With Xiao Xuanye's acquiescence, Tang Ruowang "half-pushed, half-sit-in" and sat silently, which can be regarded as acquiescing in his attitude of relying solely on Xiao Xuanye's orders, and also indicating that he has begun to set foot in the whirlpool of "Manchu and Han struggles" in today's court situation.

But when he heard that Ji Kaisheng's strategy for the right of the military department still needed the help of his own Qin Tianjian in the middle of the matter, it was really unexpected, and Tang Ruowang couldn't take it a lot of care anymore, and hurriedly asked:

"Master Ji, you are in the military department, I am just a 'knowledger' of the small calendar bureau, how can I help?"

Tang Ruowang did not say that he was the official title of the dynasty with the dignified "plus second rank and Qintian Supervisor", but took the "Historical Bureau Knowledgeable Person" in the pre-Ming Dynasty to prevaricate Ji Kaisheng, which has a deep meaning.

At the end of the Ming Dynasty, Emperor Chongzhen realized that he could not correct the errors of the "Great Unification Calendar[1]" without using the Western calendar, so he approved the proposal of the Ministry of Rites and ordered the establishment of a calendar bureau to revise the calendar. On September 1 of the second year of Chongzhen (1629), Xu Guangqi was ordered to supervise the affairs of revising the calendar, preparing for the establishment of the "Calendar Bureau", and began to compile the almanac. On November 6, the Liju Bureau was officially established, which was then called the West Bureau, and its address was located in the original "Shoushan Academy[2]] in Xuanwumen. The Historical Bureau is different from Qin Tianjian in that it is only a temporary research institution, and the personnel have no official title, and are commonly known as "Zhili people". Now, this historical situation is outside the west wall of John Tong's "South Hall"!

Tang Ruowang said that he was just a "person who knows the calendar", and it was clear that he was habitually trying to "stay out of the matter", and "modestly" put himself once again into the ranks of "technical cadres" who only knew how to compile almanacs! But unfortunately, this is in Ji Kaisheng's eyes. It's just a "self-throwing net"!

"In the whole world, I'm afraid there is no one who knows the calendar better than Tang Jianzheng!" Ji Kaisheng happily agreed, his words full of excitement!

"This ......" John Tang didn't expect such a reaction, and he was a little uncertain.

"Lord Tang, tomorrow is Bingxu Renchen? September 11th? Ji Kaisheng slowly introduced.

"Yes, tomorrow is the 11th day of September in the 12th year of Shunzhi in the Great Qing Dynasty, that is, the year of Yiwei, the month of Bingxu, and the day of Renchen, and it is also the 10th day of October in the 1655th year after the Coming of God!" Speaking of the sexagenary branches, this is John Tong's eating skills, and there is no ambiguity at all.

Smell the Western calendar that you are all too familiar with. Or the "Gregorian calendar". And it's a "double ~ ten ~ festival", Hongyi couldn't help but be a little excited, and blurted out: "What day of the week is tomorrow?" ”

"Oh......" John Tang was stunned for a moment, and did not answer immediately for a while.

No way. As a priest. Don't even know what day of the week tomorrow is? Hongyi felt a little strange in his heart, and Tang Ruowang's performance. In fact. He really blamed Old Man Tang, because of the phrase "week". It was not until the Republic of China that it began to be used among the people! Hongyi used the common saying three hundred years later to ask questions, which is naturally "chicken and duck talk".

"Lord Belle, are you the 'Star on Duty' for tomorrow? According to the "Su Yao Sutra" in the Tang Dynasty, tomorrow is the day of '日曜 [yào]', the 'Sunday' in the West. "Unexpectedly, John Wang, who eats this bowl of rice, really understands it for himself! After a little thought, the correct answer was given.

It turns out that ancient China also had the word "Qiyao", but it did not explicitly regard the seven days as a cycle of reincarnation, so naturally there was no concept of "week" and "week". The so-called "Qiyao" first appeared in Fan Ning's "Preface to the Biography of the Spring and Autumn Grain Beams" in the Eastern Jin Dynasty: "Yin and Yang are sorrowful, and Qiyao is the profit and contraction." Yang Shixun Shu: "The one who is called the Seven Yao, the sun and the moon and the five stars all shine on the world, so it is called Yao." The five stars here refer to fire, water, wood, metal, and earth. However, before the Tang Dynasty, the seven stars were not used to refer to the seven days of reincarnation.

During the Tang Dynasty, the Seven Yao and the Twenty-Eight Sutras were combined to form the "Yao Sun". The "Sutra of Su Yao" mentioned by John Tang records: "The sun is straight (日曜日也), and the moon and the tail are combined." The sun is cloudy and straight (the moon is also the day), and the moon is in conjunction with the heart. The fire is straight to the sun, and the moon is in conjunction with the wall. The sun is straight in the water, and the moon is in conjunction with the Pleiades. The sun is straight, and the moon is in conjunction with the well. Jin Yao is straight to the sun, and the moon is with Zhang. The earth is straight and the sun is straight, and the moon is in conjunction with hyper. It has been named King Kong Peak Day. The Twenty-Eight Nakshatras and their corresponding animals are matched with the Seven Yao to form the "Star King on Duty": "Kang Jin Dragon, Di Earth Bat, Fang Ri Rabbit, Heart Moon Fox, Tailed Fire Tiger, Kei Water Leopard, Doumu Hedgehog, Ox Taurus, Female Earth Raccoon Dog, Void Sun Mouse, Dangerous Moon Swallow, Room Fire Pig, Wall Water? , Kui Wood Wolf, Lou Jin Dog, Stomach Tu Bi, Pleiades Chicken, Bi Yuewu, Fire Monkey, Ginseng Water Ape, Jing Mu Xuan, Ghost Golden Sheep, Liu Tu Deer, Xingri Horse, Zhang Yuelu, Winged Fire Snake, Water Worm".

Therefore, the star on duty in the old yellow calendar is the dawn of the day. The sun is a Sunday, the moon is a Monday, the fire day is a Tuesday, the water day is a Wednesday, the wood day is a Thursday, the golden day is a Friday, and the earth day is a Saturday. After the establishment of the Republic of China, it was renamed "Zhou", in which the word "Xing" refers to the "Qiyao", but in Japan, South Korea and North Korea still use the name "Yaori".

"Oh! Sunday！ Xuan Ye was taught. ”

Hongyi actually didn't know what "Riyao Day" was, but he understood "Sunday [3]", and he also knew that he was wrong to blame John Tang, so he hurriedly said affectionately:

"Tomorrow week, old Marfa can do a Mass for me."

"The old minister takes the order!" Tang Ruowang couldn't help but be a little excited, and completely ignored the anxious look of Ji Kaisheng who was abruptly interrupted by the topic.

"Really? Tomorrow is the day of the 'altar' of the Holy Sect of Lord Tang? That's great, just in time to do it all together. Ji Kaisheng finally waited for an opportunity to interject again, and hurriedly said.

"All together? What did Master Ji say? ”

Tang Ruowang was a little dissatisfied with what Ji Kaisheng said about "sitting on the altar": I am not "sitting on the altar and discussing Zen", you are simply defiling the solemnity of the "mass"!

"Master Tang was in charge of the Bureau and the Qin Heavenly Prison in the former Ming Dynasty, can you know Meng Zhaoxiang, the servant of the Criminal Department of the Ming Dynasty?" Ji Kaisheng saw the dissatisfaction on Tang Ruowang's face, but he couldn't care about it so much for a long time, and completely according to his own rhythm and a little excitedly pointed out the key people in this conversation!

"Meng Zhaoxiang? How do I not know! ”

Sure enough, Tang Ruowang's face was instantly solemn, and he replied respectfully:

"In November of the second year of Shunzhi, Shuntianfu mentioned the imperial history Cao Rong, and listed the people who were loyal, filial and righteous. Please ask the imperial court to give the shirt table [xiù, the same as "sleeve"] respectively. Among them, the loyal ministers included the twelve martyrs of the former dynasty, such as Fan Jingwen, a scholar of the late Ming Dynasty, and Shen Jiayun, a priest of Taifu Temple, who were killed by hanging themselves, or going to the water, or unyieldingly when the thieves broke through the city. Among them, including Meng Zhaoxiang, the squire of the Criminal Department, mentioned by Master Ji, and his son, Jinshi Meng Zhangming. The emperor also knew about it and gave it his permission. ”

Tang Ruowang was so smart that he didn't use the example of the previous Ming to prove that he knew Meng Zhaoxiang, but used the allusions of this dynasty to show his official identity.

"Oh? Sure enough, they are all loyal and righteous people. But. I don't know why Brother Tianzhong talked about this generous and righteous Meng Shilang? "Hongyi is also unknown. Seeing that John Tang didn't ask, he had to go out on his own.

"Back to Lord Beile, the lower official wants to ask Lord Tang's Qin Tianjian to go to the imperial court and choose an auspicious time tomorrow. Sacrifice to Meng Zhaoxiang father and son! Ji Kaisheng was finally able to get to the point!

"A limerick poem. Hidden Head

Looking at recent history, I am disappointed

I was saying that there was an opportunity back then

Outside the map, there is a lot of strength

It's hard to know what you're going to do

I got up and wore Rokkazi

Point out the world's pain and joy

China's brilliant ten thousand idiots

The Wenwu Dynasty saw through the dream

[1] The Datong Calendar is an almanac of the Ming Dynasty. At the beginning of the Ming Dynasty, Liu Jijin "Great Unification Calendar". In the seventeenth year of Hongwu, the observatory was set up in Jiming Mountain, Nanjing. Dr. Ling Yuantong revised the calendar, and he still took the name of "Datong". In fact, the Ming generation only used the Great Unified Calendar, and referred to the Hijri Calendar. All the astronomical data and inference methods of the Great Unified Calendar are based on the "Chronological Calendar" of the Yuan Dynasty, which takes 365.2425 days as one year, which is only 26 seconds away from the modern observation value of 365.2422. But this 26-second error per year is a big difference in three or four hundred years - the error is nearly three hours! If you use it to calculate the solar and lunar eclipses, the error can be imagined. Therefore, after the implementation of the "Great Unification Calendar", the food is often not tested. At the end of the Ming Dynasty, it was introduced to the Western Law, but before it was promulgated, the Ming Dynasty died. According to the research of astronomical historians, most of the officials of the Qin Tianjian in the Ming Dynasty did not know how to learn and did not know how to do it, although they knew that many of the results of the Great Unification Calendar were inconsistent with reality, but there was no way to modify them.

[2] "Shoushan Academy", built in the second year of tomorrow's enlightenment, in the Xuanwu Gate, is the place where the general constitution Zou Gongbiao and Feng Gong Congwu lectured. The first good place in Beijing, the Taoist Palace, looks at each other, and there is no place for scholars to dedicate themselves to the group. Zou Gong to the general constitution, Feng Gong to the constitution, the same to Beijing, each imperial envoy to construct a academy in the Xuanwu Gate under the east wall. The two gentlemen retired from the court, did not communicate with guests, did not go to banquets, and went to the college to give lectures. The gentleman is interested in scholars, listens quietly, or asks difficult questions from time to time, all of which are free to come. For a while, the legend turned around, Xianzhi Gu was famous, he was honest and shameful, and his morale changed slightly. In 1605, Matteo Ricci bought real estate with 500 taels on Shuncheng Street in the east of Xuanwu Gate and built the "South Hall", and the Shoushan Academy was next door. Ye Xianggao, Xu Guangqi, Li Zhizao and others often went to church. At that time, the Donglin Party built the Shoushan Academy on the East Street of Xuanwumen, which is probably not accidental. The inscription of Shoushan Academy is written by Ye Xianggao and written by Dong Qichang. It mentions: "The academy is in the fourteenth shop of Yongfang in Dashi, and the trade comes from the people, and it is one hundred and eighty taels, all of which are lost by five halls and thirteen roads." The broker, the secretary Lu Jun Kexiao, the imperial envoy Zhou Jun Zongjian. The lecture will be held on the second year of the apocalypse. "Xu Guangqi is very familiar with Shoushan Academy. After the academy was abolished, he "asked for a change to the Western Calendar Bureau, and then repeatedly asked for a reply, but did not report it". Chongzhen was allowed in the second year. By the time of the Qing Dynasty, Shoushan Academy became part of the "South Hall". Ji Yun [Ji Xiaolan]'s "Notes on Reading Wei Caotang. As I heard", it was recorded: "Therefore, the Ming Shoushan Academy is now the Western Catholic Church. This shows the depth of the relationship between the church and the college.

[3] The Western week first came from Sumer. The Sumerians built a pagoda to worship the gods, and they believed that there were seven star gods who took turns to be "on duty": the sun god (Sunday), the moon god (Monday), the Martian god (Tuesday), the god Mercury (Wednesday), the god Jupiter (Thursday), the god Venus (Friday), and the god Saturn (Saturday), so they established a seven-day week-by-week system. After Sumer, the week system was inherited by the ancient Babylonians. The ancient Jews, influenced by the civilization of the Two Rivers Valley, also accepted the week system. Later, the concept of the week spread to Europe with Christianity, which was derived from the Jewish religion. "Monday", "Tuesday", ...... In colloquial language, it is also used as "Monday" and "Tuesday...... Sunday is called "Sunday" and a week is called a "service". Thus, the Semitic religions all had a week, but they were different: Judaism used Saturday as the Sabbath, Christianity made Sunday Sunday, and Islam designated Friday as Jumuah, the main day of worship. (To be continued......)