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- ?????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????: The summer floods in the south of the Yangtze River begin.
The rainfall in Longqing in the past four years has been much more than in previous years, but the water level in Taihu Lake has never risen above the warning level.
This naturally depends on the Taihu Water Conservancy Project that Hai Gong worked hard to build last winter and this spring. Now Taihu Lake has six major waterways, Huangpu River, Wusong River, Baimao River, Taipu River, Wangyu River and Loujiang River, that discharge floods at the same time, which greatly ensures the safety of the coast around Taihu Lake during the flood season.
" However, the counties in Suzhou and Song Dynasty still dare not be careless, because the production capacity of Jiangnan Cement Plant is limited, and a considerable part of the river embankments are still earth dams. Moreover, even if it is a cement embankment, if the water level continues to rise, there is still the danger of overflowing the embankment surface. If necessary, sandbags must be used to increase the height to ensure safety.
But as time went by, the newly built embankments withstood the test, and the berm team was idle most of the time. So the counties withdrew their strong laborers from work and replaced them with old men and half-grown men patrolling the embankment. Only when danger was discovered or the weather observatory on Dongshan Mountain predicted heavy rain, the men would go back to the embankment.
Yes, there is already a meteorological observatory in Wuzhong, the full name is Nanjing Qintianjian Suzhou Meteorological Observatory.
Mr. Zhao¡¯s eldest disciple, Lao Denuo Oh no, Bei Peijia followed him south and served as the Imperial Supervisor of Nanjing for two years.
In the past two years, Bei Peijia, who has completely got rid of the arduous and extremely risky work of stargazing and predicting bad luck for the court, can finally serve his young master wholeheartedly and explore the true meaning of the universe to his heart's content.
??????????????????? In fact, it¡¯s just working as a cow or a horse for the master
"But Zhao Hao didn't just let him act like a cow and a horse.
When Mr. Zhao asked Bei Peijia to serve in the south, he actually took a fancy to the astronomy students and Yin and Yang people in Nanjing Qintian Prison.
The Qintian Supervisor is in charge of astronomical divination, making calendars, calculating solar terms, choosing dates, and telling time, etc. It is a highly technical department. And because he undertakes the special task of ¡®insighting into the secrets of heaven¡¯, he naturally receives special treatment from the court¡ª¡ª
In the sixth year of Hongwu, Emperor Taizu, the domineering president, stipulated that the personnel of the Qin Tian Jian were ¡®never allowed to move. Their descendants can only learn astronomy and calculus, and are not allowed to learn other professions; those who do not learn will be sent to the South China Sea to serve as soldiers¡¯!
Therefore, the officials of Qin Tianjian, the ¡®astronomical students¡¯ who are responsible for astronomical divination, and the ¡®yin and yang people¡¯ who are responsible for choosing the day and observing the weather, are classified into the ¡®yin and yang households¡¯, and their inheritance and inheritance will never change.
So the seven Qintian families of Bei, Wang, Ni, Gao, Song, Yang, and Xu were formed. In the past two hundred years, they have multiplied for seven or eight generations, with thousands of children
The children of these families have practiced astronomy, calendaring, arithmetic and divination for generations; they have also learned foreign languages ??to compile astronomical and calendrical books from the Persian Empire; and mechanical skills to repair various complex sky-viewing and divination systems in Qintianjian. Time-telling devicesactually know more than the scholars of the Ming Dynasty, but they are not allowed to serve as soldiers or take the imperial examinations, and their employment opportunities are very narrowIn addition to serving as servants in the Qintian Prison in the north and south, they also go to the prince's mansion and local places. He served as an yin-yang official in the yin-yang schools of prefectures, prefectures, and counties and received a meager salary.
The errands are limited, but the population of Yin and Yang households is increasing day by day. Now 70% of the idle people can only find ways to make a living on their own. Those who practice astronomy and calendar work as bookkeepers in shops; those who learn astrology and divination tell fortunes and fortune-telling; those who learn Kanyu read Feng Shui and choose ghost houses; those who learn witchcraft draw talismans and cure diseases This business is very profitable, but the prerequisite is that you don't People were put to death.
In fact, in these ways of making a living, professionalism is not important. What is important is that you must be able to cheat, and you must be able to cheat and become rich, but you cannot cheat until you are poor. And there are always less than one human being with the high-end talent of ¡®fooling¡¯. So ninety-nine percent of Yin and Yang households have eaten one meal but not the next.
Especially the yin and yang households in Nanjing who were completely forgotten by the imperial court were so poor that they turned the Guibiao and Armillary Sphere made by Zhu Yuanzhang into copper and sold them
When Zhao Hao gave his first science lesson to his disciples at Yuhuatai, he already understood the miserable state of these marginalized people in society. After hearing the basic information about these people, tears of dissatisfaction flowed down the corner of his mouth These are thousands of science students who have studied astronomy and geography, mathematics and calendar, meteorology, geomagnetism, and mechanical manufacturing since childhood.
In the Ming Dynasty, which only produced liberal arts students, they were as precious as virgins in the land of women.
Mr. Zhao swore to make everyone happy, so he always cared about these intersex people and sent his disciples to rescue them whenever there was an opportunity He was not greedy for their bodies.
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It¡¯s just that sometimes, the ideal is very full and the reality is very skinny
Although Bei Peijia was born in the Bei family, the first family in Ming Dynasty metaphysics, their branch became a native of Beijing during the reign of their ancestors. To be honest, he didn't know the situation of these Qintian families in Nanjing.
As soon as he got to Jinling and found out, his heart dropped. Because they have been marginalized for a long time, most of these intersex people in Nanjing are blind.??Just messing around, the level is quite inadequate.
What¡¯s even more helpless is the problem of attitude. After hanging around for a long time, people become tired. No matter how much Bepejia tried to break his mouth and shouted, he still couldn't wake up these guys who were pretending to sleep.
As a last resort, he had to resort to his trump card - throwing away coins!
Bei Peijia applied for a fund from his master and established the Purple Mountain Astronomy Research Foundation outside the already rotten Qintian Prison in Nanjing.
Because it is taboo to study astronomical calendars privately, the foundation is not affiliated with the Jiangnan Group. It is a non-profit organization nominally established with funds raised by Bei Peijia, aiming to improve the level of astronomical research in Nanjing Qintianjian and Ming Dynasty Yin and Yang households. organize.
Zhao Hao will allocate 20,000 taels of silver to Bei Peijia every year as his daily expenses for operating the foundation. If there is a scientific research project commissioned, there will also be special allocations, of course, in the form of social donations. In order to make everything more natural, Zhao Hao also recruited Wang Mengxiang, Hua Boxhen and other big dogs as sponsors for Beipejia.
Even famous Qinhuai prostitutes such as Xuelang and Zheng Yanru were deceived by Mr. Zhao into giving each of them a thousand taels of silver At that time, Zhao Hao let it out through the Red Mansion Poetry Society that as long as he donated a thousand taels, the Astronomical Research Association would use it in the future. Her name was given to a newly discovered star!
How romantic this is. Oirans will eventually wither, but stars will last forever! One thousand taels cannot be bought at a loss or deceived. It is just a few boxes of powder and a few sets of jewelry. How can you miss the opportunity to shine with Chang'e, the weaver girl?
The female historians of Qinhuai were greatly moved, feeling that Mr. Zhao was so romantic. So they generously took off their clothesoh no, took off their bags. As a result, by accident, the funds raised by the Purple Mountain Astronomical Research Foundation skyrocketed to 80,000 taels.
??????????????????????? Well, the famous prostitutes have already let him open their business before they can make a penny from Mr. Zhao.
¡®Teacher, my heart is really broken for the Ming Dynasty¡¯s astronomical cause¡¯
?????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????? The old apprentice is at the same time a little worried, in the future the sky will be full of prostitutes, and he is not afraid of being poked by the grandmaster, but he is afraid of being executed by the emperor
Zhao Hao then scolded him for being stubborn and insisting on naming it after a star? Are the 1.27 million asteroids in the solar system not stars? Not to mention the famous prostitutes on the Qinhuai River, one pill would be enough for each of the Taishan girls, the West Lake boat girls, the Yangzhou thin horses, the Datong aunts and even all the prostitutes in the world right?
¡°In short, things will be much easier to handle if you have money. Bei Peijia put aside the rotten Nanjing Qintian Prison and concentrated on running the Purple Mountain Research Association.
He issued a recruitment order to the major astronomical families - no unnecessary rhetoric, only an unpretentious and boring price list:
Recruiting senior researcher, monthly salary fifty taels of silver.
Intermediate researcher, monthly salary of twenty taels of silver.
??Junior researcher, monthly salary of ten taels of silver.
Assistant researcher, monthly salary of five taels of silver.
A graduate student has a monthly salary of three taels of silver.
This shining silver recruitment order is like a huge stone thrown into a pool of stagnant water.
¡°After all, even the lowest-paid graduate student¡¯s monthly income is twice that of a skilled craftsman in Nanjing. And the salary is paid at the end of every month and will never be in arrears. It won¡¯t be like setting up a stall on the street, where the wind will be reduced by half and the rain will stop
The major astronomical families were in a sensation, and the yin and yang people who had been numb for a long time rushed to fill in the registration form and wanted to become a glorious researcher.
But you have to take the entrance exam first. The exam is divided into four subjects: arithmetic, astronomy, geography, and meteorology. They are all skills for Yin and Yang people to eat. More than two thousand intersex people signed up with full confidence, but only 300 people were admitted.
Among them, a dozen old intersex people who are really good at this were hired as junior researchers, working under the direct leadership of Bei Peijia.
Dozens of Yin and Yang people with solid foundations and hard work have been hired as assistant researchers to assist junior researchers in their work.
There are more than two hundred little intersex people who are fond of this way and are smart and can be made, and they have become graduate students taught by Bei Peijia himself They are the real hope. As for the researchers he recruited, Bei Peijia was actually not satisfied. Their knowledge system was too outdated, and the older they got, the more stubborn they became, and the more knowledge they had, the more reactionary they became.
Bei Peijia hired them firstly to buy horse bones, and secondly to use them as laborers because the tasks arranged by the master were too tight.
After two months of surprise training for these people, he followed Zhao Hao¡¯s orders and launched research projects one after another, including:
Use astronomical telescopes to carry out astronomical observations and try to verify the rules of the universe explained in "Mathematical Principles of Natural Science".
? Collating the vast astronomical data of Qin Tianjian and trying to compile a star table.
Use Pei Xiu¡¯s six-dimensional cartography method to draw the star map and establish a longitude and latitude grid system.
?????????????????????????????????????????????????????? And Mr. Zhao has a habit of coming up with ideas. Whenever he comes up with an idea, he will immediately ask Secretary Ma to write him a letter to add to his burden.
Later, they successively sent trial-produced octants to Beipeijia, compiled the "Astronomical Almanac" matching the navigation clock, studied weather forecasts, and even typhoon warnings and other tasks that were increasingly irrelevant to the Qintian Supervisor
But there is no way, the teacher's fate is like a mountain. Bei Peijia had no choice but to grit his teeth and persist in advancing each arduous task. So far, it can barely be considered fruitful.
ps. My mother is going to have a minor surgery. I went to the hospital today to talk about it, and then I finished writing a chapter. Keep writing, but I will definitely not finish it. I will post it tomorrow morning (remember the website address: www.hlnovel.com)?Draw the star map and establish a longitude and latitude grid system.
?????????????????????????????????????????????????????? And Mr. Zhao has a habit of coming up with ideas. Whenever he comes up with an idea, he will immediately ask Secretary Ma to write him a letter to add to his burden.
Later, they successively sent trial-produced octants to Beipeijia, compiled the "Astronomical Almanac" matching the navigation clock, studied weather forecasts, and even typhoon warnings and other tasks that were increasingly irrelevant to the Qintian Supervisor
But there is no way, the teacher's fate is like a mountain. Bei Peijia had no choice but to grit his teeth and persist in advancing each arduous task. So far, it can barely be considered fruitful.
ps. My mother is going to have a minor surgery. I went to the hospital today to talk about it, and then I finished writing a chapter. Keep writing, but I will definitely not finish it. I will post it tomorrow morning (Remember the website address: www.hlnovel.com - Didn't finish reading? Add this book to your favoritesI'm a member and bookmarked this chapterCopy the address of this book and recommend it to your friends for pointsChapter error? Click here to report
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