Chapter 171 This Is the Foundation of All Learning

After waiting for a long time, Fang Xing waited for Xia Yuanji to return.

Xia Yuanji shouted with joy: "Your Majesty agrees!"

"Ahem!"

Fang Xing stood up reservedly. He felt that as a hero who promoted Arabic numerals in Ming Dynasty, he would definitely be recorded in the annals of history.

——One day, a group of people came to speak to Duke Xia, talking about the advantages and disadvantages of Dashi numbers, Duke Xia was gracious and accepted it with a smile!

Fang Xing looked at Xia Yuanji with complicated eyes, thinking that it would not be such a record in the end!

Xia Yuanji didn't pay attention to Fang Xing's strange appearance, and said directly: "Dehua, from now on, you will come to the Ministry of Households every day, and I will give you a big room for an hour a day."

Fang Xing didn't expect Zhu Di to agree. You know, that guy respects Confucianism just like his father Zhu Yuanzhang!

However, any emperor, as long as he understands the meaning contained in Confucianism, will not refuse such a god-given helper.

"Come every day? What time? Master Xia, I don't want to order!"

Fang Xing did not refuse to spread the knowledge of 'myself', but was worried that the working hours were too early.

He had to set off before dawn, and Fang Xing couldn't survive this day.

Xia Yuanji was stunned, and then pointed at Fang Xing with a wry smile and said, "Forget it, according to you, what will happen every day from now on?"

At Chenshi, it was almost seven o'clock, Fang Xing nodded and said: "That's fine, but Master Xia, I don't receive a salary, so I can ask for leave if I have something to do?"

Xia Yuanji didn't expect Fang Xing to be so lazy, so he could only nod in the end and said, "It's up to you, everything is up to you."

Originally, Xia Yuanji wanted to give Fang Xing some benefits, but when he thought of the Northern Expedition, and the rewards for the soldiers of the Southern Expedition after their return, plus the Forbidden City in Beiping and other projects, he swallowed those words again.

It's hard to be Daming's housekeeper!

It is even more difficult for Zhu Di, an emperor who wishes to finish all the work of his descendants!

Back home, Zhang Shuhui was staring at Xiaobai taking the medicine, which was the Jianweixiaoshi tablet given by Fang Xing - without the packaging.

Seeing Fang wake up, Xiao Bai looked at him pitifully,

Then eat the sweet and sour pills as candy.

Seeing Fang Xing's laziness, Zhang Shuhui asked, "Husband, why is the Ministry of Households looking for you?"

Fang Xing regretted going to the household department early every day, and said, "That old man Xia asked me to teach him a few students. From tomorrow onwards, you have to experience the feeling of repenting and teaching your husband to seek a title. Already!"

Zhang Shuhui was shocked, "Husband, you won't be working in the household department in the future, will you?"

Fang Xing wanted to scare her, but in the end he still smiled and said, "It's nothing, it's just teaching for a while, and when we learn the basics, we'll go home."

"Scared me!"

Zhang Shuhui was worried that Fang Xingzhen would be recruited into the household department, so with his status as a recruiter, he would probably be a low-level official.

"One hour a day, but still in time to go home for lunch."

Fang Xing said comfortably. From the imperial city to Jubaoshan, if you go to Zhengyangmen, you will go home very quickly.

That night, Fang Xing was rejected by Zhang Shuhui for the second time.

"Husband, you have to go to the household department to teach tomorrow morning, so don't lose your spirit."

Zhang Shuhui said softly.

"If I hold back, I won't have energy!"

A young body is full of firepower, and the next morning, when Fang Xing was pushed awake by Zhang Shuhui, he was an energetic young man again.

It was getting late, Fang Xing quickly took a big meat bag in his mouth, waved vaguely to Zhang Shuhui and Xiao Bai, and then rode away.

Zhang Shuhui waved her hands and shouted as if she was sending her husband out of the stall: "Husband, come back early!"

"I know... cough cough! Got it!"

Fang Xing was eating steamed buns while talking on horseback, and almost choked. He beat his chest, and under the gaze of a group of servants who had just returned from working out, he rushed out of Fangjiazhuang with his face flushed from coughing.

There were not many pedestrians on the official road in the early morning, everyone went to Jubao Gate, only Fang Xing turned a corner alone, and went to the direction of Zhengyang Gate.

Zhengyang Gate belongs to the Imperial City. After arriving, Fang Xing took out the sign Xia Yuanji gave him yesterday, and led the horse in under the watchful eyes of the guard.

As soon as they entered Zhengyang Gate, the soldiers of the Jinwu Guard who went out were all looking at Fang Xing, who was alone.

When those officials entered Zhengyangmen, most of them would be accompanied by servants or something, and it was really rare to see someone with a shabby household like Fang Xing.

When he arrived at the Ministry of Households, seeing those officials were busy, Fang Xing couldn't help but wonder if he was too lazy and let down his good youth.

"teacher."

At this time, Yao Ping, who had been waiting for a long time, greeted him, and led Fang Xing to a large room on the left.

"Teacher, this room was originally a place where sundries were piled up. Yesterday the ministry asked someone to clean it for half a day."

The windows of the room are bright and the desks are neat, but Fang Xing looked at the dozen or so men sitting upright and asked, "Who are these people?"

"It's your student!"

Fang Xing wondered, "Didn't your Master Xia say yesterday that there were only a few students? Why did they increase several times overnight!"

Yao Ping said embarrassingly: "Master Shangshu later felt that teaching a few is the same as teaching a dozen, so..."

"Well, if a sheep is driven, so is a flock of sheep."

Fang Xing took a deep breath, and walked to the podium that Yao Ping probably customized according to the arrangement in Fang's study.

Yao Ping stood on the side, nodding to those people.

With a whimper, all fifteen people stood up, bowed neatly and shouted: "Teacher, hard work!"

Fang Xing was taken aback by the neat voice. Fortunately, he had experience in military training and going to the battlefield, so he just nodded, then pressed his hands and said, "Everyone, sit down."

Yao Ping pointed outside, Fang Xing nodded, and then he went to his office.

"Ahem!"

After coughing dryly, Fang Xing first introduced himself, and then listed the Arabic numerals and Ming numerals.

"This is the basis of your studies. Let's record it, and we will give lectures based on this kind of big food number."

Seeing that everyone below was busy copying and comparing, Fang Xing looked outside the door.

Most likely Xia Yuanji had explained it, so people who passed by this room would walk lightly, and the conversation was interrupted.

The robes are arranged, and the bun is still the same, just like the quiet scene in the alley hundreds of years later.

The fallen leaves in autumn are blown down by the breeze from time to time, fluttering like a flat boat.

This is Daming!

I will live here, and my children and grandchildren will be born and grow here.

When I die, I will also be buried under this land.

"Mathematics, this is a subject that must be learned. It is the foundation of all learning, and it is also the source of my Ming's continuous progress..."

Xia Yuanji came over to look at it in his spare time, but when he heard this sentence, he couldn't help stroking his beard and nodding frequently.

No one understands the importance of mathematics, or arithmetic, better than him.

"...As for the big food number, it can simplify our recording methods, and it can also intuitively let us see the relevant data. The Ministry of Households needs it, the Ministry of Officials needs it... the craftsmen of Ming Dynasty need it."

"All in all, mathematics is related to each of us, and even related to the rise and fall of my Ming Dynasty. It must be learned and valued!" (To be continued.)