On a sunny night, the stars were shining, and Jia Yingfu, the supervisor of the Tiantai Division, was sitting in the courtyard of the government office flipping through books, and looking up at the sky from time to time. There are people on duty here at twelve o'clock a day and night to observe the celestial phenomena, but officials like Jia Yingfu do not have to be on duty at night, but they just stay tonight, busy studying the principle of a new instrument.

Si Tiantai is not exactly a technical department of astronomy and geography, and is often related to the central power, just like when they discovered a comet a few years ago, they immediately became in contact with the government and became the fuse of a power struggle.

Officials can influence the decision-making of the temple rulers in politics, calendars, agriculture, etc., but they can't talk nonsense, and they must also have a basis, so they must have a strong knowledge to take up the position of Si Tiantai.

Jia Yingfu has been stable in the position of Si Tiantai supervisor for several years, and he has been able to maintain his position in several turbulences, and his talent and insight are not just by patting on the back. He not only has a sense of smell and can judge the wind of the government, but also has a great knowledge of astronomical phenomena.

Now he is working on an instrument called the "Zodiacal Traveling Instrument", which can be used to observe the orbits of the sun, moon and stars. This thing has just been made, the designer is a monk, and the construction principle is based on "I think about it...... The monk's talent for writing articles was limited and he couldn't explain it in words, so Jia Yingfu sent an official to the temple to communicate with him. The officials who were sent understood the meaning of the monk and agreed with his views, so Si Tiantai allocated some funds for them to build this zodiac instrument together with the craftsmen. If the public money is spent, it is natural to record the principles and use accounts, etc., and hand them over to the government office.

Jia Yingfu is thinking about this thing now.

Just as he was concentrating on reading the file and thinking, he suddenly heard a voice say: "Ming Gong, come and see, there is movement in the seismograph!" ”

When he heard this, he hurriedly put down the things in his hand, got up and entered the courtyard gate, and followed the petty official on duty into the house. The room contained all sorts of strange instrument drawings and tools, including a huge seismograph, which had been copied and improved several times since the Han Dynasty was invented, and now the seismographs used are more powerful and larger.

"I was just sitting there writing, and your pen was still wet. I didn't touch it, I only heard a ding, and when I got up to inspect it, I found something strange. ”

"Call the person who surveyed and drew the map in, calculate the location from Chang'an, and then I will write a chapter and go to see His Highness early tomorrow morning." Jia Yingfu ordered.

Soon there were more people in the room, and everyone unfolded the map and measured the location and intensity of the earthquake according to the estimated distance of the instrument. The sleepy-eyed scribe also ran before and after to help, grinding his pulse and waiting for Jia Yingfu. The busy officials were measuring and reporting at the same time, and Jia Yingfu recorded it on a draft to be collected into a seal later.

"It's about 400 miles south of Chang'an, see where it is?"

The little official holding the folding ruler wrote and calculated while taking the folding ruler and measuring it on the drawing, looked up and said: "Over there in Zhongnan Mountain (Qinling), near Qizhou." ”

Early the next morning, Chaoli learned the news of the earthquake in the south of Chang'an last night, and when it was late in the evening, the Qizhou urgent report reported the earthquake to the imperial court from the post road and entered Beijing quickly, which was almost consistent with Si Tiantai's measurements. The report of the earthquake occurred again at night, so the houses attached to the state collapsed countless casualties were not counted, and even the state government fell and more than a dozen local officials died, so the urgent report was written in the name of the governor of Qi, and he had begun to mobilize the military and civilians in the state to save themselves and ask the central government to help Yunyun.

Princess Taiping ordered the burial of the Qizhou Thorn History, and asked the Hanlin Academy to write an edict in the name of the Son of Heaven and send it to the local government to commend Changshi and other bureaucrats. After the courtiers arrived at the Zichen Palace, Liu An discussed opening the official warehouses of the prefectures and counties near Qizhou to assist the disaster-stricken prefectures and counties to temporarily set up porridge sheds, and Princess Taiping agreed to Liu An's request. However, it is a bit difficult to have substantial help, at this time, the transportation speed is low, and the place in Qizhou is already within the range of Zhongnan Mountain, and the transportation is inconvenient, and the post road is damaged in many places, and it is difficult to move the grain trucks and horses...... The unlucky officials and the people can only ask for more blessings for themselves. However, Liu An thinks that the governor of Qizhou will levy and distribute grain to the people, as long as he gives an order to open a warehouse, it is better than doing nothing.

Under the social conditions of this era, whether there is a flood or a locust plague, the most important thing for the imperial court is to allocate money and grain for disaster relief, so that the people can have food first, and later assist in farming and cattle farming. The dynasty that can effectively do these things is already relatively powerful, and it must have national strength and unimpeded government decrees, if it happens to be in troubled times when the national power is weak, the temple and government are not able to manage it at all, then everyone will go and die, or shout that the sky is dead and the yellow sky should be unveiled immediately.

Therefore, when the Taiping agreed to open a warehouse for disaster relief and issued an order to appease the officials and the people, all the princes of the imperial court were more satisfied and felt that they had fulfilled their obligations to control the country.

At this moment, an official hurriedly ran into the Zichen Palace, fell down in the hall and said, "Your Highness, the music of the King of Jin!" ”

Princess Taiping's eyebrows were raised, and she said with a big sleeve: "Hand it over." ”

As soon as the ministers heard the word King of Jin, they quickly stopped talking and waited silently, and now Xue Chongxun is a sensitive topic in the Chang'an court.

Yu Liben walked down and returned with the concert from the official's hand, and Princess Taiping took the thing and opened it to look at it. People quietly observed her expression, only to see that her eyes suddenly widened, and the color of surprise and surprise overflowed on the face. The ministers were even more curious and eager to know the content of the book, what kind of article could make Princess Taiping have such an expression?

After a long time, Princess Taiping quietly handed the piece in her hand to Yu Liben: "Everyone wants to know what is written, you read it." ”

"Yes, Your Highness." Yu Liben respectfully took it, carefully unfolded the chapter, and read it word by word, fortunately, this eunuch was not only literate but also had some literary talent, and it was not a problem to read the article at all.

Erchen was shocked to hear that the officials and people were killed and injured in the Qizhou earthquake, so that he couldn't sleep all night, and he thought that there were many virtuous ministers in the court, and they would open a warehouse for disaster relief, and he was a little calmer. However, Erchen thought that the transfer of food was a move to save the people from fire and water, but it was difficult to rescue the survivors buried in the soil in time, and it was necessary to build shelters from the wind and rain to prevent the plague, and it was difficult for the affected states and counties to continue their efforts...... And the southern army of Chang'an can be used for city defense, the Shence army is stationed in the south of the city for the time being, please transfer the Shence army as the vanguard, quickly pull out Qizhou to aid the disaster relief people, the Shence army is strict and marches quickly, and the ministers will arrive in Qizhou within two days, in order to reduce casualties, and show the ......love of the people of my Tang Dynasty."

The hall was suddenly silent, and everyone was stunned beyond words. Obviously, it wasn't the disaster relief that everyone was surprised about...... In this situation, why did Xue Chongxun take the initiative to transfer the most deterrent Shence Army to a distance of four hundred miles? You must know that Chang'an's strength is only a little bit, and you can only use these strengths in the city to compete, and at this time, it is no longer possible to justifiably transfer troops from the outside to affect the balance, otherwise it will exacerbate the change. In such a situation, how big a decisive factor is that for 4,000 elites!

Princess Taiping smiled, patted the gold-inlaid armrests on both sides with her palms and laughed: "Chongxun is my son, worthy of being a member of our family!" Courageous, honest! Haha......"

An old man dressed in red fell to the floor with a thud and said loudly: "The benevolent heart of King Jin has moved the world, the society is very fortunate, the country is very fortunate, and the people are very fortunate!" ”

"This is written by Chongxun himself, it can't be wrong, take it down and show it to everyone, but it's not wrong." Princess Taiping said happily.

All the ministers bowed down and said, "Congratulations to Your Highness...... ministers"

Princess Taiping was so happy that she couldn't close her mouth, and she couldn't control her solemn demeanor, and she praised one by one, but there were few people who praised her son in front of outsiders like her.

"You say, how do you approve this recital?" Princess Taiping looked down at Her Highness and asked.

People immediately stopped, and many simply buried their heads, for fear of being noticed for their existence. Liu An raised his head and stopped talking, and finally remained silent like everyone else.

"If you want to rescue the disaster, you will be willing to transfer troops from Chang'an......, but you will be willing to seek the near and far," Princess Taiping muttered.

Everyone was stunned and speechless: Are you old man pretending to be stupid or are you really confused, obviously the focus of this matter is not here.

At this time, Princess Taiping said: "But since Chongxun has this heart, he will follow him." ”

"Your Highness is wise!"

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Not long after, the staff of the pro-kingdom also learned the news that the Shence army was going to be transferred, and Xue Chongxun didn't greet them at all before doing that, and wrote the recital by himself. He naturally has that kind of decision-making power, but it seems a little rigid and self-serving not to greet him.

Yu Wenxiao was the most depressed, and as soon as he knew the news, he complained in his stomach: "What is Xue Lang doing?" Don't discuss it with us beforehand, it's a knife in someone else's hands! If Princess Taiping had a thought, wouldn't we fall short and die without a place to be buried? ”

"Yuwen Gong Shao'an is not impatient." Wang Changling was busy persuading him. Xue Chongxun is not in the pro-kingdom, and he didn't know what to do when he heard that he went out, and the rest of the pro-kingdom people were Yuwenxiao and Wang Changling.

Wang Changling said: "I think this step is right. What Yuwen Gong said is dangerous, is it not dangerous for Xue Lang to use the Divine Ce Army to confront Princess Taiping for a long time? Maybe it's even more dangerous to go on that way...... Think about it, the confrontation lasted for a long time, and everyone was suspicious, as long as there was a slight carelessness, Chang'an would become a battlefield, even if we won, in case the victory was not complete, Princess Taiping and others hijacked the Son of Heaven and tried to withdraw from Chang'an, would the people of the world prefer to listen to her or Xue Lang? What's more, the more than 10,000 people of the Yulin Army are more inclined to the court, is the chance of winning really big? ”

Yuwen Xiao was silent, frowning and pondering.

Wang Changling said with Yu Wenxiao's hand: "Li Tang Sheji is still justifiable, and its century-old foundation is recognized by everyone in the world, and rushing for quick success and quick profit can only lead to self-destruction!" Since we have joined Xue Lang, how can we harm him? Xue Lang must have thought about this matter carefully, and he was not swayed by the controversy of the advisers under his account and made a decision on the spot, if I am sincerely convinced. ”G