The next day, at dawn, Li Shui arrived at the gate of the palace yawning.
It's winter, it's getting cold. It feels like my breath is freezing. Li Shui was wrapped in a fur coat and leather boots on his feet. He held a heater in his arms and jumped out of the carriage.
At the gate of the palace, Chun Yuyue was also getting off the car. Compared with Li Shui, his clothes were much shabby.
The old man stood in the cold wind, shivering and looking extremely pitiful.
Li Shui was thinking about whether to lend him the heater. As a result, Chunyu Yue glanced at Li Shui and said lightly: "It is easy to move from frugality to luxury, but it is difficult to move from luxury to frugality. If everyone in the world is as extravagant and wasteful as the banished immortals, how can the Qin Dynasty survive for thousands of years?"
Li Shui was a little speechless and asked Chunyu Yue: "Are you frugal? Aren't you cold?"
Chunyu Yue was shivering from the cold. After hearing Li Shui's words, he suddenly straightened his back and replied proudly: "I am good at cultivating my awe-inspiring spirit. I have righteousness in my chest, so I can naturally keep out the cold."
After saying this, Chunyu Yue miraculously stopped shivering.
Li Shui was dumbfounded: Is this okay? Isn’t this psychological effect too powerful?
Chunyu Yue didn't want to chat with Li Shui in the wind, after all, his clothes were still too thin. He entered the palace in a hurry.
Li Shui took a few breaths of cold air, his mind became clearer, and he went to the palace.
A quarter of an hour later, Li Shui sat in Ying Zheng's study and fell asleep.
There were many charcoal basins inside, which were as warm as spring. Li Shui had just been cold outside, and suddenly felt the warm breath, and couldn't help but feel a little sleepy.
Ying Zheng hadn't come yet at this time, and Li Shui wanted to take a nap, but he was worried that Ying Zheng would come and felt rude.
While he was struggling, a snoring sound suddenly came from next to him. Li Shui was stunned, turned around and found Li Xin lying on the mat, sleeping soundly, almost treating this place as his own kang.
When Li Shui saw this situation, he couldn't bear it anymore. He picked a bundle of bamboo slips to use as a pillow, fell on the mat, and fell asleep quickly.
Li Shui didn't know how long he slept. When he was woken up, he found that Ying Zheng had arrived and was looking at him meaningfully.
Li Shui quickly got up and saw Li Xin sitting upright next to him, as if nothing happened.
Li Shui was a little puzzled: "This guy woke up so early?"
Li Xin seemed to know what Li Shui was thinking, and smiled secretly: "Do you understand? There were footsteps outside. I put my ear to the ground and heard it immediately. You have never fought in a war, so you don't understand this."
Li Shui had no choice but to admit defeat.
Zhao Teng said with a smile: "It looks like the banished immortal is very tired."
Li Shui said calmly: "I am thinking hard every day and tomorrow, and I can't sleep at night, wondering how to refine the elixir for Your Majesty. That's why I was extremely tired and fell asleep accidentally."
Ying Zheng nodded with satisfaction and said to Li Shui: "Don't worry about the elixir. The right time, place, and people are indispensable. Huaiguzi is doing well. Our Daqin is flourishing and is on the road to the immortal world. But I also know it. , it is too early to make alchemy now. Fortunately, I can afford to wait, so I will give you a few more years."
Li Shui saluted respectfully: "Your Majesty is so considerate and comforting to me, you are truly a benevolent Lord. I am so grateful that I can't express my gratitude in words. I can only say that I have devoted my whole life to the Qin Dynasty and died."
Zhao Teng and the others were all stunned: Is there such a shameless person in the world?
However, Ying Zheng was very helpful. He nodded with satisfaction and said to Li Shui: "Okay, it's good if you have this heart."
Chunyu Yue saw that Li Shui had a strong desire to perform. If he didn't stop him, today's issue might become flattering to the banished immortal.
So Chunyu Yue took the initiative and said, "Your Majesty, I don't know why you summoned us to the palace."
Ying Zheng waved his hand, and a young eunuch came over with several papers and distributed them to everyone.
Ying Zheng said calmly: "The last question in arithmetic is a variation of a chicken and a rabbit in the same cage. These thirty or so people wrote all the answers correctly. However, this problem-solving process is unheard of. Therefore, I summon you to come and review the details. This is an imperial examination after all, and you must be cautious when selecting officials for me."
The courtiers agreed and began to read the question carefully.
These people are not stupid people. After just watching for a while, someone smiled slightly and said to Li Shui: "The way these people solve problems is eccentric and unconventional, like the style of banishing immortals."
Li Shui didn't hide anything and said calmly: "This is an immortal technique. This is how people in the immortal world solve problems."
Chunyu Yue was a little helpless and said to Li Shui: "Relegated to immortals, there is also the problem of chickens and rabbits in the same cage in the immortal world? Don't involve everything in the immortal world, use the immortal world as your shield."
Li Shui said with an innocent face: "In the fairy world, this is really the way to solve problems."
Ying Zheng said calmly: "I don't care whether this is how problems are solved in the immortal world. In the imperial examination, someone used this method. Do you think I should judge him right or wrong?"
Li Shui said with a surprised look on his face: "They got the question right, why did they get it wrong?"
Ying Zheng looked at him, smiled and shook his head.
At this time, Chun Yuyue stood up and said: "I have a general understanding of this method of solving problems. I just feel that this method is too opportunistic and too cunning. If the scholars in the world learn this method, I am afraid it will affect them. Their character. Let them throw away the rules and become lazy and lazy. If things go on like this, the world will be corrupted. How can we, the Qin Dynasty, be able to maintain peace and stability for a long time? "
Li Shui's forehead was filled with veins, and he cursed: "Fart, bullshit. Pedantic, pedantic. Nonsense, nonsense."
Chunyu Yue almost fainted from anger: "At my age, I am more than enough to be your grandfather, but you humiliated me like this in front of His Majesty."
Ying Zheng also said calmly: "Huai Guzi, if you have any opinions, just say it, there is no need to slander others."
Li Shui snorted and said: "Just now Dr. Chunyu said that this method is too clever and can easily develop ingenuity. Then let me ask, compared with people plowing the fields, is it too labor-intensive for cattle plowing? It makes people feel lazy and lazy. ?”
"Compared to animal skins and leaves, aren't silk and linen clothes too clever and easy to make people extravagant?"
"Compared to the wild fruits in the mountains, the beasts that have just been stoned to death. Are the wines and delicacies too delicious to make people forget to leave?"
"According to Dr. Chunyu's logic, we should just become savages. Only by becoming savages can we conform to his ideals and be the rule of Yao and Shun."
"Then I have to ask, was there famine during the time of Yao and Shun? When drought and locusts came, would people starve to death?"
"My Daqin is now prosperous, and various inventions are emerging one after another. I can guarantee that if a famine comes, no one will starve to death in any place where my magic is practiced."
"Comparing the two, is it possible that the era of Yao and Shun, where people starve to death, is what Dr. Chunyu wants? Let me ask you, doctor, do you want a good reputation for governing the world, or do you just use it to criticize me? How can the common people benefit from this? Don’t you care about his life and death at all?”
Chunyu Yue was speechless and almost fainted. He found that when Li Shui cursed, although it was unpleasant, he was not that angry. But when Li Shui was trying to reason, he felt like he had a bunch of things that were being held in his heart and he couldn't vent them out at all.
Chunyu Yue wanted to refute, but he didn't know how to refute at all, which gave him a headache.
Fortunately, Li Si next to him said quietly: "This method is simple. But is it reliable? You must know that a method needs to be refined many times. If there are any flaws in this new method, I am afraid it will cause endless harm."
Li Shui said with a smile: "We can verify it. Mr. Ting Wei will find a few people who are proficient in arithmetic to compare with me. It is a problem like a chicken and a rabbit living in the same cage. The harder the better."
Li Si looked at Ying Zheng, who nodded.
It didn't take long and several people were called in. Among these people are those who write the test papers, and there are also the clerks who review the examination papers.
They have a common hobby, that is, they like to study arithmetic. Now, it's up to them to come up with the questions.
Li Shui looked carefully and saw no sign of Zhou Qingchen. It seemed that Ying Zheng did not let him in in order to avoid suspicion.
The question maker and the clerk exchanged a few words in a low voice, and soon came up with a question.
Li Shui wrote and drew on the straw paper, and it only took two minutes to announce the answer. But Chunyu Yue and his group had just begun to solve the problem.
Li Si was a little unwilling and asked those people to ask another question. In the end, within two minutes, Li Shui solved it again.
Later, the question makers simply started to ask other types of questions. Some of the questions are so strange that even the most knowledgeable courtiers must ponder them carefully.
Li Shui answered them all effortlessly.
There are many twists and turns in the difficult questions in ancient books. If you imagine them from the ground, it will really test your IQ. But Li Shui didn't think about it at all. Instead, he used a new trick, direct algebra, listed a few equations, and solved it completely.
In the end, Wang Wan, Li Si and others were dumbfounded and a little unwilling, but they had to admit defeat.
Li Shui smiled with satisfaction and said: "Your Majesty, gentlemen, please do not reject new ideas and new methods. Why does Your Majesty want to open a patent office? It is to let the world's talented people brainstorm. As long as the method is effective, If it can benefit our country, Daqin, we should support it."
"The era of Yao and Shun not only required a few noble words, but also needed moral etiquette. It also required real food, clothes, gold and silver. The so-called warehouses are practical and etiquette. The people were required to go to the era of Yao and Shun hungry. , That kind of governance is only for the powerful and has nothing to do with the people of the world."
Ying Zheng nodded and said: "Huai Guzi's words make sense. This new way of solving problems is very good, and I will approve it."
Li Shui smiled and thanked.
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At the same time, the policy theory examination is underway.
The test question is very simple: At the end of the Eastern Han Dynasty, the princes were divided into regimes, including Cao Cao, Yuan Shao, Yuan Shu, and Liu Biao... In the past, the officials of the Han Dynasty no longer listened to the emperor's orders, but acted on their own affairs and continued to attack, so that their lives were ruined. Try to analyze how to ensure the unification of the world.
Hu Hai looked at this question and his expression gradually changed. Didn't it mean that the policy theory was drawn from the Three Kingdoms? This question... does involve several characters from the Three Kingdoms, but what the heck, does this question have anything to do with the Three Kingdoms? This is obviously asking about the political affairs of Da Qin. It makes perfect sense to replace Cao Cao's men with Duke Huan of Qi and Duke Wen of Jin.
Poor Hu Hai listened to dozens of books in the Immortal Exile Tower and almost consumed all the money Hu Ji had accumulated over the years, so he ended up with something like this? This is what Exiled Immortal Tower calls the imperial examination questions from the Three Kingdoms?
Hu Hai wanted to die. This Immortal Exile Tower was so deceptive. It was so unconscionable.
