Take a plane to the Ming Dynasty

Chapter 162 Sensation (Part [-])

Huang Mingyu said with a smile: "Of course, this old man also knows."

Cheng Buchou and Huang Mingyu sang together in such a way that everyone present was shocked.Even Zhu Changyuan, who was standing beside him, was full of respect for Cheng Buchou's great-grandfather.

A person who can create a formula with an abacus is naturally a very smart person. Cheng Buchou even said that the abacus formula is only one of Cheng Dawei's unique skills, which makes people guess: what is his other unique skill? What?
Naturally, there was someone who couldn't help but asked Cheng Buchou, "I don't know what is the other unique skill of Mr. Cheng's great-grandfather?"

This time, without waiting for Cheng Buchou to speak, Huang Mingyu who was next to him replied instead of him: "Old Mr. Cheng has another unique skill that is unique in the world, that is, measuring the walking cart."

"Measuring walker, what is that?"

Someone asked in confusion.

More and more people gathered around, and there were a few people who knew the art of numerology, especially Mr. Abacus in the nearby shops, who basically knew that the abacus formula was invented by Cheng Dawei.But no one knew what this "measuring scooter" that Huang Mingyu was talking about was!
Cheng Buchou smiled slightly and said: "When you Zhang Gelao (Zhang Juzheng) implemented a whip method to measure the land of the whole country, my great-grandfather was responsible for it. He saw that the people were too hard and inefficient to pull the rope to measure the land. Inspired by the ink fountain, I invented a tool that can quickly measure the land, which is the measuring walker."

During the conversation, Cheng Buchou demonstrated on the spot, and roughly explained the shape and use of the measuring scooter.

After hearing this, Zhu Changyuan suddenly realized, and thought to himself, what the hell is this called a measuring scooter? Isn't this just a big tape measure?
However, Zhu Changyuan admired Cheng Dawei from the bottom of his heart for being able to figure out this thing based on actual needs and hard thinking.

Everyone chatted together for a while, Cheng Buchou bid farewell to everyone, cupped his hands and said: "Everyone, I have an urgent matter, so I don't want to accompany you. Farewell!"

He has left, and Huang Mingyu has also left.

Zhu Changyuan wobbled and continued shopping with Polu.

Cheng Buchou hurried home, ignoring the dusty smell all over his body, and went straight to his father's study.

"Father!"

The door of the study room was open, but he didn't dare to go in rashly. The current head of the Cheng family is Cheng Shuzheng, a serious and even serious person.

Naturally, serious people also have big rules, requiring children in the family to understand etiquette.

"Come in." A majestic voice came from the study, Cheng Buchou straightened his clothes and went in. Seeing his father admiring a landscape painting, he said, "My lord!"

"En." Cheng Shuzheng raised his head to look at Cheng Buchou, and waved to him in a rather comfortable mood, "Buchou, come here and see whose painting is this?"

Cheng Buchou walked into his father's desk, took a look, and was suddenly surprised, even his voice changed, and he said, "Father, this, is this Wang Shimin's painting?"

"Yeah!" Cheng Shuzheng nodded with a smile, and said, "Your eyesight is good, it is the masterpiece of the prince." He read the inscription above proudly: "Clouds are clouds outside the sky, flowers are flowers on stones, and human beings The sea moon and the dying sun have suddenly slanted (xia)."

In this landscape painting, there are mountains and clouds, the east moon and the west sun, the artistic conception is very lofty.

If it’s just these things, it’s out of the ordinary. These paintings are just backgrounds, but the theme is a magnificent picture scroll of the sea. A sailboat is painted in the upper middle, and a bright moon hangs high above the sailboat. Vast and profound, with a long artistic conception.

"Good painting, really good painting. I don't know how my father can get the real work of the prince?" Cheng Buchou, who doesn't know much about painting, can't put it down.

The Cheng family has gone through four generations since Cheng Dawei, and they are all merchants without any fame. If there is anything different about this merchant family from ordinary merchants, it is that the members of the Cheng family are proficient in numerology.

This is also a glorious tradition of their family, so naturally it cannot be discarded easily.

Although this Cheng Shuzheng had no fame, he regarded himself as a literati all day long, and he had intersects with many celebrities at that time, especially those who were already respected in contemporary times.

For example, Wang Shimin of Taicang, the founder of a school of calligraphy and painting, and Liu Zongzhou, a great Confucian in Shaoxing Prefecture, Zhejiang Province, who is also the left servant of the Ministry of Industry.

"It's a long story." Cheng Shuzheng was in a good mood today, and he couldn't help chatting with his son, saying: "The prince and I are of the same age, and they are from Taicang, Jiangsu. According to our hometown, Xiuning, it is not too far away, so we have a little friendship. "

Seeing Wang Shimin's paintings, Cheng Shuzheng's attitude and voice to his son became much gentler.

Cheng Buchou bowed and said, "My lord, my son has one more important thing to report."

"Say!" Cheng Shuzheng sat down on the stool again, and fondled picking up Wang Shimin's painting again, not paying attention to Cheng Buchou's words at all.

"Yes, father." Cheng Buchou said, "Zhu Changyuan, the director of the Ministry of Industry, threatened to give lectures in the yamen of the Ministry of Industry the next morning. It is said that he will teach the great art of cutting circles."

"Yeah." Cheng Shuzheng replied absent-mindedly, as if he didn't listen to what Cheng Buchou was saying at all. After a pause of two seconds, he finally came to his senses, stood up suddenly from his chair, and asked in a serious voice: "You What did you just say?"

"Father, my son said, in the morning of the next day, Master Zhu, the head of the Ministry of Industry, gave a lecture at the Yamen of the Ministry of Industry, saying that he was teaching the art of cutting circles, and invited people from inside and outside the capital to attend and testify."

Cheng Buchou repeated what he just said.

Cheng Shuzheng raised his head in astonishment, looked at his son in disbelief, stood up, walked in front of him, looked left and right, and said, "Bu Chou, you don't have a brain problem, do you believe such words?"

"The great art of cutting circles? Do you still have lectures?" Cheng Shuzheng smiled, very gentle, but also very disdainful, "The history of ancient and modern times has been going on for thousands of years, do you know how many famous masters have fallen here? Do you know that back then Your great-grandfather and my grandfather also tried to solve this eternal mystery, but they failed in the end."

"A problem that your great-grandfather couldn't solve, why do you think a mere head of the engineering department can solve it?"

The Cheng family still had this kind of arrogance in their bones.

Of course, they also have the capital to be proud of. Their ancestor Cheng Dawei was indeed a great master of numerology.

"Father, this matter is absolutely true. Now the streets and alleys are talking about it, and my child dare not lie!" Cheng Buchou's serious look did not impress Cheng Shuzheng at all.

"It's just spreading rumors, don't pay attention to it." Cheng Shuzheng sat down at the table again to admire his landscape paintings.

"Father!"

"Stop talking." Cheng Shuzheng was not willing to listen to his son's explanation.

However, today he is doomed to not have the opportunity to continue appreciating the "Cang Hai Tu" by the contemporary master Wang Shimin.

A servant tiptoed to the door, bowed and saluted, and said: "Master, Mr. Li Jili, a member of the Ministry of Industry, came to the mansion and asked to see the master."

"Ah?" As soon as the Ministry of Industry was mentioned, the people from the Ministry of Industry arrived. Cheng Shuzheng was stunned for a while, then put the scroll up and put it away, and said, "I'll go meet him."

"No need, Brother Cheng, I'm already here." Li Ji walked from the courtyard to Cheng Shuzheng's study with a smile, and said, "I hope Brother Cheng won't blame you for being abrupt."

"Where is it, my lord can come, it's just the radiance." Cheng Shuzheng invited Li Ji into the guest room and took a seat.

Li Jidao: "If you don't have anything to do, you don't go to the Three Treasures Hall. I'm here, but I have something to ask Brother Cheng to help."

"Sir, please speak!"

"Forgive me for taking the liberty. On the orders of Mr. Liu, I invite Mr. Cheng to come to the yamen of the Ministry of Industry in the next day. At that time, the head of the yamen, Mr. Zhu, will give lectures and teach the art of cutting circles. Please come and help me count."

"What?" Cheng Shuzheng almost jumped off his seat, thinking to himself that some people don't know the heights of heaven and earth, and dare to open the court to cut circles in public, isn't it crazy?

In modern terms, it's like teaching aliens in a class, which is unbelievable.

"Brother Cheng." Li Ji smiled and said, "Brother Cheng is also invited to come."

Cheng Shuzheng shook his head, and said: "It's not that I don't give Master Liu face, it's really that Master Zhu doesn't know the heights of the sky and the earth, and even made a false claim to get involved in the art of circumcision. I'm sorry I can't do anything about it."

"Hey!" Li Ji said, "Brother Cheng, don't refuse, why don't you condescend to look at it! To be honest, although I don't think much of Mr. Zhu's art of circumcision, I am very curious."

"Besides, this is Liu Zongzhou, Lord Liu personally asked me to invite you!" Li Ji said again.

"Oh. Mr. Liu has an invitation, how dare you refuse to obey?" Cheng Shuzheng just heard Li Ji say Mr. Liu, and thought it was Liu Zunxian, Minister of the Ministry of Industry, but he did not expect that it was Liu Zongzhou who came to invite him.

To be honest, in the eyes of Cheng Shuzheng, a hundred ministers of the Ministry of Industry are not worth one Liu Zongzhou.

Because Liu Zongzhou is a great Confucianist in the world, and his disciples are full of peaches and plums.

The world's top scholars!

"Okay, since Brother Cheng has agreed, I have some important business to do, so I won't stay any longer." Li Ji stood up and said goodbye. It's not that he really has any important business, but that he and this Cheng Shuzheng have a general friendship and don't have too many intimate words. can be said.

Furthermore, he is a dignified member of the Ministry of Industry, Wailang, who really looks down on the hypocrisy of this businessman.

"Father!" After sending Li Ji away, Cheng Buchou bowed his hands to Cheng Shuzheng beside him, and said, "Master Zhu, the yamen of the Houtian Ministry of Industry, opened the lecture, do you really want to help?"

Cheng Buchou asked this, not because he cared about his father, but because he wanted to go.In terms of the strict family rules of the Cheng family, if the father commits a taboo and his son does it, the consequences will be very serious.

"Go!" Cheng Shuzheng said: "Why don't you go? The two masters of my Cheng family have passed on their unique skills, one is abacus formulas, and the other is measuring walking carts. I will take them there, and I will take this opportunity to let the world see it."

"Cuyuan? Huh, this kind of arrogant and ignorant person, maybe I have to prepare something nice for him!"

(End of this chapter)