"Oh, that's majestic...... Human-like dog-like, well-dressed beasts"

On a tree a little farther away, Yuan Ying, who was climbing on it to watch the excitement, cursed with a gloomy face.

He really scolded Ye Chang, not fake. If it weren't for Ye Chang, their brothers would not have fallen to the point where they are now, being held hostage and going to do things that are in great danger.

Although he didn't quite understand how big an official Chen Xuanli was, the general of Longwu, it was conceivable that if this person was easy to kill, the torturers would not need to be so cautious.

"Both, do you see the red-robed man at the head of the city, the one on the left near the saint?" Beside him, one of Torturer's subordinates asked in a low voice.

The two nodded, indicating that they had recognized the person clearly, and the subordinate of the torturer said: "He is Chen Xuanli, the general of Longwu, you see, a half-old man, easy to deal with, as long as the people around him are separated, it will be a chance for the two of you to do it."

"This guy is wearing armor, I'm afraid it's not easy to deal with." Yuan Chao said.

"Don't worry, ordinary swords are difficult to penetrate the armor, we have prepared better blades, iron bones, Mo knives, horse lances, you can use whatever you want." The subordinate of the torture man said with a smile: "After a while, when the winner of this competition is decided, the saint will definitely return to the palace, and at that time, Chen Xuanli will go down to the city first and arrange the saint's escort back to the palace." Our men will deceive him aside, and you will do it then, and you will be in good order."

"What about the two of us?"

"I have already arranged with you, and the discipline court can't ask for you." The torturer's subordinate snorted.

But in his heart, he was saying that where could the court get two dead people

From the very beginning, Xing Yu was not prepared to let the Yuan brothers leave alive, even if they were a big deal, they could not directly bear this charge, let alone leak the news that everything was their conspiracy, so the Yuan brothers must die

Yuan Chao and Yuan Ying glanced at each other, then nodded.

At this moment, I heard a gong sound on the head of Chunming Gate, and then I saw a eunuch come out, stand in the wind, pull his neck and shout: "The students of the Guozi Prison Accounting School and the Lushun Academy have started the arithmetic competition now."

The so-called Lushun Academy is the name of the school run by Ye Chang in Lushun, Liaodong, the entire Lushun Academy is full-time, and Ye Chang's plan is to do six years of compulsory education, three years of merit-based education and three years of research education. Compulsory education has now begun to spread in Liaodong, that is, in the territory controlled by Ye Chang today, there must be a branch of Lushun Academy in every city, of different sizes, where children over the age of seven are gathered together to implement boarding teaching.

This matter is Tianbao eight years began to implement in Liaodong, now it has been implemented for more than three years, the most troublesome thing for Ye Chang is the lack of teachers, fortunately, his teaching is very streamlined, and he has trained more than 200 teenagers in his own private school is now available, each school arranges a few people, or can barely be transferred.

With the eunuch's order, the side began to prepare separately, Ye Chang glanced at Qu Tanxun, but slowly left the test room.

Qu Tanxun was taken aback, Ye Chang left, could it be that he didn't participate?

He watched Ye Chang leave slowly, walked towards the Chunming Gate, and after entering the city gate, he ascended the city tower from the steps.

"Ye Chang, why did you get here?" Li Longji summoned Ye Chang to come closer, and his face had returned to normal, but he was still a little unhappy.

This is for Ye Chang, this competition, stirring up the wind and rain, causing a lot of momentum, also aroused his interest, but Ye Chang was not in the test room at this time, ran here, if there is a change in the competition, wouldn't it ruin his interest and ruin the reputation of the court.

"The minister does not participate in the competition, so he naturally comes to the saint's side to prepare the saint's advisor." Ye Chang said with a smile

"You're not involved?" Li Longji was taken aback: "Just rely on the ...... taught by your academy Boy? ”

"They are enough, in terms of arithmetic alone, the minister may not be their opponent." Ye Changdao.

"Hehe, you're too confident." Li Longji was a little unimpressed.

Maybe it's too smooth, so Ye Chang is a little underestimating the heroes of the world, although the students under his command may be quite powerful, but how can they win better than the Tai students and doctors of arithmetic in Guozijian?

At this time, I saw that in the test shed, the officials of Jingzhao Mansion began to read out the rules of the trial.

Of course, the person who came up with these ten questions must have their own answers, otherwise it would be meaningless to come up with a question that no one can solve. The total time of the test is one hour, and each time you solve a question, you will pay an answer to a question, and whoever solves more questions wins; If both parties solve the same problem within the specified time, the first to solve the problem wins.

The area around the examination room was completely quiet, which was a very novel thing for both the two parties participating in the test and the people watching the excitement.

"Hey, there are a lot of people here in the Guozi Supervision School, but there are only three people in Lushun Academy?" Someone saw the problem and asked in surprise.

"Lushun is thousands of miles away, where can so many people be transferred in time, it is said that these three are the leaders of Lushun Academy, Ye Gong took him with him, he was preparing to meet his life, and he happened to encounter today's events, so he came out to compete."

"That's too unfair, three against more than twenty people...... And the three of them are so young, but there are a bunch of uncles over there."

Seeing the lively question, Li Longji also asked this question: "Ye Chang, you only use three people to talk about more than 20 teachers and students of Guozijian, you can't help but underestimate Guozijian, right?" ”

"It's not a matter of underestimation, it's a matter of arithmetic, and it's not above the battle array, and those with more people will inevitably have the advantage." Ye Chang smiled: "Although one person is short of wisdom and everyone is long, he can do these questions, but there is no such thing." ”

The unfinished meaning in Ye Chang's words, Li Longji heard it. Ye Chang was obviously extremely confident in his entourage, feeling that they could easily crush the people of the Arithmetic Academy.

Since he is so confident, then there is still excitement to see, and what Li Longji wants is only to have excitement to see

Immediately afterwards, the two sides took out their own preparation materials and checked them for the officials to confirm that there was no entrainment of fraud. On the side of the arithmetic hall, there was a stack of manuscript paper, some pens, and then there was the arithmetic chip, Qu Tanxun checked the things on his side, and then went to see the items on the side of Lushun Academy.

Needless to say, paper and pens, and even the pencils used in Lushun Academy, Qu Tanxun did not think it was strange, because pencils are now one of the export commodities of Lushun, and they can be bought in the Four Treasures of the Scholar's Store in Chang'an. But when he saw the abacus, Qu Tanxun frowned, got up and pointed to the abacus and said, "What is this?" ”

The origin of the abacus is quite controversial, but Ye Chang has not seen it in the Tang Dynasty, when he was cultivating martial arts, he was criticized by Yuan Zai, so he used the abacus to complete the account calculation in a very short time. When it came time to set up private schools and schools, in order to make up for the lack of calculation tools at this time, he vigorously promoted the abacus method. He himself also calculated addition and subtraction, and he also had some impressions of multiplication, but only division was resummed by him, Zhang Xiu and others.

Abacus is a compulsory course at Lushun Academy, and almost from the third grade, every student has to learn to use abacus to do arithmetic problems. Cai Chenguo, Yue Xi and Yang Fan, who were present, were naturally the best among them, with the abacus in hand, they dialed it a few times at will, and the light and crisp sound made people feel refreshed.

"This abacus abacus also, "Mathematical Calculations" has clouds, abacus control with four hours, longitude and latitude three talents. Your Excellency is both an assistant teacher of the Guozijian and the head of the Arithmetic Academy, how can you not know about this? Cai Chenguo raised his eyes and glanced at Qu Tanxun: "It's all a fuss, just because of shallow knowledge, right?" ”

Qu Tanxun's face turned blue and white for a while, and he didn't say anything for a long time.

Strictly speaking, Qu Tanxun's main business is astronomy, and arithmetic is only attached to his main business, and he is most proficient in Tianzhu mathematics handed down from his ancestors, so he is not particularly familiar with the ancient books of Han mathematics. What's more, there are still some differences between the abacus and the abacus contained in the Han people's "Mathematical Calculations", where did he understand? In his opinion, the calculator at this time should be a calculation chip, how can there be an abacus?

This is also related to the fact that he has a small closed circle, in fact, Ye Chang vigorously promoted abacus in Liaodong, and now some business owners are also trying to use abacus to calculate.

Qu Tanxun was originally entangled in the question of whether the abacus was a calculation tool, and he had a hunch that this calculation tool would have a very big impact on the outcome of the game. At this time, the little official urged softly: "The saint is above, and it is not appropriate to entangle more." ”

Hearing this, he put an end to the idea of arguing and sat back in a huff.

The conversation spread upstairs, and Li Longji smiled and looked at Ye Chang: "Your disciple has your character, what kind of talent is it, can you be a leader?" ”

This is to ridicule the people who taught Ye Chang and they don't suffer losses, but Ye Chang calmly regarded it as a compliment to himself, and said without humility: "Cai Chentan is outstanding among my disciples, and he is not idle in terms of talent alone. The minister was going to let him go through two to three more years of training with the minister, and then recommend him to the saint. ”

"What about the other two, how does their talent compare to him?"

"These three people are comparable, but their personalities are slightly different, Cai Chenguo is a little anxious, but he is quick and quick-tongued, Yue Xi is calm and humble, with the style of a general, Yang Fan is lively and good-natured, and is sociable."

Li Longji was silent when he heard this, and in Ye Chang's breath, it seemed that Cai Chenguo, who was speaking, was a little weaker among the three, while Yue Xi was the strongest, and Yang Fan was also strong.

After taking out the calculation tools, each side handed over the problem to the servant, who then distributed it.

This distribution, then we can see the difference, the Guozi Supervision School here, everyone is gathered together, everyone gathers to solve problems, and there are whispered discussions, and even those teaching assistants and doctors are also participating in the side, more than 20 people get together, and it is lively for a while.

On the contrary, on the side of Lushun Academy, it was just that everyone gathered in one place at the beginning, and then the three of them each took three or four questions, and it was not a division of labor and cooperation, but a separate one.

Seeing this situation, Li Longji couldn't help but feel a little contempt in his heart: Ye Chang's disciples may be talented, but they are not united enough.

He thought of it and asked: "Ye Chang, why don't your three disciples work together to overcome problems, but they are each doing their own thing, could it be that they are only good at single-handedly and not at fighting with others?" ”

"That's not the case, I guess the ten questions in the arithmetic hall are not difficult for them, so they each divide labor according to their strengths." Ye Chang said with a smile.

Qu Tanxun first took out the first question of Lushun Academy, but there was no mystery, it was a water conservancy problem, roughly saying that a certain embankment collapsed, the river water poured in, and the local officials and people opened a decision to release water at a low place. Qu Tanxun was stunned for a moment, and then slightly happy: Although this kind of topic is complicated, it is not unsolvable.

A group of students began to calculate, as long as the ideas can be listed, the rest is nothing more than calculation. A strange smile appeared on the corner of Qu Tanxun's mouth, and he glanced at the other party, the first question they listed was also a calculation problem, but this problem seemed simple, but it took a lot of time, and it was necessary to add up all the thousands of numbers in the question, even if it was to use a calculation chip, it was not possible to calculate the result in a short time.

But he laughed strangely, and saw that the young man who had just mocked him lifted the brush, brushed and wrote down a string of numbers on the paper, and then handed the paper to the little official beside him: "The first question has been solved"

"How is this possible?" Qu Tanxun exclaimed in surprise, and couldn't help but get up and look: "This must be wrong"

The little official originally wanted to blow the ink into Yujing and then put the paper away, but when the presiding official signaled, he opened the paper and showed it to everyone.

When Qu Tanxun saw that number, his wide open mouth moved, and the expression on his face was both surprised and annoyed.

It turned out to be right

In Qu Tanxun's opinion, although the first question they came up with was not difficult, it was enough to consume the trial time of Lushun Academy. This question is a plus question, and it takes half an hour to use the calculation chip, but the other party just took a pencil and scribbled on the manuscript paper for a while, and didn't even use the effort to drink a glass of water, and it was actually solved - did the other party know the answer in advance?

As soon as this thought flashed out, Qu Tanxun forcibly pressed it down, these ten questions were all made by him, how could the other party have an answer

"Hurry up and solve the problem, don't lose to these crooked people," Qu Tanxun said to his students through gritted teeth.

Li Longji saw this situation in the city, and he was also a little surprised in his heart, he asked people to copy a copy of the question and bring it up, and then brought the answer that Cai Chenguo had solved, and after looking at it for a while, he couldn't figure it out, so he asked Yang Zhao: "Qing is a plan, can you solve this problem?" ”

"This, although the minister can solve it, the time is slower." After reading this question, Yang Zhao pondered for a while and said with a wry smile.

Ye Chang smiled slightly, just when Li Longji saw him, Li Longji glanced at him: "Ye Chang, your disciple, why did you solve the problem so quickly?" ”

"The minister remembers that in the "Zhuangzi", there is a chapter of Ku Ding to solve the cow, and the skill of Ku Ding to solve the ox lies in knowing the truth of the ox's body, and the minister's disciples can solve this problem, which is also the case. The problems in the arithmetic hall seem to be numerous, and it is necessary to add up a thousand numbers, but the distribution of these thousand numbers has its own law, and according to this law, there is no need to add them one by one. Ye Chang explained: "With all due respect, in the Chen Academy, a twelve-year-old boy can solve this problem. ”