Chapter 117: The Contest (5th Watch)
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As the saying goes, there is no first martial arts, and there will always be no shortage of open and secret battles between scholars at the previous grace banquets. (Please search, the novel is better and faster!) Everyone naturally has their own purpose in doing this, one is to make a table in front of the emperor, so that they can have a good place to go when they are crowned officials later. The second is that the contempt of literati is itself an eternal habit.
It's just that the competition at the Enrong banquet usually starts after everyone is full of wine and food, but there are few people like Li Jixun who challenged someone who was very strict by name before the banquet. You must know that everyone will be officials in the same court in the future, and such a challenge to name people can be said to be a provocation and will be left behind for the holidays.
What is the relationship between Zhu Houzhao and Jiang Xia, he was a little unhappy when he heard that Li Jixun was going to challenge Jiang Xia, but Zhu Houzhao didn't show it, he smiled and looked at Jiang Xia and asked: "Jinke Champion, now that someone is challenging you, do you fight or not?"
Jiang Xia smiled, he looked at Li Jixun and said, "Brother Li is so eager to compete with me, then I naturally have to meet Brother Li's request." It's just that this empty ratio is not interesting, so it's better for me and Brother Li to bet a little bit on the lottery. β
Hearing this, He Yinzin, who was sitting next to Jiang Xia, couldn't help but show a slight smile on the corner of his mouth, and his eyes looking at Li Jixun also had a hint of sympathy. At the beginning, the five talented sons of Xun Literature Society went together to challenge Guozijian, but were finally defeated by Jiang Xia alone. Although He Yinzin did not kneel down at that time, he still remembers the appearance of the other four people who knelt in public and have been slumped since then, if it were not for that competition, the other four people would inevitably come to this grace banquet, but now he is the only one who came, how sad and lamentable.
Li Jixun obviously didn't know that he had come to the edge of a huge pit, and he asked coldly: "What kind of lottery to bet on, you say." β
Jiang Xia thought for a moment, then said with a smile: "Since Brother Li said that I am vulgar, then let's bet a little vulgar." If one of the two of us loses, he will take off his clothes and pants and run around the garden, and he must sing "Perverted Tiger Song" while running. β
"Perverted Tiger Song?" Zhu Houzhao didn't pay attention to the absurdity of the tiyì who took off his clothes and pants and ran around the imperial garden, but became interested in the perverted tiger song in Jiang Xia's mouth, and asked, "How did you sing it?"
Jiang Xia cleared his throat and sang very seriously: "Two tigers, two tigers, in love, in love, both are male, both are male, really perverted, really perverted"
"Poof!" Zhu Houzhao couldn't help laughing out loud after hearing this, he patted the table and said, "Wonderful, wonderful."
"Your Majesty, I'm afraid there's something wrong with Zhuangyuanlang's mention. There are many ladies in the palace in this imperial garden, and if they are seen by the ladies when running, I am afraid that it will be inappropriate for the courtesy. Yang Yiqing said stiffly. Jiang Xia's strange thoughts made Yang Yiqing sweat in his heart, and he secretly said in his heart No wonder this Jiang Xia can be appreciated by the emperor, sure enough, both of them are the kind of people who do not follow the secular etiquette.
After listening to Yang Yiqing's construction, Zhu Houzhao waved his hand indifferently and said: "It's okay, it's okay, I'll let the Jinyi guard guard guard the imperial garden for a while, and don't let those female dependents come in.
Originally, Li Jixun wanted to be sarcastic about Jiang Xia's vulgarity, but now that Zhu Houzhao agreed, Li Jixun naturally didn't have much to say. He could only nod and say, "The student obeys, but the student has a request, that is, the question of the competition is chosen by the student." β
"Huh?" Zhu Houzhao turned his inquiring eyes to Jiang Xia after hearing this, Zhu Houzhao had heard about the five talents of Xun Literature Society being defeated by Jiang Xia alone, so he was very confident in Jiang Xia, but now that he heard Li Jixun ask him to choose the test questions, Zhu Houzhao was a little unstable.
Jiang Xia said nonchalantly: "Okay, it's up to you." β
Li Jixun finally showed a smile on his face that his plan had succeeded, and he laughed and said, "Okay, Jiang Xia, I'll compare the method of counting with you!"
"Mathematics?" Jiang Xia's face suddenly showed an expression of surprise and surprise.
Seeing Jiang Xia's expression, Li Jixun said with a smile: "Do you think I really don't know anything about you? You are wrong, I have investigated you, and I know very well about the defeat of the five talents of the Xun Literature Society at your hands." It's a pity that what you don't know is that my master is Cheng Daming!"
"Cheng Daming?" Hearing this name, Li Dongyang, Jin Gui, Cao Yuan and others were all surprised.
Jiang Xia asked Li Dongyang in a solemn and low voice: "Master, is that Cheng Daming very powerful?"
Li Dongyang also nodded worriedly, and said: "During the Hongzhi period, there was a wealthy businessman named Cheng Daming in Jiangnan, who was not only very good at business, but also had a special study of mathematics. The Jiangnan area called him the 'God of Counting', when he came to Beijing to buy in the fifteenth year of Hongzhi, he once challenged the top ten abacus masters in Beijing, and finally the top ten masters were all defeated in his hands. β
"Li Hanyu's grandson is Li Hanyu's grandson, I didn't expect him to come prepared, and his appearance before was all pretended. Jin Gui sighed in a low voice.
Jiang Xia looked up at Li Jixun and said lightly, "You are so despicable. β
"Hmph! This is called a soldier who does not get tired of deceit, you listen to the rules well. The two of us each have an arithmetic problem for a while, and if you can't solve it, or if I can't solve it, then we will decide whether we win or lose. If both sides can't answer the question, or if both answer correctly, then continue to play the test until the winner is decided. Do you understand the rules?"
Li Jixun was obviously afraid that Zhu Houzhao would regret it for Jiang Xia, so he preemptively said the rules first.
Jiang Xia looked at Li Jixun and said, "The worst thing in my life is mathematics, you actually attack my shortcomings with your strengths, you are so despicable." β
After speaking, Jiang Xia suddenly smiled, and said with a flattering smile: "What, can we discuss it, how about it compared to other projects?" β
"Hmph!" Li Jixun snorted coldly and immediately began to ask the question: "You have listened to the question well, one hundred steamed buns and one hundred monks, and the three big monks are even more indisputable;
"This is" Li Dongyang was startled again, and Jin Gui next to him had already shouted: "One of the three major questions?"
"What are the three major questions?" This time I couldn't help but ask Zhu Houzhao.
Li Dongyang hugged his fists and saluted and replied: "Back to the emperor, this is one of the three problems that Cheng Daming came to Beijing to challenge the top ten abacus masters after he won, and he once said that unless someone can solve the three major problems, it is absolutely impossible for anyone to overcome him." β
"Jiangxia" Zhu Houzhao looked at him worriedly.
Jiang Xia palmed his fingers and stopped Zhu Houzhao from continuing. This action was almost arrogant to the extreme, but no one noticed it at this time, but Zhu Houzhao habitually listened to Jiang Xia's words, and really didn't say anything more.
Jiang Xia looked at Li Jixun coldly, and Li Jixun smiled triumphantly: "How about it? Can you solve it? If you can't solve it, take off your clothes and pants." β
Jiang Xia suddenly laughed out loud, he laughed and said: "Such a simple question is actually used to test me, and the children in the sixth grade of primary school in my hometown can solve such a problem." The answer is that there are twenty-five great monks and seventy-five small monks. β
"Impossible!" Li Jixun looked at Jiang Xia in disbelief, his whole body trembled slightly and said, "You are blind, you tell me the process of solving the problem." β
Jiang Xia smiled coldly.
The meaning of the title is that there are 100 monks who divide 100 steamed buns, and they are just finished. If the big monk divides three steamed buns and the small monk divides one steamed bun for three people, then the big and small monks each have a few people.
Such a question is indeed not difficult for modern people, and the answer can be obtained in many ways. However, for the people of the Ming Dynasty, it is naturally extremely difficult. γ
Jiang Xia opened his mouth and said: "You have listened well to the problem-solving process, the first assumption is that all the hundred people are great monks, then you should eat three hundred steamed buns." In this way, they ate two hundred more, and in this way, there were twenty-five great monks and seventy-five small monks. Such a simple question actually came to test me. β
Jiang Xia smiled slightly: "Now it's my turn to test you." β
Li Jixun suddenly felt uneasy in his heart, and he felt that he might have dug a pit for himself to jump.
Jiang Xia said: "You also heard clearly, three people live in the inn, and one person pays ten yuan for a total of thirty yuan to the second shopkeeper." When the shopkeeper gave the money to the boss, the boss said that there would be a discount that night, and only the guest would be charged 25 yuan, and the shopkeeper would return the 5 yuan to the customer.
When the shopkeeper took the money and went back, he swallowed two pennies privately, and then refunded the guests one penny each. So now the question arises. The three guests each paid ten yuan, and then got the returned one penny, that is, each person paid nine yuan, a total of twenty-seven yuan, and then added the shopkeeper to swallow two yuan, which was only twenty-nine yuan. Where did the penny go?"
Everyone in the Yulin Garden listened with relish, and even Jin Gui couldn't help but ask after listening to it: "Yes, where did the penny go?"
Jiang Xia looked up at Li Jixun and said with a faint smile: "This is going to ask our Tanhualang." He also said that his master was the god of counting, but unfortunately I forgot to tell you, there are many teachers who taught me the way of mathematics. When I was young, my teacher was a ninety-nine multiplication table, then a square root, and then calculus, and I can only say that in my hometown it was at most an eight-year-old child. β
"Impossible, impossible" Li Jixun looked at Jiang Xia in a daze, he couldn't figure out where the rest of the money went. Li Jixun knew that he had lost, and in despair, he finally couldn't help but squirt a mouthful of blood, and then fainted to the ground.
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