Since Huojia County belongs to the Weihui Mansion and is the adjacent land of the Huaiqing Mansion, even though Zhu Zaiyu was only the crown prince of Prince Zheng, there were people in the court who would be too talkative, so he still chose to come quietly without alerting anyone.
But after Gao pragmatically entertained the officials and gentry of the two governments, he still followed the highest etiquette that could be displayed at this time. Not only did he burn incense and take a bath, he also sent cavalry servants to clean outside the courtyard where the local rich gentry rented him a temporary residence. After the ceremony, he opened the middle door and waited at the door in person, waiting for Zhu Zaiyu, the crown prince of Prince Zheng.
Although Gao Pragmatic is just a student, his reputation among his scholars is quite high!
He is not only the author of "Long Wen Whip Shadow", "Xin Zheng Dui Yun" and other handed down works, but also has close friendship with many famous literati!
However, at this moment, he walked up to a tightly covered carriage with a solemn expression, personally opened the curtain for the guests in the carriage, bowed respectfully and said: "I came to Xinzheng after graduating from high school and was very pragmatic. I have seen Mr. Jiu Feng. It is truly a blessing for students to come here this time! Sir, please."
"Eh? Why is Gao Longwen like this?" The man who got off the carriage was about forty years old, with a pale face, wearing a dark brown straight suit and a Dongpo scarf on his head, looking like an ordinary middle-aged scribe.
The "Mr. Jiufeng" Gao pragmatically refers to is Zhu Zaiyu, the crown prince of Prince Zheng. His nickname is Jiufengshanren.
"Mr. Jiu Feng, the world's legal sect, I heard that he is currently writing "Lü Li Rong Tong". Although he is not pragmatic, he is also eager to do it."
Zhu Zaiyu stood still, stared at Gao Pragmatic for a while, and suddenly smiled: "I heard that Jinghua Gezhi Academy has been continuously searching for mathematical talents from all over the world in recent years. I thought it was just a rumor at first, but now it seems that it is really no."
Gao pragmatic smiled, said nothing, and did not make any invitations - he was the prince, and even if he wanted to go, he couldn't go to the capital.
But Zhu Zaiyu's face quickly darkened again, and he said: "However, even though even my close associates didn't know much about the "Lüli Rongtong" matter, Gao Longwen was able to explain it with one word. It seems that some people's suspicions at that time were still there. It’s really not unreasonable, I’m afraid Dongchang and Jinyiwei don’t know their last names anymore.”
Gao pragmatic laughed, shook his head and said, "The emperor told the students about this. Mr. Jiu Feng must not misunderstand."
Zhu Zaiyu's expression changed slightly, and he knew he couldn't accept these words. He was originally a reclusive person and did not look like a prince at all, but the emperor was in the capital and actually knew how far he had gone in his academic research. This... can I talk too much?
Who is Zhu Zaiyu who can make Gao Pragmatic be so polite?
In the late Ming Dynasty, Li Zhi as a heretical thinker, Xu Guangqi and Song Yingxing as scientists, Tang Xianzu as a playwright, Xu Xiake as a geographer, and Li Shizhen as a medical scientist, all entered the annals of Chinese history with great fame.
However, if he hadn't seen a speech given by the third generation core of the Red Dynasty abroad, praising Zhu Zaiyu as one of China's historical celebrities who have influenced the world, Gao Pragmatic would not have known that there was such a genius as Zhu Zaiyu!
Why is this happening? After checking the information about this genius, Gao Pragmatic was even more surprised. This man was simply the Chinese Leonardo da Vinci!
Hundreds of years before Gao Pangshi was born, Westerners hailed his "Twelve Equal Temperaments" as China's fifth greatest invention, and acknowledged that he opened a new chapter in the music world, and they recognized it wholeheartedly. Without twelve equal temperaments, singing from C major to G major would not be able to make a clever transition; without twelve equal temperaments, keyboard instruments cannot be tuned; without twelve equal temperaments, the piano performance, known as the king of musical instruments It cannot come out...
In addition, in addition to the twelve equal temperaments, Zhu Zaiyu was also the first to create a fixed-tone instrument, Xianzhun; the first to use abacus to perform square root; the first to establish "Dance Studies" and contribute to this A series of world-first honors including a subject stipulated content outline. His research in the fields of astronomy, calendar, mathematics, physics, and computing still has an impact today.
He pioneered the method of solving geometric sequence more than ten years earlier than the Dutch mathematician Steffen. His twelve equal temperaments were fifty-five years earlier than the French scientist Merson; the correction methods and formulas he proposed for wind instruments were three hundred years earlier than the same theories in the West; and he composed a large number of spiral music scores, which are the earliest in the world. The German composer's "Well-Tempered Piano Collection" was written three hundred years earlier; his "Complete Book of Music" can be compared with the contemporary masterpieces "Tiangong Kaiwu", "Agricultural Policy Complete Book", "Compendium of Materia Medica", "Xu Xiake" "Travel Notes" and others stand side by side... But why is he unknown?
Oh, it turned out to be because of the Tatars.
Since the Ming and Qing dynasties, most of the Tatar and Qing dynasty's attitude towards the outstanding people in various industries in the three centuries of the Ming Dynasty was to admit their mistakes. Even the heroes who fought bloody battles against the Qing Dynasty in the late Ming Dynasty were mostly commemorated in the Qing Dynasty.
However, for a strange person from the 16th century Ming Dynasty, the attitude of several generations of Tatar and Qing emperors was quite exceptional - not only must he be banned, but he must also be "disgraced"!
On this matter, "holy kings" such as Kangxi and Qianlong of the Qing Dynasty spent huge efforts. On many occasions, he organized ministers in the court to launch a "siege" against the prince of the Ming Dynasty who lived more than a hundred years ago, and even went into battle in person. For example, Qianlong, the "Shiquan Old Man" of the Qing Dynasty, wrote many articles in his own hand, cursing this strange man of the Ming Dynasty and listing the "ten major crimes" for him. From the writings of Qianlong of the Qing Dynasty, we can see his anger. That was really overwhelming.
The strange man of the Ming Dynasty who was able to make the Qing Tatar chieftains expend great efforts to suppress him was none other than the middle-aged scribe in front of Gao Pragmatic and a recognized master in the history of world science: Zhu Zaiyu.
For example, in astronomy, Zhu Zaiyu found loopholes in Chinese astronomical calculations in previous dynasties and reset the formula for calculating the length of the tropical year. His calculation of the length of the tropical year in 1581 was only 21 seconds behind the modern high-tech calculation. Even the geographical location of Beijing, the capital of the Ming Dynasty, was accurately measured by Zhu Zaiyu. The data is exactly the same as the modern longitude and latitude: 39°56′ north latitude and 116°20′ east longitude.
In the field of mathematics as the basis of science, Zhu Zaiyu's achievements are even more impressive: he developed a series of calculation formulas for nozzle correction and accurately measured the density of mercury. He also creatively used abacus to perform square root. His first sequence equation also solved the decimal conversion of different positions. These calculation methods are not only often used in modern science, but also represented the pinnacle of world science at that time. Also relying on his peak mathematical ability and his fondness for music, Zhu Zaiyu also completed a major achievement that had a far-reaching impact and was very "hateful" in the Qing Dynasty: Twelve Equal Temperaments.
Twelve equal temperament, also called twelve equal intervals, is a temperament in music that divides a set of octaves into twelve semitone intervals. This novel rhythmic system was arrived at with great difficulty by Zhu Zaiyu using a super-large abacus of 81 levels and using a cubic calculation method that was world-leading at the time. In the history of world music, it has even more cross-epochal significance: the problem that the fifth degree rhythm and the pure rhythm cannot return to the palace for thousands of years has been solved beautifully. The creation of musicians and the development of modern music have since then gained a broader platform. But by the time of the Ming and Qing dynasties, this great creation made the Tatars angry.
Because music in Taqing is not an entertainment issue, but a major issue related to etiquette and regulations. Therefore, Zhu Zaiyu's new creation was a serious deviant in the eyes of the Qing Emperor. So Kangxi, the leader of the captives, tried his best to plagiarize Zhu Zaiyu's achievements in his work "Lü Lu Zhengyi", while also trying his best to distort and attack. During the Qianlong period, Qianlong, the captive chieftain, not only wrote an article himself, smearing Zhu Zaiyu as a "hypothesis", but also ordered Wang Jie, Peng Yuanrui, Dong Gao and other ministers to severely criticize Zhu Zaiyu. As a result, this great scientist and his achievements were hidden in Chinese history amidst the roaring curses.
