With the coordination of Lu Sanlang and Qi Liang, the rankings of thousands of people in the six halls of the Imperial College were freshly released in the afternoon. However, this was just the order of the papers, and the table to be submitted had not yet been copied. Zhang Shou specially instructed everyone to make the table, with subjects and total scores arranged horizontally and names arranged vertically, so that it was clear at a glance.
Of course, when Deng Xiaodai was in the household department of Shuntian Prefecture Yamen, he followed Zhang Shou's advice and introduced visual icons such as line graphs and bar graphs that were more intuitive than tabular numbers. The square table was far from advanced.
However, because copying thousands of names and scores was a big deal, Lu Sanlang followed Zhang Shou's instructions and went to Banshan Hall to shout. Zhang Shou personally rolled up his sleeves and brought ten people. As for the other people in Banshan Hall, it's not that they didn't want to join in, but their handwriting was too bad, and it would be embarrassing to post it!
At this time, he found that there were not enough people, so Lu Sanlang could only select ten people who wrote characters well from Jiuzhangtang. A total of twenty people copied the characters separately. After a burst of hard work, they managed to finish the long ranking list before the official deadline.
Seeing long yellow paper scrolls spread out to dry with ink everywhere in the hall, everyone looked at each other and couldn't help laughing. Even though everyone in Banshan Hall knew that they probably wouldn't be able to become a servant of the Eastern Palace this time, they were still in a good mood. Zhang Dakuo didn't know if he had any hope, but he laughed at the student in Suixing Hall who was always arrogant but failed this time.
However, when Zhang Shou, Lu Wan and Liu Zhiyuan saw the final ranking list, Zhang Shou remained calm, but Liu Zhiyuan was furious: "So many? Are you sure there are enough walls to put them on?"
It turned out to be a whole cart of paper rolls. Oh my God, even if it was sent to the palace, the emperor wouldn’t be able to see it, right
Zhang Shou glanced at Lu Wan, who had donated the paper as a friendly sponsor. He looked calm and composed, as if he didn't care about the expense of the paper at all. He smiled and said, "I calculated it based on the length of the eight-character wall in front of the Imperial College. It should be enough to cover the whole wall. I deliberately asked them to write the characters a little smaller when they copied them, after all, I wanted to save money for Lu Jijiu."
If you were thinking about saving costs, you wouldn’t come up with such a bad idea of comprehensive ranking!
Lu Wan glanced at Zhang Shou with a half-smile, but immediately said to Liu Zhiyuan with a sincere face: "Mr. Liu, as the governor, could you please come to the palace to report this matter to the emperor? It is not appropriate for me and Mr. Zhang to go. As for inviting the King of Jiangdu to come, that is his responsibility, but if we invite the Grand Master of the Imperial Clan to come just to send a cart of ranking lists into the palace, it is really a bit..."
"Come on, stop talking, I'm going!" Liu Zhiyuan stared at the cart of things for several times, and finally sighed and said, "Your Highness's three questions, not to mention farming and contemporary literature, the math problem is really the simplest and easiest to understand in the Nine Chapters on the Mathematical Art. There are actually so many people who can't solve it. I don't know how they will deal with taxes when they become officials in the future!"
After seeing Liu Zhiyuan shook his head, he went straight out and asked someone to prepare the car. After Zhang Shou followed him out, he gestured to Lu Wanqiliang and Zhang Dakuatou to ask them to escort him for a while. The three of them immediately agreed happily.