In fact, Zhang Shou didn't see Song Juren at all. To find someone he knew among this dense crowd of nearly a thousand people, unless he completely knew the location of the other person, such as Lu Sanlang and the third prince who were sitting next to him before, otherwise it would be simply wishful thinking.

This is because not all members of the Imperial College are gathered here today. Except for Suixing Hall, the other halls are temporarily on holiday. Otherwise, if they are all gathered together, plus Juren, there will be no more than three to five thousand people. Considering that there are more people,

A stampede would occur if one was not careful, so the other five supervisors had to give way.

But the compensation for these supervisors who did not hear the lecture this time is even simpler - Zhou Jijiu conveyed the emperor's promise and asked the four mountain chiefs and Dr. Zhang to give several more lectures to each class. This was very important to the emperor.

In other words, it's just a matter of words.

The four mountain chiefs would only think it was a great honor...except Zhang Shouhui who thought it was a great chore. Because you can't tell the same thing every time, it's really too troublesome!

No matter what he thinks in his heart, Zhang Shou is standing in the spotlight at this moment. He has mixed feelings, but he can't say he is too frightened. After all, he is not a real seventeen-year-old boy from the countryside. See you in a big scene.

Being used to it, he was naturally able to grasp the scale at this time, so after looking around at everyone, he nodded kindly and smiled.

Not to mention that Song Juren thought Zhang Shou was smiling at them, many people mistakenly thought that Dr. Guozi was looking at them, nodding and smiling specifically at them.

Only a handful of people who have experienced it, such as Chang Yue Shan, Xiao Shan Chang and Xu Shan Chang, know that outsiders think that they pay special attention to their own eyes and smiles. It must go through a long period of practice before they can reach such a level.

As for Chief Hong Shan, he was just sulking as soon as he got off the stage, and didn't even notice what Zhang Shou did after he came on stage.

After paying his respects, Zhang Shou said with a smile: "The four mountain chiefs have just told you a lot. I originally didn't want to make a fool of myself in front of the seniors, but now that I've come up, I can't just say hello and go down. As you all know, I am now in charge of

This is the Jiuzhang Hall of the Imperial Academy, and I wanted to tell everyone about Sutra calculations, but once those mysterious things are taught, they can easily be extended too far."

"Since the reopening of Jiuzhangtang, some people have often asked, what is the use of arithmetic? At a small level, it is just to check accounts and live within one's means. At a large level, it is just to unify the world's tax land. But, that's really all.

That’s it?”

He paused for a moment, and his voice became sonorous and powerful: "In the era of tribes where people drank hair and drank blood, if you didn't know how to count, you couldn't calculate how many days the prey would keep you full for a long time, and you wouldn't be able to survive the long cold winter. In the era of bartering,

, it seems that there are no coins, which are now regarded as something that smells like copper. Everyone is self-sufficient, and excess things are used for exchange, but people still need to use numbers to value goods.”

"And after a hundred schools of thought contended, the Qin and Han Dynasties were unified. Whether it was the same chariots running on the same track, or the same writing writing, whether it was building bridges, roads, ships, controlling floods, building cities, measuring acres, or calendaring, all of them were inseparable from arithmetic.

, everything is inseparable from those simple numbers. It is these simple numbers that have solved many practical problems for people."

After telling these rules that sounded very convincing but were actually very boring, Zhang Shou changed his tone and started telling the story with a smile.

"In the early years of our reign, Taizu's ambition was not only to expel the Mongolian Yuan and restore the world, but also to the four seas. Therefore, without waiting to unify the world, he sent a large ship carrying envoys and merchants to sail to the west, hoping to not only draw the

The map of China is a map of China, and at the same time it can map the world and look at the inner world."

"During the ship's westward journey, it arrived at countless countries, big and small. Some were only as big as my imperial government, some were only as large as my imperial province, some were once vast and glorious for thousands of years, and some were once just barbaric lands. Later,

Only then did they gradually become civilized. Some are as religious as the Buddhist believers in my dynasty. Even the king respects the pope of the Papal State and needs someone to crown him..."

Zhang Shou casually introduced the various countries in the west, and finally said: "Among the countries that the ship passed, there was once an ancient country named Egypt located in the far west, on the bank of a large river. This ancient country once

It prospered on the Nile River, so nine out of ten people lived on the banks of the Nile River, cultivating the fertile land after the river floods receded."

After spending a long time with Zhu Ying, I heard a lot about Taizu's secrets. In addition, Weinan Bo Zhang Kang was in charge of the weapons bureau and kept many Taizu's old things. Therefore, when Zhang Shou talked about these, it was exactly

Don't worry about others being suspicious at all.

However, for these scholars who had traveled as far as China, they had no idea that Zhang Shouhui would suddenly describe an ancient foreign country, and they couldn't help being surprised.

Only a few scholars who were well-read and had actually read or heard the book that Zhang Shou said could not help but whisper and whisper to each other.

And because of these well-read people, many people around them soon learned that this was not Zhang Shou's nonsense, but a real person. As for this record, it turned out that Taizu himself wrote the preface. At that time

A manuscript written by the envoy after returning to China - "Short Notes on a Journey to the West".

Because of the messages brought back by the envoys and businessmen in the past, the ministers only felt that they were the only ones in the world, and that the other small countries were just tiny places, and had no interest in understanding those disputes. Ordinary people were also not interested in those small countries that were thousands of miles away.

But the students were different. After four lengthy lectures, it was rare for someone to say something special, and many people became curious.

Lu Sanlang did not expect that Zhang Shou would suddenly turn to this topic. But think about it, Zhang Shou had gone to the weapons bureau chaired by Zhang Kang, the Bo of Weinan, and mentioned to him the globe made by Taizu Mengtian Emperor.

What's the matter?

When the third prince asked in a low voice how the teacher knew so much, he praised Zhang Shou for his extensive reading, but he was thinking in his heart that Zhang Shou helped Zhang Kang solve such a big problem. With just one sentence from Zhang Shou, "Journey to the West"

Zhang Kang will also show overseas information that is not available in "Small Notes". This is not a secret!

Chief Yue Shan and Chief Xiao Shan, who had just finished speaking, exchanged cautious glances. It is well known that Taizu was fond of writing, and many of his works were popular throughout the world during his lifetime - except for the most famous "Journey to the West"

, many other books are mostly absurd. As for the number of times people have written prefaces to other ministers, they are countless. "Short Notes of a Journey to the West" is even more unpopular among the unpopular!

However, even the scholars who respect Taizu the most can only read all of Taizu's works at most. Who would read all the books with prefaces written by Taizu himself? For such an unconventional book as "The Little Notes of a Journey to the West",

Zhang Shou actually saw it too?

This is really to win the favor of the emperor who admires Taizu the most, and he has done a lot of homework!

Zhang Shou didn't know that others already thought that he was a guy who would do anything to win the favor of the saint. Of course, even if he knew, it didn't really matter.

At this moment, he said with a smile: "That ancient country once dominated the west about four to five thousand years ago, but when the envoys arrived, although they were still considered a big country in the area, the powerful people in the past were

It has been reduced to the point where the slave army rides on top and dominates."

After smiling and explaining to everyone about the strange slave emperor system of the Mamluk dynasty in Egypt, as well as several generations of slave emperors, and most importantly, the origins of those slave emperors, Zhang Shou saw an uproar as expected.

After all, in the Central Plains, although there have been emperors who were born in the military and emperors who were born in poverty, a dynasty would be crowned emperor by foreign slaves, and these emperors would suffer miserably if they were unable to form a stable hereditary lineage.

A slave officer with real power is overthrown, and that slave officer will become the new emperor. What the hell is this?

The most important thing is, what kind of people are there in the Mamluk Legion, the so-called cradle of the emperor?

A group of descendants of losers whose ancestors were exiled due to defeat in the war, just a group of slaves! Moreover, tracing their origins, this group of slaves can be related to a certain grassland nation that ruled the Sui and Tang Dynasties for a while, and then almost disappeared from the Central Plains.

Of course, the records in "Short Notes on a Journey to the West" cannot be so detailed. Many of what Zhang Shou said at this time were gained from reading foreign history in the past. However, he paid great attention to the butterfly effect to prevent himself from getting carried away.

The emperor who had not yet appeared in the dynasty was sold in advance.

It doesn't matter if they were sold in advance, because they are tens of thousands of miles apart and the language barrier means that these scholars can't tell who is who. What's more, among the slave officers who later became emperors, none of them had the strength before they came to power.

Strong?

Therefore, after talking about this strange dynasty, Zhang Shou changed his words: "However, although the so-called Mamluk dynasty was just a strange political system controlled by a group of slave legions with foreign surnames, when the envoys arrived in Egypt, thousands of

During Egypt's heyday, the towers built by those rulers as mausoleums still stood in the vast desert."

"Among them, the envoy visited a tower that is said to be the largest and tallest in Egypt. The tall towers in Egypt are not like the tall towers in our country in the past, which were built with huge wooden beams and pillars. Instead, they were built with huge stones.

The mortar is caulking, but it is said that not a hair can be inserted into the gap.”

"These towers are piled up into four-sided cones, shaped like gold characters, so Taizu called them pyramids in the preface. Those who don't know what four-sided pyramids mean can go back and read the "New Edition of Gurdjieff's Arithmetic"

Three volumes. The tallest tower is nearly two hundred and fifty steps on each side, and it takes one thousand steps to go around the tower. Standing at the bottom of the tower and looking up, you can see that it blocks out the sky and the sun, and is majestic and majestic."

Speaking of this, Zhang Shou said with a half-smile: "When I quietly landed on the shore towards the envoy and brought people to the pyramid, I met a slave officer of the Mamluk Army. The officer who was born a slave had long forgotten

My ancestors saw that the envoy with the guide was dressed differently and behaved differently, so he arrogantly asked the envoy, which country are you from, and have you seen such a high tower in your country?"

Such a question immediately aroused the curiosity of many people present. The most important thing is that even those who have really read an extremely unpopular book such as "Journey to the West" have never seen this paragraph. Only Lu Sanlang vaguely remembered Zhang

Kang had told this story to himself. However, he did not know Zhang Shou's story about the history of the strange kings of the Mamluk Dynasty.

At this moment, someone down there suddenly shouted and asked: "How dare I ask Dr. Zhang, how did I answer the envoy?"

"I said calmly to the envoy that he came from China, a country in the east that was larger and more prosperous than Egypt. Because he was in the middle of the world, he was so elegantly called, and was even regarded as the Celestial Empire by the neighboring countries. After he finished speaking, he also said,

Although this pagoda is high, during the Wei, Jin, Southern and Northern Dynasties of our country, there was a book called "Luoyang Jialan Ji", which recorded a taller pagoda than this in our country nine hundred years ago."

Speaking of this, Zhang Shouxin read out the original text about the height of the Yongning Temple tower in "Luoyang Jialan Ji", and then continued calmly: "Many of you here should have read "Luoyang Jialan Ji", although

With nine floors plus a golden temple, the description of a height of one hundred feet is a bit exaggerated, but based on the descriptions of the Yongning Temple tower in other books, it is actually between four and fifty feet high."

"After all, today two mountain chiefs who are skilled in construction mentioned that this tower towers into the clouds and is spectacular."

When Zhang Shou recounted this, many people just felt that the envoy was really a powerful country, and they were naturally full of praise for a while. However, when Zhang Shou told the next confrontation, they couldn't sit still.

.

"Although my envoy learned a lot and responded appropriately, the officer was arrogant and did not believe it at all. He even accused the envoy of making nonsense. There is no tower higher than their pyramid. Then,

You are even more unreasonable and making things difficult. You said you have a tower that is a hundred feet high, but this tower in our country reaches straight into the sky. Do you know how high it is?"

Although Zhang Shou had often tried to pass things off just now, Zhang Shou spoke without hesitation: "The envoy had seen the arrogance of those slave officers at the port. At this time, the situation was stronger than the people. Although the big ships in the port had strong guns and powerful guns, they were still in danger.

When we are in another country, we are outnumbered. If the other side turns against us, we will lose the dignity of the country. The envoy immediately decided to win with wits and not with strength."

"So, he looked up at the sky and said with certainty that it would be easy to determine how high the tower was. Because in China, the king he respected had solved a similar problem when he was young.

.In the wilderness stood a tall tower that had been in disrepair. A rich man was curious about its height, so he put a reward on it, and his king unveiled the inscription."

"The answer is very simple. As long as you measure the length of the tower's shadow at that time of day when the height of the person is equal to the length of the shadow, you can know the height of the tower. The same principle applies to measuring this pyramid."

"When the slave officer heard such an answer, he was still unconvinced and proposed to compete with the envoy in swordsmanship. The result was another huge defeat. In the end, he had to send the people back to the port to board the ship in person. However, when the envoy

When we boarded the bow of the ship and prepared to set sail, we asked the guide to get off the ship and convey a message to the slave officer."

"He told this man to use shadows to measure the pyramids. This was not the wisdom of the king he respected, but a method that an ancient neighbor of Egypt had mentioned casually. The king he respected knew Egypt, and he had

It has been said that Egypt, which was once powerful four thousand years ago, could build such a tower. Today, the tower still exists, but Egypt is only left with a militancy. In China, which also has a history of five thousand years, even if the Yongning Temple Tower no longer exists,

, even if the wind is always blown away by the rain and wind, it is still a strong country in Yunei!"
Chapter completed!