Daming Crazy Emperor

Chapter 328 The Celebrity Effect
The hottest topic in the capital during this time is none other than Master Cheng, a master of mathematics.

Who is this great man?

Why did the emperor give a plaque and posthumously give a first-class special promotion to Dr. Ronglu?

This is obviously an honor only for a court official with outstanding merits. The problem is that Mr. Cheng has never been a high-ranking official.

Just when the common people were puzzled, all major bookstores in the capital released the news that the new masterpiece "Algorithm Tongzong" by Master Cheng has arrived!
This "Algorithm of Tongzong" has a total of seventeen volumes, one volume of one tael of silver, and one set of 16 taels of silver.

To be honest, one tael of silver is already a bit expensive for a book, and most people can't afford it.

Moreover, the title of this book has nothing to do with the "Four Books and Five Classics" at first glance, and generally scholars who aim at imperial examinations will not buy it.

However, this does not prevent those who have read a little and love to brag to read it.

It turns out that this is the meaning of mathematics, it turns out that there are so many ways to do abacus calculation, and it turns out that Master Cheng also invented a measuring scooter.

After these people saw it and boasted about it, Cheng Dawei's name spread even more widely.

Immediately afterwards, news came out from major grocery stores in the capital that the newly arrived Grand Master Cheng's most respected Dawei Pan.

Well, this abacus is actually an abacus, except for the accountant, most people basically don't use it.

However, this does not prevent ordinary people with good deeds from running to touch and have a look.

To be honest, this big position plate is really good.

The general abacus is made of pure wood, but this large abacus is made of copper round rods, surrounded by exquisite embossed copper leather corners, and there are three golden characters in the middle.

Those who saw it were amazed.

Of course, amazement is nothing but admiration, the accountant who is not particularly rich will not buy this thing.

Because this thing is also one tael of silver, which is a bit expensive.

Expensive?

It's ok.

Within a few days, news came out from major grocery stores in the capital that the newly arrived Cheng Meter was an improved version of the measuring scooter invented by Master Cheng.

This meter is relatively affordable. It has an exquisite copper skin shell and a brand-new thin iron scale surface. The smallest one can measure the length of a foot. It is extremely accurate, and the price is only one hundred yuan.

The largest one, which can measure a distance of one mile, is also extremely accurate, and the price is only one tael of silver.

There are more people who buy this thing, because almost all the artisans in the world are concentrated in the capital.

There are many craftsmen who can use this kind of distance meter, and now the craftsmen are rich. Ordinary first-level craftsmen spend more than ten taels of silver a year, and second-level craftsmen spend more than 20 taels of silver a year. , the third level is more than 30 taels of silver a year, and the level above the third level is even more serious.

However, these seem to have little to do with scholars.

Most scholars still pay more attention to the results of the examination, because it is related to their future. What kind of mathematics master, what kind of abacus, what kind of distance meter, have nothing to do with them!

Of course, the results of this test will be released sooner or later. Seeing that there are only three days left before the palace test, the Ministry of Rites finally posted a notice that the list of scholars in arts and sciences will be posted on time at [-]:[-] the next morning.

This is good news for Juren who participated in the examination.

However, the notice posted by the Ministry of Rites is not one, but two.

The other is a long list of 600 people.

Of course, this is not a tribute list, because the first announcement said that the tribute list will not be posted until tomorrow morning, and this time the tribute list is two lists, not one.

This list announced that the above is the list of candidates who tried to be opportunistic in the examination.

All these people will be dismissed!

This time, almost all the candidates were dumbfounded.

There are a total of 600 people, and these people are Juren!

It's not easy to get a job title these days. Didn't you see that Fan Jin went crazy with joy?
It was the first time in the Ming Dynasty for more than [-] years that so many people's meritorious names were expelled at once!

Almost all the examinees knew why these people were dismissed.

They are opportunistic, and even if they don't know science, they will sign up for the science examination.

In fact, there are many other candidates who also have this idea, but they have not put it into action.

Just because of this, they were expelled from their ranks. Will these people be convinced?

Will they cause trouble?

As a result, the notices had been posted for a long time, and the capital was still as calm as usual, as if five or six hundred people had not been expelled from their ranks at all.

Naturally, these people are not fools to be able to obtain the honor of Juren.

They are dissatisfied, extremely dissatisfied, but when they really want to make trouble, they will carefully consider the consequences of making trouble.

If there is trouble, what will be the consequences?

The consequences are chilling to think about.

If they make trouble, it is very likely that they will be dragged away and chopped up just like the candidates who made trouble last time!

At that time, the emperor didn't have many troops under his command. The entire capital city, the capital camp and the imperial guards combined seemed to be tens of thousands.

Moreover, at that time, the chieftains in the southwest and the slaves in Liaodong were still rebelling, and the victims in the northwest were also rebelling.

At this moment, the number of troops under the emperor's hands is frighteningly large, and there are no less than 20 Beijing camps and guards stationed in the capital alone.

Moreover, at this moment, the southwestern chieftain and Liaodong Jiannu had been beaten to silence by the imperial army, and the victims of the disaster did not see any rebellion. It can be said that the Ming Dynasty was peaceful.

If they jumped out to make trouble at this time, they would be courting death!
The emperor was not joking when he went crazy, so many corrupt officials in the eunuch party were cut off by the emperor, and most of the entire court was emptied at that time.

These juren who have changed their fame are nothing!
After careful consideration, these people chose to remain silent.

If they do things without considering the consequences, then it is not as simple as losing their fame and fame, and they may lose their lives!
The emperor wiped out five or six hundred people in one fell swoop, and none of them said a word. What's going on?
The other examinees understood after thinking about it for a while, and making trouble now is courting death!

Everyone is not impatient, so why court death?
Therefore, when the Gongshi list was announced the next day, all the candidates who failed the list did not dare to do anything, at most they just shook their heads and sighed.

However, this time, there are really many tributes in the double list of arts and sciences. More than 700 tributes were selected in both lists, which adds up to more than 500 people!
That is to say, those who signed up for the science examination, except those who were dismissed, were basically on the list of tributes.

And Cheng Jiashuo, the number one in the list of tributes, is the grandson of Master Cheng.

Of course, at this time, in the eyes of these failed candidates, the so-called Great Master Cheng is nothing, who knows how to play abacus, and what kind of measuring scooter is nothing!
However, after the Palace Examination, most candidates don't think so.

Because the subject of the science palace examination is the arithmetic problem on "Algorithm Tongzong"!

Moreover, the emperor also sent each candidate a set of "Algorithmic Tongzong" and a big disk.

That guy, the crackling sound of the abacus in front of the Emperor's Hall stunned the liberal arts candidates, and almost forgot to answer the hall test questions.

This is not a big deal.

After the palace examination was over, the Ministry of Rites issued an official document ordering local liberal arts colleges and colleges of arts and sciences to start recruiting students, and the first course of the college of arts and sciences was "Algorithm Tongzong".

Moreover, the official document also clearly stipulates that all science students must be proficient in arithmetic, and there will be arithmetic questions in the provincial and general examinations in the future.

Immediately afterwards, Taichang made another decree to commemorate Cheng Dawei's achievements in enlightening mathematics and Tongzong's abacus. Cheng Jiashuo, the number one scholar in science in Fuyin, directly promoted him to be the minister of the Ministry of Commerce, in charge of the soon-to-be-established Daming Western Company.

This Fuyin is a bit outrageous. Generally, even if the chief minister of the cabinet with outstanding merits becomes an official at most, the descendants of Fuyin can be the young ministers of the five temples or something.

Those are all idle jobs of the fifth rank or the second rank.

This time, Cheng Jiashuo was directly promoted to the Minister of Commerce of Zhengsanpin, and he will also be in charge of some Western firm in Ming Dynasty.

No one knows what the Ming Dynasty Western Firm is for, but the firm established by the imperial court must not be small, just like the Daming Bank.

In other words, this Cheng Jiashuo directly gained both fame and fortune, and reached the pinnacle of life in almost one step.

This is enough to prove how much the emperor favors Cheng Jiashuo.

Cheng Jiashuo, the No. [-] scholar in science, is simply an upstart of the Ming Dynasty, with a bright future!

Why did people become the upstarts of the Ming Dynasty?
People with brains can understand after thinking about it, the emperor has taken a fancy to his ancestral skills.

So, what is his ancestral skill.

"Algorithm System" has it all!
Why don't you hurry up to choose a science subject and learn "Algorithmic Tradition"!
If you study liberal arts, you will be awarded the gold list, that is, you will be a junior official at around the seventh rank, and even if you are the number one scholar in high school Chinese, you will be at the sixth rank.

Cheng Jiashuo, the number one scholar in science, is a third-rank servant, and he is also the kind of servant who can make a lot of money.

People these days are trying to get ahead with their heads sharpened. With such a good opportunity and such a good example, everyone still rushes to follow suit!

All of a sudden, liberal arts colleges all over the world were full of people, and there were not many scholars and candidates who went to apply.

This is the celebrity effect.

(End of this chapter)