Cross Country Little Master

When we arrived in the capital, it was almost dark.

Eunuch Cao went straight back to the palace to report, and made an appointment to pick up Fang Ruixuan tomorrow to meet the Holy Majesty.

Fang Ruixuan and Liu Sheng were welcomed to his residence in the capital by the people Shen Huiming sent to wait at the city gate.

The young lady of the Yao family who was engaged to Shen Huiming was fourteen years old. The family was reluctant to let her marry early and wanted to stay for another year. They set the wedding date with Shen Huiming in April next year, one month after Miss Yao's wedding.

Before Fang Ruixuan arrived at Shen Huiming's mansion, the master Shen Huiming had already greeted him in front of the door. He didn't know the exact time when Fang Ruixuan arrived in the capital, but he had sent people to wait at the city gate every day five days ago.

"Master and mother have come all the way, and I think it is very tiring. I have asked the housekeeper to prepare the room, and I ask master and mother to rest first." Shen Huiming thoughtfully said.

"I'm interested tomorrow. I'm not very tired yet. Let someone take your teacher's wife to rest." Liu Sheng looked very tired. He had to travel for half a month and suffered a lot.

However, during the long and boring journey, the relationship between the husband and wife has warmed up a lot.Fang Ruixuan must have brought his husband with him because the opportunity was rare, and he didn't want Liu to live his whole life without even seeing what the capital is like.

Liu Sheng heard that Fang Ruixuan asked him to rest, and knew that the master and apprentice had something to say, so he followed the servants to the guest room.

Fang Ruixuan and Shen Huiming talked for a long time in the study, and it ended when the moon was in the sky.

The child has really grown up, Fang Ruixuan thought on the way to the guest room.

Shen Huiming, who entered the officialdom, has a completely different demeanor than when he was studying in the past, more calm, deeper, and more thoughtful.Fang Ruixuan felt that in a few years, if he became more popular in the officialdom, maybe he would not be able to guess Shen Huiming's thoughts.

However, this is the best way.

Since we have to be in such a melting pot, how can we hope to get out of the silt without being stained.Haven't heard of such a poem in Dream of the Red Chamber, it's the same as living a clean world.

If Shen Huiming was like Hai Rui, Fang Ruixuan felt that he would die of worry.People who cannot tolerate sand in their eyes must be drowned by sand first.

He has to get up early tomorrow, so he should take a good rest first.

This fast-paced rush is really not human work, he still has a sore back and back, and he has some doubts about whether he is old.

Of course, Master Fang is old or not, only he knows.

But the face saint the next day was not easy. Although Eunuch Cao came to pick him up in the afternoon, Fang Ruixuan got up early in the morning to take a bath and change clothes.

On the way into the palace, I couldn't help feeling nervous.The majestic palace walls and row upon row of magnificent palaces always give him a feeling of oppression, a sense of suffocation of losing freedom and being imprisoned, and the surrender to the strong seems to be boiling in his blood.Fang Ruixuan felt that the imperial palace was really not a place for people to stay, and it almost made him feel slavish.

In other words, he is a modern person, and he is not afraid of seeing the emperor. The emperor has two eyes, a nose and a mouth, and it is impossible for him to grow something.What he was afraid of were those unreasonable rules.What if one is not careful, the imperial court loses its dignity, and this little life is over.

He still has a wife to support and a child who hasn't grown up yet.

But thinking about his first meeting with the saint, he might not be as good as his great disciple.Fang Ruixuan regained his energy.

"The grassroots Fang Ruixuan has met the emperor." After being introduced to the emperor's study by Eunuch Cao, Fang Ruixuan bowed to the emperor on his knees.

"Pingshen. Fang Juren is very capable, and two students from the Chunwei Gate passed the Jinshi exam." The emperor, sitting high on the dragon chair and wearing a bright yellow dragon robe, routinely praised Xia Ruixuan to facilitate their next conversation.

"The emperor is absurd. This is all achieved by Tanhualang and Liu Jinshi through their own efforts. The grass people just brought them to the beginning." Fang Ruixuan said, although what he said was true and he had said so to others, but everyone Everyone thought it was Fang Ruixuan's self-effacement, even the one sitting at the top thought so.

"Fang Juren doesn't have to be so modest. Tanhualang has done his best to learn Fang Juren's true biography and made a lot of contributions to the court." After the emperor praised Shen Huiming, he began to get down to business, "I heard that these figures and tables were created by Fang Juren. of."

"Returning to the emperor, the usage of these numbers came from overseas. My ancestors met several overseas businessmen. Although they had words but no paper, they always wrote their words on sheepskin. After coming to us, see After seeing the value of paper, which is convenient for writing, I wanted to buy paper-making recipes and bring them back to their country. But they don’t speak our language, and others don’t understand what they mean. My ancestors of the Fang family , an ancestor was very good at learning the languages ​​of other places, and after staying with those people for a few months, he was able to communicate with them basically."

"Besides understanding their thoughts, the ancestors were also very hesitant to help them. It was not until they proposed their unique accounting methods in exchange that the ancestors helped them buy a prescription with a lot of money. This uses symbols to represent numbers, It can simplify daily arithmetic operations. Statistics in tables can make the accounts more clear and vivid."

Fang Ruixuan made up nonsense to fool the emperor, but he didn't expect that a small number would attract the emperor's attention.However, it is normal for the emperor to pay attention to it. Such a convenient counting method does not know how much efficiency can be improved.

He wasn't afraid that the nine clans would be punished for the crime of deceiving the emperor. There was nothing left in the Fang family, not even a genealogy. Where would the emperor go to verify these.As for Fang Jiyuan's ignorance of this, he could also say that he is from a side branch, so he can't get access to things that can only be read by these direct descendants.

After all, I really don't know whether it is good or bad to be infected with an overseas country.

He didn't allow Shen Huiming and Hu Zhixuan to teach these things to others because these three apprentices wanted to go on official careers.If it is criticized by some people with ulterior motives because of this, it is really hard to guard against.

Maybe say it once or twice, the emperor doesn't believe it.But after talking too much, seeds of doubt were planted in my heart.If something goes wrong in the future, the emperor will think that you are collaborating with the enemy or traitorous to the country, or that you are a spy who has infiltrated the court.

The reason why Shen Huiming used what he had learned was because he was tricked into calculating a province's tax revenue for ten years within half a month, and compiled a report to the emperor.

In order to complete the task on time, he had no choice but to hand over Fang Ruixuan's things to several stewards Shen Dahai gave him. He worked overtime for days and days to complete this task in a month, but unexpectedly, the emperor was also alarmed. .

Facing the emperor, Shen Huiming naturally didn't dare to hide anything, and told the emperor everything about the law of numbers and statistics learned from Fang Ruixuan, such as the picture of his cousin.

Before Fang Ruixuan set off for the capital, he had already written a letter of apology and sent it back.Unexpectedly, by mistake, Fang Ruixuan did not receive Shen Huiming's letter.

Then the emperor suddenly wanted to see this strange man somehow.

In other words, a few years ago, when Ruixuan invited Huang Lesong to be his teacher in the academy, he registered in front of the current emperor.

After Chunwei, Fang Ruixuan's name appeared in front of him twice, and it was only normal that it aroused his interest.