Father Han Gaozu

Chapter 558 I didn't expect it!

"Master!!!"

Liu Chang's very personal voice passed through the gate and directly reached Zhang Cang's ears. Zhang Cang, who was writing with a pen, heard this voice, so frightened that he couldn't even grasp the pen steadily, and trembled all over. After a while, Zhang Cang calmed down again. Zhang Cang put down the pen in his hand very calmly, and let out a long sigh. Before the sigh was over, Liu Chang appeared in front of him in a hurry. with gift.

I don't know where Liu Chang got this gift from. Zhang Cang's family didn't have any gifts anyway, and Liu Chang had already scooped it up, and there was nothing left.

The moment Liu Chang got started, Zhang Cang stopped compiling the calendar. As long as there is this scorpion, don't even think about accomplishing any serious business.

Liu Chang didn't see the outside, put down the gift, sat in front of Zhang Cang with a smile, lowered his head, and looked at the materials he recorded. Zhang Cang has deep research in the field of astronomy, and because he is proficient in mathematics, so He became the best candidate for compiling the calendar, and the things he recorded just now were about some astronomical information.

"Teacher, I know that you have been busy with calendar matters in recent days, and you don't have time to give birth. I specially brought some supplements for you. Take a look, these are all freshly picked, and they are all the best. Xiawu and the things that are used to maintain health on weekdays”

Zhang Cang pursed his lips, and finally figured out the source of the gift.

"Your Majesty went to see Xia Wuqiu?"

"That's right, this old Mr.. has been complaining of illness at home, so I had no choice but to go to check on him personally, but he was not in Chang'an, he said he was out looking for medicine, so I specially took some gifts."

Zhang Cang ordered one of his sons to accept the gift, thanked the emperor for his concern, and then asked him the purpose of coming.

"I heard that the calendar is very difficult to formulate. You personally selected more than [-] people to follow you to watch the sky at night. It took a long time, but there was no progress. I am quite accomplished in this area, and I am also very proficient in astronomy and geography. It has been more than fifty years, and it can be regarded as a proficiency, and this time I came here to help the teacher to compile a calendar."

Liu Chang raised his head high and looked at him like this, as if he was giving Zhang Cang alms, and he had to ask Zhang Cang to thank him for his guidance.

Zhang Cang is well aware of the virtues of his disciple. Although he is a little ignorant, he does have a good talent in mathematics and other aspects. Perhaps, he does have some achievements in astronomy, right?
Seeing that he was so confident, Zhang Cang showed him what he had recorded. Liu Chang took his record and looked at it seriously, nodding his head from time to time with a pensive look on his face.

Zhang Cang was really surprised this time, His Majesty can really understand? ?You know, these are Zhang Cang's records of the movement of celestial bodies, and there are calculation formulas at the same time. Zhang Cang is now calculating the epoch, usually in the middle of the night of Jiazi Day in November of a certain year, which happens to be the new moon and the winter solstice, and also It is the time when the moon passes perigee, and then introduce the formula, let a be the time of a tropical year, b be the time of a synodic month, c be the time of a periapsis month, the unit is day, and let y be the year from the epoch to the desired year cumulative number of years.

In this way, ay is the entire time from Shangyuan to the winter solstice of the desired year.

With Liu Chang's ability, it is not difficult to understand the formula. What is really difficult is the movement of celestial bodies, such as seven politics and five latitudes, twelve times, divisions, etc. Non-professionals seem to be listening to the scriptures, everything I don't understand, but Liu Chang is actually looking at those things very seriously.

"What do you think, Your Majesty?"

"good words"

The expectation on Zhang Cang's face disappeared immediately.

I shouldn't have too much hope for this stick.

Liu Chang cleared his throat and put the things in his hand aside, "Master, can you get me some ink?"

In front of Zhang Cang, Liu Chang once again demonstrated his wonderful painting skills. The earth, the moon, including the sun, and the surrounding planets can probably be seen in order anyway, "Teacher, look, the moon It is revolving around the earth, and the earth is revolving around the sun, so there is an alternation of day and night, and four seasons. All your calculations must be based on this, otherwise it will be wrong, and you have written so many times, Yinghuo? What is this?"

"Yinghuo is Yinghuo"

Zhang Cang thought for a moment, then explained: "It's a star, shining like fire."

"Mars, huh?"

"what?"

Liu Chang stroked his chin, "Well, I still have to make a telescope first, so that I can explain it clearly to you, otherwise, you won't understand at all!"

Obviously you don't understand.
Zhang Cang sighed, "Okay, then please do it, Your Majesty, I will continue to study these things."

"Teacher, don't be so disappointed. I didn't lie to you. What I just drew is correct. Anyway, you will know when the astronomical mirror comes out. Don't rush to calculate, it is easy to make mistakes, right, The ancients said that there are 360 ​​days in a year is wrong. You know that?"

"I know, I calculated that a year is 360 and six days."

Liu Chang was taken aback, and looked at the teacher in front of him in surprise. To be honest, sometimes, he really admired his teacher, not only the teacher, but also those masters of mathematics in the past. These people are really amazing. With the most crude tools, the calculations are so accurate, although there are still some errors, but there is no way, without any equipment, who can do it to their level?

"What's wrong?"

"It's okay, when I make the tools, you don't have to suffer so much."

Liu Chang lost the arrogance just now, and he said very seriously: "Teacher, you can be regarded as a god if you can do this with today's tools. I really underestimated this calendar in the past, and now I will do it for you. Solve this problem, and when more useful tools appear, you don’t have to shut yourself up and bury your head in calculations day and night, and then everything will become much easier.”

Although he didn't know why Liu Chang became so serious, Zhang Cang was very happy to feel the concern of his disciples. He nodded his head lightly, and then said, "However, don't worry too much. I have been to Shangfang. I also know how strenuous a successful invention is. It is not much easier than my calculation. As the emperor of the Han Dynasty, you still have a lot of things to do, and you are just recovering from a serious illness. up"

"It's okay, teacher, even if I'm exhausted, I must succeed!!"

"I will never give up!!!"

Gritting his teeth, Liu Chang made the oath very seriously.

"You have to make this thing for me, if you can't make it, don't try to make other things!!"

Sitting in Shangfang Mansion, Liu Chang pointed to the design drawing in front of him with an extremely firm attitude.

Chen Tao stood silently in front of Liu Chang, lowered his head, and glanced at what Liu Chang wanted him to make, the new colored glaze. Many people thought that glass was a product of modern times. In fact, King Goujian of Yue There is glass. Glass appeared very early in China, and it was called Liuli. Later, because the name was unknown, it was changed to glass. However, the ancient glass is still different from today's, because the method is rough, even if it is used as an ornament, it is not good. Make sense.

And what Liu Chang wants to do now is made of colored glaze. According to the emperor, the current colored glaze cannot meet his requirements, and a brand new colored glaze must be made. What to do, Liu Chang just told Chen Tao, "Stone is used for quality, nitrate is used for harmony, reef is used for calcining, copper, iron, and lead are used for transformation."

But just relying on such a sentence, it is too difficult to let myself make a brand new colored glaze. You have to tell me the ratio, just say that it will be added, not how much to add, nor the specifics How to make it? ?
Chen Tao's eyes were a little dazed, he looked at the contents of the paper repeatedly, and raised his head again.

"Your Majesty, this is really too much."

"Why, it can't be done? Do you know how tired Zhang Xiang is? He works hard all day and is busy calculating celestial bodies. When this thing is made, it will have a breakthrough significance for the entire Han calendar. Besides, this thing There are many ways to use it, it can be used in military affairs, this new glass can also be used as an ornament, and it can be used as a window, why don't you have any ambition?"

"Your Majesty, it's not because I dare not do it, it's because I don't know how to do it."

"Didn't I tell you everything? First, we put an appropriate amount of tin and lead and the same amount of lead in the iron pan to melt together, stir fully during the melting, and add a little more sand, which is sand and gravel. Grind it into a finer powder, then pour it into a pot made of earth, and in the next twelve hours, add the same amount of nitrate as the sand."

Chen Tao's face was very bitter, "A good minister must do well."

"Don't put on such an expression, look, now your food city has more than 5000 households, if you can develop this thing this time, you can add another [-] households at least, which is more than domestic Many ministers have become the real Marquis of Dache, and Zhou Bo’s food cities are not as many as yours. You have to work hard. Look at the Mohist school today, there are a lot of high-ranking people, and the Mohist family is starting to leave The elite line, each of which is the Confucianism that big people usually abuse you, now I can only salute you when I see you."

"You have to think about the Mo family, you have to think about your title, if it's not possible, you have to think about the people of the big man!"

"The people of the Han Dynasty are miserable. They don't have enough clothes to cover their bodies, and they don't have enough to eat. It's because they don't have this glass."

Chen Tao has long been used to listening to His Majesty's words, and he can even recite them. Anyway, no matter what His Majesty asked him to do, he said that it was something that the people urgently needed. He didn't understand, and this glass can't be eaten , What does it have to do with the people? ?Of course, Liu Chang could always connect these irrelevant things, so Chen Tao didn't ask too much.

Although most of His Majesty's words are false, there are also truths.

It is true that his title has been continuously promoted. The inventions in these years have allowed Chen Tao to be promoted continuously, and he has become the Marquis of Dache with [-] households. There are not many people in Chang'an who can compare with him. He is the first big man who has won so many titles after going through the battlefield, and the status of the entire Mo family is on the rise. The titles are getting higher and higher, and Shang Fang has also received a lot of criticism for this. They are not To oppose technology is to oppose the status of these craftsmen over themselves.

The Mo family has almost taken root in Shangfang, and under Chen Tao's management, it has become more and more powerful. Although the number of disciples is very small, they usually look disheartened and embarrassed, but when they go out, they have to pay homage to them personally.

Mohism has thus become a high-end theory dedicated to the state.

At this moment, the emperor asked them to do it with all their strength. No matter what the result was, Chen Tao had to grit his teeth and do it. That Zhang Cang was lucky, so am I unhappy?However, there is no way, who let him be the Prime Minister of the country, and at such an age, although he looks stronger than himself.
After giving orders to Shangfang Mansion, Liu Chang drove back to the palace.

Sitting in the car, he kept shaking his head, alas, I have worked so hard for this world, I have not gone hunting for more than ten days, I am busy all day long.
"Your name is Ning Cheng?"

At this moment, a tall and mighty man looked down at the young man sitting on the ground, and asked a question.

Ning Cheng raised his head, his eyes were extremely fierce, it was this eyes that made Ting Wei's soldiers a little scared, but the strong man didn't have any fear at all when facing his eyes, he just asked impatiently: " Nai Gong is asking you? Are you Ning Cheng?"

"I am, who are you?"

"I am your father!!!"

Xia Houzao leaped over, threw the man down, and began to beat him with his fists. Ning Cheng was tall, but he was no match for the man. In addition, he was bound all over, so how could he resist, being held down by the man, Ning Cheng was not afraid of the crazy beating, and was still yelling, "Tie me up and beat me up, what kind of strong man are you, come on, come on, untie me!!!"

But the one in front of him is completely non-martial arts. Hearing this, he stopped, but tightened the rope on Ning Cheng, and then continued to ride up and beat him. I don't know how many times he was beaten. Finally passed out after being knocked out, Xiahou Zaofang stood up out of breath, sat beside him, ordered the soldiers to bring him food, and began to eat.

When Ning Cheng woke up, Xia Houzao had recovered his strength and stood aside with a smile.

"you're awake?"

"You dog"

In this way, Ning Cheng finally experienced the real torture. Xia Houzao would not feel tired at all. As soon as Ning Cheng woke up, he would beat him. Ning Cheng had no good parts left, and was directly beaten by Xiahouzao Even his mother probably wouldn't recognize him, not to mention that Xia Houzao knew he couldn't hit his vitals, so he always hit his strongest parts. Of course, if he was injured, a doctor would come in to treat him.

Xia Houzao has been holding back his anger these days. Now that a sandbag is delivered to his door, he will not be polite. After beating like this for four or five days, Ning Cheng finally gave up his resistance and said nothing. , doing nothing, just lying there, waiting for Xiahou Zao to come and ravage him.

Ning Cheng's favorite thing to do on weekdays is to torture criminals. Almost none of the people who fall into his hands come out intact, and he likes to make small things bigger, and likes to create something out of nothing. In order to punish the ranger forces in the city, he also I don't know how many innocent rangers were captured, beat them into tricks, and successfully scared away all the rangers in Chang'an. The rangers in Chang'an fled to the surrounding areas, and they didn't dare to approach this place.

Now, the one who was tortured into tricks became himself, and Ning Cheng began to feel a little dazed.

Liu Chang likes to use this method of tit for tat to govern sinners.

Xia Houzao would ask him every day, did he plead guilty?
Naturally, Ning Cheng would not plead guilty, but if he did not plead guilty, he would be beaten. This scene was exactly the same as Ning Cheng's treatment of others. Perhaps, this was called retribution.

After persisting like this for ten days, when Ning Cheng woke up again, the strong man who had been beating him had finally disappeared. Ning Cheng had never been so happy in his life. He sat up hastily, looked around, and his eyes revealed that There was a trace of fear, he had really been beaten enough by that barbarian, now his whole body hurts, he can't see clearly, he is covered with bandages, his mind is dizzy, and his whole body is extremely weak.

The soldier at the door said with a smile: "You don't have to be afraid, the criminal has already left."

"The result of your punishment has come out. You will be exempted from your title and exiled to Xiting Kingdom!"

Hearing the result of this punishment, Ning Cheng was not angry, and was extremely happy in his heart. As long as he survived, he was successful. The emperor had remembered him. Since he didn't kill him, he was going to use him. It didn't matter if he left Chang'an. I offended too many people here, at least, I won't have to see that dog thief who beat me in the future, and when I gain power in the future, I must take revenge for this revenge! !
Ning Cheng lowered his head and swore secretly in his heart.

Soon, Ning Chengcheng was released and taken to the suburbs by the soldiers. Many people followed, many of them were sinners, and several strong men could be seen among them. The fierce man had a shadow, and subconsciously took a few steps back. These men are all doctors, and they are going to be sent to Xiting Kingdom together. The treatment is much better than Ning Cheng. Apart from these doctors, there are also many Tai students , and some officials in their prime.

There were more and more of these people, and in the end, there were more than 800 people.

Ning Cheng frowned, looked at this scene, and thought to himself, His Majesty is clearly sending talents to Xiting Kingdom. Xiting Kingdom is now in need of officials, because of the influx of a large number of materials, the management there It has become very difficult, and perhaps this is where I come in. The King of Xiting is also known to be a vigorous and decisive person. Because he wants to restrict the people in the country from going out, he sent people to kill the fleeing people. Maybe his chance is real. Here it comes! !

After Ning Cheng understood this, he couldn't help but be overjoyed. Looking at the officials around him, the corners of his mouth slightly raised. One day, I will ride on your body.

Soon, there was a commotion in the crowd, and a knight approached. Ning Cheng knew that this was the official who escorted everyone to Xiting Kingdom. Since he wanted to seek business in Xiting Kingdom, he could not offend this person, Ning Cheng thought. He couldn't help standing on tiptoe and looking over.

Looking at it this way, the strong man who beat him was riding a steed, as if he felt his gaze, and looked at him with a grinning grin.

Unexpectedly, it is still Nai Gong! ! !
(End of this chapter)