After returning to the public hall, Yang Xiu first found his father Yang Biao and told him about the issues he had talked about when he was traveling with the emperor.
Yang Biao listened very seriously and excitedly.
Although he supported Ni Heng's suggestions in principle, he was still a little worried. His biggest worry was that after the emperor took control of military power, he would conquer the people outside, not care about the people's strength, and put pressure on the inside, forcing the ministers to bow down and obey orders.
Now he knew that the emperor had great ambitions and wanted to build an unprecedented career. The possibility of being willful and arbitrary is extremely low, and his final worries have been greatly alleviated.
To be fair, although the emperor is young, he is more cautious than many old ministers. His worries are not necessary, they are just a habit.
Yang Biao discussed with Jia Xu and Zhou Zhong about government affairs, and finally formed a resolution.
Yang Xiu focused on publishing his research results.
As he and Liu Xie said, it is the same thing to think about playing, and it is another thing to make it public. First, he has to write his experience into an article, so that others can understand it, and also draw pictures. Secondly, he has to write his experience.
In order to prove his point of view, he must express his views in a false way. He also needs to conduct verifiable experiments and allow others to repeat them.
Articles are easy to write, but experiments are difficult to do.
He not only needs to prove that his ideas are correct through these experiments, but also needs to be as careful as possible to avoid giving others the opportunity to question them.
This article is not long, only three or four hundred words and a few pictures, but it took him several days.
Most of the time I spent experimenting with design.
A few days later, Yang Xiu completed the article and sent it to the printing house himself.
Here, he met Xu Yue again.
Xu Yue was one of the reviewers of Yinfang. After coming to Wancheng, his talent soon became known to Mrs. Tang. He was invited to Yinfang as a reviewer, who was responsible for reviewing articles in astronomy and mathematics.
When he saw Yang Xiu, he was a little excited and enthusiastically invited Yang Xiu to the study to have a detailed discussion. After taking his seat, he took out his newly drawn Xuan Ye picture and asked Yang Xiu for advice.
Yang Xiu also found it interesting and told Xu Yue about his related guesses.
I heard that the stars in the sky were not all round, and there were also flats. Xu Yue was stunned for a while, and his eyes looked at Yang Xiu were a little strange. He also had a telescope and used a telescope to watch the stars, but he didn't see any flats.
The stars.
Moreover, according to Yang Xiu's statement, those stars are not stars, and are more likely to be a large group of stars like the galaxy.
If you think about it further, how far are these star clusters?
This conclusion is amazing, but he is a scholar who has been a star-gazing for many years and immediately came up with a question.
He asked Yang Xiu, were the flat stars you mentioned fixed on the zodiac and still moving?
Yang Xiu said that this is true. The five stars of gold, wood, water, fire, earth and other fast moving are round, while flat stars are fixed.
Xu Yue then came up with a inference: Is it possible that the stars fixed on the ecliptic are far away, and only the five stars of gold, wood, water, fire, earth are relatively close. We are in the galaxy, but those stars may not be possible.
It's the galaxy.
Xu Yue's bold inference shocked Yang Xiu and looked at Xu Yue with admiration.
He once again realized that he had a specialty in his profession. In terms of astronomical observation, he was an amateur, and Xu Yue was a professional.
The more they talked, the more they became more and more speculative. They didn't remember that it was getting late.
Yang Xiu took out his article and asked Xu Yue to review it.
Xu Yue read it and passed it quickly. For him, the issues discussed in such an article are just details and the principles are very simple. You can understand it after thinking about it a little.
He told Yang Xiu that this article will be reported within three days.
Because there are pictures, it will be slower. If it is just text, you will be able to report tomorrow.
Yang Xiu laughed and said he was not in a hurry. He wrote this article as the emperor ordered, and he did not intend to become famous by this.
After seeing Yang Xiu off, Xu Yue returned to his room and called a waiter, asking him to take Yang Xiu's article to arrange the layout. The waiter looked at the signature of the article and was stunned.
"Hongnong Yang Xiu?"
"Well, what's the problem?" Xu Yue was still immersed in his own world. "Although he has no reputation and his articles are not very big, he makes sense."
"Sir, he is Hongnong Yang Xiu." The attendant couldn't laugh or cry. "The Hongnong Yang family, the fourth generation and the third generation, is still the current prefect of Hanyang and the emperor favors his minister."
Xu Yue woke up from a dream.
Only then did he realize that the person who had just spoken to him for a long time was not an ordinary scholar at all, and he was a descendant of a famous family and an important official in the court.
In that case, who was the young man who spoke with him that day?
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Yang Xiu's article was published soon, and the reaction caused was beyond Xu Yue's estimate.
In terms of knowledge alone, this question is indeed not a big deal.
But the issue of the two children's debate on the day is a pain for Confucian scholars, especially when combined with the colder peak of the mountain, it is already a crime of Confucian scholars being unpragmatic and unwilling to be enterprising, and has become a topic of mocking Confucian scholars.
Now that Yang Xiu has untied it, the Confucian Sect can finally be proud.
Who said that Confucian scholars are not pragmatic? Isn’t Yang Xiu a Confucian scholar? He is not only a Confucian scholar, but also a true Confucian scholar.
Some people support it, some people oppose it.
Some people opposed Yang Xiu's point of view, thought that his statement was problematic, and tried every means to refute it.
Some people oppose Yang Xiu's identity. What kind of Confucian scholar? Although Yang Xiu came from a Confucian family, is he still a Confucian scholar like you? After being trained by the emperor, he was already a pragmatic capable minister. If not, how could he write so pragmatically
At most, I just wrote some poems and essays like Wang Can.
Unfortunately, Wang Can was caught in a gun.
Qin Mi was also involved in the shooting with Wang Can.
Qin Mi’s wonderful theory about the nature of the world was once very popular. But now it seems that those are just the wonders of words. It is okay to be used as topics of conversation, but in fact they have no practical effect.
Compared with Yang Xiu's article, it is a wonderful comparison.
In the middle of the first month, when Qin Mi followed Liu Zhang and others to Nanyang. As soon as he entered the county, he saw Yang Xiu's article in the post house and heard relevant comments.
Qin Mi was very annoyed and read Yang Xiu's articles again and again, and then went to ask Zhou Qun, a fellow scholar.
Zhou Qun is from Langzhong. His father Zhou Shu studied under Yang Cun, a scholar of Guanghan, and was as famous as Dong Fu and Ren An. He was proficient in astronomy, prophecies and divination, and star altar. Zhou Qun received his family education and built a small building at home.
He is a star-gazing every night, and is familiar with astronomy and astrology, which is countless than Qin Mi.
Regarding Yang Xiu's article, the first thing he questioned was how could the sun be flat?
The sun and the moon are both round and perfectly round. How can such a thing be lengthened due to the skew of the lens?
For this purpose, he specially made a circle and looked at the sunrise in the early morning.
Then he was frightened to find that not only the rising sun, but also the setting sun. It was not the standard circle he thought, but a slightly flattened circle. Moreover, the degree of flatness changed with time. Analysis with Yang Xiu's article
Consistent.
In other words, although he has been watching the stars for many years, he has always turned a blind eye to a fact that is in front of him.