At the end of the Eastern Han Dynasty

But when the storm came, Zhao Yun had already made his fortress extremely strong in silence. He hid inside, closed the doors and windows, and listened to the wind and rain.

Now everyone knows the significance of Zhao Yun's actions, and their eyes are red with envy.

But it's useless, the crisis of the guards has just passed, and the crisis of other troops has just begun.

Northeast Corps, Northwest Corps, Southwest Corps, and Southeast Corps.

Each of the four major corps in the main direction of the empire is stationed with heavy troops, and the military expenditure is huge. Whether there is any problem in this remains to be investigated.

The materials consumed by troops stationed in important places such as dangerous passes, mines, and warehouses in the world may not be considered large individually, but when combined together, they are not small at all.

All in all, there are really many, many, many files that the people in Sili Xiaowei's Mansion need to check.

So they recruited people everywhere, and even recruited students from Taixue who had not yet graduated to come to Sili Xiaowei's Mansion to assist in handling the case, saying that with such practical work experience, it would be convenient for them to become officials in the future, which deceived a lot of idiots too student.

Because Guo Peng likes mathematics, many officials began to learn mathematics and master mathematics knowledge from the time of Guo Peng, the Lord of the Central Plains.

When there was no imperial examination, accounting officials were the only channel for many officials from poor families to enter their official careers. After several political turmoil, a considerable number of officials in the current court are from accounting officials and have good mathematical skills.

The representative of those who came from accounting officials to high positions is Wang Can, the Minister of Finance of the Ministry of Finance. Many accounting officials regard Wang Can as a role model and are working hard.

After Guo Peng opened the imperial examination, mathematics was an important part of the imperial examination. If you don't know mathematics, you can't get a high score in the imperial examination. Therefore, learning mathematics has become a compulsory course for all candidates who want to take the imperial examination.

In order to learn mathematics better, many people have begun to delve into the few mathematical works.

In order to get the emperor's appreciation, many courtiers who are proficient in mathematics began to study mathematics, and wrote many works on mathematics and presented them to the emperor, hoping to be appreciated.

Since the reign of Yande, the intellectuals of Wei State have written more than a thousand articles and books on mathematics research, and the results of mathematics research have appeared in front of someone Guo like a blowout.

It was a pleasant surprise.

Chapter 1408 One thousand three hundred and eighty eight Cheng Yu feels that he has made a lot of money this time

The so-called good from the top must follow from the bottom.

Sometimes Guo feels that if this tradition is used well, it is not necessarily a bad thing.

For example, he likes mathematics, and all the officials and all the scholars and those who want to be officials have begun to cut their heads to study mathematics problems.

Although it is said that their original intention was to be an official and to please him to gain appreciation, which is essentially a speculative behavior, but these guys also objectively promoted the development of ancient Chinese mathematics.

This helps Guo Peng to construct the system of ancient Chinese mathematics from it, forming a mathematical discipline with inheritance, rather than a model that the rulers do not pay attention to spontaneously researched by the people.

Guo Peng needs to turn mathematics into a real science, which can be passed on and developed continuously.

So he ordered these works on mathematics to be collected, organized into volumes, sorted out, and gradually formed a system.

Then, the latest mathematical ideas were selected and compiled into textbooks, and immediately applied to the teaching and research of Taixue, and strongly encouraged Taixue students to study and study.

He hopes to make mathematics a regular subject before he closes his eyes, which can be juxtaposed with traditional subjects such as Wujing agriculture.

He didn't want the Wei Empire's research on mathematics to go straight to zero after his death. Without the direction of the emperor's preferences, people would no longer pay attention to research. This is not good.

Mathematics was born for practicality from the very beginning. The ancestors created mathematics for the convenience of calculation. Mathematics has very important practical value from its birth.

With the further development of mathematics, mathematical methods, such as statistics, are used in many fields such as agriculture, military industry, construction, and handicraft industry. It can be said that mathematics is the basis of all sciences.

It is precisely because Guo Peng has vigorously encouraged mathematical research in these years, and introduced some mathematical methods such as charts, statistics, and four arithmetic operations into the daily needs of the Wei Empire, which greatly improved the administrative efficiency of the Wei Empire.

In agriculture, military industry and other industries, the introduction of mathematical methods has greatly facilitated the statistics and records of practitioners and the inheritance of experience. This change is very obvious and important.

Therefore, he especially does not want things like the death of a person to happen in mathematics research.

He has to find ways to add weight to mathematics, impose regulations, bring mathematics research to the right track as quickly as possible, and inject the genes of natural science into this ancient civilization.

So until now, in the imperial examinations held every year, regardless of whether it is literary or martial arts, the proportion of mathematics content will increase.

Guo Peng even asked the martial arts candidates to study mathematics, and they couldn't be a person who couldn't even do the four arithmetic operations.

Military officers also need to use mathematical knowledge when marching and fighting.

In the annual imperial examinations, mathematics test questions will also become the biggest uncertainty.

This kind of thing is indeed quite unexpected, and Guo Peng did not expect that, thanks to his encouragement, every year some people get new results in the field of mathematics research and open up new fields, which leads to the further expansion of the scale of mathematics research.

Therefore, there are always some latest research results that are not well understood in the math test questions every year, which is a test of people's basic skills and adaptability.

There are gossip that these latest research results are placed in the imperial examinations, which is deliberately done by the emperor in order to widen the gap between everyone.

A lot of content that has not been taught or even unknown content is made into questions on the test paper, just to increase the distance.

Otherwise, everyone will do these questions, and how can we distance ourselves and select the best talents to enter the imperial court?

The imperial court needs the most elite talents, those with the most flexible minds, those who are good at self-learning and logical thinking.

In this context, some people even publicly shouted that mathematicians should get the imperial examination.

This was something that would have been unimaginable just a few years ago.

The emperor's interests and hobbies were widely used in state affairs, and after achieving great results, he actually intervened in the official selection examination, squeezed the weight of the traditional five classics, and began to greatly affect the results of the imperial examination and the selection of officials.

Candidates with high levels of mathematics can get better scores and better rankings.

As for candidates with poor mathematics skills, even if they have studied the Five Classics well, no one knows better than him about micro-speaking and righteousness, and it is difficult to get good grades in mathematics.

Under the comprehensive scoring system, the Five Classics of Confucianism does not occupy an overwhelming proportion of scores, and other subjects are equally important. It is impossible to get a ranking in the examination and enter the imperial court if you only know the Five Classics of Confucianism.

Among them, the math score is particularly important. The math score is the highest after the Five Classics. If you can't get a good score in mathematics, the essay candidates are basically useless.

Once something is related to the emperor's hobbies and the official selection examination, the problem will become big, and it will immediately become a hot topic of discussion among the whole people.

What's happening today just proves that again.

If there is something good at the top, the bottom must follow.

In addition to reading the Five Classics, these Tai students are racking their brains to study calculus and mathematics problems. They cannot be called mathematicians, but there is still no problem with basic calculations.

Every day, I spend a considerable part of my time studying mathematics and calculating mathematics exercises, one by one incarnating as a problem solver for Luoyang.

Using numbers like 12345 [created] by someone Guo to perform basic four arithmetic operations is the basic ability that every college student and even some folks who are engaged in the business field need to master.

It couldn't be easier to ask them to come over and help with the audit.

There is no need to pay, just take care of the meal.

The meal was still paid by the imperial court, and someone from Guo paid for their food, so they didn't need to spend the budget of Sili Xiaowei's mansion.

wonderful.

Cheng Yu felt that he had made a lot of money this time.

In this wave of Guo Peng's investigation of the army, the most worrying thing is the army itself, and the second is the Ministry of War.

The quartermaster system of the army holds the authority of the army to purchase independently, and uses the military funds allocated to the army to purchase some small-scale daily necessities that the army needs and cannot provide.

The warehousing system of the Ministry of War has the authority to provide the main consumable materials of the army, and uses military expenditures that have not been allocated to the army.

Among them, the storage system, as the largest system in the Ministry of War, is the most worrying.

If we really want to talk about corruption, the corruption of the army can only be regarded as a small head, and the military expenditure independently used by the army is only to check for leaks in the warehouse.

The warehousing is the big one.

The army's staple food, the army's meat side dishes, and the army's main ordnance and military supplies are all provided by the warehouse system of the Ministry of War.

The anti-corruption storm in Jizhou back then was caused by problems with the storage system in Jizhou. Later, such turmoil spread to the whole country, and hundreds of officials died and lost their heads.

Later, Guo Peng took the initiative to stop the storm.

But the storm has not disappeared, it is still there.

This time, it seems that it can be regarded as a restart of the anti-corruption storm that year.

Judging from the importance that Guo attached to storage and the degree of unclean hands and feet of officials from various places, some pessimistic courtiers believed that the number of officials who would be implicated this time would not be less than the last time.

The number of officials has been increased over the years, and the number of officials and officials is now more than before, so it is not impossible to die more.

Moreover, the power to select and employ officials is now in the hands of the emperor, and the capital that officials could have used to fight the emperor has been exhausted and all have disappeared.

When you become an official, you no longer depend on your family background, but on your test scores.

Now it depends on how Guo Peng views this matter.

In any case, most officials are not hopeful.

They generally believe that this time is another bloodbath.

However, apart from the panic among the officials in the Ministry of War system, the officials in other departments were fine, quite leisurely watching the fire from the other side.

After all, this matter has nothing to do with them for the time being.

It is not them that Guo Peng wants to clean up, but the Ministry of War and the army.

Many people in this wave feel that they can stroll in the courtyard and enjoy the time comfortably, and then watch the fat-headed guys in the military department suffer in private.

We are always being punished, but you are comfortable!

Cheng Yu hadn't made a move for a long time, and he didn't have a timetable for his moves. He always made a move suddenly and ended suddenly, without giving any notice to the officials.

No one knows to what extent this time, how many people will be killed, and where it will be involved.

All they knew was that it must have been the emperor's order, that the emperor had ordered them to do so.

It's just that they thought that the emperor would be stable for a while because of the death of the Supreme Emperor and the Supreme Empress, but who would have thought that he would do this kind of thing again at this stall.

Some people speculated maliciously, thinking that the emperor probably wanted to vent his emotions in this way?

Based on some of the emperor's past methods of doing things, this situation is not impossible.

The officials in the logistics system were panicked and uneasy, and those who thought they had no problems sat up straight and didn't worry.

But people who know that they have problems have ghosts in their hearts. If they don't eat well and sleep well, they are afraid that the emperor's butcher's knife will fall on them.

The emperor's butcher's knife is not joking with you, it will be cut off as soon as it is said to be cut down. There are definitely not a few people who can't sleep during this time.

While officials in the army's logistics system were anxious about the emperor's audit, other bureaucratic systems did not have such worries.

The rare thing this time was not targeting them, but the logistics system. The goal was to clean up the army, so they were naturally not worried.

They are preparing for another thing——

The first formal merchant fleet of the Wei Empire is about to sail to the Roman Empire to start the first formal trade between the Wei Empire and the Roman Empire.

It means a lot.

Because of Mr. Guo's personal safety and hosting, in addition to the large ships of the royal caravan, many high-ranking officials and nobles who have capital to participate in overseas trade have participated in overseas trade.

They met with the Roman ambassadors and Roman businessmen who came to Luoyang, negotiated, determined the business needs of each other, and then made an agreement, sent people to purchase, collected a deposit, and then shipped to sea for trade.

This is the first formal official trade, and both sides value it very much. It can be said that it is an official trade that cannot be missed.

Chapter 1409 One Thousand 310 Nine Cao Cao Occasionally Wants to Be Willful

For maritime trade, there are too many things to prepare, and the cost to pay is too high.

Every time you go to sea, you have to prepare a lot of things, and you can't carry all the goods.

Need crew, experienced sailors, but also prepare enough daily necessities for them.

Food, drink, and use are all prepared according to three months.

Not less, if not enough, there will be accidents at sea.

As far as the sailing experience in the past few years is concerned, if a certain material is lacking or insufficient at sea, it is really fatal.

And it is necessary to arrange someone with sufficient authority and high status to lead the fleet, so as to control the emotions of the crew when necessary and prevent the ship from getting out of control.

Drifting at sea for several months, the opportunities to dock on the shore are very limited, and the accumulated emotions of the crew have nowhere to vent, and it is inevitable to fight with each other.

At this time, the organizer also needs to consider how to relieve the pressure of the crew and relieve their emotions.

The inner court also suggested that they carry more soybeans and grow soybean sprouts for the crew to eat at sea, saying that this is still very important, so they must pay attention to it.

As a result, many people have discovered that the cost of going to sea once is really high, and it is not something that anyone can do casually.

If you don't prepare carefully, if you miss something, you will die at sea.