Chapter 7 The Birth of the Human-shaped Calculator
With the increase in food and sugar prices in the past two weeks, the business of Zhangjia Rice Brewing Store has indeed become much slower. Maybe for rich people, a few copper coins and a few silver coins will not make any difference at all, but for many people with income
For the lower class of society, slight price changes turn into huge pressure for survival when they are passed on to them. They are also more sensitive to prices. A bowl of rice wine from the Zhang family, even if it only increases by one copper plate,
But for some people, this copper plate represents a 20% price increase, which is difficult to accept.
Looking at the Chinese woman in front of him who dragged the drooling child away from the rice wine shop, Zhang Tie could only smile helplessly. This little guy used to come here often to eat. Now, with the increase in the price of rice wine,
His mother had no choice but to drag him away. For ordinary families in these small households, the rise in food prices certainly affects not only the price of a bowl of rice wine, but also the entire cost of living.
When food prices are high, firewood, rice, oil, and salt will not follow suit. I heard that the price of coal in Heiyan City has also begun to rise in the past two days. The most obvious thing is that the price of coal briquettes has been increased by five copper coins per truck. Food prices are rising.
, the price of coal is rising, and the steel produced by steel plants will naturally rise accordingly. Although the current price increase is still very small, it is not a good sign for many ordinary people.
The Zhang family's ugly modified tricycle was borrowed by a neighbor early this morning, saying they were going to buy some food. Several families have come to borrow it in the past two days, and they all borrowed it to haul things. My mother and
My sister-in-law went to the hospital this morning. She said she felt a little unwell, and my mother became nervous. After getting up this morning, the two of them left. Then Zhang Tie was alone at home, looking at the rice wine shop, and was bored in the store.
The fan drives away flies.
Zhang Tieren was at the rice wine shop, but he was a little absent-minded, because his entire mind was focused on his own mind at the moment. At this moment, some interesting things were happening in Zhang Tie's mind...
The changes brought about by the sevenfold increase in mental power are causing earth-shaking changes in the "Abacus" that he has been practicing for two weeks. Before yesterday, Zhang Tie wanted to visualize a three-level abacus in his mind.
It will take a long time, and the visualized abacus is not stable. Whichever abacus you use to perform mental arithmetic is not very fast. It is not as convenient as manual calculation. In short, it has not reached the point where it can be practical. But this situation, today
The morning completely changed.
At this moment, in Zhang Tie's mind, a golden abacus with seven positions was hovering steadily in Zhang Tie's sea of consciousness. The beads on the abacus were flipping up and down automatically without any hands, and the output was output.
Calculate the values one by one.
What is 36 times 98? 3528!
What is 1269 plus 9621 equal to... 10890!
What is 362 multiplied by 125? 45250!
What is 639 divided by 12? 53.25!
What is 98564 divided by 125? 788.512!
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At the beginning, Zhang Tie still needed to type in the formulas to get the result. But later, as soon as Zhang Tie saw the question, his heart moved, and the formulas flashed in his heart. The abacus had already calculated the results, and he practiced again.
After thinking about it for a while, Zhang Tie found that he didn't even need to recite the formula silently. Often as soon as he saw the question, the result had already come out. It was too fast. After two years of abacus, Zhang Tie finally discovered the Chinese people.
The power of this ancient calculation tool, Zhang Tie didn't know where the "Abrasive Arithmetic" book with recommended extracurricular readings for primary school students was, but purely in terms of the intensity and quality of mental power, Zhang Tie didn't believe in this world.
There is no elementary school student in the world who would be stronger than me now. Maybe my mental power before was about the same as that of a primary school student, but now my mental power has reached seven times of its original value after merging with that glorious fruit. It is really too strong.
After using seven times the mental power to promote the mind-killing arithmetic, the powerful side of the mind-killing arithmetic began to be fully revealed. Zhang Tie only glanced at any addition, subtraction, multiplication, and division within seven digits, as long as the question came to mind.
The result came out without even a click in the middle. Not only that, Zhang Tie found that it was easy to stabilize the abacus after visualizing it. In the process, he also sold a few bowls of rice wine and made a few transactions.
Small business is not affected at all...
His current calculation speed should be faster than those hand-cranked metal calculators in exchanges and trading houses! Zhang Tie thought happily, but he did not expect that after his mental power increased sevenfold, it would bring him the first
The advantage is that Zhu's calculations can reach this level overnight. If he goes to the grocery store now, he will definitely scare that guy Tang De.
Because this abacus was so easy to use and felt so magical and fitting, an extremely bold and even absurd idea came to Zhang Tie's mind - or maybe, in the long time before the abacus was invented, the abacus was originally
That's how it was used. Just visualize it in your mind. People of that era had very strong mental power, so they could easily use this calculation tool in their minds. But later on, people's mental power didn't know what it was.
After the cause faded, it was no longer difficult to realize this kind of calculation in the mind, so some people made physical abacus and started to operate it with their hands. Then at a certain point, I don’t know if it was hundreds or thousands of years.
Later, when everyone became accustomed to operating the abacus with their hands, suddenly another guy had a flash of inspiration and felt that this thing could be visualized in his mind and operated with pure spirit and consciousness, so he invented the bead center.
Divine Calculation, inadvertently restored the true use of this calculation tool...
If this is the case, then wouldn't I be the only person who truly masters this magical computing tool? I wonder if this magical computing tool can evolve to a higher level of ability. It looks like that guy Tang De
I have said that in the magical East, there are some powerful professions, such as the mysterious fortune teller, who has a more magical calculation tool called "Yi". That calculation tool does not calculate numbers, but people's good and bad luck.
And the evolution of all things in the world, is there any relationship between the two?
Just when Zhang Tie was thinking wildly, his mother and sister-in-law came back. Zhang Tie quickly scattered the abacus in the sea of consciousness, then rushed up and asked with concern, "Mom, sister-in-law, what's the matter with me!"
As soon as the words came out, Zhang Tie realized that the question was a bit silly and seemed a bit awkward. The sister-in-law's face turned slightly red, while the mother's eyes widened and she hit Zhang Tie's head hard, "It doesn't matter how big you are.
Go and cook quickly..."
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In the afternoon, as usual, Zhang Tie helped his mother make rice wine at home. With his sister-in-law joining in, the job became relatively easier. After lunch, the neighbor returned the borrowed tricycle. Zhang Tie
As soon as I got off the train, I rode a tricycle to buy rice and sugar. As expected, the prices of these two items increased a little. Because the rice brewing business at home was not very good last week, I only bought two bags of rice this time.
When I got home, my mother was teaching my sister-in-law how to make yeast liquid.
"This yeast liquid is very crucial. The final taste of the rice wine depends entirely on it. We all make our own yeast in the Zhang family. These spare jars containing yeast must be boiled before use.
Boil it with boiling water, then shake it with boiling water and let it cool down for later use. Generally, there are two cans at home, one is being used and the other is fermenting. Just make one can and wait until it is almost used.
When the time comes, add water to it and put some chopped fruits, peels, cores, etc. in it. Open the lid of the jar and shake it every day to let the inside breathe. Generally, a new jar of yeast liquid will be ready in about a week.
It's done. About two spoons of fermented yeast liquid should be put into each can of rice wine before sealing. Come and have a taste. This yeast liquid is very delicious. Zhang Tie often came to eat it secretly in the past..."
Zhang Tie has long been familiar with these contents, and he didn't pay much attention to them at first, especially when his mother was teaching and exposing his shortcomings at the same time, which made Zhang Tie lose face. But for some reason, he listened to his mother talk today.
With these things, a flash of lightning suddenly flashed across Zhang Tie's mind, and a thought suddenly appeared in Zhang Tie's mind...
Yeast——rice brew——
The mutated and evolved yeast—the mutated and evolved rice wine—?
Zhang Tie remembered that there was a special option in the Black Iron Castle that could promote the mutation and evolution of all creatures. When he first entered the Black Iron Castle, he tried it out and played with sprouted potatoes in a pit.
After not receiving any results for several days, Zhang Tie forgot about it. Then today, when he was watching his mother teaching his sister-in-law how to make yeast liquid, Zhang Tie suddenly had an idea - if he could make it
If the yeast used to make rice wine at home evolves or mutates to generate a new yeast liquid, will the taste of the rice wine produced be better? If so, it can also open up a market for the rice wine business at home.
Zhang Tie thought for a while, and the more he thought about it, the more he felt that this method should be feasible. At least he could try it. The Zhang family has been making rice wine using the old method for ten or twenty years, so it doesn't matter if he tries a new one. Even if it fails, it will be fine.
Not a few hairs!
Thinking like this, Zhang Tie became excited, and then in the evening, while his mother was not paying attention, he found a clean glass bottle in the kitchen, secretly filled half a bottle of yeast liquid and took it to his attic room.
Quickly came to the Black Iron Castle, opened the "Microbe" management panel of "Carbon-based Organisms and Species Management" under "Organisms and Species Management", and after selecting the bottle of yeast liquid, invested 300 spiritual energy values at once.
, 5 merit points and 0.1 basic energy reserve were put in, and the first mutation and evolution process of yeast began to be attempted.