September 9 is the traditional climbing festival, which is the time of autumn and autumn. Pen & Fun & Pavilion www.biquge.info Every time at this time, the Qing Emperor had to feast the envoys of various countries in the Great Qing Kingdom to show friendship.

The envoys of various countries in Beijing were all envoys and spies, and their intelligence network was quite powerful, searching for secrets in the political, economic, cultural and other aspects of the Qing Dynasty. This year, they focused on the prince, and a lot of news about the prince traveling with his wife and guards made them feel that the legend of the prince was too strong, and it should be said that it was mysterious. They traveled for a year, and the goods they brought back were not available in the Qing Dynasty, nor were they available in all countries in the East and West. After digging deeper, I learned that they followed Master Ganlin, the Buddhist master of Lord Rui, and the accurate information provided by Emperor Shunzhi of the Qing Dynasty said that the goods of this prince Chitose were brought back from a distant country called "Exotic", and it is said that they brought back a large elephant tusk carved with delicate flowers for the Shunzhi Emperor and the Empress Dowager. The owner of this tusk must be a male elephant who is more than a foot tall. And the unicorn who doesn't know what material it is, that kind of carving method is not found in the world, it must be a mysterious tool to polish it so brightly...... What is even more incredible is that the little princess, who is twenty years younger than Prince Rui, learned from that mysterious country that there are many methods of craftsmanship, and it spread among the servants of the palace, and then three merchants with the emperor's inscription began to deal in indescribably beautiful cloth crafts. He only kept half of the capital, and the rest of all the profits were divided into ten parts, five shares were deposited in the treasury for the emperor of the Great Qing Kingdom, one share was given to the merchants who sold goods for him, and the remaining four shares were divided into those hard-working maids.

Such a move is unique in both the land of China and among the royal family members of foreign countries. Therefore, they unanimously asked to meet His Excellency the Prince, who was rumored by the government and the opposition and had worked hard.

Also, among the gifts that the prince gave to the emperor was a telescope ten times the size, and it was binocular. Telescopes of this era have absolutely no binoculars! The first telescope was invented in 1608 by the Dutch Middleburgh optician Hans Lee Polsay, and the Shunzhi Emperor of the Qing Dynasty was born in 1638, only 30 years before the Qing Emperor! Therefore, all the envoys did not understand where the telescope of Lord Rui came from and who made it. Where exactly did they go? Extraterrestrial? The way Westerners think about problems is fundamentally different from the people of the Qing Dynasty. They jointly wrote to His Majesty the Emperor of the Qing Dynasty that he must invite Prince Rui when he invited envoys from various countries, and they had many questions to ask Prince Rui.

The ninth day of the ninth month of the Qing Dynasty calendar is the traditional Double Ninth Festival, also known as the "Ascending Festival". On this day of Chongyang, all relatives must climb together to "avoid disasters", plant dogwoods and enjoy chrysanthemums. Climbing Festival, naturally there is content of climbing. The emperor not only invited the royal family, brothers, nephews, princes, princes, princes, and princes to participate in the ascension event, but also invited brothers and nephews to participate in the state banquet, so that the children could also taste the Kanto-style delicacies that they learned from the Rui Palace. Under the leadership of Emperor Shunzhi, the emperor's brothers, princes, princes and envoys from various countries symbolically climbed Jingshan, turned around, picked a few handfuls of chrysanthemums and returned to the Qianqing Palace.

Then there is the banquet of the Ascending Festival. The envoys wanted to ask Lord Rui what they wanted to know before the banquet. However, when they tasted the cold drinks and pastries from the Rui Palace, they just wanted to ask the Rui Wangye a question, but they were forgotten by the envoy William of Great Britain, the envoy of the Rakshasa Kingdom Matlov, and the Japanese envoy Watanabe. The emperor felt that the envoys of these countries today were always talking to each other and muttering, and he didn't know what he was discussing. From time to time, he looked at Emperor Shunzhi with an expression of waiting to see the excitement, as if he was ready to attack him at any time. He said in his heart: "These envoys with big noses and small men don't know what moths they want to do, but don't make any trouble with me." If you can't answer what they have in their country and what the Qing Dynasty doesn't have, wouldn't it be a loss of the prestige of the great power of the Celestial Empire? How can something in the West be the same as something in the East? You have to guard against them. ”

Sure enough, at the end of the banquet, the blonde and blue-eyed envoy William began to attack. He was very polite and bowed to Emperor Shunzhi: "Your Majesty the Emperor of the Qing Dynasty, today is the grand festival of your Great Qing Dynasty, and we congratulate you with great sincerity. Since it is a festival, there should be a festive atmosphere, and several of our envoys want to discuss with His Majesty the Emperor and come up with a few math problems for everyone to calculate. It's just a game, I don't know what His Majesty the Emperor wants? ”

Emperor Shunzhi is very unhappy, today is the Ascending Festival, and it's not a competition, what kind of problem is it? What a disappointment. The culture of Middle-earth and Western culture are completely two types, if they come up with bizarre and bizarre questions, and the royal relatives and ministers here can't answer it, then it is not a loss of face, it is the face and national prestige of the Qing Dynasty; But if they avoid arithmetic, they will definitely think that the subjects of the Great Qing Kingdom are idiots who do not learn and do not know how to do it. So he said, "This gentleman is William's envoy of Great Britain, right?" Don't know what kind of arithmetic you come up with? Which one is addition, subtraction, multiplication and division? If it's acceptable to us, give it a try. ”

Envoy William's heart was overjoyed, and he shouted in his heart: "The Qing Dynasty people with long braids, you have been fooled, and the question I want to ask is something that you will never be able to answer!" Who told you to ask us, Queen Elizabeth's subjects, to bow down to you? Now it's time for revenge. So he hurriedly said: "Your Majesty the Emperor, you are a great country in the Celestial Empire, full of talents, we only come up with three mental arithmetic multiplication of hundreds of digits, so please ask Your Majesty to find a minister who can mentally calculate or someone in your royal family to answer in a quarter of an hour, it doesn't matter if you can't answer, today is a holiday, so it's a game." ”

Gotcha, the moth is coming. It sounds polite, but it's actually a step-by-step approach. Isn't it embarrassing to multiply a few by a few hundred by a number of mental calculations?

Prince Xian stood up and said, "Mr. Envoy, you must be proficient in this way?" We people in the Qing Dynasty are not accustomed to mental arithmetic, and we all use abacus. ”

William hurriedly waved his hand and said, "No, no, mental arithmetic is not good at contemptible, but Mr. Watanabe Taro of Japan is proficient in this way, and his Chinese is much more proficient than contemptible, can he explain it, let him make the question?" ”

As soon as William's words fell, the Watanabe envoy of Japan stood up. He is not like the Japanese soldiers in the exotic TV series, but he is an elegant and humble scholar. However, everyone knows that Special Envoy Watanabe is a well-known China expert, he speaks Chinese quite well, and he is also very proficient in the study of numbers, and he is a scholar-type diplomat. If you weren't wearing a kimono and a Japanese hairstyle, you wouldn't be able to tell if you were Japanese.

I saw that the envoy Watanabe gave Emperor Shunzhi a ninety-degree bow, and said humbly: "Your Majesty the Emperor, in fact, the topic of this envoy is not difficult, it is just a three-digit multiplication by a three-digit number. This is self-evident. Please point out one of them, the emperor is limited, please answer a problem within a quarter of an hour. ”

Shunzhi was almost about to scold his mother. These envoys clearly knew that the royal nobles or civil and military ministers of the Qing Dynasty were all knowledgeable in the Four Books and Five Classics, Sun Tzu's Art of War, Confucianism, Buddhism and Taoism, and the people in the royal family were all Manchus, and the Manchus were horseback people, and those who rode horses and archery were okay, but they were not necessarily proficient in the Four Books and Five Classics. How many specialize in numbers? The course in the Guozijian has arithmetic, can you come to this place? Three-digit multiplication by three-digit multiplication is good to understand with a pen, and it is necessary to limit a quarter of an hour to calculate by heart, obviously embarrassing me. But wouldn't it be even more embarrassing if we didn't have such talents in the Qing Dynasty? That William kept saying that he was a big country, and he couldn't even find a person who could multiply three-digits, didn't he lose the face of the Qing Dynasty?

So he held back his anger and said with a smile: "Mr. Watanabe's proposal can be considered, and I will discuss it with the ministers to see who will come forward to answer the questions of the Watanabe envoy." ”

"Okay, well, then we'll wait for good news."

Emperor Shunzhi said to the brothers, sons and nephews of the Manchu civil and military and royal clansmen in Manchu language, which all the envoys could not understand: "Ladies and gentlemen, who knows this mental arithmetic of three-digit multiplication? Hurry up and confront this guy Watanabe, haven't you listened to their big country with their mouths closed? Now I will give you a chance to show your face, this is also equivalent to saving me, not only my face, but more importantly, the national prestige of our Qing Kingdom. There are generals here who have fought bloody battles and galloped on the battlefield for many years, everyone worked together to defeat the army of the Ming Dynasty, established the Qing Dynasty, and made great contributions, and they are meritorious ministers. Therefore, I decided that whoever gave me this national prestige would be crowned a prince if he was a prince, a prince by himself, a prince if he was a prince of the county, and a prince of the country if he was a minister of civil and military affairs. How is it? I am the emperor, and I will never break my word. ”

Everyone looked at each other, this is the best opportunity to make a career and seal his wife and son. It's not that you don't know how to count, but you can't stack hundreds of hundreds, you don't need a pen, you don't need an abacus, you really don't have that ability, and it's too late to learn. Mr. Fan Wencheng, a university scholar, is only eight buckets high, rich in five cars, his knowledge is strategy and the way of governing the country, let him count hundreds times hundreds of numbers, I am afraid he will not be able to answer just by mental arithmetic, because he is not learning this, it is an article, is a strategy, and a few digits multiplication wind horses and cows. Looking at it now, let alone being a prince and a county king, even if the emperor gave up his dragon chair, no one dared to take this stubble. There are also illiterate among these people. Even the resourceful regent Dolgon, who is also a big fighter, can't read a few baskets.

Seeing that no one responds, Shunzhi is a little anxious, this is the majesty of an emperor of the Qing Dynasty, the face of a great country, and all the foreign envoys say that we don't have such talents? It's quiet! It's completely still! The princes and ministers of the kingdom are very embarrassed, but this is not a matter of fighting for anger if you want to, this is a real skill!

Just when the Watanabe envoy was about to make further trouble and the William envoy was about to laugh, a childish voice whispered in the emperor's ear: "Father, can you recommend someone to you?" The elder brother of Xuan Shizi of the Rui Wangfu can answer their arithmetic questions. "It turned out to be the third prince Xuanye.

It's a natural sound! The emperor didn't even think about it, how could an eight-year-old child answer a question that adults couldn't answer? It's good that he can read a hundred. But at the moment of opportunity, there can be someone to strengthen the national prestige of the Qing Kingdom, that is really a rescue work. What if you answer incorrectly? He's a child.

"Xuan'er nephew, come to Uncle Jiu quickly, don't pull him, brother Huang, your eyebrows are burned, Daqing's face matters!"

The prince had no choice but to let go of his hand, regretting it in his heart: "Why did you bring Xuan'er!" Can such a child fight a few old foxes? Suddenly, I thought that Yun'er had told him that Master had said that Xuan'er might have something important to do in the near future, and I also thought that Mr. and Yun'er said at the gate of Feiyun Building not long ago that Xuan'er had taught himself arithmetic at some point, and he knew a little in his heart. Despite this, I was also very apprehensive.

"Emperor Xuan'er, Xuan Ye said that you can answer the envoys' questions, I ask you, what are your chances of winning?"

"If the arithmetic they come up with is indeed a hundred-digit multiplied by a hundred-digit number, Xuan'er can calculate it."

"They want mental arithmetic."

"Xuan'er learns mental arithmetic."

"Then you can come out, don't be afraid, there is Uncle Nine to support you, and you will fight boldly!"

In fact, there is no need for him to tell Xuan'er, the child does not have those utilitarian success or failure concerns in his heart, he should still play. So Xuan'er tidied up her clothes, smoothed the pigtails at the back of her head, walked to the side of Envoy William and Envoy Watanabe, and said generously with her fists: "Two envoys......"

Who knew that the two envoys didn't even look at Xuan'er, probably thinking that this was a little boy who came to see the excitement. The Watanabe envoy's eyes were directed at Emperor Shunzhi, and he coughed and urged: "Your Majesty the Emperor, have you found someone who is counting the problem?" Although he was trying his best to hold back his smugness, he was also smiling like a fox. Matlov sneered, and the William envoy raised his chin and looked at people with his nostrils. The heart said, the most capable of these officials of your Great Qing Kingdom is only proficient in Zi Yue Shiyun, Sun Tzu's Art of War, Zhongyong, Tang poetry and Song Ci, and other knowledge, arithmetic? A hundred years from now! As for you ministers of civil and military affairs, it's almost the same if you want them to chew words and brag about it, and I'm afraid that those who are serious will be strained as soon as they go into battle, right? Hey, hey, hey...... If you are completely defeated today, next year we will have to make a request to cede the city, and whoever makes you not even know how to multiply three digits, it is better to admit that you are a barbarian......"

The envoy of Watanabe was also in high spirits in the quiet atmosphere, and secretly said proudly in his heart: "You big braids who claim to be of noble blood, are you exposed?" A country with hundreds of millions of people can't find a person with a three-digit multiplied by a three-digit number, isn't it embarrassing? Hahaha, next year we will land from Lushunkou, occupy your Jingshi, and then go all the way south, planting our sun flag on all the rich lands in the south of the Yangtze River...... (To be continued.) )