The warm sunlight shines through the color-blocking glass pane that has just been safe for a few days into the Zichen Hall, leaving several obvious columns of light in the air.

There are fine dust floating in the air, especially within the light column, which can be seen very clearly. Especially whenever someone walks around or speaks loudly, you can even see the dust rolling like a stream of water.

Secretary Zhang Qian, the young supervisor, knelt down and sat less than two feet aside the Minister of War Zhang Shuo. He watched the changes of dust within the light column without blinking. His young and fair face was as calm as a statue in a temple.

It was not that he deliberately dispersed the phone number, but that the content being discussed in the court had far exceeded his knowledge range. The White Sutra, the Yellow Sutra, the End and the Di are all nouns that he rarely heard before. And ancient astronomical theories such as "Heaven, Fire, Earth and Water Intersect, Yin and Yang are born" made him even more unaware of it!

In Zhang Qian's view, the calendar is a calendar. In another time and space, whether it is the lunar calendar that Chinese people used in the past or the Gregorian calendar that is common in the world, it is just a tool for marking and calculating time. Apart from being able to remember some special days and display solar terms, it has no other function, and it does not represent any profound connotation.

At this moment, everyone else in the court probably would not agree with his point of view. Especially those "Cultural Cultivation Schools" led by Zong Chuke have already made the calendar accurate or not, and the rise is related to the rise and fall of the country's fortunes. It seems that several more lunar eclipses or solar eclipses fail to calculate, which will lead to disasters from God and cause the Tang Dynasty to be destroyed in an instant.

The "Sustaining School" led by Wei Juyuan lists a large number of examples to prove that "Linde Calendar" still has advantages that no calendar in the world cannot surpass. Especially in terms of calculating the positions of the five stars of gold, wood, water, fire and earth, the difference between the calculated results and the actual observation results of Huntianjian is very small.

"What does it mean to be slim? It's just because of the distance. Even if the position changes, it can't be observed on the Huntian Zodiac." Lu Zang Yong suddenly stood up and launched a fierce attack on the evidence of the "maintenance faction".

This was a bit angry. Huntian Huangdaoyi was the crystallization of the sincere cooperation between Huntianjian and the General Manager more than 40 years ago, led by Li Chunfeng. This object is composed of three layers of bronze rings inside and outside. It can easily observe and calculate the changes in the position of most stars in the sky, and even speculate and display the position of the moon in advance. After the successful manufacturing, many surrounding countries have wanted to imitate it, but because they cannot guarantee the concentricity of the ring, they have to give up one after another.

Today, Lu Zang denied the most proud artifact of Huntian Supervisor and the general prison in decades with one sentence. How could the Huntian Supervisor and the general prison officials bear this breath? Immediately, they pointed their finger at him and scolded him sternly, "No, Mr. Lu, you don't understand, but don't be foolish!"

"Haha, Mr. Lu, your director is not here, so don't speak casually!"

"Mr. Lu, is this not writing a poem or fasting in the mountains?"

"Mr. Lu, the azaleas in Zhongnan Mountain have bloomed again. Where are the hermits in the mountains in the past now?"

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"You can know from the location of the Moon Palace that Lu's words are not false!" Lu Zang used half of his skills, all on his mouth. Therefore, he launched a counterattack without hesitation. "Why is the moon position observed by the armillary sphere often different from the results calculated by Lindeli? The reason is that the moon position is close to the ground and the position changes are easy to see. And the five stars, when you can see the difference between the armillary sphere and the previous years, I'm afraid that it will be more than ten thousand miles away from the original position!"

After the words came, a rebuttal sound immediately sounded around him. The officials of Huntianjian wanted to drool Lu Zangyi together with saliva.

"Although this guy is annoying, what he said is very reasonable." Zhang Qian didn't quite understand what the officials of Huntianjian were saying, so he could only judge who was right and who was wrong based on the knowledge he had.

There is no doubt that from the perspective of pure science, Lu Zang's words make more sense. The moon is indeed much closer to the earth than the five major planets of gold, wood, water, fire and earth. This is almost common sense that children know in the 21st century of time and space, and there is no need to argue at all.

However, Zhang Qian did not want to speak for Lu Zangyong. The reason was very simple. First, he knew that the five planets were farther from the earth than the moon, but he didn't know how to prove this. Second, Zhang Jiuling had already given him enough reminders long before coming to join the pursuit of the court.

As far as Zhang Qian knows, in the history of another time and space, Zhang Jiuling had at least been a prime minister. Therefore, he believed that Zhang Jiuling's sensitivity to politics was far more than that of himself, a novice in the officialdom. Since Zhang Jiuling had already suspected that Zong Chuke suddenly grasped the flaws of "Linde Li" at this critical moment, it might be because of his ulterior motives. He could not make it difficult for him to jump into the vortex!

Since he didn't want to get involved in the vortex, he could only continue to observe how the dust within the light column moves boredly. Because the weather is getting hotter, the airflow is slowly rising. Therefore, the dust floats upwards most of the time. The position of the light column is from the right side of the center of Zichen Hall, and slowly moves left at a speed that cannot be distinguished by the naked eye. This means that the sun has set west and evening is coming!

"So what about Li Chunfeng? He said at the beginning that Lindeli could last for eight hundred years, but it was only 43 years. Even the first and fifteenth days of the lunar calendar were not clear!" Suddenly, someone sneered loudly in the Zichen Hall, causing the dust in the light pillar to roll left and right as if it was swept by a stick.

Zhang Qian's interest was interrupted, and he frowned and looked up, and saw Sha Chongyi's familiar face. It turned out that there was someone in the court who was easy to be an official. Zhang Qian remembered that last autumn, this person was demoted to the ninth-rank chief of the aristocratic prison for slandering himself. Unexpectedly, just a few months later, this person actually put on the official uniform of the Shangshu Province record and was also qualified to participate in the pursuit of the court. (Note: Shangshu Province record, from the seventh-rank.)

Lu Zangyong, who had been quarreling with the officials of Huntian Supervisory, had retreated aside at this moment. Looking at his proud look, he obviously had the upper hand in the last round of disputes.

"It's a good thing that I am a secretary, a young secretary, is a position without real power. I don't need to attend court meetings often! Otherwise, one day, I might not be able to help myself and jump up and shave someone with a big ear!" I didn't want to see Lu Zang use his proud face, Zhang Qian muttered in his heart and quickly turned his head.

Wherever my eyes passed, were tired or helpless faces. Obviously, most of the people present didn't want to get involved in the vortex just like him. However, everyone could not escape from Zichen Hall. Therefore, they could only sit patiently and kneel on the ground in a daze.

"Li Chunfeng served as the Grand Historian for more than 30 years and was named a man in Changle County by Emperor Gaozong. The compilation of the "Ten Sutras" is a compulsory course for my Imperial College in the Tang Dynasty." Someone suddenly stood up and sneered and reminded, "Sha Lushi, you look down on Grand Historian Li so much. I don't know what writings you have. Can you take them out for us to read?"

"This..." Sha Chongyi was so embarrassed that his face turned red, but he refused to admit defeat. He gritted his teeth and emphasized loudly: "Sha is just talking about the facts. The errors in "Linde Li" are obvious to all. It cannot be easier forever just because the craftsman is Li Chunfeng!"

Although this statement is suspected of diverting the argument, it does not have any major problems. Especially from Zhang Qian's perspective, all scientific theories can be questioned as long as there is deviation in practice, even if theorist proposed is a sage.

However, the "maintenance faction" led by Wei Juyuan, the chief supervisor of the secret technique, did not think so. While launching a personal attack on Sha Chongyi, he also argued for the "Linde Li". He argued that in each year, there are some months of the new day and the sun that are not in line with the moon phase, because when the Linde Li was originally formulated, he adopted the method of pushing the new day or moving the new day to ensure that there would not be several large months in a row. As long as you wait three or five months, the sun and sun on the calendar will be consistent with the moon phase again. (Note: the sun is the first day of the day. The sun is the fifteenth day)

"What's the point of debate about this? How many of the new day and sunset last year are inconsistent with the moon phase? Let's make a statistics and will soon know if "Linde Li" correct the error on its own?" Zhang Qian felt more and more boring as he heard it. He changed his kneeling position and quietly turned his eyes to Zhang Shuo, who was closest to him.

He was about to secretly talk to Zhang and listen to the other party's views, but he suddenly realized that Zhang Shuo was carrying a carbon strip and drawing on the tablet. The words falling on the tablet were not meeting minutes, but a seven-character poem.

"Hmm, cough, cough..." Seeing that Zhang Qian was peeping at him, Zhang said quickly put away the tablet and coughed in a low voice.

"It turns out that Kaiyuan famous minister also has time to have a meeting to disperse the account!" Zhang Qian laughed in his heart and quickly moved his eyes away to avoid making people angry.
Chapter completed!