In the face of the doubts of the scholars, the monk smiled bitterly and said: "Our Buddhism was transmitted to Tianzhu, and there is such an arithmetic story in Tianzhu, when the king made a bet with a commoner, and the commoner drew ninety-nine 81 grids on the ground, and only asked for a grain of wheat to be placed in a multiple of one grid, what do you think the result is?" ”

Everyone laughed, here are all human spirits, and they are all elites of the Ming Dynasty, according to what this monk said, a grid of a grain of wheat can be put down, 81 grids can be how much, a few liters and a few buckets.

Only Mao Yulong was a real thief smiling.

The monk folded his hands and said, "The end result of this story is that this king needs to put all the wheat he has produced here for 1,000 years, and he can't fill the amount he said." ”

This result surprised everyone, who did not believe what the monk said, and thought that he was talking about the Arabian Nights.

The businessman once again saluted Mao Yulong: "Little donor, the house is kind." Then he rushed to Xuezheng and said: "If you don't believe it, I'll tell you, of course, now I can't make an abacus, and I ask Master Xuezheng to find a few more gentlemen who are proficient in abacus, and we can only know if we calculate together." ”

In this way, the academic master also became interested, so he immediately sent the little servant to the bottom of the mountain to find someone who was proficient in abacus.

After a short time, more than a dozen people with abacus walked in, including Xu Jie, the shopkeeper Mao Yulong saw at the beginning. The two met and solemnly saluted each other, and the shopkeeper smiled: "I heard that the little minister had this gambling contract, so I volunteered." Then he glanced at the scholars: "The teachings of the sages have been read astray by many people, the so-called half of the treatise on ruling the world, a big joke, as a pillar of the court, if you can't read through the arts, how can you know the money and food in the world?" ”

This is absolutely excessive, but it is also absolutely pertinent, so Mao Yulong is already very concerned about this gentleman, bowed down again, and sincerely asked: "Dare to ask Mr. Daming, if one day, the kid can go further, I wish the daughter to hire Mr. as the West Seat." ”

At that time, the shopkeeper of this grain store looked at Mao Yulong playfully, and in everyone's mocking smiles, he solemnly and respectfully saluted the child: "In Xia Xu Jie, if Mr. Xiao is useful to me on the day, I will be in the fire and water, following Mr. Xiao." ”

This is definitely a strange scene, a shopkeeper about 30 years old, but respectfully salutes a little 15-year-old boy, and solemnly promises to be ready to follow him, which makes everyone incomprehensible.

But it is precisely because of this incomprehension that a story has been achieved through the ages, and from today on, Mao Yulong and Xu Jie have achieved a legend of the Ming Dynasty.

Of course, there is little gossip, more than a dozen abacus crackled together, and after half an hour, the results came out, if it was according to Mao Yulong's words, in this small 36 grids, it would finally be put down and 16772170 money.

And as the monk said, even one more grid is doubled, that is, more than 33 million dollars, what if there is one more grid?

If it is really calculated according to the 81 grids of the Tianzhu people, all the copper coins of the Ming Dynasty are piled up here, and it is not enough to fill them at all.

Seeing such a result, everyone couldn't help but gasp. Just this Mao Yulong's kind grid has already allowed him to obtain 10,000 taels of silver.

Now the comparison between copper coins and silver in the Ming Dynasty is 1,400,000 yuan, which can be exchanged for one tael of silver.

According to the regulations of the early Ming Dynasty, all copper coins were stipulated as copper seven lead three. Copper coins should weigh a penny. However, unscrupulous merchants melted down the copper coins issued by the Ming Dynasty and extracted copper to cast bronze objects and sell them for huge profits. Causing a shortage of money in the market. Although the government has cracked down on many ways. But it's always been banned. Helplessly, the Wanli Dynasty was changed to copper six lead four. Each copper coin weighs one penny and two cents. The copper coins of the Taichang and Tianqi dynasties also followed the rules of the Wanli Dynasty. In this way, after deducting the expenses, the Ming gets a large amount of money and interest (copper. The lead price difference is about two cents. In this way, Daming can get millions of dollars in interest every year. for military spending and replenishment of the treasury) businessmen are not profitable. Slowly, the money shortage of the Ming Dynasty was suppressed.

Taichang and the Apocalypse have been in the past. The Donglin Party took control of the Nanjing Mint Division. Since then, the copper coins produced have been inferior from generation to generation. By the second year of the Apocalypse. The copper coins minted in Nanjing have dropped to copper three lead seven. Eight points heavier. Three years to the Apocalypse. Nanjing's newly released batch of copper coins turned out to be copper one lead nine. The weight has also been reduced to quarters for the first time. The money interest is only paid tens of thousands of taels every year. The rest are full of pockets. Such in Suzhou and other places. The people of the Ming Dynasty spontaneously raised a movement to resist the Apocalypse Copper Coins. The boycott lasted for eight months. Let the Nanzhili Donglin Party be anxious.

By the time of the fifth year of the Apocalypse. Wei Zhongxian took advantage of the Guangning fiasco to deal a blow to Donglin's great victory. The Nanjing coinage case was launched.

The result, of course, was a big victory for the Wei party. The fall of Donglin.

But Wei Zhongxian's party has a lot more conscience than Donglin. The coinage issued by the Ming Dynasty was changed from copper one lead nine to copper three lead seven. Finally let the coin go to normal, which somewhat calmed the people's anger and made people patient. The amount of silver handed over to the inner treasury also reached a record high of three million taels.

With this extra money, there is no longer any arrears of Guan Ning's military salary. Although how much these salaries were paid to the soldiers. That's better than nothing. So now it's still cheap.

However, even according to the current comparison of copper coins, so much money can be converted into 11,000 taels of silver.

Coaxing-everyone was dumbfounded, but then there was a big uproar, and this gamble actually fell into Mao Yulong's trap again.

But if you think about it, everyone also feels that they are not wronged to lose, after all, compared to this little child, this is simply short-sighted.

Song Yuanshan looked at Mao Yulong carefully, and then said solemnly: "Fellow Mao, I admit this bet, and I am not unjustly lost." This lesson has taught me that I am short-sighted and shallow-minded, and that in the future, I will no longer read poetry and books, but will broaden my horizons and read widely. ”

Mao Yulong smiled again and hurriedly returned the salute: "In fact, reading widely will not only not delay your efforts to read the books of the sages, but will use other things and theories to prove that the theories of the words of the sages are broad and profound, so complement each other, Brother Song will definitely have unique insights into the essence of the sages in the future, at that time, it is impossible to say that Brother Song will become a generation of grandmasters and create a school." ”

Song Yuanshan was stunned there for a long time, and then his face turned red, and in the shock of everyone, he slowly bowed down and saluted: "The kid is taught." ”

Seeing this scene, Xuezheng stroked his beard and nodded, and commented to the professors around him: "This Song Yuanshan has indeed achieved the threesome of the sage's teachings, and he has comprehended the avenue of dying at night. I look at this son, and a new generation will be opened in the future. ”

You nodded yes again and again, which made another good story for the future. Song Yuanshan did not succeed, although he did not win the champion, but he also became a generation of Confucianism.