Chapter 1481 The Great Discovery of Astronomy - Night View Astronomy
"Dad, why do you have to go out so early today?" Wen Yin said with a yawn.
"Yes, dad, in previous years you took us out on the streets during the Chinese New Year to see how ordinary people celebrated the New Year. They always celebrated the New Year in the first lunar month and rarely in the twelfth lunar month. Why did you take us out this year in the twelfth lunar month?" Wen Wen
Qiye asked.
Today is the 23rd day of the twelfth lunar month, a small year. Starting from today, the Yamen officially has a holiday. For Wenyuan and Wenqi who are still studying in the Royal Academy, they can finally take a break. They all want to sleep in bed. But
Before dawn this morning, Yun got all his sons up from bed. After having breakfast together, he took them out of the palace before dawn. Because this was different from Yun's usual practice in previous years, Wen Qi asked puzzledly.
road.
"Didn't my father tell you before I went out? Today, seeing ordinary people is a secondary matter. The most important thing is to go to Gezhi Prison. There is a very important discovery that I must go and see with my own eyes, and I want you to see it with your own eyes."
Look, that's why I woke you up from bed so early." Yun explained.
"This." Wen Qi did hear his father's words while eating, but he thought that Yun just said it casually because he read the report of Jie Zhijian. But when his father said this again, he immediately knew that it was not a random excuse.
, asked in great surprise: "Dad, what is worthy of you going to Gezhi Prison to see it in person, instead of asking them to come to the palace to report it?"
"Yes, Dad, what on earth is worthy of your going to Gezhi Prison in person?" Miao Jin's son Wen Ye asked.
"I went to Gezhijian for my father, instead of announcing that they came to the palace to report, not only because this discovery is very important, but also because we need to observe the sun and the moon, and Gezhijian has all the instruments for observation.
The palace still needs to re-adjust, so I have to go to prison for my father." Yun explained.
"Dad," Wen Qi asked again: "The observation to be carried out should be an observation to verify their new discovery. Why do you need to go and observe it yourself? Just listen to the report from the supervisor." Because these are allowed.
He has attached great importance to science for many years, and several of his children also have some understanding of science. They know that science requires the observation of various phenomena, summarizing laws, and proposing new ideas. Even if scientific research is really useful, as rulers, they only need to know
What exactly is the result of this research and what is its use? Why bother to observe it yourself?
"Father wants to see it with his own eyes." Yun gave an irrefutable reason. The observation results that led to this conclusion are also very famous in the history of astronomy, and he wanted to see it with his own eyes.
Hearing this reason, Wen Qi had nothing to ask. As an emperor, he couldn't have some hobbies of his own? He just wanted to go see it, could anyone else care about it? But after Wen Qi was no longer sleepy, he wanted to talk, but he couldn't find anything to say.
He said: "Dad, why did you bring your eldest sister and fourth sister to Gezhi Prison with you?"
"My sister is willing to go, can you take care of her?" Min'er said immediately. She was quite sleepy at first, but she immediately became energetic after hearing Wen Qi's words, and said again: "Now you are starting to take care of your sister!"
"I don't dare to care about you." Wen Qi said with a smile: "It's just that eldest sister, you haven't woken up yet. My father didn't call you in the first place. You should stay at home and sleep. Why do you have to follow me? And you even asked your fourth sister.
Bring it with you."
"It's not appropriate for a woman to go to the government office." Wen Yuan muttered.
"Why didn't I wake up? I just squinted my eyes?" Min'er didn't hear Wenyuan's words clearly and responded to Wen Qi while yawning.
"As for Wen Luo, where did I bring him? Wen Luo played in my room last night, and then fell asleep in my room without going back to his own room. But he slept so late last night, Wen Luo today
I woke up early and was playing in the outer room. I heard someone walking outside and opened the door to take a look. I saw Wen Yin walking towards the dining hall rubbing his sleepy eyes. I asked the servant out of curiosity and learned that my father was going to take you.
When I got out, I hurried back and woke me up to go with him. Seriously, Wen Luo was the one who brought me here." She explained again.
"Wen Luo, why do you want to go to Gezhi Prison?" Wen Qi asked Wen Luo.
"Where does she want to go to Gezhi Prison? She clearly wants to visit the palace, no matter where she is." Min'er smiled. Wen Luo nodded to express her approval of the eldest sister's answer.
"I see, it's not only Wen Luo who wants to come to the palace to have a look, but you also want to come to the palace to have a look, right? You just use Wen Luo as an excuse." Wen Qi said with a smile.
Min'er didn't refute this, because it was the truth. Ever since she graduated from the girls' school, she had fallen into a state of having nothing to do. Most of her playmates were married or engaged, not to mention that even if they were not married, they could not come in and out at will.
In the palace, her only playmates of the same age were Siqi and Baoqing, but after Siqi became her "aunt", she was no longer the same as before; Baoqing was also kept in her palace by her mother and could not come out at will.
Her life was extremely boring.
"Sister, since you like to leave the palace so much, why don't you? Then you can stay outside the palace all the time." Wen Qi said with a smile.
He only said half of what he said, but Min'er already understood it and grabbed him and threatened to beat him: "I told you to be stupid!"
"I don't dare anymore, eldest sister." Wen Qi immediately begged for mercy and pretended to be very pitiful.
"You lazy person! If you dare to trick your sister in the future, she will really beat you." Min'er looked at his look and only hit him twice lightly before adding.
"Thank you for your forgiveness, sister." Wen Qi said with a somewhat exaggerated performance. This time not only Min'er laughed, but the others couldn't help but laugh too.
Yun also smiled and watched them fight. This is how siblings should be, fighting and joking from time to time, but the relationship is very good. Thinking about his own childhood, such times were too rare.
A few children sat on the carriage and played all the way until they arrived near Gezhi Prison. Yun stopped them from playing and said: "We have arrived at Gezhi Prison. Be careful not to touch anything when you enter after a while. If you break it,
What, Dad will let the person who breaks things clean here for a month to make a living. He will go out before Chen time every day and return to the palace after cleaning. Do you hear that?"
"I know." The children agreed one after another, fearing that they would be too late. This punishment was too scary for them. They would rather copy "The Analects of Confucius" a hundred times after cleaning for a month.
Seeing the children agreeing one after another, Yun nodded, got out of the car and walked into Gezhi Prison.
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"Your Majesty is coming soon, why hasn't the Chief Registrar arrived yet?" Yang Zhu, who was serving as the Superintendent of Gezhi at this time, asked Cao Zhengdao anxiously.
"I didn't go home last night after going to the Master Si's office. I'm staying in prison. I've sent someone to call him." Cao Zheng was also a little anxious, but he managed to remain calm and said.
"What time is it? Send someone to call again!" Yang Zhu said again. This is the first time he has come to Gezhi Prison since he took over as Gezhi Supervisor at the beginning of this year. He strives to do the best in everything; but now he has made Yunlai himself He was very anxious because one of the two people who had been sent to prison had not yet arrived.
Cao Zheng immediately ordered another ninth-grade official to call him. He turned around and saw Yang Zhu's face covered with sweat, and comforted him: "Brother Zhongju, don't worry too much. If Chengtang fails to respond before your Majesty's arrival, Come over here and tell your majesty that he is adjusting the equipment for observation later, and your majesty will not mind."
"This is not a question of whether Your Majesty minded." Yang Zhu said. Even if Your Majesty doesn't mind, since His Majesty came to Gezhi Prison this time when it was still dark, he would definitely be noticed by all the officials. If Sichengtang did not come to greet His Majesty, , he will definitely be criticized; he has a very bad relationship with Chen Ying, the left deputy imperial envoy of the Metropolitan Procuratorate, and he is afraid that he will use this as an excuse to get the censor responsible for supervising Gezhijian to give him a lower rating. The same goes for Chen Ying. As a minister who is highly valued, His Majesty may not punish Chen Ying for this matter.
Cao Zheng, however, couldn't quite understand Yang Zhu's worries. He was now a purely 'technical' official, and his official position could be held until death, so he couldn't understand Yang Zhu's worries. Just as he was about to say something else, he heard a call from the door. When the light came on, the sound of horse hooves came again, and I immediately knew that Yun's car had arrived.
"What should I do? Master Si hasn't come yet." Yang Zhu became even more anxious. He glanced at the public room of Sicheng Hall again and stamped his feet: "That's it, if it's not there, then there is none." He led the officials present to greet him. .
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In the public room, Sicheng Tangzheng muttered nervously: "I didn't expect, I didn't expect that the evidence that finally denies those things that have been passed down in my family for more than a hundred years was discovered by myself. My family has been trapped for so many years. There is no way to make any progress with very wrong ideas.”
He muttered like this for a long time and then looked at the sky. "The sky is like that, the sun and the moon are like that. It's completely different from what I thought before. How many secrets are hidden in the sky? The conclusion drawn now will be Will it not be rejected by others in a few decades? Just like my family's family heirloom idea, it will become worthless?"
He was muttering nervously in the room, while two unscrupulous officials shouted anxiously outside: "Master Si, His Majesty is coming, and Supervisor Yang is asking you to greet His Majesty!"
They shouted repeatedly, but Sichengtang in the room just ignored them. While repeating the two paragraphs nervously, he fiddled with the clairvoyance in his hand and opened half of the roof, as if he wanted to observe the moon and prove what he had observed before. They are all wrong, and the theories passed down by my family have not been falsified.
The two unofficial officials outside the house became even more anxious and pushed the door hard, but it was locked and they could not push it open. Sichengtang ignored them and just observed the moon through his clairvoyance, but the more carefully he observed, the more his hands came to him. The more he trembled, the more desperate his expression became, and he didn't even notice that the sound of pushing the door and shouting disappeared.
"It's still like this, it's still like this!" He said a little crazy.
"Why, why is Aiqing so surprised?" At this moment, a voice came from his right. Hearing this, Sichengtang looked to his side and saw Yun standing there.
Seeing Yun, Sichengtang was a little confused at first, as if he didn't know what he should do or who Yun was. The guard was about to reprimand, but was stopped by Yun. After a while, Sicheng
Tang regained his consciousness, knelt down and said: "I have seen your Majesty, long live your Majesty! Long live your Majesty!"
"Aiqing Pingshen." Yun didn't care about his somewhat rude behavior just now, and asked with a smile: "Why was Aiqing so surprised just now?"
"Your Majesty," Sichengtang said with a wry smile: "The observation results and conclusions have been reported to Your Majesty. These are completely different from what I have passed down from my ancestors. I even wonder if I have been dreaming these past few days.
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Yun patted his shoulder. Of course he knew what Sichengtang was talking about. For people who studied science in this era, it was enough to have all three views shattered. Sichengtang's family had been studying astronomy for generations, and he couldn't help it for a moment.
Accept that he can understand.
But since the observation results do not support the previous conclusion, and he knew the new conclusion in his previous life, it is undoubtedly correct. Although Yun is interested in Sichengtang, he will not refuse to adopt the new conclusion because of him. He will wait until
Until he accepts it. Yun's time is precious and there is no time to waste on it.
"Siqing, I am here to use clairvoyance and projectors to observe these phenomena. Not only me, I also brought several princes, and they also want to use clairvoyance and projectors to observe. Can you guide me how to observe?"
Yun said.
Sichengtang sighed and said: "I will assist Your Majesty in observing. However, the sun has not risen yet, so we cannot observe the sun yet. We can only observe the moon and stars."
He immediately stepped forward to his clairvoyance and projector and began to readjust them. Strangely enough, as soon as the depressed Sichengtang came into contact with these instruments, he instantly became very serious and adjusted them meticulously.
After a while, Sichengtang finished adjusting and said to Yun: "Your Majesty, you can come and observe. What you can observe is exactly what is written in the report."
Yun walked over and stood behind the clairvoyant eye. He was a little excited for a moment. After calming down his mood a little, he lowered his head and looked at the sky from the other end of the clairvoyant eye.
In an instant, a bright white band that cut across the entire sky from northeast to southwest appeared in front of Yun's eyes. This bright band was very bright and ran through the entire sky, like a white silk or a river flowing with milk.
.Such a beautiful scene made Yun feel a little distracted for a moment.
After a while, Yun came back to her senses and carefully observed the bright ribbon. She found that the bright ribbon was not one body, but composed of many small sparkling light spots. The original ribbon turned into scattered flour, as if someone had
It's like accidentally scattering a bag full of flour when cooking in the sky. These small light spots cannot be seen clearly with the naked eye. Even if you use clairvoyance, you can only find that the bright band composed of these small light spots is not a ribbon.
What remains unclear.
"This is the true face of the Milky Way." Yun couldn't help but say.
Yes, what Yun saw at this time was the Milky Way, in which countless myths were entrusted and countless literati wrote poems. The Milky Way is the brightest in the summer of the northern hemisphere every year. The Milky Way that Yun observed at this time was dimmer than in summer, but for
For those who conduct astronomical research, it is enough.
