

Cui Di and Zhou Fang both entered Taicang with pencils and white paper, which made Wang Yun and other ministers look envious when they saw it.

Pencils do not need to be dipped in ink, and white paper is more convenient for recording and calculation than bamboo slices, so the speed of the two of them has always been far ahead of everyone.

But white paper is more difficult to cover than bamboo pieces, but it seems that Cui Di and Zhou Fang have no intention of covering at all, almost leaving it open for them to copy.

Li Ru, who was standing not far away, saw Plagiarism Wuyou, and felt that this must be a solid one. Even if he couldn't win the two principal positions of supervisor and Dian Shi, he could at least force a deputy position into Taicang.

In less than a quarter of an hour, Cui Di and Zhou Fang took the lead in handing over the report card.

"Reporting to the King of Zhongshan, after inspection by the two of us, a total of 250 eight bags of grain were transported into Taicang this time!"

After the two said the amount of food, several ministers all came together in surprise.

After the people who participated in the competition before entered Taicang, Ma Teng told several ministers the total number of grain bags transported this time.

So everyone knew that Cui Di and Zhou Fang's statistics and calculations were not wrong at all.

But Shi Sunrui was very puzzled and asked: "How much effort is this? Even if you two are outstanding in arithmetic, it will take a lot of time just to write down these data. I suspect that you are cheating!"

After hearing this, several ministers also questioned aloud. At this time, the two people sent by Li Ru to participate in the competition also came back.

Li Ru thought that his chance had come. Liu Yu's people were considered to be cheating, but the statistics were correct, and he saw with his own eyes that his people copied Cui Zhou's calculation results.

"Gentlemen, my people are back, let's listen to their statistics!"

Li Ru confidently took the bamboo slices in the hands of the two, but when he took a closer look, he found that he didn't recognize any of the things written on it!
"What... is this?" Li Ru was furious, pointing at the bamboo piece and questioning his subordinates.

The people Li Ru invited were all well-versed merchants in the city. They had never experienced such a big battle like today. When they saw Li Ru getting angry, they knelt on the ground in fright and begged for mercy.

"Reporting to Lord Tingwei, the two of us... don't know, but just copied it from the white paper in the hands of Cui Zhou! Please check it out!"

The two only begged for mercy, but they revealed the plagiarism on the spot, which made Li Ru's old face disappear.

Li Ru lost face and had to change the topic to Cui Di and Zhou Fang's cheating. He found out by himself, and he didn't want to see Liu Yu do well.

Li Ru snatched the white paper from Cui Di and Zhou Fang's hands, and saw that there were indeed incomprehensible ghostly symbols drawn on it.

He said sinisterly: "Sure enough, these two people didn't count at all just now. They should have known the total number sent this time. Please take a look, my lords. This is the evidence!"

Li Ru held up the white paper, and all the ministers showed approval after reading it, because they didn't see the final counted quantity on the white paper at all.

"Let me tell you, even the best calculator will not calculate the result so quickly, because the numbers are too big, and it will take a lot of time just to write those numbers!" Shi Sun Rui seemed to have found it. The second evidence is dancing with joy.

But Liu Yu suddenly sneered, "Things that Master Shisun thinks can't be done, in my opinion, can be done in minutes!"

"And the ghost character that you adults can't understand is actually a new kind of digital character. It's not surprising that you can't understand it, because it was invented by my... master!"

(End of this chapter)