The news of the reopening of the imperial examination was transmitted to Fufeng County last month, and the county election Shilang sent a small official to inform the counties that Ma's Estate was very close to the county seat, so it was announced by Marven in his home school the next day - "Those who want to apply for the examination can do it themselves." Although, what good is it for a usurper country and a rude state? The countryside is mediocre, uneducated boys, and it is difficult to ...... the ears when you try."

He said that it is "self-reliant", but the state has national laws, the family has family rules, and the village has village rules, and this kind of major event cannot but say hello to the clan first - a few dependent surnames in the village must also apply to the Ma clan and get approval before they dare to travel far. Patriarch Martin was quite pleased, if he could follow this path, so that his children could have a capable person, then the family could be expected to regain its glory.

Especially my son Ma Qi, who just took advantage of this opportunity to try to become an official.

Therefore, the children were openly encouraged to sign up - the same is true for other surnames, if they are promoted, even if they cannot prosper the Ma family, they can also add glory to the Ma family - who thinks that the vast majority of students have no lofty ambitions, or feel that their knowledge is still insufficient, and they dare not take the exam, and in the end, only seven people have applied.

On the night when Ma Jun completely gave up his future vision by the cold moonlight and stayed up late to read the first volume of "The First Words of Physics", the patriarch's mansion was brightly lit.

Marven took it and glanced at it, and pouted: "If I want to go, I will win." If they are. It doesn't help to go. ”

Ma Ben said, don't say that. Now that you have gone to high school, none of the disciples you have worked so hard to teach have become talented? If you take a closer look, there are always a few people who can have a chance of three or five percent - we also know that this is an official eunuch, all of them are stars and earth, and they are very human, even if ordinary people are good at learning, they may not be able to pass the exam. So it's not a requirement to be 100% sure.

Marven directly copied the dagger, and crossed out the names of the three people, saying that this one must be no play, and the other four, give it a fight, or be able to be a small official. Martin took it back and took a look, but fortunately, his son Ma Qi's name was still listed, the other person was Chen Xuan, and two others were also surnamed Ma-

He couldn't help frowning: "Like Bi Ma Jun, Mr. Chang Yun is not a reader." How not to delete? ”

Marven sneered: "Although Hongfu is a scholar of the scriptures, he is a good tool." The imperial examination established is not only the Ming Jing Department, but also the Ming Law, Ming Calculation, Drama Management, and Knowing Soldiers. For example, Ma Jun has not yet peeped into the way of the scriptures, but I have heard that he is quite good at arithmetic, but is it? ”

Ma Ben hurriedly said yes, yes, Ma Jun is very good at settling accounts - "In this way, if you should know the calculation, you can get Zhongye?" Marven shook his head and said that I didn't know arithmetic, so I couldn't judge, so I had to leave his name for the time being.

Ma Ben quickly turned his head to look at Martin, who pondered for a long time before finally nodding his head slowly.

Ma Jun was naturally ignorant of this matter, originally whether it was his mother's wish or his own ambition, he wanted to apply for the imperial examination, try to get a small official, he could light the lintel, and also change his poor life, but since reading "The First Words of Physics", he felt that his eyes suddenly brightened, and everything he saw seemed to have changed his original appearance, and he soon completely put this matter behind him.

Because it is written in the book: "Huainanzi" clouds: 'Yu Nai made Taizhang step from the east pole to the west pole, 233,500 li and 75 steps—one book for seventy-one steps; From the north pole to the south pole, two hundred and thirty-three thousand five hundred li and seventy-five paces. Then the greatness of it, and the mountains and rivers are different, and people who dwell on them do not feel anything, nor do they fall. ”

However, at the same time, the book also raises questions about the two huge figures, because they are only legends and isolated evidence, and there is no clear measurement method and process that has been handed down - "The east of the Central Plains, the ocean is unbridled; to the west, Kunlun Mountains; In the south, there is body poison outside the cochin, and the body poison is also in the sea, and it cannot be crossed; To the north, the grassland desert is far away. Taizhang, Zhuhai, can you do your best? ”

However, "that is, the size of China, the five plains and Jiaozhi are more than 7,000 miles, the east is 4,500 miles to the golden city, and the western regions are doubled." Wuyuan to the north, Jiaozhi to the south, how can it be under Qianliye? Further west in the Western Regions, there are Yueshi, Anxi, and even Great Qin, as Hu Shang said, and five times as much as China. So how big is the earth, how big is it? ”

After talking about the new concept of "earth", he explained the reason why the sun, moon and stars float but do not fall-"If the earth is flat, it is high and low, and everyone knows that from high it will go down." If the ground is spherical, then there is a distinction between high and low? He who falls is not below, but in the ball. If magnetic magnetism attracts iron, only its proximity is also attracted, if it is far away, then what is the attraction? The sun, moon and stars are extremely far away, and they are 100 times the ball diameter, so they don't have to fall, they can be understood. ”

In the end, he even threw out an extremely sensational hypothesis: "The journey of the sun and the moon is not at equal speed, and it is difficult to find its trajectory, and there are many of them who cannot be solved." But if the sun does not go around the earth, but the earth goes around the sun, what then? I tried to calculate it, then the reason is like holding Zhanlu to cut the rotten wood, and opening it in response to the ......" The following large section of relevant observation data and calculation formulas, Ma Jun knows very little about astronomy, so he has to jump away.

However, even so, it was as if a mysterious and strange door had opened in front of him, and it seemed that a whole new world was inside the door......

Early the next morning, he hurried to return the books to Chen Xu, and pleaded: "Please, please...... Please get the second volume also. Chen Yun couldn't help but be startled, and asked, Have you really finished reading? This book is so profound, I haven't been able to understand Volume 1 for more than half a month, so I have to leave it aside for the time being, and you can read it in one night? Do you really understand what that means? Ma Jun blushed, and he didn't dare to lie: "But, but, but I know Da Liu'er." ”

Chen Yun said that I think it is also, maybe those numbers in it, calculations, etc., you can see better than me, as for those "the way of heaven and earth, the principle of the birth and death of all things", with your knowledge and knowledge, you can read and understand the ghost. "Don't be greedy for more reading, but study deeply. And after three days, I will borrow you for the second volume. ”

Although he agreed to borrow it, three days after a push, Ma Jun was so anxious that he scratched his ears and cheeks. But he soon didn't have time to think about it anymore, and Ma Ben came to inform him. Say you hurry up and get ready. Three days later, a crown ceremony will be held for you at the ancestral hall.

Ma Jun heard this. Completely dazed: "The little boy is not seventeen years old...... "I haven't reached the age of seventeen yet, why do I have to do the crown salute?" Ma Ben smiled and patted him on the shoulder: "An has a boy to take the test?" If you are in the middle, how to be an official? "The implication is that the patriarch has already promised you to take the imperial examination.

According to the weekly ceremony, the man is twenty and crowned, the first day is to choose the auspicious day, and the guest and the crown are selected, and the solstice feasts the guests. The crown is a cloth crown, the second is a leather crown, three plus the jue, the big guest recites the greetings, and takes the table words - the ceremony is quite cumbersome. However, since the Spring and Autumn Period, the etiquette has collapsed, although it has been preached by Confucianism, it cannot be restored to its original form, and the relevant folk rituals have been simplified a lot, and often do not wait for twenty. I was in a hurry to crown the boy - because only with the crown can I be considered an adult, and I can marry a wife and have children. Many families can't wait.

In particular, Ma Jun's crown ceremony was just to cope with the upcoming imperial examination, and most of the clansmen were not careful, so it was very simple. First of all, I picked a day that was quite passable, and then there was no big banquet, the patriarch Martin directly designated Mr. Marven as the guest, Ma Ben as the crown, called Ma Jun into the ancestral hall, changed his clothes, changed his hairstyle, tied a scarf, and it was over.

Of course, the procedure for taking words must be followed, and Marven has already prepared it - "Li. There are clouds in the Moon Order: "Day and night are divided, then the same measurement, Jun Heng stone, gladiatorial Yong, positive power." Therefore, the word 'Deheng' is also. From then on, Ma Jun was called Ma Deheng.

The day after Ma Jun's crown ceremony, it was a lucky day, and Martin was in a hurry to add a crown to his son Ma Qi - in fact, Ma Qi was seven months younger than Ma Jun, and he had just passed his sixteenth birthday. This crown ceremony is about to be much grander, and the adult members of the Ma clan Tai Ban attended, and set up a big banquet, and there were as many as eighteen dishes. The same praise crown is Ma Ben, and Dabin is Mr. Ma Wen. Marven said: "Poetry. Qi Feng. There are clouds in Nanshan: 'Lu Dao has swings, and Qi Ziyong stops. It is said that it is mediocre, and it is stopped? The word 'Boyong' is also. ”

Ma Jun has become an adult with a weak crown, so he also has to have a banquet, and he couldn't help snickering when he heard this. The poem "Nanshan" is a satire on the incest of Qi Xianggong and Wen Jiang's brothers and sisters, and the poem quoted by Ma Wen is translated into the vernacular: The road of Lu is so wide, and the princess of Qi passed by and married the monarch of Lu State; Since this has passed, why should we be nostalgic for our hometown?

He began to wonder if Mr. Marvin was as educated as he boasted.

I couldn't help but touch the second volume of "The First Words of Physics" that I had borrowed from Chen Wei in my arms. The title of this volume is "The Force", which means to study the origin of "force". At the beginning, it said: "People insist that things will not work if they do not exert force, and if they exert force, they will do it, and if they do it, they will stop it, but in fact, it is not ......."

Why is this conventional wisdom wrong? The main reason is to ignore the "power of self-weight" and the "force of friction between things". For example, if a stone is placed on the ground, on the surface, it seems that there is no external force exerted, so it is stationary, but in fact, because of the attraction of the earth, it is exerted with both the "self-weight force" and the earth's "carrying force", and these two forces are equal in magnitude and opposite directions, so the object will not move.

If, on the other hand, an external force is applied from the side, say, a wrestler pushes it, it will be felt that it must be more laborious to move a stationary stone laterally than it is to maintain a fixed speed after it has already moved, and it is more laborious to push the stone on a rough plane than on a smooth plane ("like ice"). This is where the "frictional force" comes into play......

There are all kinds of proofs and calculations in the middle, but Ma Jun can understand one or two of them. Finally, the book gives three conclusions:

"It is to know that if there is no force, the object will either be stationary or move, but it will move, its speed will be even, and it will be straight; Second, if force is exerted, it is not stopped, its speed is also increased, and its direction is the same as that of force; Third, if you give things force, things will also be forced, and their size will be the same, and their direction will be reversed. ”

Is that really the case? Ma Jun was in a trance, and his mind was full of a strong man pushing the boulder these days...... Even a rare feast can't taste it. (To be continued......)

PS: In this chapter, the old friend Ma Boyong officially debuted, have you guessed it? Why did you give him the name "Mazie"? In fact, it is also very simple, because he is Manchu...... Prince Houqing.