Chapter 252: Kill if you should kill, arrest if you should arrest, pull out the tongue if you should pull out the tongue

The induction of heaven and man means that heaven and man are connected and sense each other. Heaven can interfere with human affairs, and man can also sense heaven. If the Son of Heaven violates the will of heaven, is unbenevolent and unrighteous, heaven and man will warn, and various disasters will appear to condemn and warn. If the government is clear and the people are harmonious, auspicious signs will descend.

This whole set of theories originated from the various schools of thought in the pre-Qin period. For example, Mozi had the "Heavenly Punishment" chapter, which specifically discussed the relationship between various celestial phenomena and human affairs. After Dong Zhongshu's summary and promotion, this theory of induction between heaven and man expanded to the level of the entire country with the development of the times.

Whenever a ruler is insincere in serving Heaven, ministers are disloyal to their ruler, the people are disrespectful to officials, rewards and punishments are improper, the loyal and virtuous are not employed, the treacherous and sycophantic fill the court, slanderers and flatterers block the path, taxes and levies are extortionate, or the construction of grand projects wastes the world's resources, it will offend the harmony of Heaven and invite celestial anomalies.

For example, the guest star from the 6th year of Longqing to the 1st year of Wanli, which was a supernova explosion, was interpreted as the monster Zhang Juzheng wanting to intimidate the monarch. The guest star offended the master seat. In the 5th year of Wanli, a super-large comet with a tail arrived in the observable range.

Zhu Yijun returned to the palace and hadn't finished dinner when the first memorial arrived at Zhu Yijun's side. Chief Grand Secretary Lu Diaoyang followed the convention of celestial changes and submitted a memorial. This memorial was the same old-fashioned rhetoric.

The country will have the defeat of losing the way, and heaven will first issue disasters to condemn and warn; if the monarch does not know how to reflect on himself, he will issue monsters to warn and fear; if the monarch still does not know how to change, the defeat will arrive. This shows the benevolence and love of heaven's heart, and the monarch wants to stop the chaos; if the sun changes, cultivate virtue, if the moon changes, save punishment, if the stars change, unite harmony. If there is no such thing in the world, it is excessive.

Heaven's heart is benevolent and loving. If the country has the harm of losing the way, heaven will issue disasters to condemn and inform. If the Emperor still does not wake up, he will issue monsters to warn. If he still doesn't know how to change, the loss of the way will arrive.

Lu Diaoyang actually didn't want to submit this memorial. Whether it was a solar eclipse or a lunar eclipse, it was actually a kind of astronomical phenomenon, which had little to do with human disasters, and was not a warning from heaven and man. Lu Diaoyang also knew this very well.

But as the Chief Grand Secretary, when celestial phenomena changed, he had to submit such a memorial.

Zhu Yijun knew very well that a whole round of memorials about celestial changes would flood into the Cabinet, and Zhu Yijun had to concentrate on dealing with this matter.

As expected, the memorials flooded into the Cabinet like a downpour and were then sent to the Emperor's desk. Facing the memorials like a small mountain, Zhu Yijun understood for the first time the mood of Emperor Wanli not wanting to read the memorials. The contents of these memorials were all clichés, making the Emperor upset and even a bit disgusted. The content was nothing but asking the Emperor to reflect.

Zhang Juzheng once told Zhu Yijun that this was the means of the cheap Confucians, shattering all beauty, letting disappointment accumulate into despair time and time again, and finally achieving their goal.

Last time the guest star appeared, Zhang Juzheng submitted a memorial, asking the Emperor to reflect, and it wasn't until the guest star left the following year that the reflection ended.

And this big comet gave the court officials various reasons. All kinds of strange requirements appeared in front of Zhu Yijun. The content was reflection, reflecting on the new policies since Zhang Juzheng took charge of the country, reflecting on Zhang Juzheng's appointment of people based on favoritism, reflecting on the Emperor's own killing and exploitation, etc.

Zhu Yijun drew an X on all these contents, which was considered reading the memorials.

"The things these base scholars have pursued from the beginning of the Great Ming until now have never changed: they want Me to rule by doing nothing, to let the imperial court mind its own business less, and they complain that the court's reach is too broad. They feel that the rule of the Hu Yuan was the epitome of 'governing by non-action' and that the world was well-governed under them. They have won a few times by fighting like this, and now they want to win again!" Zhu Yijun slapped the table, pointed at the pile of memorials thrown everywhere on the floor, and said indignantly.

The rule of the Hu Yuan was written very clearly in the "Imperial Ming Ancestral Instructions" compiled by Zhu Yuanzhang's order: Yuan lost the world by being broad and indulgent.

And cheap Confucians like to blur the concepts of broad indulgence and broad benevolence, turning them into the definition of "broad."

During the rule of the Hu Yuan, the imperial court managed nothing. The whole world was in a state where as long as the apportionment was paid, one could do whatever one wanted. This was what the cheap Confucians had been tirelessly pursuing from the beginning of the Ming Dynasty to the end of the Ming Dynasty. The imperial court should not manage, let it be. Of course, in the Great Ming, one couldn't say that the Great Ming gentry all missed the Hu Yuan, so it was packaged as "ruling by doing nothing," misinterpreting the "ruling by doing nothing" of the Huang-Lao school as doing nothing.

Cheap Confucians have won a few times. The last twenty-five years of the Daoist master were the result of the victory of the cheap Confucians.

"Cheap Confucians!" Zhu Yijun pointed at the pile of memorials, gnashing his teeth and saying.

"Wan Grand Preceptor submitted a memorial." Zhang Hong knew the Emperor was angry, but still braced himself and brought up Wan Shihe's memorial.

Zhu Yijun was in a fit of anger, opened the memorial fiercely, read two lines, blinked, looked at it several times with disbelief, and then confirmed that Wan Shihe's memorial was completely different from the other goods.

"Oh my, Wan Grand Preceptor is really suitable for the Ministry of Rites. In terms of rites and laws, he holds it tightly." Zhu Yijun finally showed a smile. Wan Shihe's ideas in the memorial were completely different from those of the cheap Confucians.

Cheap Confucians say that heaven and man respond to human affairs, which is absurd.

In the theory of induction between heaven and man of Dong Zhongshu and successive Confucian scholars, the most serious is the solar eclipse. If the minister respects the monarch, is loyal to the monarch and loves the country without any selfishness, there will be no solar eclipse. If the master is weak and the minister is strong, the way of the monarch and minister will be lost, and a solar eclipse will appear, but this is a completely absurd statement.

Wan Shihe checked the "Book of Han" and found that during the time of Emperor Jing of Han, the monarch was virtuous and the minister was wise, the court was clear, and the world was safe. As a result, in sixteen years, nine solar eclipses occurred. And when Wang Mang usurped the Han, the strong minister stole the country, which was already the time when the way of the monarch and minister was lost, but in twenty-one years, only two solar eclipses occurred.

From the third year of Zhenguan to the sixth year of Zhenguan, Emperor Taizong of Tang captured Jieli Khan, the world was peaceful, Emperor Taizong was very wise, and Empress Zhangsun was also a famous virtuous empress in history. It could be said that the dry outline was decisive and the earth virtue was submissive, but five solar eclipses occurred in these four years. However, when the woman took power, the successor was imprisoned, and Empress Zetian built Zhou to replace Li Tang, in twenty years, there were no more than two solar eclipses.

Heaven and man respond to human affairs, do they really respond? If they really respond, how to explain these confirmed facts?

Wan Shihe stated that since the discovery that Beichen, the star of the North Celestial Pole, began to change, people had doubts about celestial changes. Many people said that solar eclipses were not disasters, and that comets, long stars, etc., were all empty words.

Therefore, this comet coming was not because there were treacherous ministers in the court, nor was it to remove the old and update the new, it was just a kind of principle of the infinity of all things that people did not yet understand. The reason why many people had doubts but didn't say it was precisely because the cheap Confucians had forgotten even the teachings of the Confucian sage, "The Master did not speak of strange forces, chaos, and gods," and were unwilling to admit that the world was constantly changing. Blindly restoring the ancient was just to maintain their private interests forever.

Therefore, Wan Shihe asked the Emperor not to be overly hesitant, just let the Imperial Observatory and the Academy of Sciences observe carefully.

Wan Shihe's memorial could be said to be contrary to all the memorials in the court. Even Chief Grand Secretary Lu Diaoyang and Second Grand Secretary Wang Chonggu advocated reflection to extinguish the anger of heaven and man. Zhang Juzheng, facing celestial changes, could only let the Emperor reflect, but Wan Shihe let the Emperor not take it seriously. It was not so mysterious, it was just the principle of the infinity of all things that had not been figured out yet.

The reason why Wan Shihe said this in the memorial was that his confidence came from the Imperial Academy of Sciences. Since Zhu Zaiyu entered the capital, he had been compiling the "Wanli Calendar," which was the calendar of the Wanli era. The calculation of solar and lunar eclipses could be said to be more and more accurate, accurate to the hour, moment, and minute, and even the observation range and angle of the Southern Yamen and Northern Yamen were exactly the same.

The Great Ming's calculation of solar and lunar eclipses had long been inaccurate. The preparation for rescue was the sacrifice of beating gongs and drums to drive away the Tiangou, which often missed. But in the past year, the calculation of solar and lunar eclipses had been extremely accurate.

Wan Shihe already knew very well that solar and lunar eclipses were not omens of disaster, comets were not to remove the old and update the new, and long stars did not lead to killing and war, so he boldly submitted the memorial.

Zhu Yijun now had two ways to deal with it. The first was to follow the ideas of the cheap Confucians, reflect on himself, suspend the implementation of the new policies, abolish all departments such as the Jiekuyuan, the Academy of Sciences, and the Tax Inspection Institute, dismiss Wang Chonggu, abolish official factories, stop opening the sea, stop the assessment method, etc. The second was to listen to Wan Shihe and let Wan Shihe charge into battle.

The new policies involved every corner of the Great Ming. Facing the crisis of life and death, Zhang Juzheng suggested stopping for a while, but Zhu Yijun refused. It was just some wind of public opinion, and Zhu Yijun would definitely not stop the pace of the new policies.

Wan Shihe's memorial was to share worries and solve problems for the Emperor. He set up a ring, attracted the firepower to himself, and then went to bother His Majesty after winning the argument.

As for the examples Wan Shihe gave, let's talk about them after they are refuted.

These examples were all major events in history. The number of solar eclipses was completely opposite to the theory of induction between heaven and man. With these examples, either find new records to prove that the historical records were wrong, or deny that heaven and man know everything in the world.

"Most of the scholars in our Great Ming don't read history. Since the 'Spring and Autumn' has no great righteousness, and only records events, no one has turned over these history books. It takes time to turn over these history books, and it takes time to verify. Most of them can't argue with Minister Wan." Zhang Hong made his judgment. As for the debate, since Wan Shihe dared to submit such a memorial, he was obviously not afraid.

"As far as I can see, why do these Confucian scholars talk about Yangming's study of the mind, only talk about innate knowledge, and even only talk about innate knowledge, but not about the unity of knowledge and action? Because once many things involve practice, they reveal their true colors. Minister Wan just grasped this point and looked at this matter. Obviously, his attainments in contradiction theory are extremely high." Zhang Hong further explained Wan Shihe's foothold.

Use facts to refute.

Say less about what is not there, put out the facts, and grasp the key point.

Cheap Confucians must avoid talking about practice, otherwise, the cheap Confucians who shout that they can bind dragons and tigers with one hand, facing tigers, letting tigers have a full meal is the only result.

Zhu Yijun summoned Wan Shihe. He wanted to have an in-depth discussion with Wan Shihe on this issue, about the issue of public opinion.

Zhang Juzheng was not an all-around warrior. Although he was very powerful, he was not easy to handle in successive public opinions, and the results were very poor. Whether it was his disciples attacking him, or his resignation due to mourning, etc., the handling was always not very good.

Of course, it was also possible that Zhang Juzheng's position did not allow him to handle public opinion too well, otherwise there would be the suspicion of Wang Mang's humility before usurping the throne.

But Wan Shihe was very good at handling public opinion.

Before Wan Shihe walked into the Wenhua Hall, he stopped and looked at the direction of the Great Ming's central axis. There was the construction of the Great Ming's Imperial Palace. The construction of the Imperial Palace was also a matter widely opposed this time. Many cheap Confucians thought that the construction of the Imperial Palace had caused the anger of heaven and man, but Wan Shihe knew very well that if it wasn't repaired, the only one who would be embarrassed would be the imperial court.

"See Your Majesty, is Your Majesty's holy body safe?" Wan Shihe bowed and saluted. Wan Shihe didn't need to perform the kneeling ceremony when responding to the memorial in private. This was the privilege Zhu Yijun gave to the Great Ming's public officials.

"Exempt from the ceremony, Grand Preceptor, sit." Zhu Yijun said with a smile: "Grand Preceptor, don't be restrained."

"Once this memorial of the Grand Preceptor is submitted, I am afraid it will be pushed to the forefront." Zhu Yijun signaled Wan Shihe's memorial, meaning that if Wan Shihe regretted it now, Zhu Yijun could let Wan Shihe take back the memorial, and then find a Hanlin to submit this memorial. Things like skinning and seeing bones could also be used in reverse.

The person charging into battle didn't have to be a public official, it could also be a small soldier.

Actually, Wan Shihe's memorial was submitted unreasonably. He had so many students, find one to charge, and he could make plans behind his back.

"Your Majesty, I have long become a flattering minister, so I don't need to worry about my reputation." Wan Shihe understood the Emperor's meaning. He thought for a while and said: "The gentleman governs the country, the villain, the countryman. This wind of public opinion, if you want to carry it, is not something a villain can bear."

Induction between heaven and man, a theory that began from the various schools of thought in the pre-Qin period, had long been deeply rooted in the hearts of the people. This was an extremely terrifying pressure. It was not that Wan Shihe didn't know the way of party strife and squeezing, on the contrary, he knew very well what to do, but this was not something a small official could carry, so he just carried the word "flattery" and stood out.

Your Majesty is the referee and needs someone to stand out and resist the wind of public opinion.

Before, Your Majesty could go down to the field and angrily scold the speech officials, because at that time the referee was Zhang Juzheng who was in charge of the country. Now Your Majesty is not suitable to go down to the field personally.

"Grand Preceptor has worked hard." Zhu Yijun understood what Wan Shihe wanted to express. The infamy of violating ancestral laws and violating the induction between heaven and man, Wan Shihe came to bear this infamy. As a second-rank official, he could afford this infamy.

"This is my duty." Wan Shihe didn't care much. Just scold him twice. When the former Minister of Justice Wang Zhi-gao left the court that day, Wan Shihe didn't choose to leave. He was already prepared to be scolded. How many people wanted to be scolded but didn't have that opportunity?

The Great Ming's system design is imperial, and it is completely responsible to the top. Walking to the position of Minister of the Six Ministries and Chief Censor of the Censorate, public opinion cannot shake their position, and even the Emperor cannot move them at will, because the Six Ministries manage the affairs of the people. If the Emperor moves a Minister, it is moving the affairs of a Ministry, which is not a small matter, and may even shake the foundation of the country.

What can shake the court officials is only themselves. If you do evil, you cannot live.

Wan Shihe didn't think that resisting the wind of public opinion of the celestial changes this time was something that he did evil.

"Your Majesty, actually I think that this wind of public opinion of celestial changes is not a big deal. The real big deal should be focused on the survival foundation of the cheap Confucians." Wan Shihe put forward his own ideas on the public opinion war. Wan Shihe, who was very proficient in rites and laws, hoped that Your Majesty would understand how to manipulate public opinion.

"Grand Preceptor, please speak well." Zhu Yijun looked at Wan Shihe and nodded very firmly.

"It is slightly complicated to say, but to grasp the essence, it is actually four words: confuse the public." Wan Shihe leaned forward slightly, his eyes were solemn, and he said with his hands: "How to disturb public order and good customs?"

"You only need to use a large amount of, disorderly, right-or-wrong words to disturb it. As long as you throw out enough questions, spread enough rumors, plant enough conspiracy theories, and hold a suspicious attitude toward everything, so that everyone doesn't know what can be believed and what cannot be believed."

"Once everyone in the Great Ming world loses awe and trust in Your Majesty and the imperial court, no longer trusts the imperial court, no longer trusts each other, and no longer trusts the truth, this game, the cheap Confucians will win."

Zhu Yijun looked at Wan Shihe and felt for the first time that Wan Shihe, as a public official, was a bit scary. At the beginning, he should have taught less lessons. Looking at the current Grand Preceptor Wan, these words were really making Zhu Yijun have lingering fears. If Wan Shihe stood on his opposite side, united with the cheap Confucians and the restorationists, and wanted to mess with him, could he really fight against Wan Shihe who had been updated to version 5.0?

Wan Shihe didn't notice at all that the Emperor had some suspicion of him, but continued: "I take the case of Fang Xiaoru's ten clans being executed as an example. This case is a typical confusion. In the past hundred years of shaping, Fang Xiaoru has become a symbol of the tyranny of Emperor Chengzu Wen, but according to the national records and the documents recorded at that time, the ten clans were just hypocrisy."

"If the ten clans were really executed, how could Fang Xiaoru's descendants be alive?"

"The first time it was said that Fang Xiaoru's ten clans were executed was in the Zhengde era, written by Zhu Zhishan, one of the four great talents of Jiangnan. At that time, it had been more than a hundred years since the Jingnan, and after that, this case began to be filled with a large number of rumors. Various details were constantly supplemented, and the errors formed by the processing of several generations might even be recorded in the official history by occupying the magpie's nest, which is absurd."

"Is Fang Xiaoru the only isolated case? Not necessarily."

"There are still people who say that Emperor Chengzu Wen was not born of Empress Ma, but of a Korean mother; they also say that Emperor Chengzu Wen borrowed the strong troops of the Tatars to go south, occupied the country, turned his face and didn't recognize people, and began to conquer the north; they also say that Emperor Wen ceded Danning Guard and Hetao to the Northern Barbarians to reward the Tatars for their help; without caring at all that Danning Guard and Hetao were lost in the Tianshun era of Emperor Yingzong, such absurd words are extremely absurd, but there are many believers."

These things Wan Shihe said all had factual basis, not absurd words guessed randomly. Fang Xiaoru's ten clans case, Tie Xuan's five senses being plucked to drink with wine, etc., such lies could be widely spread. One can imagine the terrifying power of history books, and this is the foundation of the survival of cheap Confucians.

"The Case of the Qimin Yaoshu?" Zhu Yijun frowned and mentioned an event he had recently seen. At this moment, the "Memorial Impeaching Zhang Juzheng" in the name of Hence Hai Rui, which was being handled in the Southern Yamen, this demon book was these things Wan Shihe said.

The demon book cases in the Wanli era of the Great Ming were not only the two demon books involving the foundation of the country, "The Memorial of Worry and Danger" and "The Continuation of the Memorial of Worry and Danger," but also the "Memorial Impeaching Zhang Juzheng" in the 5th year of Wanli and the "Deathbed Testament" in the name of Gao Gong in the 10th year of Wanli.

These demon book cases played a key role in the direction of the Great Ming's court situation at different critical times.

"The demon book case is just one of them. Various storybooks and storytelling are also one. Does Your Majesty know Wang Bing at the end of the Northern Song Dynasty?" Wan Shihe talked about a character in the Jingkang Shame at the end of the Northern Song Dynasty.

"I know, the defender of Taiyuan, three thousand troops defended against fifty thousand Jin soldiers, defended for two hundred and fifty days, people ate each other and died in battle, Taiyuan fell, and the Northern Song Dynasty was destroyed." Zhu Yijun really knew Wang Bing. The highlight of the Jin Kingdom's two southern invasions was actually not in Kaifeng, but in Taiyuan. As long as Taiyuan was broken by the Jin people, the Great Song's most battle-hardened Western Army could not rush to Kaifeng.

The first time the Jin people went south, Wanyan Zonghan set out from Yunzhong, which was Datong, broke through Yanmen Pass, and went south all the way to Taiyuan. After two hundred and fifty days of siege, Wanyan Zongwang withdrew his troops from Kaifeng and went to Taiyuan to attack Taiyuan with Wanyan Zonghan, and finally succeeded in breaking it.

At this point, the Northern Song Dynasty was unable to return to heaven.

Wang Bing was that very defender of Taiyuan who held out in a perilous city for two hundred and fifty days, never waiting for the reinforcements of the Great Song.

Taiyuan was originally called Jinyang. Emperor Taizong of Song, Zhao Guangyi, broke through the capital of the Later Han, Jinyang. Because Jinyang had a dragon vein, he destroyed the city with water and fire, destroying the Jinyang city with a history of more than 1,400 years. At the end of the Northern Song Dynasty, Taiyuan was just a small city with a circumference of less than ten miles.

Zhao Guangyi destroyed Jinyang, indeed cutting off the dragon vein, but it was the dragon vein of his old Zhao family. From beginning to end, the two Song Dynasties belonged to an incomplete unified dynasty. The Sixteen Prefectures of Yanyun were the dream that the Northern Song Dynasty could never get.

The Great Ming capital area under Zhu Yijun's buttocks was the land that the Northern Song Dynasty dreamed of taking back.

Zhu Yijun sometimes couldn't understand why so many people in later generations were so dissatisfied with Zhu Yuanzhang and Zhu Di. The Sixteen Prefectures of Yanyun were lost for more than five hundred years, and the north of the Yangtze River was lost for more than two hundred and eighty years, and the south of the Yangtze River was lost for a hundred years. The two monarchs who reshaped China were splashed with countless dirty water.

Zhu Yijun is the Emperor. He knows how busy the Emperor is. As for those rumors, how could Zhu Yuanzhang and Zhu Di have time to do them?

"In 'Water Margin', Wang Bing is a villain who harms the heroes of Liang Shan, and the people also think that Wang Bing is just a running dog of Gao Qiu." Wan Shihe said helplessly.

"This has to be changed." Zhu Yijun was stunned when he heard it and made his own judgment.

The Wang Bing he learned about and the Wang Bing the people learned about were obviously not the same Wang Bing. In Zhu Yijun's view, Wang Bing was a hero full of tragic colors. The Northern Song Dynasty was extremely harsh on martial artists. The Northern Song Dynasty, which valued literature over martial arts, was evil to martial artists. There was no need to say more. When Wanyan Zonghan besieged Taiyuan, he didn't persuade him to surrender, but Wang Bing defended the isolated city with three thousand troops, held on for 250 days, and firmly refused to surrender.

But the people's impression of Wang Bing was mostly the bad guy in the book, Gao Qiu's running dog.

"This is the mystery of the wind of public opinion. You cannot let it be, ignore it, it will only grow wildly." Wan Shihe said very firmly: "The Great Ming is really too kind to scholars. Kill if you should kill, arrest if you should arrest, pull out the tongue if you should pull out the tongue. If you let them talk nonsense, the public order and good customs of the Great Ming will inevitably be corrupted. Just like under the party prohibition, the people don't know the law, the law doesn't bind the people, and absurd words block the road. What do the people believe, and what do they not believe?"

"In terms of the wind of public opinion, being too broad and indulgent is the great harm of today's public opinion."

"Grand Preceptor Wan's words today have made me suddenly enlightened." Zhu Yijun said sincerely.

As for the bit of fear of Wan Shihe, it had long been thrown behind his head and forgotten. Since Wan Shihe was willing to say such things, he was a loyal minister who loved the country. Wan Shihe could have not said it, and waited for the Emperor to experience it, and then he would naturally understand its harm, but by then, it would be a bit late.

"Grand Preceptor, why not go back to the Ministry of Rites to take office?" Zhu Yijun felt that Wan Shihe was suitable for the Ministry of Rites, not the Ministry of Personnel.

"Your Majesty is joking." Wan Shihe actually wanted to go back, but that pit was now Ma Ziqiang's.

Ma Ziqiang actually had strong ability and was not useless at all. The reason why he looked embarrassed was entirely because Ma Ziqiang was comparing with Wan Shihe. It was Wan Shihe's progress that was too great, and he became a show-off. At the beginning, Wan Shihe was not as good as Ma Ziqiang. Wan Shihe was scolded by the Emperor every three days, and scolded to the point of shame and almost suicide. This was also walked step by step, which was very difficult.

Ma Ziqiang suffered from experience.

Zhu Yijun sent Wan Shihe away, and a big debate about celestial changes and the induction between heaven and man began. The truth is like this, the more it is debated, the clearer it becomes. After tossing for half a month, Wan Shihe brought out new evidence.

Everyone says that the rule of Ren and Xuan, the eleven years of Emperor Renzong and Emperor Xuanzong, a total of twelve solar eclipses appeared, and in the six years that Zhang Juzheng was in charge of the country, there was only one total solar eclipse in April of the third year of Wanli.

The most critical one was the total solar eclipse in April of the third year of Wanli, which was calculated by the Imperial Academy of Sciences, not recorded by the Imperial Observatory. The main reason why the Imperial Observatory did not record it was that the Northern Yamen did not observe it.

The total solar eclipse in April of the third year of Wanli was only visible in Yunnan, Huguang south of the Yangtze River, Jiangxi, Zhejiang, and the four prefectures of the Southern Yamen, while the Northern Yamen could not see it. Most of the court officials did not know that there was this solar eclipse, but the Imperial Academy of Sciences calculated it.

Wan Shihe could be said to be one against a hundred, holding the calculation results of the Academy of Sciences and the memorials of the various prefectures in the Southern Yamen, asking these court officials who submitted memorials one after another to explain why the warning of heaven and man had to be treated differently.

The fatal wound was a star map submitted by Zhu Zaiyu, the head of the Academy of Sciences, the quasi-Prince De, and the Emperor's uncle. This star map was a southern sky map, which was drawn by the boat division when observing the stars in Peru. Although there were only a few hundred stars on it, it was enough, because the southern sky map and the northern sky map were completely different.

Therefore, heaven and man are also divided into two factions, north and south? Does the northern heaven and man warn the north, and the southern heaven and man warn the south? Who is in charge of the Ziwei Palace in the southern heaven, and who is in charge of killing and war in the southern heaven?

Just as Zhang Hong said, cheap Confucians facing such facts are really helpless. But whenever it involves practice and facts, cheap Confucians are always like this, unable to argue.

When Wan Shihe achieved successive victories in the wind of public opinion, the Emperor's uncle Zhu Zaiyu requested to move the telescope of the Imperial Observatory to outside the Wumen Gate, starting from October 25th, to conduct a comprehensive observation of the comet, in order to strive for the comet to also be a kind of celestial body, and welcome everyone to participate in this observation.

According to Zhu Zaiyu's calculation, starting from October 25th, it was the best time to observe the comet.

Zhu Yijun approved the request of the Emperor's uncle, moved the 100-fold telescope of the Imperial Observatory to outside the Wumen Gate, and observed together under everyone's supervision, looking up at the starry sky.

No matter what the result was, the comet could no longer be regarded as a symbol of disaster and removing the old and updating the new.

The Ming Dynasty could not complete the literary inquisition of the Tatar Qing. How ruthless the Tatar Qing was! "Clear wind does not know words" had to be exterminated. The Daoist master was pointed at the nose and sprayed for thousands of words, didn't he also not kill Hence Hai Rui? Our Great Ming, has its own national conditions. Ask for monthly tickets, Aowu!!!!!!

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