While talking, Xue Ling walked in with the drinks ordered by the two of them. Sun Lianghou took the coffee and said with a smile: "Boss Xueling, are you busy? ”

Xue Ling blinked: "There is an additional charge for accompanying the chat." ”

"Let's talk about ten dollars first!"

"Ten dollars? Then you might as well buy a lollipop and go to the kindergarten to cheat the children!"

After Xue Ling sat down, Sun Lianghou pointed to Jiang Shuiyuan and said: "With such a smart and handsome beautiful young man chatting with you, you don't thank you, and you dare to charge?"

Xue Ling said: "I'm talking about talking to you about the charges." I'm afraid I won't be in line at all!"

Sun Lianghou laughed: "Count you as having a vision! My little brother is absolutely talented and beautiful, let's not talk about his appearance, it is clear at a glance." Don't look at him as a sophomore in high school, he has written, filmed commercials, published papers, published monographs, and won several national awards. The key is that he also has an excellent memory, and he is afraid of scaring you when he says it, he can recite the "Thirteen Classics" and "Twenty-four History" and other important Chinese classics in full!"

Xue Ling's eyes widened and beautiful: "Fake, right? I still have some faith in memorizing the "Thirteen Classics", after all, there are quite a few people who can memorize it throughout the ages. If I remember correctly, it is more than 3,000 volumes and more than 40 million words! If you want to say that he read it through, I have some doubts, and I have memorized it?"

Sun Lianghou took a sip of coffee: "Then you will test him." I think that your boss Xueling was also a talented woman back then, I want to see if the east wind overwhelmed the west wind, or the west wind overwhelmed the east wind?"

Jiang Shuiyuan smiled bitterly and shook his head: He can memorize the "Thirteen Classics" and "Twenty-four History", just like a three-year-old baby can memorize "Climbing the Stork's Tower", and he can use it to show off on any occasion, which is simply unguardable and annoying! He decided to deal with it from the source: "Actually, I-"

"Actually, you're only going to memorize part of it, and you've managed to pique my curiosity and aggressiveness. Xue Ling didn't give Jiang Shuiyuan a chance to regret at all. She thought sideways for a moment: "I remember mentioning a story when I was writing a book before, saying that many generals in history are proud of dying on the battlefield and shrouding their bodies in horse leather, but there is such a general, but when the city is broken and the streets are fighting, he finds a secluded place to hide, and only when the war is about to end, does he come out and take the initiative to identify the other soldier." His point of view was, 'If I die in the midst of the rebellion, people will see that I have died without knowing it, and they may think that I am a negative country.' Now that I have died in broad daylight, the world will know my loyalty. 'Who is this general?'

Jiang Shuiyuan replied effortlessly, "He called Yan Yi—"

"No, it's Monk Chen! His name is very peculiar, so I am very impressed. ”

Jiang Shuiyuan explained helplessly: "You listen to me. He called Wan Yan Yi, the word Liangzuo, the small character Monk Chen, and the history books said that 'the world is in small characters', that is, everyone usually calls him by the nickname 'Monk Chen' or 'Monk Wanyan Chen'. The story you just talked about is from the "Biography of Wanyan Chen Monk" in the "Golden History" volume 123 "Zhongyi Lie Biography III". ”

Sun Lianghou held the coffee cup and looked at Xue Ling with a smile: "This is embarrassing!"

Xue Ling blinked, and suddenly smiled: "This time, I am considered to be Li Ghost meeting Li Kui, and I am completely cowardly." Little brother, how can you be so powerful?

This sentence sums it up well, Xiao Jiang just wants to give you a way to live. Sun Lianghou had a smile in his eyes, "Xue Ling, you are a very famous writer of the new generation, and the historical prose and court you write are well-known in the industry. There are just three of us here today, and there is no tax office to check your royalties and personal income tax, frankly, how many copies of each book can you sell on average?"

Xue Ling replied hesitantly: "It's hard to say. The good ones like "The Late Red in the Deep Palace" were printed, with about 240,000 copies printed, and the bad ones like "Reading History Full of Tears" and "The Late Ming Dynasty" were only 20,000 copies. On average, you can sell 70,000 or 80,000 copies per book, right? ”

Sun Lianghou pointed to the source of the river: "I heard that the first printing he wrote was 500,000 copies, and he reprinted it several times later, and I'm afraid the total number is no less than 1 million copies." How about envy, jealousy, hatred, right?"

Jiang Shuiyuan hurriedly clarified: "It's different. Boss Xue's books were sold in bookstores, and my book was given away for free in a clothing store. Of course, don't give it for free, but it has nothing to do with sales. ”

Sun Lianghou said: "Don't care whether the merchant is giving it away or using it to paste the wall, I just want to ask you, did they give you the manuscript fee?"

"That's given. Jiang Shuiyuan replied honestly.

"Isn't that the end of it?"

Xue Ling looked at the sky: "I also want to have such a local tyrant's friend, give the manuscript fee sufficiently, and then print hundreds of thousands of copies of my book in one go, and give it away all over the world, so that everyone knows my Xue Ling's name!"

Sun Lianghou straightened his collar: "Ms. Xueling, do you see my trench?"

"I'm sorry for the emperor, the little girl doesn't sell her body, so please respect yourself. ”

Sun Lianghou suddenly looked a little depressed, and said after a long time: "Then guess what major we are going to study in college, a child who can memorize the "Thirteen Classics" and "Twenty-four History" and write best-selling children?"

"Chinese? But if you ask that, it's definitely not Chinese." Foreign Languages, Politics, Economics, Management, Law?"

Sun Lianghou shook his head: "No, he chose mathematics!"

Xue Ling's face was full of astonishment: "Mathematics? Xiao Jiang plans to study mathematics? To say that our country's mathematics is indeed weak, not only is it not as good as the first-class powerhouses such as rice, Buddha, and Rakshasas, but even in the second-rate ranking, it is ranked low." The simplest indicator is that so far, only Chinese mathematicians seem to have won a Fields Medal. Xiao Jiang is planning to win glory for the country, but I always feel that something is wrong. ”

"Feel like the style is a bit out of place?"

"That's right, it's a style violation!" Xue Ling looked at Jiang Shuiyuan, "Such a smart and handsome young man, even if he doesn't study finance, medicine, law and other rich and handsome heartthrob majors, at least he has to be like your Sun family's generation, engage in physics, research and study, or get involved in biology, astronomy and other disciplines, right?

Sun Lianghou put down the coffee cup: "Please, Xue Ling, even if you don't like mathematics and think it's boring and boring, you won't describe a mathematician as so unbearable, right? And I think the reason why Xiao Jiang chose mathematics is not that he has a strong interest and strong desire to devote himself to the cause of mathematical research, but that he can only choose a discipline that he is more familiar with and has feelings for without knowing other majors." But Xiao Jiang can't be blamed for this, after all, he is just 15 years old this year and is only in his second year of high school. ”

Xue Ling couldn't get her tongue down: "The second year of high school ......"

Sun Lianghou nodded: "That's right, it's only a sophomore in high school." It stands to reason that it is best to let Xiao Jiang continue to finish his third year of high school, let him find his interests, and then go to college. But this is a complete waste of a year for him. But if you want Xiao Jiang to study in college now, I am afraid that he will choose the wrong major and waste his good potential. After all, men are afraid of choosing the wrong line, and women are afraid of marrying the wrong man, Xue Ling, don't you say?"

Xue Ling glanced at him, and then said: "This is the consequence of the rapid development of science and technology in the past hundred years, professional barriers have become deeper and deeper, and it is more and more difficult to break through, forcing people to end general education as soon as possible and spend more time to study in the professional field." Like your Sun family's generation, there are many fields of genius, and each field has outstanding achievements, destined to become a legend, and it is estimated that there will be no more in the future. ”

Sun Lianghou said: "I think this has nothing to do with the rapid development of science and technology, but the evil consequences caused by the average level of intellectual growth in society not keeping up with the speed of scientific and technological development." I believe that now or in the near future, the level of human intelligence will definitely catch up, and I firmly believe that there will be geniuses like Archimedes, Galileo, Newton, and my grandfather! The key question now is, if there is or is about to appear, how should we provide enough space for him to grow? This is a question that I have been thinking about since I had the privilege of being the tutor of this workshop. ”

Xue Ling thought for a while: "According to what you mean, the crux of the problem mainly appears in the process of changing from high school general education to university professional education, the time is too short, resulting in a small number of outstanding talents being confined to their own majors too early, and they will be unknown to everyone from then on; From this point of view, it is unlikely that the change of school system will be too much to involve on the one hand, and on the other hand, the gains will outweigh the losses. ”

Sun Lianghou followed Xue Ling's train of thought and said: "Since it is impossible to change the school system, then we can only put the goal of reform on individual schools, but fortunately, there are very few outstanding talents." The problem arises after the third year of high school, it is obviously unrealistic to let outstanding talents go to high school for a few more years, so they can only be admitted to the university first, and then like high school, students are not divided into majors when they enter the school, and first receive a small class general education with an intensive foundation of mathematics and physics and a foundation of humanities and social sciences. We will strengthen the training through various methods such as awarding honorary degrees, and cultivate outstanding talents with outstanding interdisciplinary learning and innovation ability. That's a good idea!"

Jiang Shuiyuan paddled on the side with a cup: Does this have anything to do with me? I'd better drink tea and watch the excitement.