I am Emperor Wanli

Chapter 883 The beacon of human civilization is the Ming Dynasty

"Sixteen twenty-seven!"

"Sixteen twenty-eight!"

The sun is as usual.

The garden was buzzing with discussion, with everyone whispering to each other.

"Sixteen-thirty!"

The sun in the sky is still so bright and dazzling.

The buzzing sound became louder, from one swarm of bees to seven or eight swarms of bees.

The attendant of the Ming Dynasty delegation was still telling the time.

"Sixteen thirty-five!"

The buzz of discussion became louder, mixed with the cheerful laughter of the onlookers. They looked at the Ming envoys as if they were looking at clowns in a circus.

"Sixteen forty-six!"

Twenty minutes passed, the sun was still bright and dazzling, and there was no trace of the partial solar eclipse.

"Haha, Ming people, your lies can no longer be justified!"

"Ming people, it turns out that your astronomical theories are all lies!"

"Haha, Ming people, you are the best at lying."

"Go back now, you liar from the East!"

The crowd began to make a noise, and some people were shouting and cursing.

"You damned pagans, your evil magic is useless in the glory of the Lord!"

"Get lost! Go back to your ignorant and backward place!"

"Haha! You liars!"

"The glory of the Lord will expose the true colors of you liars!"

Hearing the increasingly noisy laughter and scolding around him, the follower who was still telling the time couldn't help but lean over and ask softly.

"Master Zhao, do you still want to tell the time?"

"Keep reporting!"

The follower was startled, stood up and shouted loudly.

"Sixteen fifty!"

As the voice fell, even louder laughter rang out all around. Many onlookers pointed at the Ming envoys and laughed until tears came out of their eyes.

Shen Wanxiang turned sideways and asked softly, "Could it be that the calculation was wrong?"

"Envoy Shen, are you saying that the Observatory made a mistake in its calculations?"

"No, I see you have calculated the longitude and latitude here. Is there something wrong with this step?"

Zhao Shizhen turned and looked at the follower who went to get the notebook.

His face flushed with anxiety as he explained, "Master Shen, Master Zhao, the four of us have cross-checked the calculation three times, and it is definitely correct."

"What went wrong?"

Shen Wanxiang looked up at the sun above his head. It was so bright that it was too dazzling.

Zhao Shizhen remained calm, "It's normal. People at the Astronomical Observatory are not gods. It's normal for the partial solar eclipse to be off by a few dozen minutes.

Ambassador Shen, and everyone please don't be anxious and keep calm."

Shen Wanxiang glanced at Zhao Shizhen and didn't know whether this guy was broad-minded or heartless.

"Sixteen fifty-five!"

The entourage struck the time again, and the laughter around became louder, and the back garden of the town hall became a sea of ​​joy.

Bruno placed his right hand on his forehead and squinted his eyes until he kept staring at the sun, which made him dizzy.

The other companions couldn't hold on any longer and lowered their heads and closed their eyes.

Hermann also lowered his head and wiped his tears.

They couldn't afford sunglasses, so they could only see with their naked eyes.

"Half an hour has passed. It seems the Ming people miscalculated."

Bruno gritted his teeth, endured the pain in his eyes, just closed his eyes slightly, came back to his senses, then opened his eyes and stared at the sun, afraid of missing it.

Suddenly he noticed a black spot appearing to the west of the sun.

"Herman, there's something wrong with the sun!"

Simplicio also noticed something was wrong, so he raised his sunglasses and squinted at the sun.

To the west of the sun, a dark spot is expanding.

A partial solar eclipse really happened!

The laughter in the garden gradually faded, and more and more people looked up at the increasingly obvious dark spot in the west of the sun.

Oh, God!
The Father, the Son and the Holy Spirit!

The partial solar eclipse predicted by the Ming people really happened!

In less than five minutes, the whole garden was silent.

Thirty-one minutes later, half of the sun turned black, and then the black spot began to slowly get smaller.

The timing of eating is just right!

The eclipse is 0.5 degrees, and the color becomes half darker, which is consistent!

Twenty-one minutes later, the dark spots on the sun completely disappeared, and the sun turned back into a bright and dazzling big ball!

Oh my god! The eclipse time is right too!

Gregory XIII's face turned from red to white, from white to blue, and from blue to black.

The six cardinals expressed shock, frustration, and gloating.

Vitali's eyes rolled around with a complicated expression.

The bishops sitting near Juan were heartbroken and grief-stricken!
The sky is falling!

Oh God, why don’t you just hold down the moon and prevent it from coming out to cause trouble?
Juan and Farnese, Duke of Avar Toledo, and Marquis of Santa Cruz Bazin looked at each other, their eyes filled with shock and fear.

The collapse of faith is part of the reason, but the more important reason is that they know very well what this result means!
Astronomy is connected with surveying. The people of the Ming Dynasty were able to study astronomy so thoroughly, which means their surveying skills had reached the pinnacle.

No wonder the captains of our country who have fought against the Ming Navy, as well as the Portuguese captains, all said that the Chinese will always attack you from the vast ocean, where you are not paying attention.

They seemed to know the vast ocean very well, always knowing the direction of their sailing and where they were going.

Bruno, Hermann, several companions, as well as the young scholars and students around them, and the small and medium-sized nobles, they were more excited and then thrilled!
This world is no longer ruled by God alone!

In the far east, they were not under the jurisdiction of the Lord, but they were able to develop advanced science that surpassed Europe!
Very good!
Simplicio's face was pale, and the twenty-five European astronomers behind him were either stunned, or beating their chests and stamping their feet, or looking disheartened.

This is a blast! My calculation showed an error of two days, while others showed an error of only half an hour. In astronomy, this difference is as wide as the Mediterranean Sea!

what?
There is a partial solar eclipse today. Isn’t it possible that there will be a partial solar eclipse in two days?
What to say!

A partial solar eclipse is not like a pig wandering around the city with nothing to do. It can be seen half an hour later or two days later.

A partial solar eclipse occurs when the moon blocks the sun's light. The moon's movement in the sky is regular, it's not just wandering around randomly, so how could it be seen today and again two days later?

Twenty-six of us astronomers have spent half our lives studying astronomy and astrology, but we were defeated in a short time by a layman holding a booklet compiled by an expert in our country.

Really unwilling!

Simplicio stood up bravely, trying to save the last bit of his dignity.

"Mr. Zhao, you win."

Zhao Shizhen waved his hand. "Not really. Our academics are not sophisticated enough, and our research is not thorough enough. We are half an hour behind. There is room for improvement and improvement."

Simplicio was about to spit out a mouthful of blood.

Aren't you insulting people?
He forced a smile and continued to ask: "Why do you Ming people study astronomy, or in other words, why do you Ming people study science?"

Simplicio's questions made Zhao Shizhen look at him with admiration.

This man doesn't seem to be that stubborn. His apparent obedience to the Holy See may be for the purpose of better studying science.

Zhao Shizhen received Shen Wanxiang's gaze.

Changji, seize the opportunity and publicize our ideas!

Conquer people with virtue!

Zhao Shizhen stood up straight, and everyone looked at him involuntarily.

The partial solar eclipse was predicted with an error of only half an hour. What does this mean?
In the past, even the most brilliant astronomers of the Vatican could only predict when a solar or lunar eclipse would occur on a certain day. Furthermore, they could only predict whether it would occur in the morning or afternoon, or in the second or first half of the night.

The error is often two or three days, and as long as it occurs within a week, it is considered a successful prediction.

Now the Ming people have directly improved the prediction accuracy to the hourly level.

Just ask you if you agree?

clothes!
The ability to accurately predict celestial phenomena, both in China and abroad, in ancient and modern times, has won people's admiration.

The looks in everyone's eyes when they looked at Zhao Shizhen were filled with respect, fear, fawning, all kinds of things.

Zhao Shizhen said: "When your missionaries come to our Ming Dynasty, they always say that we have no faith.

What nonsense.

How can a person not have faith? "

As soon as Zhao Shizhen opened his mouth, the people around him were startled.

"Our belief in the Ming Dynasty is to respect the heavens and follow our ancestors.

Observing the phenomena of the sky, exploring the ultimate of the sky, and following the way of the sky is called respecting the sky; placing the ancestors in the land, guarding the ancestors in the tomb, and learning from the ancestors in wisdom is called following the ancestors.

Why should we respect heaven?

Man follows the earth, the earth follows the sky, the sky follows the Tao, and the Tao follows nature!
In the eyes of the people of our Ming Dynasty, heaven and earth are nature, and they are the rules that govern the operation of all things in the world!

We respect the rules of nature, and then explore, learn and apply them.”

Zhao Shizhen's voice was sonorous and powerful. The interpreter Xiao Liubao nervously translated it into Latin and spoke it loudly for everyone to hear.

Everyone listened quietly. Even Pope Gregory XIII, who was high above, leaned sideways, bent his waist, lowered his head slightly, and pricked up his ears to listen.

“Why do we have to be a patriarch?
Our ancestors blazed a trail through the mountains and forests, fighting against the sky, the earth, and people, and finally created the glorious 5,000-year-old Chinese civilization.

Our Great Ming Emperor once taught us that each generation has its own mission.

Our ancestors passed down the Chinese civilization to us. Now we must take over the torch from our ancestors and move forward bravely! Let the light of civilization illuminate the whole world! "

Zhao Shizhen glanced at the thousands of people around him and continued in a deep voice.

“Your faith is in the gods.

When our Chinese civilization was at its weakest and most helpless, we also believed in gods, thinking that everything in the world was a god, and we longed for their blessing and protection.

But as our civilization develops, our beliefs change. What is the essence of respecting heaven and following ancestors? It is that man can conquer nature!
We in the Ming Dynasty do not believe in gods, but in ourselves. We believe that humans can control their own destiny! We believe that humans can live a free, fair and prosperous life! "

A life of freedom, justice and plenty.

All the onlookers were stunned by this description!

Gregory XIII was trembling all over, not sure whether he was angry or scared.

He struggled to stand up, and with the help of two attendant priests, he left tremblingly and silently.

Vitali followed closely behind.

The other five cardinals also dispersed.

Marcelo and Leon looked at the backs of the Pope and the cardinals, looked at each other and sighed softly.

"The Vatican originally wanted to show its face and regain some of the face it had lost before. But it ended up showing its butt, and the little face it had originally had was now completely lost.

Juan, who was sitting nearby, raised his head after hearing it, looked at the slowly setting sun, and let out a long sigh.

"The wind is getting stronger!"

In the evening, Bruno, Hermann and others came to the Old Captain's Inn near the dock berth, where Shen Wanxiang, Zhao Shizhen and his party stayed temporarily.

Zhao Shizhen, who received the report, said to Shen Wanxiang helplessly, "Envoy Shen, you see, trouble is coming again.

Ambitious young people from the Western Yi came in waves. "

Shen Zhengshi smiled and replied, "It's not a problem, it's a good thing. You said that your speech just now was not good, not as good as those people in the Political Work Department. It's enough. You have smashed a huge stone in the heart of the promising young people in Xiyi.

This is just the first wave. As time goes by, the waves will spread to other Western countries and stir up even greater waves. "

Zhao Shizhen quickly said: "This matter has nothing to do with our scientific expedition team. We have our own tasks and cannot take on this troublesome matter."

Shen Wanxiang waved his hand and said, "Don't worry, we will make arrangements."

Soon, Bruno, Hermann and others were brought into the backyard of the hotel. When they saw Zhao Shizhen, they couldn't wait to say, "Mr. Zhao, after listening to your speech today, we are all enlightened. The Ming Dynasty is the beacon of human civilization. We hope to learn advanced ideas and advanced science there."

Zhao Shizhen replied with a smile: "No problem, our Ming Dynasty is open to all and welcomes talents from all over the world!"

After saying that, he gave Shen Wanxiang a look.

Shen Wanxiang said: "Everyone, our delegation still has a mission to Istanbul. You can go to Lisbon, Portugal, where we have an agency.

Just contact the agency directly and they will arrange it for you."

After a pause, Shen Wanxiang continued, "You can also tell other ambitious young people in Europe that the Ming Dynasty welcomes you. You can all go to Lisbon and find our agency. They will arrange everything."

"Great!" Bruno, Hermann and others waved their fists excitedly.

An attendant came in and whispered something in Zhao Shizhen's ear.

Zhao Shizhen was shocked, "Ah, he's here too!"

(End of this chapter)