In fact, it is precisely because of the implementation of the new calendar that Zhiguo has had a bumper harvest for three consecutive years. Of course, for the people of the time who generally lack scientific knowledge, it can be attributed to the divine doctrine of heavenly grace or the worship of heaven to move the heavens, but all the "magical" phenomena that the general public ignores and cannot understand, as long as it is a mouth, whatever you want.

The new calendar book promoted by Zhiguo, Baili Yanlayer Toding, is indeed more accurate than the old book of the Liang calendar that is currently popular.

Not only does it record the calendar and the cycle of farming, but also the relationship between the position of the tide and the moon and the sun, but the person in charge of compiling the new calendar is Shangguan Taiyue, a 25-year-old civil official in Zhiguo.

After settling the wine account in front of the counter, Bailiyan turned over and got on his horse and went to the Yixian Pavilion with Gao Xun on a donkey.

I don't know why, Gao Xun always likes to ride a donkey, Bailiyan couldn't help asking:

"Brother Gao, why don't you ask Lord Zhao for a horse, what do you always do on a donkey?"

Gao Xun smiled, and suddenly his eyebrows flew and said:

"There are not enough horses in Xianguo, but this donkey is no worse than a horse, although the speed is not as good as a horse, but the carrying force is thirty percent higher than that of a horse, and the ration is only eighty percent of a horse."

As if asking what he was proud of, Gao Xun was boastful and very good at it.

Bailiyan suddenly realized that the donkey's support was indeed greater than that of a horse of the same size, and it had less to eat. However, there are not many countries that use donkeys as foot power, and logistics mainly rely on man-powered carts and horse-drawn carts, and there are not too many donkeys to pull carts.

On the one hand, the donkey's hooves are smaller, and it is not easy to nail the hoof, and it will rot when the donkey kicks while running.

The second is that the farrier is mostly bronze at the moment, which is not durable, and it is not cost-effective to nail the farrier to the donkey, so the donkey will rot when it kicks and runs.

The third and most realistic is that the common people use donkeys as foot grinders, and also as the main source of meat in addition to pigs, cattle and sheep.

In particular, the princes in the hinterland, who only have one season of rice and wheat, donkeys eat less and produce more meat, and have great strength, which is very suitable for the waste utilization of "unloading and killing donkeys".

All the way to the Yixian Hall, there was a lot of discussion on the streets and alleys at this time, and most of them were talking about "Pushing Business Tax". Along the way, you can see the public list in many places, and from time to time you can see groups of scholars rushing to the direction of the Yixian Hall, most of them because they heard that there was a big movement and wanted to open their eyes or show their skills.

When I arrived at the Yixian Pavilion, there was still half a moment missing, and there was a lot of traffic outside the museum, and there were a few ordinary carriages or car tents parked.

It is said that it is ordinary, because these vehicles do not have any ornaments and family crests that can indicate their identity, and most of these vehicles are not the family cars of princes and nobles.

handed the horse to the waiter in front of the door, because Gao Xun was riding a donkey, the messenger looked Gao Xun up and down meaningfully, Baili Yan saw that he was disrespectful, and took out fifty coins from his arms and stuffed them into the waiter's hands:

"This little brother, take my friend's donkey away and throw in some forage."

"Okay."

The waiter took the fifty coins in his hand and shook it, then put it in his arms, and led a donkey and a horse around the stable. At this time, Gao Xun was a little unhappy:

"It's really unreasonable for such a dog to look down on a villain, and he has to ask for a small amount of money to feed a donkey."

Bai Liyan laughed secretly in his heart, Gao Xun is a scholar, he regards himself as high, and he disdains to be in the company of villains who accept small money, so he naturally sees it shameful to grovel and walk through the back door, but Bai Liyan can only echo him:

"It's not necessary, but it's not necessary. Although Brother Gao is a righteous gentleman, how can he know how powerful the villain is. Let's go, I'm going to talk about it soon, maybe there's still a gap. ”

Entering the Yixian Pavilion, there is half a zhang wide outside the pavilion corridor, five zhang long entrance, there is a weapon rack on the left side of the entrance, most of the people below wear swords, but all those who wear swords must hand over their weapons, and be guarded by a special person, so as not to cause bloodshed if they disagree.

The floor of the central hall is covered with a maroon wooden floor, but everyone who listens to the lecture must take off their shoes and enter barefoot.

The north side of the back of the main hall erects a screen of amazing size, the size is less than two zhang wide and two zhang wide, one zhang high, the screen is written from left to right with the four big characters of "the world's public instrument", which means that public opinion is the public power of the world, to put it bluntly, it is the freedom of public opinion.

A large screen blocks the inner chamber behind it, and the inner chamber of the main hall resembles a preparation room behind the podium, providing a quiet place for the day's speakers to rest.

Although it was not yet Shen Shi, the five hundred seats on the scene were full, and Bai Liyan also found two close positions in the outermost corner to kneel, like a sour literati.

From time to time, there are maids and maids from the Yixian Pavilion, selling tea and snacks during the wandering with snacks, like a sales aunt on the train, fortunately pushing a trolley that always needs to be borrowed, peddling all kinds of snacks and snacks.

The Yixian Pavilion is no exception, most of the literati and ink writers who come here to discuss politics are full of food and have nothing to do.

Bailiyan asked for a small basket of mandarin oranges and a pot of tea, and Gao Xun ordered a pot of tea, ready to fight the Confucians, and if he was thirsty, he would ask for help at any time.

"I said brother, there are a lot of people today, and there are many people upstairs watching."

Bai Liyan motioned to Gao Xun to look at the second floor, and it could be seen that many scholars were already gathered around the fence on the second floor, waiting for the lecture to start.

Gao Xun glanced at it and said:

"Today, the three sons are gathered, and naturally all parties are paying attention."

"Three sons? Which three sons. Bai Liyan asked.

"Uncle Guang, Mingyangzi, Changlingzi, the elders of the world, I didn't expect to be able to arrive in Lingling together today."

Gao Xun was surprised, the Guang Shuzi, Mingyangzi, and Changlingzi mentioned in his mouth are all representatives of the hundred schools of thought in the world, and these three people are typical representatives of the three factions that advocate change.

Among them, Uncle Guang represents the Chengdao faction behind him, Mingyangzi advocates the school of foolishness, and Changlingzi is the radical reform school represented by Prime Minister Gongsun Yue, and the representative of the Taoist doctrine.

These three schools are currently among the hundreds of schools of thought, and they are more respected by all countries. The Chengdao faction advocated moderate reform and gradual progress, and at the same time for the revival of the Liang Dynasty, and the return of the private power of the princes to the hands of the Son of Heaven, which was the most popularized school of doctrine in Tongwenyuan.

Ming Yangzi's school of foolishness is more crooked and heretical, advocating idealism, and all wills with the mandate of heaven should be accepted. Advocate and promote education reform, popularize literacy education, and let more people know the will and destiny of heaven.

In Bai Liyan's view, the Foolish School is already a bit of a religious school organization, and everything is to give orders in the name of heaven and God, and the purpose of promoting education may be just to brainwash everyone with the brainwashing divine book written by their will.

As for the Xionglun Dao school represented by Changlingzi, this school is very strange, integrating many doctrines such as the Zongheng School, the Wang Dao School, the Domineering School, and the Respect for the King School, and it is also divided into multiple branches internally, which are opposed to each other and unified, and often many arguments cannot be justified by themselves.

For example, the royal road faction advocates that the royal road should be used to rule the world, but it is necessary to respect the Son of Heaven and advocate the establishment of Liang Tianzi as the king, and in order to implement the royal road, they can do whatever it takes, so the Xiong Lun faction is more radical in changing the law.

Among them, Prime Minister Gongsun Yue is a typical representative of the Xionglun Taoist school that advocates the doctrine of vertical and horizontal, and he advocates Lian Heng to attack Zhiguo, which is one of the main reasons why the battle of Jiangdong that year, Xianguo finally compromised.

After the failure of the radical reforms, Gongsun Yue had realized that the means of war could not win the Jin state, and even if he won, he could be defeated by the Zhi state. And the Jin State also took advantage of Gongsun Yue's ideas to force the alliance under the city when the Xian State was difficult to ride a tiger.

In this way, Gongsun Yue thought that although Xianguo had lost its land, it had reached an alliance with the Jin State and the Changsun State, and that he could use the time bought by the covenant to speed up reforms, even if he ceded the land, it was an expedient measure, and he could still earn it back from Zhiguo in the future.

But in Bai Liyan's opinion, such a bad plan is too clumsy, how can there be a reason to cut the flesh and ask for the horizontal.

In the past 100 years, the above three schools have influenced the three waves of reform in the Central Plains, most of which have declined due to the change of law, only Zhiguo, who began to change the law in the middle of the period, summed up the disadvantages of the reform of the law of other countries, smoothly turned around gorgeously, defeated the former overlord Sun Guo, and became the overlord of the Central Plains.

The time has passed, and the Yixian Pavilion is still chattering and chaotic, all of them are talking loudly, and they are all unfathomable. Except for the 500 people who knelt in the main hall, most of them stood under the verandah, or stood behind the fence on the second floor, waiting for the lecture to begin.

After a while, a woman walked out behind the screen of the "World Public Instrument", this woman Bailiyan saw for the first time, and she had never shown up before. The woman was dressed in a pink and red-edged curly dress, was in her early twenties, and looked average.

She is swaggering and unhurried, and her gestures are very elegant, and she must be a young lady from a wealthy family, or a woman.

The woman walked to the center of the main hall, saluted the crowd first, and said in a very clear voice:

"Please be silent!"

The woman's voice was as brittle as a sound, pleasant to hear, like a hundred spirits in the forest, which was inspiring, and the buzzing hall was still a noisy discussion just now, and at this time it was also silent and silent.

Then the woman said:

"Ladies and gentlemen, today's commentators are the three masters of Xianguo Gongsun Xiangguo's protégé Gong Shouqian, and the commentators are the three masters of the Chengdao faction, Guang Shuzi, the foolish critic Mingyangzi, and the male Daoist Changlingzi."

When the woman's voice fell, she saw five men walking out behind the screen of "The World Instrument", three of whom each held a seat, a square wooden platform placed on the ground, the wooden platform was one foot above the ground, with a backrest and handrails, and a soft cushion on the wooden platform, which could sit down or kneel.

The other two men carried the podium together, a bit like a lectern, but it could be moved, but there was no podium, only a tall wooden platform that could be walked up three stairs.

Five people came to the center of the main hall, quickly took place under the instructions of the woman, and then the six people withdrew in an orderly manner, about two minutes later, three old men walked out from behind the screen, the age was sixty years old, one of the old men in yellow was on rattan crutches, supported by two boys, walking and swaying, almost blowing in one breath.

Behind the three of them came a man, the man was in his twenties, Bai Liyan recognized at a glance, this person was Gong Shouqian.