Happy Little Scholar

"It's too small, I can't see clearly..."

"Mr. Wei's eyes are presbyopic, so of course he can't see clearly. Let me take a look..."

"Oh, Yinghuo's position is indeed a ball, but where is the heart, isn't it said that the disaster star has hit the heart, you can't see it..."

"Stop looking. We have been searching for a long time and still can't find where Xinsu is..."

For the courtiers, the thing in front of them is really a weird thing. It can see things in the distance so clearly. That Yinghuo is hanging in the sky. Who would have thought that it would be possible to look up at night on weekdays? See that little light flashing in the sky, is it actually a ball?

Hearing is deceptive, seeing is believing. This concept has existed since ancient times. Most people present are convinced that the eyes cannot deceive people.

What's more, several veterans of the military just said that the Academy of Sciences had already given them one of these. They called it the "eye of the sky" and could see even the heads of enemy generals from miles away. , what kind of ambushes, what kind of traps, don’t play any more in the future, it’s useless under the eyes of the sky...

The courtiers were the most convinced of the Academy of Arithmetic Science before. The people who came out of it were all powerful people, and they were the talents that various departments in the imperial court were competing for. For the Academy of Sciences, they only regarded it as something that His Royal Highness could play on a whim and discard after playing with it for a few days.

However, no one expected that the things produced by the Academy of Sciences would actually cause shock in the whole court several times.

Not to mention the kite that can send people to the sky, the waterwheel that can pump water from low to high places effortlessly, the agricultural tools that can greatly simplify farming...

These are invisibly changing their views and even changing the lives of many people.

Nowadays, for farmers, plowing oxen is no longer so important. As long as the family has a reasonably strong laborer and new farm tools, it can fully play the role of plowing oxen before.

This can be regarded as a groundbreaking event. His Majesty was so happy that he rewarded him with one hundred thousand taels of silver. Not long after this, the Academy of Sciences came up with such an artifact again, which opened everyone's eyes...

Of course, many people know that today's events must be more than just looking at the stars.

The matter of Yinghuo guarding the heart has caused a lot of commotion, and now there are rumors among the people that Her Royal Highness the Princess is the disaster star of Yinghuo, and it was the princess who rushed to His Majesty. The Academy of Sciences held a stargazing party at this time, and it also involved the sensitive topic of Yinghuo. How could it be unreasonable? Pictured?

Cui Qingze's face was a little gloomy. He had already guessed the purpose of this stargazing party. He glanced vaguely in a certain direction, and the official of Si Tianjian nodded slightly.

The telescope used to see Mars is the farthest and best-quality product currently built by the Academy of Sciences. But if it is used to see the moon, it does not have such high requirements.

In addition to that one, there are several others of inferior quality, but they are more than enough to see the moon.

"Sir, is there really no Chang'e on the moon?"

Tsundere Loli ran over from a distance. She had just looked at the moon through that weird thing. The bumpy and ugly thing was not the moon she imagined at all.

The moon in her heart has Chang'e, the Jade Rabbit, and the beautiful osmanthus tree. The Guanghan Palace is not like this.

Li Yi shook his head helplessly.

The tsundere loli asked pitifully: "Aren't there Guishu and Guanghan Palace too?"

Li Yi could only shake his head.

"What about the Jade Rabbit? There should be a Jade Rabbit..."

Li Yi still shook his head.

The tsundere loli was very sad. She threw herself into Li Yi's arms sadly and almost burst into tears.

Li Yi stroked her hair. Although it was indeed ruthless and cruel to expose a girl's dream, Shouning has grown up. Compared with the cruel world she will recognize in the future, these are nothing at all. .

Her Royal Highness the Princess threw herself into the arms of a man. This was of course a bit unbelievable to the other courtiers around, but the situation in front of them was somewhat different.

Li Xianhou is the husband of His Royal Highness the Princess, so he is naturally closer to her. His Majesty's favorite little princess is usually simple-minded. When she is sad, she will inevitably do some outrageous things, but everyone deliberately ignores her. In this scene, with His Majesty's love for her, even the censors did not dare to come forward to accuse her.

The tsundere loli wiped away the non-existent tears, glanced secretly at her husband, and then at "Brother Drunk Mo" next to her, and held her husband's hand generously. He was already sad just now. Sad people can be treated with a little favor.

In the field, Li Xuan had already taken out a model of the sun and the moon and was playing with it.

As for the earth, that is, the land they are on, Li Yi did not ask him to tell everyone present that the earth they stepped on was actually a ball, but it was replaced with a board named Fang, in order to avoid some problems. unnecessary trouble.

"We know that the sun and the moon are both in the sky. After sunset, the moon rises, but this is not absolute. In fact, we often see the situation where the sun and the moon are in the same sky, but it is just because the sun is too strong. We just didn’t notice it…”

There were three people in the Academy of Sciences holding models of the sun, moon and "earth" respectively. Li Xuan stood aside and waved his hand. After the three people moved their positions, they formed a straight line in the order of the sun, moon and earth.

"When the moon moves between the earth and the sun, it blocks part of the sun's rays and casts the moon's shadow on the earth. People shrouded by the moon's shadow cannot see the blocked sun. This is What we call "Tengu swallows the sun."

This principle is easy to understand. In addition, there were three more people there holding models to demonstrate, and the fourth person lit candles to simulate sunlight. Sure enough, a black shadow appeared on the ground. Someone stood on the ground and took a look, and immediately understood. Said: "That's it!"

Li Yi glanced at the official. Li Xuan was too hasty when choosing a sitter. His acting skills were a bit exaggerated...

Exaggeration is exaggeration, but the truth is the same.

He didn't put forward any new theory, he just used the concepts that everyone already had in mind to vividly explain the cause of the solar eclipse. There was no one stupid here. If he still couldn't figure it out, he wouldn't know it today. Appeared here.

Li Xuan waved his hand, and the positions of the three people changed again.

"Similarly, if the moon moves to the opposite side and the earth is between the moon and the sun, then the shadow of the earth will be left on the moon, which is what we call a "tengu eclipse"."

The place suddenly became a little quiet. After hearing His Highness the Prince's words, they were surprised to find that the truth was really that simple.

At the very beginning, His Royal Highness the Crown Prince had used a very simple example to tell them that the moon itself would not emit light, otherwise there would be no full moon or moonless moon. Although this was contrary to their previous ideas, His Highness was justified. They can figure it out just by thinking about it briefly.

What happens after that is naturally a matter of course.

Tengu swallows the sun, Tengu eats the moon, Tengu... Even if they have not heard what the prince said, they still don't believe it.

If the sun and moon have been eaten by tengu, can they be vomited out again?

Doesn’t Tengu feel disgusted after hesitating and vomiting so many times?

"It's nonsense, it's absolute nonsense!"

Just when everyone lowered their heads and thought, and the place became silent, a voice suddenly sounded from the crowd.

An old man walked out of the crowd and said loudly: "It is said in "The Book of Ministers" that only Shi Xihe subverted Jue's virtues, indulged in drinking, and left the official position. He disturbed the order of heaven and abandoned Jue Si. It was Ji Qiuyue. Shuo..."

The old man looked at Li Xuan and said with righteous indignation: "Whenever a "Tiangu swallows the sun", it must be because the emperor does not practice moral governance, and God is giving a warning..."

"Who is this?" Li Xuan looked at him and asked.

The old man looked upright: "I'm Si Tianjian!"

"The Book of Documents says so?"

Li Xuan looked at Si Tianjian, took out two pieces of silver, one large and one small, from his arms, held it in his fist, looked at the old man and asked: "Then can the "Shang Shu" say that if I let go, the money in my hand will be gone? Of the two pieces of silver, which one will fall first?”

[Note: The chief of Si Tianjian is called Si Tianjian. 】