The magnificent Prime Minister's Mansion is extremely simple in furnishings.

In a room, a wooden room, a coarse cloth quilt, a round and smooth wooden pillow, the old man on the bed sleeps on the round wooden pillow, the sun shines on the bed, the old man seems to be dead.

"It's all Qin Xianao's fault, Sima Xiangye hasn't slept for several days since he answered those two questions. ”

Gently footsteps fell into the room, and the old servant Sima Guang sighed softly in his heart as he looked at Sima Guang, who was sleeping very soundly.

At this time, Sima Guang suddenly moved on the bed, the round wooden pillow rolled, and Sima Guang's head fell.

"Huh?"

A pair of eyes opened suddenly, and he could see that Sima Guang's eyes were full of bloodshots, and Sima Guang sat up directly from the bed.

"Xiangye, you have just fallen asleep, why are you ......," the old servant said distressedly. Sima Guang smiled: "My intention to use this round wooden pillow is that once I wake up, I must get up and work hard, since I was a child, now it has been decades, how can I be an exception?"

"But you haven't slept for three days and three nights for these two questions, and now you've just slept, and you're ......."

"The people are eager to see through it, fearing that many of them have already set up the wine and steamed the meat, and are waiting for the good news. Sima Le shook his head with a smile and walked to the study, "The people want to wear it, Sun Yunzhong lives like a year, how can I, Sima Guang, not care?"

Lao Chongtou frowned, and stopped talking.

"Say, what else can't be said between you and me?" Sima Guang said with a smile.

"Xiangye, these two questions, are they really so difficult?" Lao Chong's face was full of doubts, he had served Sima Guang all his life, and he knew Sima Guang's wisdom very well, in his opinion, there was nothing in the world that Sima Guang could not solve.

"It's a bit difficult. Sima Guang smiled slightly, his eyes showing confidence. "However, I have already found an idea to solve the problem, and I believe that the results will be available soon. ”

The old servant was overjoyed, he often wandered around the market, and naturally knew very well that the people were indeed ready to celebrate the absence of taxes in the world, as Sima Guang said. All eyes looked at the palace, at the official list posting, at Prime Minister Sima's Mansion, at Prime Minister Lu's Mansion, and at Prime Minister Wen's Mansion......

Even when Lao Chongtou went out in the past two days, he was a little scared, because as soon as he went out, he met someone who was slightly familiar, and as soon as he opened his mouth, he asked how the answers to the two questions were.

Lao Chongtou smiled every time and replied that this matter was a secret of Sima Xiangye and the imperial court. I don't care about it, and when I don't know it, looking at the disappointment in the eyes of those relatives, friends and neighbors, Lao Chongtou feels very suffocated.

Seeing the overjoyed appearance of the old chongtou, Sima Guang smiled again: "Don't be happy too early, let alone publicize it everywhere, after all, this kind of thing will not come out until the final answer comes out." It can always be wrong. ”

"Yes, yes!" the old man nodded. Although Sima Guang is right, Lao Chongtou also admits that this kind of thing is true, but Lao Chongtou never believes that these two simple geometric arithmetic problems can really stump Sima Guang.

"Actually, Xiangye didn't have to work so hard. The old servant sighed.

"Although everyone is working hard, if you can do your part, you still have to do more. After all, public opinion cannot afford to delay. Sima Guang smiled and sighed, because of this incident, the Queen Mother was high, and Zhezong also realized the importance, so the prime minister who had never been in the Song Dynasty did not go to court. It happened in the past few days, and in the entire court, Gao Taotao and Zhezong specially gave Sima Guang, Lu Gongshu, Wen Yanbo, Han Zhongyan, Lu Dafang, and Zeng Bu...... Wait for the cattle people to take a holiday, so that they will not use the court to go to court until they have overcome the two problems.

"By the way, how many days has it been?"

"Xiangye, since you studied these two topics, today is the release of a new newspaper. ”

"The new newspaper is coming out, go buy a copy, we have been working on it for so many days, but we haven't solved a single problem, this Qin Xianao has never been a safe master, this time I'm afraid it is indispensable to be cynical and play famous. ”

"I'll go. The old servant Lian turned to leave, and Sima Guanglian entered the study.

"...... along these lines"

Sima Photovoltaic in the study thought about it, and after sleeping for a while, he felt that his brain was extremely clear, and it was easy to grasp the key, and then continued to deduce, suddenly-

"That's not right!"

"According to this reasoning, this principle is not right......"

"I'm mistaken, that's wrong!"

A drop of sweat trickled down Sima Guang's forehead, and Sima Guang carefully deduced it again, but it was still wrong. Boom! Sima Guang's head went blank.

"How can this be? ”

……

Time passes.

The old servant who bought the newspaper walked quickly to Sima Guang's study, pushed open the door, and as soon as his eyes fell on Sima Guang, his pupils shrank, and at this moment Sima Guang's face was so pale that there was no trace of blood, his eyes stared ahead in disregard, without a trace of focus, and his lips trembled slightly, compared with the morning, it seemed that he was dozens of years old all of a sudden.

"Xiangye, what's wrong with you?" the old servant's voice trembled, and he rushed to Sima Guang with an exclamation.

"It's fine. Sima Guang's eyes moved slightly, the corners of his mouth barely turned up, and he smiled, "It's nothing, is the newspaper here?"

"Here, sir, what are you...... Isn't something wrong?" the old servant asked unrelentingly.

Sima Guang was slightly silent.

"Earlier I said that there was hope for solving the problem, but I just ...... I just found out that the idea was wrong. Sima Guang's low voice sounded.

"Wrong?"

The old servant glared, even hiding the loss in his heart, and said with a smile, "If it's wrong, it's wrong, didn't you say it before, this kind of thing may go wrong if the final answer comes out, besides, this answer is not only borne by you, Young Master Kang and so many people under your door are studying, as well as Lu Xiangye, Sun Xiangye, Mr. Yichuan, you don't have to care too much, there is always someone who can solve it." ”

"yes, it will come out, and it will take a little more time at most. Sima Guang's face was a little more bloody, and he took the newspaper from Lao Chongtou's hand and opened it.

"There is no noble or inferior theory"

Five eye-catching characters appeared on the front page, and Sima Guang's eyes were condensed on it.

"Is there no value in learning?"

Sima Guang frowned, swept the next line, and sure enough: "Author: Qin Xianao." Five small words appear before the text, followed by:

"The study of crops, Confucius is ashamed. From a Confucian point of view, the world is alive. It is nothing more than a farmer and a businessman, these four types of people, with the status of the scholar as the most respected, followed by the farmer, the craftsman, and the worst businessman who resells for profit. ”

"The study of crops. Confucius was ashamed of the peasant's learning, let alone the study of industry and commerce......"

"I threw out geometry, and Sun Xianggong denounced it as a cheap study, and vigorously attacked ......"

"There is even a court that the imperial court has announced to the world with the holy decree of the emperor, saying that I bought dog bones with my daughter, and reprimanded me for not distinguishing between high and low, and reversing good and evil......"

"But is that really the case?"

……

This article continues the noble and lowly view of learning in the "Answering the Official List Article", but it is different from that one. That article only refutes Sun Gu's belief that geometry is a cheap study, while this article focuses on narrative learning that does not distinguish between high and low, and believes that all learning is a priceless treasure. The "Answering the Official List Article" also believes that the study that endangers society is cheap learning, but this article completely discards the so-called concept of cheap learning and puts forward the theory that learning is harmless.

"When the knife is held in the hand, it can kill and save people. It can also cut vegetables and sawn wood, and learn from people. The same is true. ”

"The study of the books of the sages is like the clothing of a man, which is indispensable. The learning of craftsmen, such as water valley rice, is even more indispensable......"

……

Sima Guang's face was ugly again.

Don't dress, dress less. For people, it is just a miserable life and easy to get sick, but food is a necessity, although the title of this article is not noble or cheap. But this kind of metaphor is to compare the truth in the book of the sages to be dispensable, and the learning of craftsmen is essential.

"Not bad!

Sima Guangqi laughed back.

Although the Qin Dynasty did not depreciate the study of sages and sages, Sima Guang understood that such a metaphor was more confusing and dangerous.

As soon as the article "The Theory of No Noble and Cheap Dao" was published, it immediately resonated with countless people, especially the lower-class people.

"Dig wells for water, build dams to store water, soak manure and accumulate fertilizer, cultivate seeds, graft and plant...... It is indeed essential, without these, it is difficult to survive, why is it cheap to learn?"

"The book of sages is just clothing, but the learning of the grain craftsman is the hands and feet, the clothes can be discarded, the hands and feet cannot be broken, well, that's it!"

"Qin Xian Ao Gongzi said, before the discovery of the five grains, there was not much difference between people and beasts, but after discovering the cultivation of grains, domesticating livestock, knowing how to make fires and barbecue food, making clothes to keep out the cold, and building houses to live, life became better step by step. ”

"What kind of craftsmen are cheap to learn, they all read such sage books to become officials, no wonder my Great Song Dynasty is not good. ”

"It is said that the learning of craftsmen and farmers is cheap and easy to learn, and three-year-old children can solve it, why don't you see the answer?"

……

The people's discussion and expectation that Sima Guang, Lu Gongzhu, Sun Gu and others had no time to be too scrupulous, and most of the readers were immersed in the two questions.

In the blink of an eye, it was another cycle, the new newspaper came out again, in this issue of the newspaper, Qin Xianao published an article "Don't worry, take your time!", the words are gentle, the words are serious everywhere, a kind persuasion Sun Gu and others, calm down and solve the problem, he Qin Xianao has time to wait.

This article is once again popular.

Fools can see the irony of this article.

Luoyang Newspaper.

"Mr. Yin, Mr. Zhang, this is today's manuscript. ”

"Put it there, huh?" Yin Chun and Zhang Yi looked at the letters that came to their hands, one of which was wrapped in a huge package.

"What manuscript uses so much paper?" Yin Chunlian selected the one from the letter, opened it, Zhang Yi also walked over, and the two took out the letter paper inside, and then their pupils dilated.

On the first piece of paper, it reads: "Four-color question answer!" in six large characters.

"Someone has an answer?"

"Really solved?"

Yin Chun and Zhang Yi's faces turned pale.

"Impossible, impossible!"

"The teacher said that no one can solve this problem!"

Yin Chun trembled slightly and turned the first page with his hand, beautiful European letters, dense, neat, and neat, and seemed to have a good feeling, and the content, the two of them have also solved the four colors and prime numbers, so it is naturally easy to understand, and everything at the beginning is no problem.

Time passed, and while flipping through it, the two of them deduced at the same time.

"It seems like that's the case. ”

"Yes, that's how it should be here......"

This proved that neither of them could be completely sure, but there generally did not seem to be anything wrong or logically wrong, and the two watched cautiously, and gradually the whole argument ended, and everything was perfect from the words on paper.

"Let's go!"

"Go find the teacher!" the two frantically rushed out of the room. (To be continued......)