For Ye Chang, the encounter with Qu Tanxun today was just a trivial matter. In his mind, Qu Tanxun was also a small person not worthy of respect. It must be admitted that Ye Chang's current mentality has changed a lot compared to the mentality of the era when he first came to this country. Although he has no prejudice or discrimination against ordinary workers, he really has no respect for a clumsy speculator like Qu Tanxun, nor does he have the patience to be wordy with him. A slap in the face solved the problem, and he left the east gate with his entourage. The slap quickly reached Li Longji, who had just returned to Chang'an. Li Longji just laughed after hearing it. "Although Ye Chang is domineering, his attack was still serious and he didn't chop off that guy's head." After laughing, he said: "That guy is really annoying and doesn't know how to advance or retreat But I will have to work with him to relieve my boredom tomorrow. "General Gao, please send someone to comfort him so that he can rest well and fight with all his strength tomorrow." "Yes," Gao Lishi responded politely. Of course he can¡¯t go by himself, otherwise he would be showing his support for Qu Tanxun. He sent a young eunuch over, and after struggling for a while, he came back. Gao Lishi was impatient with waiting, and immediately asked what was going on. The young eunuch suppressed a smile and said, "The general doesn't know something. The imperial students in the capital went to look for those people." There was a quarrel between the two parties. The Luoyang Imperial College student was beaten and now he was blocked in the library. If the villain hadn't arrived in time, he might have broken in and beaten him again. "Pause." Gao Lishi laughed and reported the news to Li Longji. He saw that Li Longji listened with interest and didn't find it strange at all. Gao Lishi's mind changed, and he remembered that Li Longji had just urged him to send someone to comfort Qu Tanxun, and he suddenly understood that Li Longji had expected such a situation. This made Gao Lishi secretly realize that although the emperor had been bewitched by Yang Zhao and others in the past two years and became more and more confused, he was not really confused, but just unwilling to waste time and energy. "Ye Chang really knows how to take advantage of the situation, but now he doesn't care about it anymore." Li Longji commented again. "What does the saint mean by this? I am stupid, but I don't know." "If today continues like this, tomorrow the Luoyang Imperial Prince will be very capable, but he will only be able to use seven points." Li Longji guessed wrong this time, Ye Chang really did Disdain to use this method against Qu Tanxun and others. He had great confidence in his students. After all, he also understood some of the current level of mathematics. He was already a great mathematician who published books on the cubic equation of one variable, and his student had already learned how to use it. The positive and negative opening method is used to solve higher-order equations - this method was originally developed by Qin Jiushao, a great mathematician in the Southern Song Dynasty, based on the opening method in "Nine Chapters of Arithmetic". ¡°And unlike the old-fashioned Institute of Mathematics of the Imperial College, Ye Chang can almost be said to have established a mathematical college in Liaodong, which far surpassed the Imperial College in terms of scale and knowledge. The 12th day of the twelfth month of the eleventh year of Tianbao in the Tang Dynasty has arrived, with people from all walks of life either anxious or calm. The news that Luoyang Taisheng challenged Ye Chang spread widely, and many people came to watch the fun, even from as far away as Luoyang. So early in the morning, a lot of people crowded outside Chunming Gate, although they knew nothing about this "challenge". "Selling newspapers, today's supplement, a brief discussion on arithmetic, to help you understand today's competition" Chen Xiaoer appeared diligently among the crowd again, and picked a good position early in the morning to sell his newspaper here. He doesn't know arithmetic either, he can only do the simplest additions and subtractions, so he is also confused about the competition items. "Oh, this "Min Bao" is cunning and knows how to take advantage of opportunities. However, arithmetic is the art of mathematics, how can it be so easy to know." Someone bought a newspaper while laughing. I opened the newspaper and read it, and then I was surprised: "There is really a brief talk about arithmetic?" "It turns out that the so-called arithmetic is just something we use in our daily lives. It turns out that addition, subtraction, multiplication and division are all arithmetic. " "It is not a mysterious thing at all, arithmetic is just It¡¯s just a means of measuring acres of land and weighing rice grains. In the past, I thought arithmetic was very magical, but now it seems that it is this.¡± ¡°Yes, but that¡¯s it. It seems that merchants and traders are all masters of arithmetic, haha " "You know this, but don't look at the back. As mentioned later, arithmetic is the foundation of all trades. River workers, carpenters, and masons all must learn arithmetic. If not, the dams they build will collapse, and the dams built will collapse. Houses will fall down, and cities will have gaps Tsk, tsk, so to speak, arithmetic should be a prominent science. " "A doctor of arithmetic among the generals of the State is the ninth-rank official. Now the Luoyang Arithmetic Academy can't even recruit thirty students, but it still shows off its academic skills." Everyone looked at the newspaper and discussed it while reading it. Chen Xiaoer was happy to hear: The person who discussed it was The more, the more his newspapers will be sold. Moreover, from the discussions of these people, he also gained some understanding of arithmetic: it turns out that this is not the mysterious science used by magicians to calculate fate. It is the science of measurement used in life. The sound of hawking from below even reached the throne on the top of the city, Li.Longji asked someone to take the newspaper supplement and read it. He was already a bit old and his eyes were very presbyopic, so the words in the newspaper were somewhat unclear. "Shou'an, give me a thought." He called to the twenty-nine mothers beside him. Last time she beat Yang Zhao¡¯s son, Princess Shou¡¯an was not punished and was imprisoned for more than ten days. However, today was very lively. Princess Yuzhen interceded for her again, and Li Longji brought her here. "Aye, my daughter has something good here." Shou'an did not read the newspaper, but took out a brocade box, opened it, and handed a small round lens in the brocade box to Li Longji. "What is thishuh?" Li Longji took the small round mirror. He was surprised at first, but then he understood after looking at it: "Can the words be enlarged? "Aye, do you still remember the crystal ball? Crystal The surface of the ball is round, but when light passes through the mirror, it will bend, so the writing becomes larger. Shouan said with a smile: "If it's not convenient for me to read books and newspapers, I can use this thing." " Li Longji thought of how he had scolded Shou'an for causing the crystal ball to catch fire, and he felt warm in his heart. Looking at Shou'an's eyes, he became kind, but then he feigned anger: "This must be Ye Ye again. Chang's trick, this guy almost punched me, I can't ignore him." "This is my daughter's filial piety, what does it have to do with him?" Shouan curled his lips: "He dared to punch Aye, Aye took him Lock him up in Chang'an City for a little longer, just to prevent him from running around all over the world." Li Longji's eyes became kind again. He didn't know Shou'an's little thoughts, but these little thoughts were very important to his imperial power. There is no harm in it, so he naturally doesn't take it to heart. And he feels a little guilty about Shou'an. If it weren't for his own power, Shou'an would marry Ye Chang. "Okay, I'll come." Give it a try Ye Chang has a very clever mind. If he is willing to put half of his mind on the right path, my position as prime minister will be his sooner or later. " "Now he doesn't focus on the right path. There are already people slandering him in front of the saint day and night, and there are people coming from Luoyang City to trouble him. If he really devotes his whole heart to the right path, I'm afraid it won't take a few days. , Aye chopped off his head. "Shou'an curled his lips and said. "Oh? "Li Longji put down the magnifying glass, and his eyes suddenly became very sharp: "What do you mean by this? " Shou'an smacked his lips to one side, and Li Longji turned away, only to see Yang Zhao standing there in embarrassment. Shou'an was obviously applying eye drops to Yang Zhao. Li Longji smiled and shook his head, reaching out to pat him gently. Touching Shou'an's arm: "You, girls are outgoing, as expected." He read the content about arithmetic in the newspaper, pondered for a while, and said with a smile: "But, Twenty-Nine Mother, you are right. , if he used this thought in his political career, I don¡¯t know how many people would be unable to sleep - I didn¡¯t expect that he would also include me in his calculations. " "Aye, what do you mean? "Shou'an was shocked. "He just knows that I like to watch the fun, so he has such a show. I asked him how he responded to the assistant coach in Luoyang. It turned out to be this." "Huh? " "I remember that Ye Chang once wrote a memorial, and it was recorded in "The Rites of Zhou" that he taught the princes of the country six arts, and there are quite a few of them. Nowadays, mathematics is sluggish, and the imperial examinations only test articles, poems, and poems, and the winners are those who are noble and noble in the Imperial Academy, rather than those who are pro-government and caring for the people. Therefore, it is suggested that in all the subjects of the imperial examination, mathematics should be added to the test - that is, arithmetic. But he did what he did today and publicized it. He was clearly using me to advertise for him." Li Longji spit out the word "advertisement" that has become popular in the world in recent years. However, although he scolded Ye Chang, he did not How much anger. "My daughter doesn't understand this In short, that guy is just a worry-free guy," Shou An said, feeling that he had seen through Ye Chang's intentions again, and he was in a happy mood. At that time, when he saw the students from the Imperial College of Mathematics in Luoyang coming in, he smiled and said: "No wonder Ye Chang was angry yesterday. He was really kind-hearted. He originally wanted to promote arithmetic, but these doctors and students from the College of Mathematics did not "Know what is good and what is bad" "That Qu Tanxun is not a good person at first glance. "Shou'an interjected. "This little eye medicine has no other effect except making Li Longji laugh. Yang Zhao next to him glanced at Shou'an lightly, and then lowered his head. He was worried about this in his heart. Shou'an naturally hates Shou'an very much, but he also understands that even the Yang sisters rarely provoke Shou'an. After all, when it comes to holy pets, Shou'an has the support of Ye Chang and is no weaker than the Yang sisters. Where to go. For example, with this magnifying glass, Li Longji was obviously very happy. He took pictures here and there, laughing from time to time. "Let's bear with it. Let's see how capable those people at the Luoyang School of Mathematics are. If they can do it." If Ye Chang holds back, Ye Chang's reputation will be greatly damaged" Yang Zhao looked at the test shed below, with a sinister smile on his face. "What makes him better than Ye Chang is that he can mobilize the power of the imperial court."??Help Qu Tanxun and his group. For example, today, it seems that there are only a few dozen people in the Luoyang Arithmetic Academy. In fact, Yang Zhao has gathered together almost all the arithmetic masters that can be found in the court. They asked ten questions. These ten questions were difficult for these math masters to solve even after spending a lot of time. In Yang Zhao's view, it was impossible for the few private disciples brought by Ye Chang to solve them today. These questions: In this situation, for Ye Chang, the best outcome is for both sides to suffer a draw. When he looked down, he didn't realize that in a corner under the city, someone was looking up, and it was him who was looking at him. Wang Wen stood next to Xing Ju and raised his chin towards Yang Zhao: "Don't let this guy live, he is even more hateful than Ye Chang." "Don't worry, Yang Zhao will die after he succeeds." Xing Ju said with a smile. "Haosheng, let's do it. I'll go to my brother's place. If there's any news, I'll pass it on to you." Wang Heng took two steps, came back, and said seriously to Xing Chu: "If the matter is successful, we will all be rich and powerful. , If it fails, you will die without a burial place, you must be careful." "Prince, just don't worry, you have the appearance of a king, and you have the destiny to protect you, this matter will definitely happen." He added: "I finally understand what happened at Ximachang. The imperial court has been in peace for too long these years, and the security of Chang'an City is very lax. In addition to the Longwu Ten Thousand Cavalry Army who have to dispatch soldiers to fight, there are still a few The fighting strength is divided, and the rest of the soldiers and generals are all full of wine. As long as Longwu Wanqi is controlled, the matter will be settled." After hearing his words, Wang Wen finally felt relieved, and he strode forward, his brother's appearance. As Jing Zhaoyin, Yushi doctor, and the interviewer of the capital, he naturally accompanied Li Longji on the top of the city. He was just a doctor in the Ministry of household affairs and had no qualifications to go to the top of the city. However, the soldiers all recognized him. As long as he didn't When he approached Li Longji, no one stopped him. He looked at Li Longji's position from a distance, and was secretly excited: in another day, someone else might be sitting in that position. In another corner under the city, Li Mi, dressed in Taoist robes, was sitting on a carriage, looking towards the test shed from a distance. He is also proficient in arithmetic and is very interested in today's competition, so he came here to watch the excitement. His attention was mainly focused on the test shed, but occasionally he glanced at the city head, because above the city head, next to Li Longji, Prince Li Heng sat silently like a shadow. As the crown prince of the Tang Dynasty, this prince has no sense of existence. After Wei Jian, Li Shizhi and others were killed one after another, he was probably afraid and hid himself deeper. Except for the two eunuchs he trusted and his concubine Zhang, almost no one could contact him. Even Li Mi only met him once in secret, and then kept in touch with Li Heng through other channels. "The prince is suffering too much" Li Bi thought to himself and turned his attention to Li Longji: "Since the saint is tired of politics and would rather hand over power to people like Li Linfu and Yang Zhao, why is he not willing to hand over power to the prince? The prince's heart was so precarious that something big would happen sooner or later. When he was thinking about the prince, he heard a low "eh" sound coming from beside him. He was immediately startled and shouted towards the prince. The sound of the man looked away. The man smiled and saluted him: "It turned out to be Li Gong." "Liu Gong." Li Mi searched in his memory for a while, and then found the identity of this man: Liu Luo, the chief steward arranged by An Lushan in Chang'an City. , helping An Lushan negotiate with all parties, and is a long-sleeved role. Li Mi didn't have a good impression of Anlushan. In his opinion, although Ye Chang was domineering, he was still beneficial to the country, while Anlushan was one of those useless things. Then he saw the person next to Li Mi. The person had an indifferent expression and cold eyes. He just glanced at him and made him shudder. Jiwen? How could this guy get together with Liu Luogu?