The Warriors of the Three Kingdoms

Chapter 185 Zheng Xuanshang

In the Battle of Tiger Ridge, Gongsun Zan's righteous brother Le Hedang died in battle, Baima Yicong was almost wiped out, and the rest surrendered.

This battle made Zhao Yun and Zhang He show their talents, and Bohai County also gained a short period of peace.

The Nanpi Academy was just established, with only 36 students. The teacher of liberal arts is Zhang Xuan, the former teacher of Bohai County Academy, and the teacher of martial arts is Dongfang Sheng, the current prefect of Bohai County.

Nanpi Academy is divided into two lecture halls, inside and outside. The inner lecture hall is where the disciples are, and the outer lecture hall is the place where the disciples study.

Dongfang Sheng was giving a lecture today. He was wearing a self-made military uniform with a particularly bright metal buckle. At the same time, there were three stars on his shoulders, which were made of silver. He wore a pair of cowhide riding boots on his feet. Holding a pointer in hand.

"Everyone, today's martial arts subject is the Battle of Tiger Ridge." Dongfang Sheng pointed to Quanzhou on the map with his pointer and said, "At that time, Gongsun Zan ordered his righteous brother Le Hedang to lead a thousand white horses to conquer the border, while our side was led by Zhao Yun and Zhang Yun each led a team to ambush."

Dongfang Sheng likes to talk about some practical experience in his lectures, and of course some advanced military knowledge. Of course, these are good disciples, and good disciples are also beginners. Naturally, they will work for Dongfang Sheng in the future, so of course Dongfang Sheng will not hide clumsy.

Dongfang Sheng was about to continue talking about the details of the Tiger Ridge battle, but he didn't want Zhang Xuan to come over in a hurry, followed by an old man around 60 years old.

Although Dongfang Sheng was a little confused, he still let the students below to study by themselves for a while, and he tidied up his clothes and went up to greet him: "I don't know why the teacher came?"

Dongfang Sheng respected Zhang Xuan's knowledge, so he called him teacher respectfully, but Zhang Xuan, who had always been very close to Dongfang Sheng, stepped aside cautiously.

"This is Master Zheng, a great Confucian." Zhang Xuan introduced the old man beside him, "Tenglong must not be rude."

Only then did Dongfang Sheng take a closer look at the old man beside Zhang Xuan. This old man was wearing a commoner garment, wearing a hood, round cheeks, and a goatee on his lips. He was quite tall, standing there with an admirable momentum.

"Tenglong?" The old man frowned after hearing Dongfang Sheng's expression, "How can this expression be so nonsense?"

The ancients were very particular about taking table characters, and the situation was very complicated, but there are rules to be found after careful inspection, analysis, and research.For example, it is common to choose characters according to the order of seniority among brothers. For example, Confucius was the second child, so he was named Zhongni, and he also had an older brother named Meng lai.The most typical ones belong to the four sons of Sun Jian in this period: the eldest son, Sun Ce, was named Bofu; the second son, Sun Quan, was named Zhongmou;

There are also many cases where "zi" is used in table characters, because "zi" was a good name or honorific title for men in ancient times.So people like to use it, such as Kong Zhuang, the word Zisi; Zhong You, the word Zilu; Sima Qian, the word Zichang; Cao Zhi, the word Zijian; Su Shi, the word Zizhan; Du Fu, the word Zimei; Yuan Mei, the word Zicai.

Although these table characters are common, they have little connection with their real names. In fact, Bo (Meng) Zhongshu Jihezi are not real table characters, and the characters behind them are such as "ce", "quan", "si", " "Long" and "beauty" are the main components of the table characters.

What the old man said made Dongfang Sheng feel a little angry. Why did he mess around with his writing?Of course, it’s no wonder Dongfang Sheng, he didn’t understand how the ancient people’s watch characters were made, and he took this Tenglong casually by himself.

It's just that the old man said that Dongfang Sheng's expression was nonsense as soon as he came up. Although he was a little blunt, he could be regarded as a straightforward person.

After thinking about these Dongfang Sheng, he felt relieved, and the old man twisted his beard with his hands and said in a deep thought, "Should we change it to Meng Ren?"

Zhang Xuan excitedly pulled the dazed Dongfang Sheng and said in a low voice, "Thank you, Master Zheng?"

I foolishly changed my name and thank him?Dongfang Sheng suddenly felt a little dazed, what kind of rhythm is this?
The old man was a little annoyed when he saw Dongfang Sheng was stunned: "Could it be that you don't like it, kid?"

Dongfang Sheng is a little angry at the moment, you changed my name casually, and you want me to thank you, but you scolded me even if I couldn't react, do you really think I'm easy to bully?What about great Confucians?
"Hmph, haven't you asked for your name yet?" Dongfang Sheng lost all respect and stood up straight.

"Meng Renxiu is going to mess around." Zhang Xuan was taken aback, and quickly grabbed Dongfang Sheng, "Master Zheng's change of the word for you is really an act of kindness. You know that Master Zheng has thousands of disciples." , has recorded tens of thousands of disciples, Master Zheng has traveled all over the world to study, and his talent and learning are as famous as Cai Zhonglang, Meng Ren, you must not be reckless."

Zheng Xuan, courtesy name Kangcheng, was born in Gaomi, Beihai. He was a master of Confucian classics in the late Eastern Han Dynasty.He once went to Taixue to study "Jingshiyi", "Gongyang Chunqiu", "Three Tongli", "Nine Chapters of Arithmetic", and learned "Guwen Shangshu", "Zhou Li" and "Zuo Zhuan" from Zhang Gongzu, and finally Learn ancient Chinese classics from Ma Rong.After returning home from his study tour, he returned to farming in Donglai and gathered disciples to teach. There were thousands of disciples.The disaster of the party's imprisonment started, and he was imprisoned. Dumen commented and wrote with great concentration.Focusing on the study of ancient Chinese classics, and also adopting the theory of modern Chinese classics, and annotating all kinds of classics, he wrote "Seven Political Theories of Astronomy" and "Zhonghou", with a total of more than one million words. Synthesizer.

Zhang Xuan knows that once Dongfang Sheng offends Zheng Xuan, I am afraid that Zheng Xuan's disciples will not make Dongfang Sheng comfortable in the future. You must know that Zheng Xuan's disciples will either become officials in the court or become a Confucianist. An educator comparable to Confucius.

"Today, there is a bucket of corn, and if you want to make it, how much can you ask?" Zheng Xuan asked with a strange look in his eyes, "Bo Yan doesn't need to say much, I'm going to take a school test today, so that he won't mislead my son!"

What Zheng Xuan asked was about a topic in "Nine Chapters on Arithmetic", which is an outstanding mathematical work in the Han Dynasty. It contains not only the concept of fractions, but also the arithmetic rules of negative numbers and addition and subtraction.

In Zheng Xuan's question, if he wants to calculate the conversion of corn into millet, he must know the conversion rate between corn and millet. Generally speaking, five buckets of corn can be peeled to get three buckets of millet.If you don't know this, I'm afraid you can't answer this question.

"Today, there are people who buy things together, and each person pays eight qian, and there is a surplus of three qian; one person pays seven qian, and there is less than four qian, how much is the number of people and the prices?" Seeing that Dongfang Sheng didn't answer, Zheng Xuan frowned and continued to ask.

"Seven people, the price is 53 yuan." Dongfang Sheng thought for a while and replied. This is just a linear equation in two variables, and it is not difficult to solve. "Master Zheng, does one know how to add one plus two plus three...to one hundred?"

Seeing that Dongfang Sheng answered the question correctly, Zheng Xuan was about to continue the questioning. Who knew that Dongfang Sheng would take the initiative to ask questions, but adding this to one hundred immediately stumped Zheng Xuan. It took some time, and for a moment Zheng Xuan frowned and kept gesticulating with his hands.

(End of this chapter)