Li Tai looked confused, is that so? Why can't he figure out the relationship between these things? In the end, can we calculate whether the people cultivate the land?
After reading it, Li Ke frowned. He directly picked up his pen and wrote a note on the table in front of him, then handed it to Li Tai and said: "Qingque, please go there yourself and go to the hospital." Outside the light gate, there are people from Tian Meng guarding it. Give this to him and ask him to pass it to Tian Meng and investigate as quickly as possible."
"Yes!" Li Tai took the note and ran away.
Li Ke looked at the things in his hands, then raised his head and said, "You go down first. You guys have a day off tomorrow, and then be ready to take over the relevant work at any time."
"Yes, Your Highness." Ning Quan immediately bent down and turned to leave.
"Go and call Huangfulin over." Li Ke put the things in his hands aside and called a young eunuch over.
"yes!"
Huangfulin was not close to the Liangyi Hall. Today was a holiday and tomorrow was a day of worship, so Huangfulin had to be called over from home.
Li Ke was not surprised at all that there were problems with the Ministry of Civil Affairs. In ancient times, it was much easier to falsify accounts than in modern times because of problems with accounting records and Chinese character records. Many people might not be able to find problems in accounts for decades.
Especially when learning ancient mathematics is still very difficult. In fact, the study of mathematics in ancient China is not weak, but Li Ke has read the mathematics books of this era. The study of mathematics is not weak, but he wants to learn to understand mathematics. It was too difficult in ancient times.
Because many ancient literary classics have no punctuation, and in order to save paper and other aspects of books, they repeatedly save words, and the same is true for ancient mathematical classics.
In this era, no one can systematically summarize mathematics for you, and teach you step by step from shallow to deep, from simple to complex. Ancient mathematics learning was relatively confusing.
This resulted in the fact that the threshold for mathematics in ancient times was actually very high, at least for those who wanted to master it. However, for people who only knew ordinary mathematics, it was terrifying to fully check the bills and calculate such a huge amount of calculations. matter.
This is the power of the times. Many people have studied the highest mathematical achievements in ancient times and feel that modern mathematics is not much more advanced than ancient times. But in fact, the advancedness of a certain subject does not depend on the depth of its high-end achievements.
Rather, it depends on whether it has formed a complete teaching system and whether it has a complete proof process, especially in mathematics.
Li Ke already knew there was a problem when he called someone to do the calculations. In fact, corruption during the Ming and Qing Dynasties was easier to detect, and it was also related to the progress of mathematics. Mathematics during the Ming and Qing Dynasties had already been compiled by experts. , including calculation methods such as abacus, became more complete during the Ming and Qing Dynasties.
After all, abacus was gradually improved in the late Tang Dynasty.
About an hour later, Huangfulin rushed over.
"I have met His Highness." Huangfulin didn't know why Li Ke asked him to come.
"Let's take a look. This is what my people calculated. The accounts of the Ministry of Revenue in recent years are missing." Li Ke asked Chang Lin, who had returned, to hand Huangfulin the accounts copied by Li Tai according to the writing method of the Tang Dynasty.
Huangfulin was stunned for a moment, but he still took it. However, after he finished reading, Huangfulin broke out in a cold sweat, and he knelt on the ground directly: "Your Highness, I know that I am guilty of lax supervision. But I am completely unaware of these possible corruptions."
"Get up, I know this has nothing to do with you." Li Ke waved his hand lightly.
Although the Huangfu family is not a big family, it is not too weak, and when they reach the position of Minister, there is really no need for such corruption in the Tang Dynasty.
Of course, there are not many of these things, but this is not something that Huangfulin can embezzle by himself. If they are spread out, these things will not be too much.
"Yes..." Huangfulin had cold sweat on his forehead, but he didn't dare not get up.
"It has only been four years since you took over the Ministry of Civil Affairs. This is not entirely your fault. However, now that you are the Minister, and such a big problem has arisen during your tenure, you cannot escape the blame. I can say that. Right?" Li Ke asked.
"Please punish me, Your Highness." Huangfulin took a deep breath and bent down without daring to raise his head.
"Just remember the punishment first. Things always need to be investigated clearly. If the Ministry of Civil Affairs can cooperate properly in the next task, I can pretend that this incident did not happen." Li Ke said lightly.
"Yes..." What else could Huangfulin do? If so much corruption was really investigated, it would be a matter of death. He had no choice but to agree if he didn't want to die.
"Well, when I go back this time, you have to help me investigate a few things." Li Ke said lightly.
"Your Highness, please speak."
"Check how many of the ministers, ministers, ministers, principals, etc. in the Ministry of Civil Affairs have served for more than five years? Record them all and give me a list." Li Ke said lightly, "This way Come on, record for me the years of service and previous positions of all personnel in the Ministry of Civil Affairs."
"Yes." Huangfulin took a deep breath. He had no choice but to do whatever Li Ke said.
"Okay, just pretend you don't know about this. You can go." Li Ke waved his hand.
Huangfulin said nothing and left directly.
After Huangfulin left, Li Ke sighed, hey, I'm not destined to be a completely messed up person. Sitting in this position, I can't really show off with so many people watching.
So annoying!
Thinking of this, Li Ke became angry when he saw Li Tai next to him. Although he was still bruised and swollen at the moment, Li Ke directly reached out and slapped him on the head.
Li Tai: "???"
Li Tairen was dumbfounded. Why did you hit me if you weren't the third brother? But when he looked over and saw Li Ke's unkind eyes, Li Tai gave in decisively. He lowered his head and read the memorial directly.
"What are you looking at? Please understand these things for me first. As a prince, you can't even do math? I just have a test paper here. You took it." Li Ke directly took it from the drawer next to his desk. He took out a test paper and slapped it in front of Li Tai.
This test paper was left by Li Zhi before. He is now taught by the teacher transferred from Li Ke. The test paper left before is useless. Let's use the waste.
Li Tai: "..."
Looking at the numbers on the test paper, Li Tai's head began to hurt.
But what Li Tai didn't know was that there was another person like him in Chang'an City at this moment.
Wu Jue had the same expression as Li Tai at the moment. She looked numbly at the numbers on the paper in front of her and the things that needed to be calculated. Is this... a thing for people to see?
She came over to go shopping with Li Yan. Li Yan happened to be studying, so Wu Jue took a curious look, and then saw this scene.
