"If you imagine something, it means there is a coincidence."
In fact, Zhang Gu also ignored a situation, that is, even if Ma Jun's prediction is correct, as long as the earthquake occurs very far away, where the people in Guanzhong cannot find out, the court will maintain the stability of the people and appease the people currently affected by drought.
Anxious people will definitely do everything possible to cover up this matter. At that time, he and Ma Jun, the insiders, will use various methods to shut up.
Seeing Ma Jun pouting his lips and staring at the ground intently, he seemed to be engaged in a fierce psychological struggle. Zhang Gu couldn't help but sigh. At this time, he and Ma Jun were closely connected regardless of their relationship or positions.
He wanted to share the honor and loss, so no matter what the reason, he had to persuade Ma Jun: "Think about it carefully, since you yourself said that you failed to repair the seismometer, maybe this matter is a coincidence?"
"Although the seismometer is damaged, it doesn't mean it can't be used..." Ma Jun subconsciously wanted to argue.
"But I didn't say it can be used!" Zhang Gu stared at Ma Jun's eyes and said flatly: "If you don't believe it, how about you and I re-proper the pillar and then guard it for two or three days?
"
Ma Jun's interest in the exploration of things was suddenly aroused by Zhang Gu. He had long wanted to know the principle behind the operation of the seismograph. If he could discover its operating rules through this incident, he would repair the instrument.
It even provides great help in researching new instruments!
Zhang Gu saw that he had persuaded Ma Jun to stop being impulsive, and he was relieved in his heart. However, he also thought, how should a stubborn person like Ma Jun become an official in the future?
So they just did it. It took a lot of effort for the two of them to lift the heavy pillar up again, and then they sat and waited for a long time without any movement. So the two of them left in disappointment. The next day, they immediately
Jun ran over early to take a look and found that the column in the belly of the seismograph was still motionless.
After noon, when the sun was about to set in the west, Zhang Gucai arrived belatedly. He had no hope for today's 'experiment', so it didn't matter how much he was interested or disappointed in it. Because after all, the seismograph
It was a dead thing. No matter how talented his grandfather Zhang Heng was, he would never be able to make a dead thing function effectively after fifty or sixty years without maintenance.
And even if the seismometer is still effective, how come there were two earthquakes in two consecutive days? The so-called 'observation' was just an excuse Zhang Gu said to divert Ma Jun's attention, so he saw Ma Jun looking depressed.
With an expression on his face, he instead gave a few words of persuasion with great optimism, and was glad that he had persuaded Ma Jun yesterday and did not let him falsely report an earthquake.
"Okay, maybe yesterday was really a coincidence. I know you are anxious and want to repair it as soon as possible to live up to the emperor's favor. But you and I both know that this cannot be completed in a few days. You and I are still young.
The days are still long, and one day it will be restored to its original state, so why rush it?" Zhang Gu said as he sat down on the spot. The couch for people to kneel on was too far away from them. Zhang Gu and Ma Jun knelt down.
It's not convenient to do anything while sitting on it, so I like to sit on the floor when no one is around.
Ma Jun sighed in frustration. He had expected this result after he calmed down yesterday, but he was just more disappointed today. He fell back on the ground, resting his head on his hands, looking up at the complex mortise and tenon beams on the roof.
After Zhang Gu's painstaking persuasion, he had to admit his mistake: "I was too eager..."
Zhang Gu grinned and was about to speak when he saw Ma Jun suddenly stood up and sat up, startling him. Before Zhang Gu opened his mouth to ask Ma Jun what happened, he saw Ma Jun lying on the ground.
Among the two tea bowls, the originally calm tea that could reflect the silhouette of a human figure suddenly trembled for a moment.
The shallow ripples were like fine lines stirred by the breeze, and disappeared in an instant.
As soon as Ma Jun stood up as if jumping, the seismograph behind him suddenly made a loud noise, and a dragon's mouth violently shook out many shadows, but it did not spit out copper pellets like yesterday. Apparently, the pillar this time
It didn't exactly open the dragon's mouth.
"Is this, could it be that the ancestors of the family have a spirit, and they are preaching specifically?" Zhang Gu stammered for a long time, and finally came up with a reason that could barely convince him. Although this reason was very lame and unbelievable, it was better than
It made him believe that Ma Jun had repaired it and was stronger. But he never thought that this might really be a coincidence, the most critical thing of the seismometer was not damaged, or that there was some divine will.
Ma Jun was speechless with joy at this time. Although he did not believe that he had really repaired the instrument, he was willing to accept it no matter how Zhang Gu explained, because it meant that his inference was correct: the seismometer was indeed
Can sense earthquakes.
If he didn't have any sense at all, he would have wanted to open the door and run around the altar to let everyone share this 'great news' with him.
Zhang Gu thought more profoundly than Ma Jun. If yesterday and today were true, wouldn't it mean that there were two earthquakes in the past two days? He remembered that during the Chang'an earthquake last October, the ministers
They all wanted the emperor to depose Sikong. At that time, he had not yet settled in Chang'an. Later, he heard that the emperor paid a huge price and even issued an edict to save Sikong.
An earthquake caused turmoil in the DPRK, not to mention the ongoing drought and successive earthquakes?
Needless to say, he can imagine what kind of chaos the public sentiment in Guanzhong would be if this incident were to spread.
Just when he was about to calm down Ma Jun and ask him to give up the idea of reporting the matter, the door was pushed open again like yesterday. This time, it was not the several spiritual towers waiting for the imperial edict that came in, but the person whom the emperor believed
Chong, entrusted with the compilation of the new calendar to the imperial clan, Lingtai Order Liu Wan.
"What was the noise just now?" After Liu Wan finished speaking, he walked towards the direction of the seismograph. In the past few days, he had been busy counting barometers from various places. He was passing by here after dinner when he unexpectedly heard a loud sound coming from inside.
The sound was clearly the sound of gold and iron, and the only gold and iron instrument in the room was the seismometer.
"Yes, yes..." Zhang Gu subconsciously wanted to hide it like he did yesterday.
But Liu Wan was not as easy to fool as those several spiritual towers. He walked around the seismograph, looked at it carefully, and said coldly: "Speak!"
"The earth is shaking!" Ma Jun bowed to Liu Wan excitedly. It seemed as if the earthquake was such a happy event for him: "Yesterday and today, the seismometer had strange phenomena. It can be seen that there is something somewhere.
Moved!"
Liu Wan's expression suddenly changed, as if he had heard something treacherous.
Zhang Guze, who failed to stop Ma Jun this time, rolled his eyes and almost fainted from the fright of Ma Jun, an honest man.