The emperor brought a group of ministers to watch the whole experiment, and then irresponsibly threw two princes who had just reached the age of enlightenment and a bunch of bad boys to Zhang Shou. Then he bid farewell to his respected teacher Ge Yong in high spirits and left Ge's house with a bunch of people. As for the plaque with the water stains wiped off, it was handed over to Zhou Xun, the chief priest of the Imperial College.
As for the Da Sicheng, who had suffered a lot because of this plaque and was now shocked to hear that there was indeed a hollow secret space in the plaque, the emperor just let it go and didn't care how troubled he would be afterwards.
However, some people stayed. Ge Yong's old friend and mortal enemy Chu Ying and Qi Jingshan did not leave. And Wang Jie, the governor of Shuntian Prefecture, even used the excuse of asking Mr. Ge for advice and stayed in the Ge Mansion.
However, what surprised Zhang Shou was that the Minister of War Lu Wan was originally walking at the end, and Zhu Ying took advantage of the opportunity to suddenly step forward and stop him, and he actually stayed!
Ge Yong originally planned to keep Zhang Shou to discuss the terminology manual issue. God knows that he has become the most famous person in the bookstore in recent days, but he didn't know about any of them in advance. He always realized it afterward. Now he plans to print a book to restore his reputation. Therefore, he can't help but feel that it's too annoying to have so many people gather together.
Especially a parasite like Lu Wan who is single-minded in rising to the top is not welcome at all. Even if Qi Jingshan, Chu Ying and Wang Datou stayed, he just treated them as objects of bragging - for someone like Lu Wan who doesn't understand those terms at all, bragging to them is like talking to a cow!
Therefore, he simply didn't bother to care about what Zhu Ying had done by intercepting the man. He ordered a mute servant to go back to the study and fetch the compiled terminology manual. Then he said proudly, "You are in for a treat. This is a simplified terminology manual that my last disciple Zhang Shou and I worked on together. It changes all the difficult terms in the mathematical classics into easy-to-understand words."
Chu Ying immediately sneered out of habit: "You and Zhang Shou worked together to come up with this? You were an old fellow who didn't even want to use Arabic numerals back then, when did you become so trendy? Everyone knows that you have always been saying that fools are not qualified to learn arithmetic!"
"What's wrong with me being trendy? There are too many fools in this world. Even the Nine Chapters on the Mathematical Art is incomprehensible to many people. If things go on like this, mathematics will be studied by only a few old men like us. Is that interesting? You can catch more fish only if you cast a wide net. You don't even understand this. You are old and confused!"
Zhu Ying, who was classified as a fool, pouted her lips immediately, and then thought fiercely that even if it was just to have something to talk about with Zhang Shou in the future, she had to brush up on her knowledge.
As for Lu Wan, who was classified as a fool, his face almost twitched, and he once again recalled the time when Zhang Shou explained something but he didn't understand it at all. That was so embarrassing!
Qi Jingshan ignored the two old friends who were arguing, and stood aside quietly reading one of the volumes. Wang Jie, the governor of Shuntian Prefecture, who was also well-versed in mathematics, held the book in his hand, but called Zhang Shou aside.
"There is something I didn't have time to tell you before." Wang Jie's big face had a very calm expression, as if he was talking about something insignificant. "I didn't tell the truth about the letter you deciphered at the court meeting. Instead, I slightly changed a few words and disguised it as an insignificant letter among the thirteen letters."