The Ming Dynasty started with saving the eldest grandson

Chapter 57 Practice
"You said before that you wanted to teach the Ministry of Household Affairs officials, right? Okay, we agreed."

Putting down the account book in his hand, Zhu Yuanzhang said.

Chen Jingke quickly shook his head and said, "It's better to leave professional matters to professionals."

"Give these arithmetic books and account books to the officials in the Ministry of Accounts. I believe they will do a better job than me."

Zhu Yuanzhang smiled and scolded: "Aren't you crazy? Why are you so timid?"

Chen Jingke said with a smile: "That's because I'm a little carried away. Your Majesty will forgive me."

Not everyone will tolerate him, and the imperial doctor did not like him before.

It’s just that doctors are also technicians and their ideas are not that complicated.

After discovering that his medical skills were indeed inferior to his, and that he was not that arrogant, the two parties reconciled.

Those in the Ministry of Household Affairs are all serious bureaucrats, and their minds are full of struggle and saving face.

Chen Jingke ran over and said he would teach them arithmetic. Those people would not say anything and would definitely step on him hard if they had the chance.

But when Zhu Yuanzhang handed over the arithmetic books to them, this problem disappeared.

They will only marvel at Chen Jingke's genius and will not have any dissatisfaction.

Even if I don’t understand something, I will take the initiative to ask for help.

Isn't it weird?
But the human heart is like this.

Zhu Yuanzhang put the book away and said: "Not bad, he still has some brains. I will handle this book well, and it will be of your benefit."

"Thank you, Your Majesty."

"Ying'er has been studying with the prince recently. If you have nothing to do, you should go see him more and learn from him."

"Yes, I'm going right now, sir."

Good ideas are important, but proper implementation is equally important.

If implemented improperly, a good policy will also become a policy that harms the people.

The failure of Wang Anshi's reform admittedly had its own flaws, but the officials who implemented the new law were also one of the main factors.

His reforms directly infringed on the interests of the bureaucracy, and he expected those people to help him implement the new laws.

The Baochao reform did not harm anyone's interests. Instead, the imperial court hemorrhaged money to fill the loopholes.

Naturally, no one will maliciously hold us back.

Mobilizing so many resources is also a very troublesome matter, involving many yamen.

By following Zhu Biao, Chen Jingke can gain an in-depth understanding of how the Ming Dynasty's bureaucracy worked.

This will be of great help to him in his future career.

Of course, another reason why Lao Zhu asked him to follow him was to teach Zhu Xiongying.

This matter is complicated, and many aspects are difficult to figure out by Zhu Xiongying himself.

Zhu Biao is too busy and has no time, so Chen Jingke can help him solve his doubts.

If Chen Jingke can't understand it, he can go to Zhu Biao or Zhu Yuanzhang for advice.

So for a while, Chen Jingke and Zhu Xiongying worked together as Zhu Biao's secretaries.

In fact, Chen Jingke did learn a lot. He had personal contact with people from various yamen and understood their unspoken rules for doing things.

For example, ask the household department for a sum of money.

How to speak, which department to go to, who to talk to, etc. all have their own particularities.

One mistake can delay you for ten days and a half.

It is still a reasonable and legal delay, and it will be useless to sue the emperor anywhere.

Of course, now that he is working for Prince Zhu Biao, naturally no one would dare to do this.

Even the relevant yamen wanted to please him in turn, for fear that he would give them eye drops in front of Zhu Biao.

However, Chen Jingke did not feel arrogant just because of his status, and acted very modestly.

All the officials who came into contact with him had nothing but good words to say.

After returning home, Chen Jingke told Zhu Xiongying these secrets one by one to prevent him from being kept in the dark in the future.

After Zhu Yuanzhang learned this, he was even more satisfied with him.

Of course, he often used public affairs for personal gain, and often took advantage of the opportunity to sneak home to see his parents when he was out of the palace.Zhu Yuanzhang didn't say anything after learning about this. No one is perfect and it is normal to have flaws.

As long as it doesn't harm the interests of the imperial court.

If Chen Jingke was really like a saint, he would be worried.

There is even a reason why he can tolerate Chen Jingke's "arrogance" from time to time.

Speaking of the Ministry of Accounts, after seeing the new arithmetic books and account books, there was an immediate sensation.

A group of people gathered around and studied for a long time.

Zeng Tai, the Minister of Household Affairs, immediately submitted a letter requesting that the world's account books be changed.

This was no small matter and caused a lot of commotion in the court.

However, with Zhu Yuanzhang's support, this opinion was passed without surprise.

Changing the account book is actually very simple, but it is quite complicated.

The arithmetic book was the most troublesome. Even though Chen Jingke had tried to write it as simply as possible, it still left all the arithmetic experts in the Ministry of Revenue scratching their heads.

The new arithmetic symbols have Chinese character comparison tables, so they can understand them.

They can understand what is one-dimensional and two-dimensional and what is two-dimensional and one-dimensional.

But statistics, geometric and arithmetic sequences, calculus, etc. are a bit esoteric.

So they took the initiative to find Zhu Yuanzhang and asked everyone who wrote this book to teach him in person.

When Lao Zhu told them that this was written by Taisun Bandu, a group of old men were confused.

They naturally know Chen Jingke. Prince Zhu Biao has been mobilizing supplies frequently recently, and the two sides have had frequent contacts.

But they really couldn't connect that boy with this arithmetic book.

But they didn't dare to doubt Lao Zhu's words, so they could only find Chen Jingke with doubts.

"Chen Bandu, was this book really written by you?"

Qiu Guang'an, the new left servant of the household department, blocked Chen Jingke who came to do something and asked.

Chen Jingke said in his heart, you finally asked for me, I have been waiting for this day for a long time.

But he said reservedly: "I also learned it from others, I just summarized it into a book."

Qiu Guang'an still couldn't believe it. He thought about his family's academic background and had been studying arithmetic for more than [-] years since he was a child.

He considers his arithmetic skills to be among the best in the Ming Dynasty.

Something that I couldn't even understand was actually written by the young man in front of me.

Doesn't that mean that my arithmetic skills are not as good as his?
Several arithmetic experts from the Household Department around him all had similar expressions.

But Qiu Guangan did not question it directly, but said: "I have many doubts after reading this book. I wonder if Chen Bandu can give me some advice."

Chen Jingke knew that the test was coming: "Don't take the advice seriously, discuss with each other."

After that, a group of people gathered around and asked for advice on the contents of the book.

Chen Jingke answered them carefully.

Everyone is a master of arithmetic, so naturally they can do it easily.

For example, in calculus, Liu Hui, a mathematician during the Three Kingdoms period, had already invented the art of slicing a circle, and the art of slicing a circle contains the idea of ​​calculus.

These are all arithmetic masters from the Ming Dynasty, otherwise they would not be qualified to manage the account books at the Ministry of Accounts.

So they learn calculus with almost no obstacles.

Before, the main reason why they did not learn calculus was that Chen Jingke's writing was not clear enough.

He only briefly talked about statistics, sequence, and calculus.

It's not that he wants to hide his secrets, but that he is not a professional and is not capable of independently writing an advanced mathematics textbook.

Although I have tried my best to write it down, it is still not clear enough.

If you explain it face to face, there will be no such problem, and everyone will soon find out the way.

Qiu Guangan and others were also convinced by him.

(End of this chapter)