"The abacus is a counting tool I invented, the effect is a hundred times stronger than the arithmetic, and it is very easy to master, no need to read and hyphenation, just memorize a few words of mantra can be faster than any professor in the arithmetic academy!"

Now that the opportunity has come, Hong Tao will naturally not let it go. The easiest way to fool someone is to beat them in the area they think they are best at, so that you are more convincing in his eyes.

"There is no basis for words...... I haven't asked the official for advice, can you tell me a thing or two? ”

The two doctors didn't believe Hong Tao's words at all, but Hong Tao didn't look like a street liar, and they couldn't think of any person in Bianliang City who would be so shameless and use bragging as a joke.

"Don't worry, let's do it, three days later will be the day of the tenth holiday, and a certain will take the abacus to the courtyard to let the two of you see it with your own eyes, and you can tell if it's true or not. As for me...... It's better not to say it now, so as not to affect the judgment of the two. By the way, by the way, tell the two of you, in the future, this courtyard will be in the Flying Eagle Club, if the abacus is really stronger than the abacus, are you two willing to join the club? ”

Hong Tao didn't expect others to believe what he said because of a sentence, in that case, this kind of person is not worth fooling.

The more assertive people are, the more useful they are, as long as they can change their minds and give a feasible way to achieve their ideals, people with conviction are more lethal than boxers.

To say that the self-cultivation of ancient literati is indeed more than a little higher than that of modern people, even if they were humiliated by Hong Tao for no reason, the two doctors still did not relent, and they did not wonder whether this would come as scheduled in three days.

They naturally believed in the character of this stranger, just like the guys in Qingfeng Teahouse, and never thought that there would be customers who would take their tea sets and not return them.

"What is an abacus?" The two doctors left with a stomach full of questions, and Fuji suddenly appeared in the main hall as if out of a crack in the bricks, and also heard the conversation just now, and asked the same question.

"Since the rich man is interested, there is no need to wait until three days later, after returning home, you can distinguish the authenticity from the fake, presumably the rich man is also a person who is good at calculation." Hong Tao really doubted whether Fu Ji was the sixth Shang or a spy of the Imperial City Division. She walks mostly silently, and her ears are very sensitive.

Regardless of Fu Ji's true identity, Hong Tao has to deal with it carefully. But it's not without benefit at all, since she is 100% obedient to the emperor, it would be better to use her to pass on some of her own movements to her eldest brother. This can make the emperor feel at ease with himself as much as possible, and it is much safer than guessing all day long.

Anyway, the large-scale planting of rice sac flowers will take more than half a year, and there is still nothing to do during this time, so it is better to find something to do first, such as to collect some available talents, and by the way, make some gadgets to let the emperor see his ability.

If you want to make yourself relatively safe, it is not enough to be cautious, on the contrary, it is easier to reassure the emperor by showing your ability appropriately.

Of course, what kind of ability you show is the key. It would be too dangerous to go back to the house at this time to make a bow and crossbow, but to play math and compete with professors and doctors in arithmetic is only good and not bad.

Ancient emperors never seemed to have feared that a mathematician would rebel, and no matter how rebellious his mathematical attainments were, they were still not worth mentioning in the eyes of those in power.

Not only arithmetic, but also skills in many basic sciences have not been valued by the Chinese ruling class for a long time, and it seems that the more skilled people are, the less likely they are to pose a threat.

Now Hong Tao plans to develop in these aspects first, so that he can become a person who is not doing his job in the eyes of everyone, and try to eliminate their wariness of himself.

Only in this way can I have the opportunity to make friends with some talents who are also not valued, so as to establish a team of my own, which will not be noticeable.

In the eyes of the monarchs and ministers of the Song Dynasty, this team was basically a group of small officials who did not have much potential, and they would not feel any threat no matter how they thought about it. But in Hong Tao's view, they are the big killers of the times, and the switch or decoy of this big killer is his own time and space shuttle.

Only you can mobilize the latent energy of these people, and then surprise those who once didn't pay attention to them, and maybe become a key force in changing an era.

The most important thing is not this, as long as this team is established and can complete the initial operation, no matter whether they exist in the future, these people will go on tenaciously according to the established line, changing everyone and everything around them anytime and anywhere.

What is it called? It's called a chain reaction, or domino effect. As long as your top card falls and hits the second domino smoothly, then this reaction is very difficult to stop, and it will help you fulfill your wish that you are too late or unable to achieve.

"Hey, hey, hey...... I didn't expect us to be a turn card! Lian'er, prepare the horse to return home, I want to solve the puzzles of the rich adult! ”

Thinking that he could cultivate a group of ancient scientists in the Great Song Dynasty and push forward the pace of scientific and technological development of the Chinese nation or all mankind by hundreds of years, Hong Tao couldn't help but take action immediately. The first to bear the brunt is, of course, Fu Ji, who made her the emperor's eyeliner.

No matter how reluctant Fu Ji was, she could only follow the crazy horse back to the Horse Mansion, and then go to the Flying Eagle Workshop in the back garden, and watch the old craftsman from Shu use a small piece of bamboo and a few simple tools to make the abacus in the mouth of the horse.

"Peng Da, you shouldn't be woodwork, this craftsmanship is no worse than gold and silver work, so I am not too willing to use it."

In less than an hour, the old craftsman made an original book-sized abacus according to the design idea of the horse. Although he didn't know what the colt was for, his exquisite craftsmanship was reflected in the real thing.

This abacus with a total of 91 abacus beads on the thirteenth gear can no longer be called a tool, it is comparable to a finely carved handicraft, and there are simple relief patterns on the bamboo frame.

This was not instructed by Hong Tao, but by the old craftsman. He said that the finished product that passed through his hands could not be bareboard, which would be insulting to the craftsmanship of the ancestors. As a result, Hong Tao was reluctant to hold it in his hand, but gently pinched it with two fingers, for fear that it would stain it.

"Lord Duwei, don't kill the little old man, this little vulgar thing is just to make ends meet."

The old craftsman is really not modest, not to mention a palace craftsman like him, even if he finds an apprentice in his hometown, it is very easy to make an abacus. He really didn't understand why the colt was so shallow-eyed, and the only explanation was that the pony was talking crazy.

"It's crude, but it's not crude. It won't be long before every merchant in my Great Song Dynasty will regard this thing as a treasure. Since it is from you, would you like to mention it by name? ”

Craftsmen, in ancient China, are also a group of people who no one can do without but are not very respected, Hong Tao plans to correct their names first, starting with this Peng Da.

"This—How does this make ......?"

The old craftsman didn't expect the horse to play really, and actually wanted to use himself to name this thing called the abacus, and he was a little dizzy for a while, and he didn't know where to put his two hands, and after reading Fu Ji turned his eyes to the eldest princess, trying to persuade the two of them to persuade the horse not to go crazy.

The eldest princess also didn't understand how her husband had come back in a hurry not long after he left, and then stared at the old craftsman's intention in making such a strange mechanism out of bamboo. But she has the advantage of being able to trust her husband unconditionally, even if it seems to be unreliable.