Empress Zhangsun suggested, "Since the three frontier poems are so peerless, Jade Gate Pass will definitely become famous. Your Majesty, why don't you add fuel to the fire and encourage the soldiers at the border pass?"
"The Empress is right. It's exactly what I want." Li Shimin felt that they had a telepathic connection. He immediately became excited and wrote the words' The World's Number One Pass'.
"Men, send these words to the Jade Gate Pass as quickly as possible!"
"Yes!" Pande immediately bowed and received Li Shimin's calligraphy. He turned around and gave the order.
"Haha! The catfish effect. Mo Sheng is really wise. The catfish effect has revealed the true meaning of competition in the world. This little catfish has only been in the Imperial College for a day, and he has already stirred up the waters of the Imperial College. "Li Shimin thought of what happened in the Imperial College today and could not help but look gloomy.
He would not know if he did not compare, but when he did, he was shocked. The students that he spent a lot of money to nurture every year were actually unable to withstand a single blow from Mo Jiazi. Even more seriously, it exposed the problem of the Imperial College's academic system. They valued literary talent and belittled practicality. Mo Jiazi defeated five Imperial College elites in a row, and the subject he admitted defeat in was even an insignificant study of calligraphy.
"The problem of the disaster victims!" Empress Zhangsun looked at the two mathematical problems in front of her and frowned.
A dignified official in the Imperial College could not even calculate how much food the disaster victims needed. When they encountered a problem, they would be flustered and make mistakes. At that time, the people would be the ones who would suffer.
Empress Zhangsun was not a resentful woman. Of course, she knew why Li Shimin was angry.
Li Shimin could see that these students were all beautiful and smooth in their essays, but none of them were good at dealing with problems. This was what the later generations called "high marks but low ability". The Imperial College had established the study of mathematics, but not many people paid attention to it, and not many people studied it in depth. All their energy was used to pile on beautiful words.
They could only add flowers to the brocade, but could not solve the problem. Was such a talented but incompetent official really a good one? Li Shimin deeply doubted.
"Your Majesty, don't be angry. Not to mention the students of the Imperial College, I reckon that many mathematicians can't calculate Mo Jiazi's problem!" Empress Zhangsun comforted him softly. She mentioned another serious fact. This was not an exception, but the atmosphere of the Imperial College...
Li Shimin could not help but feel awkward. At that time, he was also in high spirits. He excitedly went to solve these two questions. In the end, he found that he only knew the first one. He had no clue about the second one.
However, the second problem was the real problem of governing the refugees. It was impossible for refugees and disaster victims to stay in one place. They would go wherever there was food. There was no such thing as a stationary refugee in the world.
If they could calculate the tolerance limit of the local refugees in advance and make arrangements in advance, then they could make disaster relief measures in advance. The Imperial College would avoid a lot of turmoil. That would be a blessing for the people!
"Pande, give an order to the Imperial College. From now on, the students of the Imperial College must study mathematics well in order to graduate. Otherwise, they will not be given an official position! "Li Shimin said in a deep voice.
"No! Let's add one more rule. All the princes will have to take the test. "Li Shimin paused for a moment before adding another sentence. If Meton were here, he would not know whether to laugh or to cry.
Li Shimin's few words. He directly pushed him into the fire pit and offended all the students of the Imperial College. That was fine. Anyway, he had already offended them before.
But the last sentence made all the princes bear a grudge against him in their hearts. Even in the future. Mathematics was also a subject that made people racked their brains and scratched their heads. Not to mention in the Tang dynasty, an era where literature was valued more than mathematics.
In this battle between Confucianism and Mohism, although most people were amazed by the brilliance of the three poems from the frontier fortress, Moton's mathematical problem for the disaster victims, which baffled two students from the Imperial College, caused quite a stir in the mathematics students of Chang 'an City.
Zu Mingjun, who had been defeated by Meton. He had been thinking hard about the problem raised by Meton. But it was obviously very simple, but it was like a cloud of fog in front of him. Zu Mingjun could not break through the fog in front of him.
There were many people in Chang 'an like Zu Mingjun.
Countless people wanted to prove themselves, but they had not had the chance. Now the chance had come. As long as they could solve Mo Jiazi's problem first, they would be one step ahead, even if they could not defeat Mo Jiazi. At least they could prove that they were better than the students of the Imperial College.
So many people were quietly trying to solve this problem. Unfortunately, they had no clue. They flipped through the works of predecessors. For a while. Mathematics was quietly popular in the hall.
Especially after Li Shimin ordered the Imperial College's students and princes to take the mathematics exam, it became even more popular. The Ten Books of Mathematics, which usually did not sell, suddenly became a hot seller.
"The Ten Books of Mathematics", "Nine Chapters of Mathematics", "Island Mathematics", "Zhang Qiujian's Mathematics", "Xiahou Yang's Mathematics", "Five Classics of Mathematics", "Ji Gu's Mathematics", and "Zhuo Shu" were the "Ten Books of Mathematics".
The ten thick books were neatly stacked on the tables of the Imperial College students. All the students looked at Meton with hatred. It was the culprit in front of them that made them fall into the abyss of mathematics and could not extricate themselves.
"Meton, you've made us suffer!" Qin Huaiyu glared at Meton indignantly. His studies were already at the bottom. This time, with the addition of mathematics, he was basically hopeless.
"That's right!" Cheng Chumo and Yuchi Baolin's faces were even more miserable. They were as pitiful as they could be.
Meton also had a bitter smile on his face. He did not expect Li Shimin to do this. He was originally in a difficult situation, but after offending so many people, he was once again disliked by everyone. Especially the descendant of the Kong Family, Kong Huisuo, who was gnashing her teeth at him.
He was originally not good at mathematics, and now he had to re-learn mathematics. That kind of torture was unspeakable.
"Mo Jiazi!" Kong Huisuo looked at the Nine Chapters of Mathematics in her hands and gritted her teeth.
In the entire Imperial College, the only person who had a good impression of Meton was Shen Hongcai, who was a mathematics professor. It turned out that mathematics had a very awkward position in the Imperial College. Although it was slightly higher than mathematics, it was basically second to last. Ordinary studies were not valued by many people.
Now, with the emperor's decree, mathematics was listed as a compulsory subject. This directly caused the status of mathematics to shoot up like a rocket.
Correspondingly, his position in the Imperial College had also greatly increased. He now had the power to decide whether or not a student could successfully graduate. Those colleagues who used to ignore him were now all welcoming him with smiles. This made this old scholar, who had been frustrated his whole life, feel like he had come back to life.
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