Chapter 938 - 936 Unexpected
Almost simultaneously, two dragon boats reached the starting point.
While waiting for the person to give the topic, everyone hadn’t caught their breath yet and made slight adjustments in position.
Everyone was extremely exhausted, with their clothes soaked from sweat and water splashed by the oars.
Song Chongjin was no exception, only he was more astonished inside. Others couldn’t hear it, but he could tell that the drummer from Baiyun Academy was likely not an ordinary person.
Turning his head to look, the drummer was also looking over at that moment, and their eyes met briefly.
It was Gu Zikai’s voice that made Song Chongjin turn back.
"Brother Song, this question—" His tone carried some difficulty.
Song Chongjin looked down, and the question turned out to be an arithmetic problem: There are pheasants and rabbits together in a cage, with thirty-five heads and ninety-four feet. How many pheasants and rabbits are there?
Generally speaking, in the Six Arts of the Gentleman, one must learn a lot and be tested a lot, but since the previous dynasty, only practical strategies and essays have been tested.
So nowadays, the academy teaches students the Four Books and Five Classics, writing strategies, and how to write good essays.
Where has such arithmetic been taught?
Therefore, almost all scholars and students were dumbfounded upon seeing this question.