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Chapter I am helpless

Zhao Bing has always denied the special abilities. He believes that people with natural divine power, extraordinary jumping power, physical strength, memory, etc. exist, but they have always sneered at things that are not good at taking objects from a distance, guessing objects from a box, calling the wind and rain, and rebirth of broken limbs. To put it nicely, it is a magic trick, and to be ugly, it is a scam.

When several children with unique skills were brought to Zhao Bing, he looked up and down and found nothing special, but maybe they were hiding it!

"Report to Your Majesty, Hu Lan was elected in Quanzhou in this life. She was eleven years old and was born in the ox. After blinding her eyes, she could read with her ears. It was strange in the village." After the accompanying official standing at the top, he saw the emperor signaling to start, he first went out to introduce.

"Oh, there are such strange people, show me!" Zhao Bing said with great interest after hearing this. He secretly scolded himself for having fun teasing people. Could it be that life in the palace was too boring or self-inflated?

The accompanying official immediately stepped back. A middle-aged man wearing a Confucian shirt and a scarf next to the child immediately stepped forward. It seemed that he was the child's teacher. He saluted him first, then took out a black cloth scarf and presented it to the emperor for inspection. Xu Hong came forward to take it and looked at it in the sunlight. He nodded and indicated that there was no problem, and then handed the scarf back.

The teacher then covered the child's eyes with a scarf, and then took out a stack of paper with words written on it. Zhao Bing signaled Wang De to come forward and draw it on his own, and he was ordered to draw one randomly from it. The teacher took it and put it in the child's ear. The child's ear moved slightly a few times, as if he was discerning, and quickly replied: "Song!"

"Your Majesty, right!" Wang De replied in surprise. The people around him were also shocked, but they did not dare to speak out.

"Try again!" Zhao Bing nodded.

"Yes!" Wang De was much more cautious this time, and carefully selected the paper and handed it to the teacher, but the result was still correct. After trying twice, it was still good, and he couldn't help but show an expression of admiration. The accompanying officer sighed and the teacher looked gloomy.

"Xu Hong, take the hood and change the eye mask!" Zhao Bing ordered.

"Yes!" Xu Hong also stared at it, but found no flaws. Seeing the emperor's order, he immediately obeyed. The hood was not new in the guard camp. So he quickly took one and replaced it with his own hands. Seeing that the child seemed not very adaptable, he began to shake his head and tried to adjust with his hands. Although the teacher tried his best to remain calm, he still couldn't hide his fear.

"Try again!" Zhao Bing signaled Wang De to conduct another inspection.

After changing the blindfold, the child's superpower seemed to disappear suddenly. He admitted the wrong words several times in succession, which made everyone feel puzzled. Zhao Bing smiled. This scam actually happened at this time, but the scammers never thought that this kind of "superpower" had been promoted in later generations and mass-produced child prodigy. But just changed the statement. He thought at first that this might be what he learned in a training class when he was a child in his previous life, and now it has been verified.

The class he remembered also denied that "blind eyes to read" is a special function, but a means to cultivate concentration. This will prevent children from being affected by vision and prove that other senses have been opened. It is also said that the visual physiological process of the joint action between the human brain and the eyes has been confirmed by science in the fields of anatomy, medicine, etc., and visual signals from the retina have been transmitted to the brain to process consciousness and subconsciously.

When blindfolding, when blindfolding objects, what they see will enter the subconscious mind of the brain with images, making it easier for them to remember what they see. It will be of great benefit to them when using it for learning. After three days of training, almost all children, including him, have achieved results in form. Not only can they quickly and accurately recognize colors and texts, but they can even recognize Chinese characters printed on the palm-sized card five meters away.

Are you surprised or surprised? Most parents believe that there is such superpower. A few days later, Zhao Bing's mother noticed it. He found that since he started the training class, there was something wrong with his eyes, and he always looked at things with his eyelids and looked at them. After some interrogation, Zhao Bing had to explain to the blindfolded reading. In fact, he looked at the words in the gap between the cloth or the teacher's gesture to determine the words on the paper.

The so-called "blind eyes to read" is actually a peek technique achieved through certain cheating techniques. The blindfolded cloth strip is very narrow. Children can slightly move the cloth strip through the rotation of their eyes, and the light can leak in, enough to see the colors and numbers of objects under their noses. The teachers also use "psychological construction" to prevent children from telling the matter, so they hide it from their parents, and they fooled the money.

One fact is that we are not superhumans, and it is impossible for us to have superpowers, but parents' imagination is a bit too rich. The scam was discovered and the one who suffered the biggest blow was Zhao Bing's grandfather. He thought his child had obtained superpowers and was complacent, but he was fooled by a liar. As a result, the old man made a big fuss in the training class. The teacher hurriedly refunded the tuition fee and was depressed for several days.

So when Zhao Bing saw the teacher take out the black cloth, he already had a clear idea. He was doing magic with him. In fact, this was not even a magic trick. After practicing for a few days, he dared to go to the palace to deceive himself. He was too brave. However, he did not rush to deal with it, but asked them to watch it aside and wait for these special abilities to be tested and dealt with it together.

Then one came up with a blindfolded color, but this one was not used to use the ears, but to use the nose. Of course, this one was not afraid of changing the blindfold cloth, and the performance was also very successful. Zhao Bing asked Wang De to present the literacy card, put it under his nose and smell it, and then he changed two pieces of red and green paper to let it smell again. As a result, his nose naturally failed magically again.

This scam should be considered an upgraded version of the previous one, and it can barely be related to magic. The principle is to apply different flavors of paper sheets of different colors, such as red chili, blue fishy smell, green bitter gourd smell, yellow orange smell, etc. If you make a tasteless one, of course he will cover his head and the scam will be defeated.

The next performance was to bend the copper strips with their minds. Isn’t Zhao Bing just playing with a "spoon" when he heard that this was just a magic trick. He could play by himself, and it was better than they did. This time he was too lazy to spend time, so he asked Xu Hong to go up and search first, take away all the things hooked to the metal on the child, and then handed him a steel dagger to make him bend it.

This principle is simpler. One is to use visual errors to replace the good spoon with a broken spoon during the performance; the other method is to use brute force to slowly bend the spoon with your thumb during the performance. Of course, the quality of the spoon cannot be too good, otherwise the fingers will break and the spoon cannot bend. The higher the purity of copper, the lower the hardness, the stronger the plasticity, and it is easier to bend than an iron spoon.

Zhao Bing made the best. The hardness and strength of the steel dagger are many times higher than that of copper. If it is bent, it will be difficult for him to do it unless it is broken. The child was stunned when he saw it, and his instructor simply knelt down! If the rest of the demonstrations were made, no one dared to step forward, and he would fall to the ground.

The child selection prodigy brought himself a magic team, which was even more hateful than those who concealed their age. Zhao Bing's anger was conceivable. The child was innocent and exempted from punishment. The local officials in charge of the election were twenty boards, and the instructors were fifty boards, which also allowed them to enjoy the treatment of a court stick. Some of the people in the guard camp were three people in a group, two people held them down, and one round of board was beaten. For a moment, there were ghosts and wolves howling, and flesh and blood were flying everywhere outside the hall, which scared a group of prodigy silly, because they were afraid that they would not want to be prodigy again in the future.

Then a class performed fast calculations. They knew the addition, subtraction, multiplication and division within a hundred digits, which was faster than ordinary people, and then they could solve the application problems of chickens and rabbits in the same cage. Zhao Bing was not interested in this, and these children were obviously not that kind of mental arithmetic superman, and they could not even compare to the junior class of modern Olympiad classes. Even if they chose a few of them from their Royal Academy and trained them, as long as they mastered the methods, they would be better than them.

The remaining prodigy are all able to memorize the Six Classics, and there are the largest number of people. Zhao Bing looked at these children and felt that they were even more pitiful. According to the pre-selected standards, children must read the Six Classics and Mencius through the text. Before the full text of the "Yu" was included in the test. If they can understand the Five Classics or above, they can be recommended to the court by the state officials.

When you think about the experience of being texted in school, you will know that it is really torment. You probably have the experience of memorizing under the scolding and slap of your parents, or the experience of memorizing silently in the corner of the classroom. Even in this life, Zhao Bing has been taught by his strict teacher, but he still can't memorize the Six Classics. He only dares to say it is rough. Seeing that these children can recite the whole book, he can only express "envy". However, I am afraid that modern children have rarely experienced the experiences.

The boy's test can bypass the imperial examination and enter the officialdom directly, which made many parents in ancient times spared no effort to help grow. Zhao Bing heard that any child started to learn as soon as he could speak. He taught him how to learn the "Four Books" and "Five Classics" from the beginning of his ability to speak. Even professional teachers who specialize in training "prodigy" appeared, just like the gold medal teachers in various exam-oriented training classes today, waiting for the price to be sold, "the price is at the pre-price, and a few will be paid for the final price", clearly marked the price, and trained the child to recite the scriptures, how much is the reward. People who can afford the price are rushing to hire famous teachers.

How do these famous teachers train "child prodigy"? It's a bit shocking. In order to eliminate all external interference, the children were put in the bamboo basket and hung on the big tree, forcing them to recite and study. If they can't memorize them, they will never let them go. Some babies were destroyed and killed. As for stick education, it is probably indispensable...
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