All the emotions of compassion and depression will be wiped out along with the long road, and will be replaced by the long boredom and boring.
In the sky filled with yellow sand, the carriage convoy moved on the sparsely populated sandy ground.
This geographical situation is not a desert, but somewhat similar to the Gobi. The land is mainly composed of loess and yellow sand. When the wind blows, it is extremely easy to experience windy and sandy weather, but in fact, it is not a real desert.
It is said that 70% of the vast land today is desertified. But if you dig down fifty meters, it will all be loess. If you dig further, an underground river will appear. There is no shortage of water.
"Ah, it's so boring. How long does it take to get to Huangpu County?"
Liu Quan, shirtless and with a veil wrapped around his head, roared.
Li Zhen was also a little confused. He had been traveling for more than a day and it was really a long journey. On this carriage, you can't read or study. Because of the bumps, everyone was actually a little motion sick.
Teacher Wang, who was rushing with the team to take the exam, laughed and said: "You two, you really haven't walked a long distance. When I was studying everywhere decades ago, I even walked alone from Hangcheng County across Kyushu. Xizhou.”
Another teacher Li took a sip of water and said calmly: "What's the hurry? Now we are in Tongxiang County. It's about an hour's journey before we can enter Jiahe County. When we get to Jiahe County, it's not far from Huangpu County. Then we can stay in Jiahe County for a day and have a good rest. You two children haven't traveled far yet, have you? Let me tell you, Jiahe County is much more prosperous than Hangcheng County."
Li Zhen asked curiously: "How prosperous is it?"
"Jiahe County, 70% of the land area in the city is a loess oasis. It is not far from our Hangcheng County, but Hangcheng County has a sandy soil environment. Jiahe County has a loess surface. In the past There are extremely many merchants in Jiahe County. Moreover, Jiahe County is also the only way to Huangpu County. Businessmen from all over the country will gather in Jiahe County, which is extremely prosperous. In the entire Southeast Prefecture, only Jiahe County can compare with Huangpu County. "
Li Zhen asked again: "What is the population of Jiahe County?"
"It is said that Jiahe County has a population of over one million."
Liu Quan's eyes widened: "One million! Legend has it that the population of Huangpu County is only 1.5 million, which is called a giant city in the southeastern state. Can the population of Jiahe County also exceed one million?"
Li Zhen asked again: "What is the data of Jiahe County's annual GDP? What is the data on the age-to-child disparity within the territory? What is the ratio of men to women? Has the per capita property been compiled?"
“…”
The whole team has black lines on their heads.
Teacher Wang wanted to laugh, but when he saw that Li Zhen didn't look like he was joking, he saw that Li Zhen had already recorded a lot of dense things in his notebook. All were data about the human geography along the way, and my heart was immediately filled with emotion. This is what a scholar is!
Teacher Wang said seriously: "I can't give you a general idea about these rigorous data. If you are interested in things in Jiahe County, we will be there in an hour. By then, if you investigate it yourself, wouldn't it be more meaningful?"
Li Zhen nodded and said no more words.
Liu Quan laughed loudly and said: "Are you out of your mind? You don't care about the gross domestic product (GDP) of other people. It has nothing to do with you..."
Before he finished speaking, Teacher Li interrupted sternly: "Classmate Liu, what you said is wrong. You are students, talents of the future empire, and you are going to serve the empire. Learn more about something, know more about something, if one day you will be promoted to a higher official rank." If you have a body, then it will bring blessings to one place. The old saying goes, this is the meaning of reading thousands of books and traveling thousands of miles."
Liu Quan pursed his lips and said unconvinced: "It's useless to know these things. What is the total value of production is someone else's business. Even if you know it, it's meaningless. Can you analyze it and come up with it?"
Teacher Wang laughed and said: "Nothing is difficult in the world, only those who are willing to do so. Li is really a genius in mathematics. He can analyze extremely useful things from numbers that ordinary people cannot understand. This is a science. If you have If you have a chance to go to college, you will learn statistics, a variant of mathematics."
Liu Quan shrugged his shoulders and poked the dazed Li Zhen with his finger: "Hey, tell me what 'statistics' is. Don't hide it from me, you must know it."
Li Zhen smiled, summed up the language and said: "Actually, statistics can be summarized in one sentence, that is: by organizing, searching, describing, analyzing data and other means, we can speculate on the nature of an object and predict the future direction of the speculated goal. , the feasibility of diversified development, and even predicting the percentage data of the target's life and death, it is an extremely comprehensive and complex subject covering social sciences, natural sciences, predictions, etc. "
'ah… '
The people in the convoy were collectively petrified and looked at Li Zhen in shock.
Liu Quan was dumbfounded and clasped his head: "What did you just say? Speak slower, I didn't hear you clearly. My head is buzzing and it's very confusing."
Li Zhen smiled and repeated it again, and wrote it down for him so that he could understand it more literally.
After Liu Quan read it, his heart almost jumped out of his mouth, and he said in horror: "How could it be so magical? Could it be that you know the specific data of a city and use statistics to calculate it. Can you calculate the future business direction and direction of this city?" Which aspects of development have a high success rate, and even when will the city collapse?”
Li Zhen smiled and said nothing.
Teacher Wang said seriously: "That's just scratching the surface. Real statistics is more complicated than you think, Mr. Liu."
Several teachers looked at Li Zhen deeply, feeling a little strange.
If I remember correctly... No one teaches statistics as a subject in public high schools. It seems that Li Zhen understands it better than his teachers. How did he know
Liu Quan also looked at Li Zhen with complicated eyes and sighed softly. No one knew the meaning of this sigh.
Seeing that everyone was silent, Li Zhen felt a little embarrassed and said with a smile: "It's actually not as difficult as you think."
"Isn't it difficult?"
Teacher Li quickly came over.
Li Zhen shook his head: "It's not difficult. It's like doing a single-digit formula to find X. When we know the known data of a thing and get the conditions, it's not difficult to find the unknown number X. Just saying, The means of calculating it are more complicated and require more formulas."
All the teachers smiled bitterly and shook their heads, and stopped talking.
Liu Quan glanced sideways at Li Zhen, with contempt in his eyes.
Damn, I hate it when you pretend to be so ordinary. To put it seriously... it's not difficult.
Alas, this is probably a peerless strong man.
Legend has it that there is a kind of peerless strong man who sighs before every exam and says that he did not review yesterday. When the results came out, he was ranked first with perfect marks. He also told other students that I didn’t expect the questions this time to be so easy...
In Liu Quan's eyes, Li Zhen is now this kind of peerless strong man who deserves to be beaten.
What he said was so complicated that it sounded overwhelming. It was not difficult for him to finish it with a sentence.
Liu Quan didn't want to talk to Li Zhen anymore. He took out a square box from his personal backpack and held it in his hand like a treasure.
Li Zhen took a look and said in surprise: "You actually have a radio!"
Liu Quan finally saw Li Zhen's surprised expression and couldn't help but feel proud: "Humph, my dad bought this for me. Isn't it awesome? This was recreated and invented by a great scholar of the empire based on the description in ancient books. The 'semiconductor radio' was invented not many years ago, but now it costs 100,000 yuan. Is it expensive?"
Li Zhen took a breath: "One hundred thousand coins!"
"Yeah, I'm not bragging to you. There are only ten semiconductor radios in the entire Hangcheng County. My family has two, and there are several other wealthy businessmen. There is also one that only the princess of Hangcheng County has, which is used to receive the latest instructions from the country. , and big news events. There are only ten in Hangcheng County, and I have one!"
Liu Quan showed off extremely and began to pull out the one-meter-and-five-meter-long antenna and fiddle with it. After a while, there were some noisy voices inside.
A group of teachers also gathered around, scrambling to watch and marveling.
"so amazing."
"What kind of principle is this?"
"How can a square box receive audio signals from far away?"
"I heard that the senior officials in Southeast Prefecture have plans to lay some roads to receive audio signals, so that the signal can cover the entire Southeast Prefecture. It seems that it is covered. You can hear the sound before reaching Jiahe County."
“…”
Liu Quan looked at everyone triumphantly and showed off: "You don't understand. This is because we are approaching Jiahe County, so we can hear the sound. Jiahe County has a radio station. We in Hangcheng County don't have one, usually The signal cannot be received. The princess’s radio was issued by the Kyushu imperial court. It is the most advanced and dedicated. Her radio seems to be able to receive signals from Zhongzhou.”
Along the way, everyone surrounded Liu Quan magically, and Li Zhen was also playing with it curiously, listening to the voices of people inside who were gradually becoming clearer.
Li Zhen naturally knows about semiconductor radios, and he also knows the principles. These are basic high school knowledge. Zhang Zhi taught him this course a long time ago. But he has never seen it.
Liu Quan said impatiently: "Be gentle, don't damage it. Okay, okay, let's go here today and listen again tomorrow. Just listen for twenty minutes a day. This battery is very expensive." It’s only sold in Zhongzhou.”
With that said, Liu Quan put away the semiconductor with a proud face, looked at Li Zhen, and the color in his eyes became thicker.
Hum, I finally compared him a little bit, and finally got this guy's attention.
"ah!"
Liu Quan had just installed the radio when he suddenly heard a shrill scream coming from the front of the carriage team.
"What's wrong!"
The people gathered in a carriage were shocked. They all ran out to watch.
Li Zhen jumped off the carriage, stepped on the ground and looked forward. But I saw the hired groom standing at the front, his legs trembling, and he was completely frightened...
At the front, in a valley, forty or fifty bloody corpses were lying in a mess, looking miserable.
"This this… "
Everyone was distracted, their hearts became heavy, and they were frightened.
Li Zhen kept a trace of calmness in his fear and took a closer look at the corpses, only to see that seven or eight of them were weak young men. There were a lot of luggage scattered along the way, and clothes and other daily necessities were all turned out.
There was a carriage, but only the carriage was left, the horses were gone. Everyone's clothes pockets were all turned out.
Looking at the terrain of the valley, there are rocky mountains on the left and right, and there is only a narrow passage in the middle, about two or three kilometers long. There are no more roads in all directions.
"This is... what's going on."
Liu Quan was so frightened that he collapsed on the ground. Where had he seen the corpse
Li Zhen's breathing became rapid, and he said quickly: "Go quickly, keep quiet, and don't make any noise. There are horse thieves here..."
"Ah! Horse thief!"
"How brave you are. This is the main road leading to Jiahe County, and there are actually horse thieves here."
"I know, this is Yanziji!"
"Yanziji?"
"I have always heard that in recent years, when rushing to take the exam, there are always some students who are rushing to take the exam and disappear near Yanziji. They are neither alive nor dead. Some people say that they are horse thieves who specialize in robbing the candidates who are rushing to take the exam, as well as businessmen who go to Huangpu County to do business. I didn’t expect it to be true…”
Yanziji!
Li Zhen quickly jumped on the carriage and shouted in a deep voice: "Let's go! Let's go quickly!"
(End of chapter)