Let’s not talk about the chaos outside the Imperial College. After Li Zhuo and others entered the Imperial College, many great scholars in the Imperial College came over.
Although the Imperial College was a public institution and the emperor was its highest leader, many of the scholars there had never seen the emperor.
Now he finally has such an opportunity to get close to the emperor. If he is really obsessed with a career in politics, he will definitely find a way to get involved here.
It had been a long time since Li Zhuo discussed the essence of the scriptures with these great scholars. Sometimes chatting with these great scholars was more interesting than reviewing memorials, so Li Zhuo had a great time chatting with them.
They say that where there are people, there are rivers and lakes, and where there are rivers and lakes, there are conflicts. Having a Taoist infiltrate the Confucian territory was already a source of displeasure, not to mention that this guy had previously blown up their courtyard wall.
Soon someone approached Lu Chen with a question: "Master Lu, I heard you've made great achievements in arithmetic. Could you please teach me a few things?"
Lu Chen raised his eyes and looked at the person who was speaking. The other person was forty years old, with a thin face and a sense of depression between his brows. He looked like a competitive person.
"Who are you?"
"My name is Hong Chong. I think I have made some achievements in arithmetic, so I would like to have a discussion with Taoist Master Lu."
"Well, what did you say at first?"
"I wonder if I could ask Daoist Master Lu for some advice?"
"Not this one, but the one before it."
"I heard that Taoist Master Lu has made great achievements in arithmetic."
"Well, that's the sentence. How can it be said to be quite fruitful? It is quite fruitful. Let me put it this way, even if we only learn one path, everyone here is garbage!"
"Puff!" Li Zhuo couldn't help but spit out a mouthful of tea.
He had heard from Li Xiang that Lu Chen was indeed proficient in arithmetic, but he also knew that Hong Chong in front of him also had profound attainments in arithmetic. Was Lu Chen being too arrogant to say this?
As expected, after hearing Lu Chen's words, Hong Chong was so angry that he laughed. He also changed his previous hypocritical expression and snorted coldly, saying: "Then I would like to ask Master Lu for some advice."
"Okay, okay. I'm free anyway, so you can ask the questions first, or you'll accuse me of bullying you. After all, if I were to ask the questions, you probably wouldn't be able to answer any of them."
This was so arrogant that a group of professors from the Imperial College glared at him.
As for the other officials, they had an expression of wanting to watch the fun and not mind getting involved. The Imperial College and the Censorate were similar, and they were somewhat at odds with the officials like them who were engaged in specific affairs.
Hong Chong took a deep breath, not wanting to be disturbed by Lu Chen's words. He thought for a moment and said, "There are pheasants and rabbits in the same cage. There are thirty-five heads on top and ninety-four legs below. How many pheasants and rabbits are there?"
This is the classic chicken and rabbit problem from Sun Zi's Mathematical Classic.
Hong Chongjue's question was extremely difficult. He had spent three days and three nights pondering the answer. Testing the demon with this question would surely stump him.
Not only Hong Chong thought so, many professors from the Imperial College around him also nodded, and they all felt that Hong Chong's question was very clever.
At this time, Cui Shanzhan quietly approached Liang Licang and said, "Old Liang, can you solve this problem? Is it difficult?"
As the Minister of Revenue, Liang Licang often had to deal with numbers, and his arithmetic skills were pretty good.
After hearing the question, he shook his head solemnly and said, "It's indeed a very difficult question. Even for me, it would take me half a day to figure it out. I guess Master Lu might not be able to figure it out..."
"23 chickens and 12 rabbits."
Lu Chen didn't care about the reactions of the people around him, and casually threw out the correct answer. His calm demeanor fully demonstrated the style of a master!
Everyone present hurriedly looked at Hong Chong. They all wanted to know whether Lu Chen had done the right thing.
Hong Chong's face looked extremely ugly. He never expected that the question that seemed very difficult to him was so simple in Lu Chen's eyes. He didn't even have to think about it for long before he answered it.
"Impossible, he must have seen this question before, so he knows the correct answer!" Thinking this in his mind, Hong Chong's facial features were distorted.
Lu Chen looked at the other person's ugly face and said with a disdainful smile: "Isn't it my turn to ask questions? Please listen to the questions!"
"One carriage can travel ten miles in an hour, and the other carriage can travel fifteen miles in an hour. If the first carriage sets out two hours ahead, and the second carriage sets out to catch up, how long will it take for the second carriage to catch up?"
this……
When this question came out, not only Hong Chong, but even the other professors in the Imperial College were scared.
What the hell is going on? Is this really a question a human could come up with?
Looking at Hong Chong's constipated face, Lu Chen chuckled and said, "It's okay, don't worry, you can go and calculate slowly, you still have at least two hours. If you still haven't figured it out in two hours, hahahaha, how is that possible? You are a professor at the Imperial College, no way, no way, a professor at the Imperial College can't even figure out this little problem."
As soon as these words were spoken, the faces of all the professors in the Imperial College changed.
They originally wanted to give Lu Chen a warning in front of the emperor and let him know whose territory this was.
But who could have thought that Lu Chen didn't buy it at all, and instead slapped them in the face, knocking them down.
What should they do? If they can’t solve the problem within two hours, they will be embarrassed.
So the professors no longer wanted to fight with Lu Chen anymore, and quickly went to help Hong Chong calculate!
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