It's annoying!

I plunged headlong into the Royal Library.

Only here can I feel a little lighter.

That day, I was looking at the "Book of Mysteries" in the library.

It's obviously a dictionary, but there are only a few dozen words. Some are the same as ours, such as punctuation, such as the Arabic letter "1234567890"; The rest is different from ours, and the more than a thousand pages of the book are arranged in "ABCDEFGHIJKLMNOPQRSTUVWXYZ", as if our "chapter 1 and chapter 2" are all the same, and their letters are squeezed together to form another word - or "word".

That book had millions of letters, hundreds of thousands of words, hundreds of pictures; There are only dozens of letters, some words are commonly used, some are not commonly used, at least tens of thousands of kinds, much more than Chinese characters.

The more I looked at it, the more I had a headache, and I was so anxious that I scratched my ears and cheeks.

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Zhao Pumin, the director of the Royal Library, saw my appearance and said disdainfully: "You do useless all day long." What's so hard about this, I said it, it's an ancient hieroglyph, like Chinese characters. ”

Me: "Shut up! You've thrown a dead man at Wenjuren! First, Chinese characters are not hieroglyphs and are not explained. Second, that book can only be a dictionary of the interracial race—or a dictionary. There are dozens of alphabets — I call them 'letters', in reference to the Arabic alphabet '1234567890' — that resemble our sideways, or our pinyin 'ㄅㄆㄇㄈㄉㄊㄋㄌㄍㄎㄏㄐㄑㄒㄓㄔㄕㄖㄗㄘㄙㄨㄩㄚㄛㄜㄝㄞㄟㄠㄡㄢㄣㄤㄥㄦ'. Those letters are combined into hundreds of thousands of 'words' or 'words'. I guess that's not a word, otherwise how could there be hundreds of thousands of words? There are only a few thousand Chinese characters. Therefore it must be words, just as our words have so many words. That is, it's a dictionary, like ours. ”

I still said to myself, "I've had the idea that they're our words or words phonetic." Just like some rough people in the countryside, they can only 'ㄅㄆㄇㄈㄉㄊ', so they use 36 pinyin phonemes instead of thousands of Chinese characters. If you put your mind to it, you can actually read what they write. But I've tried and replaced it countless times, and there is absolutely no one-to-one correspondence between the book and our words. Therefore, it must be an interracial word. ”

Zhao Pumin: "You haven't made any progress for a few months? ”

Me: "Rejection of the wrong idea is progress!" I already knew it was a completely different alien dictionary, and its purpose was to make their people understand their words, and it had nothing to do with us. In fact, if you ditch Chinese characters and pretend you're a foreign race, you'll already be able to read a lot of their words. ”

He said, "I don't believe it. ”

I took out my pen and wrote down a few strange symbols "man", "women", "boy", "girl", "shoe", and below wrote the kanji "man", "woman", "boy", "girl", and "shoes".

I said, "Here's their correspondence." As long as there are pictures, I understand them. But hundreds of thousands of words are only a few hundred pictures, and I haven't even scratched the surface of this book. ”

I frowned: "I have a splitting headache when I see it." If I try to die, I'll crack it, and I have this confidence, and the problem is: I'm really going to be exhausted. ”

Zhao Pumin: "Do you still want to give up?" ”

I said proudly: "It seems that I can only sacrifice my ultimate weapon, the smartest guy I have ever seen - Zhao Yuyang." ”

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I found Zhao Yuyang.

He served everywhere, and now in the Royal Treasury, he was in charge of the financial plans of the Ming Dynasty.

When I went, he was directing his group of men to settle accounts, and the room was full of papers.

I slowly looked around him and around, and said, "You're a." None of the 23 provinces of the Ming Dynasty have data that are true, and your fiscal theories and policies are also contradictory. ”

Zhao Yuyang raised his eyelids and said seriously: "Of course it's all fake, and I'm not stupid, so I never use their data; The royal fiscal theory is a joke, how can the theory be condemned. What we do is just trial and error, and then collect all kinds of data to continue trial and error until we find the real pattern. For example, today I am calculating the money supply of the current month of the Ming Dynasty, and calculating how much currency will be issued this month to stabilize prices by referring to the measures taken in each month of each year and their consequences. ”

I said, "What's the point?" You can't find a pattern, and even if you find a so-called pattern, it doesn't make sense. They may have delays, they may have other hidden associations, they may not have any associations, and they may even be random. For example, you can calculate the relationship between the number of mosquitoes at your bedside and the price of Daming, as long as you want to find a pattern, you will definitely find out the number of mosquitoes at your bedside and the law of Daming prices, but we all know that they can't be related. ”

He said, "You're arguing again. I think there is a certain principle to everything, and it can be recognized by us, and we can control it after we know it. ”

I said angrily, "Quite the opposite. I don't think there are principles, we can't know principles, no one can control the truth – except God, if there is God. But there is no God, and therefore no one can know the truth! ”

He said: "Everyone says that you have the temperament of a cultist, but I think it's really the same." ”

I suddenly remembered the purpose of today's trip, and I said, "Hey, I won't quarrel with you, I'll show you something, and if you can figure it out, I'll admit that you're amazing." ”

I handed him the book.

He flipped through it in confusion and asked, "This is the witch book?" ”

I gave him a brief account of the book's findings and my preliminary research into it.

He pouted, "It's funny, I finally have something to do." ”