"Prince, why don't you answer me?"

Zhu Youzhu didn't have a good face for his son, "I look at your numbers, it's clear that you're counting the silver looted from your two uncles, how much is left?" ”

"Huh?"

Zhu Houzhao was taken aback.

He does things so secretly, and he can still be known by his father?

What can I do?

Rely!

said that there was no such thing, anyway, the father had no evidence of his guilt, and the silver was placed outside the palace.

"Father, do you have any evidence?"

Before Zhu Houzhao denies it, of course, he must first verify it.

He remembered that he had sworn in front of his father that he would be a good boy in the future.

Zhu Youzhu said: "Do you think I don't know about the silver outside the palace?" Hum! It just so happens that you've calculated it yourself, more than three thousand nine hundred taels, right? Confiscated! ”

Zhu Houzhao suddenly felt that this was digging his own grave.

I dug a hole and jumped into it myself.

If you had known, why did you talk so much to your dad just now?

That's good, before the money was confiscated, it was settled for my father.

Zhu Houzhao hurriedly complained: "Father, that is the silver that the sons and daughters earned back with their skills!" It's the first time Erchen has earned money, so you can leave it for Erchen to fill the East Palace. ”

Zhu Youzhu said coldly: "Have I usually treated you badly? What do you want, never given to you? Or is it less of your food and clothing? What are you going to fill? ”

Zhu Houzhao was speechless for a while.

As a prince, it seems that there is really no need to fill the cost.

I didn't say that I was so poor that I couldn't eat.

But his head was nimble, and then he thought: "But if the retainer wants to buy people's hearts, for example, to give people something, he always needs some silver." Besides, this silver was not given by the father, so why did the father confiscate it? The father is unreasonable, and the son is not convinced! ”

"You ......"

Zhu Youzhi was about to die of anger.

This kid!

The tricks of the pit meng's abduction are very fast, and he can directly extort more than 6,000 taels of silver from his two uncles, but the problem is that these more than 6,000 taels are not squeezed out of my teeth?

Your two uncles cheated me first, then you cheated your two uncles, and then others cheated you......

I'm going to take it from you, and you're still not convinced, right?

"Okay, don't say I didn't give you a chance, didn't you say you learned arithmetic? Then I will give you the debut title, if you can calculate faster than Chen Kuan, I will let you leave that silver. ”

"Father, this is unreasonable, no matter how fast the son's calculations are, can they be faster than those who often settle accounts?"

Of course, Zhu Houzhao didn't dare to compare.

He didn't know if he was fast or slow.

Chen Kuan, who is next to the emperor, has always had good accounts, but whenever there is anything related to auditing and other matters, Chen Kuan pulls the abacus beads to do the last audit.

Your son, I am a fledgling child who has just learned arithmetic, let me compete with an old bookkeeper...... You still think it's fair to be a father?

"If you don't want to compare, then there's nothing to say! I had the money paid...... Six thousand five hundred taels, more than a month, it was spent until there were only more than three thousand taels left...... You're ......."

In the emperor's tone, if you spend it more slowly, or if the people around you cheat you lightly, maybe I will keep this batch of silver for you.

You're good at it.

An ordinary official, who has been an official for 30 years after being admitted to the Jinshi examination, may not earn more than 6,500 taels of silver in his lifetime, and you will be almost halfway through in just over a month!

Are you embarrassed to say that you keep this amount of silver?

If you don't feel distressed, I still feel distressed!

Although this silver was greedy by Li Guang and Bingkuan was retrieved for me, before giving you two uncles, how could this not be your father's private money?

It's good to give you a chance now, but what more do you want to ask for?

"It's better than that, Erchen still doesn't believe it, so is Chen Kuan settling accounts fast? Erchen has the arithmetic method given by Zhang Zhou, and he will definitely win. Zhu Houzhao is also up now.

There are some things that can't be hidden.

Stretching out the head is a knife, and shrinking the head is also a knife.

Anyway, it's a big deal to lose, and the child doesn't want dignity?

……

……

Chen Kuan was still helping to sort out the household department's notes about Jingcang Jingchu and doing an audit outside the household department, but he was temporarily notified to take the abacus to the Wenhua Hall to face the saint.

Chen Kuan didn't know what to do.

When he arrived in the Wenhua Palace, he saw Zhu Houzhao sitting there with a feather in his hand, glaring at him with an imposing and almost murderous look.

Chen Kuan chuckled in his heart.

I haven't offended the prince recently, why would the prince look at me like this?

"So, I have an arithmetic problem, Prince, don't you make an analogy with the number of barns and grains? That's it, but the number is bigger, if you can calculate faster than Chen Kuan, that batch of silver will be kept for you......"

When the emperor finished speaking.

Chen Kuan knew that he was coming to compete with the prince on behalf of the emperor.

It's more than settling accounts, and his specialty is good.

He didn't figure out the doorway, such an unequal competition, the prince didn't even have an abacus in front of him, he didn't take a brush, he just sat there with something like a goose feather, and then asked me to use the abacus to compare with him......

If this wins...... There is no glory either, and the prince must hate me to the core.

If you lose......

It's impossible to lose.

Why did the emperor set such a strange competition?

Zhu Youzhu said: "Prince, if you lose, don't want to mess around." ”

Zhu Houzhao snorted lightly: "Who does my father look down on? But father, let's also say in the front, if the son accidentally wins, in addition to the three thousand nine hundred taels of silver, you must give something to the son, right? ”

"You ......"

Zhu Youzhu was so angry that his hands were shaking.

How dare this kid bargain with me? Who broke it? Bingkuan?

"Okay, if you win, I won't care about you anymore before the year, you love to learn or not, whatever you want, you want to get out of the palace, don't you? I'll let you out! Just let someone follow you! ”

"It's a word, let's get the question!"

Zhu Houzhao is full of confidence.

This is not only a battle to defend his own small treasury, but also involves a competition of whether to study or be chic and happy in the next 20 days or so, and he cannot be slackened.

Zhu Youzhu said: "One hundred and twenty-six barns, there are two hundred and thirty-three stones of grain in one barn, how much is it in total!" ”

Chen Kuan had already put on a posture.

After hearing this, I remembered that this was a fucking competition.

What's going on with the prince?

Actually wrote it on paper? Shouldn't I hurry?

Abacus multiplication, in fact, is still a variant of sum, which is equivalent to saying that multiplication is calculated in the back, and addition is calculated on the other side of the abacus, which is essentially similar to the law of multiplication...... The end of the abacus is counted separately.

The multiplication of three digits would not have taken much effort if it was replaced by ordinary daily operations.

But the problem is that Chen Kuan is usually used to auditing the numbers on paper, and no one asks him how fast he calculates, but now it is the emperor's verbal question, two three-digit numbers, in such a hasty and tense situation, he may not be able to write them down at one time, and he has to calculate immediately, so he seems constrained.

But when I saw Zhu Houzhao, it seemed that he was flying like a pen.

Because the emperor said that the two multiplicative numbers, he directly used a few Arabic numerals to record, and then immediately began to calculate, without stopping.

What's more, he used a hollow quill pen, which was very useful when writing small characters and Arabic numerals, and this kind of thing that was almost dipped in water fountain pen was also a "gift" given to him by Zhang Zhou, and then ......

He was almost using his life to complete an arithmetic exam.

"It's calculated, twenty-nine thousand three hundred and fifty-eight!"

After Zhu Hou finished the calculation, he immediately raised his hand and told his father the correct answer.

looked sideways at Chen Kuan, but saw that Chen Kuan was still pulling the abacus beads there.

"Huh?"

Zhu Youzhu didn't have any expectations for his son's arithmetic level.

Obviously, how can the son settle accounts faster than the old account Chen Kuan?

When he saw his son shouting out the numbers shortly after the competition began, he frowned even more.

What about Humon?

How can such a short period of time be right?

Even if I don't know how to use an abacus, I can reasonably deduce that you must have miscalculated.

"Good!" Zhu Youzhu didn't deny the result, "Wait! ”

Meaning, since you only seek to be fast and not accurate, then you should be a treasure pressed by Hu Meng, maybe you will be lucky enough to be blinded?

There are about tens of thousands of numbers, you take one, and the rest of the numbers are all mine, and I have almost no chance of losing.

But after a while, Chen Kuan pulled the abacus beads in his hand and raised his head to look at him.

Even Zhu Youzhu felt that Chen Kuan's expression was a little wrong.

"What's going on? How much? Zhu Youzhu asked.

Chen Kuan hesitated and said, "It seems to be ...... Should...... The prince was not mistaken. ”

"What?"

Zhu Youzhi was still sitting there as a referee, and immediately stood up when he heard the words.

Zhu Houzhao sat there and continued to yawn, looking very careless and said: "Chen Kuan, you are too slow to calculate, this palace has already calculated once, and found that this number is correct, you actually finished the first calculation?" If my father hands over the matter of settling accounts to you, it is better to hand it over to the palace, and you deserve this errand. ”

Zhu Youzhu was about to vomit blood when he heard this.

This kid not only won, but he is still talking cool things after winning?! That sharp tooth look, it's really underbeaten.

But what reason did I use to beat him this time?

Zhu Houzhao said: "Father, the question is from you, the competition is carried out at the same time, you personally testify, the son did not rely on others, he relied on his own pen to calculate, and won the beauty, right?" ”

Zhu Youji's face was dark, and he said coldly: "Are you sure it's okay?" ”

Xiao Jing, who was also helping to calculate together, came over and said in a low voice: "Your Majesty, it is indeed ...... this number. ”

"He ......"

Zhu Youzhu originally wanted to say, are you incompetent?

Will it be slower than this kid?

But then I thought about it, when that kid said the number, I didn't believe that he could calculate it so quickly, and besides, Chen Kuan's calculation was not slow, and that kid actually calculated it again after calculating it?

It is equivalent to saying that the kid's calculation speed is twice that of Chen Kuan?

Zhu Youzhu said with a straight face: "Prince, did Zhang Qing's family predict the topic I was going to come up with in advance, gave you the number, and then asked you to say it today?" ”

"Huh?"

The emperor's brain circuit not only made Zhu Houzhao stunned.

Even the eunuchs next to him were so surprised that they couldn't help it.

Your Majesty, you are clever.

Can you think of this kind of reason for denying and not admitting defeat?

Is Zhang Bingkuan really an immortal? Even if it is an immortal, I am afraid that it can only be calculated by the will of heaven, not the human heart, right?

"Father, son...... Don't quite understand, what are you talking about? ”

Zhu Houzhao also looked confused.

"Bring it!"

Zhu Youzhu was still unwilling to admit his failure, and asked the prince to bring the calculation process to him.

Zhu Youzhu saw a formula for calculus on the left and right sides of the paper, although he couldn't understand it, but it still looked like it.

"Prince, don't think that I don't know much about this and can talk nonsense, tell the principle, let Chen Kuan and them refer to it, if it is indeed calculated by you, I will definitely do it without jokes!" Zhu Youzhu said.

Zhu Houzhao was a little impatient.

Just now I told my dad about the meaning of those Arabic numerals, and this time I will not only talk about it again, but also how it was calculated.

He was perfunctory.

"This one is two, this one is six...... If you don't understand, write it down in this palace, and you can check it yourself! ”

"The algorithm is a number on the top and a number on the bottom, and if you count it evenly, you will know the multiplication formula, right? Every 1 in 10...... Do you understand? ”

Chen Kuan said: "Prince, you continue. ”

Zhu Houzhao said: "After the calculation, add up these numbers, add them up and down, you see, is this palace talking nonsense?" Zhang Zhou also calculated it for the palace in advance, is it necessary for him? I really don't know what my father is thinking. ”

Speaking of the back, Zhu Houzhao was complaining.

Zhu Youji's face turned green, but he was still patient and pretended to be like a city government, because he was afraid that his son would think he couldn't afford to lose.

After his son finished speaking, he saw that Chen Kuan and others were there to sum up, and finally used an abacus to calculate......

"How?" Zhu Youzhu was also very curious.

Chen Kuan bowed his head and said, "Your Majesty, the prince is not wrong, he is indeed the prince...... Calculated on the spot, the handwriting can't be faked, numbers or something...... It's not a regular body, but it's ...... One by one, I can correspond to it. ”

When Zhu Youzhu heard this, he wanted to find a crack drill.

Zhu Houzhao smiled: "Father, you don't have any jokes, right?" ”

"Ahem......"

Zhu Youzhu coughed twice.

This time it wasn't a real cough, it was pretending to cough twice to hide the embarrassment in my heart.

Xiao Jing on the side smiled and said: "Your Majesty, this is a good thing, Mr. Zhang is not only superior in heaven and knowledge, but even teaches the prince arithmetic so exquisitely." Mr. Zhang is a low-key person, if it weren't for being found out by His Majesty today, he wouldn't even report the matter in order to gain fame. ”

Seeing that the emperor was unhappy, Xiao Jing of course wanted to coax the emperor.

Zhu Youzhu was very depressed when he lost.

But think again.

It's not that he played to compete with his son, his son won the old tent Chen Kuan in arithmetic, and he still won it under his nose.

The numbers were made up by him on the spot, and the numbers were calculated by his son on the spot, and fairness and justice should not be mixed with any falsehood.

Meddlesome!

Depressed what?

"Huh." Zhu Youzhu said with a smile, "Bingkuan is also, he stayed by the prince's side for ten days, taught him the four books of righteousness, and also taught arithmetic, he is a person with a heart." Prince, I want to learn from him in the future. ”

Zhu Houzhao flattened his mouth: "The sons haven't seen him for a long time!" ”

Zhu Youzhu said helplessly: "Don't worry about the prince, occasionally when he enters the palace, he will let him come over to take a look, you have time to ask him for advice." ”

After speaking, Zhu Youzhu got up to leave.

"Father, don't be in a hurry to leave, what you promised your son...... minister"

Zhu Youzhu originally thought, hurry up, maybe his son will forget?

Forget about yourself and you can pay for it.

But now......

"Am I going to lie to you? Keep the money, but don't tell it to the outside world, especially not to let your mother know about it. The other thing is...... Save some flowers, I have always talked about frugality. Also, when you leave the palace, you will not go to some crowded places, and you are only allowed to leave the palace twice a year ago, and each time you will report three days in advance! ”

"Alas! It's Bingkuan's mistake! ”

While complaining that Zhang Zhou had made him lose, he was laughing there.

Probably speaking, even if I lose this time, I will lose happily.

(End of chapter)