Of course, Zhang Shou would not talk about this when he was in the Imperial College. But now he is at the Outer City Public School. Before, he even convened people to go to Zhangyuan Star Observation Tower to do an iron block falling experiment. If he talks about things like gravity, then he will
He didn't have much worries anymore. Moreover, he taught this class to two grades of Jiuzhang Hall together, but he did not use the already written drafts of Volumes 1 and 2 of Physics.
Gravity, a knowledge that can easily ignite some people in the philosophical community, is not something he would write about in such a bold way.
Although it was taught in the most superficial way and by asking why, for most of the students below, what Zhang Shou just said was still an unprecedented shock. Even if Zhang Shou did not completely deny it
Instead of assuming that the sky is round and the earth is round, and then adding questions, they still feel confused.
Even Ji Jiu, who always considers himself to be utilitarian and active, had his heart almost stop beating.
Zhang Shou glanced at the students in the hall and saw that even Qi Liang, who had been bombarded by him for various reasons since childhood, also had a blank expression on his face. He suddenly missed Lu Sanlang who was not here because of his marriage leave.
If the little fat man were here, he might be a stream of calmness in the confusion. Although he looks fat and insignificant, the little fat man's strong heart can probably accept any theory that does not affect his life. Of course.
If this kind of theory can make money for that little fat man, even if he says to the little fat man that the water of the Yellow River comes up, people will unswervingly nod in agreement!
At this time, the class was over, and Zhang Shou was about to announce the end of get out of class, but he found that several figures appeared outside. Just Lu Wan and Liu Zhiyuan, except for Song Juren who came to announce the exam questions in the morning, the King of Jiangdu was also there! Seeing those pictures With a slightly pale face, he realized that the superficial gravity knowledge he had just imparted to the students had probably been heard by them, and he couldn't help but smile.
In the Middle Ages and even the Renaissance, certain views would have been labeled heretical, but in today's Ming Dynasty, the development of navigation has not brought about a scientific revolution. Zhang Shou certainly knows how deviant what he just said is.
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But even so, he still calmly announced the end of get out of class, then walked forward calmly and said hello as if nothing had happened: "Is your Majesty personally here to invigilate the exam?"
"Yes, I didn't see any moths in the Banshan Hall, but I just broke out in a white sweat after listening to your lecture!" King Jiangdu touched the non-existent cold sweat on his forehead, then shook his head and said,
"I truly obey the Emperor. It is probably because of his maverick emperor that he dares to use a deviant hero like you, Academician Zhang."
"Thank you, Your Majesty, for not telling me. I was just trying to confuse people with my lies." Zhang Shou chuckled and saw Lu Wan's face full of sighs. Although Liu Zhiyuan frowned, he didn't show any obvious sullen expression. Song Juren looked confused and stupid.
He thought that the academic environment here was indeed much better than that of the Imperial College, so he calmly recited a poem.
"At the beginning of ancient times, who preached the truth? How can we examine the truth when the top and bottom are not visible? Who can know the clear and dark? How can we recognize the image of Feng Yi? What is the time when it is bright and dark..."
He casually recited Qu Yuan's eternally famous "Tian Wen", and after asking dozens of questions, he stopped temporarily, and then said with a smile: "Every word of Qu Yuan's "Tian Wen" is full of thoughts, but it was not until a thousand years later that he finally stopped.
There is "Tian Dui" written by Liu Zihou. Most people in the world feel that "Tian Dui" is just a direct expression of one's feelings by borrowing the yin and yang of heaven and earth, and has no practical meaning, so they discard it like a waste."
"In fact, it's no wonder that although there are many merits in Liu Zihou's "Tian Dui", most of the answers have no practical basis. Since you can't use facts to prove that you are right, it is not widely circulated.
It’s very natural.”
"Just like what I did when I solved the mystery of Taizu's plaque, some things cannot be said because they are empty words. But if experiments are actually used to prove right or wrong, then others will have nothing to say. Of course not
There are no accidents. For example, during the Jingyan Festival, weren’t the experiments I conducted in the Wenhua Hall still considered to be witchcraft?”
"But hearing is false, seeing is believing. What you see with your own eyes is naturally more reasonable than any hearsay. Some people say that the truth cannot be discerned, but I feel that practice is the only criterion for testing truth!"
King Jiangdu felt dizzy after hearing Zhang Shou's plausive words. Finally he quickly rubbed his temples to stop him and said: "Okay, okay, yes, yes, you are right, Bachelor Zhang! But I am not your student, please bother me."
Please be merciful and let me go, and don’t say these hard-to-understand things to a wooden fish like me."
Seeing that Zhang Shou stopped talking with a half-smile, he breathed a sigh of relief and told all the promises he made to people in the Banshan Hall and what he said to the academic officials in the Imperial College. Seeing that Zhang Shou wanted to correct him when he heard it.
There were so many people whose papers were all the same, so he coughed dryly and said, "I expect that after this time, there will be far fewer people who are hoping for luck..."
"No, even if His Royal Highness the Crown Prince sets the question strictly, it is a first-come-first-served opportunity after all. There will not be fewer people who continue to try, there will only be more." Zhang Shou did not feel that King Jiangdu was teasing and sarcastic before, so he just
It can make people in the Imperial College retreat. After all, after so much negative news, the Attendant of the East Palace, which can only be taken by Imperial College students, can be regarded as a life-saving straw.
"I don't care. Calculation questions are no different than others. Wrong is wrong and right is right. It will be faster if the students are responsible for the preliminary screening. On the other hand, other lecturers have to correct thousands of extra papers every month, even if the answer sheets are made by
Students provide their own supplies, but their burden is not light."
King Jiangdu just said this casually, but after thinking about it carefully, he felt that what Zhang Shou said made sense. Since it was a shortcut to Zhongnan, everyone would be lucky enough to give it a try!
But he felt disgusted by the way some officials of the Imperial Academy used themselves to judge others, especially when they actually thought that they would escort their future son-in-law Song Juren to the East Palace. He became furious just thinking about it.
So, he frowned, thought about it, and immediately smiled and said: "In that case, every time the monthly exam for selecting the servants of the East Palace is treated as the monthly exam for the Sixth Hall of the Imperial College, how about the results?"
"That's not appropriate. The Sixth Class Examination of the Imperial College only tests Confucian classics and history and nothing else. If we change it rashly, it will arouse resentment and protests from some of the senior officials in the court." Zhang Shou shook his head and then said with a smile, "That's true.
It is probably more feasible to use the monthly test to select the attendants and publish a list after the test to announce the results. Don't just post the admissions, but also post the rankings of those who are not admitted."
"Including their scores for each of the three questions, they are posted together and announced. In this way, it is clear at a glance. As for the papers, they are archived for future reference. If anyone is dissatisfied, they can directly post them for everyone to review together, which also avoids some people being dissatisfied.
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There is an apricot list for the general examination and a laurel list for the provincial examination. However, those who are posted are either those who passed or those who passed the exam. Of course, the names and rankings of those who failed will not be announced again. However, at this moment, Zhang Shou made a move
All ranked as great killers, King Jiangdu was stunned for a moment.
Immediately, with his scalp numb, he asked rapidly: "Ranking? How to rank thousands of supervisors? How much more workload will this increase, how many people will be used! Just to select a few East Palace attendants, all the troops are mobilized like this.
The emperor will not agree!"
"What if there is no need to mobilize troops?"
Zhang Shou smiled more and more calmly, as if he didn't notice that in Jiuzhang Hall, where get out of class had just ended, all the students who had attended class today had already tiptoed out and gathered around in a circle, where they were watching lively.
"I know that in the past, the provincial examinations or examination papers had corresponding grades, but what if there were no grades but numbers?"
"Each question is scored out of 100 points. Arithmetic is the simplest. Fifty points for a correct solution and another fifty points for a correct answer. And if there are no ideas but only answers, then in order to reward you, you have read "Nine Chapters of Arithmetic"
, the whole question can be scored as casually as thirty points. As for the policy question, there are also questions from the four books of Shiwen. The examiner will judge the question according to the merit, with the highest score being 100 points and the lowest score being zero."
"In the final summary, the scores of the three questions are added together and then sorted according to high and low. As for those with the same score, they will be tied."
"If your Majesty feels that this method is cumbersome and requires too much manpower, then I happen to have students in Jiuzhang Hall who are good at arithmetic and can take on such an important task." At this point, Zhang Shou glanced at him with a smile.
He glanced at the many students and asked with interest, "What do you think? If you feel tired, forget it."
As soon as these words came out, Ji Jiu was the first to agree without hesitation: "Such a good training opportunity, students agree!"
This is just telling lies with open eyes. This is completely mechanical repetitive work, what a waste of exercise!
However, Ji Jiu's approval instantly awakened the others. When they thought about those shady and eccentric supervisors, they would now be ranked among them. Maybe some of the outstanding outstanding supervisors in the Imperial Academy's Suixing Hall would be ranked first.
His true colors were revealed, and his name was lost to Sun Shan. For a while, there were voices one after another, patting their chests and expressing that they were not afraid of hardship and fatigue, actually scrambling to be the first.
Faced with such a scene, King Jiangdu was stunned for a moment in disbelief - these days, he has only seen people who push back and deal with things when things come to a close, but he has never seen people who actively take responsibility for fear of falling behind - but he is not a fool, and only for a moment
Just figured it out.
Although he felt that Zhang Shou had bad intentions, and these Jiuzhangtang tutors were also gloating about his misfortune, he did not want to take such a big exam with thousands of people every month in the future, and publish such rankings.
Probably after two attempts at most, those who claim to be excellent but not comprehensive enough will probably give up. And those who accompany the runners at the bottom will probably have self-awareness.
At that moment, he nodded happily and said: "Master Zhang, this is a good idea. I will report it to the emperor when I get back."
"It's just that ranking these thousands of people is not easy. Writing the final list will probably take a lot of paper, and it may be posted all over the Imperial College. Even if students like you work tirelessly, what's the cost..." Although his family is rich, but
When King Jiangdu spoke at this time, he still looked like a stingy old shopkeeper.
Faced with his behavior, Zhang Shou was not as ready as he had just promised. He sighed regretfully, but never answered the question again. Lu Wan and Liu Zhiyuan, who had seen enough of the excitement, looked at each other.
Feeling angry and funny, Lu Wan immediately said: "It's just a piece of paper to post the announcement. I happen to have a papermaking workshop at home, so I'll take over this job!"
What I’m waiting for is your words, Mr. Lu!
King Jiangdu immediately beamed with joy and nodded repeatedly: "That's good, I'll report it to the emperor when I get back!"
Zhang Shou also smiled and said: "With the solid backing of Lu Jijiu, the tutors of Jiuzhang Hall and I can rest assured."
Seeing that Lu Wan couldn't help but be stunned after hearing what the two said, Liu Zhiyuan couldn't help but smile and said: "You have fallen into their trap. One of them doesn't want to contribute money, and the other just wants to contribute.
Without you, a rich man, agreeing to provide money, thousands of people would rank themselves, and then a list would be announced. How could such a huge thing be accomplished?"
Ji Jiu was about to ask for part of the expenses just now. At this moment, he couldn't help but feel lucky that he was smart, otherwise the personal money he had saved over the years would not have been used, and it would have ruined the teacher's good plan. So, he who reacted the fastest quickly took the lead and asked Lu
Lu Wan thanked her, and for a while, others followed suit, and Lu Wan was showered with a lot of free thanks.
Anyway, he had already become the boss of the money. Lu Wan didn't bother to worry about the fact that he was plotted by Zhang Shou and King Jiangdu. He just made another request, pick out the students of Banshan Hall and make them alone.
Ranking. He knew very well that even if the so-called outstanding supervisors in the Imperial College were mediocre, they were not comparable to the half-hearted ones in Banshan Hall.
To this, Zhang Shou readily agreed. When King Jiangdu left Song Juren to invigilate the examination, he hurried back to the palace to report the matter to the emperor. He couldn't help but smile as he watched Song Juren leave in a hurry with a group of guards.
Posting rankings was something that teachers used to enjoy doing before computers or even calculators were used in later generations. At the most exaggerated time, he had taken three main courses in Chinese and Mathematics, plus four secondary courses in geography, history, biopolitics
It is a nightmare to calculate the total score and ranking together. A slight mistake in any course will lead to a plummeting of dozens of places in the ranking of the twelve classes in the whole grade...
Now there are only three questions, with a total score of 300 points. Even if there are more people, he still has forty or fifty helpers! The total score is added up, and then the statistics are divided according to the total division, and the final ranking is even without a calculator.
, is this difficult?
Dozens or even hundreds of people appeared in the same ranking at the top of the sky! Fortunately, when he spoke, he changed the ten-point system to a hundred-point system! If it were a ten-point system, maybe there would be a spectacular phenomenon of thousands of people tied for the same place!
When he turned to face a group of students who were inexplicably excited, Zhang Shou smiled and said to everyone: "This time the grading and ranking is a preview for you. I will give you another lesson later. It's very simple"
Preliminary statistics."
Seeing that the cheerful expressions of a large group of students suddenly froze, Lu Wan, who had been a bit resentful just now, suddenly laughed. Liu Zhiyuan couldn't help but tugged on his beard and mentally counted the Jiuzhangtang courses he had learned about.
In addition to arithmetic, physics is now added, and statistics is a preliminary subject, so there are three courses. It is said that Zhang Shou plans to hire teachers to teach additional history and composition, and claims to add classes at any time.
...If this continues, when these students actually start teaching in three to five years, compared with the Imperial College students who only study classics and history, they will be ahead in more than just arithmetic!