For Ye Chang, today's encounter with Qu Tanxun is just a trivial matter, and Qu Tanxun is also a little person who is not worthy of respect in his mind.

It must be admitted that Ye Chang's current mentality has changed a lot compared with the mentality he just came to this era. Although he was not prejudiced against ordinary laborers, he really had no respectful interest in such a clumsy speculator as Qu Tanxun, nor did he have the patience to talk to him.

A slap solved the problem, and he left the east gate with his entourage. This slap soon reached Li Longji, who had just returned to Chang'an, and Li Longji only laughed when he heard it.

"Although Ye Chang is domineering, he finally has a heavy hand, and he didn't cut off that guy's head." After laughing, he said: "That guy is really annoying, I don't know how to advance or retreat...... But tomorrow I have to work for him to relieve my boredom, General Gao, you send someone to comfort him, let him live and recuperate, and tomorrow he will fight with all his strength"

"Yes." Colliers responded in a proper manner.

Of course, he couldn't go himself, otherwise he would be showing his support for Qu Tanxun. Sent a little eunuch over, tossed for a while before coming back, Gao Lishi waited impatiently, and asked what was going on, the little eunuch held back a smile and said: "The general doesn't know, the students in the Beijing division went to find the trouble of those Luoyang students, the two sides had a quarrel, and the Luoyang students beat people, and now they are being blocked in the pavilion." If it weren't for the villain's timely arrival, he might have to break in and beat him up again."

Gao Lishi smiled and reported the news to Li Longji, seeing that Li Longji did not feel strange at all except that he listened to it with relish. Gao Lishi's mind turned, and he thought that Li Longji had urged him to send someone to comfort Qu Tanxun, and suddenly understood that Li Longji had expected such a situation a long time ago.

This made Gao Lishi secretly realize in his heart that although this son of heaven has been bewitched by Yang Zhao and others in the past two years, and his actions have become more and more confused, he is not really confused, but he is just unwilling to waste his heart and energy.

"Ye Chang will really take advantage of the situation, but now he is not particular." Li Longji commented again.

"What the saint means by this, the slave and the maid are dull, but they do not know."

"Today is like this, tomorrow Luoyang Tai students have ten skills, and they can only show seven points."

Li Longji guessed wrong this time, Ye Chang really disdained to use this method on Qu Tanxun and others. He has great confidence in his students, after all, he has also understood some of the level of mathematics at this time, and he is already a great mathematician who has published books and treatises to achieve a one-dimensional cubic equation, and his student has learned to use the positive and negative opening method to solve higher-order equations - originally this method was developed by the Southern Song Dynasty mathematician Qin Jiushao according to the opening method in the "Nine Chapters of Arithmetic".

And unlike the old-fashioned Guozijian Academy, Ye Chang can almost be said to have established a mathematics academy in Liaodong, which far surpasses Guozijian in terms of scale and knowledge.

On December 12, the 11th year of Datang Tianbao, it came in the anxious or calm mood of people from all sides. The news that Luoyang Tai's students challenged Ye Chang spread widely, and many people came to see the excitement, and even those from Luoyang. So early in the morning, there were a lot of people crowded outside the Chunming Gate, although they didn't know anything about this "challenge".

"Selling newspapers and selling newspapers, today's supplement, arithmetic talks, to help you know the ...... of today's competition"

Chen Xiaoer appeared in the crowd diligently, and picked a good spot early in the morning to sell his newspaper here. He doesn't know how to do arithmetic, but he can do the simplest addition and subtraction, so he is also confused about the items in the competition.

"Heh, this "Minbao" is cunning, and he knows how to take advantage of the opportunity. However, arithmetic is the way of mathematics, and it is not so easy to know. Someone laughed and bought a newspaper. Unfolded the newspaper and looked at it, and then exclaimed: "Is there really arithmetic to talk about?" ”

"It turns out that the so-called arithmetic is only used in our daily livelihood, and the original addition, subtraction, multiplication and division are all arithmetic

"It's not a mystery at all, arithmetic is just a means to measure acres of land and weigh rice grains, I used to think that arithmetic was very magical, but now it seems that this is the original one."

"Yes, but that's it, it seems that the merchants and dealers are all masters of arithmetic, Ha Lu Ha ......"

"You know that you look at this, but you don't look at the back, for it is said that arithmetic is the foundation of all kinds of work, and river workers, carpenters, and masons must learn arithmetic, and if they do not do so, the embankments that are built will collapse, and the houses that are built will fall, and the cities will be deficient...... Tsk, in this way, arithmetic should be an obvious science. ”

"Guozi Jiangli Doctor of Arithmetic is the Jiupin Official, and now the Luoyang Arithmetic Museum is not even satisfied with recruiting thirty students, and he is still learning"

Everyone was talking about the newspaper while reading it, and Chen Xiaoer was happy to hear it: the more people who discussed, the more his newspaper would sell. Moreover, from the discussion of these people, he also learned something about arithmetic: it turned out that this was not the occult science used by those warlocks to calculate fate, but the science of measurement used in life.

The sound of selling below even reached the throne at the head of the city, and Li Longji asked him to take a supplement to the newspaper, and he was already a little old, his eyes were very old, and the words on the newspaper were a little difficult to read.

"Shou'an, give me a thought." He summoned the twenty-nine mothers beside him.

beat Yang Zhao's son last time, Princess Shou'an was not punished and was imprisoned for more than ten days, but today is lively, and the eldest princess Yuzhen interceded for her, and Li Longji brought her.

"Ayah, my daughter has a good thing here." Shou An didn't read the report, but took out a brocade box, opened it, and handed a small round lens in the brocade box to Li Longji.

"What is this...... Well? ”

Li Longji took the small round mirror, and was surprised at first, but later understood when he took a photo: "Can you enlarge the words?"

"Aya still remember the original crystal ball, the surface of the crystal ball is round, and after the light passes through the mirror, it will bend, so the handwriting becomes larger." Shou An smiled and said: "It's not convenient for Aya to read books and newspapers, so you can use this thing." ”

Li Longji thought that he had scolded Shou'an for the crystal ball in the first place, and he felt a warmth in his heart. Looking at Shou An's eyes, he became loving, but then he feigned anger: "This must be Ye Chang's trick again, this guy is almost full of old fists to me, I can ignore him"

"This is his daughter's filial piety, what is he doing with him" Shou An pouted: "He dared to swing his fist at Aya, and Ayah locked him up in Chang'an City, and kept him for a while longer, so as not to let him run around the world."

Li Longji's eyes were kind again, he didn't know a little bit of caution about Lu Dao Shou'an, but this bit of caution was not harmful to his imperial power, so he naturally didn't take it to heart.

And he was a little sorry for Shou'an, if it weren't for his own power, Shou'an married Ye Chang, it would really be a match made in heaven.

"Okay, I'll use it...... Ye Chang's mind is a strange coincidence, if he is willing to put half of his mind on the right path, the position of prime minister will be his. ”

"Now he doesn't care about being on the right path, there are already people who have come into his slander in front of the saint day and night, and there are people who come from Luoyang City to find him trouble, if he really uses it wholeheartedly on the right path, I'm afraid that it won't take a few days, and Aya will cut off his head." Shou An pouted.

"Oh?" Li Longji put down the magnifying glass, and his eyes suddenly became very sharp: "What do you mean by this?" ”

Shou An smacked his lips to the side, Li Longji looked away, and only saw Yang Zhao standing there quite embarrassed.

Shou An was obviously giving Yang Zhao eye medicine, Li Longji shook his head with a smile, reached out and patted Shou An's arm gently: "You, the girl is outgoing, sure enough"

He read the contents of the newspaper about arithmetic, pondered for a while, and said with a smile: "However, Twenty-Nine Niang, you are right, if he uses this mind on his political career, I don't know how many people will not be able to sleep-I didn't expect that he will also count me in." ”

"Aye, what do you say?" Shou An was shocked.

"He just knows that I am good-looking and lively, so there is such a play, I said how could he respond to the assistant teacher in Luoyang, it turned out to be this"

"Huh?"

"I remember that Ye Chang once played a chapter, and it was recorded in "Zhou Li" that he taught the son of the country to six arts, and there were several of them. Nowadays, mathematics is sluggish, and the imperial examination only examines articles and poems, and the people who get it are the nobles of the Hanlin Dynasty, not the talents who are pro-government and care for the people. Therefore, I suggested that all the subjects of the imperial examination should be tested in mathematics, that is, arithmetic, and I was too lazy to pay attention to him, so I did not send it. He did what he did today, and he made a big deal of it, obviously using me to advertise for him."

Li Longji spit out the word "advertisement", which has become popular all over the world in recent years, but although he scolded Ye Chang, he didn't have much anger.

"My daughter doesn't understand this...... Anyway, that guy is a blind guy," Shou An said.

Li Longji nodded, feeling that he had seen through Ye Chang's intentions again, and he was in a good mood, at this moment, he saw the students of the Luoyang Guozi Supervision School over there, he smiled and said: "No wonder Ye Chang was angry yesterday, he was really kind, he originally wanted to promote arithmetic, but these doctors and students in the arithmetic hall don't know what to do."

"That Qu Tanxun, it's not a good thing at first glance." Shou An interjected on the side.

This little eye medicine has no other effect than to make Li Longji smile. Yang Zhao next to him glanced at Shou An lightly, and then lowered his head again.

He naturally hated Shou An very much in his heart, but he also understood that even if it was the Yang family sisters, they generally rarely provoked Shou An, after all, when it came to holy grace, Shou An had Ye Chang's support, and he was not much weaker than the Yang family sisters.

For example, with this magnifying glass, Li Longji was obviously very happy, holding the east and the west, and laughing from time to time.

"Bear with it first, and see how many skills those people in the Luoyang Arithmetic Hall have, if they can make Ye Chang hold back, Ye Chang's reputation will inevitably be greatly damaged......" Yang Zhao looked at the test booth below, and a sinister smile appeared on his face.

What makes him stronger than Ye Chang is that he can mobilize the strength of the imperial court center to help Qu Tanxun and his gang. For example, today, it seems that there are only dozens of people in the Luoyang Arithmetic Museum, but in fact, Yang Zhao has gathered almost all the arithmetic masters that can be found in the court.

They came up with ten questions, and these ten questions were difficult for these arithmetic masters to solve in a long time, and in Yang Zhao's opinion, it was impossible for the few private disciples brought by Ye Chang to solve these questions today

In this case, for Ye Chang, the best ending is also a tie for both sides.

When he looked down, he didn't realize that in the corner of the city, someone was looking up, and it was him who was looking.

Wang Tong stood beside Xing Lu and raised his chin towards Yang Zhao: "This guy can't leave him alive, he is even more hateful than Ye Chang"

"Don't worry, after you succeed, Yang Zhao will die." Xing Jun laughed.

"I'll go to my brother's side, and if there's any news, I'll pass it on to you." Wang Weld took two steps, came back again, and said to Xing Zhu: "If the thing is done, we are all rich and noble, if it doesn't work, there is no place to bury you, you must be careful."

"The prince just rest assured, you have the appearance of a king, you have the protection of the destiny of heaven, this matter will be done" Xing Yu lowered his voice, and saw that Wang Jian was still solemn, and then said: "The matter of the West Horse Farm, I can understand it, the court has been peaceful for a long time over the years, and the vigilance of Chang'an City is very lax." Except for the Longwu Wan cavalry army, which had to send soldiers out to fight, it still had some combat strength, and the rest of the soldiers were on duty, and they were all full of wine bags. As long as the dragon and the ten thousand horses are controlled, the big thing will be decided."

After his words, Wang Jian finally put his mind at ease, he strode forward, his brother is Jing Zhaoyin, Yu Shi Dafu, and Jinggi interview envoy, naturally he is accompanied by Li Longji above the city, he is just a Langzhong in the household department, and he is not qualified to go to the city at all, but the soldiers all recognize him, as long as he does not approach Li Longji, no one will stop him.

He looked at Li Longji's position from a distance, and was secretly excited in his heart: In another day, that position may have to be sat by another person.

In another corner of the city, Li Mi, dressed in a Taoist robe, sat in a carriage and looked out towards the test shed from afar. He is also familiar with arithmetic and is very interested in today's competition, so he specially came to see this excitement.

His attention was mainly focused on the test room, but occasionally he glanced at the head of the city, because above the head of the city, beside Li Longji, the crown prince Li Heng sat silently like a shadow.

As the prince of the Tang Dynasty, this prince has no sense of existence. After Wei Jian, Li Shizhi and others were all finished one after another, he was probably scared and hid himself even deeper, except for the two eunuchs he trusted, as well as the concubine Zhang, almost no one could contact him.

Even Li Mi had only met him secretly once, and then he kept in touch with Li Heng through other channels.

"The prince is too bitter...... Li Mi thought to himself, and his eyes turned to Li Longji: "Since the sage is tired of politics, he would rather hand over the power to Li Linfu, Yang Zhao and other figures, why is he unwilling to hand over the power to the prince, which makes the prince's heart too tight, I am afraid that if this continues, something big will happen sooner or later."

Just as he was thinking about the prince, he heard a low "huh" sound beside him, and he immediately realized that he looked at the person who made the sound.

The man smiled and saluted him: "It turned out to be Li Gong"

"Liu Gong." Li Mi searched in his memory for a while, and then found the identity of this person: Liu Luo

An Lushan arranged the chief manager in Chang'an City to help An Lushan negotiate with all parties, and he is a long-sleeved and good dancer character. Li Mi has no good impression of An Lushan, in his opinion, although Ye Chang is domineering, it is beneficial to the country, and An Lushan belongs to the things that are not beneficial.

Then he saw the person next to Li Mi, who had a cold expression and a cold gaze, just glanced at him, and made him shudder.

Geven?

How could this guy get together with Liu Luogu?