Father, I am back to fight!

Chapter 106

Hu Yanqing sneered, then glanced cunningly at the officials present and added, "Just now, your Crown Prince said that it would only take three hours to intercede, and now, an hour has passed!"

"Arabic numerals are very simple. There are actually nine numbers: 1, 2, 3, 4, 5, 6, 7, 8, and 9. One and zero together make ten, one and one together make eleven, and similarly, one and nine together make nineteen, and one and two zeros together make one hundred, one thousand, ten thousand, and so on!"

"How is it? Isn't it very simple?"

Qin Yu said in a deep voice.

"Haha! I understand now. This Arabic numeral is so simple. If nine and two zeros are put together, doesn't that make nine hundred?"

"I understand too! If seven and three zeros are put together, that's seven thousand!"

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The first one to speak was the military officer!

Most of these people came from military backgrounds, some of them could barely read or write, and arithmetic was a headache for them. However, Qin Yu's explanation made them suddenly enlightened, and they felt it was too simple!

The civil servants present looked at Qin Yu with shock in their eyes!

Especially the officials from the Ministry of Revenue, their jaws almost dropped in shock!

As officials in charge of financial and grain accounts, what they do most every day is arithmetic. It can be said that no one knows arithmetic better than them!

They could see at a glance that if the Ministry of Revenue could use Qin Yu's Arabic numerals for calculations, the efficiency would be increased several times or even dozens of times!

This will undoubtedly greatly reduce their work pressure!

Hu Yanqing's face was extremely gloomy. After a long pause, he said in a deep voice, "Arabic numerals are not complicated at all, but what about addition, subtraction, multiplication and division?"

"Addition, subtraction, multiplication, and division are similar to the arithmetic methods that everyone is familiar with, just simplified. Multiplication is the most used here!"

"Multiplication, or multiples. I have a multiplication table here. You can take a look!"

Qin Yu said.

Then, he turned around and wrote down the multiplication table!

"One plus one equals one, one plus two equals two, one plus nine equals nine! Nine plus nine equals eighty-one!"

"This... seems to be true. If you multiply nine times nine, it becomes eighty-one!"

"This multiplication table is actually the algorithm we know now, it's just simplified and summarized the rules!"

"Haha! I get it! I completely understand! Your Highness, every time you calculate a number, you multiply it by two, which means you double it! If we were to calculate such a large number, we would need to use an abacus. Although it is very convenient, it would become very complicated when multiplying such a large number!"

"However, using Arabic numerals will make it much simpler. Moreover, I think if we summarize these theories and slightly change the abacus method, it will be even simpler!"

An official from the Ministry of Revenue said with a smile.

"That's right! Absolutely right! I just recalculated in my mind, and the number calculated by His Royal Highness the Crown Prince is correct. We have indeed been deceived by that old thief Hu Yanqing!"

An official from the Ministry of Revenue said in a deep voice.

"Your Majesty! The figure His Royal Highness has drawn is accurate. This represents billions of kilograms of grain at an exorbitant price. We in Daliang absolutely cannot agree to this!"

The officials knelt down and said.

Hu Yanqing's face looked extremely ugly. His plan to trick Daliang was ruined by Qin Yu.

"Hu Yanqing, your plot to make Daliang owe a huge amount of grain in this way has been exposed. Daliang will not agree to your proposal!"

Emperor Liang looked at Hu Yanqing coldly and said, his tone full of murderous intent.

Hu Yanqing's face was extremely gloomy. He bowed to Emperor Liang and said, "Since Emperor Liang has rejected this proposal, then I have nothing to say. In today's competition, Beiliang has been completely defeated. Farewell!"

After losing to Qin Yu three times in a row, Hu Yanqing was too embarrassed to stay here any longer, so he asked someone to carry the pure gold tower away.

However, Qin Yu turned to Hu Yanqing and said in a deep voice: "There are 1,306 rabbits and 2,394 chickens!"

Hu Yanqing just stood there in a daze, looking at Qin Yu in disbelief!

Because the number Qin Yu just said is exactly the answer to the eternal unsolved mystery above this pure gold pagoda!

As for why he knew the answer to this eternal mystery, it was because after he obtained this pure gold pagoda, he ordered someone proficient in mathematics to perform calculations.

From the initial calculations to directly determining the number of rabbits and chickens, and then reverse verification bit by bit, it took five years to come up with this number!

Although the number obtained in this way is correct, it does not mean that the eternal mystery of this pure gold pagoda has been solved, because it is noted under the question that the verification method must be listed to solve the mystery!

Reverse verification doesn’t count at all!

But how did Qin Yu know this number when he spent so much manpower and five years to get it!

"Your Highness, what did you just say? Why didn't I understand?"

Hu Yanqing turned around and looked at Qin Yu and asked.