Sow the seeds, water them, weed them, don't even get dirty, apply farm fertilizer by themselves, and keep a piece of farmland in good order. The moment he ate the vegetables grown by his children, he felt that his heart was about to warm, his eyes couldn't help but redden, and he was very proud of his children.

"Huang Ama sits."

The group was kept moving so that it could make way for Emperor Kangxi to sit.

Emperor Kangxi was very pleased to show a doting smile, lifted the hem of his robe, sat on the chair, and when his eyes came into contact with the big characters that had not yet been written on the bookcase, he couldn't help but praise: "Yes, I wrote very carefully, and I made a lot of progress compared to the first two." ”

The word is like its person, the word of Tuanzi Baocheng has clearly demonstrated the pattern of regular script, horizontal and vertical, neat knots, but not rigid and unrestrained, the structure of each word is unusually clear, looking at the big characters written by Tuanzi Baocheng, Emperor Kangxi is more and more proud of this son.

Smart and studious, no longer pretending to be a child, walking among a group of brothers, at first glance, he has the style of a prince.

"Compared with the first-hand regular script of Huang Mama, the progress of Erchen is not worth mentioning."

The words written by his royal grandmother are like being engraved and printed, which makes people feel very happy when they look at it, and the reason why he chose to learn regular script is not right, to be precise, the brothers who have entered the study room,

and several younger brothers who have not yet entered the study room, but are also quietly practicing calligraphy, all swore that they would be like Huang Mama, and write a regular script that everyone envies. When Emperor Kangxi heard this, he bowed his head: "Your imperial grandmother's handwritten regular script is indeed very good." ”

Inadvertently, he saw a pile of papers similar to the imperial examination on the side of the table, and he couldn't help but be stunned, and then brought the pile of papers to his eyes, and when he saw the content on it clearly, his eyes were full of surprise: "I didn't expect Baocheng to learn the scriptures so well." ”

I saw a pile of paper, each of which was neatly written with a lot of questions in the "Nine Chapters of Arithmetic", with simple addition and subtraction, as well as product operations, the more Emperor Kangxi turned down the pile of paper, the more surprised his eyes were, but his movements suddenly stagnated, and asked Tuanzi Baocheng: "Do you know all the symbols on this?" ”

Tuanzi Baocheng didn't hide it, and said bluntly: "I know, they are Arabic numerals, didn't Huang Ma go out of the palace to treat the injured people in the disaster area, during the period, I met a wanderer,

In return, the foreigner Pope Mama recognized Arabic numerals, and used such numbers instead of the measurement numbers we commonly use.

It's easier to orchestrate the calculations. Later, Huang Ma and the senior father-in-law went to the foreigner's church outside the palace to borrow all kinds of books, including simple mathematics, well, mathematics is our "Nine Chapters of Arithmetic" books,

There are also simple books such as "Physics" and "Chemistry", and Huang Ma is idle in the palace, learning more things, to see if it can help us develop in the Qing Dynasty, seeing that we are interested, Huang Ma will take the time to teach us basic mathematics, physics, and chemistry. Huang Ama, can Bao Cheng continue to study those schoolwork with Huang Mama? ”

Emperor Kangxi's table at this time is enough to be described by the word "shock", he really didn't expect his grandmother to learn to such an extent, and even borrowed Yangrao books to read, after a while, he came back to his senses and nodded to Tuanzi Baocheng: "Of course you can, but the premise is that Baocheng doesn't feel too tired." ”

Tuanzi Baocheng shook his head: "I'm not tired at all!" Huang Ama, my eldest brother and second brother, as well as my sisters, younger brothers and sisters, all like what Huang Ma taught us, even if we farm by ourselves, we are very happy. ”

"Your Huang Ma is a person with great wisdom, and likes to study with your Huang Ma Ma, just go to study, Huang Ma supports you, and when you have time, Huang Ma will follow your Huang Ma to study mathematics, house, and chemistry with you."

In the history of the Qing Dynasty, Emperor Kangxi followed the foreigners to learn mathematics, and learned quite well, and was quite interested in the books brought by the Qing Dynasty by the Westerners, such as literature and geography.

It is now the nineteenth year of Kangxi, and at this stage, Emperor Kangxi has not yet used his mind to learn foreign things in order to consolidate his power, to calm the three times, and to attack Geerdan and other riot forces.

"Huang Ama is the smartest Huang Amma, and Huang Ma must be happy to teach you."

With it, the eyes of the group are as bright as the stars, shining brightly:

"After a while, Huang Ma Ma will teach us simple division operations, Huang Ama, Erchen tells you, the seventh brother is as smart as a monkey, every time Huang Ma talks about a knowledge point,

The seventh brother comprehended in the blink of an eye, and he could draw inferences from one another, when the seventh brother once played with his sons, he wanted to study a car that ran very fast, so that no matter where Huang Ama went, it would only take a short time to arrive, however, the seventh brother's research had to take his time, at that time, Huang Ma Ma would help the seventh brother study together. ”

Hearing this, Emperor Kangxi laughed: "Yinzhen is only a little older, and he has such great ambitions. ”

Tuanzi Baocheng responded very seriously: "Huang Ama, don't look at the seventh brother, Erchen thinks that ambition is not old, although the seventh brother is less than two years old at the moment, but in the eyes of Erchen, the seventh brother is the smartest among our brothers, Erchen likes to stay with the seventh brother, and he also likes to listen to the seventh brother." ”

His eyes flashed slightly, and Emperor Kangxi asked, "Does Yinzhen like to stay with you?" ”

Tuanzi Baocheng didn't want to think about it, and blurted out: "I like it, Seventh Brother's eyes light up every time he sees me, and he likes to follow me the most, well, it's not right, Seventh Brother likes to stay with each of us, but Seventh Brother doesn't like to talk very much, and he doesn't like to laugh too much." ”

"Yinzhen's son is introverted, this son looks calm, but he is also easily wronged, you are the elder brother, you must protect the younger brother."

The seventh son really doesn't like to smile, but the guy has a pure heart, a pair of eyes are as clear as water, and when he sees him in Ningshou Palace, he will stretch out his hand to him to hug, and when he can stand firmly,

When they met, they followed the example of his brothers and sisters, waved their hands to greet him, the emperor Ama, and didn't say much, but there was no trace of adulteration in his admiration for the emperor Ama, and he shouldn't have said anything.

Among the children, except for Guo Baocheng is his favorite son, it is the seventh elder brother Yinzhen who has won his heart, and there are guys here who are smart and sensible, and they should be raised in Ningshou Palace not long after he was born.

It is related to the personal upbringing of the emperor. As for Changhua and Changsheng, who have also been raised by the emperor's mother for several years, the brothers are also good children, but compared with Yinzhen's qualifications,

is slightly inferior, and the brothers rarely take the initiative to get close to him when they see him, Amma. He knew that they were afraid of his kingship, but in the presence of young children, he, the king of a kingdom,

I just want to be an ordinary father. However, the Changhua brothers obviously regard him as a monarch's father, a monarch and a father, which is more or less related to Ma Jia's education. And Yinzhen is different,

The guy is like Ji Baocheng, he only sees him as an ordinary father, knows that he wants him to hug him, eat delicious pastries, know how to take a piece and hand it to him, the emperor Ama to eat, there is no fear in his eyes, such a well-behaved and sensible son anyone will like it.

Tuanzi Baocheng nodded his head: "Huang Ama rest assured, the retainers will protect Seven." ”

Rubbing his son's head, Emperor Kangxi inadvertently changed the topic: "You did all these questions yourself?" ”

Tuanzi Baocheng said "um", and said in a childish voice: "It's all done by the ministers themselves, according to the method taught by Huang Mama, every question is done seriously." ”

Emperor Kangxi probably took a look at it, and the accuracy rate was very high, so he couldn't help but praise: "Yes, there is only one wrong question on this paper." After tapping his fingers on the wrong question, Tuanzi Baocheng looked at it, and his face was slightly red: "It's Erchen who is careless and writes '0' as '6'." ”

The tail above 0 is estimated to be that he did not carefully confiscate it when he closed the pen, so that "30" became "36", and the answer was wrong.

"Carelessness is easy to make mistakes, so you can pay more attention to it later."

Emperor Kangxi said warmly, picked up the ink pen, and casually gave his son the pile of math test papers for review, and when he put down the ink pen, he said: "Remember to correct your mistakes." ”

Tuanzi Baocheng nodded: "Correct the mistake five times, this is the request of Huang Ma Mama to us, and we must extract the wrong questions and organize them into a book, so that we can take them out when we go back and review." ”

"Your royal grandmother asks this because I hope you will remember why you made a mistake, and when you encounter similar problems in the future, you will not make mistakes again." “

"Erchen knows."

Emperor Kangxi had a warm smile on his face, and asked fiercely: "Does Baocheng know what are the benefits of learning mathematics well?" ”

I thought that my son would think about it for a while, and even shook his head directly, clinker, the guy's face was tense, and he replied to him cutely: "No, just on the application of mathematics in the household department, if the household official reports the excerpt to Huang Ama,

Among them, there are calls for a reduction in military expenditures and an increase in taxes, the reason is that the treasury is empty, and the income cannot make ends meet, in such a situation, if you do not understand mathematics, it is easy to be confused by the people below, but if you have some understanding of numbers,

Know how to check your accounts, so you don't have to worry about being deceived. Similarly, there are also the allocation of grain for disaster relief, the construction of water conservancy and the allocation of silver, if the official in charge is a fool, then the imperial court allocated the disaster relief grain,

The money allocated for the construction of water conservancy can easily be exploited by the people below under various names, thus damaging the prestige of the imperial court in the eyes of the people, and then causing resentment among the people, causing ineffective water conservancy construction, and delaying the harvest of the people. ”

After a moment's pause, Tuanzi Baocheng continued in a childish voice: "Huang Ama, Huang Ma has been, although she likes to read miscellaneous books and foreign books, but she is not blindly included in her brain,

Instead, we will take the essence of it, remove the dross, and teach us the knowledge that we can use, which will be of great benefit to us in helping Huang Ama to do things in the future. For example, Mama Huang Zeng said that mathematics is the foundation of all sciences, and science and technology are the primary productive forces......"

People relayed what they heard from Ye Xia from Ye Xia about what science and science and technology were in detail, and then continued: "The country is rich and the people are strong, and science and technology are inseparable, just because of this,

Seventh, he wants to do research, to improve the science and technology of our Qing Dynasty, and to follow me and my eldest brother and second brother, as well as my sisters, younger brothers and sisters, to help Huang Ama build our Qing Dynasty more and more prosperous and powerful, so that other countries will be in awe when they hear the name of our Qing Dynasty, and they will not dare to offend our Qing Dynasty at will. ”

"Huang Ama, whether a country is strong or not depends on the living standards of the people, whether the people are poor, clothed or rich, and whether the population is decreasing or increasing."

Hearing this, Emperor Kangxi looked solemn: "These are all your imperial grandmothers?" ”

Tuanzi nodded his head, didn't wait for Kangxi to speak, and said: "Huang Ma is also, if a country wants to operate, agriculture must be the foundation." The peasants planted the land and produced a harvest so that the state could collect taxes from it, so that the more the peasants harvested, the more taxes they would collect.

After the peasants paid the taxes and left their own food rations, they still had a surplus, and they would exchange this part of the grain for some common necessities, so that a trade was formed. Throughout the ages, the more prosperous the place, the more merchants there were, and the more merchants there were, the more frequent the silver transactions......"

The group was so successful that he was stunned when he heard Emperor Kangxi's original solemn expression, but he didn't interrupt the group, and went down from the guy: "For fairness and justice, there is no doubt that the law is needed to maintain order,

The law is used to judge right and wrong, and to bind people's moral norms, and the authority of the law comes from the army, weapons, ...... Huang Ama, the army is in your hands, you customize the law, maintain the law, and under your governance, the life of the people will be safe and stable. ”

After the group Baochengyin was behind, Emperor Kangxi raised his eyebrows: "Are you sure that these are your imperial grandmothers?" ”

Tuanzi Baocheng was stunned, and then his delicate face was dyed with a touch of crimson, and he responded embarrassedly: "Some of them are understood by Erchen himself." ”

After a moment of silence, Emperor Kangxi's deep voice rose again: "Go on." ”

"Huh?"

Tuanzi Baocheng looked confused.

Emperor Kangxi reminded: "There is no end, and then add, Huang Ama is not busy this time, I want to hear you finish it." ”

Tuanzi Baocheng blinked his mosquito coil eyes, thought for a while, and his immature voice overflowed his lips and teeth again: "There have been many classes in all dynasties, and these classes will have all kinds of collisions and contradictions when they come into contact with each other.

If only the people at the helm of the country were to be busy, this would have given rise to the class of scholars, that is, officials at all levels to help the helmsman. Take our Qing Dynasty, that is, the emperor Ama to govern the whole country,

The court officials supervise local affairs as the eyes and ears of the emperor, but some of these eyes and ears are unwilling to do what the emperor will do, they will harm others and benefit themselves, abuse power for personal gain, and even exclude dissidents, and deceive the emperor.

As a result, it is difficult for Huang Ama to accurately grasp the real living conditions of the people. And to discern which of these ears and eyes are good and which are bad, you need to have enough money to operate.

Where will the money come from? It is undoubtedly a variety of taxes, but taxes are not collected casually, you need to know the harvest of the people, know how much taxes are collected, and the people will not be able to make ends meet, and at the same time will not affect the normal operation of the country, which has to be dealt with by numbers. ”

"What else?"

Emperor Kangxi was silent for a long time when he saw the group, and he couldn't help but ask in a warm voice.

Tuanzi Baocheng scratched his head: "And?" ”

After thinking for a moment, the guy's eyes lit up: "By the way, the previous Erchen mentioned that the numbers are related to the imperial court measures such as disaster relief and water conservancy, so now the Erchen will no longer give the emperor Ama Xi?" ”

In fact, he didn't want to repeat it, why didn't Huang Ama finish asking today? A trace of depression flashed in his bright eyes, and he was unfortunately caught by Kangxi in his eyes, and he was amused, he: "Okay, Huang Ama didn't hear it too clearly before, so I bothered to give Huang Ama more careful." ”

Tuanzi Baocheng cleared his throat, put his hands behind his back like an adult, and slowly said the organized language, and finally, he concluded:

"Huang Ama, learning mathematics well, just for the household department, there are great benefits, such as whether to cut military funds, whether to increase taxes on peasants, whether to check whether officials are corrupt and bribery, and so on, it is really very useful."

Emperor Kangxi bowed his head with satisfaction: "The usefulness is indeed great, Huang Ama has been taught, thank you Baocheng for telling Huang Ama so much." ”

Tuanzi Baocheng waved his hand, looking shy: "It's Huang Ma Ma who looks at it from the book, and then give it to Bao Cheng, Huang Ma wants to thank Huang Ma Ma, Erchen thinks Huang Ma is very reasonable." ”

"Let's go, go and sit in your Imperial Mother's Palace."

Emperor Kangxi, up, stretched out his hand to Tuanzi Baocheng, and led his son to Ningshou Palace. "Huang Ama, I have to bring that stack of rolls."

Hearing this, Emperor Kangxi picked up the pile of paper on the bookcase: "Show it to your imperial grandmother?" ”

Tuanzi Baocheng said "um" and responded: "The question is from Huang Mama, and every time we finish it, we have to send it to Ningshou Palace for Huang Ma to review by ourselves or palace people within the specified time, so as to see if we have mastered the knowledge points contained in the question." ”

Holding his son's hand, Emperor Kangxi's eyebrows and eyes were full of doting, but his tone was particularly solemn: "Baocheng must keep in mind that in his lifetime, he must honor your imperial grandmother, you know?" ”

"The retainers will."

Tuanzi Baocheng raised his head, met Emperor Kangxi's gaze, and responded very seriously.

Ningshou Palace.

Half an hour ago, Concubine De came to Ye Xia Palace with Yinzuo, who was almost four months old, on the one hand, to accompany Ye Xia to relieve boredom, and on the other hand, to let the two sons cultivate more cultivation.

Even now, her son Yinzhen is still nominally the son of the noble concubine Tong Jia's family, and she calls her the biological mother by De Eniang, but she can see and feel that her Yinzhen and her biological mother are not separated.

Before Yinzuo was born, as long as she went to Ningshou Palace, her son would call her De Eniang softly, salute her in style, and like the clothes and things she made.

On the contrary, it was Tong Jia's family, her son was carried by his mother to Chengqian Palace to ask for peace according to the rules, and occasionally met in the imperial garden, and he couldn't see how sticky the other party was.

At the beginning of the year, she gave birth to Yinzuo safely, Yinzhen is the elder brother, and every other day his mother took him to Yonghe Palace to visit her and Yinzuo, and patiently accompanied Yinzuo to play, she saw these in her eyes and was happy in her heart. Tong Jia Yuqing, what can she do if she robs her Wuya Huilan's son?

The son is hers is hers, and now she doesn't recognize her as her biological mother, she believes that sooner or later she will recognize it, not to mention that her son was raised in Ningshou Palace and raised by the Queen Mother herself, so she doesn't have to worry about Tong Jia's adoptive mother teaching her Yinzhen badly, and her biological mother and biological mother, and she doesn't even want to see her biological mother.

"Yinzuo looks tired, take it back to the palace and let the child sleep well, the mourning family has to go and see those leather monkeys, so as not to be careless, this Ningshou Palace will be demolished by them!"

At the beginning of the year, Emperor Kangxi suddenly made adjustments to the time of the previous dynasty and the study time of the elder brothers, as well as the course schedule of each elder brother, and Ye Xia was surprised when he heard the news.

How was the time when the civil and military officials went to court changed, just the time when the brothers entered the study room was changed from the previous Yin time to the Mao time,

And there is a quarter of an hour of rest and a half-hour nap time in the afternoon, which is really like the gospel has landed on the heads of the princes and brothers, and Ye Xia is also happy for the group.

Just imagine, three o'clock in the morning is the time to sleep, but the dumplings have to get up from the top, pack up and rush to the study, if it is fine in summer, but in winter, or in the rainstorm, it is simply torturous.

Based on this, after learning that they got up in the morning and entered the study room for a new reading time, they all clapped their hands, and then the group learned that there was not only a break between classes, but also a nap time after lunch, and a break every six days of reading.

Now it is the rest of the dumplings, the ten years old, the seven-year-old Baoqing and the seven-year-old boy Changhua, Tuanzi Changsheng, Tuanzi Wanhuang, and Tuanzi Yinzhi all flock to the experimental form of Gu Mochen, the glutinous rice dumpling, to watch their seventh brother do research.

As for Tuanzi Baocheng, he didn't participate, just because this is the prince, and his schoolwork is slightly heavier than Baoqing, and he needs to do all his homework before he can spend his time freely during the break.

However, Tuanzi Baocheng actually came to Ningshou Palace every time he rested, and the time was only more than half an hour late Baoqing. "The queen mother is very fond of the princesses."

Handing the son who was about to fall asleep to his mother, De Concubine got up and smiled softly. Ye Xia smiled when she heard this, and said softly: "The children are well-behaved, and I am naturally spoiled as a grandmother." ”

Concubine De looked at the glutinous rice dumplings in her mother's arms, and her eyebrows were full of tenderness: "This time next year, Yinzuo is afraid that he will be like his brothers and sisters, and he will be able to break your threshold." ”

Ye Xia's eyes were kind, looked at Tuanzi Yinzuo, who had fallen asleep in his mother's arms, and smiled: "It's okay if the threshold is stepped on, as long as the grandchildren of the mourning family are happy." The two exchanged two more pleasantries, and the concubine saluted and retired.

"Son, please be the emperor."

Soon after Concubine De left, Emperor Kangxi led Tuanzi Baocheng into Ningshou Palace, and as soon as he saw Ye Xia, the two of them saluted.

"Where do you need to salute as soon as you meet?! Have a seat. ”

Ye Xia smiled helplessly, beckoning Dayi to sit down and talk, but Tuanzi Baocheng shook his head: "Huang Mama, I'm going to the seventh brother's experiment!" ”

Then, the guy saluted Ye Xia and Emperor Kangxi in style, and then turned around, and walked away with short legs.

"Huang Eniang, you taught them well in Baocheng."

When the shadow of Tuanzi Baocheng disappeared outside the door, Emperor Kangxi retracted his gaze and looked at Ye Xia with a smile: "My son thinks, when I look back, my son is free, and I will follow you to learn like Baocheng and them." ”

Ye Xia was stunned at first, and then smiled, "I just stay too idle in the palace, so I can't help but read more books, and when I encounter something useful, I will say a few words to the children, but as long as you don't dislike the emperor's short-sightedness,

If you have time, come to Ningshou Palace to sit and sit, and the emperor who can teach you will not have reservations. By the way, if I can, I would like to go out of the palace every once in a while, go to the church of foreigners, learn more about their language with those priests, and see if they have any useful books for our Qing Dynasty. ”

"Baocheng, you didn't let Gao Quan go out of the palace to borrow books from the foreigners' church, including basic mathematics and physics, chemistry, etc., as far as mathematics is concerned, my son from Baocheng's volumes, the emperor knows more than those foreigners, I don't know physics and chemistry, the emperor can see it?"

Emperor Kangxi asked.

Ye Xia responded with a smile: "Mathematics is the foundation of all sciences, and the physics and chemistry books I borrowed are the most basic books in these two disciplines, which doesn't seem difficult at all." ”

Looking back, she processed the books in the space a little, believing that it would not be long before mathematics, physics, chemistry, and natural sciences would be popularized among the dumplings, and then slowly extended to the outside of the palace, which would definitely cultivate many scientific talents for the Qing Dynasty.

As for Gao Quan's departure from the palace to borrow books from the foreigners' church, and to the Qin Prison to find Nan Huairen to borrow books, it was just an excuse for what she had in her head and the books she was going to take out later.

Nan Huairen?

Thinking of the name Nan Huairen, Ye Xia couldn't help but think of Dai Zi, now, not long after Dai Zi entered the Hanlin Academy to serve as a waiter, Nan Huairen was jealous of Dai Zi's inventions and creations in the military industry.

fabricated the crime of "fornication with the East", which led to Emperor Kangxi exiled Dai Zi until he spent 35 years in exile, and Emperor Yongzheng ascended the throne before he was pardoned, but at this time Dai Zi was already old and decrepit, and finally died of illness in Tieling in the fourth year of Yongzheng.

Now that she is here, Nan Huairen's abacus is delusional.

"My son has studied mathematics and literature with Nan Huairen, to be honest, judging from the questions that Bao Cheng did, what Nan Huairen told his son did not know as much as Huang Eniang."

Emperor Kangxi paused, and asked: "Huang Eniang, my son sees that you use that Arabic numeral in the questions you gave to Baocheng, this Nan Huairen also taught his son, but his son didn't think it was very important, what does Huang Eniang think about this?" ”

The smile on Ye Xia's face was warm and elegant, and she said, "No, just from the aspect of counting, don't you think it's easier to use Arabic numerals than to use our current way of writing?"

In addition, the addition of simple numbers and simple accounting statistics is still feasible with our overall planning algorithm, but if the accounts are complicated and the added numbers are very large and long, it will be very troublesome whether it is checking or calculating. ”

At this point, Ye Xia brought a pen, ink, paper and inkstone, and under the gaze of Emperor Kangxi, she drew a simple summary table of monthly income and expenditure on the paper.

"You see, with such a form, doesn't it look convenient to keep accounts for each month? However, if we use our method of writing numbers, such a table is a little inappropriate, and with Arabic numerals, it is clear at a glance. ”