Chapter Ninety-Eight: The Influence of Astronomy

A few days later, when Dai Yan was studying at home, Zhao Yong suddenly came to the door. Pen, fun, and www.biquge.info

"Childe, you're not wrong at all, the earth is indeed as you say, it's round! Zhao Yong was really a frog at the bottom of the well before, please forgive me for the offense! As soon as he came to visit, Zhao Yong apologized to Dai Yan first.

"Did you really go to the beach and experiment with a boat? Dai Yan asked.

"In order to verify the doctrine put forward by Childe, I personally went to the beach to observe the departure of the ship, and the situation was exactly as you said: the bottom of the ship disappeared first, then the hull, and the mast of the ship disappeared last! Childe, if, as you said, the earth is round, isn't the position in which we stand unstable? Will we fall off the ground in the future? After Zhao Yong verified the conclusion with experiments, he asked Dai Yan several questions, and immediately fell into unfounded worries.

Although this future male lord of the Zhao Kingdom already had good bravery and wisdom at this time, he was still only a teenager under the age of twelve after all, and it was normal to have such worries. So Dai Yan immediately began to persuade him: "Don't worry, what you said will not happen." The reason why we are able to stand firmly on the ground instead of flying into the air is because we are given gravitational pull by the earth. ”

However, no matter how Dai Yan explained, he could never eliminate the worry and fear in Zhao Yong's heart.

Zhao Yong, as the crown prince of Zhao State and the future prince of Zhao State, he is the absolute ruling class in this era! However, Dai Yan did not understand how much of an impact the astronomical model he had built had on these real ruling classes.

The new astronomical model was proposed by Dai Yan in order to make a calendar more suitable for agricultural production. When he proposed this model, the Mohist disciples had been studying logic for some time, and they had all kinds of debates in Fengyi and were able to accept all kinds of whimsical ideas.

Even so, it took them a while to accept the astronomical model proposed by Dai Yan. And Dai Yan didn't know that even if the Mo family and later peasant disciples accepted his model, the idea of "turning the world upside down" in the hearts of these new people who accepted this concept still did not disappear!

And Zhao Yong is completely different from the Mo family and the peasant disciples! He just learned a little bit of logic from Dai Yan, and then Dai Yan introduced him to this astronomical model that completely subverted his ideas! And this model turned out to be correct after being personally verified by Zhao Yong!

This made the heaven and earth in Zhao Yong's mind collapse, and it is not an exaggeration to say that it is truly upside down!

Astronomy plays an extremely important role in human life and production, and the most typical of them is that almost all human civilizations have a sun god! The ancient Babylonian civilization even had the bitter lesson of destroying the country because it had an inaccurate prediction of a lunar eclipse!

And China's emphasis on astronomy is not relaxed at all! After the establishment of the great unified dynasty of later generations, it was a felony to practice astronomy in private! There is a stipulation in the Tang Law: Private possession of astronomical artifacts that can study astronomy, as well as books on astronomical calendars, is two years in prison; And those who study astronomy in private, look at the heavens and draw the earth, sophisify about disasters, and vainly state good fortune will be sentenced to hanging!

And those who study astronomy privately are not among themselves! The ruling class considers this to be a truly heinous sin! This shows how severe the punishment is!

A talent like Zhuge Liang who "knows astronomy", that is, he was in chaos in the world at the end of the Han Dynasty, and he was able to assist Liu Bei in founding the Shu Kingdom.

Although in this Warring States era, there was no real unity in the world. However, the astronomical system that established the entire order of the world had been formed.

In this era, people's general view of heaven and earth is that the sky is high, and there is God Haotian ruling over everything; And the whole world is ruled by the eldest son of Haotian God, who is now Zhou Tianzi.

Although many of the princes of various countries have now usurped the title of king, the biggest source of legal truth for them to rule over various countries actually comes from the canonization of Zhou Tianzi, that is, from the divine legitimacy given by Haotian God.

Although China has not explicitly put forward the theory of divine authority of kings, the monarchs of all countries actually enjoy the fruits of divine authority of monarchs.

When the astronomical model was proposed, the Mo family and the peasant disciples were only a little shocked, and they felt that the world was turned upside down. However, the touch they produced was definitely not as big as Zhao Yongda!

For Zhao Yong, he is now the crown prince of Zhao and the monarch of Zhao in the future. From the point of view of his interests, the astronomical system of the traditional round heaven was more beneficial to maintain his rule! But the truth was before him: the earth was round, not square!

Then he has accepted the notion since he was a child: the sky is round and the place is wrong. So does the heavenly God of Haotian still exist? Did the Son of Heaven really inherit the authority of Heaven? Did Zhao really enjoy the protection of the Mandate of Heaven?

This feeling of the collapse of the foundation of domination made his heart truly filled with fear!

He was a man of courage, and at a young age, he dared to lead hundreds of cavalry to go to the land to quell the rebellion of the Zhao State! However, for this feeling that the entire foundation of domination is collapsing, it is indeed beyond the limit of his bearing!

Dai Yan didn't notice the fear in Zhao Yong's heart, and he was still chattering about the knowledge of gravity. Zhao Yong didn't dare to interrupt Dai Yan's explanation at will, because in his opinion, a person like Dai Yan who can peek through the real "Mandate of Heaven" is a real god!

Although he, Zhao Yong, is now the crown prince of Zhao State, his status is noble. But what is it compared to a man of God who can see through the heavens?

Zhao Yong can indeed understand the knowledge of astronomy and physics that Dai Yan told. However, the more he understood Dai Yan's explanation, the more fearful he became. Zhao Yong suppressed his fear with respect for Dai Yan at first, but in the end, he asked Dai Yan a question very seriously: "Childe, you know heaven and earth so clearly, so Haotian God can really exist?" ”

Dai Yan originally wanted to respond in a chic manner according to the scientific knowledge he had learned since he was a child, "Of course God does not exist". However, when Dai Yan saw a pitiful expression under Zhao Yong's serious eyes, he finally saw the fear in Zhao Yong's heart!

He also woke up suddenly!

This era is not really the era of scientific prosperity in later generations! If Haotian God really does not exist, the princes will have no legal basis to rule the country!

Haotian God is the supreme god in Chinese culture. There is also a supreme God in all civilizations, God in the Christian civilization and Allah in the green civilization. Even in the age of scientific prosperity in later generations, the existence of God, the supreme god, is still a subject of debate!

But does God really not exist? Dai Yan asked himself rhetorically.

If God really doesn't exist, then why did he experience such a bizarre thing about time travel? His subconscious belief that the proposition that God does not exist is actually shaken by itself, but he has not discovered it himself.

And at the same time, he also remembered his identity: now he is the son of the Song Kingdom, a descendant of the Xuanyao who is destined to return!

This "divinity" carried in his body is beneficial to him.

If he openly denied that "Haotian God does not exist", wouldn't that harm his own interests?

This world needs the existence of Haotian God!

So he immediately retracted what he wanted to say, and changed his words instead: "Of course Haotian God exists!" The whole world was created by God Haotian, and the rules of the world were also built by him! Haotian God is omnipresent, omnipotent, omniscient, and omnipresent! Of course, we can't touch Haotian God with our insignificance, but we can continue to understand the rules he has set for this world to understand him, which is also the mission given to us by Haotian God! ”

Hearing this, Zhao Yongcai seemed to breathe a sigh of relief, and the fear in his heart eased slightly, so he asked: "This also means that it is reasonable for the Son of Heaven to rule the world, and it is also legitimate for me to rule my own land after I wait for the nobles?" ”

At this time, Dai Yan completely restored the consciousness of the ruling class, and replied to Zhao Yongdao: "Of course! ”

Zhao Yong was completely relaxed when he heard this, so he said to Dai Yan: "Childe, you can be regarded as solving my doubts these days. I am willing to worship you as a teacher and be your disciple, is it okay? ”

Hearing that Zhao Yong wanted to worship himself as a teacher, Dai Yan was a little surprised. However, being able to accept the crown prince of Zhao as a disciple and befriend the future monarch of Zhao is not only beneficial to him in spreading science, but also to him personally and to the Song State.

Of course, Dai Yan would not refuse such a request.