Zhang Hong and Feng Bao listened to His Majesty and Yuan Fu discussing astronomy. They had the same expression the whole time, turning a deaf ear. They didn't understand. Why should they listen? The thing that His Majesty and Yuan Fu want to study is called the Way of Heaven. As a palace official, I can just call Mr. Gao, Your Majesty is tough, Ming Dynasty is tall and tough.
The communication between the two geniuses had nothing to do with them. Although they couldn't understand it, they tried their best.
The two big men heard the last words clearly.
The emperor wanted to summon the crazy Zhu Zaiyu to the capital. The key prop he needed was the enhanced sextant they made. They used this object as bait to introduce the big fish Zhu Zaiyu to the capital.
There are three benefits to Xuan Zhu Zaiyu's entry into Beijing.
The first one is to quell the criticism of the court. The provincial courtiers have been venting their anger and chattering non-stop. If the court has money and food, who wouldn't want to be carried in sedan chairs and paid to the clan members? Isn't this true?
In the future, whenever someone criticizes the emperor for not having a close relationship, wouldn't it be nice to reward this distant uncle?
The second one is to continue to implement the Ming Dynasty's idea of reducing royalties. After Jiajing and Longqing, the princes and princes were allowed to make a living on their own. This was based on the fact that the court suffered huge financial losses and could only continue to be implemented, otherwise the court would not be able to make a living. If you don't give people a salary to make a living for themselves, isn't that forcing people to die?
This is a complete process. According to Hou Yuzhao's memorial, in the future, people below the county king will not issue ultimatums. They will have neither judicial nor tax privileges.
The third one is the significance of scientific research. Zhang Juzheng is very busy. He can read these astronomical records to prevent the emperor from being deceived, and also to prevent someone from using the telepathic method to influence the state affairs. The guest star in the sixth year of Longqing invaded the throne. This also made Zhang Juzheng very passive, although the Qintian Supervisor and Prime Minister Zhou had tried his best to make amends.
For astronomical matters, find a professional and a clan member who is proficient in the calendar to take charge.
The dual role of political significance and scientific research significance!
"Your Majesty, in fact, King Xuanfan has come to Beijing to show his close friendship. This has happened in the past dynasties. If he doesn't come, he will come." Feng Bao said with confidence: "A gentleman is actually best bullied."
Nice gentlemen are the easiest to bully. This is always the case in all things. They demand too much from good people and tolerate too much from bad people.
Gentlemen are actually the best to deal with. Zhu Wan, the governor of Zhejiang, was a gentleman. He was forced to commit suicide to express his will. Zhang Juzheng, Yin Zhengmao, Ling Yunyi, Pan Jixun and others would not commit suicide to express their will. They would only fight with others. They fought to the death and were bitten and bruised all over their bodies.
"Let's tell the feast." Zhu Yijun waved his hand and started today's feast.
In the afternoon, the cabinet drafted an imperial edict, and the internal official Xu Jue and the Marquis Yu Zhao rushed towards Prince Zheng's palace.
Zhu Yijun led a group of people to study the length of the sun's shadow all day long. The little emperor under Zhang Juzheng's guidance was not a man of great ambition, but a faithful king. The reason why he led people to study the length of the sun's shadow was because Zhu Yijun wanted to Calendar.
There must be a reason for revising the calendar, and the inaccurate farming season is the best reason.
The Qin Tian Jian Cheng Zhou Xiang had actually determined that the Ming Dynasty's "Datong Calendar" was indeed inaccurate, about one day later than the correct calendar, so various chaos occurred frequently.
The old saying that there is no leap month in ten years is actually not accurate. December of the second year of Wanli was a leap month, and the next leap month was after 1784, which is 3358 AD.
The leap month is to repair the loopholes in the calendar. The big month of the lunar calendar has 30 days and the small month has 29 days. In December, each year there will be 11 or 2 days less than the earth year.
In order to make up for the loopholes in the calendar, leap months appear. One leap month every three years is less. Two leap months every three years is more. Three leap months are less in eight years. Seven leap months are more in nineteen years. In fact, it is not too much, just one more. Time, however, cannot stand the chance of adding up, and the calendar must be revised repeatedly.
In order to avoid the loophole of one hour in nineteen years, Zu Chongzhi wanted to clarify this issue and finally came up with the idea of 144 leap months in 391 years. After conversion, it is 144 leap months in 391 years. The length of a year in the earth year is 365.2428 days, which is one day compared with what later generations found. The year is 53 seconds longer.
Later, after Guo Shoujing's "Time Granting Calendar" of the Yuan Dynasty, a year of the earth was 365.2425 days, which was 26 seconds longer than that of later generations. This is what Zhang Juzheng said that the laws of later generations are always better than the ancient ones, and they have been changed repeatedly. Yi Mi, but the calendar is the most significant.
Coincidentally, in the tenth year of Wanli, Pope Gregory XIII reformed the Julian calendar commonly used in the West and promulgated the Gregorian calendar. The Gregorian calendar calculated that a year is 365.2425 days, which is exactly the same as the "Time Calendar" not bad.
In the tenth year of Wanli, Taixi's calendar calculation finally caught up with the level of Yuanshi.
And was the Ming Dynasty really motionless during these two hundred years?
The astronomers who came one after another repeatedly presented the calendar for the sake of the calendar, and their words were almost worn out. The emperor also issued several edicts to fix it. After all, it was not accurate to calculate lunar and solar eclipses. It was really disrespectful to the court and made the emperor unhappy. Same.
During the Jingtai and Jiajing years, the immutable calendar of the ancestors was even briefly changed, but in the end it was never completely changed.
For example, the current Qintian Supervisor, Prime Minister Zhou, is a professional astronomy student. He has determined that the calendar of the Ming Dynasty is inaccurate and has roughly calculated the time, but his voice is too low. Who in the court can listen?
He is often accused of being a corrupt ancestral law. Prime Minister Zhou, a small eunuch, cannot withstand the power of public opinion in the DPRK.
In Confucius' time, in order to avoid the ritual of crying after three years of death, the scholar-bureaucrats of the Zhou Dynasty invented Jingewupi, a method of bypassing Ding You's death of three years of crying. Just a minister of household affairs.
The sergeants and officials of the court, holding on to the etiquette of three generations above the Dharma, even opposed the words of Confucius! The rotten Confucians who stick to the rules follow Zhou etiquette even more than the scholars of the Zhou Dynasty.
Prime Minister Zhou couldn't withstand the pressure, so Zhu Yijun wanted to give it a try, and he had to push the envelope even further.
And Zhu Yijun was really carefully observing the shadow length of the eight-foot tall watch. In fact, the Ming Dynasty also had a forty-foot high watch in Yingtian Mansion, and that thing was more accurate.
Zhu Yijun sorted out the collected data, picked out three numbers and said: "On October 10th, the shadow was one foot, seven inches and seven and a half minutes long, on November 25th, it was one foot, eight inches and one minute, and twenty Six days is one foot, seven inches and five points strong, which means that the shadow length on October 10th is 10.7750 feet, on November 25th it is 10.8175 feet, and on the 26th it is 10.7508 feet. In other words, the shadow length on the winter solstice It must have happened on November 3rd."
Tai and Qiang both represent fractions, but Zhu Yijun calculated them into decimals, which is simpler.
The first shadow length and the third shadow length are almost equal, so the winter solstice occurs on November 3rd.
Zhang Hong and Feng Bao looked at each other. The little emperor was writing and drawing with a pencil, as if he knew when the winter solstice was.
Your Majesty is the emperor, and he speaks of the Constitution of Heaven. On which day of the winter solstice does the emperor not have the final say?
"The shadow length of Guibiao changes very slowly before and after the winter solstice. Find a symmetrical data and compromise, and you'll get it. Isn't it very simple? It's not a magic spell. Is there anything so magical about it?" Zhu Yijun looked at Zhang With searching eyes, Hong and Feng Bao explained their algorithm. This was Zu Chongzhi's algorithm for calculating the winter solstice time symmetrically.
The basic introductory astronomical arithmetic taught to the young emperor by Qintian Jiancheng Zhou Xiang, the patent comes from Zu Chongzhi who was more than 1,070 years ago.
Zhu Yijun flipped the drawings on the table and said: "Guo Shoujing is indeed an old god. He raised two questions about Zu Chongzhi's algorithm. The first is that the change in shadow length before and after the winter solstice is not completely symmetrical, and the second is the change in shadow length in one day. It’s not uniform either, this is something Guo Shoujing has personally observed for many years. These two errors are not big, but together they will affect the accuracy a little bit.”
Zhu Yijun pressed his thumb on his index finger and made a little gesture and said: "With such a little precision, three minutes and forty seconds of water are removed in a year, making the time calendar more accurate. The old god is really amazing. "
Guo Shoujing was the master of calculations for the past twenty years. He averaged the earth years over the past twenty years, further improving the accuracy of the earth years.
"How long is three minutes and forty seconds?" Zhang Hong finally asked tentatively.
Zhu Yijun thought for a moment and said, "Do you know the timekeeping method of the Ming Dynasty besides time?"
Feng Bao said with confidence: "I know, there are a hundred moments in a day and night, and Dr. Luke specializes in doing this."
"What about less than a hundred quarters?" Zhu Yijun asked again.
Zhang Hong and Feng Bao both shook their heads. They were just eunuchs in the palace and not astronomy students at Qintian Prison. How could they know about such a thing?
"Read more." Zhu Yijun looked at Zhang Hong and Feng Bao and said, "I know that you have read a lot, but it is not enough. The foreign ministers, court ministers, court ministers, capital officials, and foreign officials are all scholars. , if you don’t read much, you can’t compete with them, you can’t compete with them for the power of explanation, you can’t compete with the power of definition, and they will ride on my head.”
"As a servant of the inner court, you must dare to bite, and you must be able to bite and win."
Feng Bao recalled it very seriously and bowed his head and said: "Your Majesty, if I can still bite, I should be able to win."
Zhu Yijun was quite impressed after hearing this. He still recognized Feng Bao's combat effectiveness very much. Sun Jigao, the number one scholar in the Ming Dynasty, was killed by Feng Bao. Even Mencius Sun Jigao didn't understand it. It only took one day. Sun Jigao's knowledge was not as good as that of the middle official. The news spread in the capital, and even Wan Shihe, the Minister of Rites, was implicated.
Wan Shihe submitted another memorial to resign, but the court still disagreed. Sun Jigao was Sun Jigao, and Wan Shihe was Wan Shihe. If Gao Qiyu was not used to deal with Zhang Juzheng, then Sun Jigao would not be used to deal with Wan Shihe.
Zhu Yijun smiled and said: "I know how powerful Feng Daban is. The palace knows more than the outer court, so the outer court can't bully the palace. This is the reason for the guest star in the sixth year of Longqing. If the palace knows What kind of guest star is it? It will be led by the outside court and it will be repaired every month. Do I still need to review my Deliang Youchong to God?"
"Tell me back to what I said about three minutes and forty seconds." Zhu Yijun sat up straight and said like a little teacher: "Our Ming Dynasty's "Tatong Calendar" is actually the "Time Assignment Calendar", which has been used for nearly three hundred years. Not allowed anymore.”
"The timing calendar is fixed. One day is a hundred quarters, a quarter is a hundred minutes, and a minute is a hundred seconds. This statement is actually inaccurate. Minutes and seconds describe the depth of the solar eclipse, not the time."
"Can you guys understand?"
Zhang Hong and Feng Bao shook their heads in confusion at the same time. They knew nothing about astronomy.
Zhu Yijun smiled and said: "Well, it's a little complicated to explain. One day is one hundred moments. You know this. One moment is one hundred points, and one minute is one hundred seconds. Then one whole day is ten thousand points, and three points is three ten thousandths. sky."
"Kublai Khan, the founder of the Yuan Dynasty, issued an order to test the Seven Things. Guo Shoujing, Xu Heng, and Wang Xun verified that it was 365 days, 24 quarters and 25 minutes, which is 365.2425 days. This is also the first time that decimals are used in the calendar."
"In the Song Dynasty, there was a water-borne ceremonial platform that divided the twelve hours into twenty-four, namely the first hour and the first hour."
"At the beginning of March in the eighth year of Tianshun, the Imperial Heavenly Supervisor Gu Bin and others reported that the solar eclipse was three minutes and fourteen seconds long, and it began to lose weight at the second quarter of Youzheng. The eclipse only lasted for fifty seconds after the sun entered the third quarter of Youzheng. If the eclipse was not enough, no rescue would be given. "
"That is to say, Qin Tianjian reported that there will be a solar eclipse on the first day of April. The sun and moon will meet at approximately three minutes and fourteen seconds. Youzheng, which is the eighteenth hour of the day, will begin at the beginning of the second quarter. At the end of the three quarters, you can only see the time for fifty seconds. It’s not that you don’t have enough food, and there is no need to beat gongs and drums and perform sacrifices and rescues.”
"Qin Tian Jian Jia Xin reported that the Qin Tian Jian Cheng was talking nonsense and deceiving the Lord. The sun and moon should be in contact for six minutes and six seconds. It is not that the solar eclipse is not in time and requires rescue."
"On the first day of April, there was indeed no solar eclipse, and Jia Xin was imprisoned."
This incident was also unlucky for Jia Xin, because what Qin Tianjian said was wrong. In fact, there was no solar eclipse observed in Shuntian Prefecture that day. If you wanted to see the total solar eclipse, you had to go to Helin, the capital of the Mongol Empire founded by Genghis Khan. .
Because the calendar used by the Ming Dynasty was the "Time Calendar" of the Yuan Dynasty, and the data also used Helin's data, on the first day of April, only a partial solar eclipse could be seen in Helin.
"Okay, this is how the Ming Dynasty's hours, Chuzheng hours, quarters, minutes and seconds are like this." Zhu Yijun ended his lecture on the Ming Dynasty Qintian Supervisor's timing method. The content of the talk.
In the timing calendar, one minute is too short. When converted to later generations, it is only about 8.26 seconds. It will pass by just a little wandering.
"Let me calculate the specific time of the winter solstice. The method is equal to the difference of the shadow length of the 25th day minus the shadow length of the 26th day multiplied by two. It is actually equal to the shadow length of the 26th day minus the shadow length of the 26th day multiplied by one hundred, divided by the law. Actually, it is thirty-one quarters after midnight on the third day, and the conversion is really troublesome. One hour is 8.33 quarters, which is not easy to convert." Zhu Yijun calculated the time of the winter solstice.
Zhu Yijun said with emotion: "The Datong calendar is indeed wrong by one day."
This is Zu Chongzhi's algorithm, which is actually not accurate. It needs to be further refined after Zhu Zaiyu comes to Beijing.
However, Zhu Yijun used Zu Chongzhi's algorithm and determined that the day with the longest shadow of the year was November 3, not November 4 in the Tatong calendar.
Zu Chongzhi's algorithm has many inaccuracies. For example, the end of Guiying will be blurred, the length cannot be determined at all, etc. Even if it is inaccurate, it is enough to fire.
This is the algorithm Zu Chongzhi got by standing on the shoulders of the sages of the past generations and using more than 40 years of practice.
Not to mention Guo Shoujing's magical algorithm three hundred years ago, Zhu Yijun took out Zu Chong's algorithm a thousand years ago, which was enough to turn the rotten scholars of the Ming Dynasty into scum in an instant.
He understands it, and the corrupt scholars don't, so he has complete control over the interpretation and definition of the calendar.
"Qi Shuai, Liang Menglong, Chen Dacheng, Liu Yingjie and others have been in Liaodong for almost a month. Isn't there any news from Li Chengliang? Don't rush us. We don't know the details of the front line in the capital. Don't rush us. Urgent." Zhu Yijun asked about the Liaodong war and emphasized that the emperor could not directly command border operations.
Feng Bao said very solemnly: "General Soldier Li told us to wait until it snows. When it snows, horses cannot move so that we can kill the enemy."
"Sir, if you want to be given a little more power, just listen to General Li." Zhu Yijun asked no more questions and continued to tinker with his sextant and telescope.
Zhu Yijun did not rush, Li Chengliang defeated Qi Jiguang's Beijing camp, and Qi Jiguang lost Liu Yingjie, who led the elite troops of three towns to serve as reserves in Shanhaiguan, Xifengkou and other areas.
Zhu Yijun was really surprised. The Ming Dynasty's three-wave gradient and two-layer reserve tactics really opened the eyes of the little emperor. The little emperor thought about himself and changed himself into the counter-chief Gao. He didn't know how to do it. win.
The Ming Dynasty's style of play has no other disadvantages except that it is expensive. By the end of Wanli, the declining Ming Dynasty could no longer use this kind of formation.
Zhu Yijun did not completely immerse himself in the skylight, and asked with a gloomy expression: "Is there nothing happening in the northwest?"
Feng Bao said: "Wang Chonggu, the governor of Xuan Dynasty, reported yesterday that he had invited Sanniang, Princess Sanniang of Shunyi of the Ming Dynasty and Jin Dynasty, to visit the Xuan Mansion. Anda Khan was granted the title of Queen of Shunyi. She is a bit old. Sanniang is in charge of the house, and Sanniang is in Wu. Dui drank too much in his private house and injured a servant."
"Well, Wang Chonggu is quite sensible." Zhu Yijun looked at the sky.
The Northern Barbarians were headed by Sanniang Zi. From the Jin Kingdom to the Xuan Mansion, they sang and danced with the Jin Party. The danger of the Northern Barbarians going south was 80% eliminated.
However, once the Liaodong war was defeated and the Ming armies were in deep quagmire, Anda Khan would definitely not worry about Qi Jiguang's 100,000 border troops and 10,000 capital camps. Instead, he would send his troops south, plunder the capital, and force the young emperor to sign an alliance under the city.
Therefore, the key lies in Liaodong. If we can win in battle, we cannot win, and if we cannot win on the battlefield, everything is equal to zero.
Military politics has always been like this, winner takes all, without any middle ground, so war is also a concrete manifestation of conflicts that have intensified to the point of irreconcilability.
When Zhu Yijun was measuring the length of the winter solstice shadow, Zhu Zaiyu of Prince Zheng's Mansion was also measuring the time of the winter solstice. If he didn't measure it, he would be angry. The more he measured, the more angry Zhu Zaiyu would be. What's the use of measuring it? Who would listen to him?
As Zhang Juzheng said, more than half of Prince Zheng's mansion collapsed, and several more collapsed in recent years.
The Prince's Palace of the Ming Dynasty was built according to the Yingtian Palace. It was customized and covered an area of more than 500 acres. It had a moat, a city wall, and four gates outside. Inside there were Huangji Hall, Zhongji Hall, Jianji Hall, and the Imperial Palace. The layout is very similar, with a total of more than 800 palaces, pavilions, waterside pavilions, palaces, halls, ancestral temples, etc.
Prince Zheng's Mansion is located in Hanoi County, Huaiqing Prefecture. Counting from the 29th year of Jiajing, when Prince Zheng petitioned the old Taoist priests in Jiajing not to practice Taoism and was demoted to common people, Prince Zheng's Mansion has not been repaired for 27 years. It has 800 rooms. There are only more than fifty rooms left, and they are overgrown with weeds everywhere, making them look extremely deserted.
Prince Zheng and Zhu Zaiyu lived here in the dilapidated Prince's Mansion for another eight years. The place where they lived was extremely clean, and they were kept fairly clean. The redundant staff in the royal palace were eliminated. In addition to Prince Zheng's family, there were 14 officials and less than 20 guards.
Prince Zheng's Mansion was supposed to have 1,600 school captains to guard him, but as the official salary was cut down again and again, these guards fled and scattered, and in the end there were only about twenty people left, who could be considered as enough to support them.
Prince Zheng Zhu Hounan and Zhu Zaiyu didn't care at all about this. The stipend given by the court was enough for them to live.
"Son, the imperial court treats us very well. It gives us a salary of three thousand shi every year. During the Longqing period, it added another 400 shi. Why are we so stubborn?" Zhu Hounan said worriedly. His son is a stubborn donkey. Look, Zhu Houfan was also anxious when his son was sulking.
The annual salary is 3,400 taels of silver. The Huaiqing Mansion is not in chaos at this time. The price of rice is an average of seven qian per shi, which translates into 2,400 taels of silver per year. This is already a lot. Zhang Juzheng’s Quanchu Guild Hall’s annual expenses Just over a thousand silver.
Therefore, if you have enough money, you can actually repair the palace, but Zhu Zaiyu disagrees.
"Things have passed, why bother to persist? Look at the twenty-six princes' mansions, including ours. The late emperor specifically issued a decree to give them a full salary. Which one of the other families didn't deduct it?" Zhu Hounan really didn't know how to persuade him. His own son, when he left, the child had just gotten married at the age of fifteen. Now the son is forty-two. He has no doubts about being thirty and forty. The father cannot control his son's growth.
Zhu Zaiyu put down the piano in his hand and said sternly: "My child is either persistent or wants to argue about what is right and what is wrong. In this world, where there is right there is wrong. This is not right, but it is not bad. What's going on?"
"My father was imprisoned within the high wall back then and was released in the first year of Longqing. Can anyone tell what happened back then?"
Zhu Hounan said helplessly: "Did you really not read a word of the contradiction sent by the court? How can there be so many right and wrong? Since the late emperor released Gu Gu and increased his salary, doesn't this mean that Shimiao did it?" Is that wrong? Are you going to give me compensation? What else do you want? Let Da Zong apologize to me? That's almost it."
"I didn't read it." Zhu Zaiyu said with great conviction: "They are just a bunch of fools, ordinary people who don't know the best way in the world."
Zhu Houtan flicked his sleeves and said angrily: "You are indeed smart, but there are so many smart people in the world. There are people outside the world, and there is a world outside the world. I keep asking you to read the theory of contradiction, but you refuse to read it to your death!"
"I have never seen anyone who knows the world better than me." Zhu Zaiyu said this boldly, but his face was extremely calm. He was talking about the fact that there are people in the world who can read historical books such as "Shang Shu Pan Geng" at the age of ten. , how many people are there?
Over the years, Zhu Zaiyu has really never met anyone smarter than him, so he has the qualifications to be arrogant.
Zhu Zaiyu doesn't look like a Confucian scholar at all. He is never self-effacing and deserves his reputation as a mad man.
An unknown anger arose in Zhu Hounan's heart, and he said: "The imperial court now has a total of 19 million stones and 4 million taels of silver. For such a large imperial court, money is needed everywhere and food is used everywhere. The day before yesterday, the imperial court When I report to the palace, I will write in the newspaper that Your Majesty will reduce the fireworks in Aoshan and save money on repairs."
Zhu Zaiyu commented calmly: "Oh? That's not bad. We have limited funds and unlimited expenses. We should live within our means as a good thing. This is how it should be. Your Majesty is benevolent."
In Zhu Zaiyu's view, the frugal little emperor is just fine.
Zhu Hounan frowned and said: "Since November last year, His Majesty opened the Huangji Palace. Everything he said has chapters and sentences, and everything he said has a calendar. The ministers in the court were speechless when asked. Your Majesty stood up wisely and stood up. With his blessings, he will shine brightly, and the identity of the British Lord will gradually become clear."
Zhu Zaiyu raised his brows and said, "Oh? Not bad. Most of the court officials are rotten Confucians who are just talking about grandiosity but not perseverance. They are best at confusing right and wrong, taking quotes out of context, and confusing right and wrong. Your Majesty can make them speechless when asking questions. Yan, it seems that he has really learned it, Yuan Fu is still very talented."
In Zhu Zaiyu's view, the little emperor who is eloquent and eloquent is not bad at all.
Zhu Houtan said angrily: "In Gu's opinion, both Zhang Juzheng and His Majesty are much smarter than you. Yuan Fu's contradiction makes people suddenly enlightened and their eyes light up. But as for you, you have been holding Qin and looking at it all day long. God, there is nothing you can do."
Hearing this, Zhu Zaiyu looked at Zhu Hounan and said very clearly: "What? When my father came to Beijing with a memorial, and we were separated by high walls for nineteen years, did he forget it? The clan members are involved in government affairs, and they are thunderous. I am full of knowledge, and What can be done?”
"Yuanfu is very powerful. He has knowledge of the world. Unlike Yuanfu, I have knowledge of the world."
"This is what I want to fight about, and it is also the only thing I want to fight against in this muddy world!"
"The Ming Dynasty calendar has been full of errors and omissions for 208 years. The eclipses of the sun and moon are not calculated, the precession is not calculated, the earth's axis is not calculated, and the angle of Beichen's emergence from the earth is not calculated. What is right is right, and what is wrong is wrong. The calendar should be reformed!"
Zhu Zaiyu was extremely arrogant, and his words seemed to suggest that only Yuan Fu and Zai Yu were the heroes in the world.
In Zhu Zaiyu's view, one of them is a great talent in the world, and the other is a great talent in the world.
Zhu Zaiyu said with a look of disdain: "Guo Shoujing said: The foundation of the calendar lies in testing, and the instrument for testing must not start with instruments. To understand the infinite mysteries of the calendar, only when the instruments are well prepared can the tests be made, and only when the tests are accurate can the calendar be formulated."
"But the Confucian scholars in the court, holding on to the rotten old law that should be buried in the ground, insist on saying that if there is a machine, there must be something, and if there is something, there must be a mind, and they confuse machinery with the nature of the mind."
"You talk about haste making waste, but it's just for your own selfish interests."
Zhu Zaiyu looked at the sextant in front of him. This was a stargazer he had made for many years, specifically to measure the angle of the North Pole.
He knows the year of the earth, the year of the sky, the precession of the equinoxes, the precession of the equinoxes, the eastward movement of the stars and the westward movement of the solar terms, the beginning of the first day and the division of the hour into the hour, the degree of one degree, the minute and the second, and the fact that minutes and seconds are just the degrees of eclipses of the sun and the moon. , he could draw the ecliptic star chart, he calculated the inclination of the earth's axis, the angle between the ecliptic and the celestial equator, he knew that the earth under his feet was a sphere, and he even wanted to calculate the depth of the earth through one degree of difference in longitude and latitude.
He has an insight into the principles of the movement of heaven and earth. He knows that he knows everything, but what can he do? He is the prince of a feudal lord, how can he spread his talents and knowledge? It's just for my own entertainment.
The only thing he can do is to fight for his father's right and wrong. This is the only thing he can do to protest against the world because of his strong unwillingness to be rejected. Even so, this kind of protest can only be to enshrine the Crown Prince's crown in the temple. During the period, not wearing a crown brought a protest.
He is the son of the vassal king. Under the vassal ban, he cannot leave the palace, and he cannot make friends with anyone in the same way. Even if he protests, he can only build an earthen house in front of the palace and live there for nineteen years to express his inner feelings. Unwillingness and dissatisfaction.
He is lonely and aloof.
Therefore, Zhu Zaiyu hated that he was from the Zhu family.
"Your Majesty...Your Majesty, your Majesty, the magistrate of Hanoi County suddenly sent a message, saying that some angels have arrived!" Prince Zheng's chief minister ran in rolling and crawling. His long gown was really not suitable for running, and he fell down without paying attention. Such a big somersault was really unexpected.
In all the years that Chang Shi has been in Prince Zheng's Mansion, this is the first time that he has heard of an imperial edict arriving at the Mansion.
"Hurry up and welcome me, what's going on?" Zhu Houfan felt gloomy and gloomy when he heard this. There has always been nothing good when imperial orders come to the palace.
Xu Jue was good at riding horses, but Marquis Yu Zhao did not know how to ride a horse. In order to rush for time, the accompanying Tiqi directly tied Hou Yu Zhao behind him and started running all the way. In less than three days, he arrived at Hanoi County. Xu Jue let him Tiqi informed the county hall, but did not go at all. After bathing and changing clothes in the post house, he went to Prince Zheng's Mansion.
Before arriving at Prince Zheng's Mansion, Xu Jue frowned when looking from a distance. According to the city gate, the tower on the city gate should have blue glazed tiles, but the city gate was bare and even the tower collapsed. The moat was flowing quietly. , but no one took care of it, branches grew randomly, and it was a dilapidated scene.
Xu Jue walked into Prince Zheng's Mansion and saw the people in Prince Zheng's Mansion who were already waiting for him. He opened the imperial edict and said: "The Emperor is destined to be carried by heaven, and the edict says:..."
The imperial edict was drafted by the cabinet and stamped by the emperor. The content of the imperial edict is roughly as follows:
What happened back then was all a misunderstanding, the Shimiao was deceived, and there were also false accusations made by insiders in Prince Zheng's palace, which ultimately led to unpleasant things happening. The late emperor has restored his title and given him more salary.
The emperor heard about the grievances of the palace and couldn't bear it. He sent a special envoy to reiterate that the young emperor would not go against the late emperor's arbitrary decision and would still give him a full salary. He also added a hundred shi of real salary, which was not discounted. , gave some belongings and a bottle of Guojiao sweet potato brewed by the little emperor himself.
He just ordered the crown prince to come to Beijing to show his close friendship and then talk about what happened back then.
This edict was written by Zhang Juzheng and did not reprimand Zhu Zaiyu too much for not being a member of the Zhu family. Quan took it as such.
"I cannot follow the imperial edict and enter the capital." Zhu Zaiyu waited until the imperial edict was finished and then refused directly. His attitude was very firm and he had no intention of obeying the imperial edict at all.
"You!" Zhu Hounan sighed after hearing this, and hurriedly took over the imperial edict and said, "Don't blame me, the envoy, Gu's son is a crazy person. Everyone knows that Gu will definitely convince him."
Zhu Hounan said and handed over a handful of salt. This thing is most suitable for bribery, but Xu Jue pushed it out and said: "The ancestors told the officials who went out to do business. If you collect money outside, you should pay it yourself if something happens." My ancestors found out about it, so they cut off their hands and threw them away in the corridor when they returned home. When our family went out to run errands, Your Majesty has already given us a reward."
"Hou Gai Shizhong accompanied him to announce the decree. He is originally a supervisor, right? Hou Gai Shizhong."
Xu Jue was very happy when he saw Hou Yu Zhao vomiting and having diarrhea.
Xu Jue looked at Zhu Zaiyu, pretending to be surprised and said: "His Royal Highness the Crown Prince refuses to follow the imperial edict and come to the capital? Oh my, what can we do? Your Majesty heard that His Royal Highness the Crown Prince learned astronomy, calendar and arithmetic from his maternal uncle He Tang. What's wrong with him? He is particularly good at calendaring, and he was especially given two good things by the Emperor. It is really a pity that His Highness the Crown Prince refuses to obey."
Xu Jue asked someone to open two red silk cloths, revealing a telescope and a sextant. He said with regret, "Since the prince refuses to go, then our family will go back."
Xu Jue refused to stay even for a second, and even turned around in advance to leave.
"Envoy, please stay." Zhu Zaiyu's eyes widened immediately after he saw the telescope and sextant. He leaned over suddenly, looked at Xu Jue and said, "Envoy, can you keep this?"
Xu Jue showed a successful smile, turned around and said, "The prince is joking, this is a gift from the emperor. If the prince doesn't go, our family will keep it privately. His Majesty will be furious when he returns to the capital, and our family's heads will not be saved."
"Your Highness, let go."
Zhu Zaiyu held the sextant and said with a ferocious expression: "Don't let go."
"Let go."
"Not loose!"
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