Chapter Twenty-Six: The Two Heavens of Ice and Fire
Yang Xin's globe was finally completed by Fang Tinglan's brilliant brush......
Her workmanship is exquisite.
It is said that she also received Dong Qichang's guidance, and Master Dong is still alive, but because of a series of incidents caused by her son's forced robbery of the tenant's daughter, the Dong family's mansion was burned down by the mob, and Master Dong had to flee in a hurry, resulting in a great loss of prestige......
Artists are also in the hands of mobs!
In short, Fang Tinglan drew the map according to Yang Xin's instructions, and the craftsmen hired there quickly completed the wooden frame and the copper ball and assembled it, and then covered the copper ball with white paper, which was still copied by Fang Tinglan according to the map he had drawn before. This is a great test of the painter, one is not the same copy, in fact, you need to change the proportions, the other is not on a plane, but on the ball, fortunately this is not difficult for a master of fine brushwork, and then the painting is a big deal to change again.
In fact, Yang Xin underestimated the lady of qin, chess, calligraphy and painting at this time.
"You actually succeeded once?"
He said in horror.
"I can succeed in copying flowers and birds at one time, why is it difficult for you?"
Fang Tinglan said.
"This is what you call a globe?"
Fang Xizhe's voice sounded in front of the door.
"Respect for Han Gong!"
Yang Xin hurriedly bowed.
Fang Xizhe, who was in a wheelchair, was immediately pushed into the room by the house slaves, Yang Xin saluted Xu Guangqi who followed behind, Xu Guangqi was followed by Chen Yujie, to his surprise, Chen Yujie was actually followed by Wang Wanqing......
"Your little girl runs around every day, and your grandfather doesn't care?"
Yang Xin said speechlessly.
"Do you want to care? My grandfather is in Shanhaiguan! ”
Wang Wanqing said.
Well, Yang Xin forgot that her grandfather was the supreme commander of the Northern Theater of the Ming Dynasty, and he was still strategizing at this time.
Ten minutes later.
"It's the sun!"
Yang Xin pointed to a lit lantern in front of him and said.
Then he turned the globe.
"This means that during the day, when the Kyoshi turns to this side, the night comes, and the sun rises and sets not because the sun rises and sets, but when our position changes, different positions on the earth will usher in sunrise at different times. The earth rotates from west to east, so the east sees the sun earlier than the west, if we start with the central axis of the Ming Palace, after we see the sun, Chongqing people have to see the sun for nearly half an hour. ”
He continued.
"Then why is the sunrise big and the day small?"
Fang Xizhe asked with interest.
Yang Xin looked at his daughter, who silently picked up two pieces of paper on the table, one hand and unfolded it to everyone, the first one was completely blacked out, but there was a white square in the middle, and the second was completely white, but there was a blackened square in the middle......
"Which of the two smaller blocks is bigger?"
Yang Xin said with a smile.
"White!"
Wang Wanqing couldn't wait to shout.
Fang Xizhe and Xu Guangqi bowed slightly in agreement.
Without Yang Xin to speak, Fang Tinglan, who had already played this game, smiled and took out the scissors, quickly cut off the two squares, and then walked directly to her father and overlapped them......
"Just as big?"
Fang Xizhe was stunned.
"Jing Hangong, eyes will deceive."
Yang Xin said.
"Chaowen said, you can die at night! When old decay is about to die, I know that even seeing is not necessarily believing! ”
Fang Xizhe looked at the piece of paper in front of him and sighed.
"The distance between the sun and us is actually in the morning, evening, far and noon, but relative to the distance between the sun and the earth, this distance is not worth mentioning, and it can be said that the size of the sun we see is unchanged. As for the sun that we see in the morning and evening, it is because the sky behind it is dark, like the black behind this little white square, but the sun at noon, although it is close, is on a much brighter background, like this small black square in a field of white, so our eyes deceive us. ”
Yang Xin said.
"Why do you say that heliocentrism is closest to the truth, but is heliocentrism also not the truth?"
Xu Guangqi said.
At this time, he was already inclined to believe Yang Xin, and Yang Xin wanted to thank Long Huamin at this point, because without Long Huamin's performance, Xu Guangqi found it difficult to believe him, but Long Huamin tested him, after all, what he knew was what missionaries would never say, and Long Huamin admitted that what he said was the truth, then it also means that heliocentrism at least caused a huge impact in Europe, and even let the Holy See use a stake to deal with it.
Regardless of whether this doctrine is true or not, it is indeed not made up by Yang Xin.
"All we can see is the sun, so the universe is infinite, is what we see is everything?"
Yang Xin said.
"My life has an end, and there is no end to knowledge! Our eyes can't see the end of learning, let alone the end of the sky, no one can say that they have found the truth, so far, we can see that the sun is our center, everything is given by the sun, and the sun makes all things rich. But can we say that our eyes see everything? Does the universe have boundaries and does time have an end? In the face of knowledge, none of us dare to say that we have found the truth, but we can only keep moving forward and pursue the infinite truth with a limited lifespan! ”
He continued to pretend to be in the middle.
The two old men were silent, Chen Yujie was fanatically worshipping, and Fang Tinglan was confused, and Wang Wang ......
Wang Wang was confused.
Then the two old men left in silence.
"Why do you look at me like this, I'll be shy."
Yang Xin looked at the back of Xu Guangqi leaving and said.
"I'm looking at what kind of demon you are, rude and rude, barbaric and fierce, your hands are covered with blood in just one month, but you can write beautiful words, and you also understand astronomy and geography, even people like Long Huamin who even Xu Zanshan are speechless by you, but you can't even write, you are simply a monster."
Fang Tinglan said angrily.
"I think I'm peculiar when you say that."
Yang Xin said.
Wang Wanqing next to her coughed.
"Do you have any comments?"
Yang Xin asked.
Wang Wanqing glanced at him, then took out her small bag, took out a folded white paper from it and held it up......
"Yang Xin, are you guilty?"
She cleared her throat and said.
Then she was stunned to find that the paper in her hand had reached Yang Xin's hand.
The latter, in her glaring eyes, quickly opened and looked at the portrait of the person above......
"Can any of you tell me what kind of crime am I guilty of and what kind of punishment should I receive if I quarreled with someone and pushed him down, and then he accidentally fell on the guillotine and was cut off in the head?"
Yang Xin asked in amazement.
This is the latest version of the wanted warrant, there is no water bandit robbing the merchant ship of Huangzhen, there is no him running to Liu Qi to take revenge and cut off people's heads as a ball, or even he hijacked Chen Yujie to resist arrest and injured many sailors of the Jiang family, none of this has happened. He already knew this, Chen Yujie had already told him that he had persuaded the Jiang family to give up accountability in Gegu, and the local officials didn't want to bear the name of incompetence, so even if this incident didn't happen, several sailors of the Jiang family were slightly injured, and one person gave some silver and pulled him down. But Yang Xin killed Liu Qi, but turned into Huang Zhen's ship to buy rice in Gegu, he had a quarrel with Liu Qi on the shore because of trivial matters, and he pushed down Liu Qi during the quarrel, but the place where he pushed down was a little special, next to it were two people who were feeding the cows, so they were caught off guard and cut off Liu Qi's head at once.
Then he absconded in fear of sin.
I have to say that the imagination is very rich.
Such an exaggerated plot can be made up, and it is full of human and material evidence, even the plaintiff has a unified voice, to put it bluntly, all parties don't want to make a big fuss about Liu Qi.
It's not good for anyone to make a big fuss.
If Yang Xin is sued for intentional homicide, then Huang Zhen will not let go of the water bandits, and Liu Qitong's bandits and his brothers will definitely not be clean, if Tianjin Bingbei Road does not care about it, he will continue to sue him, anyway, the illegal salt on his boat has been thrown into the Haihe River, he is a legitimate businessman, and he is not afraid of making a big fuss at all, and it is impossible for He Gong and those people to come out to testify that he has sold illegal salt.
even went to find Wang Keshou at all.
He is the top boss of Tianjin Sanwei, there is a bandit attack in the place, and he is also the savior of the governor's granddaughter who attacked, then this matter will be very embarrassing for the governor, and then Tianjin Bingbeidao must suppress the bandits, at least a group of people must be arrested, otherwise the hat on the governor's head is not easy to mess with, and under the hat is the sword of Shang Fang. Then the Liu family, as the most suitable cannon fodder, may all be brought out, in fact, if the Tianjin military preparation road arrests people, their family is the preferred target, if they bite indiscriminately at that time, the officials of Fengcaichang and the local inspection may all be brought out.
For such a person is not worth it, in the final analysis, he is really a bandit, everyone knows this.
As for deceiving the upper and lower levels and making up stories, this is a basic operation for local officials, and what they want is that there are no bandits, and they will be very troublesome if they do.
Officials don't like trouble.
Even if they don't have a solution, but the solution costs money and connections, wouldn't it be better if nothing happened, and if there is a robbery of bandits under their rule, it will also affect their evaluation, these are troubles, and of course the trouble can be avoided and best avoided.
So the question now is, what should be done with this crime?
"Hanged, but redeemed, is to pay for silver!"
Fang Tinglan said.
"How much?"
Yang Xin asked.
"According to the law, twelve taels and four dollars and two cents!"
Chen Yujie said.
"Where's my wallet, this money is out!"
Yang Xin said boldly.
It's just this bit of silver, it's so cheap!
Then he rolled his eyes.
"You are absconding in fear of crime, and this crime is added to the second degree!"
Fang Tinglan said angrily.
"Plus two, what is hanging plus two degrees?"
Yang Xin was stunned.
"You only have one more to add, because there's one left above the hanging!"
Wang Wanqing said happily and pulled a finger on her neck, and then stretched out her cute little tongue.