Dahan first prince

Chapter 368 The Seed of Examination

Without letting Liu Ying wait in the house for too long, Zhang Cang handed over all the affairs in his hands to Yang Chengyan, and immediately walked into the house with an angry face.

After saluting to Liu Ying slightly perfunctorily, Zhang Cang sat down full of annoyance, folded his hands and hid them in his sleeves, turned away, and sulked himself.

——For Zhang Cang, this exam is definitely the 'darkest moment' in his life!
It's not that Zhang Cang himself suffered any harm because of this exam, but that the test papers and the candidates who participated in the exam really disappointed Zhang Cang.

Not to mention the paper that used the cumulative addition method to calculate the area of ​​square acres just now, the method is a bit stupid, but at least the calculation is correct, and it can barely be regarded as justified;
——There is a calculation process, and the correct result is obtained.

What really annoyed Zhang Cang were those test papers that not only had stupid methods, but also failed to calculate the correct answers!
For example, in the problem of chicken and rabbit in the same cage, there are only five chickens and rabbits in total, and eighteen legs in total;
This level of difficulty couldn't be any easier, right?
But there was that extremely stupid person who answered several pages eloquently, and finally came up with the bizarre answers of 'a certain chicken had an extra leg' and 'a certain rabbit had a broken leg'.

It's just that, that's all.

After all, chickens and rabbits are in the same cage, and the test is not for entry-level arithmetic methods such as addition, subtraction, multiplication, and division. Zhang Cang is completely acceptable to those who are not proficient in arithmetic and fail to answer.

But Zhang Cang really couldn't understand: there are people who can make mistakes in calculating the product of the square field that tests multiplication, and the "after-tax income of farmers" that tests multiplication, division, addition and subtraction!

——And the calculation here is wrong, not because the result is wrong, but from the process to the result, the whole story is confusing!
The more he thought about it, the more angry Zhang Cang could hold back his anger. Regardless of Liu Ying and Cao Shen being in front of him, he just sneered, but there was no joy in his brows.

"Prime Minister, you know, what do you know about the farmer's surplus grain for one year's labor?"

"Hey·······"

"A farmer has a field of 360 mu, and the production of corn is [-] shi, and the tax is [-] yuan, and the farmer, wife, and son are paid by three people, and the price of rice and stone is [-] qian;"

"This question, is it not easy?"

"——meter 360 shi, if the tax is 24 yuan, then 330 will be taken away; if the rice stone is [-] yuan, if the oral tax is calculated three times, then another [-] yuan will be removed, and the remaining [-] shi!"

"However, there is that talented man who said that this farmer should have several servants, and he needs to pay slaves; and the local government imposes too many miscellaneous taxes, which are not clearly stated in the question, so this question cannot be solved!!!"

"This!"

"Ugh!!!"

As he spoke excitedly, Zhang Cang slapped his thigh with a depressed expression, and heaved a long sigh.

And at Zhang Cang's side, seeing Zhang Cang's reaction, Cao Can couldn't help but burst into laughter, and a little thoughtful expression quietly appeared between his brows.

Sitting at the top, watching Zhang Cang's "Burning with Anger" reality show with a slight smile, and kindly giving Zhang Cang a moment to adjust, Liu Ying shook her head with a smile, and looked at Zhang Cang slightly teasingly.

"It's not unusual for the Marquis of Beiping to be so angry."

"——Since the Qin Dynasty imposed the law of holding books, the people of the world were forbidden to collect books, and all the people who practiced literature in the world had no scriptures to learn from."

"I have heard more: In the second generation, all the heroes of the Kanto region rose up together to fight against the Qin Dynasty. However, after the Six Kingdoms, they searched for scriptures and allusions in their land, but in the end..."

Shaking her head and speaking with a wry smile, Liu Ying finally let out a sigh.

"At the time of the second generation, it is also the same after the Six Kingdoms, let alone ordinary households?"

"As for this exam, I have asked three questions about arithmetic and arithmetic. If candidates for the exam have not studied the nine chapters of arithmetic, it will be difficult to solve these three questions."

"So I thought that the Marquis of Beiping needn't be so angry?"

Hearing Liu Ying's soft-spoken persuasion, Zhang Cang was still annoyed, but he couldn't be willful, so he finally nodded reluctantly.

——Liu Ying is right.

In the past few decades, not to mention the allusions of the sages and the books of hundreds of schools, even the scattered bamboo sticks with words written on them, there are still some people who want to buy them at high prices!

But even so, a complete book, or even just a complete fragment, rarely appears.

no way;
Qin burned the book of the world, and the burning is thorough enough...
Except for some people who received the news in advance and had enough courage to build the books in their homes into the walls and bury them in the soil, the last remaining books in the world were all collected in the Shiqu Pavilion of Qin Xianyang Palace. .

Then, the first emperor Liu Bang entered Xianyang first, and Xiang Yu came later, and after the Hongmen Banquet, he burned Xianyang Palace to nothing...
Had it not been for the first time he entered Xianyang, Xiao He, the Marquis of Bing Wen, had accurately realized that "Xianyang is not suitable for staying for a long time" and had taken away most of the books in Shiqu Pavilion in advance, I am afraid that even a bamboo slip with more than ten bamboo sticks in the world today Can't find any leftovers!

But even though Xiao He almost emptied the Shiqu Pavilion of Qin Xianyang Palace back then, most of the historical books of various schools of thought and ancient heroes of the Warring States Period were still lost;
Even the remaining parts are mostly fragments and volumes that do not match the preface and the afterword, and are in a mess, all piled up in the Shiqu Pavilion of Weiyang Palace today.

This year, after Liu Ying promulgated the edict to abolish the law of holding books, this situation may be better.

At least those who used to hide books in the walls and soil in the Qin Dynasty, and still dare not admit that they have books, can finally stand up and admit that they "have books".

But if you think about it, you will know that those who can hide books in front of the wolf-like officials of Qin, and are lucky not to have their family lineage interrupted by the war at the end of Qin Dynasty, are the few among the few.

Even now, the book-holding law has been abolished by Liu Yingming's edict, and the private ownership of books has been legalized again, but the stock of books in the world may still be appallingly low.

——It is no exaggeration to say that in the current situation, as long as someone can produce a book with clear handwriting, complete text, and proof that it is an "allusion to the sages", it can basically be concluded that this scroll of bamboo slips is the last book in existence. One volume out of print!
Unless it is a coincidence, in today's world, there is almost no possibility that a certain book was hidden by two people at the same time, and it is still well preserved!
If not, it would be impossible for Liu Ying to abolish the book-holding law and at the same time offer a super-high price tag of "a complete book is worth a thousand dollars, and a fragmented book is a hundred dollars" to buy books from the people without restriction.

Because Liu Ying knew clearly: what she wanted to buy, or what the court wanted to buy, was not a rubbing copy of a certain book, but an out-of-print that only existed in the world!

Under such circumstances, Zhang Cang was able to use his memory to keep all the books he read when he was the censor of Qin. For Chinese civilization, it was indeed a blessing in misfortune.

But even so, Zhang Cang can't expect that everyone in the world has the same ability to remember with a photograph;
Not to mention that the candidates who took part in the examination this time should all have been Qin Yushi, have stayed in Qin Shiqu Pavilion for decades, and have searched through the collection of books in Shiqu Pavilion of Qin Xianyang Palace...
Thinking of this, most of the anger in Zhang Cang's chest finally dissipated, so he bowed his hands to Liu Ying indifferently, expressing that he 'follows the teaching'.

As for any more words, Zhang Cang was unwilling to say anything.

——To be honest, the problem of the scarcity of books in the world today can only be counted on Zhang Cang to solve it!
Because after Qin burned the books of the world, he kept all the versions of all the books, without exception, in the Shiqu Pavilion of Xianyang Palace as a backup;
But in today's world, there is no one who dares to say that he has read every book in the Shiqu Pavilion of Qin Xianyang Palace and can recite most of it, except Zhang Cang!
Leaving aside the difficulty of retreading, as long as Zhang Cang is willing to handwrite the books in his mind and hand over a copy to Liu Ying, the problem of the shortage of books in the world will be solved easily!

But the problem is: people have selfish desires.

As a person with selfish desires, Zhang Cang is obviously more willing to hide those books in his mind than selfless dedication, as a solid foundation for the Zhang family to last forever...
"The last two questions, is there an answer, and someone who has something to say?"

While thinking, Liu Ying's questioning sound came from his ear, and Zhang Cang was relieved from his thoughts;

But after realizing the content of Liu Ying's question, the anger that Zhang Cangqiang suppressed just now came to his face again.

"Your Majesty."

"For this exam, there are 410 and [-] candidates who came from all over Guanzhong."

"Except for the exam day, there are dozens of people who have not yet arrived at the exam room, and there are 390 and [-] of them, all of which have no blank papers."

Hearing Zhang Cang's words, Liu Ying was only taken aback subconsciously, and after a while, she shook her head and smiled wryly.

——Not handing in blank papers is almost the most profound and long-standing genetic characteristic of the Chinese nation.

In the exam, the idea of ​​"whether it is right or wrong, you have to write something" is still passed down by the Chinese nation even in the new era more than 2000 years later.

And from Zhang Cang's distorted face again, it is not difficult for Liu Ying to guess: These examinees who adhere to the "even if they make a mistake, they can't write nothing" answered what kind of shocking answers to the questions, so that An old man like Zhang Cang couldn't hold back his anger...
Thinking of this, Liu Ying just shook her head and smiled again, then turned her head slightly and winked at Chuntuo beside her.

After a while, Chuntuo returned with a wooden box in his arms, and respectfully placed the wooden box on the wooden table in front of Liu Ying.

"Shaofu Yang Gongyan: The volumes in the box are all square fields seeking plots and farmers' surplus grain..."

Hearing Chuntuo's soft report, Liu Ying also nodded slowly, and immediately grabbed half of the test papers in the wooden box.

——Fang Tian's product, to put it bluntly, is a 235x235 arithmetic problem;

If you don't know how to do multiplication, you can use 230 five plus 230 five to calculate his 230 five times, and you can get the correct answer just like the answer sheet that Liu Ying saw just now.

至于农户余粮，也与之类似，就是360-360÷15-2x3的基础运算。

It's just that compared to seeking plots in square fields, this farmer's surplus grain is more realistic.

Regarding the scarcity of books in the world and the lack of sources of knowledge for young people, Liu Ying had expected it and fully accepted it.

But having simple addition, subtraction, multiplication and division, or at least being able to calculate addition and subtraction, is Liu Ying's unshakable bottom line.

To put it bluntly, if someone can't even answer these two questions, then there is no need for Liu Ying to waste time reading the following subjective questions.

——People who can't add and subtract can have a fart subjective opinion!
Thinking so, Liu Ying lowered her head and quietly read the test paper in her hand.

But it is a pity that there is no discovery or surprise that can make Liu Ying's eyes shine.

Among these qualified answer sheets, except for a few outliers, such as the person who used addition to calculate multiplication, the others were basically normal people.

When it comes to square field calculation, most people use the calculation method;
即：235x235，等于200x235+30x235+5x235，得出47000+7050+1175=55225。

When it comes to farmers' surplus grain, it is also a well-regulated answering process.

As for chickens and rabbits in the same cage, as expected by Liu Ying, most people did not use the solution of the equation, but the method of elimination.

That is: if there are four chickens, there is one rabbit, and there are a total of 2x4+4=12 legs, and the title requires 18 legs, so exclude...
Through this method of elimination, the possibilities of all chickens, all rabbits, and four, three, and two chickens are respectively excluded, and finally it is concluded that there is one chicken and four rabbits.

As for the latter two subjective questions, there is no nutritious content.

For the question of 'local political malpractice and the method to solve it', almost all of the hundreds of qualified answers were the same rainbow fart of 'Your Majesty's eyes are as bright as a torch, you can see thousands of miles, the local county officials are clear, and the people live and work in peace and contentment'.

Although Liu Ying was not surprised by such an answer, she reluctantly accepted it.

——Aside from other things, these people have at least possessed the two officialdom skills of 'talking nonsense with eyes open' and 'whitewashing the peace';
In the future, if you step into the officialdom, even if you can't make a difference, you can at least keep one party safe and be a conservative minister.

As for the later discussion on current affairs and politics, Liu Ying was really disappointed.

——Same as the previous question, it is still the same large horse scene of "Your Majesty's eyes are as bright as a torch, and you can see thousands of miles. If your majesty says that North Korea should be fought, then it must be fought."

For these young candidates in their 30s and [-]s, Liu Ying reluctantly recognized that they had such political awareness.

But this question is the 'hawk' identification question that Liu Yingqiong thought hard and finally came up with!

The result was good, none of the hawks were identified, and the doves were nowhere to be seen. Instead, a piece of old-fashioned officialdom fritters exploded...

"Ugh·······"

"Never mind."

"In the past few decades, those who were able to take the lead have basically taken the lead at the turn of the Qin and Han Dynasties. Those who have not yet taken the lead are either lacking in ability or young."

"This is the person who can be used, the old is too old, the young is too small..."

"Talent cut-off period~~~"

Full of embarrassment, she let out an exclamation, and Liu Ying lost the ability to continue looking down.

Getting up from the couch, she said hastily to Zhang Cang, 'choose the best [-]-point answer sheet and send it to the palace', and Liu Ying left the prime minister's mansion quite disappointed.

And this exam, also with Liu Ying's sigh, came to an end.

——There are no unexpected surprises, and there are no gatherings of talented people and great talents.

Yes, they are generals from a group of dwarves, that is, a group of less bad people selected according to "comparison of bad".

For Liu Ying, such a result is obviously not satisfactory.

But at the very least, the seeds of the examination had already been planted by Liu Ying;
In the not-too-distant future, one after another, famous officials who are famous in history will pass these three arithmetic questions and two subjective questions, and step into the eyes of Liu Ying and the people of the world.

And Liu Ying dares to conclude: that day will not be too far away...

(End of this chapter)