After the craftsmen of the Ministry of Works gave an answer, another quarter of an hour passed.

The students of Huangzhuang are still calculating in an orderly manner.

However, what they did, in the eyes of the officials of the Ministry of Industry in Yanjing, was simply pretending.

It's just a trivial matter of building a bridge, the size of a sesame mung bean, and these people still have to calculate it for half a day. There is still a big gap between these young people and the real craftsmen in the Ministry of Industry.

At the beginning, those present were patient.

But they have been waiting for nearly a quarter of an hour, and those students of Huangzhuang are still calculating.

The officials and craftsmen of the Ministry of Industry inevitably began to whisper.

"What the hell are these people, why is it taking so long?"

"It's just about building a bridge, and I can't figure it out for so long. At their level, they still want to compete with our Ministry of Engineering?"

"Maybe our problem is too difficult, right?" Someone deliberately said it loudly.

On the surface, this person was ridiculing Huangzhuang's students, but in fact, Xiang Zhuang was dancing the sword with the intention of Pei Gong, and it was clearly a side knock to ridicule Zhu Han.

Zhu Han is the prince of the Eight Classics, and he is also the prince of the founding of the country. Regardless of ability and prestige, they are famous all over the world.

But this time, Zhu Han monopolized the power and directly deprived the Ministry of Industry of the construction of the Yanjing Imperial City.

Among them, I don't know how many people's interests have been moved.

They didn't dare to really do anything to Zhu Han, after all, Zhu Han's eldest brother Zhu Yuanzhang was never a good-tempered person. But the two sentences of yin and yang weird ridicule will naturally not be polite.

Zhao Helun, the secretary of the Ministry of Works, angrily scolded, "Who is talking nonsense? Do you really think that the prince's students are inferior to you? That's just the prince saving face for you, and I don't want you to lose too ugly."

Zhu Han raised his eyelids, looking lazy: "Master Shangshu doesn't have to be like this, it's true that my students are not angry. After this incident, this king will definitely train them well."

"It's also a province for these guys, one by one, their eyes are above the top, and they don't take the world in their eyes."

Zhao Helun's smile froze almost directly on his face.

He didn't really defend Zhu Han, he was obviously talking the opposite, ridiculing Zhu Han for refusing to admit defeat. As a result, His Royal Highness didn't seem to hear his voice at all.

That natural appearance almost made Zhao Helun vomit blood.

However, after all, he is a person who has been up and down in the sea for half a lifetime. I couldn't wait to point at Zhu Han's nose and scold him for being shameless.

But he was able to suppress the anger in his heart, and said with a smile, "The prince doesn't need to be so harsh on them. After all, we are still young people, and it is inevitable to make a small mistake."

"It's just...... I don't know when these students are going to count the Tao?"

"Our craftsmen in the Ministry of Industry, after all, still have their own work to dare to do, we can't wait here all day for the results, right?"

Before Zhu Han could say anything, Zhang Yunjie suddenly took a piece of paper and ran over excitedly.

"Figured it out! Lord, we've figured it out."

Zhu Han grimaced and reprimanded dissatisfiedly: "Do you feel very proud of calculating these things?"

Seeing the attitude of his own prince, Zhang Yunjie, who was originally happy, suddenly disappeared with a smile on his face.

Lowering his head, he clenched his fists and saluted depressedly: "I've seen the prince, I've seen all the adults, we have calculated the various materials needed to build the bridge, as well as the labor cost, and I also ask the prince and the adults to take a look."

As he spoke, Zhang Wenjie respectfully held the things they calculated above his head.

An official from the Ministry of Industry immediately went over and took the paper.

"Huh?"

I saw that the paper was densely filled with things, and there were many words that she couldn't read.

This inevitably made the officials of the Ministry of Industry more and more strange, and they couldn't understand what the students of Huangzhuang meant.

Now is not the time to think about this, the officials of the Ministry of Industry hurriedly sent the piece of paper to Zhu Han and Zhao Helun, and then retreated to the officials of the Ministry of Industry.

He had just returned when someone asked impatiently.

"What is written on it, did you just read it?"

"Is there any discrepancy between the results they calculated and the results just said by our craftsmen?"

The errand officer shook his head strangely, "I don't know if it's accurate."

The surrounding officials listened inexplicably for a while.

"You don't know what it is? You really haven't read anything about it, have you?"

The official in charge of running errands said, "I saw it, but I didn't read it all, and I didn't understand it a little."

The officials of the Ministry of Industry were blinded and had no idea what this guy was talking about.

"What do you mean you haven't finished reading? As an official of the Ministry of Works, you can't even understand the amount of supplies?"

The errand officer explained helplessly: "On the list of materials they calculated, a lot of data is densely written, and there are a lot of strange symbols on it, I can't understand it at all!"

After listening to his explanation, someone suddenly burst out laughing, "I understand what's going on."

The eyes of the people around him suddenly lit up, and they eagerly asked, "Brother Nian understands? Please help us get some answers."

The official of the Ministry of Industry sneered proudly, "I don't think these people understand anything at all. So, they deliberately worked out a lot of numbers. In that case, there might be a chance that the blind cat will touch the rat and let them be blinded."

The people around him suddenly realized.

"I see."

"They've been busy over there for a long time, and if they really haven't figured anything out, it's too ridiculous and generous, so I'll just write more."

"At this level, I dare to be ashamed to compete with the craftsmen of our Ministry of Industry, and I am really ignorant and fearless."

As he was talking, someone suddenly wondered, "In that case, why did they write those strange symbols?"

Immediately someone sneered and explained, "It's not easy, as long as what they write is not known to others, then how to explain it is not up to them? When the time comes, you can quibble casually, and you can pretend to be the correct answer."

When the officials of the Ministry of Industry heard this, they immediately burst into laughter.

Obviously, the results have not been announced yet, and they have already decided that the students of Huangzhuang are scribbling.

The so-called upper beam is not correct and the lower beam is crooked, as the secretary of the Ministry of Industry, Zhao Helun and his subordinates have surprisingly the same ideas.

As soon as he saw the results sent by the students of Huangzhuang, the brows of the Ministry of Industry were furrowed.

In particular, the mathematical notation used when marking the formula used in the calculation results.

Zhao Helun, who has been studying Confucian classics since he was a child, doesn't even know any of them.

"His Royal Highness." After the initial ecstasy, Zhao Helun lowered his voice a little nervously, and said with a look of hatred that iron could not be made of steel, "Your students are really ignorant."

"What?" Zhu Han only felt confused.

Why is the reaction of this Yanjing Ministry of Industry Shangshu so different from what he imagined?

Zhao Helun let out a long sigh and said bitterly: "Xia Guan knows that it is a bit too difficult for these students to compete with those experienced craftsmen in the Ministry of Engineering."

"But no matter what, since it's a competition, it should be taken seriously."

The more Zhu Han listened, the more inexplicable he felt.

Isn't this all nonsense? This competition is related to the construction of the national capital. It is not an exaggeration to say that it is one of the most important things since the founding of the Ming Dynasty.

After all, if nothing else, this will be the permanent capital of the Ming Dynasty.

How could his students have done something wrong with such an important matter?

"Lord Zhao, what's wrong?" Zhu Han asked suspiciously.

When Zhao Helun saw His Royal Highness the British King, he was still obsessed. At the moment, he said with a smile: "Lord Wang, if your students really can't calculate, this honest admission of defeat would be fine, why bother scribbling?"

"Scribbling?" Zhu Han suspiciously took the calculation results in Zhao Helun's hand.

After reading the ten lines at a glance, I felt even more strange.

Zhu Han didn't know whether the results calculated by his students were correct or not, but he was completely sure that his students did not scribble, and many of the data were inferred using those formulas, which were all noted.

After a little thought, Zhu Han quickly understood what was going on.

These guys who can only read to death, and only know that they don't let go of the four books and five classics, don't understand what their students are writing at all.

Zhu Han didn't bother to explain to them, and beckoned to Zhang Wenjie: "Come over with a pen."

Zhang Wenjie hurriedly took out a pencil from a pair of pockets and handed it to Zhu Han.

On the tip of the pencil, a cap is also made of rice paper to prevent the tip of the pencil from breaking.

This was all exchanged by Zhu Han from the system and handed over to the students of Huangzhuang for use.

After all, pencils are not very easy to use for calligraphy, but they are much more convenient than brushes.

When the Huangzhuang students calculated just now, they used pencils.

But when they handed in the results, they copied them again with a brush.

Zhu Han focused on drawing a few circles on the calculation results of his students, and then returned the answer to Zhang Helun: "You don't need to look at other calculation formulas or anything, you can't understand it anyway, just look at the results."

Zhao Helun didn't take Zhu Han's words too seriously, so he didn't think that those things like ghost painting talismans were really useful.

took it insincerely, and glanced at the content framed by Zhu Han again.

Just looking at it like this, Zhao Helun's eyes widened in disbelief, and he subconsciously exclaimed, "This is impossible?"

It turned out to be written on it.

The project is expected to use stone: 3.7 million catties to 3.76 million catties.

This figure is not very different from the previous estimate of the master of the Ministry of Industry.

Case......

Zhao Helun hurriedly looked at the other numbers.

Each result is similar to what the Ministry of Industry said before, but there are some discrepancies on the whole.

But soon, Zhao Helun saw the last content again.

He was already nervous, but suddenly relaxed again.

He smiled and said, "Lord Wang, if you think you have no opinion, I will let people announce the results?"

Zhu Han bowed slightly, as if he didn't even bother to say a superfluous word, "But!"

Immediately, the results were read aloud.

The officials and craftsmen of the Ministry of Industry hurriedly pricked up their ears and listened carefully.

But......

Most of the officials of the Ministry of Industry listened with the mentality of watching the excitement.

They already knew that the students of Huangzhuang had calculated a lot of results, and they also thought that the students of Huangzhuang were fooling them.

"It is estimated that 3.7 million to 3.76 million catties of stone will be used. It is estimated that 8,500 to 9,000 people will be employed. The estimated construction time is 1,100 to 1,250 days!"

Hear here.

The officials of the Ministry of Industry burst into laughter.

"That's a lot of numbers."

"If that's all right, then as long as the range is large enough, wouldn't it be accurate?"

Unlike these gloating officials, the craftsmen looked at each other one by one.

Most of them don't know whether the calculations of the Huangzhuang students are right or wrong. I just vaguely feel that their calculation method seems to be very convenient.

If you can control the various materials used before the start of the project

Within a certain range, this will definitely be of great benefit to the construction of the project.

In fact, when they were in charge of some projects in the past, they did the same, but they didn't do it in such detail.

But then the person who heard the results read out said aloud, "This result is only applicable to the original method of building bridges using stone as the main raw material for bridge construction."

"If you use a reinforced concrete structure, you only need 70,000 catties of steel and 2 million catties of cement, and the construction crew can be reduced to 190 to 220 people, and the construction time is 90 to 120 days."

The craftsmen of the Yanjing Ministry of Industry exploded directly after hearing the second result.

"Nonsense!"

"That's nonsense."

"I don't think they're here to compete, they're here to be embarrassed."

"Hahaha, build a bridge in three months? Do they think that building bridges is about building blocks? It's the funniest joke I've ever heard this year."

The officials of the Ministry of Industry also laughed uncontrollably.

And the students of Huangzhuang all looked at these people with pity. For these ignorant people, they do not feel angry, they only feel pitiful.

They had no idea what a terrible thing His Majesty had made out of cement.

Zhao Helun deliberately made a helpless look: "Your Royal Highness, if you have no doubts, I will declare the craftsmen of the Ministry of Works win."

When he asked people to read out this answer just now, Zhao Helun already knew the result.

Build a bridge in three months, and His Royal Highness, like their classmates, may have a serious brain illness.

"Wait!" Zhu Han stopped Zhao Helun: "Why did the craftsmen of the Ministry of Works win. Since you have a question, you should also announce the answer first, right? Why does this king think that my students should win?"