Chapter 651

——【To be honest, in ancient times, writing was always done with a brush, and the Imperial Prince had top-tier education. At 13, which is about the first year of middle school, writing like this is quite average.】

——【You are too kind; your wording is still too polite.】

——【His father and grandfather both got married at 12 or 13 and had children soon after, so at 13, he was already at an age where he could be a father. His teacher felt that the prince was already at the age to get married, yet his handwriting was still so terrible.】

——【No way, I clearly remember his father married late and had children late!】

——【Yongzheng's first child was his eldest daughter in 1694, when Yongzheng was 16 years old.】

——【He might think it's Mr. Wu from the TV series Scarlet Heart.】

——【Qianlong, the leader who asked his parents to find a teacher, saying the teacher discriminated against and insulted you.】

——【Top-tier elite education, using a brush since he started learning, and writing like this at 13... um... can't evaluate.】

——【This handwriting is indeed not good-looking.】

——【The teacher was the famous screenwriter Wu Sidao. If he didn't do his homework, he wouldn't be allowed to eat. Even the Fourth Master couldn't do anything about it.】

——【Wow, so it was Wu Sidao. Finally, someone told me this, thanks.】

——【Nothing else to say. The Qing Dynasty put a lot of effort into educating their successors. There were mediocre emperors in the Qing Dynasty, but basically none were incompetent.】

——【Kangxi, Yongzheng, and Qianlong all knew calculus; they knew everything, and they knew the world was changing. But in order to maintain their rule, they could learn these things, but they wouldn't let the common people learn or understand them.】

——【Even if it were opened up, how many common people would go to learn math, physics, and chemistry?】

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——【Brother, if you don't do math, physics, and chemistry, how do you farm? Is the calendar not math? Which of these farming tools doesn't have math in it? The past control wasn't what you think, but selective. You say banning math, then how was your house built? You're just talking nonsense based on your own imagination. Carpenters and blacksmiths in the past all had math, and then they drew pictures for the workers below to make things. How did the folk get irrigation canals without production tools? How did houses and farm tools come about? Out of thin air?】

——【Go buy a copy of the Nine Chapters on the Mathematical Art or go to the library to see it, and you'll know. Equations, water conservancy, everything is in it, understand?】

——【There is also a book called 'Mathematical Principles' that talks about calculus, which is earlier than the West. And this book is abroad. It's not that we didn't have it, but that the ruling group was incompetent, not that it wasn't circulated among the people. Information wasn't as developed then as it is now, understand? This is a historical characteristic, not that there was no technology.】

——【Don't bring up the Nine Chapters on the Mathematical Art; it's just a collection of exercises. Although it uses a lot of mathematical knowledge, it is essentially a technique. What did the Elements of Geometry, which was hundreds of years earlier, achieve? It established axiomatic deduction and reasoning methods, all inferences are based on rigorous proofs, refined five axioms, and established Euclidean geometry.】

——【There were simplified characters back then; that's really awesome.】

——【You don't think modern simplified characters were created out of thin air, do you? Uh, some were simple enough that they weren't modified, and some used variant characters.】

——【Characters have been around for thousands of years. It's normal for the Qing Dynasty to use simplified characters on a large scale. Only someone as weird as him would think characters never change.】

——【Simplified characters weren't made up; they were organized from the simplified characters of past dynasties. The earliest simplified characters were from the Western Zhou Dynasty.】

——【There can't be anyone who doesn't know that some characters have the same form in both traditional and simplified.】

——【Not just then, it existed in the Jin Dynasty. Wang Xizhi used 'Wan' instead of 'Wan' in the 'Preface to the Sacred Teachings'.】

——【Many children now write better than him.】

——【If I say that the average level of calligraphy now surpasses that of the ancients, will I be scolded to death?】

——【How is that possible? You really dare to say that.】

——【Emperor Qianlong's starting point is different from ordinary people, so of course the requirements are top-tier.】

——【Strict teachers produce excellent students.】

As the seal-stamping maniac Emperor Qianlong, everyone was very curious about his childhood.

While people in the live broadcast room were discussing heatedly, the people from the Cultural Relics Bureau were still reading Emperor Qianlong's homework.

They noticed that the teacher who graded Emperor Qianlong's homework was always very strict, and almost every page had comments.

It wasn't until they turned to the last page that they found something different.

"Come and take a look, why is there no comment here?"

"Yes, this is indeed very strange."

"Hold it steady, let me take a good look at what's going on."

"This homework is from August 22, the 13th year of Yongzheng."

"This is Qianlong's last homework."

"The whole piece has a total of 48 characters."

"There are small circles marked on it, totaling only 14 characters. If you look closely, you will find that only these 14 characters are qualified, and the other characters are unqualified... His grades are clearly failing."

"This teacher's attitude is completely different from before."

"Why didn't the teacher write any comments? According to the pages we read before, there should have been some."

"Have you forgotten a very important thing? Because on the second day of this homework, August 23, the 13th year of Yongzheng, he was no longer the Imperial Prince Hongli, but Emperor Qianlong."

"So what we just read, we found that this might be the last homework. In a sense, it really is the last homework."

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——【Haha, after all, he was going to be an emperor, so he had to be given a little face.】

——【Qianlong made a very significant contribution to Chinese ancient poetry. In his life, he wrote more than 20,000 poems, and not a single one needs to be memorized.】

——【Kangxi's one character for a thousand gold, Qianlong's thousand characters for one gold.】

——【The 'one or two pieces' one still needs to be memorized.】

——【That wasn't his either, it was added by a minister.】

——【Is there a possibility that poetry was just a way for the ancients to record their lives and express their feelings, just like we post on WeChat Moments?】

——【It was always like that.】

——【Why didn't the Manchus write in Manchu instead of Chinese characters?】

——【The charm of Han culture.】

——【Actually, it's mainly because they didn't want to learn a foreign language.】

——【No, it's to learn from the lessons of the Yuan Dynasty.】

——【Why don't the Han people wear Hanfu and keep braids?】

——【Changing the concept.】

——【When someone asks you a question, why keep a braid, you just answer it. What concept did I change?】

——【Qianlong is the luckiest emperor.】

——【Kang Mazi is the one with the best life.】

——【Kangxi's father didn't love him much, his mother died when he was ten, he had smallpox as a child and was sent out of the palace, he experienced ups and downs all his life, he doesn't have a good life.】

——【Kangxi relied on his own ability to solve problems, Qianlong sat back and enjoyed the fruits of others' labor.】

——【Kangxi couldn't sleep in his later years because he was angered by his sons.】

——【Is Hongli testing his teacher?】

——【Imperial art.】

——【Wouldn't his teacher resign the next day because he was too old?】

——【No, the parents wouldn't agree.】

——【Qianlong emperors were very respectful to their teachers.】

——【Emperor Daoguang's crown prince was beaten to death by his father for scolding his teacher.】

——【The circles are for praise for writing well.】

——【Only 14 out of 48 characters are worth circling, it's a fail.】

——【If all the characters were good, wouldn't he be a calligrapher?】

——【Prince Bao of the First Rank.】

——【He wasn't born to Yongzheng's primary wife.】

——【It's not like following the Ming Dynasty.】

——【The Manchus didn't care about whether it was the eldest son of the primary wife.】

——【Yes, I just saw it in the title, 'Heshuo', so I knew he wasn't born to the primary wife.】

——【Princesses born to concubines are called Heshuo. Whether princes are born to concubines or not, they can be titled Heshuo, a first-class title. Only princes and imperial brothers can be titled Heshuo Prince.】

——【The Empress Dowager is Niohuru.】

——【Haha, I've heard of 'Gurun'.】

——【I've heard of Gurun, but I haven't heard of Gurun Prince.】

——【Some people should learn more before speaking, okay?】

——【He's going to be the emperor tomorrow, let alone doing homework, he probably won't even be able to sleep.】

——【Seeing the handwriting is like seeing the person; you can see Hongli's temperament.】

——【The saying 'handwriting is like the person' is wrong. Qin Hui's handwriting was good, but what about the person?】

——【'Handwriting is like the person' isn't just about whether it looks good or not. The style of writing and the type of personality have a certain correspondence.】