Shu Yan returned to his Shangshutai Mansion, only to find Biyu waiting for him.

Seeing Shu Yan, Biyu said happily: "The emperor has given you permission to prepare for music and dance with me, and Shangshutai can leave it alone." ”

Being able to get the emperor's reply so quickly made Shu Yan a little surprised.

It turned out that Sima Yan cherished and trusted him more because Shu Yan knew the pearl and confirmed Zhou Shiyu's ruler, and knew that his ability was extraordinary, so when Shi Biyu asked to join Shu Yan to teach music and dance, he agreed without thinking. He knew that with Shu Yan's joining, this matter was much more reliable.

Whether you want to or not, the matter has come to this point, and Shu Yan knows that this errand should not be able to get rid of. So he asked Biyu to sit down, knowing that he refused to drink his own tea, but he still poured him a lamp, and then said: "Shi Gongzi does things, if you don't do it, you won't do it, and you can do it quickly." Since the two of us want to cooperate, we have to discuss something, what do you plan to do about it? What are the steps? What is the first step? ”

"Plans? Steps? Biyu shook his head, "I haven't thought about it yet, but I don't need to think about it in advance for the Yuan Zheng Conference, if you want to say that the first step is to pass the emperor's test first." ”

"Indeed, this is the first step, a necessary prerequisite, what are you going to do?"

"Oh-" Biyu had the patience to worry about this, he looked at the sun outside the window, and said indifferently, "What has just been decided, what's the hurry, let's talk about it tomorrow." It's late today, and I'm going back. As he spoke, he stepped out the door.

Shu Yan sighed, he knew that his partner had never been willing to bother much no matter what happened, this time, he wouldn't be the same as before, right?

After Biyu left, Shu Yan began to think about how to plan. To say that he is a complete layman is not right. Since he became Shang Shulang, he has also seen the music and dance in the palace, especially the two dances of "Zhengde" and "Dayu", and he has enjoyed it more than once. But when I was appreciating it at the time, I was just an audience, and if I wanted to correct the second dance, he was really at a loss, but fortunately, Xun Miao was already halfway done, and he could follow his routine. He knew that in order to do this well, he had to ask experienced musicians for advice and get the cooperation of those musicians. But before asking others for advice, you should still make some preparations, decorate your head with more things, and enrich yourself, so as not to be despised at the time. Thinking about it this way, the first step should be to borrow the "Book of Music" and study it carefully.

After receiving this errand, Shu Yan's affairs in Shangshutai will be taken care of by others for the time being. He took leave from his boss Shang Shu Ling Wei Xuan, and the next day, he came to Shi Biyu's secretary's pavilion to borrow the "Book of Music". Although the two bamboo slips originally belonged to themselves, they are now dedicated to the imperial court, and they belong to the treasure of the secretary's pavilion, and they are not something that they can see if they want to see it on weekdays.

The Secretarial Pavilion is a quiet place, completely different from Shangshutai. Now is the time of day, in the Shangshutai, those Shangshulang are already busy dealing with various paperwork in various Cao. And these secretaries in the secretary's pavilion are sitting in one place, leisurely drinking the fragrant tea brought by the waiter, turning over the books intentionally or unintentionally, and there is a handful of tails next to them. On the case of Biyu, there is a delicate sandalwood double-layer nine-layer lacquer. This double-layered nine-son lacquer bride was the most popular makeup bride among wealthy ladies at that time. As the name suggests, it is divided into nine small spaces, some round and some bar-shaped, for different fat compacts. Biyu is holding a bronze mirror in his hand, looking at whether the powder on his face is evenly painted and whether his eyebrows are symmetrical.

Shu Yan's face couldn't help flashing a little anger: "You had to pull me to take this errand with you yesterday, and now I should accept it, I thought about this matter all night, and I didn't sleep well, but you had nothing to do, drinking tea easily, and taking care of yourself!" ”

When Biyu saw Shu Yan coming in, he still had a somewhat indignant tone, and saw that he was a little anxious, but he was still not in a hurry, put down the bronze mirror in his hand gently, and said slowly: "I got up late today, and I was in a hurry to go out in the morning, and the powder was not applied well." Things are gathered by like, and people are grouped. You may not know that the people in our circle would rather not eat, but the image must be maintained. ”

Shu Yan was so angry with Biyu that he couldn't do it: "What image is not imaged!" What is there to consider? You're not a woman......" But he turned his head to look at the other people present, still looking at himself, and didn't seem to think anything was abnormal about Biyu at all. It seems that these people are either not strange, or they are people in the same circle as Biyu said.

Biyu disdainfully argued with Shu Yan about this: "You don't understand this! Then he said leisurely, "We are all in school, how can I say that I have nothing to do." As he spoke, he picked up a book in his hand and flipped through it.

Shu Yan glanced at it and saw that the three big characters of "Four Treatises" were written on the skin of the book, and he couldn't help but sneer. Biyu also realized it, and hurriedly turned the book upside down.

The Four Treatises is a book on the relationship between talent and sexuality, and is a well-known monograph on the subject of debate in the Wei and Jin dynasties. The so-called "talent" refers to talent; The so-called "sex" refers to character. The world believes that there are four kinds of relationships between talent and sex, that is, the so-called "four books", that is, the same talent, the difference of talent, and the separation of talent. The question of talent and sexuality was one of the hot topics of metaphysical discourse at that time.

"I only knew that Secretary Lang was in charge of correcting books before, but I haven't seen it, and today I know through Shi Dagongzi that the school book is the school's kind of book! A cup of tea, a cocktail, a bronze mirror, a copy of "Four Books", yes, yes, they all say that the secretary Lang is a beauty, and when I see it today, it is really true. ”

No matter what Shu Yan said, Biyu didn't pay much attention to it, only snorted, and asked rhetorically, "How did you find our secretary's pavilion?" ”

"Didn't you ask knowingly? I came to you for nothing, firstly, to discuss music and dance with you, and secondly, to borrow the "Book of Music" to read. ”

"You don't have to negotiate anything with me. If you want to read the "Book of Music", take it and do your best to use it, I can rest assured that you will do something. ”

"How's that going to work? Since we are working together, we must say the ideas of both sides, learn from each other's strengths, two people always have more ideas than one person, how can I be the master alone? ”

Biyu still ignored it, Shu Yan had no choice but to take the "Book of Music" to study and study first. Biyu did not hesitate to find the "Book of Music" and handed it to Shu Yan. Shu Yan took it with both hands and carefully carried it in his arms. Just about to leave, he turned back and said: "You and I have no experience, just have the "Book of Music" is not enough, tomorrow I plan to go to the Taile Department for a trip, to understand the situation, you must also go." ”

Shu Yan was a little remorseful for taking this errand, if he had listened to Xiao Mo's persuasion at the beginning, he would not be anxious now. But the matter has come to this point, there is no other way, since you have agreed, you have to take responsibility, regret is useless. He went straight back to the party hall with the "Book of Music" and studied it until late at night. There is food in the hand, and there is no panic in the heart. Shu Yan has the "Book of Music" in his hand, and he feels more down-to-earth, and he finally has some bottom in his heart.

The next day, Shu Yan came to the Taile Department, planning to meet the commissioner of the Taile Department first, and at the same time wait for Biyu by the way, and then go to the music room to meet the musicians and dancers. Because Taile made the family worried, only the adjutant Taile Cheng was in charge, but Taile Cheng despised Shu Yan as a poor person and was young, so he hung Shu Yan in a side hall in the name of handling official business. After a while, there was a sound of laughter and laughter in the main hall, and it was obvious that the official business was over. After a long time, he still didn't come out to meet Shu Yan. Shu Yan was angry, and planned to go back here, but he felt that it was inappropriate; I plan to continue to wait, but this attitude of others is clearly looking down on myself, even if I meet him, what can I do?

Hey, this charity can't come to the end!

The time had passed, and Shu Yan paced out of the door, not knowing what to do, whether to go back immediately or continue to wait. Suddenly, a deer cart stopped in front of the Taile Department, and Biyu walked in unhurriedly with a leisurely pace.

Tai Le Cheng heard the car bell and greeted Biyu with a smile. Compared with the attitude with Shu Yan just now, it is like two people. Biyu said some flattering words, but Taile Cheng did not embarrass them because he had been taken care of in advance, so he told them the general situation about music and dance. Shu Yan heard about it, so he invited Biyu to go down to the music workshop to discuss with the court musicians and dancers. But Biyu didn't want to go, and talked about Lao Zhuang with Taile Cheng. Shu Yan couldn't force it, so he had to go by himself.

Shu Yan's filial piety is well known, coupled with his loyalty, open-mindedness, and sincerity, those music officials from the humble family are not only difficult for him as an outsider, but they have to answer all questions, and explain the entire music and dance process to Shu Yan in detail, and they all expressed their willingness to listen to his deployment.

The musicians have communicated well, and now it's time to straighten out Xunmiao's unfinished instruments. The musicians told him that the two dances of "Da Yu" and "Zhengde" were court music, with long movements, all musical instruments, and the number of dancers was as many as 8864 people, which was the so-called Eight Dances.

The musicians' words undoubtedly caused more pressure on Shu Yan, but it didn't scare him. No matter how complicated the second dance is, what we need to do now is to finish Xun Miao's unfinished instrument first. Since getting the ruler of the world, Xun Miao has remade a new ruler with it as a standard, and has corrected half of the musical instruments, and now only a few musical instruments such as flutes, hammers, and bells have not been corrected.

If you want to correct the instrument, Shu Yan is not embarrassed. He thought of a method: first use Xun Xuan's original ruler to measure the length, width, height, pipe diameter, aperture and hole spacing of each artifact, record it, and then use the new ruler to measure the exact same data and make it into a standard new musical instrument.

After understanding the situation, Shu Yan came back to borrow a ruler from Taile Cheng. At this time, Taile Cheng and Biyu had finished talking, and they heard Biyu laughing, and it turned out that he had already refuted Taile Cheng.

Taile Cheng handed over the new ruler to Shu Yan, and after Shu Yan took it, he asked for the old ruler. Just refuted by Biyu, a descendant, Taile Chengzheng felt faceless, and saw that Shu Yan inexplicably wanted an old ruler, so he said to him: "Confused Tian She'er, the emperor wants to use a new ruler to correct the instrument, you only take the new ruler, the old ruler is a waste thing, what do you want it for?" ”

Shu Yan knew that this Taile Cheng didn't think of his own method at all, and secretly scolded him for being stupid, and just about to explain the reason to him, he heard Biyu laugh and said, "I want it." The old ruler measures all the data of the old instrument, and re-measures it with the new ruler according to this data, and the instrument is just right. ”

Don't look at Biyu's casual appearance, but guess Shu Yan's intentions at once, which has to make Shu Yan secretly admire him.

Although Biyu clicked like this, Tai Lecheng still didn't understand: "You can also measure old instruments with a new ruler." ”

Biyu laughed at him in his heart, but he still had to explain to him again: "Because there is a difference between the old and new rulers, using the new ruler to measure the old musical instrument, and then using the new ruler to make a new instrument, there must be a conversion process in the middle, and this conversion process is not simply adding the difference between the old and new feet, but increasing proportionally, not only involving the problem of sum and difference, but also involving the problem of multiplication and division." In this way, even if you use the arithmetic, it is quite troublesome. If you measure the old instrument directly with the old ruler, and then copy the data to the new instrument with the new ruler, wouldn't you avoid the trouble of conversion? ”

Tai Le Cheng suddenly realized, and couldn't help but think in his heart: When the emperor handed over this errand to these two young people, I was still indignant, but now it seems that they are indeed smarter, much better than me. After thinking about it, he respectfully handed over the old ruler to Shu Yan.

Once you're ready, it's time to officially calibrate your instrument. Of course, it's all Shu Yan alone, and Biyu is unwilling to do it.

Some people died, but not completely......