"This object is really exquisite, all of you are university scholars, how can you tell me what the truth is here......

In the dormitory of Changxin Palace, a one-person high clock, with the pendulum shaking, the spring in the wooden shell in the "click" made a crisp slight sound, with the exquisite hands of the cast gold wisps trembling in the dial walking, Qingyang studied with great interest for two days, and ran two back and forth in person last night, and compared with the Hun Tian Yi of the Lingtai Palace, the moment turned out to be exactly the same.

The armillary sky theory is the most important astronomical cosmic theory in the world, and since the Han Dynasty, various armillary spheres have been created to observe the stars and celestial phenomena, which can also be said to be one of the most accurate timekeeping and calendar calculation tools.

In the early years, the Great Chu Si Tianjian repaired an armillary sphere left over from the previous dynasty, which can be said to be a heavy treasure of the Chu court, which is stored in the Lingtai Hall at this time.

Faced with the inquiry of the Empress Dowager Changxin, the officials of Si Tianjian looked at each other.

They were summoned to the palace, and the back cover was opened countless times in two days, and they almost disassembled the clock to study it one by one, the large structure was not very complicated, but in the end they still did not understand how to use the shaking of the pendulum to accurately control every pluck of the spring in an absolutely equal time.

"Liang Lord Han Qian put forward in Luoyang the theory of geocentricity, earth circle heliocentrism and other new theories, if you want to get a glimpse of the principle of this clock, you may also need to have a certain amount of research on Luoyang Xinxue." Yang En stood aside and said.

"The center of the earth and the heliocenter are all heretical and crooked, and the things created by the new school are nothing more than strange tricks and things that corrode people's hearts, and I really don't care about it." Si Tianjian Song Hailong trembled his white beard, and he didn't think he should give Yang En any face, so he said directly.

"The center of the earth and the heliocenter are all heretical and crooked, when will the heavenly eunuch make such a chronograph for the mourning family?" Qingyang stared at Si Tianjian Song Hailong and asked slowly.

"......" Song Hailong was stunned, but he didn't dare to accept it indiscriminately, not to mention the principle inside, even if it was based on the gourd to draw the scoop, those delicate parts could not be made by Chu Ting's craftsmen.

"I don't have much ability, but my brains are more stubborn than the other, Liang Jun's spring-arm giant crossbow and ironclad ship, you have imitated it in the past few years, and it is also useless tricks?" Qingyang asked with an unpleasant reprimand.

"That's the one who will be the prisoner." Song Hailong said.

"What do the Heavenly Supervisor and the Secretary Supervisor do?" Qingyang's expression became stern, and he impatiently expelled Song Hailong and the others, "Let's go down, it's annoying to watch." ”

Watching Song Hailong and the others retreat in disgrace, Qingyang looked at Yang En and asked, "Lord Yang, is it that the court is becoming more and more dismissive of Liang Jun now?" ”

"Gu Zhilong and Huang Xian's squad are still in the court, the army is prosperous, and the people of the government and the opposition are greatly inspired." Yang En said.

"In your opinion, if one day it is really forced to do so, the soldiers and horses of Great Chu can compete with the Liang army?" Qingyang asked.

"From what the old minister can see, I'm afraid it can't." Yang En said.

"How?" Qingyang held back a glance at Lei Cheng, whose expression was as calm as a stone, and continued to ask Yang En.

"Speaking of the breadth of the territory and the prosperity of the people, my Great Chu is naturally far above the Liang army, and the great success of the conquest of Fujian and Guangdong has not only made the southern front safe and worry-free, but also has 100,000 elite soldiers to supplement the Jianghuai defense line, it seems that the Great Chu soldiers are strong and prosperous, but the soldiers and horses of the Great Chu are strong and strong, which can only be said to be ordinary, perhaps slightly inferior to Emperor Gaozu,"

Yang En said calmly,

"And the Mengwu people are first-class elite soldiers in Jinnan, Hezhong and Xingyang, and they have no power to fight back under the blows of the Liang army, and it is really hard to say whether the soldiers and horses of Dachu can be stronger than the Mongolian army and Liang Shixiong's Wei Bo elite and Tian Weiye's Luzhou elite soldiers. In addition, according to the peace agreement, the Liang army's total capacity of warships in Shuiying Dazhai in Donghu and Tangyi has always been controlled to be less than 50,000 stones, but as long as there is a need, the Liang army's shipyards in Qianyang, Xuzhou, Chaohu, Wabu Lake, Bailong Lake and other places can probably build ten times the capacity of warships in a very short time. Although our Dachu has also recovered a certain amount of shipbuilding capacity in recent years, it is difficult to compete with the Liang ships, whether it is the warships or merchant ships, and Jinling is on the bank of the great river, so it cannot control the waterway of the Yangtze River, and it is rash to say that the victory or defeat is rash. ”

"The mourning family heard Lei Cheng say that some people in the court mentioned the talk of moving the capital behind their backs, have you ever heard of it?" Qingyang asked.

"The old minister is sluggish, and he hasn't heard about it yet." Yang En said.

Qingyang didn't believe that Yang En hadn't heard the relevant discussions, but seeing that he denied it, he didn't ask any questions.

"If the queen mother is not sent, then the old minister will retire first?" Yang En asked.

"You stand down first." Qingyang said.

Waiting for Yang En to retreat, Qingyang carefully looked at the clock, and just at the hour, a small door opened under the dial, and a silver doll of an inch size popped out and shook the silver bell in his hand when it was crisp.

"Ho, scared the mourners!" Although he knew that the clock would tell the time on the hour, Qingyang still covered his towering chest and was startled.

"There seems to be a whisper about the old friendship between the queen mother and the king in the market, but I don't know who spread the news, or if the people in the market are happy about it...... Lei Cheng said.

"What kind of slight words, is it possible to mourn the family for a birthday and receive some tribute, and someone has to chew the root of the tongue? Someone wants to chew the root of the tongue, and they can chew it well, and the mourners can't pull out the tongues of hundreds or thousands of good deeds! Qingyang didn't care much, but said yearningly, "Luoyang can make so many exquisite things, it should be much more prosperous than Jinling, but it's a pity, the mourning family has no chance to see it." ”

Lei Cheng didn't answer this sentence, and he didn't seem to hear the resentment in Qingyang's words at all......

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Yang En walked out of Chongyang Gate, waiting for people to prepare for the carriage and horses to return to the mansion, and saw Shen Yang walking out of the Shangshu Provincial Yayuan from a distance, surrounded by a group of people, and he didn't know if he was going back to the mansion or running to somewhere else.

The yamen of the Inner Servant's Mansion and the Yamen of Shangshu Province were next to each other, and Yang En walked over and bowed to Shen Yang.

"I just happened to have something to say to you, go to my house to drink?" Shen Yang asked.

Shen Yang, who was nearly seventy years old, was already full of white hair, and he was helped to board the carriage and invited Yang En to ride with him in the same car and go to the Prime Minister's Mansion.

In late autumn, the sky will not get dark too early, at this time the sky is flowing like a fire-like sunset, the colors are distinct, but the wind blowing is already a bit chilly.

Or maybe he's really old and can't bear the cold at all.

Sitting in the carriage and looking at Shen Yang's wrinkled and senile face, Yang En thought to himself that he would not be much better than him.

"When Feng Yi was in Shu, Ruogu was also in Chengdu Mansion, but I didn't expect Han Qian to send him to Jinling again without stopping." Shen Yang said.

"What's the situation in Chengdu?" Seeing Xue Ruogu leaning into the carriage, Yang En asked.

"Cao Gan sent an envoy to Luoyang in June and returned to Chengdu in August, he went this way, but he was like he was frightened," Xue Ruogu bowed down to Yang En, and said, "Wang Yong, the lord of Shu, agreed to Liang Guo's request to send the general to the official family, and when I left Chengdu Mansion, Feng Yi took the first batch of Shu soldiers to rush to Luoyang, and there were about 1,200 people from the official family, but I didn't expect him to come to Jinling again today......"

Yang En didn't expect Shu Guo's posture to be so weak, frowning, and he didn't know what to say.

"I heard that Ruan Tao came to Jinling again the day before yesterday, and he has been in King Shou's Mansion for the past two days, has Marquis Yang heard of it?" Xue Ruogu asked.

Yang En nodded, Ruan Tao went to Jinling to see Shouwang Yang Zhitang this time, and he didn't think about hiding it from anyone.

If anyone goes to Shouwang's Mansion for banquets and visits in the past two days, it is not difficult to see Ruan Tao living in Shouwang's Mansion; Yang even had a general idea of what they were talking about.

But what could he do if he knew all this?

Over the years, Yang Zhitang seems to have been expelled from the court, but he did not leave Jinling and returned to Hongzhou to retire - in fact, Yang Zhitang was younger than all the ministers of the political affairs hall.

Zheng Yu and Zheng Chang were the first to return to their hometowns, and Zhou Bingwu also submitted his resignation many times, requesting Zhishi; Zhang Chao doesn't have many lovers, but he and Shen Yang are both nearly seventy years old; Yang En is also in his seventies, and he doesn't have much energy to ask about other things except for the affairs of the Inner Chamberlain's Mansion; Du Chongtao, who is over sixty years old, is considered to be in the prime of life, but he alone cannot support the center.

Huang Hua is not very old, but as the father of the Empress Dowager of Ming Cheng and the maternal grandfather of King Fu, he has this taboo, so he can't enter the center as a phase.

Although Shen Yang focused on cultivating Xue Ruogu in his early years, and once sent Yangzhou to serve as an assassin, but due to Qin Wen's affairs, Xue Ruogu was then forced to resign from the post of Yangzhou assassin and returned to Jinling.

In comparison, Yang Zhitang has been silent for several years, but he is only fifty-seven years old at this time.

In recent years, the voice of the Shaozhuang faction advocating a tough attitude towards the Liang State has become increasingly strong, and the main messenger behind it is Yang Zhitang, the king of Shou.

Yang Zhitang didn't even hide this, he gave leisure to Jinling, and there was a small banquet on the third day and a big banquet on the fifth day in the Shouwang Mansion, and he was all a young Zhuang faction of the court.

In fact, even if they failed to take Fujian and Lingnan in the past two years, even if the voice of the Shaozhuang faction above the court was not so intense, even if there was no secret promotion by Yang Zhitang and Yang Yuanyan, the king of letters, Yang En thought that if he and Shen Yang didn't want to be scolded by the subjects of Great Chu, they really had no position to refuse Sima's move to Xu Si's land.

The problem now is not simply whether to refuse Sima Clan's decision to raise Xu Si's land to vote, but Yang Zhitang's contribution to this matter, it will be difficult for them to prevent Yang Zhitang from returning to the center.

When the time comes, he and Shen Yang will both go one after another, and where will the Great Chu Dynasty go under the leadership of Yang Zhitang and others?