My son, Fusu, please abdicate the first emperor!

Chapter 756: Chicken Transforms into Phoenix (Please give me monthly tickets to subscribe!)
An era of unprecedented prosperity and development in academia is about to come.

Geng Changshou was a very low-key name in the past. Everyone in the Xianyang Palace knew Zhang Cang, but no one knew Geng Changshou.

After this one meeting, he became famous in Xianyang City for a while.

But this person was like a stone thrown into the lake, making a loud splash and all the creatures in the lake were startled.

But when everyone wanted to see this person, he had sunk into the water like a stone and could not be seen at all.

Soon, the ripples on the lake subsided and the stone sank to the bottom of the lake.

After Geng Changshou entered Mo Ge, he immediately met many people who were interested in mathematics like him.

But these people are not as young as Geng Changshou.

Being young is always good, as it means there are many possibilities in the future and a bright future.

These old guys in Moge were all picked up by Fusu in the "abandoned market". Each of them has a long white beard, and the corners of their wise eyes are covered with wrinkles left by the vicissitudes of life.

Some of his teeth have fallen out, but his mind is still very sharp.

Geng Changshou told them the emperor's intentions one by one.

That day, Geng Changshou suffered the heaviest blow from his ancestors. Zhang Cang, who was extremely good at mental arithmetic, had already attacked Geng Changshou in all aspects.

As a result, Zhang Cang looked down on the job given by Fusu, so Geng Changshou had to do it anyway.

He repeated the emperor's words in full and respectfully to the nine old men standing in a circle in front of him.

However, when these old men saw Geng Changshou sticking out his tongue and talking for a long time, they did not even shrug their shoulders. They either lowered their heads to play with the talking little green bird they raised, or played with the old turtle they raised, or stroked the black cat.

Some of them yawned long and hard.

At that moment, Geng Changshou collapsed.

But fortunately, he has a good temper and is flexible.

So he expressed the emperor's intention again.

He believed that Qin II kept these old men here not for them to play with birds and turtles or to sleep here.

"Your Majesty gave me twenty-six different-shaped patterns [Latin letters], saying they were symbols; and he gave me ten different-shaped worms, saying they were also symbols."

"Now His Majesty wants me to combine these symbols and use an equal sign to express an idea. He said he wants to refine it."

"I am a junior with limited knowledge and talent, and I really don't understand what Your Majesty means. I would like to ask the nine venerables for advice."

Upon hearing this, the nine venerables put down the things in their hands one by one.

One of them looked at Geng Changshou, thought seriously, and then stroked his beard.

"You said you are not well-educated?"

"Yes. I am a slow learner, please give me some advice."

The old man laughed and said, "I think so."

Geng Changshou's face suddenly turned green.

The other old men also laughed.

Geng Changshou was much more honest than Zhang Cang. If anyone dared to say that to Zhang Cang, Zhang Cang would at least slap him in the face if he couldn't kill him.

Geng Changshou was like a good student of his teacher. Even when being teased by the teacher, he just sat there obediently and was not angry at all.

"That is indeed the case. Please enlighten me, Your Excellency."

After hearing this, the other venerables began to look at Geng Changshou one after another.

"Mathematics is a subject that requires truth from facts. One is one, and two is two. This is not a place for people to cheat."

"You may not know what a discipline is. Disciplines were officially created when the Second Emperor was the Crown Prince, after he rectified the various schools of thought at the Jixia Academy, brought back all the famous teachers and students from all over the world, and opened the Mohist School."

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The venerable told Geng Changshou the general situation, and Geng Changshou was convinced that these venerables were deliberately acting like this to test him.

Geng Changshou went straight to the point and asked the most direct question, "Please enlighten me. I don't understand what kind of formula Your Majesty wants me to create."

"Take Zhang Cang's method of calculating the acreage of land, for example. Isn't that the simplest idea? Break the whole into parts and then count again. But Your Majesty said that we should express these ideas that are actually used in life in the form of formulas. I am puzzled."

That’s right, because of the emperor’s problems, Geng Changshou had grown dozens of visible white hairs in just a few days.

The venerable leader remained silent.

After Geng Changshou finished speaking, the old man just nodded slightly, and then nodded solemnly.

"Please enlighten me, Your Excellency."

The leading venerable, after pondering for a while, gave two words, "abstract."

When Geng Changshou heard this, he didn't quite believe his ears. Could he have heard it wrong?

"What did the Venerable say?"

"Two words." The leading venerable looked at Geng Changshou and chuckled, holding up two fingers. Then the venerable said it again, "Abstract."

Geng Changshou was very confused, "Abstract?"

"Just figure it out slowly. Once you understand this, you can make great achievements in any subject, not to mention formulas."

After the leading venerable said this, he started to leave.

Geng Changshou just stood there in a daze.

"abstract?"

This was the Qin Dynasty 2,000 years ago. It was not easy to develop Western disciplines. Fusu could not have directly transplanted them. Even a smart man like Zhang Cang and a strategic man like Chen Ping would still find the symbols designed by Fusu funny, right?
Different cultural contexts will cause a lot of ambiguity.

Therefore, even if Fusu directly gave the newly born Qin Empire the wings of Western science, it would still not be able to fly, because China is a living rooster, while Western science is like wings carved out of wood.

If you put wooden wings on a living thing, can it take off?
That's impossible.

The only way is to use Western science to train and guide China's flightless rooster, so that it can aim to fly, and let its wings, which have become degraded and unable to fly due to comfort, learn to fly again under the pressure of survival. Only in this way can the rooster be transformed into a phoenix that soars into the sky.

These elders who understand mathematics and physics naturally understand what Fusu is trying to say.

This was the pre-Qin era, and they were all the older generation of Mohists who specialized in studying the Nine Chapters on the Mathematical Art. In order to design and invent, they had to learn a lot of things.

They have their own insights into mathematics, and combined with China's native knowledge of astronomy and geography, their understanding of mathematics has reached a more profound level.

But they used a way to express these ideas that is difficult for later generations to understand - classical Chinese.

This results in those mathematical ideas only being something that bigwigs talk about forever, or being shelved and gathering dust on the wall.

Not to mention what Fusu could bring to the Qin Dynasty in just thirty or fifty years; but as long as Fusu could make Geng Changshou and others express mathematical ideas in symbols, everything would change.

The history of the Qin Dynasty will be rewritten, and the prototype framework of a science fiction empire will be quickly built within five to ten years. The future Qin Dynasty will definitely be able to maintain its supreme position of dominating the world for a long time.

This was also Fusu's ideal. Qin Shihuang wanted to conquer the four barbarians and become a powerful local emperor.

Fusu is different, he wants to conquer the sea!
Mo Ge became more and more mysterious. With more and more powerful people in a single field being recommended to join the cabinet, Da Qin became stronger and stronger quietly.

Mo Ge is the core brain that Fusu built for the Qin Empire.

If the future Great Qin wants to develop, Moge can provide them with everything they want, whether it is ideological system or high-end weapon technology.

Moreover, the development of mathematics is related to the development of physics. If the future Qin wants to embark on the road of designing tanks and aircraft as soon as possible, it must work hard in this area. This is certain.

As a modern time traveler, it is obvious that airplanes and tanks can be manufactured on this earth, but we are not working towards this direction.

Could it be that Fusu is some kind of decadent and stupid nerd?

Just in the fields of physics, geometry, and optics, Mo Zi has made many achievements.

Xiang Yu's Qin fire burned down too many things. Judging from what Fusu has currently mastered, Mozi's theories and inventions are quite advanced.

Now the question is how to apply it to the general public.

In Mo Ge, you can see all kinds of inventions.

Not to mention the globe, as early as when Fusu first traveled through time, he wanted to popularize this matter to people all over the world.

"The earth is not flat, it's a ball."

But because he said such things, Fusu was always chased and beaten by many teachers when he was a child.

No matter how honorable the status of the master in the palace is, can it exceed that of the King of Qin's son?
Even if you want to hit yourself, you can't hit Fusu.

But the masters couldn't help but do so because Fusu was challenging their belief - the theory of the round earth and square sky.

Even Ying Zheng sometimes wondered if his eldest son had something wrong with his brain.

Now, after Fusu "endured the blame and repelled the slander", and after persisting in the backward Qin Dynasty for more than ten years, he finally became the master of this empire.

Now, he no longer has to worry about being beaten for telling the truth.

In addition to the globe, there are also carts and plows.

With the help of wheelbarrows, Chinese people no longer have to worry about transporting goods. During the construction of Qin Shihuang's Mausoleum, wheelbarrows played a great role.

The harrow is the ancestor of the modern seed drill. Because the sowing width and number of rows are different, during the reign of Emperor Wu of the Han Dynasty, Zhao Guo invented the three-legged harrow that can sow three rows at the same time based on the one-legged harrow and the two-legged harrow.

However, because of Fusu's arrival, after taking advantage of Qin's world-leading technology, he directly upgraded the two-legged plow cart that had been used for sixteen years to a five-legged plow cart.

To be honest, if it weren't for the fact that the Qin Dynasty's technology has been constantly innovating over the past decade and is far ahead of any other vassal state, the people of the world would not know what attitude they would have towards the Qin State.

No matter who you are, you will envy the strong.

If the State of Qin becomes increasingly corrupt and weaker, even the old Qin people will be the first to despise their own country.

On the contrary, if the Qin State becomes stronger and stronger, the mentality of the people will change. The local native Qin people will feel proud that they were born Qin people, after all, their country is so strong.

The people of those annexed countries not only do not feel ashamed of being captured, but may even feel lucky.

Because they have joined the ranks of the strong.

The laws of man are so simple.

If you are strong, I will obey you; if you are weak, the Chinese will not even say sorry, but will just suck you clean and eat you up.

What Fusu brought to the Qin Empire was not only his personal reputation, which enhanced the reputation of the Qin Empire and made the people still have hope for their future life; what made the ministers and people feel confident in Qin II was that Fusu was a man who had the ability to make the Qin Empire even stronger.

The latter ability is exactly what Qin Shihuang began to gradually lose after he gained control of the world.

No one would choose to let an emperor who was busy cultivating immortality all day long sit above their heads and indulge in luxury and debauchery, not to mention making the entire palace a mess. The key point is that he can no longer bring more benefits to the Qin Empire.

The Qin Dynasty is now slowly embarking on the path to becoming a powerful country as designed by Fusu.

After meeting Geng Changshou, Fusu was waiting to see the Lu brothers and sisters clean out the relatives in the harem.

The young emperor eagerly found himself a pair of white gloves, but whether it was fate or something else, once he started putting on the white gloves, it became difficult to take them off.

Since you are determined to leave a good image in front of the public, you must maintain this image for a lifetime. It is not that you can maintain it whenever you want and not maintain it whenever you don't want to.

Lu Zhi was pregnant.

This news was nothing in the harem and didn't even make a splash.

The emperor favored his concubine, so it was extremely normal for her to become pregnant.

What's more, Qin II had already made it clear who he wanted to make the crown prince. And he already had several sons, although he only had one daughter, but that was enough.

Not long ago, Xiong Rou became pregnant again.

The fact that Lu Zhi, who was of humble status, became pregnant at this time was like adding a small flower to the brocade that was like oil boiling in a raging fire, and it did not cause any waves in the harem of the Qin Empire.

But Fusu's heart trembled a little.

He just shivered a few dozen times, but Lu Zhi made him shiver.

However, Fusu still stroked Lu Zhi's belly with a smile, because Lu Zhi was really as happy as a child about this matter.

"Your Majesty, do you want me to give birth to a son or a princess?"

"It's all good, it's all good."

Lu Zhi's eyes sparkled with stars. "I hope it's a princess, because when a girl gets married, she always misses going home. But when a boy gets married, he only has his wife in his heart."

For some reason, when Lu Zhi was pregnant, her face became particularly gentle and even more beautiful.

Fusu couldn't help but hook Lu Zhi's nose, "As long as it's yours, I like it regardless of whether it's a boy or a girl."

A man's sweet words are like poison, which can make a woman lose her mind.

This is what happened to Lu Zhi. After all, she only read a few more books and had no actual experience, so her understanding of men always remained at the most superficial level.

She sank.

There was a volume of the Book of Songs at the foot of her bed, and the chapter she happened to see was "Mang".

If a man is addicted, he can still escape from it; but if a woman is addicted, she cannot escape from it.

Even when Lu Zhi was pregnant, she was still thinking about doing something for Fusu.

Seeing the changes in his sister, Lu Ze was also filled with worry.

But he knew that if he tried to persuade his sister at this time, she would not listen. Only when the time was right, his sister would understand.

Lu Ze just let out a long sigh.

Seeing the changes in his sister, Lu Ze began to be wary of Qin Er Shi, because Qin Er Shi should never have involved his sister in such a matter.

[The chapter title is a pun, I think you can all understand it.]

I will take a day off tomorrow, please forgive me. 】

(End of this chapter)