After visiting the display in the village, Yang Lao Baihu told Guo and his party that they had gathered Ding Zhuang nearby and were ready to show it to everyone.

Although it is said that it is to let everyone compete and select the best soldiers, it is obvious that Yang Lao Baihu is more partial to his own Zhuangzi. Therefore, I still took advantage of the opportunity to get the moon first near the water, and found a reason to add a stopper, and let Guo Kang take a look first. If someone is chosen ahead of time, it's a win.

Guo Kang was not very surprised by this matter.

There is competition between villages. For example, the tax-free privilege in their village is something that has been fought hard for so many years. This is actually a rare thing, as the Purple Horde generally only granted this power to a single veteran who performed well. Like this, everyone is exempt from taxes, either after a disaster, or newly established farms that are still under construction. There are not many people in the country who can rely on military merits to get the whole village tax-free.

Therefore, the review of this privilege is also very strict. There are many competitors every year, but the number of special tax exemptions given by the imperial court is very scarce. Even if the selection is successful, if you don't perform well in the future, you may be robbed by other villages. After all, this condition is too good, and there are too many people with red eyes.

Their village has a special relationship with the Guo family, which is relatively better, but even so, it is inevitable that some people feel that they are not worse than them, why don't they have this treatment. On the way to Guo Kang, he heard that the people of the Ma family Zhuangzi said strange things from time to time, thinking that they were just stained with the light of the ancestors. The young people on both sides have fought several times over this. Therefore, Yang Lao Baihu specifically mentioned them once, obviously, the pressure is not small.

"Is it all Christmas here?" He asked.

In the end, the solution they gave was to mess up.

Of course, the church itself has no control over the localities. In practice, everyone uses everything. Some people use Christmas, others Easter – and because of the complexity of the calculations, no one knows what day Easter is, so you can only guess twice.

The ancient Romans had always had a terrible level when it came to the calendar. It is said that the most traditional calendar was revised by Romulus himself. This calendar seems to be based on the length of the month, but the length of the year is not an integer multiple of the whole month, and the Romans did not know how to solve this problem.

This level of rough maintenance naturally creates problems. Moreover, the lifespan of this calendar even exceeds that of the Numa calendar, which was seriously outdated at that time. This classical calendar, which began in 45 BC and lasted until the establishment of the Purple Horde.

Moreover, because of the collapse of Rome, the calendars themselves were in a state of confusion.

Some believe that Egria was a fiction by Numa as a way to provide legitimacy to his policies. It is also believed that she was probably a cultured woman from Greece, bringing this knowledge to the Romans, who were no different from barbarians at the time. What is certain, however, is that many of Rome's cultural achievements were indeed influenced by Greece.

Farming time is important for the harvest, and a 10-day difference in sowing can reduce the harvest by more than 20 percent, and it is likely to affect the rhythm of the entire crop rotation. Higher latitudes are more sensitive.

This is the kind of festival that the Romanian Church promotes. Basically, if you look at which day you celebrate Christmas, you can tell which church they are more inclined to.

All in all, the calendar was rough – of course, Romulus and the early Romans themselves were rough and did not produce much decent cultural achievement.

The reason for this is also a very weak mind: when the Greek and Egyptian scholars who formulated the new calendar taught the Romans, they were told that the rule was "to intercalate every three years." However, the Roman priests still lacked professionalism and interpreted it as "intercalation every three years". In this way, for decades, not a single person in the whole of Rome noticed that something was wrong. It wasn't until Octavian, who had been in power for more than 20 years, that he remembered to take a look at it and was surprised to find that it had fallen so far.

And in the final analysis, the competition in this is actually the competition of the calendar.

In the annals of the English, three arithmetic of the beginning of the year were used at the same time, including the traditional Roman "day of taxation" in late September. Later, it was also popular to use the "Annunciation Day" of the Virgin Mary conception as the beginning of the year, but the English people did not know why, it seems that because of a miscalculation, the "Annunciation" was placed after Christmas, which led to a mess of chronological ordering, and there was an outrageous result that the heavenly brother was born before the conception of the Virgin. However, no one in the locals found out, and it just spread......

Numa claimed that his wife, a nymph named Egolia, had undergone a series of reforms under her guidance. He established the number of clergy, regulated rituals, and forbade the casual production of idols of gods, especially idols with human and animal figures. In addition, during his tenure, he worked to eliminate the cultural differences between the Romans and the Sabines, and to clarify the law that defined the boundaries between public and private property. The most important temples of the Vesta and Janus also appeared at this time.

During the reign of Romulus, there was a robbery of the Sabine women. Although the Romans claimed that the matter was eventually resolved through mediation, in reality it was much more than a woman trying to persuade him. As a result, the Romans were forced to give the Sabines a great deal of political power, and even to the point of accepting the Sabines as senators. When it came time to elect a king, Numa Pompilius of Sabine was also elected as the second king.

In the Central Plains, the calendar is divine, and like other clerical powers, it is firmly controlled by the central court of the imperial court, so that there are often prohibitions on stargazing and astrology among the people. The reason for this is that the calendar is closely related to agriculture.

Although nominally, the Romans had been worshipping Romulus in accordance with this statement, the Romans' attitude towards religion and gods was inherently more practical and less taboo. Both Levi and Plutarch directly recorded that the senators should have taken advantage of the chaos to assassinate Romulus and dismember the body and hide it. This claim, from a historical point of view, is more likely.

In other countries, the date of the king's accession to the throne was used as the beginning of the year, and the "first year of the king's first month" was also introduced. Cast aside the heavenly brother and the church, and use the number of years of the king's reign to date the year. In fact, until the 21st century, as Guo Kang knew, the official documents of England still gave priority to the king's chronology.

The first sentence of "Spring and Autumn" is "In the spring of the first year, Wang Zhengyue". The Ram Chuan explains why the emphasis is on "Wang Zhengyue" because it praises the unity of the world. Because the first month of the year is the first of the year, and when the first year is in, different dynasties are different. Only the king who has achieved great unification can have the authority to regulate the head of the world. This is also the importance of the calendar.

It was also at this time that the 12-month calendar was established with reference to the results of the Greeks. It is said that Egrea personally taught the Romans about the cycle of the moon and the differences between years and months, and appointed some special sacred dates. It was only then that the Romans learned how to place intercalations to align months and years.

And the position of the Roman high priest, like the entire social culture, is not very religious. Although nominally a priesthood, many high priests were in fact promoted to officials. In practice, they often look only at their own factions and political leanings, for example, if this year's consul is very agreeable, they will deliberately add a leap month to let him work for a longer period of time; If the consuls weren't his own, then don't even think about leaping.

As the festival approaches, the villagers have already packed up their houses and prepared various supplies, making the village much more lively. Guo Kang found that there were many other decorations, which were also placed in front of each house.

2605: F700: 43: 6000:: 77F

As a result, the calendar fell into complete confusion, so that it was difficult for later scholars to know the specific time of a certain event from their records. When Caesar wrote the Gallic Wars, there was even a situation where it was still March or April according to the calendar, but it was already autumn. In this case, the calendar has effectively lost its meaning.

When the Senate learned of this, they kept all the Latin works and burned the Greek parts. Maybe it's more embarrassing to say that "Rome learns from Greece".

For more than a thousand years, no one has managed to change one. The Romans themselves didn't have much extra energy, and the other emerging barbarians didn't have this level, so they just had to use it anyway.

However, even the ancient Romans did not believe much in this story.

Then, they followed Yang Lao Baihu and others through the village and to the square.

However, the aristocracy believed that he had eroded their power. Because he often divided the conquered lands to his soldiers without authorization, directly bypassing the senatorial council. As time passed, the senators became more and more dissatisfied with Romulus, but they were afraid of his military strength and did not dare to say anything.

Of course, judging from the results, the level of culture of the Romans, at that time, was still not very good. The Numa calendar was used for nearly 700 years in one go, and in the end it was a mess, and the Romans themselves could not repair it.

In the thirty-eighth year of his reign, Romulus came to inspect the army near the Champ de Mars, in the presence of a group of senators and townspeople. At this time, the sky was suddenly overcast, and a strong wind blew, and everyone was in a great confusion and ran in all directions. It is said that thick clouds surrounded Romulus, and a whirlwind swept him and carried him to heaven.

After his death, Numa was not cremated, as was customary at the time, but was buried in a mausoleum on the hill along with his book. By the end of the Roman Republic, peasants occasionally discovered the tomb of Numa, where they found a collection of religious and legal books written in Latin, as well as some philosophical works written in Greek.

When Numa was first chosen, Rome was seen as a group of thieves in the eyes of the surrounding city-states, and its image was probably similar to that of the Mongols in the early years. Moreover, during the reign of Romulus, the internal contradictions in Rome became more and more intense, but Romulus himself was probably only good at cutting people in person, and he was never able to deal with them well. The reason why he was asked to be the king was because I heard that he had a reputation for being virtuous, and I hoped to find a literate person to deal with it.

In this case, even Numa himself hesitated, feeling that the Romans were too violent to manage. Later, everyone asked again and again to take up the post of the city of Rome.

"Oh......" Guo Kang nodded.

After Romulus disappeared, power did fall into the hands of the nobility. The Senate decided that all the senators, each for ten days, would take turns ruling the city, trying to turn the monarchy into an aristocratic republic. However, this strategy of patting the head is destined to be difficult to maintain. The incompetence and chaos of the Senate caused strong discontent among the citizens. After a year of this, the patriarchs themselves were overwhelmed by a brief reign and constant infighting. In the end, they had no choice but to decide to elect another king.

Europe, however, at higher latitudes, has been in this state of chaos for many years. Even the most standard Julian calendar now has an error of more than ten days, and if you count the order of the dates that they don't know, I don't know where it can go. Guo Kang actually doesn't know how they farm, thinking about it, maybe with the agricultural level of Europeans, that 20% is not much, so don't pay attention to it......

When the people returned, Romulus was nowhere to be found. The patriarchs declared that Romulus had ascended to heaven by day and became a god. Others later said that they had seen Romulus reappear, and warned the Romans to study hard and become good soldiers, so that all the states could not resist the Roman army.

It stands to reason that this kind of calendar should have fixed rules. But the Romans seem to have lacked the relevant professionals, and simply left the important work of placing intercalations to the high priest. The year of the leap and when to put the leap can be decided at will.

Although Romulus is regarded as the ancestor and has a greater reputation, a series of Roman institutions such as religion, politics, and law were only shaped during Numa's tenure.

In the Romulus calendar, there are only 10 full months in a year, with a total of 304 days. The extra dozens of days a year are collectively referred to as "winter days" and are not counted in any month. Everyone is also not at this time, and all kinds of rituals and official activities that need to be recorded are held, and all of them are on vacation. When the whole year is over, when to start counting the months from the beginning. In this way, there is no need to think about how to match the month and the year......

Probably because he couldn't bear it, Caesar decided to make a new calendar. The Romans themselves were no longer capable of doing this, so he hired Alexander's scholars to develop a new calendar based on the Egyptian solar calendar, which would later become known as the Julian calendar.

However, Europe has not had a "great unification" for a long time, so naturally there is no "Wang Zhengyue". Everyone is doing their own thing, and no one cares anyway. In ancient Roman times, the Church objected to the first day of the year on January 1, because although this date is the simplest, January is actually the month of Janus, so this date is suspected of paganism. They want to start the year at Christmas.

Romulus himself was a military dictator, and he maintained a personal army, always accompanied by 12 axemen and a group of men with wooden sticks, who beat opponents at sight. However, he was always able to win in conflicts with other surrounding city-states, so the army liked him very much.

"Yes, our Henan is celebrating the festival according to the oriental calendar. Christmas is all along with Chinese New Year. Zhang Baihu told him.

This new calendar is definitely much better than before. However, it also suffered from various problems and deviations from the start.

Of course, everything is afraid of comparison. The new calendar brought by the Purple Horde was much more accurate than theirs. Since the ancestor Boyan Timur went to Hebei to farm, they have also been studying the local agricultural time and solar terms, and determining the cultivation order. It was because of these "details" that the agricultural output of the Purple Horde was much higher than that of its neighbors, and the locals had absolutely no reason to reject their calendar.

And once the calendar is accepted, the entire narrative of legitimacy above the calendar will naturally be accepted by the peasants.

(End of chapter)