The warships were still floating in the sea.

But something big happened in Yangzhou, that is, the first exam of Yangzhou Academy, which is also a graduation assessment. Those scholars who studied from Yangzhou Academy are about to start entering the government. These students who entered Yangzhou Academy were originally some people with very good talents, but some of the testimonies and experiences in Yangzhou were different, and some were young and still studied in the academy.

Now after more than a year of study, these students can finally get a teacher and enter the official career.

There are also those foreign hot scholars. If you want to join the six ministries of Yangzhou, you can, so go for an exam.

Of course, Liu Mang would not give them high positions directly. If you want an official position, you can take the exam. If you can resist the assessment, then you will enter the official career and cannot stand it. Then you will continue to study in the college, or go to various county towns to work as a minor official to stay at the grassroots level for a few years. If you have experience, you will naturally be promoted.

"Brother Chen, how are you doing in the exam?" A student came out of the examination room and asked the other student next to him. These two people were not students from Yangzhou Academy. They came from Jiangdong. I heard that Yangzhou examination and examination officials, as long as you have the ability to pass the examination, you will enter the official career without following your family background.

No one of these scholars is willing to admit that they are not as good as others. More scholars have a kind of feeling that I am the best in the world. It is not that I cannot be a high-ranking official, but that I have this ability, but you, the ruling ruling, cannot see my talent, or that those gentry occupy the pit and do not shit, but they have no ability, but because of their family background, they have occupied official positions, which makes us unable to enter the official career.

But Yangzhou is different. It actually depends on exams! Exams are really familiar. China has been taking exams for 5,000 years. It was only after the Sui and Tang Dynasties that it truly became a large-scale. Other times, for example, when the elders saw the younger generation, they smiled with kind eyes and said, "I will take you as a little kid, or a few students gather together, you will take my knowledge, I will take you as well."

And Liu Mang's Yangzhou was just that what happened hundreds of years later was ahead of schedule.

"I made the first six questions, but I really don't understand the seventh, eighth, ninth and tenth ones behind it!" Brother Chen shook his head and said. The seventh question: 999 cents, buy one thousand pears in season. Nine pears in 11 cents, and 4 cents of seven fruits. How much does the pear fruit cost?

Brother Chen couldn't even think of this, but he wrote the previous questions. For example, there were a hundred people in the army, and there were a total of twelve square formations, with a total of 1,200 people. Brother Chen thought about it for a long time and wrote it out.

Question 7 is not available.

"Yes! I didn't understand the seventh question at all, and I couldn't write a few of them before!" Another scholar shook his head.

In addition to the seventh question above, there is also the eighth question, looking at the seventh floor of the towering tower from afar, with red lights increasing. There are 381 lamps in total. How many lights are pointed?"

I don’t know how many chickens and rabbits are in the same cage, and there are thirty-six heads in the cage. There are fifty pairs of legs in total, and there are thirty-six pairs of chickens and rabbits.

The tenth question is that the bamboo is 1 zhang taller. At the end, it is folded to the ground and three feet away. How high is the bamboo?

These questions made these scholars say that they were completely like heavenly books and had nowhere to start writing.

During the discussion among these students, several carriages came outside Shouchun City. The word Qiao was written on it, indicating that this was the carriage of the Qiao family.

"Master, Shouchun City has arrived!" A groom outside the carriage shouted to the master inside the carriage.

"Yeah!" The master in the carriage answered and expressed his approval.

The crowds of people came and went, and the people came and went, and the people were all from the past few years without people and desolate words. The whole thing changed. The Shouchun city became much larger than before. The huge city walls had changed from stones and earth to the things that were now cement and iron pillars. The height of the city also changed from more than ten meters to more than twenty meters at the beginning. It can be said that ordinary ladders would not even be able to touch the edge of this city. If Liu Bei attacked Shouchun again, there would be no need to fight back in Shouchun City, just close the city gate, and then Liu Bei would have to be blind. It was so high that the ladder was so high!

"Master, you need to get off the car!" The carriage continued to speak.

"Get out?" The old man in the carriage obviously frowned and had a displeased tone. "Why have you got off the car before you reach the door of the mansion? Is this Shouchun City different from other places!"

"Master, I naturally didn't get off the car in the past, but these days it's different!" The groom explained patiently to the old man in the carriage, because the person in the carriage has a noble status.

"What's the difference?" The old man had a little interest.

"These few days are the big test in Yangzhou. Carriages are not allowed to walk on the road in Shouchun City to avoid hitting students. Therefore, all carriages must go to the north gate, either lead them or stay outside the city!" The carriage said to the master in the carriage. Just like the college entrance examination in his previous life, Liu Mang also gave a preferential treatment to these students who came to Yangzhou to take the big test. That is, as long as all students in the big test are qualified for the big test, you can live in a unified house in Shouchun, and food will be delivered to you by specialists. The main thing is to take a good exam. Of course, the main place is naturally the big dormitory, and the food they eat is also big pot meals. These are all prepared for poor families, because some poor families are really poor, and they may use up all their money in Shouchun. You can't let others sleep in the wild with hunger.

If you look down on these big pot restaurants and dormitories, you will naturally have good hotels for you to live in. You can have any kind of consumption, as long as you can afford money, you can even find two beautiful ladies to sing and dance for you every day.

"The Yangzhou Big Test?" the old man asked in confusion.

"Yes! This is our King of Shu, who is kind. He gives everyone a chance. As long as you have the ability, you can take the exam. If you pass the exam, you will naturally fly to the branch and become an official!" This carriage is envious. In the past, those officials were all limited, and they were all the children of the gentry. If your father becomes the prefect, you will become the county magistrate, wait for your father to die and then promote you to be the prefect. This will continue for generations, but it has been different since Liu Mang came to Yangzhou.

Your father is the prefect. If you have more knowledge than your father, then there is no problem in joining you to become a minister of the six ministries. If you have no knowledge, your father is not even as the current Shangshu.

"Our big head, after I went back this time, I asked that kid to study in school, not for anything else, just to be a worker!" Liu Mang changed the name of the minor official and called it a worker. He served the people. He didn't have to worship when the people saw it, so these minor official officials were also called "not worshiping officials."

"Is there no limit? Can anyone take the exam?" The old man frowned. Such a small groom actually thought that his son would become an official, which would have been impossible before. One class and one idea, just like those poor ordinary people who actually thought that if they wanted to be the emperor, they would eat big cakes with big fat meat soup and enough at one time?

How could the emperor eat big cakes? Unless this dynasty is almost the same and the emperor is worthless, otherwise any emperor is not a good dish on the table, and the Manchu and Han banquet is a luxury from it.

But now a groom, such a obviously lower-level commoner, actually had the idea of ​​becoming an official, which made the old man frown.

"Yes! As long as you study well and be old enough, you will have the chance to take the exam!" The groom nodded. Liu Mang's limit for those students was that as long as you reach the age of eighteen, you can come to take the exam. Liu Mang under the age of eighteen will not use child labor.

"Nonsense!" The old man couldn't help but snorted coldly after getting the affirmative answer.

"Master, I'll call you a Jiaozi!" The carriage said to the old man. Liu Mang restricted the carriage in the past few days and naturally considered that some people with limited mobility may be inconvenient, so there is a Jiaozi, and you can sit in the city.

"No need!" The master shook his head. "I'm not that old yet, I just took two steps!" The old man said and got off the carriage and entered Shouchun, the first city in Yangzhou.

The prosperity in Shouchun really made the old man nodded constantly. Those shops, those people coming and going, and the smiles on the faces of those people didn't seem fake. This kid seems to be really capable. The old man in Shouchun has been here more than once, because his hometown was originally from Lujiang and was very close to Shouchun. In the past, Shouchun was not so lively when it was at its peak, not to mention that it was not easy to build such a crowded city from the ruins. The old man couldn't help but nodded again.

The old man walked for a long time and heard the students who had just had a big exam come out to chat and stopped listening to the students' chat.

"The bamboo root is 1 zhang high, and finally fold the ground and get three feet away. How high is the bamboo?" The old man thought about this question, and he really made the old man think of it, that is about 4 zhang five, because the old man used such bamboo to weave a triangle, but the old man really didn't know about other problems.

"I said Brother Chen, it's not that these questions were made up by His Highness Shu King, who was just to fool me and other poor students?" Someone questioned, because their group of students from Jiangdong had communicated with each other, and basically no one could solve the questions behind them. Even if a few smart people took bamboo and rulers and directly created the triangle to measure the length, other questions were really blind.

"No!" Although Brother Chen said no, he did use a skeptical tone because they were all poor children from Jiangdong. There were really many talented people from these poor children, but they did not answer it either. Originally, everyone had a try-out attitude towards the so-called big test of His Highness of the King of Shu, Liu Mang, and everyone's ideas were still at the stage when the gentry could become officials. It would not be His Highness of Shu who coaxed their poor students to play.

The old man next to him also thought the same way. Is this King of Shu just a person who speaks on his face? The old man became more and more annoying to King of Shu Liu Mang.

Just as these Jiangdong students were chatting and discussing, some even suggested going to the Shu Palace to protest and coaxing them to poor children.

However, it was interrupted by the sarcastic laughter of the scholar in white on a table next to him.

"Brother, why are you laughing at?" These poor children could still hear what a malicious smile was and what a mockery smile was. In addition, the scholar in white was wearing the best silk fabrics. This should be a child of a gentry, which is the so-called second-generation official. These ordinary people will naturally become opposite to these second-generation official.

"Me! I'm not laughing!" The scholar in white didn't want to offend people for nothing, because he couldn't help it. But in terms of the possibility that it was better to have less than more things, the scholar in white didn't want to cause trouble.

"Hmph! I laughed, but I can still make a quibble. Look, this person is like the King of Shu Liu Mang. He is coaxing us poor children." A poor student who had basically not answered a few questions next to him knew that he might have no hope of entering the officialdom and his mind was so hot that he couldn't help but shouted out.

"Brother Zhang, be careful! This is Yangzhou!" Someone reminded me of this brother Zhang, after all, this is the home court of His Highness, and you are asking for death if you scold His Highness, the King of Shu.

"Me!" Brother Zhang was panicked at first, but he looked at the poor children next to him, afraid of embarrassing him. If he was cowardly at this time, wouldn't he be embarrassed? People may say that he is afraid of the powerful and powerful. You must know that although these poor children are not born, they are proud. "What are you afraid of! Your Highness, the King of Shu, is a liar!"

"You are not allowed to talk about His Highness the King of Shu!" The scholar in white was also angry. If this poor family insulted him, he might not care, but once he talked about that person, the scholar in white was angry.

"What's wrong? I'm talking about the pain?" The poor family became more and more proud. "Your gentry and that Shu King Liu Mang are in the same group. If we don't let us enter the official career, we won't let us do it. Why do we need to deceive us!" Brother Zhang immediately turned into a representative figure of the children of tens of millions of gentry.

"That's it! If you don't want us to be officials, you won't let us go. Why do you need to lie to others?" Someone took the lead and naturally someone came to make a fuss behind him.

"Haha, who said that our King of Shu would not allow poor families to enter the official career? Who are our inner ministers in Yangzhou? Do you know?" The scholar in white looked at the Jiangdong students below with a sneer.

They naturally knew who the inner minister of Yangzhou was, and that was Xu Shu and Xu Yuanzhi.

"Do you know that Xu Neixiang used to be a wanderer. Because he knew the benefits of learning, he became Pang De from Lumen Academy as his teacher. After he left the army, he went to Yangzhou to become this Neijing!" said the scholar in white.

Xu Shu was called a gangster in ancient times. To put it bluntly, he was a gangster. Ancient gangsters talked about morality, and now gangsters also talked about loyalty. How could gangsters be gentry? Those gangsters in the gentry were called playboys, which was not the same as what you call a gangster.

If Xu Shu, the leader of Yangzhou civil servants, gave such an example, naturally it was difficult for them to speak. They even nodded.

"What's wrong with Xu Neixiang! Maybe it's just a few. Xu Neixiang is still a disciple of Duke Pang De. Perhaps the Shu King Liu Mang made Xu Shu the inner minister because of the face of Duke Pang De. We are not Pang De Gong's disciples, nor are we not so lucky in a famous family!" Brother Zhang gave another reason, that is, Xu Shu has a good master, we don't have it.

"I think you can't eat grapes and say that grapes are sour!" The scholar in white sneered. It's not impossible to envy others, but once envy becomes jealous, it is original sin.

"Didn't you want to say that the questions in these big tests were deliberately making things difficult for you! Okay, then I'll give you the answer. What if I tell you the answer?" The scholar in white said to everyone with a sneer. He even walked out and walked to Brother Zhang.

"It's her? No, it's impossible. She's dead! It's not her! It's him." The scholar in white didn't notice that an old man outside looked at the face of the scholar in white and was stunned, looking at the scholar in white with disbelief. "How could there be such a similar face in the world? It's impossible, it's impossible!"

"If you can tell me, then I will hang myself here and apologize to Your Highness, King Shu!" This brother Zhang was also cruel.

"Haha, you don't need to hang yourself. You just need to kneel on this road and kowtow three times in the direction of His Royal Highness Shu's mansion, and just say I was wrong!" The white-body scholar shook his head. He came out to play, not to see the death.

"Okay!" Brother Zhang agreed quickly. He thought that those were the ones that Liu Mang, the King of Shu, took them out to make things difficult for them, and the poor children, were to dispel their idea of ​​entering the official career. He also gained a good reputation.

"You said you can't even get the seventyth question, right? Let me talk about it from the simplest question, the ninth question!" The scholar in white stood up. "The question is that chickens and rabbits are in the same cage, and there are thirty-six heads in the cage. Count the feet in total fifty pairs, how many chickens and rabbits are there? Yes!"

The poor students from Jiangdong nodded there.

"Then listen, the answer to this question is that there are fourteen rabbits and twenty-two chickens!" Seeing the white-clothed scholar giving the answer so quickly, the people over there were stunned for a moment, is there really an answer?

"You are lying to someone, is it the answer you just say a number?" Brother Zhang over there shouted loudly.

Yes! Everyone around was nodding. Perhaps this scholar in white wouldn't just say a number. No one could verify the shock.

"Haha, I think you are not dead in the Yellow River, right? Well, then I'll let you die to understand!" The scholar in white was really angry. "We first use assumptions to assume that they are all rabbits, and there should be 36*4=144 feet, and now there are only 100 feet. You need to remove the rabbit, remove one rabbit and replace it with a chicken, and then reduce the 2 feet. Now you need to reduce the 44/2=22 rabbits with chickens, so there are 22 chickens and 12 rabbits;"

The scholar in white said a bunch of numbers, which made the poor children below look confused.

"What is the assumption? You are still fooling people!" Brother Zhang shouted again, and what they didn't understand was fake or liar.

"I know you don't understand!" The scholar in white was prepared for a long time. "Then I'll give you a simpler one! The method of folding half is all the chickens: golden roosters. All rabbits raise their two front legs, and then there are: 50 feet on the ground. Among the feet on the ground, there are 2 rabbits, one more than the number of heads. Each chicken has only one foot on the ground, and there are 36 heads. If one head and one foot on the ground, there are 36 feet on the ground. Now there are 50 feet on the ground. There are only rabbits on the ground, and each rabbit has one more foot on the ground. Therefore, there are 14 rabbits and 22 chickens are obtained;"

There are still a group of confused people below.

"I still don't understand, right? So listening, I'm so tired of talking to you. I'm still thinking about becoming an official, and I don't even know the basics." The scholar in white became more and more disdainful, and the people below began to believe it a little, although they still couldn't understand it. But even if you made up all of them, it's a skill to make up the two numbers the same.

"You all present have hunters!" The scholar in white shouted to the group of onlookers below.

"Yes, yes!" In addition to food, there is also some wild game meat, so hunters are also supplying goods to restaurants in the city, so there are hunters here.

"Okay! My brother, I ask you a total of thirty-six heads. Cut off all the four legs of all rabbits. How many legs are there in total?"

"Thirty-six, one, two, three, four, five, six," the hunter calculated the finger for a long time, and then smiled quietly and said to the scholar in white clothes above, "There are a total of seventy-two feet!"

"That's right! There are seventy-two feet in total, but now there are one hundred feet, which means that we have 28 feet hidden. These twenty-eight feet are the two feet of the rabbit we cut off. When one rabbit was cut off, the two feet were cut off. Then there are half of twenty-eight, fourteen rabbits. If the rabbit's feet are removed, there are only forty-four feet left. The chicken has two feet, so there are twenty-two!"

Without saying a word from the scholar, the brother Zhang below turned pale. In the end, he showed his face and knew that he would lose.

"As for other questions, the binary first method is used to sell pear fruits. Suppose the number of pears is x and the number of fruits is y. According to poetic knowledge, each pear is 11/9 ci, and each fruit is 4/7 ci. Then you can list the binary equation: 11/9x+4/7y=999x+y=1000 The price of pears The total price of pears is 11/9x657=803 (text), and the total price of fruits is 4/7x343=197 (text)”

"The height of that bamboo is 4.55 feet using Pythagorean theorem."

The following people and the gentry were all open-minded, such as eating two Lantern Festival methods at a time, and the dog bone theorem, which made everyone unheard of.

"It's 4.55 feet!" The old man was also thinking. What he originally thought was 4.5 feet. Although the difference was not big, he was still wrong after all. Unexpectedly, Qiao Xuan was also educated.

But was this he her or not? The old man couldn't help but look kind and kind as he looked at the scholar in white on the stage.

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Chapter completed!