Chapter 21: Copernicus and the Heliocentr
"Today, I would like to tell you a new story, which is arguably the strangest story in the world, and the name of the story is Copernicus and heliocentrism. ”
"Poof!"
"Whoa!"
As soon as the storyteller finished saying this, Li Tao was so shocked that he directly squirted out the tea in his mouth, and even the tea bowl fell to the ground and shattered.
Looking up at Mr. Storyteller with a frightened gaze, I felt that my hands and feet began to go numb under the violent emotional fluctuations just now.
"You, you, what did you just say?" Li Tao felt the blood rushing to his brain, and he stuttered a little when he spoke.
The little old man was open-mouthed, and asked Li Gongzi to atone for his sins. Mr. Storyteller didn't understand what this was, so he just said the opening remarks, and the young head of the Li family was shocked and the tea bowl was dropped, although he didn't understand what the situation was, anyway, it was right to apologize first.
"I haven't asked my husband yet, so please let me know. Li Tao took a few deep breaths, calmed down his mood, and asked the storyteller in a calmest tone as much as possible.
"Qi Yu is the young head of the family, the little old man's surname is Chang, and the word is one Wei. When Mr. Storyteller saw Li Tao's state, he didn't seem to be angry, and he breathed a sigh of relief in his heart, and said his real name to Li Tao.
"Oh~" Li Tao looked at Chang Wei and said in his heart, it is worthy of this name, Chang Wei, you still say that you can't do a whole job?
"Chang Wei. Li Tao calmed down his emotions, took the tea bowl handed over by the shopkeeper, and didn't care about the hot mouth, so he took a big sip directly.
"Alas, the little old man is here. Chang Wei called Li Tao to call him, quickly stood up from the chair, and replied with some restraint.
"Sit down, sit down, don't be so restrained, young master, I ask you a word, and you listen carefully. Li Tao waved his hand and motioned for him to sit down, "What you just said, but heliocentrism?"
"Qiyu young master, if there are no other homophones, it should be, if the young master still has questions, do you need Xiao Lao'er to write it?" Chang Wei sat back on the stool, feeling that Li Tao's question was not next to each other, although this matter is not very widespread, it is just a particularly interesting thing, how can it react so much.
He knew what Li Tao was thinking, whether it was "Copernicus" or "heliocentrism", the arguments were too modern, completely incompatible with this ancient background, shouldn't you advocate that the sky is round, why is this ideological span so large, and the big ones are about to pull their hips.
Li Tao pondered for a long time, but he still couldn't figure it out, so he finally had to ask himself about the sandbag system first, gritted his teeth, and called out in his heart.
"Uncle, uncle, are you there?"
"No, Centralized Network Management. The system responded angrily, and jumped a string of English, which directly confused Li Tao.
"What nonsense are you talking about?" Poor classmate Li Tao, his English is already poor, and after a few years, which bit of English in his mind has already traveled through time and space, and he has returned it to the teacher, and he still has to be a primary school teacher.
"If you have something to say, don't ask if it's there. The system yelled impatiently.
"Isn't this world an ancient background, why is there a heliocentric theory?" Li Tao felt that he was simply unlucky, how could he meet such an uncle system.
"The system seriously suspects that the host's brain is a little bigger and more limited than the pine nut, and not everyone in ancient times is as stupid as you. The system directly scolded Li Tao, "Don't say that you are a modern person when you go out in the future, it is recommended that you say that you are a cave man from the top of the mountain, and maybe you can mix a Beijing hukou." ”
"......" Li Tao wanted to refute, but he didn't know what to say, and his mood was very unbeautiful.
Chang Wei saw that Li Tao lowered his head and was silent, his face was gloomy, and he didn't dare to speak, and the people around him wanted to urge Chang Wei to speak quickly, but they could only hold back, the scene was very depressing for a while, and the children who ran the hall felt that their legs and stomachs were trembling.
"Ahem, what's that, Chang Wei, leave me alone, you continue. Li Tao raised his head, although his voice was depressed, but he successfully broke the oppressive atmosphere.
Chang Wei got instructions, so he had to pat Xingmu again, ready to continue, but before he could speak, he was stopped by Li Tao again.
"Give Young Master Ben another set poem!"
"Uh, uh, okay. "If it weren't for the fact that it wasn't the young head of the Li family sitting below, Chang Wei would have thrown Xingmu over by now.
"The waves of red dust are boundless, and it is a magic recipe to endure humiliation and gentleness.
People die first for greed for money, and birds die early for food.
Let you be cunning and cunning, it is inevitable that there will be hidden in the wilderness!"
After saying the set poem, Chang Wei's face was about to turn red, he had been doing this for decades, and it was the first time he told a story and said two set poems, and it made people laugh when he said it, alas, who is stronger than others.
After sorting out his mood a little, Chang Wei resumed his posture as a professional storyteller, and slowly opened his mouth to tell the story.
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The time of the story is not far away, in the 323rd year of the Great Xia calendar, that is, one hundred and thirty-four years ago, when the first emperor Zhou Shun was in power, Zhou Shun Emperor was a martial artist, and the world at that time was peaceful and happy, and the four seas were peaceful.
In Yongning Village, Tiantai County, Taizhou Prefecture. There is a family of three, the husband of this family is called Zhang Maocai, and he marries his wife Wang.
This child's name is Zhang Yucai, he has been very smart since he was a child, he can speak ancient and modern at the age of two or three, and he can write poetry.
Sure enough, this son was fourteen years old, and he went all the way to the top of the high school list, and when he finally took the palace exam, he wrote an editorial on the issue of people's livelihood, and he even saw Emperor Zhou Shun Longyan Dayue, who actually applauded in front of the palace, saying that he had the talent to make Daxia prosperous, and he was hand-picked as the champion of the head hook.
For a while, the Zhang family was a beautiful person, and the people who came to climb the relationship every day almost stepped on the threshold.
It's a pity that the good times didn't last long, and the appointment in the palace hadn't come down yet, and this jade material actually followed an old man who came from nowhere.
At that time, the Zhang family was holding a banquet, and the old man came uninvited, although there was no invitation, but on that occasion, everyone was a guest, and everyone didn't think much about it, so they let him in.
Who knew that after the old man entered the door, he did not enter the table, nor did he toast, he walked straight to Zhang Yucai, and said eight words to him, it is said that Zhang Yucai, who is young and old on weekdays, just listened to the first sentence, his hands trembled like chaff, and after the eight sentences were finished, Zhang Yucai's face turned pale directly, and the whole person sat directly on the ground, shocking the guests around him.
As for what the old man said, there is no longer any verification, so I have to listen to some rumors later, it seems that it is eight sentences starting with the word "to", and the battle is neat.
After the old man said these words, he leaned down in Zhang Yucai's ear and whispered a few words, and then turned around and went out of the door, standing outside the door and looking at Zhang Yucai, and Zhang Yucai sat on the ground and was in a daze, and the family thought that he was frightened by the old man, and while complaining about the subordinates, they helped him up.
Who knew that after Zhang Yucai got up, the whole person was like being evil, and he shouted in his mouth to follow the old man of unknown origin, even if his biological mother Wang was forced to die It was useless, he still insisted on leaving, and in the end, Zhang's father couldn't resist him, so he had to follow his heart and let him go.
However, when Zhang Yucai went back to the room to pack his luggage, Zhang Maocai, that is, Zhang Yucai's biological father, asked the old man, who was his surname, and what he took Zhang Yucai for.
After all, if you want to take someone else's child away, they must know what your name is and what you do, otherwise which parent can rest assured that the child will be handed over to someone who not only does not know the whereabouts, but also does not know the name.
Faced with the inquiries of Zhang Yucai's family, the old man only said that his surname was She, but his name was not asked.
After Zhang Yucai packed his luggage, he bowed deeply to Zhang Maocai and his wife, and followed the old man surnamed She.
This time, there is no news at all, and the old Zhang family is unlucky, the Jinke champion who was appointed by the King James ran away, then he still has it, this is a big crime of bullying the king, but Emperor Zhou Shun also knew that it was the champion he ordered He insisted on leaving, and it is said that he was taken away with an old man surnamed She, there may be some opportunity, otherwise he would not give up the fame of this champion, so he did not get too angry with the Zhang family, but just passed on the holy decree, removed Zhang Yucai's fame, and announced that the court would never hire him again.
Although the saint was gracious and did not punish the Zhang family too much, but the old couple of the Zhang family were already old, plus the only son ran away, life and death were unknown, the Wang family washed his face with tears every day, and cried blind in less than half a year.
As for the position of the champion, not only did not be filled by the lower position, but even after the imperial examination, no one was named as the champion, the official department Shangshu felt that it was a little inappropriate to be so empty, so he handed a fold to Emperor Zhou Shun, and the reply given by the saint turned out to be rather lacking than indiscriminate, although the later people were also talented, but none of them were worthy of this position, so it was better to be so empty.
So the seat of this champion was empty, that is, one hundred and thirty-four years.
And that jade material, thirty years after disappearing out of thin air, that is, in the 353rd year of the Great Xia calendar, appeared in front of the world again, and it was unusually high-profile.
At that time, he no longer called himself Zhang Yucai, but changed his name to Copernicus, and as soon as he made a move, he bought a large mansion near the center of the imperial capital, calling it the first research institute of the imperial capital.
Originally, the position of the champion has been vacant, and the fact that it has been empty for thirty years is enough to make everyone talk about this topic, and Zhang Yucai, who took the initiative to give up this position, oh no, is now Copernicus, and it has attracted much attention, and his reappearance has caused great discussion, and everyone speculates that he should have become an immortal.
However, these discussions were soon replaced by a lot of them.
Within five days of the establishment of the First Academy of the Imperial Capital, Copernicus introduced many strange things, including crystal clear glass, shining mirrors, soaps that emitted strange fragrances, and plasters that hardened when poured with water.
These things were simply unheard of for the people of the Great Xia Dynasty, and they once raised the reputation of the First Research Institute of the Imperial Capital to an extremely high level.
However, under the hint of Emperor Zhou Shun, the court of the Great Xia Dynasty remained silent, as if turning a blind eye to these things, and did not publicly suppress or praise them publicly, but some officials privately bought some small items such as mirrors and soap.
It was not until the tenth day of the establishment of the first research institute of the imperial capital that Copernicus held a large assembly outside the city gate and put forward the day when the earth circle theory and heliocentric theory were proposed, which finally caused an uproar in the world, and the government and the opposition were shaken, and even Emperor Zhou Shun, who had been silent, could not sit still, and invited Copernicus, that is, Zhang Yucai, into the palace overnight.