Crusade against the Pope

Chapter 330 Calendar Update
The lunar calendar and the solar calendar each have their own advantages and disadvantages.

From an agricultural perspective, the lunar calendar is actually meaningless.

From the perspective of distinguishing dates, the solar calendar is far inferior to the lunar calendar.

After all, with the lunar calendar, you can actually determine what day it is just by looking up at the moon.

The number of times the moon waxes and wanes can be used to determine how many months have passed.

As far as Gaillis knew, the Chinese lunar calendar, although called the lunar calendar by later generations, was actually a combination of the lunar and solar calendars.

The arrangement of the months and dates are calculated according to the waxing and waning of the moon, but at the same time, the 24 solar terms are tied to the sun's direct line to the Tropic of Cancer.

It can be said that the Celestial Empire's lunar calendar, as a combined solar and lunar calendar, attempts to take into account the advantages of both the solar calendar and the lunar calendar.

How should I put it? At times, this has indeed been done.

But many times, it is actually impossible to do...

The result of this combination of requirements is that the deviation of the ancient Celestial Calendar is much greater than that of a simple lunar calendar or a simple solar calendar.

Moreover, its complexity was so high that the old farmers could not understand it on their own, so revising the calendar became an act for the dynasty to declare its legitimacy.

For Garys at the moment, although it is not impossible to develop a lunar-solar calendar, it is very difficult to promote it.

A calendar that is very difficult to promote is meaningless to Garys at the moment.

Therefore, Gellis chose a calendar that was a little more troublesome than the Julian calendar, but even an illiterate old farmer could figure it out with a little more brain power - the Gregorian calendar.

The Julian calendar mistakenly measured a year as 365.25 days. Although this had no impact at the time, as thousands of years passed, the actual solar year of 365.2422 has deviated by nearly 10 days from the original value.

在1582年，教皇格里高利，宣布将儒略历1582年10月4日星期四的次日，为格里历1582年10月15日星期五，即有10天被删除。

Then, in order to make the 365.2422 days that is less than 365.25 in 0.0078 disappear.

The Gregorian calendar has a 400-year cycle and has three fewer leap days than the Julian calendar.

In practice, every year that is divisible by 4 is a leap year, but a year that is divisible by 100 must also be divisible by 400 to be a leap year.

Thus, 1700, 1800, and 1900 were not leap years, but 2000 was a leap year.

The 400 leap years every 97 years adjust the average length of the calendar to 365.2425 days, which is closer to the tropical year of 365.2422 days of the Earth's revolution around the sun.

The deviation is only one day every 3,300 years.

Easy to learn, easy to calculate, easy to understand, and very accurate...

These advantages of the Gregorian calendar make it almost unified the calendars of all countries on the earth.

So much so that the Gregorian calendar is called the Gregorian calendar in China.

The change in the Chinese calendar is not out of worship of foreign things, but because it is too simple and easy to use.

For Gellis, the biggest advantage of adopting the Gregorian calendar is actually...

He did not need to perform any astronomical observations or calculations, he could just copy and reuse them by doing mental calculations.

The Gregorian calendar was adopted by Pope Gregory XIII in October 1582.

It is now 1200, and the difference between the two is 382 years, which, divided by 128, is approximately equal to 3.

In other words, since Pope Gregory announced his disappearance for ten days in 1582, it would be a perfect fit for Gérice to simply announce his disappearance for seven days in 1200.

That is to say, if today is September 9st in the Julian calendar, then tomorrow will become September 21th.

Of course, there's more to it than that.

"I want to tell you! This year is the prelude to the calendar, the year when everything is refreshed!"

"And the following year will be the first year of the calendar!"

"Allah has given me permission to pass on all this knowledge through my mouth to everyone under the sky!"

"Whether it's the elves or the angels, from today on, everything is new!"

Although, the Gregorian calendar is actually an adjustment of the Julian calendar, so it did not start a new year counting.

But for Gillis, it was different.

He could not tell these Muslims to learn from Christianity.

Because that would make him seem too Christian.

So, Gillis went a step further and said he was not saying that everyone should follow the Christian calendar.

Instead, he asked all those who believed in him to adopt a new calendar and start counting from scratch!
The year 1200 in the Chinese calendar would be the year BC in this new calendar.

The year 1201 in the Chinese calendar would be the year 1 AD in this new calendar.

Gailis's announcement had also been written in a letter and sent to Jerusalem.

Then, it will be Tripoli, Antioch, Cyprus... and other areas that can be affected by Gairis.

[Behold! The tabernacle of the Lord is with men, and God himself will dwell with them, and they will be his people, and God himself will be with them and be their God.]

[There will be no more crying or mourning, and death will be no more. The old things have passed away, and all things are new...]

Yes, it's all updated.

Garys did not perform any miracles, because the words he spoke were the epitome of miracles.

Time and history will prove that Gellis is right, and the sun hanging high in the sky is proof of that.

Just like the Gregorian calendar, it has irresistibly replaced almost all the official calendars on Earth.

The updates announced by Gellis will also wash away the old things because of their correctness.

Later generations have no way of determining how Gellis calculated the exact duration of the solar year.

Did he receive divine revelation alone, or had he arranged astronomical calculations while in Jerusalem?

For future generations, this is more shocking than the miraculous moments recorded in scriptures.

After all, people cannot imagine what they don’t know. How Garris can fight and how he can lift a tripod are actually just two sentences written by the writer.

There are as many people like this in the book as you want, whether it is Samson or Xiang Yu.

But what is particularly terrifying is the knowledge that suddenly appeared and then profoundly changed the fate of mankind.

After all, there is no reason...

The audience in the audience had no idea what kind of historical moment they were witnessing, but because Gérice's image was so profound, they were still in awe.

As for those scholars of the law who understood what Gailis was going to do, they became more and more anxious, but the leaders of the various tribes held them down and asked them not to speak.

Time passed by little by little, and every minute and every second proved that Garys was infallible.

……

In this gathering, Gailis did not simply announce the calendar update. Since there were so many people present, Gailis simply started preaching on the spot.

It is also to make it easy for those present to understand and remember clearly.

Gellis did not go into detail in introducing his own teachings, but simply quoted many words from the Bible and the Koran.

These words correspond to the four pillars of Gillis' theology, or the four moral standards.

1: Faith is action, not escape.

【Faith, if it does not have works, is dead.】

[Allah will not change the condition of any people until they change their condition.]

The faith of the Gelis Order is not to wait for salvation, but to actively practice faith. Faith does not stop at spiritual satisfaction, but to establish justice and order in the world.

True believers do not passively receive revelation, but live out the truth in the world so that the world is changed by their actions.

2. Responsibility is higher than forgiveness, and responsibility is better than repentance

[Though a righteous man falls seven times, he rises again; but the wicked are overthrown by calamity.]

【Everyone is rewarded only for his own actions.】

Repentance is not for one’s own salvation, but for taking on greater responsibilities.

The purpose of forgiveness is not to make people forget their sins, but to make up for past mistakes through practical actions.

And even the slightest compensation will be saved by God's most wholehearted grace, because Garys is the mediator.

3. Knowledge is revelation, exploration is faith

[You who are sharp-minded, teach others.]

【You will know the truth, and the truth will set you free. 】

The Order of Gelis does not believe that revelation is limited to ancient scriptures, but rather believes that exploring the world itself is a way to approach the divine.

Knowledge is part of faith. Science and faith are not in opposition. Any behavior that pursues truth is part of religion.

Believers must continue to learn and think, explore nature, society and human beings themselves, in order to constantly approach divine wisdom.

Garys' greatest miracle will never be the killings or the changes in light and shadow, but the path to the "truth" he brings.

IV: Justice is the core of faith, not personal salvation
Let justice roll down like waters, and righteousness like an ever-flowing stream.

[When you see something unjust, you should stop it with your hands; if you cannot, stop it with words; if you still cannot, then hate it in your heart. This is the weakest faith.]

Faith is not about escaping from the world, but about changing the world because of faith.

When faced with injustice, believers must take action. Even if they cannot change it directly, they must at least resist it, rather than accepting oppression or succumbing to evil.

Gellis had thought a lot about these four pillars before, but this was the first time he had presented them in such a systematic way.

Of course, this is actually a transformation for Garris, and even a kind of growth.

In the past, Garys would debate with others for the sake of "correctness" and "orthodoxy".

But at this stage, Gairis no longer needed to quote scriptures and lower himself to debate word by word with the disciples of the Prophet Muhammad or his brother Tian.

Because debating scriptures is the students' job, what he has to do as a teacher is to write scriptures for future generations to debate!
Of course, it can also be roughly understood that as long as Gérisse is successful enough, there will be great scholars to debate for him, so why should he do it himself?

Rather than being concerned with the victory or defeat of specific scriptures, what Gaillis needs to do is to grasp the core meaning of the scriptures and pass them on continuously.

On this issue, Gellis has actually gradually deviated from the scope of liberation theology and tried to be more universal.

……

A cold wind blew across the Anatolian hills, and the dry, brown grasslands shimmered in the winter sun.

The herdsmen, wearing thick woolen cloaks, rode their horses slowly, driving their sheep and camels to migrate to the winter pastures in the south.

The September harvest came quickly and went quickly.

Time flies and it is November. As the cold wind gradually rises, the herdsmen of the Yuktu tribe must rush to their respective winter pastures before the first snow falls.

No matter how many accidents and hardships the shepherd experienced in 1 BC, the herd is the life of the shepherd, and he had to continue grazing no matter what.

The sound of cowbells and sheep bleating, mixed with the barking of dogs, echoed in this empty sky and earth.

Among this huge herd, there was one who was particularly tall.

The long golden hair was tied back into a simple ponytail.

Now, Gellis is wearing a shepherd's fur coat, waving a sheep whip in his hand, and walking north with the herd.

Contrary to what many people think, wintering does not necessarily mean moving south for the Yuktu tribe.

Their main purpose of moving to winter pastures is actually to find water sources.

In a continental climate, the winter is cold and rainy, and it is unlikely to be compensated by rainfall at any time.

But the accumulated snow is water molecules that can be used at any time.

Therefore, it was natural for the Yuktu tribe to head towards the Black Sea, where there was more moisture and more snowfall.

Because Gellis wanted to learn more about the life of the herdsmen and also wanted to go to Trebizond on the way, he went north with Arslan's family.

In the past two months, Gairis not only guided the Ottoman Turkish leaders and completed the structural system of a Turkish conference, but also received the Paladins from Antioch.

With the Palatine from Antioch, many things could be taken care of without any hesitation.

Not only the details of agricultural cultivation, but also the structure of the parliamentary system can be given certain guidance by referring to the system of the Kingdom of Jerusalem.

Gillis has never been known for taking charge of specific matters, and everyone is used to it.

Many times, Gailis took the initiative to go to the frontiers of faith and use his amazing charm to expand the scope of activities of the sect.

However, this time there are some differences from before.

Because the final destination was Trebizond, in addition to Arslan, a local, Gairis had some more followers.

Among these people, there are not only Paladins like Alexandros, but also Mohammed.

In response to Mohammed's request for advice, Gailis did not hide his knowledge. After briefly introducing some of his doctrines, he allowed the other party to follow him.

Many things cannot be understood in just a few words, but must be verified through words and actions.

When Garys and his companions drove the herd around a mountain pass, a cold wind blew in their faces.

Arsalan walked at the front of the team and pointed to the foot of the mountain that looked like a desert.

"We are almost there..."

(End of this chapter)