please make me king

"Oh, Mr. Wang, why are you here?" Zhang Shun looked at Wang Zhengdao in surprise, "Hurry up, give me a seat!"

"I was surprised to hear that His Majesty has ascended to a great treasure, so I came to congratulate him!" Wang Zheng was stunned when he heard the words, and quickly replied.

It turns out that an official like him cannot leave his post without a will, let alone enter Beijing without authorization.

Although he relied on Zhang Shun's old love, he was not very worried about Zhang Shun punishing himself, but he did not dare to challenge this rule blatantly.

So, he hesitated for a moment, and could not help but continue: "Where a new dynasty is established, it must be easy to change its color and correct its color."

"It's not for me to say what the clothes look like today, only Zhengshuo is the only one, please make a decision early, Your Majesty!"

The so-called "changing color" refers to changing the color of official uniforms and military uniforms.

For example, the Qin Dynasty was black, and the court and military uniforms were mostly black; the Ming Dynasty was red, and the official robes and military uniforms were mostly red.

Now Dayu is newly established, born in response to Tude, with yellow as its authenticity.

However, since the Tang Dynasty, yellow has been the exclusive color of the Yellow Emperor.

Therefore, Zhang Shun specially decreed that ochre-yellow should be used as the exclusive color for emperors, and other colors such as golden yellow, apricot yellow, and light yellow are not prohibited.

However, due to the huge stock of costumes in the Ming Dynasty and the fact that yellow was rare, most officials only embroidered some yellow patterns on the basis of the original official robes to show the difference.

However, under Zhang Shun's strong request, after several experiments, the Ministry of Industry can use relatively cheap Phellodendron phellodendron, Huangqin, Sophora japonica, and Sophora japonica for printing and dyeing, so as to obtain earthy yellow coarse cloth, which can also meet the needs of military uniforms.

The so-called "rectifiers of Shuo", "Zheng means the beginning of the year, and Shuo means the beginning of the month. It is said that the king will be in power, and it means that it starts from me, and the old is changed and the new is used."

That is to say, change the beginning time of the year and month. For example, in the Xia Dynasty, the first month was regarded as the first month, and "Tianming was the new moon"; January is positive, midnight is new moon."

Therefore, "Historical Records" records that the Xia Dynasty used "Xiazheng", the Shang Dynasty used "Yinzheng", and the Zhou Dynasty used "Zhouzheng".

However, this method of changing and changing is too troublesome, and it is easy to affect agricultural production.

Therefore, since Emperor Wu of the Han Dynasty once again adopted "Xia Zheng" as the correct date, successive dynasties often promulgated new calendars as a symbol of "correcting the new moon".

Of course, because the re-enactment of the calendar is not only a huge project, but also takes a long time, some dynasties used a tricky method, that is, to change the name of the previous calendar and continue to promulgate it.

For example, Zhu Yuanzhang of the Ming Dynasty changed the "Shoushi Calendar" of the Yuan Dynasty to "Datong Calendar" and continued to use it.

Now Zhang Shun has just ascended the throne, but he has a rough understanding of some calendar knowledge.

He had not yet made up his mind whether to continue using the old calendar under a different name or to make a new calendar, so Wang Zheng came at the right time.

"Oh? What do you think sir?" Zhang Shun thought that since you raised this question, you must have made up your mind.

"The "New Calendar" presented by the missionary Long Huamin and others used Western methods, which is a hundred times better than ours." Wang Zheng couldn't help laughing.

"Many people were dissatisfied. After several checks, the new law is 'closely aligned with the sky'."

"Wait, wait, do you think that I can't understand the calendar, and it's not easy to check the original records!" Just as Wang Zheng was boasting endlessly, Zhang Shun suddenly interrupted.

"Ah?" Wang Zheng was taken aback when he heard the words, and he couldn't help but blush, feeling ashamed.

It turned out that the so-called "New Fa Calendar" by the missionaries and Wang Zheng was the "Chongzhen Calendar" formulated during the Chongzhen period.

The content of this "Chongzhen Almanac" is extremely large, including 46 works in total, with a length of 130 seven volumes.

Among them, Fayuan is about related astronomical theories, with a total of forty volumes; Fashu is a formula for astronomical mathematics; Fashu is the mathematical method used to calculate the astronomical calendar; Instruments; Huitong is a conversion table between East and West units.

In addition, it also includes "The Origin of the Governance of the Calendar" and "An Examination of the Ancient and Modern Times", which tell the story of how the calendar was formulated and how it "crushed" the Qin Tianjian and the Eastern Bureau during the formulation process.

At the beginning, Zhang Shun had just received the "Xinfa Calendar". After reading it, he couldn't help feeling the development of Western science and technology, and the humbleness and ignorance of traditional Chinese scholars.

However, unexpectedly, when the missionaries came to persuade them to enter the table, Tian Xiuying, the concubine of Chongzhen, told the truth.

At that time, Zhang Shun was busy with enthronement and had no time to tell.

After everything was over, he asked someone to pull out the original files of the three-party contest between Qin Tianjian, the East Bureau, and the West Bureau, as well as the Zhu Zhu and the imperial decree of Chongzhen. Only then did he find that the missionaries not only secretly tampered with the results of their own calculations, It even tampered with the outcome between the three.

It turns out that since Chongzhen ascended the throne, Xu Guangqi entered the court, and he has been advocating and promoting the Western calendar.

It's just that it has annoyed two people.

One is Zheng Ge Chengke, the supervisor of Qin Tianjian, and the other is Wei Wenkui, a folk scholar.

Among them, the Ge clan has a large number of people and is a practitioner of "Sitian". For example, he works in Qintianjian.

That is to say, what Ge inherits science is the astronomical calendar handed down by his family, and its main viewpoint and algorithm come from the "Da Tong Li", which is the "Shou Shi Calendar" of the Yuan Dynasty.

And Wei Wenkui in the back is even more terrible. To outsiders, he looks like a "civilian".

Not only did he not know his teacher, but he devoted himself to studying the "Huangji Jingshishu" written by Shao Yong in the Song Dynasty.

To be honest, this sounds unreliable at first glance.

What "Huangji Jingshishu" is not even mentioned in the textbooks of later generations, it looks like a wild way.

And when Zhang Shun ordered someone to find out the book, he was even more convinced of his point of view.

It turns out that this "Huangji Jingshishu" is a book that pays attention to Yili, Hetu Luoshu and the like, and it looks like Song Xiance and the like.

Do you think he looks a little reliable?
Not at all!

However, just such a "corrupt bureaucrat", plus a "minke from Yeluzi", under the coordination of "faint emperor" Chongzhen, they were divided into three rounds to fight each other.

They are the Qin Tianjian headed by Ge Chengke, the East Bureau headed by Wei Wenkui, and the West Bureau headed by Xu Guangqi and assisted by missionaries.

No matter how Zhang Shun looked at it, he felt that the latter had a great chance of winning.

However, in the second year of Chongzhen, the fourth year of Chongzhen, the seventh year of Chongzhen, and the eighth year of Chongzhen, including solar eclipses, lunar eclipses, and calculations of the moon, Jupiter, and Mercury, the errors of the Western Bureau headed by Xu Guangqi were relatively large. Big, and there have even been big mistakes, so that Lien Zhan lost streak and became disheartened.

In science, victory or defeat is a common matter in military affairs, but it is nothing.

However, Zhang Shun never expected that this group of people would be so shameless.

Not only revising the calculation results, but also turning black and white, and attacking the traditional Chinese calendar.

This is exactly what is tolerable and unbearable!