There is also a telegraph room in the harem, which is ringing non-stop at this time.
This is the private chat channel created by Zhu Guoxiang. It started with private chat within the palace, but now it connects the palace and Wangchuan Valley.
The person responsible for sending and receiving telegrams was Queen Zhang Jinping.
She likes weird things and often sends messages to Li Qingzhao to chat about home affairs, but today she was helping Zhu Ming contact him.
The reason was that Zhu Guoxiang sent a report to his son: "Why are you so crazy? Lantian County is already in a frenzy, saying that it wants to pay tribute to the top quality Lantian jade. Officials looking for jade have gone to Wangchuan Valley."
Ju Ming directly asked Zhang Jinping to reply to the telegram and explain his idea of creating a national jade seal.
Not long after, Zhang Jinping handed over a piece of paper, which was Zhu Guoxiang's call back.
The content is just three words: "Psycho!"
Zhu Ming burst out laughing when he saw it, and said to Zhang Jinping: "Reply to the Supreme Emperor: The great Ming Dynasty should also create one or two wonders."
Zhang Jinping was slapped again, and then received a call back from Zhu Guoxiang: "Be careful of provincial officials who take the opportunity to harass the local area. Those diplomatic envoys will also harass the subject countries."
Ju Ming said: "I have ordered restraint, but it is unavoidable and can be controlled as long as it is possible."
Zhu Guoxiang replied: "The magic talisman sounds like a magic stick."
"Fute refers to the jade seal passed down to the country, which is different from the emperor's seal or the emperor's seal. In all dynasties, whether it is passed down from the previous dynasty or forged by oneself, there must be one anyway. In the past, the seals of the Song Dynasty were used, but now both the seals of the Liao and Song Dynasties are there, and they are still used.
None of them are suitable. The divine talisman means the national seal of the supreme sacred being, not some Taoist talisman that pretends to be a god or a ghost."
"You can figure it out. I'm too lazy to take care of it anyway. I just want to ask, isn't it agreed that an emperor will only use one reign title?"
"It's not officially stipulated. After the talisman, I will not change my reign. In the future, emperors are not allowed to change their reign again. They can only have one reign title in their lifetime."
"You might as well ask the planetarium to set up a AD year. The birth of the Yellow Emperor, or the founding of Zhou and Qin, will be the first year of the AD."
"If Zhou and Qin can't do it, where can we place Xia and Shang? The Yellow Emperor is the most suitable."
"You can choose anyone, it's just a matter of setting a standard. Let's just change it all and change it to Shen Kuo's twelve qi calendars. I know that all the ministers are against it, are you still afraid of this?"
"The main problem is the holidays. If we keep New Year's Eve and Lantern Festival, we must use two sets of calendars at the same time. There are also the first and fifteenth days of the lunar calendar. If you look up at the moon, you will know that the pure solar calendar will make people very uncomfortable."
"Use them together. The new calendar makes it easier for ordinary people to grasp the farming season, which is good for agricultural production."
"You are an agricultural expert, so of course you think it is useful, but farmers may not agree."
"It's up to you."
"..."
Zhang Jinping turned off the telegraph machine and rubbed his sore wrist: "Husband, such a big deal as the calendar and the era, can it be decided just by chatting in a telegram?"
Ju Ming said: "We have discussed it a long time ago. What do you think of the twelve qi calendars?"
Zhang Jinping said: "New Year's Day, Lantern Festival, Dragon Boat Festival, Double Ninth Festival...these festivals are all in the old calendar. Using the new calendar conflicts with customs and traditions, and using the old and new calendars together seems a bit cumbersome."
"That's why I haven't changed it," Ju Ming sighed. "Alas, the Emperor takes things for granted a little too much. Some things have to be done step by step."
Since Emperor Wu of the Han Dynasty promulgated the Taichu Calendar, China has been using the combined luni-yang calendar. The solar calendar is used to determine the twenty-four solar terms, and the lunar calendar is used to determine the months.
The subsequent disputes were nothing more than the dispute between the Dingqi method and the Pingqi method.
During the Sui, Tang, Song, Ming and Qing dynasties, the method of fixing qi and the method of calming qi were fiercely contested.
Before the advent of the "Chongzhen Almanac", disputes often resulted in disagreements. The Pingqi method (backward) was used to compile the almanac, and the Dingqi method (advanced) was used for astronomical calculations.
The Qing Dynasty also went through several iterations, and finally Kangxi made the decision to adopt the more advanced Qi-fixing method - the modern Chinese lunar calendar.
The Ming Dynasty's "Hongwu Calendar" promulgated during the reign of Zhu Guoxiang naturally used the more advanced Dingqi method, which should have been adopted in the Sui Dynasty. However, due to too much political resistance, when the astronomical official proposed calendar reform,
Both Yang Jian and Li Longji chose to retreat.
Shen Kuo was even more radical, not only using the Qi Ding method, but also thoroughly using the solar calendar.
That is to say, the earth's orbit is cut into twenty-four parts, which are the twenty-four solar terms. Then twelve solar terms are selected to determine the twelve months of each year. Not only New Year's Eve, Lantern Festival, and Double Ninth Festival are all messed up, but every
The first and fifteenth days of the month do not correspond to the moon.
Zhu Guoxiang supported Shen Kuo's idea, but Ju Ming felt it was unnecessary.
Using the Dingqi method to compile the lunar and solar calendars is already a huge progress. Why bother to disrupt the rhythm of the people and create a solar calendar?
If old farmers in the countryside can buy a calendar, they can naturally use two sets of calendars in parallel. But the problem is that the social economy has not yet developed to that point, and the use of two sets of calendars in parallel will make it easy for farmers to get confused.
Returning to Chui Gong Hall, Ju Ming thought carefully and wrote two edicts:
"I order the Planetarium of the Hanlin Academy to re-compile a new calendar based on Shen Kuo's twelve-qi calendar. This calendar will not be implemented for the time being, nor will it be deliberately hidden, leaving it to astronomers and future generations for reference."
"I ordered the Literature and History Museum and Planetarium of the Hanlin Academy to calculate the birth year of the Yellow Emperor and use the Yellow Emperor's era as the AD year."
…
The group of Goryeo nobles have already settled down.
Like the head of the Xixia Kingdom, you can choose a title or study and take the imperial examination.
In the Goryeo royal family, all the clans chose to lie down. Wang Gou got a duke and was given a house in Luoyang City. But he was not rewarded with shops or land. Anyway, the duke could receive a title and salary, and the title would decrease and he would be able to influence him for several generations. Wang Gou also brought some
The treasure comes over. As for his descendants, they have to find their own solutions without income.
Wang Gou's brothers and uncles, who were granted counts and viscounts, were the kind who could only receive titles and salaries. Moreover, all the houses given to them were outside Luoyang City, and the land given to them was not even an acre.
These guys live a very frugal and nourishing life!
Their daily diet is similar to that of a well-off family in Luoyang, and they eat meat every once in a while and have a tooth ceremony. They are actually very satisfied with this kind of life.
Especially Wang Gou, who often took his wives and concubines around the city.
He has been under house arrest for too many years. He can move around freely in Luoyang and feels that he is living a free life.
He doesn't go to high-end shopping malls. He likes the common people's tiles, watching magic and acrobatic performances, and listening to popular Luoyang songs. Occasionally, rich people want to buy calligraphy and paintings, and want to collect the calligraphy treasures of the conquered king of Goryeo.
There are really boring people who have too much money and nothing to spend it on!
There was a wealthy businessman named Liu in Kaifeng who had one or two copies of all the calligraphy and paintings of the late emperors of the Song, Jin and Xia dynasties for his home collection. He even sent people to Liaodong and Hebei to try to purchase the calligraphy and paintings of Emperor Tianzuo of the Liao Kingdom.
As soon as Wang Gou arrived in Luoyang, people quickly came to his door, hoping that he could write or draw.
Regardless of your artistic level, just write one yourself.
Another day, Wang Gou and his three younger brothers who had returned to secular life made an appointment to go to Tianwang Temple to worship Buddha together. By the way, they went to the Tooth Relic Pagoda to worship Buddha treasures.
They walked leisurely in the city, feeling more cheerful than when they were in Korea.
Wang Shu, whose real name has been restored, has four inches of hair and is wearing a hat: "Luoyang is better. When I was in Kaicheng, I could only hide in Xuanhua Temple to chant sutras and eat simple meals every day. Now the food is better."
It’s more abundant and you can play everywhere. Why didn’t Your Majesty send troops to Korea earlier?”
Wang Gou did not feel the sorrow of a conquered king at all, and actually sighed with relief: "Your Majesty is too kind and pays attention to the reputation of teachers. You can still walk around freely in Xuanhua Temple, and there are many monks to talk to you. I am under house arrest in Pu
In Xianyuan, there were only a few eunuchs around me. Later, even those eunuchs were sent by treacherous officials to monitor me. I was trapped in the house all day, and I had to be careful when talking to the people around me."
"Dang-dang-dang!"
Officials beat gongs along the way and shouted loudly: "Good news, good news from Korea, the Great Tomorrow Soldiers have returned to Jeolla Prefecture! The Korean traitor Li Shi refused to accept Wang Hua and raised his troops to rebel. Our Great Tomorrow Soldiers won three victories in Jeolla Prefecture.
The total formation killed more than 4,000 bandits, captured more than 7,000 bandits alive, and defeated more than 10,000 bandits!"
People in Luoyang gathered one after another and watched under the notice.
The word in the victory report was "recover", not "capture". Because the King of Goryeo had dedicated his country, the entire Korean Peninsula was the territory of the Ming Dynasty, and all those who resisted were traitors and bandits.
Wang Gou also ran to the notice. The notice even drew a simplified administrative map of North Korea, and changed all the place names of Goryeo to those of Ming and North Korea.
Wang Di, who was also a monk and returned to secular life, said: "Brother, the Li family in Quanzhou spent a lot of money and actually gathered 20,000 troops to resist the Ming court."
Wang Gou, the little fat boy, is not stupid, but is very smart: "It must be not only the Li family of Quanzhou, but also the wealthy families of Jeolla Province. They don't want to be split up and divided into fields and lose their power and money, so they use all their strength to join forces to resist the heavenly soldiers.
.The weak soldiers they recruited cannot even defeat the treacherous minister Zheng Zhongfu. What chance do they have of winning against the soldiers of tomorrow?"
Wang Shu smiled and said: "If I were the Li family in Quanzhou, I would honestly join the Ming Dynasty."
Wang Gou said: "They are different. Although we are from the royal family, we have never had freedom. Their local wealthy families are unstoppable and dominate. How can they take out the land that has been accumulated for hundreds of years and divide it?"
As he spoke, Wang Gou raised his arms and shouted: "Long live the emperor of tomorrow! The soldiers of tomorrow will be victorious!"
Someone immediately recognized him and shouted in surprise: "This man is the king of Goryeo."
Wang Gou could communicate in Chinese and quickly corrected him: "Don't call me the Lord of Goryeo. I am Duke Shunyi of the Ming Dynasty!"
"Hahahaha!" Everyone laughed when they heard this.
Wang Gou shouted again: "Long live the emperor of tomorrow! The soldiers of tomorrow will be victorious!"
The people of Luoyang laughed and shouted for a while.
They had no idea about the Korean Peninsula. They only knew that the Ming Dynasty's soldiers had won again, and that the Ming Dynasty's civil and military forces had once again expanded their territories.
Anyway, battles were won again and again, unlike in the former Song Dynasty, when news of defeats came from time to time.
Every time a major war was fought in the former Song Dynasty, not only the frontier laborers and troops were mobilized, but also the people of Kaifeng and Luoyang were affected. Civil servants from the two capitals were often recruited to transport grain. There was even a "substitute service" occupation, and those young men from the two capitals who could not survive were hired by intermediaries.
Make money for your family by working as a husband.
Now what?
Goryeo was about to be completely annexed, but the people of the two capitals didn't feel it personally. They didn't have to serve as civil servants, they didn't have to die on the battlefield, and they didn't even raise taxes because of it. They only learned from the good news that another country had been destroyed.
In the past, they were afraid of fighting, whether they won or lost.
Now they are happy to see wars. Although they did not participate in them, they have won again and again, which makes them feel inexplicable pride.
(Recommend a modern text: "Reforming the Late Qing Dynasty". Traveling through the Opium War, I don't know how to reform it, let's wait and see.)