Gong Shuyao, the sweeper and handyman, is the most inconspicuous person in Daqin's Logistics Department.
The account book was short of 30,000 shi, and the civil and military officials of the entire dynasty were helpless.
He squatted on the ground to draw a table, and calculated the old accounts of ten years by three times, five times and two times.
The emperor was furious: How could a humble servant who couldn't recognize a single word have such a genius?
The Epang Palace overspended, the Weishui Bridge collapsed, the Southern Expedition had difficulty transporting grain... The whole mess was thrown at his head.
Others want power and money, but he only wants charcoal strips and bamboo chips.
Change blueprints, calculate wind power, lay gear tracks, use mathematics to defeat the ancestral system, and use data to harden powerful officials.
Zhao Gao burned his files and Ying Zheng suppressed his official position. He said: "If the problem is not solved, I will do it again."
There are no golden fingers, only hard brains.
This is a counterattack epic by a skilled craftsman who is crazy at the top of the empire.