Chapter Ninety-Six: The Far West

"That's amazing!"

Everyone looked at Merton in amazement, as if they were looking at a monster.

"I want to learn! I'm going to learn lightning mental arithmetic! Xiao Zhengtai Li Zhi's eyes lit up, such a quick calculation, then it will not be easy for him to do homework in the future, how much time can he save to play!

"Your Royal Highness the Nine Emperor Princes, don't worry, lightning mental arithmetic requires a lot of practice, as well as a solid foundation of arithmetic, and it can only be achieved after three years of hard practice." Merton's words ruthlessly pierced Li Zhi's dream.

"Three years of small success?" Many princes suddenly extinguished their minds to study, and Li Shimin was also slightly disappointed, the prince is different from others, there are too many things to learn, and such calculations can be slowly calculated by ordinary methods, and there is no need to spend a lot of time on it.

"Hey!"

Li Zhi was suddenly disappointed, his little face suddenly drooped, he was the youngest, his arithmetic foundation was the worst, and he wanted to take a shortcut and was blocked.

Merton looked at Li Zhi's disappointed expression, and he couldn't bear it, and suddenly he saw the calculation chip in Wei Zheng's hand and said: "But compared to lightning mental arithmetic, there are some relatively simple mental arithmetic, such as mental arithmetic with the help of arithmetic, and the simplest finger arithmetic. ”

"Mental arithmetic, finger arithmetic!" Li Shimin frowned and looked at Merton unkindly.

He can still understand the mental arithmetic, but what is going on, does he still want to train all the princes of the pretence into gods, although their royal family thinks that they are the descendants of Lao Tzu, but they have no intention of being gods.

When a prince is doing his homework, he pinches his fingers and counts, who knows whether he really calculates or guesses.

Merton hurriedly explained: "Mengxue children will use their fingers to count when they are first exposed to arithmetic, and finger counting is to increase the accuracy and speed of counting on the basis of finger counting, which is most suitable for beginner children." ”

Merton simply demonstrated the method of fingering and arithmetic a few times, and after Li Zhi tried it, he easily made a few questions that he thought were difficult, and immediately smiled, this method was very suitable for him, and some problems could be solved quickly.

As for Li Ke and other princes, they chose abacus mental arithmetic, and surprisingly, Li Chengqian and Li Tai chose the most difficult lightning mental arithmetic.

At this time, Merton finally saw the signs of the two, and then thought about the rumors of the two in later generations, and wisely kept silent.

Everyone got what they wanted, Li Shimin waved his hand, and all the princes immediately became like birds and beasts, among which Li Zhi ran the fastest.

Merton also wanted to leave, but Li Shimin hadn't spoken yet, obviously didn't want to let him go, and when Li Chengqian was leaving, he gave him a helpless expression, and left without righteousness.

"You kid can toss! If you go to a green building, you can even make a lot of trouble in the city! Now the whole Chang'an City is spreading the name of your Merton. Li Shimin's face was expressionless, but Merton did feel a sudden in his heart, not that if he won well, he would not settle the account, why did he suddenly change his hexagram, and whether people and people were still honest.

"Decathlon Mo Jiazi. The old man has also heard of it! ”

Wei Zheng, the old man, was not kind, and he even came to mend the knife at this time.

"Decathlon?" Merton couldn't help frowning, who gave him this name, didn't that kill him?

"That............ In fact, the kid still has a lot of shortcomings! Merton snapped a few times and answered.

"Humph! You still know how to be humble! Li Shimin snorted coldly, and looked at Merton helplessly! This kid is capable and talented, but he just doesn't stop, and he can do big things wherever he goes.

"The Mo family has been silent for a thousand years, and they have cultivated you as a lazy person!" Li Shimin said angrily.

"Back to Your Majesty's words, the Mo family has been silent for thousands of years just to concentrate on learning, and what the kid has learned is just a surface." Merton's positive color channel.

Li Shimin nodded as if he didn't care about it and said, "I heard that this number comes from Tianzhu. In this way, the sages of the Mo family have also been to Tianzhu, and there was once a high monk in this dynasty who went to Tianzhu to seek the true scriptures! According to the news from the border pass, the monk Xuanzang has already passed through the countries of the Western Regions, and presumably the sages of the Mo family have also experienced it, and I don't know if there has been a record of the Western Regions. Li Shimin asked.

Only then did Merton understand Li Shimin's intentions, and he wanted to point his sword at the Western Regions!

Mo Dun shook his head and said: "Back to Your Majesty, it is a long way to walk from the Western Regions, and it may take four years for the senior monk Xuanzang to reach Tianzhu, and it only took one year for the sages of the Mo family to enter from the Tubo Plateau. When he returned, in order to avoid his entourage suffering from altitude sickness again, he chose to return by sea, and it only took more than half a year to reach Lingnan Road. ”

"Gone astray!" Li Shimin and Wei Zheng looked at each other.

"I think Master Xuanzang took the initiative to choose the most difficult path in order to show his sincerity!" Merton was deeply influenced by the ninety-nine-eighty-one difficulties of later generations, and gave the answer that he thought was the best.

Buddhism has always said that there is asceticism, but Li Shimin did not doubt it and nodded.

"Could it be that your new-style painting skills that make Yan Liben fascinated also come from Tianzhu?" Wei Zheng asked.

Merton shook his head and said, "Lord Wei doesn't know that this new style of painting technique does not come from Tianzhu, but from the extreme west west of Tianzhu. ”

"Far West? Persia? Li Shimin thought about the big country in the west in his memory and asked.

Merton shook his head and said, "It comes from a region west of Persia that is no less than the Tang Territory Empire. ”

"Impossible?" Li Shimin and Wei Zheng exclaimed in surprise.

In their traditional identity, Huaxia has always been the center of the world and the most powerful country in the world, and now Merton suddenly said that there is a great empire in the world that is no less powerful than the Tang Dynasty.

Merton gritted his teeth and said: "At first, Merton didn't believe that there was a powerful country comparable to the Tang Dynasty in this world, but according to the records of the Mo sages, in this world, Chinese culture can only be regarded as one of them, and there are three cultural holy places that are as old as the Tang Dynasty, Tianzhu is counted as one, Persia and other places are also one, and the great empire in the extreme west is also counted as one. ”

Li Shimin and Wei Zheng didn't want to believe this fact, and the culture of Persia and Tianzhu began to be there, and it was not uncommon for another one to appear.

"Unlike China, Tianzhu and Persia, where wars and dynasties were continuous, the empire in the far west has existed for 1,500 years since the founding of the country, and its culture has flourished and preserved so well that it is hard to imagine that the new painting technique is only one of the insignificant." Morton showed Li Shimin and Wei Zheng a grand world, which directly subverted their imagination.

"Fifteen hundred years!" Li Shimin smacked his tongue.

You must know that the changes of dynasties in China are very frequent, and the longest Han Dynasty only existed for 400 years. Li Shimin was confident that he would not lose to any emperor, but he did not have the confidence to let the Tang Dynasty survive beyond the Han Dynasty.

If you can get the secret of the continuation of the ancient empire in the Far West for 1,500 years, then it will be of great significance to the Li Dynasty.