Chapter Eighty-Five: No Eclipse

After Zhu Qizhen and Yang Shiqi finalized this matter, they issued a holy decree to the southwest. However, Zhu Qizhen still has some worries in his heart, because Zhu Qizhen wants Wang Ji to sit in the southwest, not for a year or two. The specific number of years depends on the situation in the world, and in the early Ming Dynasty, there was also the habit of nine local officials, and sometimes a place served four consecutive terms in a certain place for more than ten years, and there are no longer a few.

Therefore, Zhu Qizhen decided to recall Wang Ji to Beijing first to report on his work. Explain the stakes. so that he can rest assured and guard Tiannan.

It's just that before the Chinese New Year, even if Wang Ji has wings, he can't come back.

Therefore, Zhu Qizhen asked him to come to Beijing before the wedding after the year.

After the military parade, the three major halls were completed, and Zhu Qizhen opened the three major halls, and feasted the civil and military officials and internal and external envoys.

But when it came, it was the first day of the first month of the sixth year of orthodoxy, that is, the day of the New Year's Day. Zhu Qizhen took refuge in the side hall and bathed and fasted. and made great sacrifices. to save the day.

Of course, Zhu Qizhen didn't believe it at all on the surface, but he did it meticulously.

It's just that something unexpected happened to Zhu Qizhen.

There is no eclipse.

On the first day of the sixth year of the Orthodox New Year, the sky was clear, and nothing happened.

Zhu Qizhen waited until the afternoon, but he still didn't wait, he was no longer impatient, and immediately summoned Qin Tianjian. But there has been news that Qin Tianjian is committing suicide in fear of sin.

Those who are already dead will naturally not be able to come. It was Yang Shiqi who came over.

As soon as Yang Shiqi came in, he said: "Congratulations to Your Majesty, Your Majesty sincerely moved the heavens, and it is not a solar eclipse." ”

Zhu Qizhen didn't react for a while, but he instantly understood, in terms of the induction of heaven and man, this is indeed feasible, it is better than announcing to the heavens, the highest astronomical institution of the Ming Dynasty, and Qin Tianjian to make a big oolong.

However, what did Zhu Qizhen think in his heart, he could only grit his teeth and admit it, and said, "How are the people?" ”

Yang Shiqi said: "The people all praise His Majesty's holy virtue. ”

Zhu Qizhen sighed in his heart for a while, and said secretly: "It's still a reliable minister." ”

This kind of sudden**, when Zhu Qizhen hadn't figured out what to do for a while, Yang Shiqi had already arranged it up and down.

Even if Zhu Qizhen knew this, it was like the emperor's new clothes, and he couldn't hide it from someone with a heart, but the court, but all smart people would not pierce this lie.

Zhu Qizhen said: "What about Qin Tianjian? ”

Zhu Qizhen obviously asked Qin Tianjian who committed suicide in fear of crime, but Yang Shiqi answered a little bit and said: "Qin Tianjian is unfortunately dying, and the court should be a good student to appease his family. ”

Zhu Qizhen secretly said in his heart: "It's cheap."

He did. ”

It was the first time that Zhu Qizhen wanted to kill a minister, and a mere Qin Tianjian made such a big move, which almost damaged Zhu Qizhen's political prestige.

Zhu Qizhen even suspected that he had accidentally miscalculated. Or has it been planned for a long time?

It's just that at this time, it's not a good time to investigate, and here it is said that the emperor's virtue is on the sky, and it is because the eclipse does not come, so let's say that Qin Tian will be supervised to the bottom of the sky, isn't it a self-defeating face.

But not checking does not mean that you have not checked all the time. There is one more task for Jinyiwei, and Qin Tianjian is up and down, and Zhu Qizhen doesn't want to stay any of them.

After all, Qin Tianjian seems to be a Qingshui Yamen, but in fact, it is also a matter of great importance. Once Qin Tianjian explained what astronomical phenomena were used to speak out against politics.

Just like today, Zhu Qizhen is extremely passive.

And Yang Shiqi also thought of this, so Yang Shiqi's proposal was not to select officials from within the Qin Tianjian, but to select people who were proficient in the astronomical calendar from outside.

Zhu Qizhen said: "I remember that Nanjing seems to have an observatory, and Nanjing is also my Ming Jingshi. ”

Yang Shiqi said: "The minister understands. ”

Zhu Qizhen meant that all the people in Qin Tianjian who were related to this incident rushed to Nanjing, and after the rumors passed, they would check one by one.

Zhu Qizhen asked again: "Sir, do you know, where is the calendar in this dynasty?" ”

Today's incident made Zhu Qizhen angry, but he had more worries in his heart.

Because the astronomical calendar was so important in ancient times.

Its importance is unimaginable to future generations.

Even one of the keys to the legitimacy of the imperial court, needless to say, the political significance, the practical significance is to guide agricultural production.

Nowadays, most of us use the solar calendar, not the lunar calendar, and the lunar calendar is actually revised on the basis of the Chongzhen calendar at the end of the Ming Dynasty.

There are 24 solar terms on the lunar calendar, which directly guide agricultural production, once the calendar is not accurate, when it should be planted, when it should not be planted, it is planted, but the grain output can be imagined.

Zhu Qizhen didn't pay much attention to the Ming calendar before.

Because Zhu Qizhen knew that the original of the Ming calendar was the famous chronological calendar, that is, the calendar created by Guo Shoujing. What kind of person Guo Shoujing is, there is no need to introduce him.

Zhu Qizhen still trusts this university scholar in astronomy, machinery, water conservancy and other disciplines, after all, he may have been wrong at the time, but Guo Shoujing was respected by later generations, and he still has a level.

Before, Zhu Qizhen was not worried, but when he encountered today's incident, he suddenly had a feeling that the natural disaster in the north of the Ming Dynasty was just a climate problem? Does it also have something to do with the inadmissibility of the calendar?

Such a question

Question, Zhu Qizhen will not ask the minister easily, and he will not believe what the minister says. He had to confirm it in person, so he asked Yang Shiqi if he was a master of astronomical calendars.

Yang Shiqi groaned and said: "The famous scholar of the national calendar is the first to recommend the big test horse family. ”

Zhu Qizhen said: "The big test of the horse family? ”

Yang Shiqi said: "The Ma family is a Hui person, who previously served in the Qin Tianjian in the former Yuan Dynasty, and since he defected to the imperial court, he has dedicated the Hijri calendar to the appreciation of Emperor Taizu, and there were two Qin Tianjian when Taizu, one is to return to Qin Tianjian and one is to return to Qin Tianjian and one to Qin Tianjian of the imperial court. When he returned to Qintianjian, he presided over the Ma family. Ma Sha is also black, and Ma Hama father and son inherited the presiding over the Qin Tianjian. ”

"After Taizu died, the two Qin Heavenly Prisons merged into one, and the Hui Qin Heavenly Prison also became, and the Qin Heavenly Prison returned to the Hui Branch. It is still in Nanjing. It's just that if the minister is not mistaken, during the Mahama Yongle period, he has already gone, but the generation of the Ma family has a state of lack of success, but for a while he can't find any available manpower. ”

"There is a person who is still young, but the minister occasionally heard Huang Fu say that this person is the best of the algorithm and stands alone in the world. It can be regarded as a young man. It is in Nanjing Qintianjian and can be transferred to Beijing. ”

Zhu Qizhen said: "Who? ”

Yang Shiqi said: "Belin, it is said that she has done her best to inherit the true inheritance of the Ma family, and even has a state of being better than the blue. ”

Zhu Qizhen naturally didn't know who this person was, but Yang Shiqi's familiarity with the inside and outside of the court was far beyond Zhu Qizhen's, since Yang Shiqi said this person, Zhu Qizhen naturally wanted to meet him.

Zhu Qizhen said: "Let Belin come to Beijing." ”

Zhu Qizhen didn't know, he didn't know Bei Lin, but he was actually very familiar with Bei Lin's research results. Many of the 12 constellations that have been handed down in later generations have been translated by Belin. There are many deletions in later generations.

And the Pei family is an astronomical family that has been in charge of Nanjing Qintianjian since Belin, and has always been in charge of the Ming Dynasty.

It's just that Zhu Qizhen still feels sad.

They were all nodes where ancient Chinese science and technology lagged behind the West, that is, in the Ming Dynasty.

On the calendar, you can see the clues.

The top astronomers of the Ming Dynasty actually studied the Hijri calendar.

It's not that Zhu Qizhen is narrow-minded and thinks that the Arabic calendar must be bad, but this kind of refraction makes Zhu Qizhen uneasy.

For a while, Zhu Qizhen wanted to let go of the decree prohibiting the folk study of astronomy, but after taking a look at Yang Shiqi, he knew that Yang Shiqi would never agree to this matter.

Since the Song Dynasty, it has become a common practice for the people to ban astronomy, and it can be seen from Yang Shiqi's recommendation that the masters are in Qintianjian and not in the folk in terms of the astronomical calendar.

But the political implication is too obvious, Zhu Qizhen dares to let go, and it is estimated that I don't know how many people below have the right to explain astronomical phenomena.

This is also the right to interpret a lot of political **.