My uncle is Zhu Di

Chapter 129: Chicken blood injection
Zhu Di took the question and went up to a loft. He saw Xu Qin and Zhu Gaochi sitting in the pavilion. Zhu Di called a eunuch next to him, gave the question to the eunuch, and said, "To the prince!"

"Yes, Your Majesty!" The eunuch took the question with both hands and went out. Zhu Di sat down and watched from a distance.

Soon, the eunuch came to Zhu Gaochi and gave him the question. Zhu Gaochi took it and immediately handed it to Xu Qin: "Here is the question. Do you want to do it now or later?"

"Do you need to wait to do it? Hurry up and make money. Such an opportunity is so rare." Xu Qin stretched out his hand to take the question and said to Zhu Gaochi with a smile.

After Xu Qin finished speaking, he stood up and went to the desk next to him, where all the four treasures of the study were laid out, and there was also a palace maid who was responsible for grinding ink.

Xu Qin went over, spread out the question and looked at it carefully. After reading it, Xu Qin couldn't help laughing. He stretched out his hand and the palace maid next to him immediately handed him a brush and watched Xu Qin write with interest.

But when the palace maid saw the first word written by Xu Qin, she felt that it was a waste of such good brush and white paper, as it was not as good as that written by a child.

Zhu Gaochi also walked over and looked carefully at what Xu Qin had written. Seeing that Xu Qin started writing without even thinking, Zhu Gaochi could not help but read the question carefully to see if it was very simple.

But after reading the questions, Zhu Gaochi was confused. How to answer them?

After Zhu Gaochi read Xu Qin's solution, he found that he actually understood it. This was how the question should be answered.

"Hi! Boy, you have some skills!" After seeing Xu Qin finish one question, Zhu Gaochi said to Xu Qin who was looking at the second question.

"Tsk, do you want to give it to your father now or wait a while?" Xu Qin said as he sat there without raising his head.

"Then wait a moment, wait a quarter of an hour? Then I can summarize everything for my father." Zhu Gaochi stood there and spoke, because he found that Xu Qin's answers were really fast.

Xu Qin was very happy when he looked at those questions. The most difficult ones were just geometry questions for the third year of junior high school, which did not even include those for high school. And he could earn five thousand taels for solving a question. Where could he find such a good thing?
Xu Qin basically read the topic and started writing, which left Zhu Gaochi stunned.

Soon, a quarter of an hour passed and Xu Qin answered ten questions.

Zhu Gaochi immediately called the eunuch and said, "Go and ask my father, is the Imperial College really okay? When they gave me this kind of question, Shakyabao didn't even have to think about it. This is not the way to give money. Or do the people in the Imperial College look down on my father and don't even give me a difficult question?"

"Oh, yes!" The eunuch took the question and immediately turned and left.

But Xu Qin ignored them and continued writing his own topic.

The answered questions were soon delivered to Zhu Di. Zhu Di looked at them carefully and felt that, yes, although he did not understand this part, he found that Xu Qin's answer might be correct. In addition, based on what his father-in-law had just relayed to him by Zhu Gaochi, Zhu Di also felt that perhaps they had looked down on him.
So he said to a eunuch next to him, "Take your questions to the Imperial College and ask them to check carefully whether they are correct. Tell them that Xu Qin solved these ten questions in less than a quarter of an hour. Are they underestimating me too much? Also, ask them to think of more difficult questions."

"Yes!" A eunuch next to him immediately took the questions and walked down quickly.

Zhu Di sat there stroking his beard and chuckling. Zhu Di was very happy at this moment. Although he didn't know whether what Xu Qin did was right or not, he thought that it was almost right. If it was right, it would mean that Xu Qin had his own abilities, and not that there was a master behind him.

If there is no expert behind him, then you can use him with confidence, and use him in an important and important manner.

Of course, if you want to use this kid now, it might be troublesome. This kid is not very smart. This is of course because I didn't trust him before. However, this problem has disappeared now.

It will be easy from now on. Just be nice to this kid, take your time, and don't be in a hurry.

And the ministers in the palace were also looking at the questions together with the arithmetic teacher of the Imperial College.

"It seems that they are all correct!" said one of the mathematicians with some disbelief.

"What do you mean by 'as if'? Right is right, wrong is wrong!" Song Li said unhappily at this moment.

"Hurry up and give the questions. Can't you give some difficult ones? Otherwise, everyone will lose face. His Majesty will think that we look down on him!" Huang Fu sat there and said to them.

"These are all questions that we couldn't answer, but now they have been answered by Shakyabao!" said an arithmetic teacher from the Imperial College anxiously. "What's so difficult about this? I can understand it!" Liu Jun, the Minister of War, immediately glared at them and said.

The people in the Imperial College looked at them in silence. The answer came out, of course you could understand it, but why didn’t you say you could do it before it came out?

"Continue thinking about the question!" Xia Yuanji sat there and said calmly.

He suddenly realized that it might be difficult to suppress Xu Qin this time. If Xu Qin really solved those problems, he would really have to shit on their heads. Although they were literati and studied the Four Books and Five Classics, they also had to learn arithmetic. Now that Xu Qin was so good at arithmetic, who would dare to say that he was a playboy in the future?
A man who sleeps in the Imperial College every day, but his arithmetic is better than all the civil officials in the Ming Dynasty. It would be a bit embarrassing for them if this got out.

"Yes!" The teachers of the Imperial College immediately lowered their heads and began to rack their brains to think of how to come up with questions that would stump Xu Qin.

Seeing them so worried, Xia Yuanji felt a little uneasy, so he said to the ministers present: "You should also think of the questions. If you have a good question, let the people in the Imperial College look at it. If they can't solve it, give it to Xu Qin. Today, you must stump Xu Qin. Otherwise, you will never be able to raise your heads in front of Xu Qin in the future."

"Yes!" When the ministers heard this, they nodded repeatedly and looked for places to sit down.

But less than a quarter of an hour later, Xu Qin sent the answers again, and now he had answered twenty questions.

The Imperial College and the ministers looked at the answer written by Xu Qin and found that it was correct again, which made them even more worried.

Zhu Di, who was sitting in the attic, was stroking his beard and smiling complacently. He had just heard the reports from the eunuchs, who said that the former dynasty was in chaos and those ministers were thinking about how to make things difficult for Xu Qin.

Zhu Di sat there and thought for a while, then said to the eunuch beside him: "Go ahead and tell them that if they can stump Xu Qin, they will be rewarded with 10,000 taels. In addition, I will also give Xu Qin the money-losing questions. However, they can't set questions like this. Xu Qin will get 5,000 taels for answering a question, so tell them to be more cautious and not send over questions that are not very difficult."

"Yes!" The father-in-law next to him immediately went down to inform.

Zhu Gaochi was still standing there watching. Xu Qin had already finished thirty questions. Seeing that he was still there, he looked up at Zhu Gaochi and said, "Why are you still standing here? Go and see if the ministers have finished the questions.
I have already answered so many questions. You should go over and take a look. If they want me to answer a question, you can tell them that it costs 500 silver coins per question. If you can't answer it, you will have to pay 10,000 taels as compensation. Go quickly! We will split the money for the civil officials 60-40, 60 for me and 40 for you. There are not many opportunities like this."

"Really? Okay, okay, I'll go now." Zhu Gaochi was very happy when he heard it, and left immediately.

Zhu Di was sitting there frowning, wondering where Zhu Gaochi was going, so he waved his hand, and a eunuch next to him came over: "Go and see what the prince is doing."

"Yes!" The eunuch left immediately.

Zhu Di just sat there and watched Xu Qin solve the problem. Zhu Di was now certain that this kid had ability. It was his own ability, not the result of some expert behind him.

If there was an expert teaching Xu Qin arithmetic, it would be impossible for Xu Qin to learn so fast at the age of sixteen. In addition, Xu Qin could draw and study things, which only a genius could do. If he relied on someone to teach him, Zhu Di thought, there is no such talent in my Ming Dynasty. If there was such a talent, he would have been famous all over the world long ago, and he must have known about it.

Zhu Gaochi also quickly came to the Qianqing Palace at this moment, staring at the ministers with a serious face, then sighed and said: "I wonder if you can come up with a more difficult question, but Shakyabao can do it without thinking. You are all ministers and great scholars of the dynasty, how can you not be stumped by a child?"

When the ministers heard this, they were very unhappy!

The ministers of the Imperial College now realized how capable Xu Qin was, but they did not think so. They had just looked at the questions answered by Xu Qin, and they felt that they understood them. Since they understood them, it meant that these questions were not difficult.

"Your Highness, we are thinking of questions. Don't worry, we will definitely be able to stump Xu Qin!" One of the ministers said to Zhu Gaochi.

"Well, it's no wonder that Shakyabao looks down on you." Zhu Gaochi sighed deliberately, just to arouse the ministers' competitive spirit. After all, they were well-read people who were selected step by step through the imperial examinations. How could they be stumped by Xu Qin?
They also had to save their reputation, especially since Xu Qin was only a 17-year-old boy, which made them even more unwilling to accept it.

"Well, Sakya Bao said that if you set the questions, he won't ask you for five thousand taels. You only need to give five hundred taels. As long as he can't answer them, he is still willing to pay ten thousand taels. So, everyone should work harder and don't let Sakya Bao look down on you." Zhu Gaochi stood there and said helplessly, with a hint of disappointment in his tone.

At this time, the eunuch beside Zhu Di also came over and announced that as long as Xu Qin could be defeated, His Majesty would reward him with 10,000 taels. In addition, the 10,000 taels paid by Xu Qin would also belong to this person.

Now all these people were excited and their eyes were a little red.

(End of this chapter)