Live Jianbao: Baoyou, you are very wrong

Chapter 178 Is the No.1 Compass of Diplomacy in the Qing Dynasty Powerful?

Seeing Baoyou's doubts, Ning Fan drew a sketch.

Everyone looked at the things in front of them, a little dumbfounded.

With a few strokes, Ning Fan actually drew the three views of this peculiar wooden vessel just now, and explained it in a rigid manner.

"Baoyou, look at this thing, the beam in the middle is actually reserved for you to hang needles."

"There is a direction on the bottom, and the top is fixed. You can judge north and south just by looking at the direction of the magnetic needle suspended by silk in the middle."

After finishing speaking, I also found a description.

"Shen Kuo recorded this method in "Mengxi Bi Tan". Use mustard seeds to make wax, sew it on the waist of the needle, hang it in a place where there is no wind, and the needle will always go south."

"That's what was said about the hanging compass."

"And Xia Guo has a record of using Sinan as early as the Warring States Period."

"At the earliest time, a magnetic spoon made of natural magnetite was placed on a bronze plate to identify the direction."

"There are 24 positions on the bronze plate. When using it, it must be level and there are no iron objects around it."

"This is the earliest guide equipment in the Xia Kingdom. It was used until the Song Dynasty, when artificial magnets appeared to replace the original natural magnets."

After Ning Fan finished speaking, everyone in the studio was dumbfounded.

"There were artificial magnets in the Song Dynasty?"

"I thought it was a modern thing."

"Don't say it, I thought it was something that only existed in the last few decades."

Seeing the words of the treasure friends, the stubborn master of Tiandu shook his head.

"Baoyou, this is what you really don't understand."

"There were records of magnets in history 5000 years ago, and the Xia Kingdom also began to use natural magnets 300 years ago."

"During the Song Dynasty, someone rubbed an iron needle on a magnet and obtained the earliest magnetic needle."

"Later, the quenching technology was used to make magnetic needles."

The treasure friends felt strange when they heard this method. They had never heard of such a production method before, and asked the stubborn master Baoyou to explain the reason.

"Hey, what's the reason for this, didn't you learn nature and science in elementary school?"

"Under the action of a magnet, the iron needles are polarized after being magnetized. This is the principle of magnetization of porcelain needles."

"But the reason for quenching is more complicated."

"I don't know the specific method. Anyway, after heating, place the porcelain needle in the direction of true north and south, so that the geomagnetic field can affect the arrangement of atoms inside the iron needle."

"After quenching, the arrangement is fixed, and a stable magnetic needle is formed."

"This is also the principle of making compass in ancient times."

After Tiandu stubborn master finished speaking, he paused for a moment.

"By the way! I still have an old-fashioned compass here, take it out to open your eyes."

Post a photo after speaking.

It was a wooden box about an inch thick and four fingers wide, which had been opened to reveal its contents.

The surrounding wooden frame is engraved with 24 mountains such as Jia, Mao, Yi, Chen, Xun, etc., and there is a piece of transparent glass in the wooden frame.

Under the glass is an extremely exquisite iron compass with a spear head and a phoenix tail, as well as exquisite carvings.

Everyone looked at it and felt that this thing was extraordinary, and asked what it was.

The stubborn master of Tiandu wiped it preciously before he said proudly.

"How about it, haven't you seen it?"

"The good things from the Quancheng shipyard, the compass that Zheng He used on his voyages to the West, might have been used by Zheng He."

"It's a pity that there are no inscriptions, otherwise the identity can be determined."

Everyone's eyes turned red when they heard the words.

Why is it something from the Ming Dynasty in other people's hands, but I wish it was something from tomorrow, it's just a piece of shit!

Ning Fan glanced at the screen and shook his head slightly.

"Stubborn Lord Baoyou, you are overthinking. This is not Zheng He's, but Bin Chun's."

The treasure friends were puzzled when they heard the name.

"I've never heard of this person, is he a subordinate of Zheng He?"

"Master Ning knows that he should not be an unknown person, but why doesn't he have any impression?"

"There was no such person in the Ming Dynasty, right?"

"of course not."

Ning Fan saw Bao friends discussing, his eyes lowered and he spoke lightly.

"How could it be possible for people in the Qing Dynasty to go to the Ming Dynasty? Zheng He didn't dare to stretch his hand like that."

Ah this...

Everyone was stunned when they heard Ning Fan's words.

They really didn't expect that the owner of this Ming Dynasty thing was actually a Qing Dynasty person.

Ning Fan didn't wait for them to ask, and took the initiative to talk about Bin Chun.

"Bin Chun's reputation is not very prominent in history, but he is very famous in the history of diplomacy. He was the first minister of the Qing Dynasty to be received by the Queen of the Kingdom of which the Sun Never Sets, and he was also the first minister of the Xia Kingdom to be sent to investigate in an official name."

"Of course, there is also a special achievement. Binchun introduced punctuation marks into Xia Kingdom, which can be regarded as liberating thousands of scholars."

"Sentence reading in classical Chinese?"

"Ah."

Ning Fan nodded.

After these words came out, there was finally some reaction in the live broadcast room.

They have known since childhood that the most difficult thing for ancient scholars is not to recognize characters, but to read sentences.

After all, in ancient times, books did not have punctuation marks like they do now. If a book is not divided into lines, it is likely to have only one sentence.

At that time, I learned and learned from time to time, and what I learned was actually punctuation.

"After all, there are no punctuation marks or any blank paragraphs in front of a sentence. If you want to understand what is said, you can only guess. It is all kinds of inversions, omissions, and borrowings that are replaced by modern Chinese. It is even more difficult without a teacher. don't understand"

Ning Fan made a special message.

In the live broadcast, Baoyou said that he was blind, and he saw something without segmentation and punctuation, it was really a hell.

"Just to let everyone experience how the students read before there were no punctuation marks."

"Speaking of business, don't you want to know why this thing belongs to Bin Chun?"

"Yes!"

Seeing Ning Fan directly say what they thought in their hearts, they all responded in the barrage.

Ning Fan didn't say much, he found an old photo and sent it out.

"Just look at this photo."

"What photo is this?"

Everyone looked at the picture in a daze.

There are people wearing Qing Dynasty costumes and people wearing big-brimmed hats on the screen. The buildings behind it look like unusual places.

"Buckingham Palace."

Ning Fan knew they wanted to ask, so he spoke first.

"Photos of the Binchun delegation before they were invited to attend the palace dinner at Buckingham Palace."

"At that time, the empire on which the sun never sets already had elevators, electric lights, and trains, which seemed to be technologically brilliant, but Binchun and the others completely opened the door to a new world."

"Of course, this photo is not meant to illustrate these things. Look at the thing on the waist of the third person from left to right in the photo. It happens to be this compass."

When everyone heard the words, they immediately looked at the photo with their eyes wide open. Sure enough, they saw a round wooden box around the waist of the person speaking, but the photo was too blurry to see clearly.

"Master Ning, I can't see clearly, is there any other evidence?"

"Yes, I have!"

Ning Fan continued to speak.

"It is also recorded in "Chengcha Notes". Binchun's own navigation notes also have a detailed description of his compass."

"The spearhead and the phoenix tail, the wooden box is made by Mengpoli, Chang Nan."

"The Poli here is glass, which is recorded in the classics of the Ming Dynasty, and only some scholars in the Qing Dynasty would use it."

"Is this enough proof?"

(End of this chapter)