For Zhang Kang, Tingyu Xiaozhu is not a way to make money, but has other uses. Although he is not a person who cherishes beauty, but after the twelfth rain beauties from generation to generation, not many people enter the family of noble officials, except for
A few people choose to practice Taoism and Buddhism, and most of them stay in Tingyu Xiaozhu to teach the younger generations. When he thinks of the hard work he put into training these people in the past, he is naturally a little upset.
If they can still be on stage in the future and can continue to be chased by people, it will naturally be more useful than wasting it!
So, when he and Zhang Shou walked out of the small courtyard one after another, walked slowly to the backyard, crossed a small lotus pond, and stood in the middle of the wooden bridge, he glanced at the pond full of residual lotuses, turned around and looked at Zhang Shouwen
Said: "Dr. Zhang, what do you want to say to me?"
Zhang Shou gently shook his sleeves, revealing the watch on his right wrist. Seeing Zhang Kang, he was stunned for a moment, then raised his brows, clearly remembering where this thing came from, so he said bluntly
: "Uncle Weinan, do you believe that I have figured out the function of this thing?"
If someone else said this in front of him, Zhang Kang would definitely sneer at it, but Zhang Shou actually showed extraordinary talents in many places, so after hesitating for a moment, he finally said half-truthfully: "Dr. Zhang, speak.
Of course I believe it. However, only the emperor looked at it for a while that day, but I didn't look carefully. Can Dr. Zhang open my eyes?"
Seeing that Zhang Shou did not hesitate at all, he took off the thing on his wrist with a smile and handed it to him. Zhang Kang was not polite and took it and looked at it carefully. Although he was a barbarian in the eyes of others, he was actually Emperor Taizu.
A die-hard follower of those ideas, so now he fiddled with the buckle of the strap first, and then stared at the even scales on the round dial.
After a long while, he finally returned the things in his hands to Zhang Shou intact, and then said thoughtfully: "Look at the scales on this round plate, could it be that this thing was given to that person by Emperor Taizu?"
Is it used for calculation when setting the key in the lock box?"
Uh, Uncle Weinan, you have such a rich imagination...
Zhang Shou simply couldn't laugh or cry. However, he could not despise the other party, because in today's era, how could most people imagine how prosperous the world would be hundreds of years from now? He coughed lightly, and then walked towards Zhang Kang
Taking a step closer, he solemnly showed the other party the clockwork on the right side of the dial, and then demonstrated how to wind the clockwork.
"I fiddled with this accidentally and found that the needle on the watch started to move. I observed it for a while and found that one needle started over and over again, and it only took a while to complete a circle. The other two needles moved forward at different amplitudes. I
I didn't know what this meant at first, but when I happened to pass by the sundial in the Imperial College, I suddenly had an idea and wondered if it could be a timekeeping object."
After hearing Zhang Shou's explanation, when Zhang Kang looked at the disc that he once thought was in the clouds, he immediately felt that the fog had been lifted away: "You mean, the disc on the disc is like a cloth.
Does the scale like a measuring stick in the store represent the time?"
He looked at the dial carefully again and smiled unknowingly: "I see that the total number of the big scale is twelve, which should represent twelve hours... It's just that an hour is four quarters, so how can one big scale contain four quarters?
Will there be five small ticks?”
It’s just a small problem with the different timekeeping methods between China and the West. Uncle Weinan, don’t get too carried away...
As for Zhang Kang's instinctive association with twelve hours as soon as he discovered the twelve scales, Zhang Shou didn't know whether the emperor had never thought of it after looking at the watch and the manuscript, or whether he had never thought about it carefully at all, or whether he felt that he
He is quite talented in this area, and he could only cough again after all the decryption was thrown at him.
"This fastest-moving needle, every time it rotates, the long needle moves a small scale. When the long needle rotates once, the short needle moves a large scale. And the time it takes is not an hour. I have observed
A sundial should be half an hour. In other words, within a whole day, this short needle will circle the disk twice..."
In today's era, Zhang Shou knew that the Western watch industry had just begun to develop. Pendulum clocks and pocket watches had not yet been invented, so he patiently explained his "observations" to Zhang Kang.
Sure enough, Zhang Kang took a breath, nodded heavily and said, "I understand what you mean. If this is really the case, then this thing is really an extremely precise timepiece."
He paused, stared at Zhang Shou and said with a half-smile: "Empress Han's father Han Shantong once preached that Emperor Taizu was the successor of Song Huizong. After Emperor Taizu ascended the throne, he posthumously made Han Shantong the king. Dr. Zhang, you
Do you think Emperor Taizu is a descendant of the royal family of the Song Dynasty?"
"Of course not. The name of our country is Ming, not Song. Emperor Taizu never changed his surname from Zheng to Zhao. What's more, just for such a subtle thing, Taizu has an extraordinary origin." Zhang Kang showed his approval.
With a satisfied expression, Zhang Shou continued, "This thing is a relic of Taizu. Although the emperor gave it to me, I can't dismantle it just because of this exquisite timekeeping function. But because of this thing, I
But I thought of something."
"Oh, what is it?"
Zhang Shou said bluntly: "The lamp of Guo Shoujing's Daming Palace in the Yuan Dynasty leaked."
Although Zhang Kang had shown him a globe last time, there was still a gap between a globe and a real astronomical instrument. If Zhang Kang, the Bo of Weinan, even knew about this kind of thing, then he definitely could not be said to be a Northern barbarian!
"The lamp leak in the Daming Palace? Is it the lamp leak in the Daming Palace that was mentioned in the astronomical records of Yuan Dynasty?" Zhang Kang raised his eyebrows first, and then laughed and said, "When Dr. Zhang said this, I
I also remembered that the astronomical records of the Yuan Dynasty were very popular and recorded other strange things. I remember that the lamp leak in the Daming Palace was powered by water, which is different from the thing in your hand."
At this point, he sighed and said: "Emperor Taizu said that one of the reasons for the chaos in the world at the end of the Yuan Dynasty was because those greedy and lustful people gathered in countless numbers, making it difficult for the people to live. But after the chaos, these guys were not
After he fled to Mobei, he was killed by the rebels from all over the country. Therefore, many rituals of the Western Regions in the Yuan Dynasty and Astronomical Chronicles were lost. The lamps in the Daming Palace in Dadu of the Yuan Dynasty were leaked and had long been burned down. "
Zhang Shou smiled and asked: "What about the ceremonial platform like the water transport ceremonial platform in the Song Dynasty?"
"That's something Qin Tianjian is responsible for, I don't know."
Zhang Kang burst out laughing, then put his hands up and looked at Zhang Shou and said, "Speaking of which, Grand Master Ge and Taichang Qi both managed Qintian Prison, so the Taishi officials there were quite convinced by them, but you are like this
They can't stand the young boy who is just starting out because he has been over-trained in arithmetic. Therefore, if you want to provide equipment over there to unlock the secret of the timer in your hand, I'm afraid it will be difficult."
Zhang Shou did not expect that Zhang Kang was worried that the people in the Qintian Prison would make things difficult for him. Not to mention the Qintian Prison these days, even if all the mathematical geniuses in the country were exhausted, it would not be easy to decipher the working principle of the mechanical watch. Don't look at it.
New China claims to have built its first car purely manually. That’s because it at least has lathes and other processing equipment. With the level of theory and technology at this time... haha!
At that moment, Zhang Shou smiled and shook his head: "I don't ask for help from Qin Tianjian, I just want to improve the current timepiece. So, I just want to say hello to Uncle Weinan. I will probably ask you again.
Lu Sanlang went to ask two or three young and smart craftsmen to go back and study it. Of course, they are not from the Ordnance Bureau."
Zhang Kang didn't ask why he wanted to greet me for such a stupid thing. After all, he had paid close attention to the last time Lu Sanlang detained several craftsmen in the bookshop.
At this moment, seeing Zhang Shou's handsome face with a faint smile, thinking that he was a foreign boy, but was trusted and used by Emperor Ruizong, and finally became an earl, and then spent half his life reading books like crazy, he
I couldn't help but sigh to myself, and then I smiled and said: "Since Dr. Zhang, you are so elegant, I, an outsider, wish you success in the future!"
"I hope I can carry forward my uncle's good wishes!"
While desperately trying to recall his little knowledge about clocks, Zhang Shou deliberately and enthusiastically explained a lot of paradoxical principles to Zhang Kang. He even pointed out the formula of the simple pendulum principle directly to Zhang Kang. Of course, he didn't understand it at all.
He hoped that the other party would understand. Seeing Zhang Kang's eyes gradually flickering, clearly wanting to end the conversation quickly, he couldn't help but secretly breathed a sigh of relief.
In fact, in addition to the principle of a single pendulum and an escapement structure, a pendulum clock also requires a lot of parts. It is definitely not something that can be made quickly. It is also a luxury product. If you don't have the time, you might as well find a few craftsmen to get quartz sand.
and alkali spent time experimenting with burning glass.
But because it is time-consuming and long-lasting, researching this is very suitable to deceive outsiders and make those guys relax their vigilance towards him who is addicted to strange weapons and ingenuity. It is also an explanation for the emperor who gave him things. Of course, if he can finally
It will be a great joy to make the pendulum clock. In the meantime, of course, those craftsmen can use it for personal gain and other uses.
When Zhang Shou and Zhang Kang returned to the door of the previous room, Zhang Shou only heard Lu Sanlang shouting loudly inside: "Very good, Qingyu, it's you. Everyone agrees that you will play Li Xiangjun! However,
It’s not that I look down on you. If you want to write this story exactly as it is, I’m afraid it won’t take a day or two, so why don’t you finish it all at once, write one paragraph and act one!”
Lu Sanlang paused for a moment as he spoke, and then said with a smile: "If you perform a part, let the bookstore print the story you wrote and distribute it all over the city. There will be no money for the first few days. With your reputation and this
Are you worried that no one will buy the unique story in the future? If nothing else, the newly published anthologies of eight-legged essays will definitely sell better if they include this story about the Peach Blossom Fan!"
"And when the play and book you perform become popular, I will invite drama masters to add lyrics and sing them all over the city. Then it will be truly popular and popular!"
Zhang Shou had this idea when he and Lu Sanlang were joking in the carriage that books were not as good as dramas. Now that he found out that Lu Sanlang was so intuitive, he couldn't help but laugh. Zhang Kang, on the other hand, couldn't laugh or cry and looked sideways.
Zhang Shou joked at a glance: "Dr. Zhang, you are obsessed with arithmetic and magic tools, but Lu San is obsessed with making money. It is true that like a teacher, like a disciple!"