The Ming Dynasty started with caution

Yan Chengjin asked He Neng to lift the letter and take a closer look.

A crane flew to a mountain, or to be precise, to a gold ingot, which was tied to a rope.

My painting skills are extremely poor, but I can still guess the meaning.

There is a silver mine in the island country, which supplied one-third of the world's silver during the Ming Dynasty.

The mineral resources are incredibly rich.

It’s called Iwami Silver Mine!

Did the Zhang brothers go to the Ishimi Silver Mine?

Since it was a letter of help from the Zhang brothers, then... Yan Chengjin said to He Neng, "If you can't understand it, burn it."

He Neng trotted over to bring the brazier and burned the letter as well.

The next day, it was early in the morning.

Yan Chengjin sat in the sedan and when he arrived at the entrance of the alley, he saw a Japanese squatting at the foot of the wall.

The Japanese looked at the sedan and seemed afraid to come over. They glanced at the sedan and left.

Yan Chengjin entered the palace from the side door of the Meridian Gate and followed the flow of officials from the early morning to Fengtian Hall.

After the liquidation of Huang Ce, Emperor Hongzhi was quite dissatisfied with the arithmetic of the Ministry of Revenue.

How would it be if outsiders were invited to sort out major affairs in the DPRK every year?

Moreover, he wanted to shorten the inventory period.

"Ten years is too long. I want to clear the yellow book every three years as a rule."

The officials looked at each other from left to right.

A liquidation process takes several months and requires a lot of manpower.

Han Wenwen said: "Your Majesty, the liquidation of the Yellow Book is quite complicated. It requires several master books to proofread and liquidate. In addition, there are many accounts such as begging, military pay, relief money and taxes. The Ministry of Accounts is really beyond its capabilities."

The palace repairs and the vassal king's expenses also need to be accounted for. Just relying on the household department, 365 plus 007 cannot be calculated.

Moreover, the Ming Dynasty used abacus, which was not as fast as a calculator.

Yan Chengjin fell into deep thought. His Majesty's intention was obvious, to conduct a short-term inventory to prevent the paddy fields from shrinking again.

Emperor Hongzhi looked at Zhang Sheng with burning eyes: "The officials in the Ministry of Husbandry and Hanyuan know nothing about arithmetic. I think the problem lies with the Ministry of Rites. How does the Ministry of Rites plan to rectify it?"

The Ministry of Rites was in charge of the imperial examinations and was in charge of education in the Ming Dynasty.

The selected officials were actually not as good as the merchants in the market, so of course he had to ask questions.

Zhang Sheng's pressure increased greatly: "I will strengthen the teaching of arithmetic."

There are only three examinations for the provincial examination and the general examination.

In the first performance, there is an eight-legged essay and a five-character eight-rhyme poem.

In the second session, there is one chapter from each of the Five Classics.

In the third scene, Ce asked the five ways.

The imperial examinations of the Ming Dynasty, as well as the imperial examinations of all previous dynasties, did not test arithmetic.

This led to the fact that officials in the imperial court were not as good as merchants doing business in the market.

In the Song Dynasty and Yuan Dynasty, Tianyuan Shu developed prosperously. If it is promoted and continued, the Ming Dynasty may become the world's largest mathematical country.

But it happened that in the Ming Dynasty, it suffered a fault.

Yan Chengjin stood in front of the queue of the Metropolitan Procuratorate without saying a word.

We need to be careful when talking about restructuring.

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The Ministry of Etiquette is on duty,

Zhang Sheng picked up the paperweight and thought hard for a long time, not knowing how to organize it.

"The Imperial College and all the scholars in the world despise arithmetic. Your Majesty is really making things difficult for me."

"If it's just to clean up the yellow books, it would really take a lot of effort." A chief secretary of the Ministry of Rites sighed.

The foundation of the imperial examination in the Ming Dynasty was still the eight-legged essay, which was based on reading the books of sages.

Anything that has nothing to do with the books of sages is all heresy.

If the Ministry of Rites issued an order to order scholars all over the world to learn abacus specifically, it would shake the reading culture of the Ming Dynasty.

Therefore, Zhang Sheng wrote this edict very carefully. He thought about it for a long time, but he has not yet written it.

After checking in, I returned to my house.

Zhang Sheng put on Confucian clothes and sat on the brocade stool, sighing a few times.

"Dad, food is the most important thing for people. Eat first. It's not too late to sigh after eating."

Zhang Yuanxi looked at the sweet and sour carp longingly.

My father is the Minister of Rites, so he pays attention to etiquette. If the elder does not move his chopsticks, he cannot move his chopsticks either.

"Dad can't eat it!"

"Then...do you still want to eat?"

Zhang Sheng ignored him and said to himself: "Your Majesty asked dad to organize arithmetic, but arithmetic is not a subject subject to the imperial examination, and everything that should be taught has been taught, how can we organize it? Eh."

"Dad, Xie Yu's arithmetic was also learned from Liangxiang. Liangxiang has the entrance examination of the College of Science. Dad might as well ask Wang Shibo." Zhang Yuanxi often went to Qingshan Library to meet friends and knew a little bit about it.

Zhang Sheng's eyes shone brightly and he quickly called for someone to prepare the sedan.

Not long after, they arrived at the palace.

Wang Yue returned to Beijing from Liangxiang. When he heard that Zhang Sheng was coming, he laughed and came from the back hall.

"Brother Qizhao, you usually avoid me, but today, why did you take the initiative to visit me? I'm really flattered, hahaha."

Zhang Sheng blushed. In the past, Wang Yue had a bad reputation and few officials were willing to associate with him.

"To be honest, I have something to ask for. Your Majesty wants to reorganize the Ministry of Household Affairs and the Ministry of Rites. I want the lecture notes and calculation papers from Liangxiang."

Officials in the court are assessed every month. If a math paper comes out, the math will be mentioned.

Zhang Sheng thought so.

Wang Yue pondered: "This... is a secret, and I cannot leak it."

The next day, Yan Chengjin was blocked by someone in the Moon Cave of the Meridian Gate.

"Master Zhang, why did you block me?"

Although this kid is not lovable, he knows etiquette.

Zhang Sheng pulled Yan Chengjin to the courtyard and said hurriedly: "Your Majesty ordered me to organize arithmetic. I heard about Xie Yu's arithmetic and studied it in Liangxiang. Please give me a copy of Liangxiang's lecture notes and arithmetic papers."

He also held a hundred taels of silver in his hand and waved it in front of his eyes, indicating that this is yours.

Yan Chengjin looked at it for a long time and spit out four words: "I refuse."

"You!" Zhang Sheng was furious.

Zhu Houzhao went to Zhan Shifu to go to school. He saw Zhang Sheng and Yan Chengjin sneaking around, so he came over and said, "Old Gao, Master Zhang took you hostage?"

"Your Highness, don't talk nonsense. I and Master Yan are discussing business!" Zhang Sheng emphasized angrily.

Yan Chengjin said sternly: "I won't sell it if I'm a low-ranking official."

After that, without looking back, he went to Zuoyemen to line up and prepare for the morning ceremony.

Zhang Sheng sighed, shook his head, and followed him towards Zuoyemen.

The golden bell rang, and officials entered Dongnuan Pavilion one after another.

After the cabinet and the six ministries presented their reports, it was the turn of the Metropolitan Procuratorate.

"Yan Qing's family, I see you have something to say."

Emperor Hongzhi had been in court for fifteen years, and it was clear through his demeanor who had something to hide.

This guy was standing at the forefront of the imperial censor, and he could see it clearly.

Yan Chengjin bowed slightly: "I think that instead of promoting abacus, it is better to promote Tianyuan Shu and let Xie Yu be appointed as a doctor in the Imperial College to teach arithmetic."

Although he doesn't help Zhang Sheng, he can take the opportunity to promote arithmetic.

The prosperous commerce in the Ming Dynasty led to abacus, which was spread among merchants, that is, abacus.

The foundation of Tianyuan Shu is calculation, that is, solving quadratic equations and cubic equations of one variable.

During the Song and Yuan Dynasties, our ancestors already knew how to solve equations.

This is a huge progress, but it is a pity that it was not inherited and promoted in the Ming Dynasty.

Not only did the Ming Dynasty lag behind the West, but it also prevented the Ming Dynasty from coming to prosperity.

Arithmetic is the foundation of all knowledge, even more important than the Four Books and Five Classics.

If Tian Yuan Shu is popularized, the shock in history will be called the Renaissance of the East.

Emperor Hongzhi, Li Dongyang and others didn't know what Yan Chengjin was thinking. In their opinion, arithmetic was just a useless subject used in the household department, and they didn't care.

Ma Wensheng bluntly retorted: "Doctorate is an official position in the Imperial College, how can a businessman be allowed to hold it?"

Your Majesty and the officials have no intention of attaching importance to Tianyuan Technique.

Yan Chengjin understands them, who has nothing to do to solve quadratic equations?

If you don't take the imperial examination, being a merchant is a dishonorable profession.

In such a big environment, it is destined that arithmetic cannot be promoted like the eight-legged essay.

In order to implement it, the general environment must be changed, that is, the examination method of the imperial examination must be changed.

This move is as difficult as climbing to the sky.

If it were not implemented, arithmetic would have broken down in the Ming Dynasty.

Now is an opportunity. Zhang Sheng is forced by His Majesty's decree and the Ministry of Rites needs to be restructured.

"What the Ministry of Civil Affairs said is true. Although I appreciate Xie Yu's arithmetic, Xie Yu is a merchant and cannot be directly promoted to an official."

In the Ming Dynasty, there was only one way to become an official: the imperial examination. This was the ancestral system.

No matter how good the people you recommend are, they are still ordinary people. I cannot make an exception and abolish the ancestral system for the sake of a businessman.

All the officials thought so.

But Yan Chengjin continued: "There is no need to promote him to an official position. Making Xie Yu a guest doctor of the Imperial College does not violate the ancestral system."

Emperor Hongzhi couldn't understand. Could it be that I am ignorant?

He looked at the knowledgeable Li Dongyang, who was also blushing and confused.

"What is...what is a guest doctor?"

In the opinion of Liu Jian and others, such a doctor has never been heard of in the past dynasties.

"Visiting doctors have no official position and receive no salary from the court. When they give lectures, they only need to pay Xie Yu a few cents.

Although Xie Yu is a businessman, the sage said that people are not born with knowledge, and there is no order of learning, and those who are masters come first.

If Your Majesty wants to improve his arithmetic, why should he stick to just one title? "

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