Chapter 191 Almost got caught as cheating
Fan Zeng looked up at the other people in the examination room and saw that most of them were like him, with solemn expressions. Few people could write vigorously. The middle-aged man next to him It was written quite quickly.
Is this fellow who is also suspected to have come from Chudi so proficient in arithmetic?
You can’t judge a person by his appearance!
After skipping one of the fill-in-the-blank questions, enter the first short-answer question.
This is a very classic geometry theorem question, and it is also a scoring question.
First, I told Fan Zeng that Shang Gao in the Zhou Dynasty proposed "hook three strands, four strings and five", and then directly gave the conclusion that the sum of the squares of the two right-angled sides of a right triangle is equal to the square of the hypotenuse, and finally asked In a right triangle with side lengths of twelve inches and thirteen inches, what is the length of the hypotenuse?
This is not difficult for Fan Zeng. It is just a combination of multiplication and addition. The next question is a military question:
Ask the knight Xiao Ming to ride a war horse and travel thirty miles. The speed of every hour starts from place A , sending the information to place B, which is 330 miles away from place A. Place B knew that place A sent people to convey the military information, and specially sent knight Xiao Wang to respond. Knight Xiao Wang’s horse can travel twenty-five miles per hour. Ask two questions When will people meet, and how many miles away will the meeting place be?
This question was not too difficult for Fan Zeng, and he quickly calculated the result, but the next question about geometry made him stunned:
Those with side lengths of three, four, or five inches, or five, twelve, or thirteen inches... can all form the shape of a triangle. Please describe the relationship between the three sides of a triangle, and give a length of the three sides that can form a triangle. .
Feeling that he couldn't figure out the relationship between the three sides of a triangle, Fan Zeng decisively chose to skip this question, but he couldn't stop jumping and skipped to the last question.
Seeing that he had no questions to jump to, Fan Zeng did not continue to answer the questions, but was thinking about a question: Why did Emperor Qin set arithmetic as a subject in the college entrance examination? What is the purpose of taking this math test?
Arithmetic is indeed useful, but what you learn in daily life is enough. What is the use of knowing the relationship between the three sides of the triangle? Knowing how to add from one to eighty, to one hundred, and to two hundred What is the use of rules?
Can the country be governed well? Can you fight a good fight? Can it make the country peaceful and the people peaceful and everyone prosperous?
Arithmetic can neither be eaten nor clothed, let alone strengthen the country, the army, and agriculture. Just learn a little practical knowledge. There is no need to understand it in depth. It is meaningless and worthless. What governs the country ultimately depends on promoting agriculture, calming the people, and Strong military.
Fan Zeng is not the only one who thinks so, there are also many reference people who think so too.
The disadvantage is that Confucianism has not become dominant in later generations and even the six arts of the gentleman have begun to be discarded. Otherwise, I would have written to the First Emperor long ago.
Ruling a country must rely on the words of saints. Only by following the teachings of saints can the foreigners be convinced and the world be peaceful, instead of relying on arithmetic. Your Majesty is abandoning the great road and building a small road, which will be harmful.
On the contrary, the Mohists, Taoists and the alchemists who came here for reference were more excited, especially the Mohist disciples. Brothers, those useless things I learned before can finally be put to use today.
The person who asked the question was Li Nian. Could it be that Li Nian is also from my Mohist family?
It's not impossible. Li Nian is also good at making things, just like the Mo family.
Although Fan Zeng felt that arithmetic was relatively empty, not very pragmatic, and had no value for in-depth study, he did know a little bit. What he could see, Emperor Qin could probably also see. However, Emperor Qin had to set up arithmetic. There must be profound meaning in this exam.
And the person who asked the question is still Li Nian, so it is more likely that it contains meaning that he has not yet understood.
Thinking of this, Fan Zeng re-read the questions he skipped.
It's just a subject of mathematics. If you don't learn it, you won't know it. Even if you turn over the test papers and look for tricks, you still won't know it.
If a person can jump from a math scumbag to a top math genius overnight, then he is probably cheating. We should carefully check whether he is cheating or whether he has a system in his mind.
Fan Zeng glanced at the middle-aged man sitting on his right. This man was still writing, which made him have some guesses about the middle-aged man's identity.
Could this person be a disciple of the Mohist family?
Moreover, this person writes the character Chu. Could it be that he is a disciple of Chu Mo?
Thinking of this, Fan Zeng had complicated emotions in his heart. Chu Mo had also abandoned Chu. Was he going to join Great Qin?
Of course, it was probably because, like him, he had never betrayed Chu and just came to Xianyang to participate in this big exam, but this still made Fan Zeng feel a little uncomfortable. The Kingdom of Chu is gone after all. The people of Chu are like the birds in the forest. When the disaster comes, they fly away to find new places to live.
Today, when can the great cause of restoring Chu be expected? Who can carry the banner of restoring Chu again?
When the Xiang clan was originally there, Fan Zeng believed that the Xiang clan should be the one who restored Chu.
Although the Chu Kingdom was defeated at that time, the Xiang family still retained considerable strength. They only had to wait for the opportunity to raise the banner of anti-Qin and regain the Chu Kingdom.
But the Qin Emperor was cunning. He had known that there were born saints like Chongpuzi in the Xiang family, so he eliminated the Xiang family in advance and strangled them in the cradle.
Feeling Fan Zeng’s gaze, the middle-aged man thought that Fan Zeng, who was suspected to be a fellow from Chu State, wanted to see his answer sheet. He frowned and turned to look at Fan Zeng. However, he saw that Fan Zeng did not look at his answer sheet, but instead It seems that he discovered his identity.
As if acknowledging Fan Zeng’s conjecture, the middle-aged man nodded towards Fan Zeng.
At this moment, a scolding came from the front: "You have passed the policy exam, but you still don't know the rules of this big exam? Before the exam started, I also told you once that you are not allowed to peek into other people's test papers, nor are you allowed to peek into other people's exam papers. Brigadier leaves the examination papers for others to peek at.”
"I'm talking about you, No. 23, and No. 33, what are you two doing?"
"I just saw No. 23 looking around, and now I see you and No. Is No. 33 a fellow countryman? Do you want him to copy the answer for you?"
"Yes. You are warned once, if you do it again, your exam results will be invalid!"
Fan Zenghe middle-aged man: "..."
The two of them wanted to explain that they communicated with eyes and did not want to copy the answers. But it was hard to explain, so I had to endure it silently.
If they were really treated as cheating by copying the answers, it would be a lot of fun.
This is the Xianyang Grand Examination. The first time Qin held such an exam, it will definitely be recorded in the history books. If they are regarded as cheaters in the Grand Examination, they will definitely be recorded in the same way and passed down to future generations...< br>
Fan Zeng is okay, but the middle-aged man is a well-known figure in Chu Mo. If word spreads that the Chu Mo giant was caught cheating in the Xianyang University Examination and was deprived of his grades in the first subject, he will definitely become the laughing stock of the whole world: You Do you know? The Chu-Mo giant was caught cheating with others in Xianyang!
Thinking of that situation, the middle-aged man felt that he would simply wipe his neck. Anyway, he had no face to lead the Chu Mo disciples.
Fan Zeng also sat upright and did not dare to look around. He also did not want to be recorded in the history books: Fan Zeng, a native of Chu, had no talent in the Xianyang University Examination. Check and discard his achievements.
Fan Zeng also wants to lose face!
(End of this chapter)