On the first day of the Lunar New Year, the emperor will accept the congratulations of hundreds of officials in the Huangji Palace, and the queen will also hold a congratulatory ceremony for the ministers in the Kunning Palace, and the concubines and important ministers of the harem will all go to the Kunning Palace to visit.

The process is no easier than that of the men in the Imperial Palace, and they still have to play music, salute, introduce themselves, and offer congratulatory messages.

In the Imperial Palace, the ceremony is still going on, and it can be said that the ceremony on the first day of the first lunar month is a difficult task for the royal family and ministers, and it is a severe test for the mental and physical strength of the participants.

After a series of tedious ceremonies for more than an hour, Chongzhen sat on the throne, his stomach was about to collapse, he deeply realized that the New Year was not easy, nor pleasant, but he could only stick to it, this is the pomp of the emperor.

Zhu Cihong also felt this way, too much red tape and etiquette made his waist sore, and he couldn't feel the existence of his neck when he was pressed by the crown.

At the end of the ceremony, suddenly, the originally bright sky suddenly darkened, and the sun was gradually swallowed up, forming a large black circle, and then the whole sky darkened.

"Total solar eclipse!" Zhu Cihong muttered, a little surprised.

For a while, everyone in the Forbidden City was a little panicked, and the follow-up rituals were also suspended, and only a few people who knew and had seen the solar eclipse were quite calm.

Solar eclipse, known as solar eclipse in ancient China, recorded in the Tang Dynasty's "Tang Kaiyuan Zhanjing" Western Han Dynasty astronomer Liu Xiang's assertion: "The eclipse is covered by the moon." "This is the first time in the history of astronomy in our country that the reason for the occurrence of solar eclipses has been scientifically explained.

However, this is an unpopular knowledge, very few people know about it in ancient times when the illiteracy rate was very high, and many people think that the solar eclipse is terrible, and there is also a saying that the tengu eats the sun in mythological stories, and in the West it is said that a dragon swallowed the sun, which is a bad omen anyway.

There are also many "solutions" to this situation: playing drums, shooting arrows into the sky, taking objects or human sacrifices, etc., as a way to drive away tengu and evil dragons.

On the first day of the Lunar New Year, this kind of bad omen will appear in the Zhengdan Dynasty, what does it mean?

Chongzhen's face was very ugly, as the emperor, he advertised himself as the Son of Heaven, attached great importance to celestial phenomena, and believed that the solar eclipse was a warning from God.

Zhu Cihong said loudly: "Don't panic, everyone, this is a solar eclipse phenomenon, it is normal, they are regular!" ”

Seeing that everyone was puzzled, or did not believe it, Zhu Cihong immediately sent the Qintian Prison Supervisor Zheng Tang Ruowang into the palace.

Tang Ruowang had already been waiting outside the noon gate with the "Chongzhen Almanac", and he had already calculated the date of the solar eclipse through the new calendar, and the emperor would definitely summon him at that time.

After John Tang entered the palace, he explained the principle of the solar eclipse in detail in public, telling everyone that this is when the moon moves to the middle of the sun and the earth, and the three are exactly in a straight line, the moon blocks the sun's rays from the earth, and the black shadow behind the moon falls on the earth, and the solar eclipse phenomenon occurs.

In order to facilitate everyone's understanding, Zhu Cihong found a eunuch and a palace maid, one eunuch slowly circled around with himself as the center, and the palace maid slowly circled with the eunuch as the center.

When the three of them presented a line, Zhu Cihong immediately shouted to stop, and then explained: "For example, I am the sun, he is the earth, and she is the moon, at this time she blocks his view, and he can't see the palace, this is the principle of solar eclipses!" ”

Zhu Cihong also claimed that solar eclipses are regular, and the old calendar is no longer allowed, and proposed to modify the calendar and use the new calendar.

The so-called new calendar here is the yellow calendar and lunar calendar used in later generations, not the Gregorian calendar used in the West in the Common Era.

Some old-fashioned ministers said: "What is said in the Chongzhen Almanac that the earth is round, and there are stars in the sky, the moon or something, is completely!" We know that the Son of Heaven is ordered by Heaven, and this book is contrary to the theory of the Son of Heaven and shakes the foundation of the country! ”

Chongzhen also took into account that this new calendar is good, but the things advertised in the book are likely to shake the rule of the imperial power.

Zhu Cihong said: "The sky is so big, it is incomprehensible, the vast universe, the sea of stars is like a vast sea, what is the conflict with the Son of Heaven being ordered by the sky?" The place where we live is just a corner of heaven and earth. ”

Zhu Cihong continued: "After the emperors of the past dynasties returned to heaven, they would all reach another heaven and earth and rule over all things, so as to achieve true long live! ”

When it comes to feudal superstition, who wouldn't? If you don't believe it anymore, I don't mind taking out the world structure in the fantasy and Xiuzhen novels that I have read in later generations and telling you about it.

Don't say it, there are really many people in these ministers who don't believe it, in view of this situation, Zhu Cihong feels that it is necessary to popularize fantasy knowledge for them.

Zhu Cihong said seriously: "When the palace was poisoned, I was too vain, and I dreamed of a bizarre scene, those scenes were played like light and shadow, and I saw Emperor Taizu!" ”

"What? Emperor Taizu? The ministers exclaimed, it's all you looking at me, I'm looking at you, they all think that the prince is talking nonsense, and even Chongzhen's face is not very good-looking.

Zhu Cihong ignored their expressions, and continued: "After Emperor Taizu returned to the sky, he rode the Nine Dragons on the top of Mount Tai, entered the Big Dipper Star Domain, and incarnated as an unknown young man......"

Zhu Cihong painted a vivid story about how Emperor Taizu overcame obstacles in the new world, adventured in the forbidden land, became an emperor with an ordinary body, and lived for thousands of years.

Originally, everyone thought that the prince was, but the more they listened, the more they felt, they all knew that after the emperor died, he called the dragon to return to heaven, and after death, the body should be placed in the shape of the Big Dipper in the coffin, implying the return to the Big Dipper.

What the crown prince said about taking the Nine Dragons on the top of Mount Tai, entering the Big Dipper Star Domain, and incarnating as an unknown teenager, this is in line with the characteristics of Emperor Taizu, Zhu Yuanzhang was originally born in poverty, and it is very reasonable to become an unknown teenager.

This real beginning immediately attracted the interest of many ministers, and they had the desire to listen to it, especially the strange world of the Big Dipper Star Domain, where there were many immortal cultivators, which was shocking.

Now that the ceremony has basically ended, and it is the day of the New Year, Emperor Chongzhen did not sweep everyone's interest, and his originally tense body gradually relaxed, sitting silently on the throne, as if he was listening.

"Emperor Taizu assumed the pseudonym Zhu Fan, and he entered the Ji clan to fight the Northern Emperor Teng....... Emperor Taizu led the iron to ride into the Northern Plains and set foot on the ancient family ........"

Gradually, Zhu Cihong sat on the imperial steps when he was tired of talking, and continued to tell the story of the rise of Emperor Taizu in the Big Dipper......

After a long time, Zhu Cihong finally said: "Emperor Taizu fought the family of the Holy Land, fought against ancient creatures, broke through the ancient road of the starry sky, blocked the dark turmoil, rebuilt the heavenly court, and finally proved the Tao with strength, won the recognition of all ethnic groups, and finally became the emperor of heaven, and lived for 10,000 years!" ”

"Emperor Taizu's perseverance is firm, and he flies far beyond the reach of ordinary people!"

"That's right! Emperor Taizu fought hard and was invincible in the world, which was really happy! ”

There are young ministers who can't help but applaud.

Chongzhen was also fascinated when he heard this, although Emperor Taizu was named Zhu Fan, he was not extraordinary at all, and he relied on the power of one person to stop the dark turmoil in the Big Dipper Star Domain and become an emperor! With such a bold spirit, it is no wonder that it can achieve the great foundation of the emperor, which is really fascinating!

"I don't know which of the First Emperors is the incarnation of that Beginningless Emperor?"

"I think it should be Emperor Chengzu!"

"No, the Emperor of the Beginningless Emperor should be the emperor of the previous dynasty before Emperor Taizu's Emperor Shatian, I guess it is the incarnation of Emperor Wu of the Han Dynasty......."

"That Hua Yunfei must be the incarnation of Chen Youliang, and the dark turmoil, it should be the ghosts of Mengyuan's Tartars, I didn't expect that in a foreign land, although Emperor Taizu was at a disadvantage, he was still not afraid at all, and became an emperor!"

“.......”

The ministers are chatting, just like holding a book friend seminar, of course, there are still a lot of smart people, although they know that the crown prince is pulling calves, but they don't raise the bar, this story is really good, much better than "Fengshen Bang".

Zhu Cihong was still very satisfied with the response at the scene, at least no one came out on the spot to slap his face or anything, to his surprise, an editor from the Hanlin Academy actually came over and asked him what the plot was behind?

After flickering for a long time, Chongzhen finally accepted the new calendar, and the ministers reluctantly accepted it, bringing forward the promulgation of the new calendar by seven years.

John Tang was also rewarded, in order to seek the legal status of Catholicism in the provinces, this foreigner shook a wit, he asked Emperor Chongzhen to give words, Chongzhen casually carried the words "Qin Bao Tianxue" four words to reward him.

John Tang was extremely excited, and he was thinking in his heart that he would make these four royal characters into plaques and distribute them to the Catholic churches in various places to hang, so as to attract some believers and improve his status in the church........

Afterwards, some officials had a small gathering with friends, drank high at the banquet, and angrily reprimanded the crown prince for the New Year's gossip to confuse the public, Zhu Cihong didn't care after knowing it, just smiled.

That night, the official died violently at his home.......

It is rumored that the official offended the Emperor and was killed by the Emperor across the river of time and space.......

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This chapter is self-exciting, begging for light spraying, but on the first day of the first month of Chongzhen's tenth year, there was indeed a solar eclipse......