I want to ruin the country

Without saying a word, the yamen runners threw Wu Shide to the ground, lifted up his clothes, exposing his white buttocks and started beating him.

"Pah, pah, pah"

"One"

"oops!"

"two"

"Mom!"

"three"

"Daddy"

……

The board fell like raindrops. Before the beating was halfway done, Wu Shide started screaming like a pig being slaughtered.

"My dear husband, please stop fighting. I'll give it to you!"

The bailiffs pretended not to hear and continued beating until the master called for a stop.

Not only did they not stop, they also accelerated the pace.

"Pa, Pa" Hao hit the board twice in a row, but he shouted,

"Seventeen"

"Pah, pah, pah"

After three consecutive beatings, he still shouted slowly,

"eighteen"

This was a terrible situation. By the time the bailiff called out thirty, Wu Shide had already received more than fifty strokes of the board.

This time, Wu Shide was half dead.

That's how it was. The master only let him go after his family paid all the money and grain. This time, Wu Shide lost both his wife and his army.

The reason was very simple, because the rent paid to him for the donated land was low, while he paid a lot to the court, so he was dumbfounded!

It's all your own fault!

After the Enke exam, there was the Ministry of Industry’s exam, which was held in a large courtyard.

This is a public examination, and even ordinary people can come and watch.

Because I heard that the exams are very strange and varied, it attracted many ordinary people to come and watch.

There were crowds of people inside and outside the courtyard, and even some people setting up stalls, performing tricks, and selling snacks came, making the surrounding streets extremely lively.

Skilled craftsmen from all over the country entered the venue, led by officials from their respective provinces.

Then they were organized together by people from the Ministry of Industry according to the examination subjects they had registered for.

Because the local primaries had already taken place, anyone who could make it to the capital was a very capable candidate. Now was the time for the final showdown.

Some of these games are simple, while others are complex.

For example, in long jump, if you jump one foot and the other person jumps ten feet, the other person wins and the winner is decided very quickly.

Some of them are not good enough, they need time, and there is no definite standard for identification.

For example, when making furniture, you made a stool and I made a stool, and they are almost the same. It is not easy to tell the difference!

However, every profession has its own expertise. In the eyes of experts, these are not difficult tasks that cannot be accomplished as long as one has a righteous heart.

The competition starts at 8 o'clock in the morning.

It really opened our eyes. It can be said that there are all kinds of talents among these people.

Those who run faster, jump farther, and climb poles are more agile than monkeys.

Clairvoyance, super hearing, and strength greater than that of an ox.

His nose is sharper than a dog's, he can stay submerged in water for a whole day, he has an excellent memory and can remember everything he sees.

There are masters of various martial arts, masters of mental arithmetic, masters of blind abacus, masters of weaving, masters of textiles, masters of carpentry, masters of bricklaying, masters of medicine, and masters of poisons.

There are experts in all kinds of information ambushes, experts in small inventions and creations, and so on, covering all walks of life, and many of them are beyond people's expectations.

After ten days of competition, this talent selection contest came to an end.

A total of more than 1,400 talents of various types were selected.

On the last day, Yining also brought Zhang Xiang, who was tinkering with the generator.

Let him see if there are any talents he can use.

Peng Yunzhang and Du Han first accompanied them to look over the results, which really opened Yining's eyes.

There was a young man who had a pair of hands so skillful that he could carve more than 150 words on a grain of rice.

Each stroke is clear and the handwriting is beautiful, which is amazing.

There was also a person who could disguise himself. He just had to look at someone for a few seconds and then lock himself in the room. After a while, a person who looked real enough would come out.

Take the abacus for example, it seems Yining is really an expert.

An official from the Ministry of Works read out numbers on a piece of paper, while several others blindfolded themselves and used an abacus.

The officials read very quickly, and their hands were clacking loudly, but the final data was exactly correct.

There are also a few people who are good at mental arithmetic and can calculate faster than using an abacus.

One of them turned out to be a pretty girl in her twenties.

The girl's name is Wu Meiling. She is tall, with fair skin with a rosy glow, curved eyebrows, almond-shaped eyes, red lips and white teeth. She is a natural beauty.

Yining felt that she was 95% similar to He Qing, the female star who later evolved into one of the four famous classics.

What really shocked Yining was not her beauty, but her mental arithmetic ability.

No matter how big the number is, as long as you finish speaking, she will give the result.

Instead, the person next to him had to spend a lot of effort to check the calculations, but the final result was that they were all correct.

Yining was stunned and decided to test her himself.

Yining personally gave out several difficult addition and subtraction questions, and Wu Meiling gave the answers without wasting a second.

Yining no longer doubted her calculation ability. Such a person would be of great help to Zhang Xiang.

Now there are no computers, and all calculations have to rely on abacus, which is too slow.

Having Wu Meiling is like having a computer that doesn't require electricity. Zhang Xiang's work efficiency will be greatly improved. This is a treasure.

Yining looked at Zhang Xiang who was thinking beside him and said,

"Consultant Zhang, how about you test Wu Meiling?"

Zhang Xiang didn't say much, just nodded in agreement. He wrote out a square root problem. As expected, he finished it, and Wu Meiling also wrote out the answer.

Yining looked at Zhang Xiang's expression and knew that Wu Meiling had answered correctly.

Next, Zhang Xiang used his trump card again and wrote out all the test questions for the most powerful brain on TV in the future.

The square root of 27 is 13.

Wu Meiling handled it with ease. After he wrote down the question, she didn't waste even a second and blurted out 1400.26.

Zhang Xiang showed a gratified expression and nodded towards Yining.

"Completely correct!"

Yining had also watched this episode and was deeply impressed. How could he not know that Wu Meiling's answer was correct?

He pulled Zhang Xiang aside and asked in a low voice,

"Well, is it useful to you?"

"Of course it's useful, it can replace the computer!"

Yining laughed and joked,

"She's more than just a computer. She'd be a great wife, too. She's so beautiful!"

Unexpectedly, Zhang Xiang nodded generously.

“It’s very good!”

Yining smiled.

Turning back, he asked,

"Wu Meiling, who taught you all this?"

Wu Meiling replied,

"I learned it from my father!"

"Your father? What does he do?"

Wu Meiling said,

"My father loved arithmetic all his life. He spent his whole life studying it!"

Yining was overjoyed.

"Where are you from? What's your father's name?"

"We are from Yangzhou, and my father's name is Shangchongxiazhi!"

Yining asked,

"Has your father come yet?"

"No, my father has no interest in fame!"