Emperor Chongzhen's words, Zhang Weixian never refutes now. Pen & Fun & Pavilion www.biquge.info This is not to say that he really thinks that the Ming Emperor Chrysostom and his mouth are constitutional, and he cannot refute it.

It's that he sees very clearly that whatever the emperor does in front of him is to take precautions, plan and then act, and will not do something for no reason.

Especially now, the authority of the Ming Emperor in front of him has far exceeded that of his brother, father, and even grandfather.

In the eyes of him, an old prince who has gone through several dynasties, the Ming Emperor in front of him is quite similar to Emperor Shizong Jiajing in terms of how he behaves in the world, and it will not end well to deal with such a person.

Look at how many people in the court dare to blatantly scold the emperor like they did during the Wanli, Taichang, and Tianqi dynasties? !

Especially since the emperor ascended the throne, the number of civil and military generals, clans, and nobles killed is probably much more than the cumulative number of the three dynasties since his father and ancestors.

In the past, the noble family of Jingshi Xun, who had always been arrogant and domineering even more than the clan, now which one did not obediently hand over or sell the cultivated land occupied by the guards at a low price, and all of them became good babies, following the emperor's baton, investing in factories and mines?

Even the British government is no longer always concerned about buying land and collecting rent, but turning to Yongping Mansion and hiring workers to dig the local open-pit coal mine.

The emperor quietly trained the Guards, and sent two of the three battalions that were originally responsible for guarding the Beijing Division in one go.

Today's Jingying, today's Jingshi Xungui, what confidence can they have to compete with the current Ming Emperor?

At this moment, after listening to the emperor's words, Zhang Weixian certainly understood the emperor's intentions.

He understood more and more that the emperor in front of him was also very similar to his grandfather, and compared with his grandfather, Emperor Wanli, he was even better.

This is greed.

However, his grandfather was greedy, only greedy for gold and silver wealth, but the one in front of him was greedy for land, occupying Yingzhou, Dongfan, Saiwai, and Korea, where was not killing its inhabitants and seizing its land?

However, the British public Zhang Weixian did not care about this, the emperor in front of him was the master of the Ming Dynasty, those lands belonged to the Ming Dynasty, the tenants of the Jingshi Xun were not easy to recruit, and the tenants' rents had to be reduced, but they lost the east corner, and harvested the mulberry elm, they can learn from a few relatives to switch to industry and commerce, and secondly, they can also go to Saibei and North Korea to occupy the land, giving up the small profits in front of them, but in the long run they will get more, so why not do it?

Mao Wenlong, Marquis of Anton, had previously contacted the noble families of the Jingshi in the Governor's Mansion of the Five Armies, and this time it was the first time to send a message to the British Mansion, the Dingguo Mansion, and several nobles who were newly appointed to the Jingying and Governor's Mansions, reserving a large area of fertile land in North Korea. How could they sit idly by and watch the North Korean envoy ask for it back?

Therefore, in his opinion, the imperial court's previous decree to Dongjiang Town is the premise of this communication with the Korean envoys, if he does not accept the premise that the second province of northern Korea is included in the territory of the Ming Dynasty, then naturally everything will not be mentioned, and there is no need for them to go to the court to pay homage to the emperor.

Emperor Chongzhen saw that Zhang Weixian bowed his head and was silent, did not say much, did not ask anything, and knew in his heart that he understood what he meant, so he no longer said more about the Korean envoy, but said to Xu Guangqi, the minister and the secretary of the Ministry of Rites: "Xu Qing proposed to me that the calendar should be reformed before, and that Qin Tianjian organize people to revise the "Great Unification Calendar" and edit the "Chongzhen Calendar". In my opinion, Xu Qing's energy should still focus on reforming the calendar and revising the calendar. As for the matter of the Korean envoys to the capital to pay tribute, the Ministry of Rites can send a Shilang to participate. ”

The almanac that has been used since the founding of the Ming Dynasty is called the "Great Unification Calendar". This "Datong Calendar" is slightly revised from the almanac of the Yuan Dynasty, that is, the "Time Calendar" compiled by Guo Shoujing, which is basically equivalent to following the calendar of the Yuan Dynasty.

After Guo Shoujing's "Calendar of Time" was written, it had been used for more than 350 years when it was used by Emperor Chongzhen, and all kinds of errors were getting bigger and bigger, and more and more inaccurate.

Especially at the end of the Ming Dynasty, the climate change was abnormal, and almost all of the 24 solar terms were disordered, and when it was supposed to be the spring equinox in the almanac, the Central Plains was still frozen three feet, so the Ming Dynasty's "Datong Calendar" that copied Guo Shoujing's "Time Calendar" has basically lost the function of guiding agricultural farming.

All parts of the Ming Dynasty still used the "Great Unified Calendar" to guide farming, so it often led to a reduction in crop yield or even a failure of harvest, which was also one of the reasons for the frequent famine in the late Ming Dynasty.

In this life, since Xu Guangqi was activated by Emperor Chongzhen and became the secretary of the Ministry of Rites, he had a wish, that is, to set up an almanac bureau and revise the "Great Unification Calendar" according to the more advanced Western scientific methods in this historical period.

Historically, this incident occurred in the second year of Chongzhen, and what finally prompted Emperor Chongzhen to make up his mind to revise the calendar was not only Xu Guangqi's book, but most importantly, Xu Guangqi used Western methods to accurately predict the solar eclipse that occurred in June of the second year of Chongzhen, and the Qin Tianjian at that time made obvious mistakes according to the observation of the "Great Unification Calendar".

Originally, in history, Emperor Chongzhen quickly adopted Xu Guangqi's proposition and established the Almanac Bureau because of this.

Presided over by Xu Guangqi, well-known Western missionaries and astronomers in the Ming Dynasty at that time, such as the Italian Long Huamin, the Portuguese Luo Yagu, the Swiss Deng Yuhan, the German Tang Ruowang, etc., as well as the Ming scientists Li Zhizao and Li Tianjing, joined the almanac set up by the imperial court.

It took five or six years to compile the "Chongzhen Almanac", which is the lunar calendar that is still being tinkered with and used until the 21st century.

But it's a pity that Xu Guangqi, who initiated this matter first and had been presiding over this matter in the early stage, did not see the day when the "Chongzhen Almanac" was completed.

In this life, as soon as Xu Guangqi came back, he became the secretary of the Ministry of Rites and a cabinet minister, and at the same time won the emperor's trust.

Therefore, as soon as he raised the issue of rebuilding the almanac, Emperor Chongzhen immediately agreed, allocated the money, and he presided over it with full authority.

Therefore, the work of revising the "Great Unification Calendar" and compiling the "Chongzhen Calendar" began one year earlier than the original history.

At that time, the top scientists and astronomers in the Ming Dynasty also gathered in the newly established Almanac Bureau in the Jingshi Qin Tianjian in December of the first year of Chongzhen.

Of course, in this life, as in history, the first thing Xu Guangqi did after gathering scientists from the West and China was to organize them to concentrate on compiling all the Western classics on the astronomical calendar that could be found.

Historically, these people gathered together and compiled a total of 46 Western scientific works, especially astronomical works, so that the field of science and technology in China at that time was basically on the same level as the West when the Renaissance was in the ascendant.

If it were not for the later Manchu rule, Chinese civilization would never have stagnated for the next three hundred years, or even seriously regressed.

Counting up, the work that Xu Guangqi is leading a group of Chinese and foreign scientists to do is of course 10,000 times more important than those North Korean envoys.

Emperor Chongzhen's extreme emphasis on compiling the almanac also made Xu Guangqi happy, so when he heard the emperor say that there was no need for the Ministry of Rites to participate in the tribute of the Korean envoys, he did not feel any unhappiness, and immediately bowed down and said: "The minister obeys the order!" ”

Emperor Chongzhen saw that the night was dark and late at this time, and he was still in the Kunning Palace to accompany the queen for the night, so he simply said: "The matter of the Korean envoy's tribute will be discussed here today." You Aiqing have worked hard these days, so let's go home early to rest. ”