Daqin Fusu: It is difficult to start the battle

Chapter 304 Sit, Please Sit, Please Sit Up
Shanglinyuan Royal Hunting Ground, a white tent with Tuanlong flag and Sanchen flag.

Fu Suxuan sat behind the sandalwood table, looked at Fu Sheng who was wearing a Confucian crown and Ge clothes, and asked: "I heard that you are proficient in astronomy and calculation, how can you be proficient in Dharma?"

He also learned from some special channels the proverbs circulating in Xianyang City about the day of welcoming autumn and the restart of destiny, but he didn't know the source of the proverbs and the specific meaning.

But if you want to come to "Mandate of Heaven Restart", it should be related to special celestial phenomena. After all, human beings' worship of God has appeared since the age of ignorance, and there is a great possibility that it will continue until after the colonization of Mars...

And there are many similar things like this, such as the case of Yinghuo Shouxin and meteorites falling from the sky in the past two years, all of which have hit the legitimacy of the Qin Dynasty's rule to a certain extent.

Fu Sheng looked at Kong Yu at the side, stepped forward half a step and said, "Does Your Majesty know what a four-point calendar is?"

quarter calendar?The meaning of the horse...Fu Su shook his head slightly, with a professional, virtuous corporal smile on his face, and slightly cupped his hands and said, "Please teach me, sir!"

After finishing speaking, he motioned to Han Rang with his eyes, and the latter immediately took a servant and put a futon in front of Fu Sheng.

After Fu Sheng sat down, he folded his hands in front of him and said: "This is a calendar to confirm the length of a year. The winter solstice begins at the beginning of the morning of the morning glory, and 1/4 of the diary is at the end of Dousu, which is Doufen, hence the name. quarter calendar."

"It was said in the "Zhoubi Suanjing" in the past that the Zhoubi is eight feet long, and the sundial on the summer solstice is one foot and six inches.

"That's why the technique of Gaitian is called Zhoubi. The thigh is also the thigh. Use the Pythagorean weight difference to calculate the sundial and shadow to travel to the extreme, thinking that the number of distance can be obtained from the outer thigh."

It's tiring talking to this kind of old master... Fusu complained in his heart, but asked without changing his face: "Could it be that Mr. Zhou Bi is Guibiao?"

Fu Sheng nodded and said with a smile: "Your Majesty is really smart..."

After he said a few words about the eulogy given to him by Professor Kong Yu, he continued: "For the model, the pole standing upright on the flat ground is the indicator, and the ruler placed on the ground in the south and north direction is the Gui. The two are perpendicular to each other to form a standard, which is used to measure the length of the sun's shadow!"

"At noon, the sun's shadow is just in the north. At the summer solstice, the sun's shadow is the shortest, and the sun's shadow is one foot and six inches on the surface of eight feet; at the winter solstice, the sun's shadow is the longest, at one foot, six feet, five inches."

"So a year is 360 five days and a quarter..."

He then explained in detail about nouns such as "heshuo" and "moon-watching", as well as the calendars determined according to the sun and the moon. Cui and Li Shiqi were intoxicated, while Fusu was drowsy.

The "four-point calendar" mentioned by the old master is actually similar to the Gregorian calendar of later generations, that is, the Gregorian calendar. There are 360 ​​and five days in a year, and there is a leap year every four years. As a time traveler, these things are common sense. If the old master only has this level, let him go to study books... Fusu once again pointed his eyes at Han Rang and ordered him to prepare some herbal tea.

Seeing Fusu was a little distracted. Li Shiqi, who had been by Fusu's side these days and had also heard the motto of "Welcoming the Day of Autumn", coughed lightly, interrupting Fu Sheng's eloquence.

Li Shiqi looked at Fu Sheng who was looking towards him and asked: "Recently, there is a saying in Xianyang City that there will be abnormalities in the sky on the day of welcoming autumn. ?”

Hearing this, Fu Sheng lowered his head and fell into deep thought, pinched his fingers, and murmured inaudible words.

Kong Yu on the side was full of nervousness. Whether Confucianism can really gain a firm foothold in Qin Ting depends on Fu Sheng's response today!

Fusu poured himself a cup of honey tea, sipped it, and waited for the final result.

If this kind of thing was put in the era when the printing press appeared, it would actually be easy to solve. If you find more than a dozen royal pen holders and write some cloudy articles, nothing will happen.

If it is the era of self-media rampant, finding a few celebrities to divorce and marry to make a mistress can naturally divert the public's attention.

But the current state of Qin is not good enough, not just because of the literacy rate of the people, but because printing technology is not enough to support the rise of the newspaper industry.

The reason lies in the complexity of the Chinese language, and the cost of block printing is much lower than that of movable type printing.

This is because the western spelling is dominated by letters, and dozens of letters are arranged in different orders to form thousands of words.

Typesetting craftsmen only need to know dozens of letters and punctuation marks to work without barriers, and they can complete the printing work efficiently and proficiently without even knowing words.

However, there are too many characters in Chinese. A skilled printer first needs to know hundreds or thousands of commonly used characters, and then know which character is where in the dial according to the phonology!
And you need to have a good eye to pick out the correct characters, because some characters are used frequently and you need to prepare more, and the character plate becomes very large.

Leaving aside the cost of the printing industry, another problem arises.

A craftsman who knows so many characters, why doesn't he become an official?To rule people by those who work hard?And to govern people before the printing press?

So until European printing presses were introduced to the East, the Chinese publishing industry mainly relied on woodblock printing, which was simple, rough and easy to use.

While Fusu was drinking tea and meditating, Fu Sheng raised his head with a confident expression on his face.

Li Shiqi immediately asked, "Could it be possible that sir already knows the secret?"

Fu Sheng looked at him, nodded with a smile.

Tell me... Li Shiqi bit his back molars lightly, and gestured to Kong Yu with his eyes.

Kong Yu leaned forward and said, "Could you please explain in detail, sir?"

Fu Sheng still didn't speak, but turned his head to look at Fu Su: "Can your majesty give me a pen?"

Indeed, confidentiality work is very important... Fu Su nodded slightly, and Han Rang at the side directed the servant to put a note, paper and pen in front of Fu Sheng.

In a short time, a piece of bamboo paper filled with small characters was placed in front of Fusu.

He quickly skipped over the previous astronomical jargon, staring at the final conclusion.

"I see……"

So what... Kong Yu stared at Fusu with an expression of scratching his heart and lungs.

Is this the Riddler His Majesty said... Li Shiqi pretended to be calm, but the hand that was about to pull off his beard still revealed his thoughts at the moment.

Fusu put down the bamboo paper, frowned slightly and asked, "How sure are you of what Master said?"

Fu Sheng replied confidently: "[-]%!"

"Sir, do you know that there is no joke before you?"

"I'm willing to put the head on the head as a guarantee!"

Actually, your head is not as valuable as you imagined... Fu Su put away the bamboo paper and fell into deep thought.

(End of this chapter)