The Road to the Imperial Examinations of Farmers in Ancient Times

Seeing the little prince puffing up like a little frog is so cute, Li Wen endured so much effort not to laugh out loud

Now that the emperor is here, he doesn't dare to poke the little prince's angry face.

Seeing the emperor looking at them leisurely, he looked like he just watched the fun and didn't help him.Li Wen rubbed his nose in his heart, and explained with a guilty conscience, "I've been a little busy lately." In fact, after the emperor returned to the palace, he didn't enter the palace so often, even if he came to the palace. , I didn't stay in the palace for a long time, and I will leave the palace after talking about important matters with the emperor.

Some time ago when the emperor was not in the capital, because he ran to the palace every day, he stayed in the palace for half a day, and his own affairs were piled up there and had not been dealt with, so this busyness is not an excuse, it is true. Things were busy, so when I got busy, I really forgot about His Royal Highness the little prince.

Li Wen quickly changed the subject, and said, "I...although I'm busy with other things, I haven't forgotten about you, Your Highness."

Sure enough, after hearing his words, the little prince lowered his bulging cheeks, and looked at him suspiciously.

Faced with the little prince's doubts, Li Wen continued to coax the little prince, "Didn't the minister teach His Highness how to count last time, Your Highness, do you still remember how to count? Your Highness wants to count correctly, and I promised to send His Highness a small car." Don't you remember? I have already asked someone to make the small car, and if your highness counts correctly, I will ask someone to send the small car to your highness." It is true that the small car has already been made by someone, but he forgot He ordered someone to send it to the palace for the little prince.

For such a young child, if he was taught to read those poems and songs, he would not understand the meaning at all, so it is better to teach him some simple arithmetic.

When their little boy was young, he started to teach children simple arithmetic, so his little boy could count on his fingers when he was very young. When he grew up and went out, at least when he went out to buy things, others would never fool his little boy money.

Now as the little prince's tutor, Li Wen also thought about how to start teaching the little prince and how to teach the little prince.

In this era, subjects such as heavy texts in education, and other subjects such as arithmetic, law, medicine, etc. have not received much attention and development.The imperial examination is about the Four Books and Five Classics and so on. Scholars have been memorizing the Four Books and Five Classics since childhood, composing poems, songs and Fu, and writing articles.He is not saying that liberal arts are useless, but that to make this era better developed, in addition to liberal arts, other disciplines such as arithmetic and medicine should be developed and utilized.

Now he is the Taifu of the little prince. If there is no accident, this little prince will be the next king of Dacheng Kingdom. His way of educating the prince, his words and deeds are very important. of.So after some thinking, Li Wen decided to educate the little prince according to the education method he thought. He hoped to cultivate a future prince who understood and valued all aspects of knowledge for Dacheng.

It wasn't until he became a teacher for others that Li Wen realized how much his teacher had spent on him, and how much he had expected from him as a student.Now that he is a teacher for the little prince, he will also consider many things, thinking about how to teach the little prince well, this is not only to give an explanation to the emperor, but more importantly, he is responsible for the little prince, for the little prince. Dacheng is responsible for the future of the country.

The arithmetic method of the Nine Chapters of Arithmetic is far less easy to learn than the Arabic numerals of later generations, so Li Wen taught His Royal Highness the Arabic arithmetic that only later generations, and some simple addition and subtraction within ten.

"Oh, counting, what counting? Tell me too." Yang Shaomu asked curiously when he heard what they said about counting.

"Your Highness, let the emperor hear the count." After hugging the little prince for a while, his arms became too tired, so Li Wen put the little prince down.The little prince ran up to his father, and counted with his fingers for his father. After finishing, he turned to look at his grand tutor, and asked, "Teacher, is Xuan'er counting right?"

"Well, yes, Your Highness is awesome." Li Wen nodded with a smile and boasted.

Hearing the Taifu praised him, the little prince was a little shy and embarrassed, but the Taifu praised him, hehe...

"Oh, can you write it down for me to see?" Yang Shaomu was obviously very interested in this thing.Li Wen asked the little prince to write, and the little prince wrote it stroke by stroke with the brush in his hand. Although the writing was a bit crooked, it was all correct in the end.

Seeing the emperor looking at him, Li Wen understood that the emperor was waiting for him to explain to him.

"This is what I read in an ancient book. I think this arithmetic method is novel, and it is extremely simple and convenient." Li Wen could only find an excuse. He couldn't say that this arithmetic method was introduced thousands of years later. It spread from overseas.

But now it is true that Dacheng has not yet come, he took this thing out, and he wants to find an excuse for how this thing came about.This thing is not created by him, and he cannot take the achievements of others.The ten Arabic arithmetic forms the basis of arithmetic, and no matter how big the numbers are, they can be combined with these ten large Arabic arithmetic. Li Wen simply explained the combination rules and arithmetic methods to the emperor.

Compared with the young prince, who is still younger and has poor comprehension ability, Yang Shaomu understood it as soon as he heard it, and quickly recognized the advantages of this arithmetic method, "This is much faster than Chuanzhu."

"Well, yes." Li Wen nodded, but he couldn't deny that Juzhu is not good, "These two arithmetic methods have their own advantages."

Even Zhao Xiangyi, who was standing aside, understood what the young man said.

Since there is such a good arithmetic method, why don't they promote it so that more people can learn to use it?As the emperor, Yang Shaomu was the first to think of Limin, and he asked, "Li Aiqing, if this arithmetic method is popularized, do you think it is good or not?"

"Returning to the emperor, if we can spread this arithmetic method and let more people know and learn it, that would be good." Li Wen said, "Your Majesty, guess how many days I taught your highness, your highness Learned to count?"

He said, "The minister taught the little highness for three days, and the little highness learned it."

"If this method of arithmetic can be popularized, many children can learn it." How useful is arithmetic?Not to mention the design of atomic bombs, there are many aspects that can be used in daily life, ranging from going out to buy groceries, to the design of bridge foundations, etc. Arithmetic is something that can be used. Li asked this The benefits were told to the emperor again.

Seeing the emperor's heartbeat, he continued his efforts and continued, "Your Majesty, I have an idea in my mind, and I don't know if it should be said or not."

speak. "

"Let's talk." Yang Shaomu waved his hand, asking Li Wen to continue talking.

"Wen can rule the country, martial arts can pacify the world, and doctors can save lives and heal the wounded. These are all considered from a large perspective. From a small perspective, merchants know how to do business, embroiderers know how to embroider and make clothes, and workers know how to build bridges and houses... We It cannot be said that these people are useless, if there were no merchants and embroiderers, where would the clothes on our bodies come from? Your majesty, would you say so." Li Wen cited so many examples, in fact, for the sake of the following.

"The Dacheng Kingdom needs all kinds of talents and capable people... Therefore, I suggest to open a university in the capital, and invite outstanding scholars in these fields to be honest. Teaching students such knowledge as astronomy, geography, legal arithmetic, etc., will allow every family to flourish and achieve success. Only when there are many excellent talents in all walks of life can Dacheng Kingdom develop more and more in the future. good."

After hearing Li Wen's words, Yang Shaomu felt a sense of enlightenment, "Only when many outstanding talents are produced from all walks of life, can Dacheng Kingdom's future develop better and better?" The emperor carefully After appreciating what Li Wen said, he praised, "Good, good, good, Li Aiqing's words woke me up."

"Li Aiqing is right. Dacheng really needs all kinds of talents like this. Dacheng's future will only get better and better. Li Aiqing, you said to run a university, how should this university be run? Do you have an idea?" The emperor has never heard of it. Such a university, but since Li Wen brought it up, he must have thought about these aspects, why not listen to his thoughts first.

Seeing that the emperor was interested, in fact, Li Wen had the idea of ​​running a university since the time when the former emperor was there, but at that time he did not have the conditions to run a school. The most important thing was that the household department was poor and wanted to do Nothing can come out of silver.But now it's different, the household department is getting more and more money, and the household department has money, whatever they want to do, at least they have the money.

Still the same sentence, without money is absolutely impossible, but with money everything is possible.

So it is not impossible to run a university, as long as they have money, they can run this university.

They run a university here, certainly not like the universities of later generations, but many things can be borrowed from the universities of later generations, Li Wen told the emperor some of his ideas, and where the students come from, in the future Where these people can arrange to do things, etc., they have to consider these things.

"En." Listening to Li Liuyuan's words, the emperor nodded from time to time, agreeing with Li Liuyuan's words.

The poor little prince was left aside by his Taifu and his own father, and finally caught the Taifu into the palace, but was snatched away by his father!snort!

However, the little prince also knew that the Taifu and his father were talking about state affairs, and knew that they could not be disturbed, so he could only sit on the side obediently.

Sitting beside the little prince was General Zhao Xiangyi and Zhao Xiaojun. He could still understand some things Li Wen and the emperor said before, but he couldn't understand what they were talking about later.

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