Han Dao world

Chapter 1101
After returning to the palace, Yang Xiu first found his father, Yang Biao, and told him all the issues he had talked about when he and the emperor were traveling.

Yang Biao listened carefully and was very excited.

Although he supports Mi Heng's suggestion in principle, he is still a little worried.The biggest worry is that after the emperor has mastered the military power, he will use conquests from outside, disregarding the power of the people, and exert pressure from inside, forcing the ministers to bow their heads and obey orders.

Now that he knows that the Son of Heaven has great ambitions and wants to build an unprecedented career, the possibility of willful behavior is extremely low, and his final worries are much relieved.

In all fairness, although the emperor is young, he is more cautious than many veteran officials.His worry was unnecessary, it was just a habit.

Regarding government affairs, Yang Biao went to discuss with Jia Xu and Zhou Zhong, and finally made a decision.

Yang Xiu focused on publishing his own research results.

As he and Liu Xie said, it's one thing to think about it for yourself, but it's another thing to make it public.First of all, he has to write his experience into an article, and in order for others to understand, he also needs to draw a picture.Secondly, in order to prove his own point of view, he has to show the truth to the wall, and he has to do verifiable experiments, experiments that can be repeated by others.

Articles are easy to write, but experiments are difficult to do.

He not only has to prove his ideas are correct through these experiments, but also to be as thorough as possible so that no one else has the opportunity to question them.

This article is not long, that is, three or four hundred words, a few pictures, but it took him several days.

Most of the time is in experimental design.

A few days later, Yang Xiu finished the article and sent it to Yinfang in person.

Here, he met Xu Yue again.

Xu Yue is one of the reviewers of Yinfang.After coming to Wancheng, Mrs. Tang soon became aware of his talent, and invited him to come to Yinfang as a reviewer, specializing in reviewing articles on astronomy and mathematics.

Seeing Yang Xiu, he was a little excited, and warmly invited Yang Xiu to the study for a detailed talk.After he was seated, he took out his newly drawn Xuan Ye Picture and asked Yang Xiu for advice.

Yang Xiu also found it interesting, and told Xu Yue about his conjectures.

Hearing that not all the stars in the sky are round, there are flat ones, Xu Yue was stunned for a while, and looked at Yang Xiu with strange eyes.He also had a telescope and used it for stargazing, but he didn't see any flat stars.

And according to Yang Xiu, those stars are not stars, they are more likely to be a large cluster of stars like the Milky Way.

Further reasoning, how far are these star clusters?
This conclusion is surprising, but he is a scholar who has watched stars for many years, and immediately thought of a problem.

He asked Yang Xiu, are those flat stars you mentioned fixed on the ecliptic?
Yang Xiu said, it is indeed so, the five stars of metal, wood, water, fire, earth, which move fast are all round, and the flat stars are all fixed.

Xu Yue immediately came up with a deduction: Is it possible that the stars fixed on the zodiac are all far away, and only the five stars of gold, wood, water, fire, and earth are relatively close.We are in a galaxy, but those stars are not necessarily, they may be the galaxy.

Xu Yue's bold deduction made Yang Xiu feel very shocked, and also looked at Xu Yue with admiration.

He realized once again that there are specialties in the arts, and he is an amateur in astronomical observation, while Xu Yue is a professional.

The two talked more and more speculatively, until their stomachs growled with hunger, and they realized that it was getting late.

Yang Xiu took out his own article and asked Xu Yue to review it.

Xu Yue read it once and passed it quickly.For him, the issues discussed in such articles are only trivial, and the reason is very simple, which can be understood after a little thought.

He told Yang Xiu that within three days, this article could be published in newspapers.

Because there are pictures, it will be a little slower.If it was just words, it would be in the newspaper tomorrow.

Yang Xiu laughed, expressing that he was not in a hurry.He was also ordered by the emperor to write this article, and he didn't intend to become famous because of it.

After seeing off Yang Xiu, Xu Yue went back to his room, called the waiter, and asked him to arrange typesetting with Yang Xiu's article.The waiter looked at the signature of the article and was taken aback for a moment.

"Hong Nong Yang Xiu?"

"Well, what's the problem?" Xu Yue was still immersed in his own world. "Although there is no reputation and the article is not big, it makes sense."

"Sir, he is Hongnong Yangxiu." The waiter didn't know whether to laugh or cry. "A descendant of Hongnong Yang's family of four generations and three lords, he is also the current Hanyang prefect, the emperor's favored minister."

Xu Yue woke up like a dream.

It was only at this moment that he realized that the person who had talked to him for a long time just now was not an ordinary scholar at all, and he was from a famous family and an important official of the court.

That being the case, who was the young man who spoke with him that day?

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Yang Xiu's article was published soon, and the reaction it caused exceeded Xu Yue's estimate.

In terms of knowledge alone, this problem is indeed not a big one.

But the issue of two children arguing about the sun is a pain for the Confucian school, especially when it is combined with the colder mountain top, it is already a crime of the Confucian school for not being pragmatic and enterprising, and it has become a topic of ridicule for many Confucian scholars.

Now being untied by Yang Xiu, Confucianists can finally feel proud.

Who says that Confucian scholars don't study pragmatically? Isn't Yang Xiu a Confucian scholar?He is not only a Confucian scholar, but also a real Confucian family.

Some people support it, and some people oppose it.

Some people objected to Yang Xiu's point of view, felt that his statement was problematic, and tried every means to refute it.

Some people objected to Yang Xiu's identity.What kind of Confucian scholar? Although Yang Xiu came from a Confucian family, is he still a Confucian scholar like you?After being trained by the emperor, he has become a pragmatic and capable minister.If not, how could he write such pragmatic articles, at most he could write some poems like Wang Can.

Unfortunately, Wang Can lay on the gun.

Qin Mi was lying on the gun with Wang Can.

Qin Mi's ingenious theory that the sky has its head and its ears was once all the rage.But now it seems that those are just tongue-in-cheek tricks.It can be used as a talking point, but it has no practical effect.

Compared with Yang Xiu's article, it is simply a wonderful comparison.

In the middle of the first month, when Qin Mi came to Nanyang with Liu Zhang and others, he saw Yang Xiu's article in the posthouse and heard related comments as soon as he entered the county.

Qin Mi was very annoyed, and read Yang Xiu's article again and again, and then went to consult Zhou Qun, a fellow scholar.

Zhou Qun was born in Langzhong. His father, Zhou Shu, was a student of Guanghan scholar Yang Cun. He was as famous as Dong Fu and Ren An, and was proficient in astronomy, prophecy, and ephemeris.Zhou Qun was less educated by his family, so he built a small building at home, watched the stars every night, and his familiarity with astronomy and astrology surpassed that of Qin Mi by countless numbers.

Regarding Yang Xiu's article, the first thing he questioned was how could the sun be flat?
The sun and the moon are both round, and they are perfect circles. How can there be such a thing as being elongated due to the deflection of the lens?
For this reason, he specially made a circle and looked at the rising sun at sunrise in the early morning.

Then he discovered to his horror that not only the morning sun, but also the setting sun was not the standard circle he thought, but a slightly flattened circle, and the degree of flattening changed with time, as analyzed in Yang Xiu's article match.

In other words, although he has watched the stars for many years, he has always turned a blind eye to a fact that is right in front of him.

(End of this chapter)