"One hundred steamed buns and one hundred monks, three big monks are more indisputable, three small monks are divided into one, and how many small monks are each?"

As soon as Ji Jiu's question came out, the huge Jiuzhang Hall was suddenly silent. However, the noise outside the Jiuzhang Hall was a little louder, and people who didn't know much about arithmetic could not help but ask the people around who seemed to be a little bit of a doorway just now. Those who know a little about arithmetic wonder if they have heard it wrong.

Although this problem is not so simple that it can be easily solved, it is too easy compared to the previous questions that make people doubt life - just like the question from the Four Princes!

Sure enough, in an instant, I only heard the scrambling in the Jiuzhang Hall all answers, and the voices came and went, and everyone was afraid that they would fall behind. Because everyone knows that in the competition just now, where there is no most difficult but more difficult, such a simple question only appeared once, but I didn't expect it to all fall on their eighth group.

But Zhang Shou didn't wait for anyone to say the answer, so he patted the armrest directly. Finding that these dozen or so people finally gradually quieted down, Ji Jiu, the initiator, was a little panicked on his face, as if he didn't expect such a result, but the fourth prince's face was a little angry, and he said lightly: "This problem, please use the binary equation of "Ge's Arithmetic Sutra" to solve it. ”

"Lu Sanlang, send them white paper and pen as well, and let them list the equations one by one, and then solve them. Go out and inform the others and ask the column equation to solve the problem. This question is used as an additional question. ”

As soon as these words came out, the atmosphere in the Jiuzhang Hall, which was still active just now, suddenly fell silent again. Not long after, a middle-aged candidate in the eighth group who had just come in with Ji Jiu and the Four Princes shouted with some resentment: "I have already solved this problem by mental arithmetic, why do I have to list equations?" ”

"The problem itself is not difficult, and if you get the hang of it, you can solve it very easily. The reason why I asked you to list the equations is because the standard textbook used in the Nine Chapters Hall in the future is the "New Edition of Ge's Arithmetic". After this book was printed, it was not a day or two since it was circulated in the capital, and those who were interested in Jiuzhangtang should not miss this book at least, let alone miss the equations in it. ”

What's more, because of the teacher's request, the bookstore that sells this book also has a special place for people to copy, so it is not an excuse that they can't afford it, because those who can't afford it can at least copy the book for study. If you apply for the Jiuzhangtang, but you don't even understand and comprehend the most basic equations in the "New Edition of Ge's Arithmetic", and you don't even have a concept, it will be too much to say. ”

The middle-aged examinee who spoke just now suddenly had a blue and white face, and then protested unconvinced: "Old Master Ge's "Ge's New Arithmetic New Edition" is very famous, but it is completely different from the previous "Nine Chapters of Arithmetic" or "Zhou Ji Sutra", the system is completely different, even if it is a person who studies arithmetic, not everyone may be able to read it!" Since it is Jiuzhangtang, of course, you should learn those "Sutras" that have a long history! ”

In the face of such doubts, Zhang Shou was not angry at all, he glanced lightly at the people who took the pen and paper from Lu Sanlang's hands, as well as the wooden board used for the substrate, and immediately began to write hard, and then laughed at the middle-aged candidate.

"I have said to many people that the present man is better than the old, because the life of the present man is richer than that of the old. And for arithmetic, it's the same thing. The sutras of the ancestors are of course very good, and they expound many truths, but beyond these sutras, there is a wider world! You just said that "Ge's Arithmetic New Edition" is very famous, but it is not compulsory, so look at the other people around you. ”

The middle-aged candidate glanced around, and saw that most of the three princes, the four princes, and others had already finished answering this question.

After a while, Lu Sanlang, who came in from outside, said with a smile: "The seven groups of candidates outside are very grateful to the teacher for this question, plus as long as the equation is solved, it is undoubtedly a score question." In just such a circle, a large number of people have already made the equations and calculated them all. ”

At this time, the middle-aged candidate's face was not just the confusion just now, but the real anger.

He took a step back and shouted, "How is this possible! Although I haven't read "Ge's Arithmetic New Edition", I have heard that the equation is born from the Tianyuan technique! I also know a little bit about the Tian Yuan Technique, how can I list it so quickly! ”

"Tianyuan may be difficult, but the equation is very simple, so this is the arithmetic of today's people is better than the ancients!" Zhang Shou smiled slightly, thinking that Jiuzhangtang had never faded out of the sight of the people in the capital in the past year, and those Jiuzhangtang supervisors were like the source of spreading news, so they drove many people who read the sage books and did not succeed in hoping to find another way.

Just from the shipments of "Ge's Arithmetic New Edition" that Lu Saburo fed back, he was able to roughly calculate how many people were in contact with such a progressive mathematical system, so Lu Saburo said that a large number of human-column equations outside were as easy as eating and drinking, and he was not surprised. Because for the really talented, as long as they can accept the equations, then getting started is simply too easy.

He stood up and said calmly: "Most of the people who are interested in arithmetic will forge ahead, and when they encounter new theories related to arithmetic, they will spend their efforts to ponder them, and they will not stick to the old ways, and even now they are still saying that Tianyuan is too difficult. ”

"What I'm asking for is not a solution, but the mind and ability to accept new knowledge! Okay, Lu Saburo, give the rest of the people here a copy of the exam questions from your classmates. Then he called all the people from outside in, sat down in the Nine Chapters Hall, and finished the scroll in his hand. ”

"I know that people inside and outside have different times, but I won't allocate another time, after all, the lottery is a kind of luck, and luck is also a kind of assessment. The time limit for this paper is three quarters of an hour, and as long as you make three questions, you only need ideas, no answers. ”

The middle-aged examinee gradually turned pale, but when he heard Zhang Shou's last sentence, he seemed to grasp a life-saving straw and came back to his senses all of a sudden. However, when he got the paper, his eyes gradually widened, and he trembled with anger. Because from beginning to end, almost every question on that paper has specific requirements.

Column equations, column equations...... Or a column equation!

Zhang Shou didn't need to look at it to know what the expression of the guy who was shouting about the difficulty of Tianyuan Technique just now was. Of course, he understands the habits that the first batch of prisoners of Jiuzhangtang has developed now, and he knows it better than others.

In fact, people who have seen how simple equations can be are not very happy to think of other solutions, because many of the problems specially listed in the nine chapters of arithmetic can be solved with one equation in a row.

As for solving the equations...... For people with strong computing power, it is probably enough between breaths.

It's like learning calculus in later generations, and many questions that I pondered in high school had easy answers. Therefore, many college students who have studied advanced mathematics and college physics often habitually take out calculus to solve problems when they go back to high school students as science tutors...... Whoever has a simple solution, why bother thinking about complexity?

Therefore, there is no need for him to hint at it, after learning "The New Edition of Ge's Arithmetic", the supervisors who think that the equations are very easy to use do not hesitate to limit the solution to the equation when they come up with the problem.

First, equations are an important knowledge point in the second volume of the New Edition of Ge's Arithmetic...... Second, they have been poisoned by all kinds of strange equation problems, and I hope that the future students will also usher in a baptism.

However, the four princes couldn't care about how sad and angry the unlucky ghost was on the side. He only knew that he wanted to challenge his problem-solving ability before, but the result was that if it weren't for Ji Jiu's overly simple question, he might have been eliminated directly.

Therefore, he devoted himself wholeheartedly to that paper at this moment, desperately hoping that he could solve more questions than the three questions prescribed by Zhang Shou. However, he soon encountered a head-on blow because he was given the application of the equations...... He's not good at it!

Seeing that the face of the fourth prince was already wrinkled, and he even wanted to bite the pen, Zhang Shou couldn't help but wonder. The interview questions just now were given by the candidates to each other, except for the murderous bear child of the third prince, who swept away a large number of people with a few peerless problems that he had joked about, and the questions of others were difficult, but most of them were inseparable from the scope of several scriptures.

After all, there are a lot of theories in "Ge's Arithmetic New Edition", but most of the topics given are simple, as for the real baptism of the sea of questions, except for the prisoners of Jiuzhangtang, it is difficult for other self-taught people to understand.

As for the talent, but it is too young to think that it is impossible to play the solution method of column equations to the three princes and the fourth prince, at this time it is not easy to list the most suitable equations for the three problems!

Sure enough, under his gaze, I saw that the faces of the four princes became more and more irritable, and the actions of biting the pen to vent their anger became more and more rough, but soon, people began to look left and right, and found that people who were as helpless as themselves breathed a sigh of relief, but when they found that they were immersed in writing and writing, and were obviously very thoughtful, their faces were very unsightly.

In the end, the eyes of the awkward bear child fell on the murderous bear child.

And the three princes, who were identified as murderous by Zhang Shou, were indeed not honest and honest at all at this time. He didn't do it one by one, but relied on the first impression to evaluate whether he could do it, so out of a total of twenty questions, he quickly discarded all the first seven.

When he saw the eighth question, the little one showed a little joy, and after a few strokes on the scratch paper, he immediately began to write with a fluttering eyebrow. After finishing this question, he glanced at it a few times and then continued to look back.

From beginning to end, he uses a mechanism - he jumps immediately if he can't do what he can't do at first glance, and writes down the calculations he can do on paper. When he had reached the twentieth question all the way and found that he had no clue at all, the third prince let out a long sigh of relief, rubbed his wrist and rested for a moment, and then began to secretly look at the people around him. With such a glance, he noticed the obvious difference in the gaze of the fourth prince.

In that look, there was no concern and closeness in the past, but inexplicably revealed something that made him very uneasy.

He didn't know what was going on, but seeing that the fourth prince retracted his gaze, and then lowered his head to do the question, he suppressed the confusion in his heart and re-examined the results he had just made. When he saw it, he found that he had just made three questions, and he was overjoyed, and hurriedly checked whether his thinking was wrong.

And such a written test, for those who watch the excitement outside, is naturally not as interesting as when they watched the group interview before. Besides, such an open day of the Guozijian is only once a month, and not everyone is rushing to recruit students from Jiuzhangtang, and more than half of them disperse after a while.

In this way, the people of Zhaoming Academy are naturally very conspicuous.

Yue Bufan, who was standing next to Zhou Xijiu and Luo Siye, saw that his young student Fang Qing, who questioned the Third Prince, was standing there alone at this time, and even his fellow disciples were far away from him, he couldn't help frowning, and he really regretted that he had brought such a talented but stunned guy to the capital.

The eldest and youngest are orderly, coupled with the humble name of the three princes, it is said that the fourth prince has always respected such a brother, whether he wants to come to others, they all hope to become the teacher of the third prince, and subtly use their knowledge to influence such a popular candidate for the East Palace in the future.

But this stunned young student actually questioned Zhang Shou in public about colluding with the three princes to cheat! Even if people's starting point is to demolish Zhang Shou, they don't want to think about it, wouldn't this ruin the reputation of the three princes?

Glancing at him again, he used to be serious, but now as soon as he entered Beijing, he lost his temper again and again, and now he is standing alone, Fang Qing, who has lost his soul, Yue Bufan shook his head and said: "Fang Qing, I have already warned before, when you first arrive in the capital, you should be cautious in your words and deeds, don't speculate in vain, and hurt people in your mouth, but you have repeatedly committed taboos." ”

"Since you are a lifter, this time you will go to Beijing to prepare for next year's Jinshi examination, you don't have to follow me, just go find a quiet place and study your homework. Beware of arrogance and rashness, maybe you can have a good ranking next year. ”

These words seem to be gentle and kind, with both the admonition of the elders and the ardent expectations, however, those students of Zhaoming Academy know that their own mountain chief has never liked to beat and scold students, and he always talks and laughs with you on weekdays. But if someone suddenly says a few words to you lightly, and tells you that you don't need to follow him anymore, then there is only one answer.

From now on, you won't be his student...... You are no longer welcome at Zhaoming Academy!

The young Fang Qingdeng's face turned pale. He opened his mouth as if he wanted to plead with the teacher, and looked at the senior brothers as if he was asking for help, and when he saw that everyone avoided his gaze, his heart was like ashes, and he didn't dare to say a word at the moment, and after giving a deep salute, he staggered out.

But before he had walked a few steps, he saw a group of sturdy samurai in civilian clothes rushing towards him, standing on both sides in an instant. He only thought that he had just provoked this group of people by ridiculing the third prince, and he was shocked and angry for a while, but just when he was shocked, in front of him was a young man in his early thirties striding over. Immediately after, he heard a surprised voice behind him: "Your Majesty? ”

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