In the huge Fengtian Hall, it seemed that the only sounds were people's breathing and heartbeats.
When many people heard that Zhang Shou and Lu Sanlang were chosen by the emperor to attend the court meeting, they all planned to take advantage of this opportunity to make trouble. Pioneers like Zhao Shilang and Chen Zhushi also jumped out and made their own powerful speeches. Those who did not catch up in time naturally beat their chests and stamped their feet, feeling that they had missed a great opportunity to become famous.
But at this moment, those who had regretted before were all thankful for their caution! Look at Master Chen, his pale face was like a dead person, words once spoken could be spilled, and this was in front of the emperor, there was no chance for him to deny his debt!
Even Weinan Earl Zhang Kang himself was surprised when he saw that the emperor did not take anything out of the box, but ordered Chu Kuan to get a pair of gloves. Even though he thought Zhang Shou had a great chance of unlocking the box, he did not expect it to be so fast and successful in one go! In the silence all around him, he suddenly heard a harsh voice and was immediately furious.
"Your Majesty, how do you know that this is not a conspiracy between the Earl of Weinan and Zhang Shou's students to replace the box..."
The emperor noticed that it was Minister Zhao of the Ministry of War who was speaking, so he interrupted nonchalantly, "You probably don't know that when I was a child, the late emperor gave me this box as a toy, probably hoping that a naughty boy like me could open it by fiddling with it. Unfortunately, I fiddled with it from the age of five until the late emperor passed away when I was eight, a full three years, and I never opened the box."
At this point, a hint of sarcasm appeared on his lips. "So, I know the patterns, shapes, and even scratches of this box very well, because Weinan Bo must have regarded this thing as a treasure and would mess with it casually, just like me, the naughty boy in the palace back then. So, I don't want to hear the word "switch" again, because it means that I am blind."
Minister Zhao blushed and dared not say another word. Meanwhile, Director Chen was even more confused and at a loss, standing there alone, as if he would faint in the next moment.
However, Lu Sanlang looked at those guys who just jumped out to accuse them of being a teacher and a student with a haughty look on his face. While Chu Kuan was still not back, he said sincerely, "Your Majesty, the reason we were able to unlock this box this time was because of the idea proposed by the teacher and the principle he explained to everyone. I led the other people in Jiuzhang Hall to check and calculate over and over again, and completed the first half..."
As Lu Sanlang spoke, he raised his head and glanced proudly at the officials around him, talking endlessly about the principles that were not that complicated in fact: "Teacher believes that this fourteen-ring text lock may be a very simple shifting process of the poem, shifting the original text backward or forward in the Thousand Character Classic according to a certain rule, and finally forming the shifted ciphertext. What we need to do is to find the corresponding mapping relationship..."
However, the simplicity in his eyes sounded like a mystery to those who had never heard of it. They understood displacement, but what on earth was mapping? Especially when various terms that had never been heard of began to appear later, although some people could pretend to understand without showing their emotions, there were still more people who were very honest and confused.