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- On the night of the fifth day of the Lunar New Year, at Xiangshan Academy, the square in front of the ¡®Science Top a Ball¡¯ was crowded with people.
More than 600 science students who returned to the university after graduation from Canada were sighing and stamping their feet, holding their heads high and staring intently at the southwest skyline.
When the big comet with its pale tail arrived as scheduled, loud cheers rang out in the academy.
"Science science!" The students jumped and jumped, throwing their cotton and leather hats into the sky to vent their excitement at the moment.
"True knowledge lies only in science!"
¡°Heaven did not create science, and eternity would be as long as night!¡±
It is said that seeing is worth hearing a hundred times. Although disciples have been studying science for many years, many are still stuck in the old cage, afraid or unwilling to break through the shackles of traditional thinking, and only regard science as a stepping stone to the imperial examination.
Because those concepts and cognitions that Zhao Hao thought were absurd, ignorant and ridiculous, to people of this era, are the original order that has maintained the operation of the world for thousands of years.
It is very painful to break your original understanding of the world. For many scholars, it is even destroying their inner world, so they do not have the courage to truly believe in science. They just pretend to believe in order to go to a prestigious school.
So Zhao Hao summoned all the disciples in Beijing to Xiangshan Academy. In addition to letting them escape the whirlpool, he also used this rare astronomical spectacle to give those disciples who were still unsteady in their hearts a shocking collective baptism!
The sponsor of Xiangshan Academy is the wealthy Xishan Group. When it was built six years ago, it established a star observatory in the name of Qin Tianjian. In recent years, 20 refracting astronomical telescopes and eight reflecting astronomical telescopes have been purchased from Jiangnan Precision Instrument Factory.
The difference between these two telescopes is that the refractive aberration is small but there is chromatic aberration, and the larger the size, the more expensive it is. Reflecting telescopes have no chromatic aberration, are cheap to build, and the reflectors can be made very large, but there are aberrations.
In order to observe this once-in-a-century comet, Bei Peijia also invested a lot of money and developed three catadioptric telescopes that combined the advantages of the two telescopes according to the design ideas given by his master. This kind of telescope has strong light power, a large visible range, and solves chromatic aberration and aberration at the same time. Therefore, it is particularly suitable for patrol observations of meteors, comets, etc., as well as astronomical science popularization activities. It was named ¡®Bepejia Telescope¡¯ by Zhao Hao.
There are three Beipejia telescopes, one is located at the Purple Mountain Observatory and the other is located at Yufeng Academy. The other one is right here.
In fact, through the telescope, the students locked onto this comet 20 days ago.
Because according to the description in "Nature Knowledge", when a comet gradually approaches the sun, the frozen surface begins to evaporate, forming a huge comet head or coma, causing the comet's brightness to suddenly increase.
At the same time, strong solar radiation and solar wind will force the dust particles and gas on the comet to form two comet tails facing away from the sun. The comet tail formed by dust particles is relatively short, curved, thick, and yellow in color; the comet tail formed by gas is relatively long, straight, thin, and blue in color.
When a comet passes Mars, its tail begins to form. Until perihelion, the comet produces the most gas and has the longest tail. Then as the comet moves away from the sun, the tail gradually shortens and disappears
Therefore, more than twenty telescopes of Xiangshan Academy have been staring in the direction of Mars. Sure enough, they discovered the appearance of this comet twenty days ago. Through continuous observation day by day, they witnessed its comet tail gradually forming and bifurcating. The whole process of growing longer
Until tonight, you can clearly see it with the naked eye without using a telescope!
The astronomical scenes we have witnessed in the past few days eloquently illustrate that comets are not God¡¯s great omen at all, but are celestial bodies composed of ice, gas and dust, like the five planets, revolving around the sun!
¡°And the continuously observed motion trajectories of comets are indeed elliptical with the sun as a focus, which proves the correctness of universal gravity!
The disciples even calculated the height of the comet and the time it would take for it to disappear from sight¡ªit would have to wait until after the Lantern Festival next year!
Through this series of observations and research, the disciples successfully deenchanted the comet, said goodbye to the connection between heaven and man, and began to truly use science to reshape the world view
At this time, people did not know that the impact of this change was so far-reaching that it even directly shook the foundation of the dynasty's rule. It will take several years for a change in thinking to create an obvious crack in the social system that has been closed for thousands of years
Because there are still too few people who believe in science, even in the officialdom of the capital where there is the largest concentration of scientific people, the vast majority of officials still firmly believe in the theory of heaven and man's induction.
Therefore, there is no way to accurately predict the news of the comet scientifically.??It did not dilute the panic of the superstitious people, and what was supposed to happen still happened.
The next morning, Wanli ordered the Ministry of Rites to inform all the palaces and temples, asking God to appease his anger.
People in the government and the public are also in panic, and people in the streets are talking about this bad omen. That afternoon, someone connected the great comet with the recent love-stealing controversy. It is said that it was Xianggong Zhang who refused to accept Ding You and violated the laws of nature and human ethics, which prompted God to warn him. If we don't correct it quickly, a big disaster will surely happen!
That night, the comet appeared again, still dragging its long tail, pale and scary.
That night, the Forbidden City also lost water. At the second watch of the day, a ray of fire shot up from the Yihexuan in the northeast corner of the Forbidden Palace.
With the dry autumn weather and the roaring golden wind, the Summer Palace quickly turned into a sea of ??fire, which spread to Leshou Hall, Yangxing Hall, Ningshou Palace, and the entire northeastern part of the Forbidden City was shrouded in blazing flames. The fire was soaring into the sky, and the huge comet in the sky complemented each other, making it extremely scary.
The eunuchs and guards from the Forbidden City all came to put out the fire. Fortunately, the palace had become rich in recent years, and Xianggong Zhang was very thoughtful and resettled enough water tanks, water dragons and other fire-fighting facilities in the palace. After struggling to put out the fire, the fire did not spread
Queen Mother Li and Emperor Wanli were naturally alarmed, although the fire was still far away from the Qianqing Palace. But for the sake of safety, Feng Bao and Empress Dowager Li's brother Li Jin asked them to move to Cining Palace on the west side and take temporary refuge with Empress Dowager Chen.
Queen Mother Chen has been practicing fasting and chanting Buddha's name for almost 20 years, and Queen Mother Li is like a younger sister to her.
"Moreover, Queen Mother Chen's health has improved a lot over the years, but she does not thank Jiangnan Hospital for promoting the advancement of medical care. Instead, she believes that this is the result of her years of practice and charity, and finally the blessing of Bodhisattva, so she becomes even more superstitious.
When she learned that there was a fire in the Qingshou Palace, she said nonchalantly that it was brought by the broom star, and that it was God warning the emperor to be virtuous and cautious.
Wanli almost peeed when he heard this, even though he was already fifteen years old. But I heard that God specially made a comet to entertain me, which is still too much to bear.
Queen Mother Li was not very happy when she heard this. She said to you, does it mean that my son does not cultivate virtue and is not cautious?
"Emperor, don't blame yourself, you are not in charge yet." Seeing that Wanli's face turned pale, Empress Dowager Chen quickly took his hand and comforted him: "God can't blame you for this."
"That's good, that's good." Wanli breathed a sigh of relief and went to sleep happily.
Queen Mother Li was so frightened that her lips turned purple, good fellow, is this my responsibility?
"My sister is also afraid. When will it be our women's turn to make the decision in the affairs of the world?" Empress Dowager Chen gave her a meaningful look and comforted her, "Let's chant sutras together to ward off disasters."
"Okay." Empress Dowager Li nodded in response, so the two empress dowagers continued to chant sutras in front of the Guanyin statue until dawn.
After daybreak, a disgraced Li came in to report that the fire was out and his sister¡¯s Ningshou Palace was saved
"Thank God and thank the Bodhisattva." Empress Dowager Li immediately had red circles in her eyes and kowtowed to Guanyin repeatedly. If he burns down his Ningshou Palace, it will be easy to figure out where he will live after the emperor's wedding next year. The key is that you can't afford to lose that person.
"It's just that the gardens of Ningshou Palace were burned down." Li Jin swallowed and said, "The trees and Buddhist halls inside were all burned down"
"What?" Queen Mother Li froze immediately. That Buddhist hall was built for her by Zhang Xianggong who spent huge sums of money! The purchase of golden nanmu and rosewood alone cost one million taels. The pure gold Bodhisattva statue inside is still made in her likeness.
This made her more heartbroken and frightened than burning Ningshou Palace
"Alas, sister" Queen Mother Chen sighed and shook her head.
Empress Dowager Li collapsed and sat down in front of the statue of Guanyin.
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The next day, Emperor Wanli ordered the Ministry of Rites to build the Chaotian Palace for three days because of the unsolved star change and the ban on fire. He still ordered all the palaces and temples to build provinces, suspended executions, and banned massacres.
Zhang Xianggong also went to beg to return home for the fourth time. Shuzhong also used the star as an excuse to ask the emperor to let him go home.
However, Wanli immediately issued an edict to persuade him to stay, saying that Xunzi said, "The eclipses of the sun and the moon, the irregular winds and rains, and the appearance of strange stars are not common in the world." If the government is bright and the government is peaceful, then even if it rises from time to time, there will be no harm; if the government is dark and the government is dangerous, it will be useless even if there is no one. ¡¯ He also ordered him to ¡®no more trouble¡¯, and also ordered the Supervisor of Ceremonies to reject any further memorials from Prime Minister Zhang asking for his resignation.
Seeing that the two men wanted to fool Xing Bian as soon as they sang together, the officials gave up. They discussed that since "weird stars are harmless", then why did the emperor have to fast and pray for sin before, go to all the palaces and temples, ask all the officials to repair the province, and even refuse to kill pigs?
This is obviously a self-contradiction. It must be Zhang Xianggong who instigated his student emperor to change his words. Isn't this just for Zhang Juzheng to fool God? How is Daming still doing?
Now everyone believes that the emperor is just a puppet of Xianggong Zhang. The officials were filled with righteous indignation, beating their chests and feet, cursing and shouting bitterly that the generals of the country would not be able to rule the country! Regardless of the fact that this is the best era in the Ming Dynasty for a hundred years
Many big-character posters even appeared on the streets, criticizing Zhang Juzheng for having no king or father, being corrupt, lustful and immoral, which caused the anger of heaven and the people!
Mr. Zhang turned a deaf ear to this and waited until the incident passed and all the rumors would be disproven.
However, the tree wants to be still but the wind does not stop. How could those people let go of this God-given opportunity?
When the momentum was completed, the fatal impeachment arrived (remember this website address: www.hlnovel.com)The emperor changed his mind. Isn't this just for Zhang Juzheng to fool God? How is Daming still doing?
Now everyone believes that the emperor is just a puppet of Xianggong Zhang. The officials were filled with righteous indignation, beating their chests and feet, cursing and shouting bitterly that the generals of the country would not be able to rule the country! Regardless of the fact that this is the best era in the Ming Dynasty for a hundred years
Many big-character posters even appeared on the streets, criticizing Zhang Juzheng for having no king or father, being corrupt, lustful and immoral, which caused the anger of heaven and the people!
Mr. Zhang turned a deaf ear to this and waited until the incident passed and all the rumors would be disproven.
However, the tree wants to be still but the wind does not stop. How could those people let go of this God-given opportunity?
When the momentum was completed, the fatal impeachment arrived (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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