On the night of the fifth day of the lunar month, Xiangshan Academy was crowded with people in front of the square in front of the "Science Picking a Ball".

More than 600 students returned after graduation, stomped their feet in white air, raised their heads, staring at the southwest sky without blinking.

When the big comet with its pale tail arrived as scheduled, a shocking cheer sounded in the academy.

"Science and Science!" The students jumped and threw their cotton hats and leather hats into the sky, venting their excitement at this moment.

"True knowledge is only within science!"

"If the sky does not produce science, it will last forever!"

As the saying goes, seeing is better than seeing. Although disciples have been studying science for many years, many people are still trapped in the old cage, dare not or are unwilling to break through the constraints of traditional ideas, and only regard science as the stepping stone for the imperial examination.

Because those absurd, ignorant and ridiculous ideas and cognitions for Zhao Hao have maintained the original order that the world has been operating for thousands of years.

It is very painful to break your original understanding of the world. For some scholars, they are even destroying the inner world, so they don’t have the courage to really believe in science, just to be able to go to a prestigious school and pretend to believe it.

Therefore, Zhao Hao summoned all the disciples in Beijing to Xiangshan Academy. In addition to letting them escape the vortex, he also used this rare astronomical wonder to give those disciples who still reject science in their hearts a shocking collective baptism!

The sponsor of Xiangshan Academy is the wealthy Xishan Group. When it was built six years ago, it set up an observatory in the name of the Imperial Heaven Supervision. In recent years, twenty refractive astronomical telescopes and eight reflective astronomical telescopes have been purchased from the Jiangnan Precision Instrument Factory in recent years.

The difference between these two telescopes is that the refractive aberration is small but there is chromatic aberration and the larger the size, the more expensive it is. The reflective telescope has no chromatic aberration, is cheap and can be made very large, but there are aberrations.

In order to observe the large comet that was seen in one hundred years, Bepejia also invested a lot of money and developed three refraction reflection telescopes combining the advantages of two telescopes according to the design ideas given by his master. This telescope has strong optical power and a large visible range. It also solves chromatic aberration and aberration, so it is particularly suitable for patrols and observations of meteors, comets, etc., as well as... astronomical popular science activities. It was named "Bepejia Telescope" by Zhao Hao.

Three Beipejia telescopes, one is located at the Purple Mountain Observatory, one is at Yufeng Academy. The other is here.

In fact, through the telescope, the students locked the comet twenty days ago.

Because according to the description in "Natural Knowledge", when a comet gradually approaches the sun, the frozen surface begins to evaporate, forming a huge comet or coma, causing the brightness of the comet to suddenly increase.

At the same time, powerful solar radiation and solar wind will force dust particles and gas on comets to form two comet tails facing the sun. Among them, the comet tail formed by dust particles is shorter, curved, thicker, and yellow; the comet tail formed by gas is longer, straight, thin, and blue.

When a comet passes through Mars, its comet's tail begins to gradually form. Until the perihelion, the comet produces the most gas and the comet's tail is the longest. Then as the comet moves away from the sun, the comet's tail gradually shortens to disappear...

Therefore, more than 20 telescopes in Xiangshan Academy have been keeping a close eye on the direction of Mars. Sure enough, the appearance of this comet was discovered twenty days ago, and through continuous observations on a daily basis, they witnessed the gradual generation, bifurcation, and lengthening process of its comet tail...

Until tonight, you can clearly see its figure without a telescope!

The astronomical scenes that have been witnessed in recent days eloquently illustrate that comets are not a great omen of God, but are celestial bodies composed of ice, gas and dust, like five planets, orbiting the sun!

Moreover, the comet's continuous observation of continuous movement trajectory is indeed an ellipse with the sun as the focus, which proves the correctness of gravity!

The disciples even calculated the height of the comet and the time it disappeared from sight until after the Lantern Festival next year!

Through this series of observations and research, the disciples successfully despised the comet, and also completely said goodbye to the heavenly beings in their hearts, and began to truly reshape the worldview with science...

People are not aware of this change at this time. The profound impact of this change even directly shakes the foundation of the dynasty's rule. The change in thought will take several years before a clear crack will be created in the social system that has been closed for thousands of years...

Because there are still too few people who believe in science. Even in the officialdom of the capital, where science sects are the most concentrated, most officials still firmly believe in the way of responding to heaven and man.

Therefore, scientifically accurately predicting the emergence of comets did not dilute the panic of superstitious people at all, and what should have happened still happened.

The next morning, Wanli ordered the Ministry of Rites to report to the temples and ask God to calm down his anger.

The government and the country were also in panic, and the streets and alleys were discussing this great omen. In the afternoon of that day, someone linked the Great Comet with the recent hot topic of robbing love. It was said that Mr. Zhang was reluctant to worry and violated the laws of nature and human ethics, which caused God to warn him. If he did not correct it quickly, a great disaster would definitely come!

At night that day, the comet appeared again, still dragging its long tail, pale and terrifying.

That night, the Forbidden City had water left. In the second evening, a fire light rushed from Yihexuan in the northeast corner of the Forbidden Palace.

The autumn is dry and the golden wind is howling. Yihexuan quickly turns into a sea of ​​fire and spreads to Leshou Hall, Yangxing Hall, Ningshou Palace, and the entire northeast of the Forbidden City are shrouded in raging fire. The fire soars into the sky, and it is particularly terrifying.

The eunuchs and guards of the Forbidden City all came to put out the fire. Fortunately, the palace has been rich over the years, and Mr. Zhang is also a very comprehensive person. He resets enough water tanks, water dragons and other fire protection facilities in the palace. With the efforts to extinguish the fire, the fire did not spread...

Empress Dowager Li and Emperor Wanli were naturally alarmed. Although the fire was still far from the Qianqing Palace. But for safety reasons, Feng Bao and Empress Dowager Li's younger brother Li Jin still asked the mother and mother to move to the Cining Palace on the west side and go to Empress Dowager Chen for a while.

Queen Mother Chen has been vegetarian and chanting Buddha's name for almost twenty years. Queen Mother Li has compared her with her to be a sister.

Moreover, Empress Dowager Chen has improved a lot over the years, but she does not thank Jiangnan Hospital for promoting the improvement of her health care level. Instead, she believes that this is the result of her years of practice and giving, and finally the Bodhisattva's blessing, so she becomes even more superstitious.

When she learned that the fire was in the Qingshou Palace, she said in a sensation that it was brought by the broom star, and that God warned the emperor to be cautious in cultivating virtue.

Wanli was almost scared when he heard this. Although he was fifteen years old, he still couldn't stand it when he heard that God was specially making a comet to entertain him.

Empress Dowager Li was not very happy when she heard this, and thought to herself that according to what you mean, it means that my son is not virtuous and is not cautious?

"Emperor, don't blame yourself, you haven't taken power yet." Seeing that Wanli's face turned pale, Empress Dowager Chen hurriedly held his hand and comforted him: "God, no wonder you are coming up with your head."

"That's good, that's good." Wanli breathed a sigh of relief and went to bed happily.

Empress Dowager Li was so scared that her lips turned purple. What a guy, that's my responsibility?

"My sister is also scared. When is it our women's turn to decide on the affairs of the world?" Empress Dowager Chen looked at her meaningfully, and comforted her, "Let's chant together to eliminate disasters."

"Okay." Empress Dowager Li nodded quickly, so the two empress dowagers recited the scriptures until dawn in front of Guanyin statue.

After dawn, the dusty Li came in to report that the fire was shattered and his sister's Ning Shou Palace was saved...

"Thank God, thank you Bodhisattva." Empress Dowager Li's eyes were red immediately and kowtowed to Guanyin. If this burned her Ningshou Palace, it would be fine where she would live after the emperor's wedding next year. The key is that she can't afford to lose that person.

"It's just that Ningshou Palace Garden was burned." Li Jin swallowed and said, "The trees, Buddhist temples and other things inside were all burned..."

"What?" Empress Dowager Li froze immediately. The Buddhist temple was built by Xianggong Zhang for her! It cost a million taels of gold nanmu and red sandalwood alone. The pure gold statue of the Bodhisattva inside was still made according to her appearance.

This made her heartache and fear more than burning Ningshou Palace...

"Oh, sister..." Empress Dowager Chen sighed and shook her head.

Empress Dowager Li suddenly collapsed in front of the statue of Guanyin Master.

The next day, Emperor Wanli said that the star change had not stopped, and the fire was prohibited. He ordered the Ministry of Rites to build a ceremony in the Heavenly Palace for three days, and still informed the palaces and temples, and all officials repaired the crime, suspended the punishment, and banned the massacre.

For the fourth time, Mr. Zhang also submitted a memorial to beg for the return of the country. In the memorial, he also asked the emperor to let himself go home and worry.

However, Wanli issued an order to keep it at the first time, saying that Xunzi said, "The sun and the moon are eroding, the wind and rain are not the same, and the strange stars are seeing that there is no world but not always. The top is clear and the government is peaceful, but even if the world is peaceful, it will be harmed; the top is dark and the government is dangerous, but even if there is no one coming, it will be useless." He also ordered him to "do not work hard to declare again," and ordered the chief ritual supervisor. If there is another memorial to Mr. Zhang's resignation, he would directly refuse to accept it.

Seeing that the two of them were singing together, they wanted to fool the star change, and the officials stopped. They said that since "the strange star is not hurt", why did the emperor have to fast and worship before, and tell the palaces and temples that all officials should repair and conquer, and even kill pigs?

This is obviously a contradiction. It must be Zhang Xianggong instigating his student emperor to change his words. Isn’t this just for Zhang Juzheng to fool God? Is there any good thing in the Ming Dynasty?

Now everyone believes that the emperor is just a puppet of Xianggong Zhang. The officials were full of righteous indignation, beat their chests and stamped their feet, and cursed the heartbroken shouting that the country was not a country! They ignored the fact that the current was the best era in the century...

There were even many big-character posters on the streets and alleys, criticizing Zhang Juzheng for having no monarch or father, being corruption, being lustful and unvirtuous, which caused resentment from heaven and others!

Zhang Xianggong turned a deaf ear to this and waited for the stars to pass, and all rumors would be broken.

However, the tree wants to be quiet but the wind does not stop. How can those people miss this God-given opportunity?
Chapter completed!