Da Wei Chun

Chapter 306

The drizzle fell silently.

The rain line falls from the sky like ten thousand silver threads, and accumulates water droplets on the corners of the eaves, rolling down, as beautiful as a bead curtain.

A light mist rose from the mountains, covering the house within a short time.White walls and blue tiles, Zhumen Cuiyuan, hazy, misty, and long, it is better than a fairyland.

Countless tombstones and grave mounds stand in the rain and fog, appearing and disappearing from time to time, as if there are countless figures walking slowly.

Will a ghost bride or a fox fairy suddenly emerge from the fog?

Standing in the attic, Li Chengzhi had strange thoughts in his heart.

It started to rain at dawn, but not very much, so the craftsmen did not stop working.The six pools have already been dug, and it is only waiting for the potter to burn the clay bricks and lay them down.

Seven or eight carpenters, with more than 20 apprentices and Lifu, are planting pillars, erecting gantry frames and shed poles beside the three small ponds.There are also some craftsmen who are smashing the partition walls between the houses in the back garden and erecting them with purlins to support them.

After smashing the partition wall, the craftsmen will dig deep down until the water is dug out.The excavated soil will cover the outer walls of the houses.The roof is also covered with two or three layers of wool-filled quilts.

The reason for such modification is naturally to store ice.

There is a government-run arsenal in Xiaoxian County, Luoyang, as well as private weapons and iron workshops set up by Yingchuan Wang Yuanyong and Jiangyang Wang Yuanji, so the iron boxes are not difficult to make, and they have already been ordered.The day after tomorrow at the latest, the iron plates that assemble the ninety iron boxes can be shipped back.

Not surprisingly, it can be trial-produced in three days.

The progress is really fast, of course, because the money is in place: more than ten gold bars that weigh a lot have gone.

Li Xie said that if Mr. Lang didn't hurry up like this, he could save at least half of the money by delaying it for five or six days.

But Li Chengzhi made the calculation: if he sold it five or six days earlier, he would have earned more than ten gold bars...

"Lang Jun, it's time (six o'clock in the morning)!" Li Rui reminded below.

"Yeah!" Li Chengzhi nodded and went down the attic.

Including Li Rui and Li Xieman, there are only twelve retainers in total, and there are not enough places to do business. How can Li Chengzhi let them drive the car?
In addition, Li Rui and Li Xie had to use a car from time to time, so he simply rented one at the club.But it's really not cheap: even the coachman and the horse need fifteen hundred yuan a month, which is ten gold.

And the monthly salary of Li Chengzhi, a seventh-rank official in Beijing, is only a little over one thousand dollars, so after all, not only does he not make money as an official, he has to work hard to pay...

Li Rui was carrying a food box, a bit like a small bedside table in later generations, with two layers, one for rice and one for vegetables.There is also a skin pouch hanging beside it, but it does not contain wine, but tea.

The coachman took the food box and leaned against the corner of the compartment, and tied it with a leather rope a few times to prevent it from falling.

This was Li Chengzhi's lunch, and when he was not in court, the courtiers above the fifth rank also ate in this way, and they had to bring their own meals.

Of course, if the conditions are good, you can go to the guild hall and Lelou to book a table. If the conditions are not good, there are many people who eat corn and wheat cakes.

Food is the most important thing for the people, and eating is the biggest problem.Li Chengzhi pondered: "Let the mason build more stoves, and buy more pots and pans, vegetable sauces and grains... Well, and the wooden bowls are also urgent..."

Li Rui responded respectfully: "I know!"

Once the work starts, there will be hundreds of guards and processors, so these details must be considered in advance.The last wooden bowl is for customers when selling smoothies...

Tianyin Road slid slowly, and Li Chengzhi didn't dare to delay any longer, so he went out after a few hasty confessions.

One mile to the south is Guangmo Gate, and when you enter the city and bypass the imperial palace, you will find Tongtuo Street, which can directly reach Taichang Temple in the south of the city, which is only a little over ten miles away, which is very convenient.

That is to say, Li Chengzhi didn't need to go to court from the seventh rank, otherwise he would be closer.In this way, this house is really not expensive...

Although it was his first day in the Yamen and even his first day as an official, Li Chengzhi was very calm.

Looking at the copper camel street, which is tens of feet wide, riding cars, riding horses, and officials and officials walking in coir raincoats, Li Chengzhi feels that he is no different from later generations.

A mediocre life is a lifetime, and a vigorous life is also a lifetime, as long as you live comfortably.

I can't help it, just like a dog chasing after my butt, I have come to this step without knowing it.

You are so fucking forced, you can only bite the bullet and go down!

Li Chengzhi shook his head and withdrew his thoughts, and then thought about how to make the smoothie an instant hit.

Whether the sales are good or not, publicity is the most important thing... so we must spend more time researching and researching.

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Emperor Xiaowen stipulated that there should be one court every three days and one bath every five days.In addition to the last day of the end of the month, the dynasty will also rise.Today is thirty, and it is the morning sun. Naturally, Liu Fang and Cui Guang are not in the Taishijian.

Taishi ordered Zhao Sheng to keep his feet on the ground, so he couldn't care about a little waiter Xinglang. After ordering, he threw Li Chengzhi to the deputy commander and asked him to watch the arrangement.

The Deputy Commander is not like Zhao Sheng, who knows how to immerse himself in research and learning all day long. He knows that when Xinglang was in prison yesterday, he was called over by two Zhongshu for questioning, so he didn't dare to arrange it without authorization, saying that he would wait for Liu Fangcui. Ask for instructions after facing the light.

Li Chengzhi has nothing to do, thinking that he can go to various departments to see which one is suitable for him.

The deputy commander didn't have time, so he simply assigned the subordinate officials to Li Chengzhi first.

The so-called subordinate officials are assistants. Every Hou Xinglang has them, and they are also called Houbuli.Li Chengzhi's surname is Geng, and according to the introduction of the deputy order, he is actually after the Western Han astronomer Geng Shouchang?
The armillary sphere was invented by Geng Shouchang, and Zhang Heng in the Eastern Han Dynasty only improved on it.

He also invented the Changping warehouse system (imperial court Taicang, similar to today's China Grain Storage), and wrote "Nine Chapters of Arithmetic".

Speaking of this, we have to mention the "Heavenly Official" system in Chinese history, inherited from father to son.

Most people think that Sima Qian is a "historical official" passed down from his father and grandfather, but in fact he is a "heavenly official", that is, the duties of astrology and calendar revision, and history revision is just incidental.

One is because this business is not ordinary boring, and the other is extremely esoteric.With this ability and patience, how many scriptures and classics cannot be studied thoroughly?And why do you have to deal with a bunch of boring numbers and cold stars and moons instead of being an official who is so much more comfortable and has a lot more salary than this?
Therefore, since the Qin Dynasty, most dynasties have decrees: Taishi Ling, calendar officials, divination officials, etc. must be passed down from generation to generation, and no other scriptures are allowed to be studied, let alone other officials.And this system continued until the Qing Dynasty...

This is how the lineage of Geng Chang was passed down.His father, Geng Yan, was the Taishiling of Empress Dowager Feng. He was demoted because the divination words did not meet the wishes of Empress Dowager Feng, and he died of depression.

Li Chengzhi was curious for a while, and asked a lot: "Dare to ask your father what kind of hexagram is divination?"

Geng Chang looked at Li Chengzhi, and sighed leisurely: "The way of heaven is fifty, and the way of earth is one..."

Li Chengzhi was stunned.

What kind of mess is this? Shouldn't it be: the Dao is fifty, the sky is fourty-nine, and people are one of them...

Ok?
Empress Dowager Feng... 49?

Didn't Queen Mother Feng live to 49?
Li Chengzhi's eyeballs popped: How could Geng Yan be so accurate?
Also, Geng Yan is too courageous, he really lives up to his name, even the Queen Mother Feng who is not an emperor, but who is better than an emperor, dares to randomly calculate the life expectancy?

I didn't count you as empress dowager Feng's magnanimity...

Muttering in his heart, Li Chengzhi asked Geng Chang to take him around various ministries.

The Taishijian is divided into Li and Bu, and there are:
The Divination Department, also known as Baozhang, is in charge of determining good and bad luck.

The Ministry of Supervision, also known as the Ministry of Calendar, is mainly responsible for calculating the calendar.

The waiting department, also known as the Lingtai, is in charge of stargazing and observation, which is the official that the emperor granted Li Chengzhi to observe the laws of astronomy for the two departments of divination and calendar.

The calculation department is specialized in checking calculation data for the two divisions of divining and calendar.Most of the officials are doctors of arithmetic in official schools such as Taixue and Guozijian.When I am too busy, I will bring the arithmetic students over to help.

There is also a division of time, such as palm leakage engraving, morning division, etc. (timer, time change, alarm, morning and evening police).

Li Chengzhi went to the calculation department first.As soon as he entered the door, he was taken aback.

A large hall is nearly a thousand square meters, and he feels like he has entered a large banquet hall.

What surprised him was not the size of the hall, but the scene inside: in front of everyone was a desk bigger than a snooker table, with hundreds of tables on display.Each table is densely packed with counting chips.Some are two or three hundred, and some are dozens.

The so-called counting chips are wooden sticks used to replace numbers.To put it simply: if a number is 6666, a horizontal wooden stick will be placed on the ones position to represent 5, and another vertical stick under the horizontal stick will represent 1.When it comes to tens, it will be reversed, a stick on the top represents 5, and a horizontal stick on the bottom represents 1... something like this: 6666: TT.

Of course, the reverse also works!

The calculation will not be checked until such a group of numbers is arranged.Dozens of chips are needed for simple addition and subtraction, let alone more complex multi-bit operations?So everyone has such a big case in front of them.

And it is not a common trouble to calculate, especially when multiplication carry or division abdication, when the mind is in a trance for a while, I forget that the horizontal stick of carry and abdication represents 5 or 1, so I can only recalculate.

Li Chengzhi looked at it with a toothache: If this is half of the calculation, if that bastard accidentally touches it with his hands or accidentally touches it, and turns the horizontal one into a vertical one, wouldn't the results of this day or even several days be in vain?

Forget it, don’t reverse the Gregorian calendar or derive any formulas, first create simple numbers and then talk about it.

Otherwise, he would be able to faint himself.

There was nothing to see in the Misty Department, and Li Chengzhi couldn't understand it when he went there, so he asked Geng Chang to take him to the Hou Department to have a look, wanting to see what the Hou Xinglang, who was appointed by the emperor to him, was originally doing.

This is the only department not in Taichang Temple, but in Jinyong City near Mang Mountain.

Just because it's high here.

There is a tall building in Jinyong City, called Baichilou, which is about seven or eight feet tall, higher than the city wall of the imperial palace.

It was also built by Emperor Wei Ming, the grandson of Cao Cao, originally for him to enjoy the stars and the moon.

Because it is too high and too close to the imperial palace, there is a team of imperial guards guarding the bottom, and officials who are not Taishi supervisors are not allowed to enter.

With the token, Li Chengzhi could pass without hindrance, climbed thousands of steps, and finally climbed up to the observatory.

Looking at the armillary elephants under the stage and the armillary sphere on the stage, Li Chengzhi took a breath.

The armillary sphere does not have a wheel, but only the armillary image: simply put, it is a huge copper ball, engraved with all the astrology that can be seen from the first day of the new year to the [-]th day of the twelfth lunar month.

The most important thing is, this thing can automatically interpret the astrology of the whole year only by driving the gear with the leak of the kettle, and can it be accurate?
Li Chengzhi couldn't figure out how to make such a precision instrument with ancient technology and productivity?

And it was invented in the Western Han Dynasty?
It's a pity that the mainspring is not easy to make, otherwise it would be easy to make a mechanical watch with this technology...

It can be seen how powerful the wisdom of the ancients was?

This muddy image was invented by the ancestors of Geng Chang and improved by Zhang Heng in the Western Han Dynasty.Usually stand in the audience and perform automatically, and then Hou Xinglang and Hou Buli will go up and down the stage, one watching the stars, the other watching the cloudy phenomenon, and observing the cloudy phenomenon and the sky phase at the same time to see if there is any error.That's what Li Chengzhi and his assistant Geng Chang were supposed to do.

Whenever the dynasty changes, this thing will be lost. In many cases, it is copperized by the rebels, so it can only be recast after the new dynasty is established.

Even with historical data for comparison, the time to recast a complete image can be counted in "ten years"...

It can be seen that all dynasties have attached great importance to the astronomical calendar, which is why China has thousands of years of historical and cultural heritage.

If there is no "history", how can there be history?
(End of this chapter)