In the chaotic times of the late Tang Dynasty, Lu Mingyuan, a powerless accountant, relied on an abacus and accurate figures to expose the truth about the decay of the army when the two armies were confronting each other.
Surrendered and staged a miracle of survival in which "numbers are stronger than swords".
"The Arithmetic of the Salt Owl" is a story about how numbers kill swords. It is also a story about how a little man survives in the only way he is good at in the chaotic world of cannibalism.
There is no plot, no palace fighting, no love line. There is only a bookkeeper, an abacus, and a set of numbers that can kill 30,000 people.
When everyone was talking with knives, he used numbers to shut everyone up.
——Are you ready to settle this score?
Concept: Numbers are the sharpest knife in troubled times.