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Chapter 556 Thinking

People have strong thinking ability and creative ability, even the ancient people - Chen Mu deeply realized this truth in Qin Tianjian.

The three things that inspired him made Chen Mu still immersed in shock on the way back to the palace with Wanli's guard of honor.

One is Qin Tianjian's huge water-borne armillary sphere, driven by water power, like a celestial sphere, half inside and half outside, turning around day and night, but what is drawn on the sphere is not a map, but a map of celestial bodies.There are hundreds of parts in the whole mechanism, and the project is huge.

In addition to the piston and the steamer, Chen Mu could find all the parts including the crankshaft, gears, and connecting rods in the strange-looking large steam kiln of the Nanyang Military Bureau on the wall.

I heard from a small official named Zhang Yinghou of the Qin Tianjian that in ancient times, a more excellent water transport instrument platform appeared in the Northern Song Dynasty. Prime Minister Su Song combined the "armillary sphere" for astrometry and the "armillary sphere" for observing the movement of celestial bodies. There are three layers of hydraulic machinery, the lower layer for timing, the middle layer for astronomical observation, and the upper layer for astrometry. The machine was looted to Yanjing by the Jin soldiers during the Jingkang disaster, and it was discarded because of the inconvenient transportation due to the war in 87.

Afterwards, even though Su Song left behind "The Essentials of the New Ritual Image", it could not be restored. Zhu Xi said: The most important thing is that the creator must have kept this section secret, and he didn't want to tell others all about it.

The ancients that the little emperor praised was not Su Song, but Guo Shoujing of the Yuan Dynasty, who made the "Shoushi Calendar".In fact, the calendar "Da Tong Li" used in the Ming Dynasty was renamed "Shou Shi Calendar" during Kublai Khan's time, and the accumulated errors in the past years were deleted.

This shocked Chen Mu even more. After obtaining the consent of Kublai Khan, Guo Shoujing and others established 27 test stations in a vast area of ​​more than [-] miles from east to west and more than [-] miles from north to south in the territory of the Yuan Dynasty. The national survey called the Four Seas Test, and a series of astronomical tools were invented, and finally the "Shou Shi Calendar" applicable to the whole country was produced.

The process and technology contained in it were explained by Zhang Yinghou, a small official of Qintianjian, but obviously, neither Wanli nor Chen Mu could understand it.

Chen Mu's brain can only let him remember one result. Guo Shoujing calculated that the length of a year is 360 abdication two four twenty-five days - the decimal system was always used in ancient China. The year is 360 five point two four twenty five days.

Chen Mu didn't know how accurate this calculation was. He only knew that before he came to this world, the length of one year was about the same as this number.

Speaking of which, the third point is actually the most important. Chen Mu found that the little emperor could think independently.

When the little emperor walked up to Luanjia with his hands behind his back and headed back to the palace, he asked Chen Mu with his nose and eyes: "Jing Haibo, why do the people in the Qin Tianjian know that the solar eclipse is the rendezvous of the sun and the moon, but the courtiers want to teach me?" , Said that the solar eclipse was caused by the emperor's improper actions, and the emperor's moral failure? They clearly know it!"

Chen Mu, who rode a horse and followed slowly after the honor guard, was thinking about Wanli's character until he entered the palace. In fact, he still doesn't understand the character of the little Wanli in front of him. They have too little contact with each other. Zhang Juzheng Protect the little emperor like a treasure, except for Zhang Juzheng, Empress Dowager Li, and Feng Bao, probably no one in this world can see the emperor every day in places other than court meetings.

He was no exception. After returning to Beijing for more than half a month, this was the second time he saw the little emperor.

But he vaguely knew what Wanli looked like in history. He was sent to the local government as a mine supervisor, hit the three major Wanli campaigns, and was notoriously negligent.

Rarely participated in suburban sacrifices to heaven and earth, seldom participated in sacrificing ancestors, seldom went to court, seldom received ministers, seldom gave instructions to ministers, and seldom participated in lectures on scriptures—this is the fact that the emperor found out that courtiers were corrupt. It is not surprising that negative measures were adopted in the end.

But from another point of view, some of these are external factors, and some are related to personality. At least in Chen Mu's impression, the Zhu family emperor has never lacked brave men, let alone the Taizu Emperor Zhu Yuanzhang, who traveled all the way to Nanjing just to usurp the throne Zhu Di, Yingzhou personally beheaded Zhu Shou, a first-level military officer, and Wanli, who even the ancestors of heaven and earth seldom worshiped.

Chen Mu only felt that the young emperor of the empire really lacked the concept of fear, which most people have, from Wanli's phrase "they clearly knew".

He was often punished and knelt down, but he was not afraid of being punished and knelt down.

This child has the ability to think independently and is not hindered by external objects. He accepts external criticism and education, but he has another set of behavioral rules formed in his heart based on his likes and dislikes.

Not correcting after repeated admonitions is probably the biggest headache for Empress Dowager Li and Zhang Juzheng.

Outside the palace gate, when Chen Mu got off his horse, he frowned to the left and right, and summoned a Jinyi, and asked him to pass a message to the Chen House, and then stepped into the palace city with Lu Bo's guard of honor, the little emperor was in a bad mood, He has to figure out a way.

The largest official position in Qintianjian is only the fifth rank, and Zhang Yinghou, the ninth rank and five court officials, is already the chief official on the one hand.

In the past, Qin Tianjian was a lowly authority, but since he made a miscalculation in Tumubao, no one has liked to see him since.Wu Zong was absurd, Jiajing believed in alchemists, Longqing was benevolent but protected by Gao Gong, and in the Wanli Dynasty there was Zhang Juzheng, Qin Tianjian?I have long been forgotten at my grandma's house.

In fact, if Chen Mu hadn't brought up cartography and surveying a few days ago, Xiao Wanli would not have known that the imperial court still had this department, so he came to have a look and asked what was going on with the solar eclipse. Zhang Yinghou, the five-officer Li, also told the emperor that the solar eclipse was to restrain the emperor's behavior. But the little emperor was furious!

Followed the emperor into the palace, shuttling through the streets of the Forbidden City, until the emperor's ceremonial guards stopped, and they all dispersed. Only a few big Han generals, brocade clothes, and eunuchs followed. The little emperor of Shanguan was humming a tune he heard from somewhere, and he was walking swaggeringly in front of him, and it seemed that he planned to walk all the way back to the Qianqing Palace.

The Qianqing Palace is the main hall of the inner court, and Chen Mu could not follow in without permission. It seemed that the little emperor had forgotten that there was such a person as him, so he had to cough to remind the emperor strolling in front.

"Eh?" The little emperor frowned, stopped and turned his head unkindly. The first time he saw Chen Mu, he was a little dazed, and he blurted out, "Jing Haibo... what are you going home with me? Didn't the food supervisor prepare meals for you?"

The little emperor was too absent-minded.

Chen Mu cupped his hands and said, "Your Majesty, I'm here to thank you for your kindness."

"Oh! Yes, yes, I asked you to come here, come, let's go together." The little emperor waved at Chen Mu from the front, and seeing that he was not moving, little Wanli walked over by himself with raised eyebrows, and pulled out his little hand from his big sleeve Pointing forward, "Let's go, I didn't write your imperial decree well. I asked the officials of the Imperial Academy, but they didn't know how to write it. I was so mad today, but..."

The emperor said as he walked, raising his small face in confusion: "What is the purpose of your Beiyang yamen Dongyang minister?"
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Note:
Guo Shoujing in the Yuan Dynasty calculated that a year is 365.2425 days, and modern calculations have used it until now as 365.2422 days, a difference of only 25.92 seconds a year.

There is a crater on the moon named Guo Shoujing crater, and the asteroid 2012 between Mars and Jupiter is named Guo Shoujing asteroid.

　Good morning!

　　
　
(End of this chapter)