Seven days and nineteen hours.

It is nearly three days longer than the minimum standard given by Han Gang.

And, after a simple repair, the machine was back roaring.

The requirements of the first step were fulfilled perfectly.

Without hesitation, the government hall gave the long-standing reward to the three craftsmen and eleven small workers in the group.

The three craftsmen and masters all won the official position, and the small workers also had hundreds of bonuses. Although it is not as good as the reward of Liao, it is also a reward that makes tens of millions of people envious.

From the fifth day onwards, the newspapers of the Beijing Division were carrying a series of reports. The day when the steam engine will be put on track and replaced by thousands of horses.

The so-called success is nothing more than that.

"Today's even the title of the gold list is far worse than striking iron. Alas, tomorrow I will let my son go and get a hammer. ”

"I'm used to holding a two-dollar awl, but I can use a ten-pound hammer?"

"If you can't hold a hammer, you can always pick up a burning stick."

Even in the political hall, there are inevitably people who look at the hot eyes, and the sour words are stringed one after another.

Zong Ze glanced at the past, but it was quiet for a moment, but as soon as he walked away, he immediately appeared again.

Zong Ze's face was slightly gloomy, Li Jie returned to Beijing from Shaanxi to resume his life, this was going to see Han Gang with him, and when he heard these nonsense words on the way, if they reached Han Gang's ears, he would be eaten up and down the back of the hall.

Li Jie chuckled: "As the saying goes, fire and water help each other, and salt and plum complement each other." As soon as this steam engine came to fruition, salty and sour words came out. ”

Zong Ze bowed slightly: "They are all rat-eyed people, so I laughed." ”

Li Jie laughed loudly: "How can you talk about laughing? There is no such person, how can I see that my generation is wise. ”

Laughing out loud in a political hall where everyone is cautious in their words and deeds is not necessarily met a few times in ten years.

Crazy personality, but not annoying. Zong Ze thought to himself.

He didn't deal much with Li Jie, and he always thought that Li Jie was the kind of honest person who focused on his own preferences, but he didn't expect that there would be such a side.

Li Jie's black, thin, and rainy life left a deep mark on his face. is far from his brother Li Yu in appearance. However, Li Yan has a bad character, and the last time he came to see Han Gang, he left a very bad impression on Zong Ze.

"But the rewards given by the imperial court are indeed too many." Li Jie smiled, and said again, "This is the first step, in the future, the steam engine will be loaded on the car and ship, how should it be rewarded at that time?" ”

"Xianggong will not be stingy, and he will never be worse than Beiyu!"

"I mean, the first person is rewarded, but the success after that doesn't mean they're bad. The last time I went to Beijing, I went to the iron field to see it, and each group has its own set, and losing any of them is a great loss. ”

Zong Ze nodded and said, "What you said is exactly what Xiang Gong is worried about. I had already asked Mr. Wang to appease him before. ”

"In this way, I am relieved."

Zong Ze knew that Han Gang was not just focused on the group that won first in this long competition. Well, that's just the first step.

How to use it on the train, how to drive the wheels, these are all problems that need to be solved. This successful group alone simply does not have enough manpower. Moreover, the fact that the steam engine is built now does not mean that the steam engine can be better applied to practice.

Mechanical design, first of all, must have a mathematical foundation.

Zong Ze had read books on this subject, but when he looked at the drawings again, he still couldn't understand them. The six arts of the gentleman, Zong Ze did not have the face to say that he could penetrate it.

At the beginning, Han Gang got a large number of seeds from the Great Food, and at the same time, there were hundreds of books. Han Gang recruited a group of translators who were proficient in the Great Food Literature, and personally decided on all the terms, even the translation title of Geometric Principles was also set by Han Gang. After the book was completed, it spread throughout the Central Plains as a recommended book in "Nature".

In this way, there are dozens of experts on the iron field who don't even know the professional knowledge that Zhuangyuanlang doesn't understand. In Han Gang's position, Zong Ze would definitely not give up other equally talented craftsmen who may just be unlucky for the sake of one of the groups.

Zong Ze led Li Jie to Han Gang's public hall, and Han Gang had already come out of the hall to greet him.

After greeting the moved Li Jie, Han Gang said to Zong Ze, "Rulin, are you going to the sutra feast today?" Ready, no. ”

"What else do you need to prepare?" Zong Ze shook his head, when he gave the emperor a feast, he already knew what to say and what not to say. "It's about the calendar, will the Son of Heaven ask?"

The old Fengyuan calendar was frequently wrong and missing, and Qin Tianjian was quite burdened by it, so under the auspices of Su Song, the Great Song Dynasty once again reformulated the calendar.

Since the founding of the Song Dynasty, the calendar has always been a big problem. Especially after Emperor Taizong banned private research on astronomy, the level of the astronomical calendar dropped sharply to the point that it was inferior to even the Liao State.

At the beginning of the founding of the People's Republic of China, it was followed by the "Qin Tian Calendar" of the Later Zhou Dynasty, but it was renamed "Ying Tian Calendar", and then the "Qianyuan Calendar" was compiled, but the great Qianyuan Dynasty was not 20 years, it was replaced by the "Yi Tian Calendar", and then 20 years was the "Chongtian Calendar", and 40 years to make the "Tomorrow Calendar", nine years later it was changed to the "Fengyuan Calendar", and now it has been changed to "Yuan You Calendar" - this is too lazy to think of the name, directly use the year name, which is also the precedent of the Kaihuang calendar, Zhenyuan calendar, etc.

The calendar has changed every ten or twenty years, and at most it has not been used for fifty years, and it has been used for more than 100 years, and the calendar used has been comparable to the Tang Dynasty for 300 years, far exceeding the Eastern Han Dynasty and the Western Han Dynasty. This is not to say how diligent the officials of the Qin Tianjian were, nor how quickly the level of the astronomical calendar of the Great Song Dynasty improved, on the contrary, it was that the level was too poor, so that the solar terms were always inconsistent with the calendar.

There is no calendar that can pass the verification of solar terms, synodic hope, five stars, and eclipses of the sun and moon, but so far, there is not a single one that can pass all the tests.

Shen Kuo originally recommended Wei Pu to compile the Fengyuan calendar, and the deduced solar and lunar eclipses in the past could only reach five or six out of ten, which was better than before, but it was not an absolute advantage.

The problem of the gradual deterioration of qi has plagued the Emperor and Song Dynasty for a hundred years, and even outside the territory, it has become a laughing stock. Su Song sent an envoy to the Liao State, because the Liao and Song calendars were one day off, so he was asked, and he gave a tough response as a scholar, but in fact, the Liao people's calendar was correct, and the Great Song Dynasty was very wrong.

The significance of the calendar to the Central Plains Dynasty is very important, as long as it is a minister, it is necessary to accept the calendar and the year name, the origin of the word Zhengshuo, is derived from the calendar. But now that it's changing, it's almost like a joke.

The fourteen or fifteen-year-old little emperor rarely reacted to this matter, "What did Niangniang say?" ”

Zong Ze bowed his head, "This matter is not known to the ministers." ”

Huang Enzhong, who was beside Zhao Xu, was transferred to Zhao Xu's side after the previous case of the Queen Mother's funeral, and finally came out of it, and said in a low voice: "The Queen Mother said to use it first, and then replace it if it is not suitable in a few years." ”

After Xizong, the calendar changed every few years. Which one of you here hasn't experienced it? No one cares if the calendar changes today or tomorrow.

As long as there are no problems for 360 days a year, few people will care about the trajectory of the sun, moon and five stars that do not match the calendar.

No matter how you say it, there is no time when the calendar is wrong enough to point to the full moon and say that today is the first day of the new year, and you can only see the stars on the night, saying that it is the fifteenth day of August. As for the difference in solar terms, a day or two will not delay farming, not to mention the abolished calendar, which is at most thirty or fifty quarters of an hour.

But the little emperor was very dissatisfied with this, "Now all countries come to the dynasty, and they all use the national calendar." When those Fanbangs found that the calendar was wrong, where did the emperor and Song put their faces. It is a matter of the dignity of the imperial court, how can it be so neglected? ”

"The official family is angry. The official family was angry. Huang Enzhong immediately appeased Zhao Xu, "Su Pingzhang said yes, and Han Xianggong also said yes." That's why the Queen Mother agreed, otherwise how could it be promulgated casually? What's more, those Yidi can't even write words, where can they calculate. ”

Zhao Xu was silent and didn't say a word, and his basic ability to observe words and colors also made Huang Enzhong shut up.

Zong Ze was about to start his own course, but he didn't expect Zhao Xu to suddenly mention it again, "Recently, I heard that Beiyu has burned books and pit Confucianism, can this matter be done?" ”

Zong Ze shook his head, "There are many rumors, but in fact, they are just expulsions." ”

The Liao State abandoned the Confucian main work, and it had long been spread to the south with the prestige of the general cannon of the universe.

That huge cannon really shocked most people, including Zong Ze, tens of thousands of catties of huge things, it was inconvenient to get on and off the car, but one shot could destroy the city wall even if he got acquainted with again. Comparatively speaking, the news of the expulsion of Confucian scholars was covered up in the shadow of 10,000 catties of artillery.

Moreover, most of the people expelled by the Liao State were corrupt Confucians, or a group of people with empty ambitions and no other talents. Such a person was driven away, but it made Zong Ze admire Yelu Yixin's vision and methods more and more.

"What does the Qing family think of Liao's move?" Zhao Xu asked.

Zong Ze immediately replied: "This is to buy and return the pearls, and give up the original to the end." ”

"What do you mean by that?"

"Now that China is well-armed and has sharp firearms, it is not surprising that Yi Di covets the advantages of military armor. However, the growing prosperity of the country is due to the benevolent government of the imperial court, the proximity of the people, and the collection of virtuous and virtuous people. If there is no sage, you will lose your roots and get the end, and your majesty will not worry. ”

Speaking of this, Zong Ze couldn't help but think of what Han Gang said to him a few days ago.

Saying that the Son of Heaven is a family with one surname, Han Gang's attitude of sneering at the so-called Mandate of Heaven is very obvious.

Judging from the motto of the survival of the fittest, Han Gang attaches the most importance to Huayi's discrimination.

In terms of origin, this is indeed not surprising. Hangang, who is from Kansai, is hostile to foreign races hidden in the blood, and all kinds of them are far from being experienced in the south where he grew up in the Taiping for a hundred years.

But Zong Ze was still shocked by Han Gang's attitude. After all, a true loyal minister will not directly pull off the tiger skin wrapped in the royal family.

Zhao Xu frowned, but he seemed to have heard Han Gang's attitude towards this change: "Then according to Qing's opinion, who is the great sage of the court now?" ”

"Don't you know this person?" Zong Ze's eagle-like eyes stared at Zhao Xu, "It's Han Xianggong." “