Although Zhu Tingfang glared at Zhu Ying angrily, Miss Zhu was not frightened, so his glare had no effect at all. Not only did she ignore Zhu Tingfang's glare, but Zhu Ying even ran to the emperor's side and complained in annoyance that the emperor should not use the excuse of a headache to call Chen Yuanshi from the Imperial Hospital over, but she was glared at by the emperor instead.
"You're so ungrateful. If you don't say you have a headache, then are you saying I have a headache or Zhang Shou has a headache? It's because of you that I hurriedly called Envoy Chen over!"
Zhang Shou became embarrassed when he saw Zhu Ying, while Liu Feng quickly responded to the order and left. He knew that he didn't need to worry about anything anymore, and was silently thinking about the suggestion made by Lord Wu, which he agreed with.
He was naturally worried about Deng Xiaodai following Wang Jie to wade into such muddy water, but he also knew that without Wang Jie, Deng Xiaodai would stay in the Shuntian government office. Even with the care of his uncle, he would definitely not be liked by the new prefect. His colleagues might even secretly exclude him. It would be better for him to go with Wang Jie and see if he could play his role.
As for the other people in Jiuzhang Hall, most of them had done some kind of business like accounting, so if three or five people were assigned to assist Wang Jie each time, then they would be considered specialized. However, these people's homework would inevitably be out of touch, so he not only needed to ask them to bring textbooks, but also probably needed to assign corresponding exercises.
Besides this, should he send Qi Liang to follow Wang Jie first? Of course, if he did so, even if he sent his first two students to serve as Wang Jie's right-hand men, officials other than Wang Jie would definitely think that he was planting a private person.
Zhu Ying, who was arguing with the emperor, didn't notice Zhang Shou's distraction, but Zhu Tingfang did. But because of this discovery, he was really puzzled. After all, he was from a noble family and had seen the emperor many times since he was a child. It was not surprising that he could be calm and composed in front of the emperor, but Zhang Shou was able to speak freely just now, but now he dared to... distract himself
When Zhu Tingfang looked at Zhang Shou again and again, the emperor noticed Zhang Shou's daze. He changed his mind and said with a smile: "Zhang Shou, Teacher Ge talked to me about the revision of the calendar a few days ago. What do you think?"
While thinking about his own things, he also paid a little attention to the movements on the other side, in case someone asked him a question, he could only answer blankly. This was a unique skill that Zhang Shou had practiced when he was in school. At that time, he was often able to do such a feat. Obviously, he was dozing off, but when the teacher asked a question and suddenly called on him to answer, he could answer fluently.
At this time, Zhang Shou came to his senses when the emperor called out his name. However, he could not answer this question. Not only could he not answer it, he even had to smile bitterly and said, "Your Majesty, I don't know much about the calendar. Shouldn't this kind of thing be handed over to the Imperial Observatory? I, an outsider, cannot comment on it. Besides, hasn't the teacher already requested the Four Seas Test?"
The emperor took his time and asked persistently, "You mean I'd better give you a position in the Imperial Observatory so that you can work with the people there to revise the calendar? If I don't give you this salary, you won't work for me?"