Chapter Ninety-One: The Problem of the Prince of Western Xia
"Xiao Wang only needs to put one grain of rice in the first grid, two grains in the second grid, four grains in the third grid, eight grains in the fourth grid, and so on, double it every time."
"Why bother." The head of the household waved his hand, "This official can't be that stingy person, so he loaded a cart of rice for the prince, if you like to play, you can pass the time on the way back to Xixia." β
Yeluqi was unmoved, he turned to look at Yuan Ruiming, and said respectfully:
"Please also ask the emperor to agree, you can do what Xiao Wang said."
After getting the word, even if he felt troublesome and unhappy, he could only send someone to fetch rice and chessboard, and move to the side hall with Yeluqi to count the rice for Yeluqi.
No one took this episode seriously, and all of a sudden, it was a staggered singing and dancing.
Some of the courtiers were intoxicated with singing, dancing, wine, jade plates, and delicacies, and some of them exchanged heads and ears, and from time to time they shook their heads and smacked their tongues, as if they were talking about the five princes of Western Xia acting perversely, perhaps because there were some problems in their brains.
It's not good, it's a trick!
Bai Jingyin only then remembered why she felt familiar, this was originally a story quote from the teacher in the arithmetic class in her previous life, but she had never been good at math, and she didn't listen to the class seriously, but she only remembered that if she kept counting by the square, she would get a big outrageous astronomical number.
But how big it is, Bai Jingyin doesn't know.
She quickly ran over and leaned over to Yuan Ruiming's ear, and said anxiously: "Is it too late to regret what you promised Yeluqi, will the consequences be serious?" β
"Chrysostom said, if you regret it, I and Daqi will lose face." Yuan Ruiming didn't know why Bai Jingyin was so anxious, "But some rice, how could I, as the emperor, not be able to take it out." β
Bai Jingyin was angry and anxious, glared at Yuan Ruiming, who didn't know that the catastrophe was coming, and only sighed that this was the evil result of not receiving nine years of compulsory education.
She walked straight down the hall and snatched the flute that the musician was playing.
"Music, dancing, drinking, chatting, all stop meβ"
The people who were still immersed in the banquet a second ago were so shocked by this roar that they stopped their movements, and were stunned in place like sculptures, and they didn't know if it was the emperor's intention, so they could only do it, and the Chengqing Hall suddenly entered a dead silence.
"In public, do you still have some rules." Yuan Ruiming slapped the table and said sharply.
Even if he could do anything else, Yuan Ruiming was angry with Bai Jingyin for the first time about Bai Jingyin openly stirring up the banquet in Chengqing Hall at the beginning of the new year.
"There must be a limit to your reckless behavior, and I must step down."
"I can't really leave right now." Bai Jingyin turned around, frowning and trying to argue with reason, but before she could speak,
"A little eunuch dares to be presumptuous in front of the emperor, come and drag down the prime minister." Ling Xiang stood up and said sharply.
"The little eunuch is not good, what about the concubine, can I let you listen to the palace." Bai Jingyin didn't care so much, he ripped off his eunuch hat, untied his tied hair, and let his waist-length hair fall down.
The official's eyes widened, and he saw that the last second was still small
The eunuch's person became the legendary concubine Jing Guifei of the country of calamity in the next second.
Bai Jingyin knelt straight in front of Yuan Ruiming, raised his chin and said righteously:
"The concubine knows that doing this is a big violation of the rules, but if she doesn't stand up now, it will endanger the credibility and face of the emperor and Daqi."
Yuan Ruiming's scrutinizing eyes looked at Bai Jingyin deeply, and he was about to speak, when he saw a eunuch running from the side hall in a hurry, kneeling next to Bai Jingyin with a plop, and said in a trembling voice:
"No, no, it's not good, the emperor, the chessboard, the rice ......"
"But it's finished?" Yuan Ruiming frowned and asked.
The eunuch shook his head desperately,
"If you go back to the emperor, it's okay at the beginning, Lord Shangshu enlarges the rice on the chessboard according to what the prince of Xixia reported, but in the end, more and more, more and more, and I can't stop it!"
"Now how many squares are left?" Bai Jingyin grabbed his collar and said anxiously.
"Most of the rice barns in the palace have been moved, but now they are only 45 squares......"
"What?"
"How could it take so much."
"Could it be that the prince of Western Xia knows some kind of demon method, just a chessboard, and is about to empty the palace rice warehouse?"
As soon as the little eunuch's words came out, there was an uproar, and they couldn't believe their ears, and even concluded that Yeluqi knew how to spell, so there would be such a result.
"It's time to believe that what the concubine said is true." Bai Jingyin looked at Yuan Ruiming fixedly, with a stubborn expression, she stood up and said in a loud voice: "Is there anyone who is good at arithmetic, this number will be very large, but we also have to know how much it takes." β
Ling Xiang hesitated for a moment, then got up with his white beard and said:
"You can try it."
Although this Ling Xiang is not a good minister, he is very proficient in the six arts, and the abacus began to move, and the more he dialed, the more solemn his face became.
Time passed minute by minute, there was no more lively atmosphere of the banquet in the Chengqing Palace, at first there was only Ling Xiang alone, but later it was really impossible to count and summoned all the scholars in the Guozi Prison, the silent hall could hear the crackling of abacus, and the courtiers had different expressions, but everyone had a bad premonition in their hearts.
This is especially Yuan Ruiming,
"How do you calculate, how many grains of rice do you need to fill a chessboard?" He asked.
Ling Xiang got up, and cold sweat was already pouring out from the corners of his forehead,
"The number is too huge, and I can't get a ...... for a while."
"Don't bother the prime minister." Yeluqi's voice came from the side hall, and he strutted with his head held high, his face was light and smiling, which was in stark contrast to everyone in the hall.
When Yeluqi saw Bai Jingyin with his hair scattered, he knew that the little eunuch who had just spoken generously and wittily was actually his daughter, which was both shocked and a little unpredictable.
"Why is there only one prince, the head of the household." Yuan Ruiming asked coldly, making his gaze turn back.
"Back to the emperor's words, Hubu Shangshu was overworked, and he fainted after listening to Xiao Wang's words, and now he is being diagnosed and treated by the doctor in the side hall."
Yuan
When Rui Ming heard this, his face became even more gloomy.
"How much is needed, the prince said bluntly."
Yeluqi raised his eyebrows lightly,
"This number is too large in terms of grains, if it is about 600 grains as one tael, then the total weight should be 1,531.1 billion tons." Yeluqi's eyes shone with brilliance, and the smile on the corners of his lips deepened:
"Xiao Wang doesn't mind saving the whole and removing zero, one trillion tons is enough."
It's no wonder that the Tobe Shangshu will faint directly after hearing it.
Bai Jingyin stared at Yeluqi coldly, this fifth prince seems to really have something, and this time he is also fully prepared, don't lose face and vow not to give up.
(End of chapter)
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