King of Yue?

Wasn't the gift from the King of Yue burned?

Even the astrologer who escorted the almanac to Chang'an is dead. What other gifts can the King of Yue give?

Giving gifts is also very particular.

Expensive gifts are often given as the finale. Now that the emperor has just received the red coral tree and the "elixir", even if you, the King of Yue, give out an expensive gift, it will not be as good as the first two.

The emperor's psychological threshold has been raised, and giving gifts now is worse than not giving them at all.

All the ministers thought so, and even the emperor on the throne was frowning, as if he was dissatisfied with Shang Bo's abruptness as a military governor.

I only heard Shang Bo say: "Your Majesty has decreed that the new almanac edited by the King of Yue has been compiled. Please allow your Majesty to allow the envoy to submit the almanac!"

Now everyone was surprised.

In fact, when the King of Yue wanted to compile an almanac, the ministers basically regarded it as a joke.

During the Emperor's reign, a monk and his party compiled the Dayan Calendar, and many people in the court today have heard of it more or less.

A group of people measured the latitude of various places, from Jiaozhou in the south to Tiele in the north, and took nine sundials to determine the number of eclipses in each place, and then measured the movement of stars. It took fifteen years to complete.

One can imagine the hard work involved, but the Dayan Calendar, which was compiled with so much effort, gradually became inaccurate in Tianbao's ten years.

There is nothing that can be done about it. Due to the ancient astronomical observation technology, the lack of understanding of planetary orbits, and the lack of mathematical tools, the Dayan Calendar can accurately predict the solar terms and solar and lunar eclipses for ten years, which is already quite good.

Amazing.

The Dayan Calendar cost a lot of money and took a lot of effort, so after the Dayan Calendar became inaccurate, the emperor had no interest in compiling a new calendar.

The significance of the calendar to the ancient feudal dynasty was far beyond what people today can understand.

The calendar has guiding significance for agricultural production and allows farmers to produce according to the season, which is naturally very important.

However, in addition to guiding agricultural production, another reason why kings in prosperous times were keen to revise the calendar was that the calendar allowed the dynasty to have the right to interpret abnormal celestial phenomena.

Since Dong Zhongshu of the Western Han Dynasty only respected Confucianism and put forward a set of theories about the interaction between heaven and man, the civil servant group had a means to restrict imperial power - the theory of prophecy.

Using the anomalies of heaven and earth, Confucian scholars could explain these celestial anomalies with the theory of telepathy between heaven and man, thereby accusing the emperor of failing in his duties, writing letters to advise the emperor, and even forcing the emperor to issue an edict to abandon his original policy.

It can be said that the basis of Wang Mang's usurpation of the Han Dynasty was the prophecies of Confucian scholars.

Although later emperors made patches and gradually abolished the Confucian theory of the induction of heaven and man, this theory still has a broad foundation among the people, and the emperor himself would also doubt whether it was true when he encountered abnormal celestial phenomena.

God brings disaster.

At this time, the right to interpret astronomy and astrology becomes very important.

This is why people have not been allowed to practice astronomy privately in the past dynasties, and this is also to prevent people from using celestial phenomena to cause trouble.

By revising the calendar, the royal family can predict the timing of abnormal celestial phenomena. Then the royal family has the right to interpret celestial phenomena such as solar and lunar eclipses, thereby preventing ministers and rebels from making fuss about celestial phenomena.

This is also the reason why until the Tang and Song Dynasties, emperors in history books still often issued edicts because of abnormal celestial phenomena. However, after Guo Shoujing compiled a more accurate time-telling calendar in the Yuan Dynasty, the Ming and Qing emperors rarely did this.

A calendar book that can accurately interpret astrological signs will allow the royal family to take the initiative in interpreting the astrological signs. This is why emperors in the prosperous times need to revise the calendar.

No one believed that the King of Yue could revise a useful calendar in a short period of time. Most civil servants believed that the King of Yue's calendar was at best an almanac for one or two years, predicting the solar terms and horoscopes in the next one or two years.

Originally it was just to make the emperor happy and get a good fortune, but it was robbed when it was sent to Chang'an.

Although he reported victory to Fengxiang Mansion last time, King Yue's popularity in the court increased greatly.

But no one was optimistic about the King of Yue in the first place, and now everyone feels that there is no hope for the King of Yue.

After all, remote border areas like Longyou are too far away from the center of the Tang Dynasty.

Li Heng still nodded and said: "This is also my son's wish, please bring it to me."

Shang Bo stood up, and then Li Fuguo shouted: "A gift from the King of Yue!"

Then I saw Wei Yuan in civilian clothes coming in from the door, holding a stack of books in his hand.

Now the court ministers were even more contemptuous.

Prime Minister Pei Mian also frowned, did the King of Yue want to give such a gift?

Prime Minister Zhang Shuo presided over the revision of the Dayan Calendar at that time. Pei Mian was the editor of Chongwen Hall at that time and also participated in the revision of the Dayan Calendar.

The Dayan Calendar of Monk Yixing consisted of sixteen volumes, and when it was compiled and presented to the Emperor, it covered the entire Hanyuan Hall.

The almanac you sent from the King of Yue was too perfunctory? Did you bring it in by yourself?

Isn't this a bit of a joke?

Cui Guangyuan, who was approaching the imperial steps, even cursed in his heart, can your boat, King Yue, work?

You risked offending the prince and boarded the King of Yue's pirate ship. Do you have any hope of seizing the throne?

Cui Guangyuan began to think about how to jump out of the broken ship of King Yue, but he found in despair that he seemed to be unable to get off the ship midway.

If you don’t know how to give gifts, you don’t have to give them!

Cui Guangyuan only felt that they were all pig teammates.

The prince and King Qi also had smiles on their faces. It seemed that the King of Yue did not give up and tried to find a way to get the almanac again. These few thin volumes could be a serious almanac. This flattery was too perfunctory.

Even the emperor showed displeasure. The calendar is a national matter. King Yue, you are so perfunctory. As a father, it will be difficult for you to step down.

I only saw the commoner behind Shang Bo stepping forward and saying: "Foreign minister Wei Yuan, Si Shilang under the command of the Longyou Governor's Mansion, would like to present to Your Majesty a volume of the almanac edited by the King of Yue."

One roll?

What can I write in only one volume?

Even the emperor was a little angry now. Did the King of Yue regard the emperor as a fool?

Cui Qi, the censor Zhongcheng, jumped out and said: "Your Majesty, the calendar is a national matter. The King of Yue is acting frivolously and cannot bear the responsibility! I impeach the King of Yue and submit a false calendar, which is causing trouble to the imperial court!"

Shang Bo lowered his head and looked at Cui Qi with his peripheral vision. He did not expect that this guy would stand on the opposite side of the Yue King so quickly.

Cui Qi was born in the Cui family of Boling. He was an honest official, but he was a cruel official.

Cui Qi entered the official position with Ming Jing Ke. From the time he entered the official position, he kept a low profile and hardly interacted with his colleagues.

He first served as Wannian Wei, that is, the county captain of Wannian County in Chang'an. This was already a pretty good starting point in the Ming Dynasty.

The fact that he was able to obtain such a good position when he first entered the officialdom was also related to his origin as the Bolingcui family.

Although he is a child of an aristocratic family, he has been harsh in politics for a long time and has a bad reputation in the officialdom.

Moreover, Cui Qi is a man who must retaliate against others. When he was a county lieutenant in Wannian County, he was reprimanded by the then Jingzhao Yin Da Xi Xun because he was too strict in his administration and often severely punished people for minor mistakes.

After Cui Qi became the censor Zhongcheng, when the Three Laws Division interrogated Da Xi Xun for his crime of surrendering to the puppet Yan, Cui Qi insisted on including all Da Xi Xun's family on the list of guilty officials, and even Da Xi Xun's youngest son who had not entered the official position was listed as the guilty official.

, and finally died with a stick at the gate of Jingzhao Mansion.

But Shang Bo didn't expect that he would be the first to jump out, and he didn't know whether Cui Qi had taken refuge with the King of Qi or the Crown Prince.

But for a cool official like Cui Qi, climbing up is the most important thing.

Because he insisted on executing the guilty officials who surrendered to the puppet Yan, Cui Qi was disliked by most of the courtiers.

And because he failed to handle the matter of Zhang Shuo's son, the emperor also disliked Cui Qi.

Therefore, it is not surprising that Cui Qi found the King of Qi or the Prince as his backer.

Although it was the first time for Wei Yuan to stand on such an occasion, as an outstanding mathematician, he had participated in such conferences many times.

Wei Yuan paid no attention to Cui Qi's impeachment, but held up the new almanac and said:

"As entrusted by His Majesty, the King of Yue personally took charge, and the foreign ministers took the astrological data of Beiting, Jincheng, Wuyan and other ten cities, and calculated two hundred chapters of the New Calendar, which are hereby presented to Your Majesty at the Zhengdan Dynasty."

What?

All the ministers were stunned.

Two hundred articles in the New Calendar?

One year is one chapter. What is the concept of two hundred chapters in the new calendar? That is to say, the new calendar presented by the King of Yue lasted for two hundred years!

The Dayan calendar only counts two Dayan days, which is 4949 for a total of 98 years.

Moreover, after less than ten years of use, the measured celestial phenomena were already inaccurate.

This Wei Yuan actually made wild claims and calculated the changes in the four seasons and the laws of celestial phenomena in the next two hundred years!

This is too bragging!

The monks and his party spent ten years measuring and calculating how much money the imperial court had before they became the Dayan Calendar.

How long has it been since you compiled this calendar, and it actually claims to be two hundred years?!

Cui Qi wanted to continue impeaching the King of Yue, so he saw Wei Yuan unfolding the book.

It turned out that what he was holding was not a stack of books, but a huge piece of white brocade, with dense numbers and marks written on the brocade.

The new almanac written by Wei Yuan adopts the modern perpetual calendar method and records the solar terms and abnormal celestial phenomena on the calendar according to the year, month and day. This perpetual calendar has a full calendar of the next two hundred years written in small regular script.

If time were not tight, Wei Yuan's algorithm could continue to be written thousands of years later.

Even so, the two-hundred-year calendar is enough to shock people.

Li Heng came down from the throne and saw that the new calendar started with today's Zhengdan Dynasty Meeting, and each year was divided into one chapter, which lasted for two hundred years.

The year is divided into twelve months, with a cycle of seven days per month. Special dates are marked with the times when solar terms and special astrology occur.

Such an almanac is easier to understand than a simple textual almanac. Even old farmers in the countryside can understand the changes in the four seasons in the almanac.

But how to verify the accuracy of the almanac?

The emperor said to Li Fuguo: "Go to Chongwen Hall and get the Dayan Calendar!"
Chapter completed!