"It's strange, why would these two guys work together to deal with the king?"

Gao Lishi, who was beside Li Longji, raised his eyes, swept Wang with the corner of his eye, and couldn't help but secretly pity him in his heart.

Presumably, the king was not mentally prepared at all.

It's no wonder that Ye Chang and Yang Zhao teamed up, it might have been possible four or five years ago, but since Ye Chang became Li Linfu's son-in-law, the two sides have been incompatible.

Ye Chang did this, naturally not for those soldiers to apply for justice, but to deal with the king, but now he is in the center of the imperial court, except for a Yuan highway, he has a close relationship with some noble relatives...... Yes, Yuan Highway"

Yuan Highway has been in office for a few years, although he has been unknown in recent years, and it seems that he has not done much great things, but in fact he has enough qualifications to completely replace Wang as the imperial historian.

Ye Chang got the imperial doctor, Yang Zhao got the Jinggi interview envoy and Jing Zhaoyin, both sides took what they needed, it seems that Yang Zhao took a big advantage, Ye Chang's harvest is limited, but in fact, does Ye Chang have other gains?

No wonder Gao Lishi thinks so, it is Li Longji, who also thinks so.

At the point where they have to figure out the meaning of any action of others.

Ye Chang and Yang Zhao joined hands, in this way, it would be a big turmoil for the entire imperial court center. For Li Longji, it was one thing that kept him awake.

At this time, the king finally reacted, he stepped forward and knelt down, took off his official hat, and paused his head: "The minister is dedicated to the saint, and such words are all slander." The minister and Ye Chang are mortal enemies, and the death of the courtier Wang Zhun is also related to Ye Chang.

Wang knew in his heart that at this time, it was extremely difficult for him to get out, so he could only muddy the water and take advantage of Li Longji's laziness in political affairs to drag things down.

Waiting for change is his only choice, he doesn't believe that the relationship between Ye Chang and Yang Zhao will really become harmonious, if the two of them really wear a pair of pants, he will have a better chance, Li Longji definitely wants to have a force in the court to balance these two.

Li Longji coughed, a little helpless, he motioned to the eunuch to help the king up, and then said slowly: "Ye Chang has never named you, you don't have to think about it, I know this matter, and I will not let you be wronged." ”

Of course, he knew that all the money that Wang had scavenged was piled up in his inner treasury, and he also proudly said to Yang Zhao that the money was not rented and naturally not entered into the treasury. Yang Zhao and Ye Chang challenged Wang about this matter, and in his opinion, it was a bit of a fuss.

Without waiting for everyone to respond, he looked at the test room, and then said "ah": "It seems that the arithmetic hall is not useless, it has caught up." ”

Only then did everyone remember that today they were here to watch the Arithmetic Hall and Lushun Academy.

Fangcai Lushun Academy had an absolute advantage of four to one, but when I looked at it again, I found that the two sides were tied five to five.

Lushun Academy was solved by Yang Fan again, but for nearly a quarter of an hour, the three people of Lushun Academy seemed to be stumped by the problem, thinking hard there, although they wrote and drew on the paper from time to time, or picked up the abacus to dial it, but they did not hand in the answer for a long time.

On the contrary, here in the arithmetic hall, learn the lesson that the first problem is inefficient for everyone to do together丨Divided into five groups to solve the problem, the efficiency is really high at this time, and in this short moment, four problems were connected, and the total number of problems solved was equal.

Li Longji smiled and said to Ye Chang: "Ye Chang, you seem to be happy early." ”

"The minister was never happy." Ye Chang said with a smile.

At this moment, the arithmetic hall cheered and wrote out the answer to a question, and in this competition, they overtook for the first time.

"You see, the arithmetic hall has turned defeat into victory." Li Longji said.

"Saint, keep looking."

Ye Chang is very confident in Lushun Academy, because he has seen the ten questions himself, five of the ten questions are common questions in this era, although it is difficult, but it is difficult to live in the Guozi Supervision and Accounting Museum, after all, this is the highest mathematics college in the Tang Dynasty, representing the highest level of mathematics in addition to Lushun Academy, Ye Chang does not dare to come up with ten questions that the other party can't do at all to get a complete victory - that is only afraid of backfire, it will not promote the role of Lushun Academy, but it is annoying.

However, there are three problems, which are indeed not solved simply by relying on the original mathematical level of the Tang Dynasty, one is the trigonometric function, at this time Tianzhu already has a trigonometric function, there is a concept of sine cosine, often used to calculate the astronomical calendar, if Qu Tanxun and others will give their ancestral knowledge to the arithmetic students, maybe they can solve this problem, otherwise, they can only wait for Qu Tanxun to solve it slowly.

The other is plane analytic geometry, and the problem is how to bypass the defense of the city wall and hit the archers behind the city wall by throwing stones. This problem is actually not difficult, but when it comes to parabola, the principle and formula have to be derived, and it is by no means an hour to solve.

Li Longji didn't know about it, and the people below didn't know about it, but just now Lushun Academy had the advantage, but now the situation has reversed. The people who are interested in the Guozi Accounting Academy naturally have to laugh at Lushun Academy's inadequacy, while the people who are oriented to Ye Chang scold the Guozi Accounting Academy for being despicable and shameless, relying on more to win. However, with the manpower arranged by Jing Zhaoyin, as soon as these people shouted and scolded, they were suppressed by bullets.

Because of the ball market, Jing Zhaoyin is now very experienced in dealing with this kind of thing, so it is in order, even if there are one or two accidents, there will be no disaster.

Everyone's attention turned to the test room, and if they were close, they could see that the three teenagers of Lushun Academy were also sweating on their foreheads. Although there are stoves, they are not very useful in these three ventilated places, and in this case they are still sweating on their foreheads, and their tension can be imagined.

Ye Chang remained silent at the head of the city, just wandering around, as if looking for something under the city.

Wang watched his movements with the corner of his eye, and was a little puzzled in his heart, with Ye Chang's character, he should chase after that kind of attack, why didn't he just follow Li Longji's words?

Another moment passed, and at this time, Cai Chenguo let out a low breath, then got up and handed over a set of numbers, so that the two sides became a five-to-five tie again.

Qu Tanxun looked at the three people on the other side of the academy, and then looked at his own side, and felt a little relieved, they still have five questions left, and they are exactly divided into five groups, each group has one question to do, no matter what, they should be faster than the other party.

But Cai Chenguo's question was like a gust of wind, which blew the ship of Lushun Academy and began to accelerate. Not long after Cai Chenguo sat down, Yang Fan stood up again and handed over the answer to a question.

"It's six to five, Lushun Academy is beyond again" There was a small commotion around the people, and they once again focused their eyes on the side of the Arithmetic Hall.

All the students here in the arithmetic hall are now sweating profusely. If Lushun Academy is just fighting for fame, they are fighting for survival, and everyone's future and wealth are all in this competition, so they are more nervous than the three teenagers of Lushun Academy.

It's just that now the two sides are left with difficult problems, and it is not easy to solve them, even if they have a direction to solve the problem, they need to keep verifying to get the correct result.

"Question 7, Lushun Academy has solved the seventh question"

Someone around suddenly exhaled, it turned out that Yue Xi had solved another problem, he handed over the answer to the little official, and he still had time to smile at the little official.

Qu Tanxun glared at this side, his heart pounding, as if he was about to jump out of his throat. He looked at Cai Chenguo, if anyone on the academy side could possibly solve the eighth question, it should be Cai Chenguo. However, what made him a little relieved was that Cai Chenguo was scratching the corner of his forehead with a pencil at this time, looking like he was trapped by the problem, thinking hard, and he hadn't started writing at all.

"The remaining three questions are the essence of this time, hum, these three questions are all my Tianzhu arithmetic subtle problems, and they are my family heirlooms, not comparable to the previous seven questions." Qu Tanxun breathed a sigh of relief, trying to calm himself down: "At first, I was careless, although those questions were difficult, but one line could solve them at the beginning, and his nephew could also solve them, and his nephew must have taught these little ghosts."

Everyone knew that when this competition reached a critical moment, even the audience was silent, only the sound of dripping in the copper kettle came.

"I've got a problem...... Lu Yu sighed lowly.

"Lang Jun is right...... But I think Lushun College will win. One of the people next to him replied a little nervously.

Lu Yu looked over and found that this person was Chen Xiaoer, who had always sold newspapers near Jinguangmen.

"You have so much confidence in them?"

"That's natural, they are Ye Zhongcheng's disciples, and Ye Zhongcheng also bought a newspaper from me." Chen Xiaoer raised his head: "Lang Jun also bought a newspaper from me, I remember"

"You have a good memory."

"Every customer who bought my newspaper, I remember." Chen Xiaoer replied, and then stared at the test booth again.

After solving the seventh question, Yue Xi returned to his seat, he looked at the other party's solved question, and then laughed.

His expression was very calm, and even the sweat on his forehead was suppressed.

He sat down, cheered from the Arithmetic Hall, and then hung out the answer to another question, so that the two sides were tied again, and each side solved seven questions.

"It seems that the outcome is still very unpredictable." Lu Yu secretly wondered in his heart.

Half an hour has passed, and it must be said that both sides have good arithmetic skills, and it only took half the time to solve most of the problems. The performance of the arithmetic hall made Ye Chang also feel a little surprised, he originally thought that his side would gain a crushing advantage.

However, if you think about it carefully, this is also inevitable, and the children recruited in the Guozi Supervision School will naturally not be the children of the powerful, but the top generation selected from the unknown number of people. There may be one or two of them, but most of them are among the smartest people of our time. In terms of talent, in fact, they are higher than Ye Chang's three disciples, and what they lack is just a more reasonable and regular acquired education.

"Ye Chang, I have also read these questions, you have three left, one is to measure the trajectory of the rock-throwing bullet thrown by the stone-throwing machine, one is to measure the length of the bridge on the river surface, and then there is to calculate how to build the rutted rail to save the most materials. I think your arithmetic is quite different. Li Longji suddenly spoke.

"The minister just said that arithmetic is the foundation of the world's avenue, whether it is the way to govern the country and the people, or the way to march and arrange, it is inseparable from arithmetic." Ye Chang said: "It is precisely for this reason that arithmetic must also serve all walks of life to help them cope with the road. Wrapping up arithmetic for a few people to study is not an unenlightening and selfless reason. ”

Li Longji laughed, Ye Chang was anxious after all, but the more anxious he was, the better, like him who was in such a hurry to promote arithmetic, I was afraid that except for the students of the Guozi Supervision and Accounting Academy, if they would criticize him, even the rest of the Taixue students who had been bought by him with a lot of money over the years would gradually become hostile to him.

This is a battle of avenues, a battle of ideas, even if it is not to the point of life and death, it will inevitably be one and the other

However, the more Ye Chang is like this, the more stable Li Longji feels that his throne will be, and of course he will not persuade him. He looked at Yang Zhao, and his mind returned to the matter of Ye Chang and Yang Zhao joining forces.

These two were still fighting happily in front of him some time ago, and in the blink of an eye, they joined forces to pit Wang Yi, in the meantime, he hasn't figured it out yet, but depending on the situation, it should be Ye Chang as the main and Yang Zhao as the auxiliary. Could it be that Ye Chang was so urgent about the position of Imperial Doctor, and he hadn't considered the role of his son of heaven in this matter?

In any case, keep the king.

His eyes flashed, and Li Longji made up his mind that if he wanted to maintain balance in the court, he would never let any one side dominate.

"How much time has passed?" He asked the eunuch beside him.

The eunuch looked back and said cautiously, "Back to the saint, it's been an hour and two quarters of an hour." ”

Li Longji also looked back, and then said with a smile: "Ye Qing, isn't your bell also derived from arithmetic?" ”

At the head of the city, behind Li Longji's side, there was a big guy almost one person high, under the fabric of the glass, there was a bell hammer swinging back and forth, and two hands indicated the current time. This is exactly the grandfather clock, a new product proposed by Ye Chang and Li Xiu when he placed Li Linfu's family in Lushun.

Because of the troublesome craftsmanship in many places, it is only handmade, and now the production of this bell is very low, and the first batch of ships into the capital before the end of the year is only 20. Two of them, some time ago, Ye Chang offered Li Longji through Shou'an, and Li Longji's temperament made him very happy about it, one stayed in the Hot Spring Palace, and the other moved to Xingqing Palace, he was still unsatisfied, and took money from the inner treasury to buy the other five in Ye Chang, spending a total of 50,000 yuan

Moving one of them to the city was also Li Longji's move to grasp the time of this competition.

"The grandfather clock has something to do with that, it does." Ye Changdao.

Before he spoke, Li Longji suddenly said "Huh", not only Li Longji, but almost all the onlookers in the city were "Huh", and everyone's attention was once again focused on the test shed, just because there was another situation in the test shed