Chapter 798 0793 [Shen Mengxi who transcends the times]
The Supreme Emperor pulled the Emperor down the stairs. This scene was too beautiful to watch.
The ministers all turned their attention to the map, starting from their own hometowns and exploring the surrounding maps. Finally, they focused on the Western Region, which was the mysterious place that everyone was curious about.
Zhu Ming saw that his father was looking at it with great interest and would not come down for a while, so he simply turned around and walked into the secret pavilion for a walk.
The three pavilions and secret pavilions are integrated into one, and they are all located in Chongwen Academy.
The three pavilions are located on the southeast and west sides respectively, and the secret pavilion is the central hall of Chongwen Academy.
Although the Secret Pavilion is only a two-story building, it is extremely wide and tall.
Only the initial collection of calligraphy and painting works included the following authors: Wang Xizhi, Wang Xianzhi, Yu Liang, Xiao Ziyun, Li Shimin, Li Longji, Yan Zhenqing, Ouyang Xun, Liu Gongquan, Huai Su, Huairen, Gu Kaizhi, Han Qian, Xue Ji, Dai Song, Li Zanhua, Huang Quan...
Zhao Guangyi held book viewing meetings from time to time, shared his collection with ministers, and even called foreign envoys to demonstrate the merits of the Song Dynasty's literary governance.
Later emperors of the Northern Song Dynasty followed this approach and built their own library pavilions: Longtu Pavilion, Tianzhang Pavilion, Baowen Pavilion, Xianmo Pavilion, Huiyou Pavilion, Fuwen Pavilion, etc.
During the Zhenzong period of the Song Dynasty, the secret pavilion was burned down by fire.
There are copies of the books and albums, so they can still be recovered. However, all the famous calligraphy and paintings were burned, and only a few that were transferred to Longtuge and Taiqing Tower survived.
The huge map of the prosperous Tang Dynasty that was spliced together outside is definitely not the original version, and is probably a copy.
Ju Ming randomly picked out a book and when he opened the title page, he knew it was a copy.
Because the official manuscripts of the Song Dynasty have very obvious characteristics.
Ju Ming waved to the eunuch who was accompanying him: "Instruct all the officials in the library to search for collections related to maps. Once found, move them here immediately and then send them to Taiqing Tower."
Taiqing Tower is located in the back garden of the imperial palace and is equivalent to the emperor's private library.
When the emperor gives orders, everything goes crazy.
Not only are the three secret pavilions in action, Longtu Pavilion, Tianzhang Pavilion and others are also busy.
In fact, it is not difficult to find. The collection must be divided into categories. Just go to the relevant area on the map.
Maps were sent one after another, including more than twenty wooden boards.
These wooden boards are carved with topographic maps of the northern frontier of the Song Dynasty. The mountains are towering and the rivers are winding. Each mountain and river is different in height and size.
3D frontier map of Song Dynasty!
Ju Ming stared silently for a moment and asked, "Where did you find it?"
A young official came forward and said: "They are all hidden in the Xianmo Pavilion, and were engraved under the supervision of Shen Kuo, the former minister of the Song Dynasty."
These 3D maps were also created by Shen Kuo.
Shen Kuo was also a geographer. He believed that the deep valleys in the Yandang Mountains were formed by the erosion of flowing water. By observing the fossils in the Taihang Mountains, he concluded that this area was a seaside in ancient times. The entire North China Plain was formed by the alluvial sediment of rivers. Observing the plant fossils in Yanzhou, we infer that the climate here was wetter in ancient times.
Zhu Guoxiang had left the wooden ladder at some point, looked at the 3D map and sighed: "Shen Kuo is a great talent."
Ju Ming said: "We can collect and organize Shen Kuo's writings in various libraries. Let the descendants of Shen Kuo's brothers also submit his writings. Organize and compile all Shen Kuo's books into a volume, and let the Academy of Astronomy and the Ministry of Industry study it. ."
Huan Guo cupped his hands and said: "Although His Majesty Shen Kuo is talented, his personal ethics do not dare to be complimented. Even if you want to study his works, you should not make a big show of it."
The important ministers in the cabinet all agreed with this statement and thought that Shen Kuo's conduct was not good.
Ju Ming was not surprised by this, because when Shen Kuo was brought into the Confucian Temple to be worshiped, the Manchu ministers had already advised him.
Of course, it has nothing to do with reporting Su Shi. The main reason is that Shen Kuo jumped during the reform and offended both the old and new parties.
Shen Kuo's report against Su Shi was completely false.
This thing first came from Wang Zhi's "Yuanyou Supplementary Record", which is an isolated evidence and has no historical data to support it. Even the son of the author Wang Zhi does not agree with this statement.
Moreover, it is full of errors and omissions.
Especially the sentence "Liu Shu said in a play: Don't worry about entering", we can 100% conclude that it is made up.
In October of the sixth year of Xining, Shen Kuo left Jiangsu and Zhejiang and returned to Beijing in November. In the first month of the following year, Liu Shu passed by Runzhou from Jiangxi. At that time, Su Shi was providing disaster relief in Runzhou.
In just one month, Shen Kuo impeached Su Shi in the capital, and the news had already reached Zhenjiang? Either the matter had caused a stir in the city, or someone had reported it to Su Shi.
However, the old and new parties implicated in this case were all big figures in the literary world, and had countless disciples and former officials, but none of them mentioned Shen Kuo's report. Later, Shen Kuo offended both the old and new parties, and his reputation was as bad as a street rat, but still no one said anything. He reported Su Shi.
No one knew about it, including Su Shi himself. Only the author of "Yuanyou Supplement" knew about it, and the author's son also wrote a book against this view.
Li Zhiyi, the author of "Bu Suanzi·I Live at the Head of the Yangtze River", was a common friend of Su Shi and Shen Kuo. No matter when and where he would bring portraits of Su Shi and Shen Kuo. He played with Shen Kuo and then with Su Shi, never Mentioned this matter.
When the "Wutai Poetry Case" broke out, Li Zhiyi asked Shen Kuo to write an epitaph for his mother while actively running to rescue Su Shi.
The entire case, all the original files, impeachment memorials, interrogation records, and evidence judgments were leaked to the public due to the Jingkang Incident. They were also compiled and published into books, and Shen Kuo was not mentioned anywhere. At that time, let alone Shen Kuo, even Wang Anshi was mentioned. With a bad reputation, who would deliberately delete the negative material about Shen Kuo?
Shen Kuo and Su Shi communicated privately, and only one event can be confirmed.
It was more than ten years after the Wutai Poetry Case. Su Shi was ordered to return to Beijing and passed by Runzhou, and Shen Kuo happened to move to Runzhou to settle down. Shen Kuo gave Su Shi the graphite he had made and collected for many years, and Su Shi also wrote a poem. It is recorded in the book "Shu Shen Cunzhong Graphite".
It was a normal article, but some people interpreted it as cold writing, and the close relationship between the two was no longer the same as before.
The relationship between the two was so close that no one has ever recorded it. Even Su Shi privately sent poems to Shen Kuo, which was most likely fabricated by "Yuanyou Supplementary Records" because no other source could be found.
Moreover, Su Shi wrote many articles about ink sticks, and the writing did not talk about emotions at all, but only focused on explaining various kinds of ink. Is it possible that Su Shi was alienated from all the old friends who gave him ink sticks?
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Of course, Qin Hui didn't care about Shen Kuo's personal ethics. He only needed to cater to the emperor. He hurriedly stepped forward and said: "Pei Xiu's map only has six bodies, but Shen Kuo's map has seven methods and twenty-four directions. That is, there are twelve grids vertically and horizontally, and the earthly branches are used along the way. The other way is to take the Heavenly Stem and its eight and four hexagrams. You can get a straight-line distance just like a flying bird, ignoring the ups and downs of mountains and rivers."
"Excellent!" Zhu Ming nodded and smiled.
The ministers watched for a while and then dispersed one after another. Qin Hui also left happily.
Ju Ming called an official from the Ministry of Industry who knew cartography to make a copy of the super map of the Tang Dynasty to prevent it from being destroyed by fire one day.
Shen Kuo's various works were sent to Taiqing Tower one after another.
Zhu Guoxiang, who originally planned to go to Zhongnan Mountain to design a villa, read and studied carefully in Qingfeng Building for a few days, but suddenly became addicted to Shen Kuo's works and couldn't leave.
He called his son over and said, "Qin Hui is wrong."
"What's wrong?" Zhu Ming didn't understand.
Zhu Guoxiang said: "Qin Hui said that Shen Kuo's "Map of Prefectures and Counties of the World" was wrong. This was Qin Hui's mistake. Shen Kuo's "Map of Prefectures and Counties of the World" was correct. What was wrong was the maps of all dynasties since Pei Xiu, including the super large map. map of the prosperous Tang Dynasty. Even Shen Kuo’s drawing of flying birds was completely wrong by Qin Hui.”
Ju Ming was even more curious: "Throughout the ages, everyone has been wrong, but Shen Kuo is the only one who is right?"
Zhu Guoxiang nodded: "Because ancient and modern cartographers used the earth as a flat surface to draw maps. Therefore, the farther away from the center point, the greater the error of the map. However, Shen Kuo's flying bird drawing method was based on the earth. He did not use the earth as a flat surface to draw maps. Treat it as a flat surface. Qin Hui thought that there was an error in Shen Kuo's map, but in fact it was a correct map after correction!"
"So awesome?" Zhu Ming said in surprise.
Zhu Guoxiang pointed to the large pile of drawings on the bookshelf: "Those are astronomical maps drawn by Shen Kuo, there are more than two hundred in total. If you compare Shen Kuo's astronomical maps with Shen Kuo's maps, it is actually easy to find that the difference between the two is The format is exactly the same. However, when Shen Kuo drew the map, he replaced the stars in the sky with counties on the ground."
Zhu Ming smiled and said, "Okay, Dean Zhu. I only knew you could farm before, but I didn't expect you were proficient in astronomy and geography."
Zhu Guoxiang said: "I used to live in Tokyo, but Emperor Huizong of the Song Dynasty did not allow me to take leave to go back to my hometown. I started to study ancient astronomy out of boredom, and I have not fallen behind in the past few years."
"Qin Hui read Shen Kuo's book and misunderstood Shen Kuo's twenty-four solstices. They were not twelve vertical and horizontal grids at all. Shen Kuo's twenty-four solstices represented the angular directions, using twelve branches, eight stems, and four hexagrams. It is named after the floating compass in the mid-Northern Song Dynasty. That is, Shen Kuo combined the map and the compass and used the 24-zoom to mark the magnetic azimuth. This was a breakthrough in the history of Chinese cartography."
"Holding Shen Kuo's map and holding the compass, you can perform fool-like operations."
"That's why Shen Kuo said in the book that he only needs to record the locations on his map, as well as the marked azimuth angle, distance and other values. Even if the map is lost in the future, he can use these values to reconstruct the map without leaving home.
Draw it."
Ju Ming can only use two words to evaluate: "Awesome!"
Zhu Guoxiang sarcastically said: "Qin Hui was too eager to claim credit. As long as he compared Shen Kuo's astronomical maps and maps, carefully discerned and thought about them, he could understand them. But he took the map and went to the official website to report it, and said that Shen Kuo's map was inaccurate.
I don’t understand Shen Kuo’s original intention at all.”
"What you need to do in the future is to fill in the blanks in Shen Kuo's map. When he made the map, he lacked materials and could not send people to conduct field surveying. Many remote places were blank. Especially the barbarian lands in the southwest, you have to
After sending troops to capture it, we can allow the Ministry of Industry to survey and map it in more detail."
"By the way, we also need to add longitude and latitude lines. There is no such thing in Shen Kuo's map."
Zhu Ming smiled and said: "We can start now and send people to survey and map all the places that have been actually controlled. Especially Youzhou, which was part of the Liao Kingdom at the time. Shen Kuo had never been there at all and only relied on data from the Tang Dynasty.
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Drawing maps is also the emperor's civil service, and it is very, very important.