"Take your father or grandfather home to farm" is a more euphemistic way of putting it.
To put it bluntly, if a team loses, for example, the Xue family loses, then the Xue family army will change hands!
Is this a bit too much?
Baili Tang would not be so foolish as to make enemies with all the troops and imperial guards that came. In this way, he could kill one family, make an example of them, and establish his authority!
"Your Majesty! I, Ye Hongxue, accept the challenge on behalf of our Ye Family Army!"
"Xue's army..."
"Han's army..."
"Lin's Army..."
“…”
Regardless of Baili Tang's intentions, let's get through this first. If I had agreed to Meng Fang last night, there wouldn't be any trouble today. Their leader is not a tyrant at all.
Ye Hongxue added, "For the sake of fairness, I hope that the topic for the literary competition can be set by Your Majesty himself. The sun is already high now, Your Majesty, please leave early so that we can proceed with the first round."
Baili Tang glanced at the female general. She looked very heroic and beautiful, but she was like a rose with thorns.
You want to embarrass me, don't you? Do you really think that the questions I gave you before were written for me by someone else?
Meng Fang glanced at Ye Hongxue as if warning, hoping that she would not take the lead in causing trouble.
Lord Zhang, Lord Wang, the uncle of the emperor, and the others were all very excited, even though they hadn't yet finished solving the problem Baili Tang had given them.
"Then I'll do as you say. I'll give you three questions.
Listen carefully!
First, I'm holding this fan in my hand. Calculate the area of the fan surface, excluding the ribs. Whoever figures it out gets points. The sooner you figure it out, the higher your score.
The second round is that there is a big bowl of tea on the table. Everyone has to stand and cannot squat, hold up the bowl, or scoop with a spoon. No part of the body can touch the bowl. Whoever can finish the bowl of tea first wins.
For the third question, I originally wanted to ask you a number series question, but since it was too difficult, I changed it to the following simple one:
There was a hunter with a wolf, a woman with two little girls, and a man with two little boys, and they were going to cross the river in a ferry.
If the hunters leave the wolves, the wolves will eat all the people.
If the woman leaves the two little girls, the man will beat them to death.
The man left the two little boys, and the woman wanted to beat them to death.
The four children were not capable of steering the boat. The boat could only hold two people, with the wolf counting as one, and one person had to steer the boat back.
How did they all get across safely and peacefully?"
The third question, when Yu Tang was in high school, he had read a historical time-travel novel where the author had used this example, so he had a deep memory of it. This question, in this world, was the easiest.
The second question is about straws. Americans only invented straws in 1888, so the difficulty is moderate.
The first question was the most difficult. Baili Tang discovered that this world didn't have Zu Chongzhi. Perhaps there was no pi either. Pi was key, but calculating the area of a sector required another mathematical formula.
Not long after Baili Tang finished answering the third question, Master Zhang had the answer in his mind. The third question should be the easiest, but if you make a wrong move, you will waste a lot of time.
"Each team of you will only have one chance to answer each question. Simply write the answer on a piece of paper. Eunuch Yang, have someone prepare paper, ink, a brush, and a small table for them."
“Hey!”
"You will have one and a half hours to answer the questions."
These questions are actually not difficult.
But who made these people not receive nine years of compulsory education?
Three hours is enough time to answer two junior high school questions and one elementary school question, Baili Tang thought.
He spoke for a long time, his mouth dry. He really admired his former boss, who could talk for an hour or two in every meeting. After reaching his safe place to rest, Baili Tang sent Zhang Dongzheng to monitor these people.
Through these three questions, we can see the team combat capabilities of these people.
For example, the excited female general saw that she had almost answered the third question, so she asked the others to skip it and assigned people to answer the other two questions. And everyone had to participate. This person was quite good at handling things.
There are also the Lin Family Army and the Hu Family Army, who are similar to Ye Hongxue.
In some cases, only a few of their leaders were discussing their own work, while the others were discussing their own. They weren't fully mobilizing everyone's enthusiasm. Perhaps, in their eyes, these soldiers, who couldn't even read, had no ability to solve problems.
Whether it was Meng Fang's soldiers or Chao Hong's soldiers, they all sat obediently without receiving any orders, even though they also wanted to solve the problems. The last one in particular was quite interesting.
After a cup of tea, Ye Jiajun was the first to submit the answer to the third question.
Next is the Lin family army.
After them came the Yang Family Army and the Hu Family Army.
After two cups of tea, Guo Jiajun also submitted his answer.
Among the seven teams, only the Xue family army and the Han family army are left.
In Xue's army, there was a captain who was about the same age as Meng Fang. His name was Zhang Xiaofeng. He was holding a piece of dogtail grass in his mouth and looked very nonchalant.
A younger soldier next to him whispered to him, "Captain Zhang, have you figured it out already? I think the hunter must take the wolf with him first, then come back, take one of the man's children, and then bring the wolf back."
Men and Children of Men 2 Past, men return.
The man and the woman go, and the woman comes back.
The hunter and the wolf went away, and the man returned.
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