Wei and Jin Cooks Chapter 1251

They believe in Buddhism, Taoism, themselves, and they also believe in ghosts and gods. "To say that Guo Pu is pretending to be a **** and playing tricks on ghosts? That's how ignorant you are. You are not qualified to know the secrets of heaven. He can comment on "The Book of Changes", "The Classic of Mountains and Seas", "The Biography of Emperor Mu" and "The Songs of Chu" and "Dialects", you guys are probably not even qualified to read the covers of these books, right?"

 “He eats based on his real skills, not those alchemists outside who do mischief!”

"You, don't try to humiliate people. Who said we haven't read "The Book of Changes"?"

 “You've seen it, can you understand it?”

The other person choked, he really couldn't understand it, and it was precisely because he didn't understand that he didn't believe it!

Although the "solar eclipse prediction" is just a small article in the cracks, because solar eclipses are so scary and there are so many people discussing them, even ordinary people who can't read newspapers and don't go to teahouses to drink tea know about it. , there was a lot of talk on the streets.

Zhao Hanzhang wrote a lot of popular science about the solar eclipse and sent it to the Di newspaper, one article a day, which took up little space but was eye-catching enough.

Of course, she couldn't do too much detailed science, so after completing two pieces of science, she started to lose historical records.

The records of solar eclipses in the Han Dynasty were particularly complete. In later generations, many records were lost to time and wars, but now only more than a hundred years have passed since the fall of the Han Dynasty.

Although many of the various books and records kept in the imperial court were lost, coincidentally, all records about the solar eclipse were preserved.

 Zhao Hanzhang asked Zhao Yunxin to excerpt it and directly asked him to publish it in the Di newspaper.

So when I went to the teahouse and heard that Mr. Shu was reading the Di Bao, the common people exclaimed from time to time, and the literati who had something good to do began to count. By the twenty-eighth of the first lunar month, the Di Bao finally published the solar eclipse records of the Han Dynasty, "Only in the Han Dynasty, there were One hundred and thirty-two solar eclipse records, are these true or false?”

“It happened more than a hundred years ago. The eldest person will not live by that time, so how can we know?”

As for the documents and records of the imperial court, only relevant officials can see them. Not to mention illiterate people like them, even literate literati have a hard time seeing them.

 Information has always been in the hands of only a few people.

“I don't know when this solar eclipse is supposed to be. Since it was announced in the newspaper, it must be in the near future, right?”

“But it's been over twenty days and there hasn't been a solar eclipse. Isn't that wrong?”

"Stop talking about it. As soon as I hear this, I know that you are not good at reading. The solar eclipse only occurs on the first day of February. How could it happen in these twenty days?" The man said: "If there is a solar eclipse, it will not be on the first day of February, but on the third day of February." It's the first day of the month, so far away, no matter how powerful Guo Shenxian is, he can't be counted, right?”

This word spread, so everyone was waiting for the first day of February to see if there would really be a solar eclipse.

 Guo Pu is also waiting.

The civil and military officials of the entire court were waiting. They initially objected to Zhao Hanzhang and others reporting such news. First, they were afraid of provoking a popular uprising, and second, they were afraid that the prediction would be inaccurate and harm the court's face.

 But their objections were ineffective, and Zhao Hanzhang still persisted.

The little emperor is also waiting, and he is waiting anxiously.

His schoolwork has been reduced, and his government duties have also been reduced, but the pressure in the past twenty days has been the highest it has ever been.

 He was very afraid. He was afraid that there would really be a solar eclipse, and that Zhao Hanzhang and all the people in the world would blame him for the solar eclipse.

However, he should be an emperor in name only. The ancestors' various shady operations could not really cause too many people to die. God can't bear it, so there is a solar eclipse to destroy the Sima family, right?

The little emperor hid in the harem and did not dare to say a word, but he did not miss every newspaper.

 For some reason, seeing the seven or eight solar eclipse records updated every day, the little emperor gradually became less afraid.

Hmm, I'm still afraid, but I'm not afraid to the point where my hands and feet are shaking and my face is pale.

 However, the solar eclipse is still a sword hanging over his head and may fall at any time.

 On the first day of February, on the fifteenth day of every lunar month, the courtiers would enter the palace to attend the court meeting as usual. It's just that the hall was very quiet today. Zhao Hanzhang sat in his seat for a while and no one spoke.

Zhao Hanzhang raised his head and glanced down, then turned to look at the little emperor sitting on the upper right. After thinking for a while, he said: "It seems that everyone is not in the mood to discuss matters. In that case, let's go to the observatory to enjoy the sun together?"

Ji Yuan coughed twice and glanced at Zhao Hanzhang warningly.

Zhao Hanzhang smiled, stood up first, turned to face the emperor and said, "Let's go, Your Majesty."

The little emperor turned pale and stood up shaking his feet.

Zhao Hanzhang saw that he was unsteady and stretched out his hand towards him.

The little emperor quietly glanced at her face, carefully placed his hand on her palm, and Zhao Hanzhang helped him down the steps.

 The little emperor felt a little more at ease and took the lead in going to the observatory.

Guo Puzheng was occupying the observatory to watch the sun in the sky. When he saw Zhao Hanzhang suddenly coming with all the civil and military officials, he got up unhappily.

He subconsciously saluted Zhao Hanzhang. Halfway down, he saw the little emperor standing next to her. He quickly turned around slightly and changed his words: "I see your Majesty."

The little emperor was focused on the sky at this time and didn't care at all. After waving his hand, he walked up to the observatory and looked up at the sun in the sky. At just one glance, he felt it was dazzling, so he looked away and said, "There will really be something today." Solar eclipse?”

Guo Pu looked at Zhao Hanzhang.

 Fu Tinghan figured it out, wouldn't it be more appropriate to ask Zhao Hanzhang?

However, Guo Pu believed in Fu Tinghan's algorithm, so he lowered his head and replied: "There should be."

The little emperor wanted to question him in front of all the civil and military officials, but he was afraid that there would really be a solar eclipse, so he could only remain silent.

Zhao Hanzhang waved his hand, and soldiers immediately opened the mat. Zhao Hanzhang asked the young emperor to sit down and wait together.

"Please take a seat, ministers, I don't know how long it will take."

The soldiers responded and immediately brought mats one after another for the ministers to sit on.

At this time, the observatory was surrounded by soldiers, and there were no more than twenty people in the palace. Although the solar eclipse was a total eclipse and it would not be very dark, she still had to guard against accidents, so the defense of the palace today was stricter than in the past.

Zeng Yue stood in the corner wearing a military uniform, scanning everyone's face with sharp eyes. Only when he found nothing unusual did he lower his head, and raised his head to take a look from time to time.

After sitting for a long time, the sun got higher and higher, and when it was almost in the sky, a shadow suddenly fell, blocking the sunlight that originally fell on them.

Zhao Hanzhang heard a sound of gasping, and some ministers could not help but exclaimed, "There is a gap in the sun."

Zhao Hanzhang looked up, not looking directly at the sun, but looking at its edge, and saw that the sun in mid-air had darkened...

 Zhao Hanzhang turned to Guo Pu and asked, "When is it now?"

Guo Pu stood up excitedly, clenched his fists and said: "Noon, a quarter of noon!"

 It's 11:15.

Zhao Hanzhang looked up at the sun. At this time, there should be many people seeing it, right?

See you tomorrow

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