Drive the RV back to Datang

Chapter 301 Chapter 311: Battle of wits in front of the temple

After listening to this question, everyone frowned. Obviously, the difficulty of this question was not lower than that of Lu Dongzan, but the leader of the Tianzhu envoy suddenly beat the case and asked angrily: "What kind of peaches are you selling! Three hundred dollars! One catty! So expensive!"

All the ministers were dumbfounded when they heard the words, this guy can't answer the questions well, cares about these things, no wonder he is like a fool, he can neither ask questions nor answer a question.

Li Hao said loudly: "The flat peaches of the Queen Mother bloom every 3000 years and bear fruit every 3000 years. Eating them can cure constipation. How about [-] yuan a catty? It's not expensive!"

Li Shimin couldn't help laughing when he heard the words, Li Hao's kung fu is still top-notch.

Li Hao's question is actually much more difficult than Lu Dongzan's question. Even if someone with a high school graduation level answers the question, he may not be able to answer it correctly, because this is beyond the scope of arithmetic questions, and belongs to It's a logic question. There are many confusing things in the question, which can easily mislead the answerers.

For example, there are multiple currency units in the question, such as 300 yuan, one tael of silver, and consistent money.Obviously, it only needs to be expressed in one way, but Li Hao specially converted it into three ways, in order to let others add currency conversion when thinking, don't underestimate currency conversion, when your mind is confused, this A little currency conversion can mess up your mind even more.

However, for those logic monsters, this question is so simple that they can almost know the answer at a glance. Li Hao asked this question just to see how Lu Dongzan's logical thinking ability is.

Li Hao couldn't see Lu Dongzan at the moment, after all, it was through the screen, but he could see Li Tai, who still turned his eyes up, muttering counts in his mouth, seeing him like this, Li Hao I knew that he would definitely not be able to figure it out this time. If he wanted to use arithmetic to solve this problem, he would go the wrong way. Only by seeing the source can he get the answer.

The sand in the hourglass is passing by little by little, and all the contestants are calculating with a frown. Those who know a little bit of basic arithmetic can even write and draw on paper with a pen.

Lu Dongzan also calculated carefully on the paper at first, and after two calculations, he came up with two different answers, which surprised him. At this moment, Xu Lian was walking around in front of the seven of them with the test questions. Go, in case they can't remember the title.Lu Dongzan glanced at the test questions again, suddenly his eyes lit up, and his face showed a look of surprise.

The sand in the hourglass finally leaked out, Xu Lian shouted: "All contestants, please stop writing."

Those contestants stopped writing one after another, and Xu Lian collected all their answer sheets one by one. This time everyone wrote their answers, but everyone's answers were different. This is the magic of this question. Different people different results can be calculated.

I saw that the answer of the Tianzhu envoy was 1000 texts, the answer of the Gesa envoy was 1700 texts, the answer of the Dashi envoy was 1850 texts, the answer of the Chenla envoy was 2150 texts, the answer of the Hall envoy was 850 texts, and the answer of Lu Dongzan It is 1150 texts.

The answers given by the envoys from the six countries were shown to all the ministers, and the ministers in the hall were discussing and pointing at the answers, because they also participated in the calculation, and the answers they got were not the same. When the calculated results were consistent, they thought they were right, and even many ministers started arguing quietly. Suddenly, the whole hall was buzzing, as if there were tens of thousands of bees.

"Quiet, gentlemen!" Li Shimin raised his hand and shouted loudly, all the ministers stopped discussing and arguing, and did not dare to speak out.

Li Shimin turned to look at Li Tai, and asked, "Qingque, have you figured out the result for this question?"

Li Tai cupped his hands confidently and said, "Go back to Emperor Father, my son has already figured out the result."

"Oh?" Li Shimin twirled his beard happily, "Then what is the result of your calculation, Qingque?"

Li Tai glanced back at the six answers, and said with high spirits: "Father, this time, the envoy from Chenla got the right answer. Old man Wang lost a total of 2150 Wen."

As soon as this remark came out, someone among the ministers immediately shouted: "Look, look, I'll say it's 2150 Wen!"

After hearing Li Tai's answer, Li Hao and Lu Dongzan both smiled lightly, while Lu Dongzan shook his head slightly, his smile full of deep meaning.

When Li Tai was talking, he happened to see the smiles of the two of them, and suddenly his heart jumped, and he thought to himself: "Could I have made a mistake? Impossible, I did the calculation twice, how could I be wrong."

Li Shimin turned his head to look at Li Hao at this moment, and asked, "Poetry Maniac, is Qing Que right?"

Li Hao got up and shook his head with a smile, and said, "Your Majesty, Lu Da answered correctly."

"How is it possible!" Li Tai suddenly stared and shouted, "How could it be that he got the answer right!"

Li Hao smiled and said: "Don't be excited, King Wei, it is indeed Lu Daxiang who answered correctly."

Li Tai became even more excited when he heard the words: "This is impossible! I can't possibly be wrong!"

"Your Highness, you really miscalculated." Li Hao's expression did not change, and he was still smiling.

Li Tai still wanted to call out, but Li Shimin raised his hand and said, "Okay, Qingque don't want to argue, Shikuang, tell me, how should this problem be calculated?"

"Of order." Li Hao got up and walked to the center of the hall, turned around to look at the crowd, and then said slowly, "This question can be divided into two halves. The first half is about selling peaches, and the second half is about exchanging money with neighbors. Let's do the math first." In the second half, suppose that Pharaoh had one tael of silver in his hand and used it to exchange 1000 Wen with his neighbor. This is an equivalent exchange without loss, but his silver was fake, and the 1000 Wen was returned to the neighbor. Let’s see now , What else does Lao Wang have in his hand, 1000 Wen is gone, and a tael of silver is gone, that is to say, he lost a tael of silver, which is 1000 Wen.”

Everyone nodded when they heard the words. Li Hao's solution was very clear.

Then, Li Hao said again: "Let's count the first half again. The first half is selling peaches. The purchase price of peaches is 450 renminbi a catty, but the selling price is 300 renminbi. The customer bought a catty, so Lao Wang lost 150 renminbi." , adding up to a total of 1150 texts."

"No!" Li Tai yelled suddenly, "He even took a tael of fake money, which should be 2150 Wen!"

Another minister asked loudly: "There is more! Lao Wang also found 700 Wen for the guests, and another 700 Wen should be added!"

Li Hao smiled lightly and said, "These two pieces of fake money and the 700 cash to find a customer are the biggest difficulties in this question, because these two sentences are very forgiving. When I count the second half, I have already said, in the hands of the old Wang. The money he gave was fake, so he lost one or two taels of silver, where did the one or two taels of silver come from, it was naturally given by someone else, so don’t count twice, the reason why King Wei made a mistake is here.”

When everyone heard the words, they suddenly realized that what Li Hao said was very reasonable. After thinking about it along the lines of what Li Hao said, it really became much clearer. At this time, Li Hao went on to say: "As for the 700 essays for finding customers, it is even more confusing. If you explain it directly, it may be difficult for you to understand, so these 700 articles must be explained as a separate event."

Li Shimin raised his eyebrows when he heard the words, and asked in doubt, "How to list it as a separate incident?"

Li Haodao: "Your Majesty, let's make an assumption, assuming that now the minister gave Your Majesty a tael of fake silver to buy His Majesty's...a horse."

Li Shimin entered the drama too deeply: "How can my horse be so cheap?"

"Suppose, suppose, Your Majesty, please don't be serious." Li Hao said with a smile, "Suppose, my minister bought one of His Majesty's horses with a tael of fake silver, and it only cost 300 Wen, and His Majesty will give you 700 Wen, right? "

"That's right." Li Shimin nodded.

Li Hao raised his eyebrows and said, "Then, if you do the math, how much did your majesty lose?"

Li Shimin thought for a while, and said: "In this way, I will lose 700 Wen, plus a horse."

Li Hao raised his eyebrows and asked, "How much is Your Majesty's horse?"

"Three hundred words."

"Then how much money did His Majesty lose in total?"

"Consistent." Li Shimin blurted out, startled himself, and then suddenly realized, "I know, how much fake money is collected, is how much money is lost?"

"Exactly." Li Hao nodded and said, "Actually, in the question I just said, there are only two points where Pharaoh lost money, one was selling peaches at a loss, losing 150 coins, and the other was receiving fake money, losing one or two. The silver is 1150 Wen in total, and as for exchanging money with neighbors, it is specially used to confuse people, and it is not a point of losing money at all, so Prime Minister Lu is right."

As soon as this remark came out, everyone was stunned. They didn't expect that such an embarrassing question would become so simple after being explained by Li Haoyi.

"How is this possible!" The Dashi envoy on the side hadn't turned around yet, he stood up and stared at Li Hao in the center of the palace, and scolded: "Then the old king obviously gave his neighbor a consistent amount of money in the end, why is it not counted!"

"It's not counted, it's already counted." Li Hao walked slowly in front of the Dashi envoy, and said with a light smile, "Let me ask you, if the envoy received a tael of fake money, would you have lost a tael? "

"Yes!" The Great Food Messenger nodded.

Li Hao asked again: "Fake money is useless. You can throw it away, or use it to deceive others, buy things, or exchange change. It doesn't matter. If you fail to deceive, will you lose money again?"

The Great Food Messenger frowned and thought for a long time, then shook his head and said, "There will be no more losses. If you are found out, at most you can exchange it for real money and give it to others. Because it is a normal transaction, it is not considered a loss."

"That's it." Li Hao raised his eyebrows and said, "Old Wang exchanged change with his neighbor and was found out. In the end, he had to exchange it for real money to give to the neighbor. After all, the neighbor gave him 1000 Wen at the beginning, and now he is giving it back to the neighbor. Qianwen, in normal transactions, there is no loss, and if you lose money, you will only lose money when you receive fake money, and you will not lose money when you use fake money."

The Dashi envoy was dumbfounded when he heard this, and was speechless for a while.

At this time, Lu Dongzan suddenly stood up slowly, and said with a smile on his face: "I have long heard that Li Hao, a young hero of the Tang Dynasty, and Li Shikuang are not only talented but also witty. Eye-opening, if this question is not for someone who is extremely intelligent, it is absolutely impossible to get it right, and Datang is indeed an outstanding man."

Li Hao also nodded at him with a smile on his face, and said slowly: "Master Lu is absurdly praised. The boy knew the answer to this question a long time ago, so it is not surprising that he can figure it out. The one who can see through it at a glance is the real incomparable intelligence. The boy admires it." Wan Fen, the number one wise man in Tubo really lives up to his reputation."

The two of them flattered each other, and Li Tai who was on the side was already flushed with anger. The last question just got the limelight, and now he is ashamed. Not only that, he also said that Lu Dongzan made a wrong calculation. It was me who slapped me in the face, Hong Guoguo slapped me in the face, I have been studying arithmetic for so many years, yet I am so worthless in front of Li Hao.

　This question, are you right? Regardless of whether you are right or wrong, vote. The next step is the individual contest between Li Hao and Lu Dongzan.

　　
　
(End of this chapter)