It's March.

In early March of the first year of Datang Hongsi, the ice and snow still did not melt, and the winter plum had withered, and the fallen petals were particularly conspicuous on the snow-white ice and snow, like drops of blooming blood.

The court of Chang'an in the western part of the Tang Dynasty was very depressed, but the court in eastern Chang'an was very lively. The Inner Court, where the "Inner Court" is a close minister of the emperor in the general sense, not the previous Inner Court, which controlled everything, was located in the imperial palace, and all the ministries of the outer court were far away in East Chang'an, so the palace was unusually peaceful.

Despite being the deputy head of the Inner Court, I still lived in the barracks of the military district, with my father and mother. Nine years have passed, and I am physically and mentally exhausted, and I don't want to get involved in the bad things in the court.

Zhao Yuyang and Zhang Qiangsheng lived in the palace. But frankly, neither of them is too trusted.

Zhao Yuyang has surrendered too many times, and although he is nominally the head of the inner court, it is actually impossible to enter the ruling core of the Tang Dynasty.

Zhang Qiangsheng is Zhu Zhaoding's champion, but he is not trusted—otherwise why can't he command Zhu Zhaoding's forbidden army—so after the Tang Dynasty replaced Dongming, it was not too much for Zhang Qiangsheng to defect to the Tang Dynasty. Zhang Qiangsheng's reputation is barely better than Zhao Yuyang's.

The reason why the Tang Dynasty reused them was because the two of them were needed to rebuild the various departments of the imperial court and the invincible forbidden army. Datang can need no one, but it must need both of them. Zhao Yuyang and Zhang Qiangsheng are the only inheritors of the knowledge of the Senate. Liu Xingchao killed all the members of the Senate and took all the books with him—but Zhao Yuyang hid some of them. Zhu Zhaoding also collected part of the collection and handed it over to Zhang Qiangsheng.

The world is a mediocre who knows nothing, except for the two of them - well, in fact, except for four people: Zhao Yuyang, Zhang Qiangsheng, Lu Ziluo, Zhao Pumin.

Lu Ziluo is now the president of the Imperial University, while Zhao Pumin is the director of the Royal Hospital. The people of the inner court, except for the four of them, almost all died. All the achievements of human civilization are pitifully concentrated in these four people.

As for me? Ha, I really can't. I can't memorize, I can't calculate, I can't logical, I don't know anything except I can talk big.

These days, the four of them are guarding the "Building No. 7" day and night to make the final adjustments to the royal computer.

The Royal Computer, a miracle within a miracle, a heavy weapon of the nation, the controller of all things, and the terminator of all things.

Yes, they are rebuilding the royal computer.

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"Building Seven" was upgraded.

In the past, the lower floors were the Royal Arsenal, which produced explosives and poison gases; the upper floors for the production of tank aircraft; At the top is the Royal Computer.

Now, the Royal Arsenal has moved out, the first floor produces fuel, the lower floors produce tanks and planes, and the upper floors are all converted into royal computers! It's on several floors!

In the past, Lei Lijia, the head of the Ming royal computer, was taken to Jinling by Liu Xingchao, and the royal computer was blown to pieces. At the beginning of last year, the imperial court began to rebuild the royal computer, which was still the time of the co-governance empire, the person in charge was Zhang Qiangsheng, and the specific personnel were all the "co-governance people", selected from one million people.

This year, Datang continued, and the scale was even larger. Zhao Yuyang, Zhang Qiangsheng, Lu Ziluo, and Zhao Pumin are responsible for training teachers, and teachers retrain students.

They come up with all sorts of weird mathematical symbols. In fact, they didn't design it, but found it from the "Book of the Patriarchs" - in fact, they actually used foreign languages that I found before, such as "+-*", "△∅", "U∩", "αβγ" and the like! In order to control the spread of knowledge, these symbols were banned. Now the situation is urgent, and I can't manage so much.

Before that, math was written in words. For example, if people calculate how many seconds there are in a day, they will think: a minute has sixty seconds, an hour has sixty minutes, and a day has twenty-four hours, which is sixty times sixty times twenty-four. As for the process, sorry, there is no process, you just do your own mental arithmetic. If you can't figure it out, it's proof that you're incompetent. And now, people use the symbol "60*60*24=86400" to denote it. And there are specific formulas to calculate how to get the number "86400". In other words, now anyone who is not a fool can calculate how many seconds there are in a day.

The example I'm giving is an extremely simple multiplication, in fact, they include all the algorithmic symbols, all the algorithmic processes. Not only mathematical symbols, but also logical symbols, physical symbols, chemical symbols...... These symbols are extremely concise, with a small number of symbols containing a great deal of information. If you describe a problem in words, you may write tens of thousands of words, but if you describe it in those symbols, just a few hundred words are enough.

For example, if I were to describe to you the principle of the royal telegraph, it would take you tens of thousands of words, and you would not understand it. But for now, just a quadruple formula is enough:

· D=ρ

×E=-

· B=0

×H=j+

This is how the telegraph works. Through this formula, Gyeonggi, Lingnan, and Liaodong can communicate anytime and anywhere. This is just one example. In fact, take a look at what they teach:

Algebra, Geometry, Differential Calculus, Determinism, Dimensional Mathematics, Vectors, Functions, Topology, Probability Theory, Logic, Geography, Game Theory, Physics, Chemistry, Quantum Science, Biology, History, Philosophy, Theology, Psychology, Domination, Machine Linguistics, Advanced Linguistics, ......

I looked at it for a while, and my head was big.

I'm really scared: with my pounds, how did I get the 16th place in the literary exam in the first place? Compared to them, I'm just scum!

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I continued to go up.

On the 7th floor of Building 7, thousands of people are sorting through hundreds of billions of cards. That's what was built up hundreds of years ago. As long as these data are analyzed, the imperial court has a grasp of human history. As long as the past is mastered, the imperial court has the present and the future.

On the eighth floor, thousands of people are sorting through tens of billions of cards. This was compiled by the imperial court last year, and it contains all the information of billions of people in the world.

On the 9th floor, thousands of people are calculating. They operated thousands of mechanical and analog calculators, and the sound of clattering filled the hall. They reduced everything to the two basic concepts of "yes" and "no", and then referred to it with "1" and "0".

For example, they can even use "1" and "0" to indicate what a person looks like. They turn human characteristics into formulas, then into data, and into computers. At the same time, they can restore this data to photos at any time.

Yes, they did what the Ming Dynasty couldn't do at the beginning. In the past, my characteristics in the Ming Royal Computer were nothing more than 1.75 meters tall, three hair twists, thick eyebrows and big eyes, not fat or thin, and a mole on the buttocks. And now, there is a picture of me in the Datang Royal Computer! This photo is not painted, but compressed into hundreds of data to save!

Finally made it to the 10th floor.

The brand-new royal computer appeared in front of you, it covers an area of more than a thousand square meters, which is bigger than Daming's! The 100,000 flashing vacuum tubes and transistors almost blinded me. These tubes, called "vacuum tubes" and "transistors", are made of the sixth layer.

The 10th floor is air-conditioned. The air conditioner is refrigerated. In the winter, the air conditioner is turned on. However, the people inside were wearing pants vests because it was too hot inside. The Royal Computer consumes a terrifying amount of electricity and generates an enormous amount of heat, which can only be supplied by the Royal Power Plant. - At this time, I remembered the "perpetual motion machine" in the Royal Power Plant.

On the 10th floor, thousands of people shuttled through the 9th floor, punching the data on the cards with a punching machine.

There are various formulas in the Book of Ruling of the Senate, and people substitute the data into the formulas and then enter them into the computer. The punch card is the input and output device of the royal computer. The hole in the card is a language, the same as the language of the people, but it is called "binary machine language", which has only two words: "1" and "0". When the machine is built, the binary machine language is upgraded to a high-level machine language. High-level machine language is similar to human language. When high-level machine language is upgraded, it is almost the same as human language.

At that point, even if all of us who built the royal computer are dead, our descendants will still be able to control the computer – though they don't understand why – as if people were alive and didn't know why.

At that point, even a fool will be able to control the world.

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All in all, on the last day of March, late at night, the members of the Royal Household Department entered the last card into the royal computer.

Zhang Qiangsheng pressed the red button.

The 100,000 tubes of the royal computer glowed so terrifyingly that I could barely make out their flickering.

The lights of the entire palace dimmed, and the lights of the entire Chang'an were cut off.

Everyone took a few steps back.

The thick cables on the ground sizzled, and the royal computer glowed even brighter white, like lightning. The lights of the palace are brighter, and the lights of Chang'an are also brighter.

Suddenly, the royal computer flashed white, green lightning, accompanied by a crackling sound. Lightning struck the marble on the ground, and rubble splattered everywhere. Several people were hit by rubble, and blood flowed.

Emperor Li Hongsi took a few steps back and asked, "What's the matter?" Broken? ”

Zhang Qiangsheng: "It's okay. The shell of the computer protects it. ”

After ten minutes, everything fell silent. The 100,000 lights of the royal computer flickered and flickered, as if they had come to life and were communicating with people.

Zhao Yuyang stepped forward and pulled out a punch card from one of the exits. He handed it to his men. The men under him held the card in his left hand, and wrote Arabic numerals quickly on a blank piece of paper with his right hand.

Zhao Yuyang handed the blank piece of paper to the emperor. On the blank sheet is the total population of the Tang Empire – in fact, to be precise, the total population of the co-ruled empire, because this is the data at the end of December last year.

In short, two months after the fall of the Condominium Empire, the royal computer calculated the total population of the Condominium Empire. Of course, without counting human error, without counting miscalculations – it is said that computers never make mistakes – the world's population is total: 4669056787 people.

The emperor looked at the "4669056787" on the white paper and fell into deep thought.