The warship is still floating in the sea.

But something big happened in Yangzhou, that is, the first exam of Yangzhou Academy, which also belongs to the graduation assessment, and those scholars who have studied from Yangzhou Academy are about to start to enter the office. These students who entered Yangzhou Academy to study were originally some very talented people, but some of the indicators and experiences in Yangzhou were different, and some were still studying in the academy because they were young.

Now, after more than a year of study, these students can finally become teachers and enter the career.

There are also those foreign hot scholars, if you want to enter the six departments of Yangzhou, yes, then go to the exam.

Of course, Liu Mang will not directly give them a high position, if you want an official position, you can take the exam, if you can resist the assessment, then you will enter the official career, and if you can't stand it, then you will continue to stay in the academy to study, or go to various counties to be a small official and go to the grassroots level to stay for a few years, and you will be naturally promoted with experience.

"Brother Chen, how did you do in the exam!" A student came out of the examination room and asked another student on the side, these two people are not students from Yangzhou Academy, they came from Jiangdong, I heard that Yangzhou Examination Examination Propaganda Official, as long as you have the ability to pass the Guò exam, then you will enter the official career, not according to your family background.

None of these scholars want to admit that they are not as good as others, and more scholars have a feeling that Lao Tzu is the first in the world, not that I can't be a big official, but I have this ability, but you, the ruler, are mediocre and can't see Lao Tzu's talent, or those scholars occupy the pit and don't, and they are obviously incapable but occupy official positions because of their family background, so we can't enter the official career.

But Yangzhou is different. It even depends on the exam! Exams are really not unfamiliar. China has been taking exams for 5,000 years. It was only after the Sui and Tang dynasties that the real meaning became large-scale. Other times, such as when the elders see the juniors, they smile kindly, and say, little doll, I will test you, or a few students get together, you test my knowledge, and I will test you else.

And Liu Mang's Yangzhou is just that the things that are hundreds of years later are in advance.

"I made the first six questions, but I really don't understand the seventh, eighth, ninth and tenth questions in the back!" This Brother Chen shook his head and said. The seventh question: 999 yuan, 1,000 seasonal pears. 11 pears 9, 7 fruits 4 pennies, how much is the price of pears?

This is Brother Chen, he can't think of it even if he wants to die, but the first few questions have been written, for example, there are 100 people in the army in the army, there are a total of 12 square formations, and this Brother Chen thought for a long time and wrote that it was 1,200 people.

Question 7 is not good.

"Yes! I didn't understand the seventh question at all, and I couldn't write a few of them before! The other gentleman shook his head.

Those seven, eight, and ninety questions are in addition to the seventh question above. There is also the eighth question, looking at the seven floors of the tower, the red light is multiplied. A total of three hundred and eighty-one lights. How many lights are there? ”

The ninth question is that the chickens and rabbits are in the same cage, and the thirty-six cages are exposed. Count the fifty pairs of feet, and how many chickens and rabbits there are.

The tenth question is that the bamboo is one zhang high, the end is folded to the ground, and the bamboo is three feet high.

These questions make these scholars completely like a book from heaven, and there is nowhere to put pen to paper.

During the discussion among these students, there were several carriages outside Shouchun City, and there was a word Qiao written on this carriage, indicating that this was the carriage of the Qiao family.

"Master Shouchun City has arrived!" A groom outside the carriage shouted to the old man inside the carriage.

"Yes!" The old man in the carriage replied in approval.

Shouchun is full of people, people come and go are ordinary students, than the previous few years of the kind of hundred miles of uninhabited, thousands of miles of desolation, the whole has changed a look, Shouchun city has become much more than before, those huge city walls are from stone and earth to the current cement and iron pillars superimposed things, the height of the city has also changed from the beginning of more than ten meters to now more than twenty meters, it can be said that the general ladder does not want to touch the edge of this city at all, if there is another Liu Bei attack Shouchun drama, There is no need to fight back in this Shouchun City, as soon as the city gate is closed, then Liu Bei will have to be blind, so high, the ladder is so high!

"Master, you need to get out of the car!" The carriage continued.

"Get out of the car?" The old man in the carriage obviously frowned, and had a displeased tone, "I haven't arrived at the door of the mansion yet, why do you want to get off?" Could it be that this Shouchun City should be different from other places! ”

"Master, in the past, you naturally didn't want to get out of the car, but these days are different!" The groom patiently explained to the old man in the carriage, because the people in the carriage were noble.

"What's the difference?" The old man was a little interested.

"These days, it's the big exam in Yangzhou, and the carriages are not allowed to walk on the road in Shouchun City, so as not to bump into the students, so all the carriages must enter through the north gate, either lead them, or stay outside the city!" The carriage said to the old man in the carriage. Just like the college entrance examination in his previous life, Liu Mang also gave a preferential treatment to these students who came to Yangzhou to take the big exam, that is, as long as all the students of the big exam get the qualifications for the big exam, then you can live in a unified house in Shouchun, and the food will be sent to you by special people. The main thing you have to do is to take the exam well, of course, the main place is naturally a big dormitory, and the meals you eat are also big pot rice. These are all prepared for the children of the poor family, because some of the children of the poor family, he is really poor, and he may run out of money in the spring of Shouchun, you can't let the family sleep in the wild hungry.

If you don't look down on these big pot rice canteens and dormitories, you will naturally have money and good hotels for you to live in. There are all kinds of consumption, as long as you can afford to give money, and even you can find two beautiful girls to sing and dance for you every day.

"Yangzhou big exam?" The old man asked suspiciously.

"Yes! This is the kindness of His Royal Highness the King of Shu, give everyone a chance, as long as you have the ability, then you will take the test. If you are admitted, you will naturally fly to the branch and become an official! "This carriage is not without envy. Former officials. That's all limited, all of them are the children of the scholar clan, your father should be the Taishou, you will go to be the county commander, wait for your father to hang, and then promote you to be the Taishou, so that it will go on from generation to generation, but since Liu Mang came to Yangzhou, it has been different.

Your dad should be too guarded. If you are more knowledgeable than your father, then there is no problem for you to enter the sixth department as a waiter, if you are not educated, your father is the current Shangshu Master is not good.

"The head of our family, after I go back this time, I will let that kid go to the school to study, if nothing else, just to be a public operator!" Liu Mang changed the name of the officials, called public works clerks, serving the people, and the people don't have to worship when they see them, so these officials are also called non-worshipping officials.

"Isn't there a limit? Can anyone take the test? The old man frowned. Such a small groom would have thought that his son would have become an official, which would have been impossible before. One class and one idea, just like those poor ordinary people, who actually thought that if they wanted to be emperors, they would eat flatbread with big fat broth, and they would have to eat enough at one time?

How can the emperor eat flatbread, unless this dynasty is almost over, and the emperor is worthless, otherwise which emperor is not a table of good dishes, and the Manchu and Han Dynasty banquets are extravagant from this.

But now a groom, such a common man who obviously belongs to the bottom has the idea of becoming an official, which makes the old man frown.

"Yes! As long as you study well and are old enough, you will have a chance to take the test! The groom nodded, Liu Mang's restriction for those students is that as long as you reach the age of eighteen, you can come to take the big exam, and Liu Mang will not use child labor under the age of eighteen.

"Nonsense!" The old man couldn't help but snort coldly after receiving an affirmative answer.

"Master, I'll call you a coquette!" The carriage said to the old man, Liu Mang has restricted the carriage in the past few days, and naturally he will also take into account that some people with limited mobility may be inconvenient, so there is a coquette, you can sit in the city.

"No need!" The old man shook his head, "I'm not old enough yet, don't you just take two steps!" The old man got out of the carriage and walked into Shouchun, the first city in Yangzhou.

The prosperous Cheng dù in Shouchun is indeed what makes the old man nod his head, those shops, those people who come and go, and the smiles on the faces of those people don't seem to be fake, this kid seems to really have some ability, the old man of Shouchun has been here, more than once, because his hometown turned out to be from Lujiang, and he is very close to Shouchun. In the past, Shouchun was not so lively when it was in its heyday, not to mention that it became like that later, and it was really not easy to build such a noisy city from a ruin. The old man couldn't help but nod again.

The old man walked for a long time, and when he heard the students who had just taken the big exam coming out to chat, he stopped and listened to the chats of these students.

"The bamboo plain is one zhang high, the end is folded to the ground, go to the three feet, the bamboo is still high geometric" The old man thought about this problem, and the real person let the old man come up with it, that is, about 4 feet five, because the old man had used such a bamboo to weave a triangle out, but the old man really didn't know about other problems.

"I said Brother Chen, could it be that these topics were made up blindly by His Royal Highness the King of Shu, in order to fool me and other poor students?" Some people questioned it, because a group of students from Jiangdong had communicated with each other, and basically no one could solve the following problems, even if a few smart people took bamboo and rulers, and directly made the triangle to measure the length geometry, the other problems were really blind.

"No, it won't!" Although this Brother Chen said that he would not, but this one did use a skeptical tone because they are all the children of Jiangdong's poor family, these children of the poor family are really not lacking in talented people, but they also did not have an answer, originally everyone had a try attitude towards the so-called big test of His Royal Highness Liu Mang, the King of Shu, and everyone's concept is still at the stage where the scholars can become officials, and it will not be His Royal Highness the King of Shu who coaxes their poor students to play.

The old man on the side also thinks like this, is this His Royal Highness the King of Shu just a person who talks on his face? The old man hated Liu Mang, the king of Shu, more and more.

Just when these Jiangdong students were chattering and discussing, some people even mentioned going to the Nashu Palace's mansion to protest and coax them into being poor children.

was interrupted by a mocking laugh from a white-clothed scholar at a table next to him.

"This brother, what are you laughing at!" These poor children can still hear it. What is a malicious smile. What is the mocking smile. In addition to this, this white-clothed scholar is wearing fine silk clothes. This should be a child of the scholar clan, that is, the so-called second generation of officials, and these ordinary people will naturally oppose these second generations of officials.

"Me! I didn't laugh at anything! "The scholar in white didn't want to offend people in vain, just because he couldn't help it. But in line with the possibility that more is better than less, the scholar in white doesn't want to get into trouble.

"Humph! Laugh and laugh, can you still quibble, I see, this person is as hypocritical as Liu Mang, the king of Shu. Coax us poor kids. A poor student on the side, who basically didn't answer a few questions, shouted out directly when he knew that he might have no hope of getting into the office, and his brain couldn't help but roar out.

"Brother Zhang is cautious! This is Yangzhou! "Someone on the side reminded this Brother Zhang, after all, this is the home of His Royal Highness the King of Shu, and you are not looking for death when you scold His Royal Highness the King of Shu.

"Me!" This Brother Zhang was panicked at first, but he looked at the people of the poor family on the side who were looking at him, afraid of being embarrassed, if he was cowardly at this time, he would not have no face, people may say that he is afraid of the powerful, you must know that although they are not born with these poor children, they have arrogance "What are you afraid of!" His Royal Highness the King of Shu is a liar! ”

"Don't say His Royal Highness the King of Shu!" The white-clothed scholar was also annoyed. If this poor kid insults him, he may not care, but once it comes to that person. The white-clothed scholar was furious.

"What's wrong, I told you that it hurts?" This poor disciple became more and more proud, "Your scholars and that Shu King Liu Mang are in the same group, if you don't let us enter the official career, why coax us!" This Brother Zhang immediately became a representative figure of the children of the tens of millions of scholars.

"That's it! If you don't want us to be officials, you won't let us, so why deceive people! "Someone took the lead, and naturally there was a coaxing behind him.

"Hehe, who said that His Royal Highness the King of Shu would not let the children of the Han Sect enter the official career? Who is our minister in Yangzhou, do you know? The white-clothed scholar sneered and looked at the group of Jiangdong students below.

Who is the minister of Yangzhou, they naturally know, isn't that Xu Shu Xu Yuanzhi.

"Then do you know that Xu Neixiang used to be a ranger, because he knew the benefits of learning, he worshipped Pang Degong of Lumen Academy as a teacher, and after leaving the school, he entered my Yangzhou as this internal minister!" The white-clothed scholar spoke.

Xu Shu, a ranger, was called a ranger in ancient times, and in modern times, to put it bluntly, he is a gangster, the ancient ranger preached morality, and the current gangster also talks about righteousness, how can you say that the gangster can be a nobleman, those bastards of the scholar clan are called gentlemen, and your so-called ranger is not the same concept.

Xu Shu is such a head of Yangzhou civil officials, such an example is given, and naturally it is difficult to speak. Even one by one they were nodding their heads.

"What's wrong with Xu Neixiang! Maybe it's a few people, that Xu Neixiang is still a disciple of Pang Degong, maybe Liu Mang, the king of Shu, let Xu Shu be the internal minister because of Pang Degong's face, we are not Pang Degong's disciples, and we are not famous teachers and are not so good! "This Brother Zhang has another reason, that is, Xu Shu has a good master, but we don't have it.

"I don't think you can eat grapes and say grapes are sour!" The scholar in white sneered, it is not unreasonable to envy others, but once envy turns into jealousy, it is the original sin.

"Don't you want to say that the topics of these big exams are deliberately embarrassing for you by His Royal Highness the King of Shu! Okay, so I'll show you the answer, what if I say it? The white-clothed scholar said to everyone with a sneer, and he even walked out and walked in front of that Brother Zhang.

"Is that her? No, it can't be, isn't she dead! It's not her! It's him," the white-clothed scholar didn't notice that there was an old man outside, and when he looked at the white-clothed scholar's face, he was suddenly stunned, and looked at the white-clothed scholar with a look of disbelief, "How can there be such a similar face in the world?" Impossible, impossible! ”

"If you can say it, then I will hang myself here and apologize to His Royal Highness the King of Shu!" This Brother Zhang is also ruthless.

"Hehe, you don't need to hang yourself, you just need to kneel on this road and kowtow three times in the direction of the mansion of His Royal Highness the King of Shu, and say loudly that I am wrong!" The white-bodied scholar shook his head, he came out to play, not to see human life.

"Good!" This Brother Zhang agreed quickly, and he thought that those were taken out by Liu Mang, the king of Shu, to embarrass them as poor children. In order to dispel their idea of entering the office. also got a good reputation,

"You said you can't do the seventh, eighth, or ninetieth questions, right? I'll start with the simplest question nine! "The scholar in white stood up" The title is that the chickens and rabbits are in the same cage and I don't know how many they are in, and the thirty-six cages are exposed. Count 50 pairs of feet, how many chickens and rabbits are there? Right! “

The students from the Jiangdong Hanmen over there nodded.

"Then listen, the answer to this question is that there are fourteen rabbits and twenty-two chickens!" Seeing that this white-clothed scholar gave an answer so quickly, the people over there were stunned for a moment, could this really have an answer?

"You're lying, do you just say that a number is the answer?" Brother Zhang over there shouted loudly.

Oh, yes! The people on the side were all nodding, maybe this white-clothed scholar wouldn't just say a number. The anti-shock can't be verified by everyone.

"Hehe, I don't think you can die without the heart of the Yellow River, okay, then I'll let you die clearly!" The white-clothed scholar is really angry, "We first use the hypothetical method to assume that they are all rabbits, and there should be 36 * 4 = 144 feet, and now there are only 100 feet, and the rabbit needs to be removed, and a rabbit is replaced with a chicken, which reduces 2 feet, and now it needs to be reduced by 44 feet." 44/2 = 22 rabbits need to be swapped out for chickens, so there are 22 chickens. 12 rabbits; ”

The white-clothed scholar said a bunch of numbers, which made the group of poor disciples below look dazed.

"What hypothetical method, you're still fooling people!" This Brother Zhang shouted again, and the one they didn't understand was a fake liar.

"I know you don't understand!" The scholar in white has already prepared, "Then give you a simpler one!" All chickens are folded in half: the golden rooster is independent, all the rabbits are raised with two front feet, then the feet on the ground are: 50, among the feet on the ground, each rabbit has 2, one more than the number of heads, each chicken has only one foot on the ground, there are 36 heads, if there is a head and a foot on the ground, then there are 36 feet on the ground, now there are 50 feet on the ground, there are only rabbits more than the head, and each rabbit has one more foot on the ground, so there are 14 rabbits, get 22 chickens; ”

There is still a group of dazed people down there.

"I still don't understand, do I! So I'm listening, it's so tiring to talk to you, and you still want to be an official, and you don't even know the basics. The white-clothed scholar became more and more disdainful, and the people below began to believe it a little, although they still couldn't understand it. But because even if you make it all up by yourself, then being able to make two numbers the same is also a skill.

"There are hunters here!" The white-clothed scholar shouted to the group of onlookers below.

"Yes, yes!" In addition to food, the Shouchun test also needs some game meat, so Orion is also supplying goods for restaurants in the city, so naturally there are Orions.

"Good! This big brother, let me ask you that there are thirty-six heads in total, and if you cut off two of the four legs of all the rabbits, how many legs are there? ”

"Thirty-six, one, two, three, four, five, six," the Orion counted his fingers for a long time, and then said to the white-clothed scholar above with a humble smile, "There are seventy-two feet in total!" ”

"That's right! There are seventy-two feet in total, but now there are a hundred feet, which means that we have hidden 28 feet, and these twenty-eight feet are the two feet of the rabbit that we cut off, and if one rabbit is cut off two feet, then it is half of twenty-eight, fourteen rabbits, and if the rabbit's feet are removed, there are forty-four feet left, and the chicken has two legs, so it is twenty-two! ”

The white-clothed scholar didn't say a word, and the face of the brother Zhang below turned pale, and in the end, his face turned pale, and he knew that he was going to lose.

As for other topics, the pear seller uses the binary method, setting the number of pears as X and the number of fruits as Y, and according to the poetic meaning, the price of each pear is 11/9 Wenyuan, and the price of each fruit is 4/7 Wenyuan. Then you can list the binary equation: 11/9X+4/7Y=999X+Y=1000 pears, the total price of pears is 11/9×657=803 (wen), and the total price of fruits is 4/7×343=197 (wen)"

"The height of that bamboo is 4.55 feet by the Pythagorean theorem."

The people below and those scholars are eye-opening, what eats two Lantern Festival methods at a time, and what dog bone theorem makes everyone unheard of.

"4.55 feet!" The old man was also thinking, he originally thought that it was 4.5 feet, although it was not much different, but in the final analysis, it was still the wrong answer, I didn't expect that he Qiao Xuan would also be educated.

But is this him or not, or is it not? The old man looked at the white-clothed scholar on the stage and couldn't help but be kind. (To be continued......)