The third prince hurried out of the palace, originally full of resentment. However, when he saw a blond boy with hair color, skin color and appearance that was completely different from the people of his country, he was enthusiastically calculating calculation problems.
The original purpose was forgotten. When Zhang Shou dragged the person away from the blackboard without any explanation, he stepped forward and took a closer look at the hasty deduction.
After reading it, he turned around and asked Zhang Shou: "Teacher, he doesn't seem to have mastered all the triangle theorems?"
"Euclidean's "Σtoixe??a", in their country, is a field that only scholars can study, and he is still too young. What's more, the popular book there is a Latin version, even though he knows it
There are some similarities with the language that he can speak and write, but at his age, he probably hasn't learned it yet. The two he used before are already pretty good."
Seeing that Lu Sanlang immediately looked at the blond boy with a rather playful look, and the blond boy looked guilty, Zhang Shou said with a smile: "A long time ago, Latin was actually just a language on the Italian peninsula where he was located.
It was a dialect that was common in a small area, but later the Roman Empire, which spoke this language, became powerful and dominated the area, and it became a common language in the West."
"Later, although the Roman Empire was divided into east and west branches, it has always been a giant, and Latin has gradually been divided into two different forms: written and oral. Let's put it this way, just like in the Ming Dynasty, it is now spoken by ordinary people.
The words are completely different from the words used in articles and classics."
After he explained like this, the third prince, Lu Sanlang, or everyone else naturally nodded to show that they understood. At this time, Zhang Shougang glanced at the blond boy, and his smile suddenly became deeper.
"In today's West, educated princes, nobles and their religious figures will learn Latin, because this is the language that small countries must be proficient in when communicating with each other, and most of this depends on a teacher who is proficient in Latin. However,
Ordinary little nobles, or ordinary wealthy people from well-off families, may not be willing to spend a large sum of money to hire such a teacher for their foreign wife."
In order to make it easier to understand, Zhang Shou changed the tutor to Mr. Teacher, so as soon as he said this, a large number of people around him nodded in understanding. There are people like Lu Sanlang who have not loved studying since childhood, but Mr. Teacher has not missed it.
Among the truly wealthy young men, there are also those who are mostly poor like the students in Jiuzhangtang, and there are also children like Ji Jiu and Zhang Datou who were once very marginalized in their families.
Therefore, there is no independent teacher. Those who study with other brothers in their own family or in other families, or even study with the favored brother in the family, or even hire a teacher when the family is prominent, but later cannot afford it when they fall into decline.
... With more people, there are more various situations, but at this time, most people no longer looked at the blond boy with their original picky eyes.
There were even people who were not afraid of exposing their family scandals and sighed with emotion: "To hire a teacher to teach one person, this is a treatment that only the most favored child in the family can get. Of course, the outsiders can't even think about it. A relative of my family used to be outside.
He raised two wives, and he seemed to be doting on him, and it is said that he gave birth to two sons, but the fierce wife in his family persuaded the elders and cut off his money!"
"Now, he had no money and was light-hearted. His two outhouses saw that he had no money, so they all ran away. The child was sent back, but he ended up raising it with the son of a servant. Let alone studying, he didn't have any money at all. Just like a servant."
Where there is the first, there is the second, because I heard Zhang Shou just told the blond boy that he would not send people to mine. In addition, His Royal Highness the Crown Prince is also here. People who are trying to figure out Zhang Shou's feelings can't help but speak for others. , People who truly sympathized with this foreign boy also helped to speak. As for those who were just watching the fun, they told the tragic stories of some sons of outsiders.
And because of these guys who were watching everyone's actions, Lu Sanlang thought that he had been scolded by his two brothers as a stupid fat pig who was worse than a servant at home. He couldn't help but glanced at the blond boy with some sympathy, wondering if this boy might be the same. He was rejected by the eldest wife of the family and his direct brothers, so he just took the risk and got on the boat.
Even the third prince thought about the time when he was bullied by the eldest prince and the second prince, but if it hadn't been like that, he and his fourth brother would not have been lucky enough to be taken to Qianqing Palace by their father and kept under their noses all the time. Underneath, he felt relieved again. At that moment, he nodded and said, "I heard the teacher say that Latin is the same as elegant pronunciation. It's not his fault that he doesn't understand Latin."
However, under the gaze of many people who were either sympathetic or pitiful, or contemptuous or contemptuous, the blond boy who was an outsider had a thousand question marks in his heart.
What are these people talking about? What is the eldest woman? Is she talking about his nominal mother, his father's official wife? Is the son of the outside wife talking about him? The eldest woman oppresses the son of the outside wife and treats people as servants. Said mother treats him as a servant?
But his mother was very kind to him, but the mother who gave birth to him was very rude. He still remembered that when he was living with her as a child, he would get a beating at every turn. But this kind of thing they said was also very common in Florence. , many illegitimate children are not recognized by their families and can only live with their low-status mothers, or are even abandoned and live on the streets.
Of course, those illegitimate children of big nobles don't have to worry. Their mothers will receive a large amount of alimony and even a gorgeous big house, and then carefully raise their sons so that they will still have someone to rely on after their appearance ages.
Thinking of this, the blond boy narrowed his eyes slightly, and did not speak casually, but tried to capture more information from these people's words - compared with the captains and sailors he had been with on the ship, these people now Their status is really much higher. Whether it's Bachelor Zhang who actually knows Latin and Σtoixe??a, or the prince, they are both big shots.
Zhang Shou did not stop everyone's speculation, but allowed everyone's chatter to come to an end. He then continued: "However, whether he has learned Latin or not, it doesn't matter. I just said I casually flipped through those books and found that not all of them were arithmetic classics, some of them might be very old dictionaries."
The blond boy didn't understand what the dictionary meant, but the others were also a little confused. The third prince, who had completely forgotten the real purpose of his visit, was the first to ask: "Teacher, the so-called dictionary is something like "Shuowen Jiezi" A book like that?"
Zhang Shou couldn't help but wanted to slap himself on the head. Even though it had been so long, he still couldn't forget some of the terms he used to use. He shook his head and then said in a deep voice: "I'm not talking about "Shuowen Jiezi"
"A book that explains the meaning of words like that, but a comparative dictionary between the two languages."
Zhang Shou didn't need to use an analogy, Lu Sanlang, who reacted very quickly, immediately slapped his hands: "Doesn't that mean that we can translate those Sutras based on dictionaries... Wait, no, if there were Chinese characters in those books, the captain would have already
Found it! What are the two languages that are compared?"
"I don't know." Zhang Shou shrugged, and when he saw a lot of people dumbfounded, he spread his hands and said, "Even the comparison dictionary of two languages, this is what I guessed, because the left and right columns are neatly arranged.
With this kind of comparison, of course I can’t help but speculate in this direction.”
Having said this, Zhang Shou told Lu Sanlang: "Go to my school hall. On the third floor of the second bookshelf on the left after entering the door, there is the first pile of books on the left. You can take any book down. By the way,
When you pick up the books, remember to take a pair of gloves from the drawer and put them on. Those books are some years old and have been wandering on the sea again, so they can't bear the tossing."
Seeing that the little fat man immediately turned around and ran away with an agility that his fat body should not have, Zhang Shou left a lot of people with big eyes and small eyes behind, turned around and came to the blackboard, and wiped away the blond boy's explanation just now.
process, and then pick up the pen and start solving the problem.
As lines of words were written on the blackboard, the students in Jiuzhang Hall below all stared intently. The third prince watched attentively, confirming the problem-solving process in his mind.
As for the blond boy who was still thinking about Zhang Shou's comparison and dictionary, he suddenly forgot that his mine crisis had only just been relieved a little bit, and just watched the problem-solving process.
Moreover, he not only looked, but also thought while looking. When he found one of Zhang Shou's equations that seemed to be a matter of course, he even subconsciously wanted to ask, but Zhang Shou suddenly stopped writing, and then said
Click on this one.
"There is also a corresponding theorem in Euclid's "Σtoixe??a". You will know it after you study it."
Hearing that there were no questions or objections from behind, he continued to write. After writing the solution to one problem, he also wrote the entire solution to the other problem. And when he solved these two problems
After finishing, I heard Lu Sanlang's fiery voice: "I brought them all!"
After reading all the words, Zhang Shou suddenly had a bad premonition. Sure enough, when he turned around, he saw the fat Lu Sanlang holding a large pile of books, at least seven or eight. Dare he give up.
People go to pick a book at random, but they all grab the pile of books they mentioned!
Faced with this situation, Zhang Shou, who was dumbfounded, didn't bother to say anything. He went up and took the top book. After flipping through it, he walked to the blond boy and held the book in front of his eyes.
The kid waved in front of him.
"Well, stop reading. Take a look at this one first, and then tell me whether this is a dictionary. If so, is one of the languages Latin? What is the other language? And if it is not a dictionary,
, what kind of book is this?”
This series of questions immediately brought the blond boy back to his senses.
He hurriedly reached out and took Zhang Shou's book. After flipping through it, he was sure that it was indeed completely different from the "Σtoixe??a" he had read before. It seemed to be a real dictionary. Even though he had never really studied Latin,
He had at least come across Latin books, at least read them a few times and recognized them. Therefore, after turning over a few pages attentively, he was already beaming with joy when he raised his head.
"Yes, this is a dictionary, a comparison dictionary between Tuscan and Latin! I can speak and write Tuscan, so I can understand this dictionary!"
The pronunciation of the four words "Tuscany" is not unfamiliar to Zhang Shou, who knows a little bit about Italy's geopolitical structure. Of course, the first time he knew this word was because of the book "Christ" he read in middle school.
"Count of Monte Cristo". Because the famous island of Monte Cristo once belonged to the Grand Duchy of Tuscany in Italy.
However, for other people, the pronunciation and meaning of the four words Tuscany are completely confusing - of course not just Tuscany, but also Italy, Spain, Portugal... these were once too
The names of countries and places marked directly on globes and maps by the ancestors of emperors are unknown to ordinary people, even the children of officials, let alone have any idea.
Only Lu Sanlang and others who attended Ciqing Palace had the honor to see the huge globe and the incredibly detailed map, but their understanding of the West was no better than the others present. As for
Lu Sanlang was good at mathematics, but he was a mess in geography. Holding a pile of books, he racked his brains and couldn't remember where Tuscany was.
In the unspeakable silence, the third prince said: "Since this is a dictionary and he recognizes it, then the teacher will leave him in Jiuzhang Hall to listen. I will tell my father when I go back. After all, if you want
His current ability is not enough to translate those arithmetic classics from foreign countries, and he still needs to learn."
His Royal Highness is truly a great person!
Although the third prince only understood half of what he said, at least he understood the core meaning. The blond boy was so happy that he almost jumped up and waved his fists to express his excitement. But then, he heard
An opposing voice said: "Your Highness, the identity of this person is unknown..."
Before the objecting attendant could finish his words, the third prince said disapprovingly: "It's not like I'm asking him to attend Ciqing Palace, I'm just asking him to catch up on his arithmetic basics in public school to see if he's really talented.
Excellent, what does this have to do with his identity? Is it possible that he can still spy on any secrets in this public school?"
"Besides, he comes from a small western country tens of thousands of miles away. How can he still have a war with the Ming Dynasty?"
Zhang Shou saw that the third prince had just said a few words and silenced the attendant. Although he only showed a little bit of edge, he still found it quite interesting. At that moment, he nodded with a smile and said: "Your Highness, since
That being said, let him sit in the Jiuzhang Hall for a while. Of course, I won't slow down his progress specially for him."
As soon as these words came out, Ji Jiu immediately took the lead in bursting into laughter. He is the undisputed squad leader among the first-year freshmen - not because of his top grades, but because he is smooth, measured and considerate in his dealings with others. Everyone who gets along with him will feel...
It was very comfortable. So when he smiled, other people who had been holding back just now couldn't help but laugh too.
After finalizing the matter, the third prince finally thought of the purpose of his visit, and immediately respectfully invited Zhang Shou back to the school hall in the name of asking for advice. When he got there, he did not mention what happened last night.
Instead, he said very sincerely: "Teacher, my father has suddenly entrusted you with such a difficult matter, and I can't help you. If you have anything you want me to do, just ask."
Zhang Shou was stunned for a moment and then laughed: "Your Highness, the Crown Prince, if you really want to help me, you might as well tell the Emperor after you go back to select a group of talents to learn these foreign languages and translate more books. Although these small countries are thousands of miles away,
Far away, but you have also seen the boat I demonstrated at the Jingyan Festival. If the boat can really sail automatically, and tens of thousands of miles away can be reached in an instant, then it will not be far!"