Qi country, is an ancient state, its office is the surname of Ji, it is said to be the direct descendant of the Xia Dynasty Dayu, even if Shang Tang destroyed Xia, Qi also continued as a small country. When the pen %fun % pavilion www.biquge.info the Yin Zhou Yi Dynasty, in order to reflect the "survival and extinction" of the Zhou people, King Wu of Zhou chose a small Qi Bang and enshrined his monarch Donglou as a guest, as one of the "two kings and three ke", and offered the sacrifice of the Xia Hou clan.

However, the fate of the Qi country is uncertain, and the 600-year history of their re-establishment is a history of continuous migration and exile.

At the beginning, the fiefdom of the Qi State was in the hinterland of the Central Plains, that is, the later Qi County, Henan, but with the decline of the Zhou Dynasty, the Zhou nobles in the West fled to the east, and these people from the West occupied the territory of many small countries in the East, and the Qi State also suffered greatly. As a last resort, he could only move Sheji in this migration wave and moved to the vicinity of Mount Tai north of Lu State.

However, it is still not safe here, Qi State has been attacked and coveted by Song State, Lu State and other forces, unable to gain a foothold in Zhuxia, so they had to move to the land of Dongyi, they drove away Chun Yujun surnamed Jiang, and the bird occupied the dove's nest, which is considered to settle down. But the good times did not last long, after more than 100 years, under the invasion of Huaiyi and Ju State, Qi Guo once again moved to Yuanlingyi 100 miles away in the west with tears, until more than 50 years ago, with the support of his nephew Jin Pinggong, Qi Wengong recaptured Chunyu and recovered the old land.

However, the migration exhausted the energy and people's power of the Qi Kingdom, and the cultural classics were also dispersed several times, almost completely lost, and even Confucius said regretfully: "I can say the rites of the Xia Dynasty, but the descendants of the Xia Dynasty, the Qi Kingdom, are not enough to prove my words......"

The title of Qi country has also fallen again and again, when King Wu of Zhou was sealed, worshiped as the nations, treated as the prince, and the courtesy was extremely long. After the Qi country moved eastward, Xia Li was lost, but it was deeply affected by Yili, so it was often despised by the Lu country, sometimes called "Qi Hou", sometimes called "Qi Zi". Qi Guo himself is ashamed of his appearance, and he also calls himself "Qi Bo" on the bronze inscription carved on the seal.

Remoteness and isolation are also beneficial, at the time of the millennium change, Zhao swept through the Central Plains and defeated Wu, but as a subject state of Qi, the capital of Qi was located on the inner side of the Great Wall of Qi, so it was not affected for the time being.

Because it is also a hundred miles away from the nearest Qi city, the two sides basically do not interact with each other, and merchants rarely pass through here, so the people don't even know that in the summer of this year, Zhao and Qi have begun a desperate struggle.

They still live a different life than usual, the only difference is that they have a new monarch.

Qi Bowei, is the sixteenth generation of the monarch of the Qi Kingdom since the East Lou Gong, his father is the Duke of Qi Qi, just died last year, and now the filial piety period has been completed for one year, according to the Yi Li, can already be removed from the obedience to the government.

Speaking of this monarch, there is one more thing that people talk about, that is, when he was still the crown prince, he once fell into an inexplicable panic after a dream:

He was worried that one day the sky would fall and the earth would fall!

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"If the heavens fall, there will be no place for the rest and all the people." Qi Wei, who was still the prince at the time, was deeply worried about this, and even reached the point where he couldn't eat and couldn't sleep, so several years have passed, and this anxiety has not improved, whether it is a doctor or a witch wish, he can't make the prince feel at ease, and his father Qi Qigong also has a headache.

Seeing that his body is not as good as day by day, how can such a prince inherit the sacrifice of the Xia Hou clan and govern the country? With nothing to do, Duke Qi even wanted to replace the prince and let the concubine succeed him.

However, this matter was finally resolved, last spring, there was a deep-clothed Qi country traveler came to the remote Qi country, entered Chunyu City, happened to hear that the prince had a delusional disease, so he took the initiative to ask to meet with the prince and chat.

In the spirit of using a dead horse as a live horse doctor, the Duke agreed to the invitation of the wanderer, and then let him enter the palace and meet the prince.

"When did the prince's worries begin?" After meeting, the "Qi Traveler" first chatted for a while about the scenery and people of Qi State, which attracted Qi Wei's attention, and then tentatively asked him about the reason for his anxiety.

Qi Wei said: "Don't hide it, sir, the kid was learning the past of Qi Country at that time, but he couldn't help but feel terrified when he saw that the country had migrated four times in three hundred years. The country is a small country and a widow, and the fortunes of the country are entrusted to the big state, so I don't know when the next forced migration will happen, and I further think that not only is the national capital and the fortune of the country unreliable, but even the world in which this person is located may not be reliable. Although the migration of the country is impermanent, as long as the community remains, there will always be a place for us between heaven and earth, but if one day, the sky suddenly falls, if one day, the earth suddenly collapses, then what should we do? When the time comes, won't the country of Qi have no way to avoid it, and can only wait for death? ”

The character of this prince Qi Wei is as simple as that of ordinary Qi people, but because he sees far and thinks deeply, he has such a "senseless" worry, Qi Guo Youshi was silent for a moment, but he didn't feel like others that this was a mediocrity disturbing himself, thinking, is often the source of human troubles, but compared to people who never think, this is already a great improvement. So he smiled and asked, "Prince, do you want to know what this heaven and earth are?" ”

Qi Wei nodded, and the Qi Traveler came.

"The so-called sky, which seems to be vast and immense, is actually just an accumulation of gas, which is the air, and there is no place without air in Qiguo, Qingshu, the whole of Kyushu, and even the outer Kyushu and the southeast, northwest, and four seas. That is to say, the prince's every move, every breath and breath, is in the air all day long. Did the prince see the clouds in the sky? Clouds are also gas, but water vapor formed by water evaporation, water vapor condenses into rain and can fall, but the essence of air is gas, it has always floated in mid-air, how can it collapse? ”

Qi Wei was dumbfounded when he heard it, but after thinking about it carefully, he felt that it was wrong, and asked: "No, sir, since you said that the sky is made of gas, won't the sun, moon, stars, and stars fall on that day?" ”

Qi Guoyoushi smiled mysteriously: "The prince asked well, this is going to involve a bigger problem, let's start with the ground...... The earth is actually round......"

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"What! The earth is round!? Qi Wei felt that everything he had known before had been destroyed, and the instigator was this Qi country traveler.

"Didn't the people of Lu say that the sky is round and the earth is flat, and China is in the middle?"

Qi Guoyoushi seems to be familiar with Qi Wei's shock, when he entered the Linzhang School Palace to study, he was also ruined by this "earth circle theory", but it also made him completely open his eyes and re-understand the world.

The wanderer laughed: "That is a fallacy, the earth is round, for example, on the sea, the water is high and the ground hangs on all sides, and it can be seen that the ground is not flat; In order to prove this point of view, some of the scholars of the contemptible people once went west to the Jingwei Junction, to the east to the Langya Seashore, to the north to the Yan Dynasty Hu Raccoon, and to the south to the Fang City of the Chu State. They found that the farther north they went, the higher the North Star; The further south you go, the lower the North Star, and in the south you can see some new stars that you can't see in the north. At the same time, the time of sunrise in the east and west is not the same, so it can be inferred that the earth is round, and we call it the earth. ”

Qi Wei was already dumbfounded, and could only let the scholar continue.

Of course, for this to be conclusively confirmed, there must be a great dreadnought who walks around the earth, over the mountains, over the sea, and if he can really return to his original position, then it will prove this point of view conclusively. But for the time being, we think that the earth is like the yolk of an egg, and the sky is like an eggshell, each of which can be turned. In other words, there is an end to the heavens as far as our eyes can see, and the air spreads upwards from the surface of the earth until it reaches 99,000 zhang away, and the earth is surrounded by this thick atmosphere. And the sun, moon and stars that the prince is worried about are still outside this atmosphere. ”

Qi Wei swallowed his saliva, he had almost forgotten his worries, all his thoughts were focused on the mysteries of heaven and earth that the Qi Kingdom Traveler said, and he bowed his head: "The kid is stupid, I hope Mr. will solve my doubts!" ”

After all, in the Linzhang School Palace, "looking at the humanities to become the world", is their consistent criterion, and the previous Pan Palace aristocratic education is different, the school palace absorbed the Confucian tradition of "teaching without class", as long as you are dedicated to asking, these knowledge do not need to be cherished as a broom, but to spread out, so that more people understand and accept.

So on that day, Qi Guoyou and Qi Wei talked a lot about some theories about the "universe" beyond the earth, such as "the universe is a vacuum", "what is a vacuum", "how the sun, moon, and stars shine", "what is the way they operate", "what is gravitation......

All of the above, such as the theory of the circle of the earth, was developed directly on the basis of the astronomical cognition of the Chinese people in the Spring and Autumn Period. And some of them are new things directly thrown by the princes of a certain big country who likes to put forward new theories, and in order to prove these unbelievable theories, they have made the scholars of the palace work hard.

The two of them talked for a day, and when it was nightfall, they had already talked about the birth of the universe......

"There is too easy, there is too beginning, there is too beginning, there is too prime. Those who are too easy are not angry. The primordial one, the beginning of qi. The beginning is the beginning of form. Those who are too vegetarian are the beginning of quality. When air, form, and quality are not separated, it is chaos, and the universe is born out of chaos......"

"I see, that's ......" Although Qi Wei still didn't understand it, and he didn't dare to believe many of Youshi's statements, today's conversation had greatly broadened his horizons, and the worry about the sky falling had faded unconsciously.

Seeing that the prince had regained his previous spirits and had eaten a whole handful of rice, he was overjoyed. Although Qi Wei still wanted to talk to Qi Youshi all night, it was too late, Qi Qigong was worried about his son's body, and Qi Guoyoushi also showed a trace of tiredness, Qi Wei could only give up.

In the next few days, he spent the next few days chatting with the Qi State Wanderer, almost becoming a close friend, and when asked about his name, the Qi State Wanderer said that his name was "Xia Zi".

In addition to some astronomy and geography, Xia Zi also taught Qi Wei 12345 and other "Zhou Ji numbers", as well as vertical algorithms, which are much more sophisticated than the calculations still used in Qi Kingdom.

As a young man who likes to think, Qi Wei is very interested in these things, but it is difficult to have a deeper understanding due to the limited conditions. Although he had the intention to leave Xia Zi as a prince, he also knew that Qi Guo was a small state, and he was afraid that he would not be able to keep this great talent, and it would delay his future, so he could only say goodbye.

When the time of the final separation, Qi Wei gave Xia Zi a very high treatment that he could enter and leave several cities in Qi Country at will, and he had a special car to pick him up.

And Xia Zi gave Qi Wei a hand-copied long poem......

Paper is still a luxury in Qi Kingdom, looking at such a long roll of paper, Qi Wei even felt that this traveler's identity was extraordinary, but he was afraid that it was either after the Qing Doctor and the nobles, or a certain prince and grandson of Qi State.

When he saw it, he was even more stunned.

I saw that the opening chapter of his long scroll was written like this:

"In the beginning of time, who preached it? The top and bottom are not formed, why should they be tested? Who can be the best? Feng Yi is only like an image, how can he know it? ”……

The day is bright and the night is dark, how is it arranged?

Yin and Yang join together to give birth to all things, what is the origin and what is the evolution?

Legend has it that there are nine layers in the vast blue sky, who has gone around the measurement?

Who started building a project of this magnitude?

How do the Sun and Moon celestial bodies belong together? What is the starry display?

Saying: The sun comes out of the valley in the morning and rests in the night in Mengbian.

From dawn to dark, how many miles did you travel?

After reading the 373 sentences and 1560 words of the whole poem, Qi Wei was so shocked by these questions that he was speechless, and could only repeat constantly: 'Mr. is talented, Mr. is talented. ”

"Otherwise, the real talent is not me, but the one who wrote this "Tianwen"."

"Is he also from the Qi Kingdom?"

"It's not." Xia Zi blinked and said with a smile: "He is not a Qi person, but a Zhao person, and his status is very high, his mind covers all over the world, his wisdom is beyond ancient and modern, the school palace he founded is huge, and there are countless students like me, who have worked tirelessly to explore the mysteries of heaven and earth, the truth of the universe." ”

Qi Wei yearned, but sighed again: "The kid lives in a small remote country, the land is surrounded by the Qi country, and there is a limit to the Great Wall, and I don't know when and when I can see that great power, go to the school palace that Mr. said." ”

"Maybe it won't be long before the prince's wish comes true." Xia Zi smiled mysteriously at the end, said goodbye to Qi Wei, left Chunyu City, and walked towards the other two small towns in Qi Kingdom, he claimed that he wanted to walk all over the mountains and rivers of Qi Kingdom......

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Soon, a year passed, Qi Wei successfully inherited the throne of the monarch after the death of Qi Qigong, and his energy has been completely attracted by "Tianwen", and he no longer worries about nothing.

However, what Qi Wei didn't expect was that in the late summer and sixth months of the first year of his succession, the sky of Qi Kingdom really fell!

The southern border of Qi State, which should have been well defended by the Great Wall of Qi State, suddenly had a large army with more than 10,000 people, and it seemed that they knew the situation of the mountains and rivers of Qi Country very well, and directly approached Chun under the city.

Looking at the brightly armored army outside, Qi Wei's face turned pale, Qi Guo was too small, the entire Chunyu City couldn't even get together a thousand soldiers, and the armor and weapons were extremely old, and there was no way to resist.

Just when he was in despair, a car came from under the city, and there was a man in a deep scarf on the car, who said to Qi Wei at the head of the city through the low wall: "Qi Jun, I haven't seen you for a long time! ”

"Natsuko, why are you?" Qi Wei fixed his eyes and looked at it, who else could it be if it wasn't that Qi country traveler Xia Zi? But looking at the army behind him, Qi Wei seemed to understand something......

The wanderer was also full of shame, and said in the car: "The foreign minister has concealed it before, in fact, my name is Bu Shang, the word Zixia, born in Linzhang Xue Palace, and I am the minister of the Marquis of Zhao State. ”

PS: The bronze inscriptions of Qiguo unearthed in Xintai and other places have the mark of "Qiguo every death", which can prove that the title of Qiguo was once an uncle. In addition, the "earth circle theory" has been mentioned in China for a long time, but most people still understand that the sky is round and the place is round. (To be continued.) )