What a mess!
At this moment, not only did the students fall into the triple cycle of self-questioning: who am I, where am I, and what am I doing? Even Zhang Shou himself began to doubt his life. How could he have come into contact with a foreign language after traveling through time? And the most annoying thing was that this was not even the English he was familiar with!
Yes, it is still a long way to go for English to become the most commonly used language in the world. After all, the British are already in the second generation of the British Empire. He still remembers that the first generation of the British Empire was the sixteenth century Spain, which used various marriages to add a long string of country names before the title of king. In between the two generations of the British Empire, France also once made French the mainstream language in Europe.
However, if we talk about the most mainstream language in Europe for printing books in this era, it is probably Latin, which is called a dead language... This is simply a pitfall. Let alone him, even those language geniuses who are proficient in multiple languages in the future will not know Latin! Especially now that this is the East, who knows Latin is a ghost!
Zhang Shou tried his best to maintain his calm image in front of his students, but in his heart he couldn't help but curse the emperor for doing something strange. However, he still calmly flipped through the "mathematical classics" that were full of scribblings and he didn't recognize any of them, and finally looked up at the person who personally delivered these books.
"Eunuch Chen, these books are..."
Seeing Zhang Shou's calm expression, Chen Yongshou thought that he was indeed the genius that the mathematics master Ge Yong valued the most. He was indeed a man of real talent and could understand such a foreign book that was like a heavenly book. You know, he had just flipped through it casually before, but now his head was dizzy. It was the same with these students. They were almost scared silly by these books.
So he bowed with a smile on his face, and then explained very respectfully: "Master Zhang, the emperor gave some books to Master Ge before. This is another part, which was brought back by a fleet from overseas."
Of course, he would not specify which fleet brought it back from overseas - after all, he was not sure whether Zhang Shou knew the inside story of the royal family's huge wealth - so after saying this vaguely, he explained it very clearly afterwards.
"But these books are all in foreign languages. Even when the old Grand Tutor Ge was given the books as they were before, he complained that he couldn't read them. So the emperor agreed to the old Grand Tutor and asked several interpreters to translate all these languages. However, these mathematical classics are different from other things, and those interpreters may not translate them well, so it depends on you, Master Zhang, and the students."
Hearing Chen Yongshou's words, Ji Jiu was immediately shocked. Translate these scribbled words? Them? He had only known square Chinese characters since he was a child, how could he know these scribbled words! He couldn't learn this, or he would definitely die!
Zhang Shou, the big guy who had originally wanted to take the entrance exam for Jiuzhang Hall, couldn't help but feel lucky that he hadn't passed yet. If he had to learn foreign languages in Jiuzhang Hall in the future, he would have no choice but to miss out on a teacher like Zhang Shou... God knows when he saw her for the first time, he felt as if he was cursed and his head was frozen!