It is the first time for me, old man, to see such a shameless person... What's more, this shameless person is so pure and extraordinary. It was me, old man, who boasted to others outside that he was a disciple who was so outstanding that only one appeared once in hundreds of years!
While Ge Yong responded to the gazes from all directions with a sharp eye, he was thinking about the situation last night when Zhang Shou came and told him sincerely that the emperor had summoned him and the four "guests" to attend the imperial lecture, and he intended to use this opportunity to promote mathematics.
He was still wondering what this method was, but now he understood that Lu Sanlang's method was much simpler, more direct and cruder than simply recruiting students for Jiuzhangtang or summoning talents in astronomy and mathematics from all over the world to rebuild the calendar! So, while everyone was looking at him, he nodded calmly.
"What Jiuzhang and Gaoyuan said is absolutely right. If we can set up a mathematical academy in the whole country, and someone is worried that the national treasury or the local government treasury will not be able to make ends meet, then this old man is willing to donate generously!"
If Confucius had planned to make a decision based on the current situation, he could no longer make a decision. If he did not stop it, would the three generations of teachers and students follow the system of prefectural and county schools and open mathematics courses all over the country? Even if it was not so exaggerated, it was hard to say whether a mathematics course would be opened in county and prefectural schools!
He did not care that today was a lecture, and immediately stood up and said sternly: "Your Majesty lifted the ban on mathematics and reopened the Nine Chapters Hall. This was to reaffirm the will of Emperor Taizu, so I did not object. But if you open mathematics halls in various places and let scholars all over the world have access to them at will, I cannot agree with that!"
"Astronomy and mathematics are inseparable. If someone uses mathematics to make predictions, it will confuse people!"
Astronomy and mathematics are inseparable... Haha, in later generations, let alone inseparable, even mathematicians have different specialties. The subjects are so detailed that no mathematician with different specialties dares to claim to dominate all fields. That is to say, today's politicians who have full marks in liberal arts and negative marks in science will be so ignorant as to make comments on unknown science, because they don't think it's a joke at all!
Zhang Shou thought so in his heart, but his response was not slow at all. He laughed and said calmly: "According to what Confucius said, astronomy and mathematics are inseparable. People who learn mathematics will naturally be proficient in astronomy. They should go to the Imperial Astronomical Observatory or other places under your noses. Otherwise, they are afraid that they will fabricate prophecies and divinations at will, and then confuse people's hearts."
"But, as far as I know, there has never been anyone who is proficient in mathematics and has followed some traitorous officials?"
"What do you know!" In this regard, Grand Secretary Kong was naturally qualified to look down on Zhang Shou. After angrily scolding him, he said in a deep voice, "If those ambitious people could clearly know when a bad luck star would pass through the sky, when there would be an eclipse of the sun, and when there would be an earthquake, and use this to stir up trouble, wouldn't the world be in chaos!"
His eyes narrowed slightly, but his voice softened a little, but the sharp coldness in his words increased instead of diminishing.