The warship is still floating in the sea. ,
But something big happened in Yangzhou, that is the first exam of Yangzhou Academy, which is also a graduation assessment, and those scholars who have studied from Yangzhou Academy are about to start to become officials. These students who entered the Yangzhou Academy were originally very talented people, but some testimonial experiences in Yangzhou were different, and some were still studying in the academy because they were young.
Now after more than a year of study, these students can finally graduate from teachers and enter official careers.
There are also those hot scholars from outside. If you want to enter the Six Departments of Yangzhou, if you can, then go to the exam.
Of course, Liu Wei will not give them high positions directly. If you want an official position, you can take the exam. If you can withstand the exam, then you will enter the official career. As a small official in the middle school, he went to the grassroots to stay for a few years, and he was promoted naturally with experience.
"Brother Chen, how did you do in the exam!" A student came out of the exam room and asked another student next to him. These two are not students from Yangzhou Academy. They came from Jiangdong. Examination officials, as long as you have the ability to pass the exam, then you will enter the official career, not according to your family background.
None of these scholars are willing to admit that they are inferior to others. More scholars have a feeling that I am the best in the world. It is not that I cannot be a high-ranking official, but that I have this ability, but you This ruler is stupid and can't see Lao Tzu's talent, or those gentry occupy the latrines and don't shit, they are clearly incompetent but occupy official positions because of their family background, which prevents us from entering official careers.
But Yangzhou is different. It even depends on the exam! The exam is really no stranger to this thing. China has been taking exams for five thousand years. It was only after the Sui and Tang Dynasties that it became truly large-scale. At other times, for example, when the elder sees the younger generation, he smiles kindly and says, I will test you, little baby, or a few students get together, you test my knowledge, and I test your other things.
And Liu Mang's Yangzhou is just that the things that were hundreds of years later were brought forward.
"I did the first six questions, but I really don't understand the seventh, eighth, ninth, and tenth questions!" Brother Chen shook his head and said. The seventh question: nine hundred and ninety-nine coins, one thousand for seasonal pears. There are nine pears at eleven pennies, and seven fruits cost four pennies. How much is the pear fruit
Brother Chen couldn't figure it out even if he wanted to die, but he wrote down the previous topics. For example, there are a hundred people in a phalanx in the army. There are twelve phalanxes with a total number of people. Brother Chen thought about it for a long time. It was written that there were 1,200 people.
The seventh question will not work.
"That's right! After the seventh question, I don't understand at all, and I haven't been able to write a few of them before!" The other scholar also shook his head.
The seven or ten questions are in addition to the seventh question above. There is also the eighth question. Looking at the seventh floor of the towering tower, the red light is doubling. A total of three hundred and eighty-one lights. May I ask how many lights are on the tip? "
The ninth question is that the number of chickens and rabbits in the same cage is unknown, and thirty-six heads are exposed in the cage. Count fifty pairs of feet, how many chickens and rabbits there are.
The tenth question is that the bamboo is one foot high, and the end is folded to the ground, and it is three feet away from the original, how tall is the bamboo.
These questions are completely like a bible for these scholars, and they have nowhere to write.
During the discussion among these students, several carriages came from outside Shouchun City, and the word Qiao was written on the carriages, indicating that this was the carriage of the Qiao family.
"Master Shouchun City is here!" A groom outside the carriage shouted to the master inside the carriage.
"En!" The master in the carriage responded with a voice of approval.
Shouchun was full of people, and the people who came and went were common people and students. Compared with the previous few years, where there were no people living in hundreds of miles, and thousands of miles were desolate, the whole thing changed, and the city of Shouchun became larger than before. Those huge city walls have changed from stone blocks to the current cement and iron pillars. The height of the city has also changed from a dozen meters at the beginning to more than 20 meters now. It can be said that ordinary ladders are simply Don't even think about touching the edge of this city, if there is another scene where Liu Bei attacks Shouchun, there is no need to fight back in this Shouchun city, just close the city gate, then Liu Bei will be caught blind, such a high ladder is so high!
"Master, we need to get out of the carriage!" The carriage continued.
"Get out of the car?" The old man in the carriage obviously frowned, with a displeased tone, "Why did you get out of the car before you reached the gate of the mansion? Is this Shouchun City different from other places!"
"Master, in the past, of course you don't want to get out of the carriage, but these days are different!" The groom patiently explained to the old man in the carriage, because the people in the carriage were of noble status.
"What's the difference?" The old man was a little interested.
"These few days, it's the big exam in Yangzhou. Horse-drawn carriages are not allowed to walk on the road in Shouchun City, so as not to hit the students, so all the carriages must enter through the north gate uniformly, and they must be led or left outside the city! "The carriage said to the master in the carriage. Just like the college entrance examination in the previous life, Liu Mang also gave these students who came to Yangzhou to take the college entrance examination a preferential treatment, that is, as long as you get the qualification for the college entrance examination, you can live in Shouchun In a unified house, food will also be delivered to you by a dedicated person. The main thing you need is to do well in the exams. Of course, the master's place is naturally a big dormitory, and the meals that everyone eats are also big pots. These are all prepared for the children of poor families, because some children of poor families are really poor, and may run out of money in Shouchun. You can't let people sleep in the wild hungry.
If you don't like these big pot meals canteens and dormitories, you have money and you will naturally have good hotels for you to live in. There are all kinds of consumption, as long as you can afford it, you can even find two beautiful girls to sing and dance for you every day.
"Yangzhou University Examination?" The old man asked suspiciously.
"Yes! This is the kindness of our King Shu. Give everyone a chance. As long as you have the ability, you can take the test. If you pass the test, you will naturally fly to the branch and become an official!" This The carriage is not without envy. Used to be an official. Those are all limited, and they are all the children of the gentry. If your father is the prefect, you will go to be the county magistrate, and after your father dies, you will be promoted to be the prefect. It has been different since Liu Mang came to Yangzhou.
Your father is the prefect. If you are more knowledgeable than your father, then it is no problem for you to be admitted to the Six Departments as a servant. If you are not learned, your father is also the current Shangshu.
"Big head of our family, after I go back this time, I will let that kid go to school to study, not for anything else but to be a public servant!" Liu Wei changed the name of the small official, called the public servant, to serve the people People don't need to worship when they see service, so these petty officials are also called not worshiping officials.
"Is there no limit? Anyone can take the test?" The old man frowned. Such a little groom actually wanted his son to be an official, which would have been impossible in the past. One class, one thought, just like those poor ordinary people, who actually thought that if they wanted to be emperors, they would eat big pies filled with fat meat broth, and eat as much as they could in one sitting
How can the emperor eat big cakes, unless the dynasty is almost done and the emperor is worthless, otherwise, whoever is the emperor is not a good dish on the table, and the full banquet of Man and Han is extravagant from it.
But now a groom, such a commoner who obviously belonged to the lower class, actually had the idea of becoming an official, which made the old man frown.
"Yes! As long as you study well and are old enough, you will have the opportunity to take the exam!" The groom nodded. Liu Wei's restriction for those students is that as long as you reach the age of eighteen, you can take the exam. Mang will not use child labor.
"Nonsense!" The old man couldn't help snorting after getting an affirmative answer.
"Master, I'll call you a jiaozi!" The carriage said to the old man. Liu Mang has restricted the carriage for the past few days and will naturally consider that some people with mobility problems may be inconvenient, so there is a jiaozi, You can be a spoiled child in the city.
"No need!" The old man shook his head, "I'm not that old yet, so I just take two steps!" The old man got off the carriage and walked into Shouchun, the number one city in Yangzhou.
The degree of prosperity in Shouchun really made the old man nod his head, those shops, those people coming and going, and the smiles on those people's faces don't look fake, this kid It seems that he really has some skills. The old man Shouchun has been here more than once, because his hometown used to be in Lujiang, which is very close to Shouchun. In the past, Shouchun was not so lively when it was at its peak, not to mention it became like that later. It is really not easy to build such a bustling city from the ruins. The old man couldn't help but nodded again.
The old man walked for a long time, and when he heard the students who had just taken the final exam came out to chat, he stopped and listened to the chat of these students.
"Bamboo is one foot high, and the end is folded to the ground. If you go to the original three feet, how tall is the bamboo?" The old man thought about this question, and it really made the old man figure it out, that is about 4 feet five, because the old man used to use such a A triangle has been woven out of bamboo, but the old man really doesn't know about other problems.
"Brother Chen, could it be that His Highness the King of Shu made up these topics just to fool me and other poor students?" Someone questioned, because a group of students from Jiangdong exchanged ideas with each other. Fan, basically no one can solve the following problems, even if there are a few clever people who get bamboo and rulers, and measure the length geometry by directly creating the triangle, the other problems are serious. Just caught blind.
"No!" Although this Brother Chen said he would not, but he did use a skeptical tone because they are all children from Jiangdong's poor family. There are really many talented people in these poor families, but, They also failed to answer the question. Originally, everyone had a tentative attitude towards the so-called big test of His Royal Highness Liu Mang. Everyone's ideas are still at the stage where only nobles can become officials. It will not be the King of Shu. His Highness coaxed their humble students to play.
The old man next to him also thought the same way. Is this His Highness the King of Shu just a lip service? The old man hated Shu Wang Liu Mang more and more.
While these Jiangdong students were chattering and discussing non-stop, some people even proposed to go to the Prince of Shu's Mansion to protest and coax them, these humble children.
But it was interrupted by a mocking laugh from a white-clothed scholar on a nearby table.
"Brother, what are you laughing at!" These humble children could still hear it. What a malicious smile. What a mocking smile. In addition to this, the white-clothed scholar is wearing fine silk clothes. This should be a son of a gentry, that is, the so-called second generation of officials. These ordinary people will naturally oppose these second generations of officials.
"Me! I didn't laugh at anything!" The white-clothed scholar didn't want to offend people for nothing, just because he couldn't bear it just now. But based on the possibility that one thing more is worse than one thing less, the white-clothed scholar didn't want to cause trouble.
"Hmph! Laughing is just laughing. I can't argue. In my opinion, this person is as hypocritical as the king of Shu, Liu Mang. He's lying to us humble children." The one on the side basically didn't answer. A poor student with a few questions yelled out when he knew that he might have no hope of becoming an official.
"Brother Zhang, be careful! This is Yangzhou!" Someone reminded this brother Zhang, after all, this is the home court of His Highness the King of Shu. You are not courting death by scolding His Highness the King of Shu.
"Me!" Brother Zhang was flustered at first, but he was afraid of being ashamed when he saw that all the poor children were looking at him. You must know that although these poor family children are not born well, they have arrogance. "What are you afraid of! This His Highness King Shu is a liar!"
"You are not allowed to say His Highness the King of Shu!" The white-clothed scholar was also annoyed. He might not care if this poor boy insulted him, but once it comes to that person. The white-clothed scholar was angry.
"What's the matter, did I talk about the pain?" The poor boy became more and more proud, "Your gentry and that Shu king Liu Mang are in the same group. If you don't let us enter the official career, don't let us go. Why lie to us!" Brother Zhang immediately transformed into a representative figure of tens of thousands of gentry children.
"Exactly! Don't let us be officials if you don't want to, why lie to people!" Someone took the lead, and naturally someone behind him made a fuss.
"Hehe, who said that His Royal Highness the King of Shu does not allow the poor family's children to enter the official career? Do you know who our Yangzhou internal minister is?" The white-clothed scholar looked at the Jiangdong students below with a sneer and said.
They naturally know who the inner minister of Yangzhou is, isn't it Xu Shu and Xu Yuanzhi.
"Then do you know that Xu Neixiang was a ranger before, because he knew the benefits of learning, so he worshiped Lord Pang De of Lumen Academy as his teacher, and after he graduated from the teacher, he joined me in Yangzhou and became the inner minister!" The white-clothed scholar said in words. .
The ranger Xu Shu was called a ranger in ancient times, but in modern times he is a gangster. The ancient ranger was moral, and now the gangster is also loyal. How can you say that a gangster is a gentry? The ranger is not a concept.
Xu Shu, the head of Yangzhou's civil servants, was given such an example, and naturally it was hard for each of them to speak. Even one by one is still nodding.
"What's wrong with Neixiang Xu! Maybe it's just an individual. That Neixiang Xu is still a disciple of Pang Degong. Maybe Liu Mang, the king of Shu, let Xu Shu be the internal minister because of Pang Degong's face. We are not Pang Degong's disciples. It’s not that a teacher from a famous family has such a good life!” Brother Zhang gave another reason, that is, Xu Shu has a good teacher, but we don’t.
"I think you can't eat grapes and say grapes are sour!" The white-clothed scholar sneered, envious of others is not unavoidable, but once envy turns into jealousy, it is the original sin.
"Don't you guys want to say that His Royal Highness the King of Shu is deliberately embarrassing you for the questions of these big exams? Okay, then I will answer for you. What if I tell you the answer?" The white-clothed scholar sneered at the crowd and said, He came out and walked up to Brother Zhang.
"It's her? No, it's impossible. Isn't she dead? It's not her! It's him." The white-clothed scholar didn't notice that there was an old man outside looking at the white-clothed scholar's face, and he was stunned. Looking at the white-clothed scholar, "How can there be such similar faces in the world? Impossible, impossible!"
"If you can tell, then I will hang myself here, and apologize to His Highness the King of Shu!" This brother Zhang is also ruthless.
"Hehe, you don't need to hang yourself. You just need to kneel on this road and kowtow three times in the direction of His Royal Highness Shu's mansion, and say loudly that I was wrong!" The white scholar shook his head. It's not for playing to judge human life.
"Okay!" This brother Zhang quickly agreed, he thought that Liu Mang, king of Shu, used those things to embarrass them, the humble children. The purpose is to dispel their thoughts of entering the official career. And gained a good reputation,
"You said that you can't solve the seventh to tenth questions. I will start with the simplest ninth question!" The white-clothed scholar stood up. Lu. Count fifty pairs of feet. How many chickens and rabbits are there? Yes!"
The Jiangdong humble students over there nodded.
"Then listen carefully, the answer to this question is that there are fourteen rabbits and twenty-two chickens!" Seeing that the white-clothed scholar gave the answer so quickly, the people over there were stunned. Really have an answer
"You're lying, you just say a number is the answer?" Brother Zhang over there yelled loudly.
yes! The people around were all nodding, maybe the white-clothed scholar didn't just say a number. Everyone can't verify the shock.
"Hehe, I think you will never die until you reach the Yellow River. Okay, then I will let you die!" The white-clothed scholar was really angry. 36*4=144 feet, and now there are only 100 feet. The rabbit needs to be removed. If one rabbit is replaced with a chicken, 2 feet will be reduced. Now 44 feet need to be reduced. 442=22 rabbits need to be replaced with chickens , so there are 22 chickens. 12 rabbits;"
The white-clothed scholar uttered a bunch of numbers, which made the following group of poor children look bewildered.
"What hypothetical method, you are still fooling people!" Brother Zhang shouted again, what they don't understand is that the fake is the liar.
"I know you don't understand!" The white-clothed scholar had already prepared, "Then I'll give you a simpler one! The half-way method. All chickens are: the golden rooster is independent, and all rabbits lift their two front feet, so there are 50 feet on the ground. , Among the feet on the ground, each rabbit has 2 feet, which is one more than the number of heads. Each chicken has only one foot on the ground, and there are 36 heads. If there is one head and one foot on the ground, there are 36 feet on the ground. Now there 50 feet are on the ground, only rabbits are more than the head, and each rabbit has one more foot on the ground, so there are 14 rabbits, and 22 chickens are obtained;”
There is still a group of bewildered people below.
"I still don't understand! Then I'm listening, I'm tired of talking to you, and everyone still wants to be an official, and they don't even know the basics." The white-clothed scholar became more and more disdainful, and the people below began to believe it. Yes, although they still don't understand. But because even if you make up all of them by yourself, it is also a skill to be able to make up two numbers that are the same.
"Everyone here has Orion!" The white-clothed scholar shouted to a group of onlookers below.
"Yes, yes!" Shouchun Dakao, in addition to food, also needs some game meat, so Orion is also supplying goods for restaurants in the city, so Orion is naturally there.
"Okay! Brother, let me ask you that there are thirty-six heads in total. If you cut off two of the four legs of all the rabbits, how many legs are there in total?"
"Thirty-six, one, two, three, four, five, six," the hunter counted the fingers for a long time, and then said to the white-clothed scholar above with a simple and honest smile, "a total of seventy-two fingers." foot!"
"That's right! There are a total of seventy-two feet, but now there are one hundred feet, which means that we have hidden 28 feet. These 28 feet are the two feet of the rabbit we cut off. If a rabbit has two feet cut off, then the total is half of twenty-eight. For fourteen rabbits, if the rabbit's feet are removed, there are forty-four feet left. A chicken has two legs, so it is twenty-eight Two!"
The white-clothed scholar didn't say a word, and the face of the brother Zhang below turned pale, and after speaking, his face turned ashen, and he knew that he was destined to lose.
"As for other topics, the seller of pears uses the binary one-time method. Let the number of pears be x and the number of fruits be y, and according to the poetic knowledge: the price of each pear is 119 coins, and the price of each fruit is 47 coins. Then The binary equation can be listed: 119x+47y=999 x+y=1000 pear price The total price of pears is 119x657=803 (text), and the total price of fruit is 47x343=197 (text)"
"The height of that bamboo is 4.55 feet using the Pythagorean theorem."
The people below and those gentry have opened their eyes. What is the method of eating two Yuanxiao at a time, and what is the dog bone theorem, which everyone has never heard of before.
"4.55 feet!" The old man was also thinking. He originally thought it was 4.5 feet. Although the difference is not too big, he still got the wrong answer in the end. He didn't expect that Qiao Xuan would be educated.
It's just whether he is her, or not her? Looking at the white-clothed scholar on the stage, the old man couldn't help but look kindly. (to be continued..)