Datang: The prince of salted fish was overheard by Li Er

This time Wang Xiaotong did not refute.

A major application of arithmetic is in commercial production. To manage a huge foundation, the way of arithmetic is essential.

But even though he didn't refute it, Wang Xiaotong was still reluctant.

In the end, Kong Yingda could only say, "Dr. Wang, just let students under the age of 25 take the exam."

"If in the end, they don't want to enter the palace to study, I promise to let them enter mathematics again."

With such a promise, Wang Xiaotong was obedient.

In fact, many people in the capital had opinions on Li You's test.

For example, Wang Gui said to the disciples of the Wang family in Taiyuan who took the test: "Either you hand in blank papers for this test, or you refuse to enter the palace to study after being selected."

"I'd like to see if Li You dares to openly rob someone from the family."

"When things get serious, I'll see how His Majesty ends up."

However, not all the aristocratic families are ready to confront Li You head-on.

For example, Fan Yang Lu's choice is different from Taiyuan Wang's.

After Lu Chengqing, the patriarch of the Lu family, heard the news, he asked the children of the Lu family in Beijing to work hard to enter the list of 50 people.

In the previous fights with Li You, Lu Shi suffered a lot secretly.

Especially regarding the matter of the Turkic envoys, Lu Chengqing felt that it had a lot to do with the birth of Li You.

So this time, he wanted to take this opportunity to break into Li You's interior and see what kind of medicine was sold in Li You's gourd.

Of course, in addition to these two categories of people with ulterior motives, there are many people who are looking forward to it.

Just like a pair of living treasures in Cheng Yaojin's family, when they heard that they could get rid of the Chongwen Museum to attend classes, they immediately became interested in Li You, their peer.

Equally interested is eldest Sun Siyi.

She originally had a different kind of affection for Li You, but this time she heard that after entering the new school, she might be able to get along with Li You day and night, so she was so excited that she didn't sleep well for several days.

In this way, under the attention of the whole capital, Li You came to the Imperial College as scheduled with the test paper.

In order to cooperate with Li You, Kong Yingda ordered the Imperial College to suspend school for a day, and asked the teachers who were free to help with today's test.

In the end, a total of 170 people participated in the test, and 38 mathematics students were added to the original basis.

Li You divided these people into six examination rooms, including one for mathematics students, two for students aged 12 and below, and three for students over 12 years old.

Among them, mathematics and students over 12 years old actually use the same set of questions, and separating them is just that Li You thinks that separating them will help him make judgments when grading papers.

After distributing the test questions, Li You didn't invigilate the test, and chatted with Kong Yingda and Li Gang directly.

Thanks to Kong Yingda's support, everything went smoothly today until Li You came to the mathematics examination room.

Today Wang Xiaotong personally invigilated the examination room for mathematics students.

It's not because he has such a strong sense of responsibility, it's just that after he heard that there were arithmetic problems in the test questions, he was curious and wanted to see the test papers as soon as possible.

However, after seeing the test paper, Wang Xiaotong was shocked.

It is true that there are arithmetic questions in the test paper, but Wang Xiaotong, who claims to be proficient in arithmetic, is at a loss for most of the questions.

The reason for this is that Li You used another symbol to represent numbers in the test paper.

At the front of the arithmetic test paper, Li You wrote the rules: "1 represents one, 2 represents two...ten is represented by 10, eleven is 11, one hundred is 100, one hundred and one is 101, 110 one 111."

Yes, Li You introduced Arabic numerals at the front of the math test questions.

After the Arabic numerals, Li You listed the two symbols "+" and "-", and also wrote out the expression method of the fraction.

For such symbolization of characters, most of the teenagers who took the exam can accept it very quickly, and can complete a series of questions in the way prescribed by history.

But this is very difficult for Wang Xiaotong who is already old and has his own fixed thinking mode.

After he struggled to understand some of the questions against the rules, his mood became even worse.

Either these topics are things he can't understand, but he can't do them if he understands them.

This left no room for his proud mathematical skills to be used at all.

Soon, Wang Xiaotong's psychology changed.

"This little Li You has no real skills, but he knows the art of borrowing symbols."

"This is the pinyin method that Kong Yingda blew up before."

"Only in pinyin, one initial or final can correspond to multiple characters, so as to standardize and simplify."

"But this method is a bit nondescript when used in mathematics."

"Each number corresponds to a fixed symbol, all of which are one-to-one correspondence, so it's not unnecessary for us to do this correspondence once."

For this reason, when Li You came to collect the papers, Wang Xiaotong didn't give Li You any good looks.

Li You just pretended not to care at first, he still had some respect for Wang Xiaotong, and didn't want to have any conflict with him.

He thought that a person who can dedicate his life to mathematics would have any bad intentions.

However, just as Li You picked up the paper, he heard a student say: "The King of Chu will take the paper and leave. None of us wants to go to your new study."

"Your symbolic arithmetic is all about one-to-one correspondence. It's just a trick."

Kong Yingda on the side immediately reprimanded: "Bold, Li Anren, who allowed you to talk to the King of Chu like this."

【So it's Li Gang's grandson, no wonder he's so arrogant. 】

Kong Yingda was about to punish Li Anren, when he heard Wang Xiaotong defending him: "Don't be angry with Kong Jijiu, Anren's words are not good, but they are reasonable."

"Today I also read the title of King Chu, and I feel the same way."

"Some questions are clearly the questions in the calculation scriptures, but they were changed by the king of Chu to be nondescript, which made it more difficult to understand out of thin air."

"In my opinion, if the arithmetic taught by the Chu Palace is like this, it's better to let all these students stay in arithmetic."

Hearing this, Li You laughed instead of anger, and asked, "Dr. Wang, is this really what you really thought after reading the test paper?"

Although he heard something in Li You's words, Wang Xiaotong nodded without hesitation.

"King Chu, if it's really at this level, please let these mathematics students go."

Following Wang Xiaotong's words, and Li Anren taking the lead, these mathematics students also started to make noise, expressing their unwillingness to go to the new school.

Before coming, Li You also thought that someone might come out to stop him.

But Li You never expected that it would be Wang Xiaotong who came out to stop him.

In order not to hurt the peace, Li You smiled and said, "Dr. Wang, it's easy to judge my level."

"How about we each ask three questions, and whoever solves it first will win."

"You won, and I don't have the face to ask for a math student anymore."

"And if I win, I can choose from the students present today at will."