The Third Prince left the palace in a hurry, originally with a lot of indignation, but when he saw a blond boy with completely different hair color, skin color and appearance from his own people actually working on math problems with great interest, he threw his original purpose out of the window. When Zhang Shou dragged him away from the blackboard without explanation, he stepped forward and took a closer look at the hastily drawn deduction.
After reading it, he turned to Zhang Shou and asked, "Teacher, he doesn't seem to have mastered all the theorems of triangles?"
"Euclid's Στοιχε??α, in their country, that is a field that only scholars delve into, and he is still too young. Moreover, the popular book there is in Latin, which is somewhat similar to the language he can speak and write, but at his age, he probably hasn't learned it yet. As for the two points he used before, they are already pretty good."
Seeing Lu Sanlang immediately looking at the blond boy with a rather amusing look, and the blond boy looking guilty, Zhang Shou smiled and said, "A long time ago, Latin was actually just a dialect used in a small area of the Italian peninsula, but later the Roman Empire, which spoke this language, became powerful and dominated, and it became the common language in the West for a time."
"Later, although the Roman Empire was divided into two branches, the East and the West, it was still a huge empire, and Latin gradually split into two different forms, written and spoken. Let's put it this way, just like in the Ming Dynasty, the words spoken by ordinary people are completely different from the words used in articles and books."
After he explained this, no matter the Third Prince, Lu Sanlang or others, they all nodded to show that they understood. At this time, Zhang Shou glanced at the blond boy and his smile deepened.
"In today's West, learned princes and nobles and their religious figures will learn Latin, because this is a language that must be mastered when communicating with small countries, and this mostly depends on a teacher who is proficient in Latin. However, ordinary small nobles, or wealthy people with a good family background, may not be willing to spend a lot of money to hire such a teacher for their concubines."
In order to make it easier to understand, Zhang Shou changed the name of the family teacher to a teacher. As a result, a large number of people around him nodded in understanding as soon as he said this. There were truly wealthy young men like Lu Sanlang who didn't like studying since childhood but had many teachers, as well as the mostly poor students of Jiuzhang Hall, and even Ji Jiu and Zhang Dakuaitou, who were once marginalized at home.
Therefore, there were some who did not have their own teachers. Some went to study with other brothers in their own family or even other people's families. Some even studied with the favored brothers in the family. Some even hired teachers when their family was prominent but could not afford it after their family fell into poverty... There were many people, and there were many different situations. But at this time, most people no longer looked at the blond boy with the same critical eyes as at the beginning.
There were even people who were not afraid to expose their family's dirty laundry and sighed, "Hiring a teacher to teach just one person is a privilege only afforded to the most favored son in the family. Of course, concubines can forget about it. A relative of mine once had two concubines outside, and he spoiled them like crazy. It was said that they even had two sons. But his fierce wife persuaded the elders to cut off his money!"