In the Guozijian Chamber.

Kong Yingda's face was hesitant and silent, there were three chairs on each side, sitting five Guozi doctors from Guozijian, of which the third chair on the left was empty, obviously the position of Shen Hongcai, the former Guozi doctor.

"Now we are discussing the matter of reinstating Shen Hongcai's position!" After a long time, Kong Yingda struggled to speak.

As soon as this topic came out, the four doctors of law and other departments bowed their heads and were silent, only Liu Yinian, a doctor of arithmetic, said with a flushed face: "Lord Sacrificial Wine, why do you want to restore Shen Hongcai's position, your Excellency knows that Shen Hongcai has changed the content of the professor without authorization, and even adopted the new Mohist arithmetic." If there is no punishment, how will others look at our country's eunuch and how will I look at Confucianism. ”

Liu Yinian's words can be said to stand on the commanding heights of Confucianism, and this time to remove Shen Hongcai, Liu Yinian is the most active.

In the Guozi Prison, except for Kong Yingda, he Liu Yinian is the oldest, and he is even expected to take over the position of Guozi Sacrifice Wine after Kong Yingda's abdication.

Who would have thought that His Majesty would suddenly attach importance to arithmetic, which led to a sharp increase in Shen Hongcai's status, and even faintly surpassed Liu Yinian's posture.

When Liu Yinian heard that Shen Hongcai had only used Tianzhu to learn, he was ecstatic and directly sued Kong Yingda, and strongly advocated that Shen Hongcai be expelled from the country.

even secretly instructed Wang Ling and others to say bad things about Shen Hongcai everywhere, in a vain attempt to stink Shen Hongcai's reputation, so that Shen Hongcai had no chance to turn over.

Where did you think that Mo Jiazi Mo Jiazi held a famous debate, which directly changed Kong Yingda's attention.

"Expelled Shen Hongcai, who will teach Guozijian arithmetic." Kong Yingda said angrily.

"There are a lot of famous arithmetic scholars in Chang'an City, the descendants of Liu Hui, the descendants of the ancestral family, with the status of our Guozijian, these people are not hollowing out their minds to come to Guozijian." Liu Yinian said dissatisfied.

"Then go and invite them! See if they're willing to come! Kong Yingda said angrily.

Liu Yinian was stunned for a moment, not understanding what was going on?

"I'm afraid Dr. Liu doesn't know yet! Originally, several people who were interested in serving as doctors of arithmetic turned down the invitation of the priest to the wine, and now they want Chang'an City to have the qualifications to enter the arithmetic of the Guozijian, and none of them are willing to come to the Guozijian to teach. Doctor of Law kindly reminded.

"Why is that?"

Liu Yinian was puzzled, and immediately seemed to think of something, and suddenly said angrily: "Could it be that the Mo family is making trouble underneath?" ”

The doctor of law shook his head and said bitterly: "Brother Liu, haven't you seen it yet?" There is no one who can teach these students in arithmetic anymore. ”

"It's just a bunch of little hairy boys......!" Liu Yinian suddenly thought of the lightning mental arithmetic exhibition match of the students of Class C before the debate, the terrifying calculation method, and the shocking performance.

"Hit the mark!"

Liu Yinian's face changed in shock, he finally knew what was wrong, Mo Jiazi's real intention was not to defeat Class C with a famous debate, his real intention was to perform arithmetic before the debate, and strongly express the fact that the arithmetic level of Class C could not be taught in old-fashioned arithmetic.

They even invited a new doctor of arithmetic to face the same problem of Shen Hongcai, still using the original method, the student is more powerful than the master, using the new style of arithmetic, will also fall into the same fate as Shen Hongcai, this is the arithmetic in Chang'an City, where everyone is worried.

Liu Yinian slowly raised his head and saw that everyone looked happy, it was fortunate that such a thing did not fall on their discipline, otherwise Shen Hongcai's experience would be his end.

Kong Yingda saw it very clearly, this was the Mo family's yang conspiracy, and it was also a kind of bottom-up forced palace. But he had to admit that the development of arithmetic was out of control.

Since the appearance of Mo Jiazi, he first used a disaster victim problem to arouse His Majesty's interest in arithmetic, and then threw out the Tianzhu number, inspiring Zu Mingjun to discover the parabola, and finally studied the extraordinary lightning mental arithmetic, the terrifying computing power, which directly scared off all the arithmetic masters who coveted the position of doctor of arithmetic.

Now Kong Yingda really understands Shen Hongcai's struggle at that time, and now except for Shen Hongcai, he no longer recognizes that he is qualified to be Dr. Guozi.

In the silence, the reinstatement of Shen Hongcai's position was thus passed.

When Shen Hongcai appeared at the door of Bingshe again, all the inmates of Bingshe cheered in unison.

"How is the master?" All the inmates shouted respectfully. For this master who is bent on pursuing knowledge, everyone is in awe.

"Thank you?" Shen Hongcai was full of emotion, he originally thought that this would be the end of his career as a national eunuch, but he didn't expect these students to turn the tide and save him.

"Merton, thanks to you this time?" In a pavilion in Guozijian, Shen Hongcai said solemnly with a face of vicissitudes.

"Master's words are serious! What did Merton not do? It's all thanks to everyone! Merton said modestly.

Shen Hongcai smiled slightly, diverted the topic and said: "I have read the lightning mental arithmetic, although it can save a lot of time, but it does not seem to be able to be promoted on a large scale. ”

Shen Hongcai expressed his worries, he found that lightning mental arithmetic is not suitable for promotion, if he is supervised by the country and realizes that he has been deceived, I am afraid the consequences will be more serious.

"The master is wise, but for the students of the Guozi Prison, lightning mental arithmetic is not a problem, at least it is enough to implement it in the Guozi Prison." Merton's plan is very simple, even if lightning mental arithmetic cannot be popularized among ordinary people, as long as it is popular within the Guozijian, then Shen Hongcai's position will not be shaken.

"Arithmetic, it is indeed broad and profound, the old man really sat in the well and watched the sky before!" Shen Hongcai said with emotion. After he was suspended in the past few days, he devoted himself to using Tianzhu numbers to recalculate the arithmetic masterpieces of the former sages, and found that the previous problems were now solved.

"What the Master said is very true, the students think that all the learning in the hundred schools of thought is just the words of one family, only arithmetic has existed eternally since the birth of mankind, the daily use of the people is inseparable from him, the national finance is inseparable from him, arithmetic has long run through all aspects of mankind, and every progress of mankind has a strong impetus behind arithmetic. However, such an important arithmetic has not been given its due status, and many private schools even only teach the Four Books and the Five Classics, without mentioning arithmetic, resulting in a group of deformed talents.

"Of course, this is related to the environment, and a large part of the reason is that arithmetic is too obscure, and now Tianzhu Numbers has greatly simplified the calculation method, which is the time for the great development of arithmetic, Merton implored the master to compile a simple and easy-to-learn, from shallow to deep arithmetic textbook, so that arithmetic can be carried forward."

Merton's words shook Shen Hongcai's heart, this is the reform of today's arithmetic, if there is really this textbook, spread throughout the private schools of various academies in the Tang Dynasty, then arithmetic will really prosper.

"Okay, if you don't break it, you can't stand it, since the previous arithmetic is no longer suitable for promotion, then the old man will risk the world's disapproval, compile a new arithmetic book, and promote arithmetic. Since the new arithmetic uses Tianzhu numbers, in order to distinguish it from the previous arithmetic, the old man decided to name it mathematics. Shen Hongcai said excitedly.

Merton was dumbfounded, he didn't expect that he had inadvertently let mathematics be born on the land of China hundreds of years earlier.