Chapter 214: Inner and Outer Courts

The sun that had been shining all day was tired in the evening, and he lay on the mountain to the west weakly, sprinkling thousands of golden rays on the bright world of spring. The www.biquge.info field of the pen "Fun" Pavilion is shrouded in golden red, which is more beautiful.

The customers recruited by Wang Su Zhuangzi are all proficient, and there is basically no big mistake in farming. Xu Ping watched for a day, and only instructed them to widen the row spacing, reduce the plant spacing, reasonably dense planting, make full use of sunlight, and also maintain ventilation in the field. This is the experience brought by the previous life, after countless practices summed up, large row spacing and small plant spacing, is the only way to increase yield by dense planting.

Wang Su did it one by one, and after listening to Xu Ping's evaluation, he put it down.

After a day of observation, Xu Ping also had a general understanding of the use of the drum field drain.

The sound of drums not only maintains the discipline of the field work, but also adjusts the rhythm of the work. Zhong Si, an old farmer who clapped the drums, had a lot of experience, and felt that the drumming would slow down when the progress was fast, and that the pace would be quicker if the progress was slow.

Tian Leak can let Zhong Si roughly grasp the time, how much time it takes to plant rice to the ground at a time, how much time it takes to come back, and whether it will become faster or slower after a few operations, Zhong Si looked at Tian Leak and knew in his heart.

Relying on this drum and leak, the clapping bell four can keep the whole team in a certain rhythm and complete the day's tasks. It doesn't happen that it's dark and the sun isn't high.

Being able to keep so many people working in an organized manner is a really good tool for the drum field.

Looking at the slanting sun on the horizon, Xu Ping said to Wang Su: "It's not early, I should go back." Zhongyi's Zhuangzi farming is no big mistake, as long as the wind and rain are good, this year's harvest will definitely not be wrong. ”

Wang Su was taken aback: "It's all this hour, why do you have to go back?" I killed the sheep in the Zhuangzi, prepared good wine, and got drunk tonight! Tomorrow morning, as long as you get up early, you can't miss it. ”

Xu Ping smiled and shook his head: "There are old and young people in my family, and my wife is pregnant again, where can I not go back?" ”

After speaking, he greeted Liu Xiaoyi and a few others, and said goodbye to Wang Su and a few others.

Xu Ping's identity is there, and his personality is not very compatible with a few people, except for Wang Su, the other people did not keep much, and after a few polite words, they sent Xu Ping and his party out of the village together.

After walking for three or four miles, seeing that he was about to arrive at the Liangjing Post Road, Xu Ping said to Liu Xiaoyi: "There are not many people here, let those wild birds go, don't take them home." ”

Liu Xiaoyi was a little reluctant and asked, "Official, why do you want to release it?" Wang Guanren asked many people in the village to help catch him, and brought him back to Pan Panpan for the little lady to smile, and it was not in vain for us to come out for a day. ”

"Wild birds are very strong, except for a few species, or raised since childhood, and it is extremely difficult to feed. I brought it back and looked happy, but it turned out that they were all dead in a few days, and it annoyed her, so why bother! With these gnats and fish, it will also make her happy for a few days. ”

Liu Xiaoyi had also heard that adult wild birds were difficult to raise, and he didn't have Sun Qilang's ability, so he hesitated for a while, so he had to let the villagers release all the birds they caught. It's a pity that Wang Su ordered the idle Zhuang Ke to help his group catch birds.

Xu Ping didn't see it at first, but when he saw it, he had already caught a few, so it was hard to say anything at the time. Now, of course, I have to let it all go on the road, otherwise I will die after going home for two days, and Panpan doesn't know what it will be like to be sad. At her age, when compassion is overflowing, there is no need to bring it back to make her feel uncomfortable.

On the first day of the fourth month, the New Day Pilgrimage. After going down to the court, Xu Ping was called to the apse to discuss matters.

It turned out to be Xu Ping's recital on the need for talents in glass business, because the reading glasses won the favor of several ministers and Empress Dowager Yang, this recital was put up in priority and was placed in the front, and Xu Ping was invited to discuss.

The officials of Si Tianjian were restricted, but the emperor was afraid that someone would use the celestial phenomena to deceive people's minds, Jia Xian did not have contact with astronomy in Si Tianjian, nor had he studied Liuren Dunjia and the like, so he had no doubts about this, so he quickly released him and several other people who were proficient in arithmetic and joined the glass business. Xu Ping didn't expect it to go so smoothly, and he said a lot of thanks.

After that, Zhao Zhen asked a very serious question. A telescope was made in the glass house, which could observe astronomy, and Xu Ping did his best to help the Hanlin Astronomical Institute in the palace make one first, and there was no problem, so he equipped it with Si Tianjian.

Xu Ping did not have the news of playing the telescope, Yan Su was not a mouthy person, and the news of Emperor Zhao Zhen did not come from this channel. As for where he heard it, Zhao Zhen didn't say vaguely.

Not only Xu Ping, but the other ministers present also immediately thought of it, but they were afraid that it was the credit of the Imperial City Division's detectives.

Led by Lu Yijian, several ministers endured it without having a seizure, but resolutely opposed the construction of the Hanlin Astronomical Institute first. Si Tianjian is a national astronomical institution, and all the things of the celestial calendar are subject to there, and if there is any new instrument, it is natural that it will be used there first, and there is no reason to try it in the palace first. This is a matter of principle, and the Minister will not budge.

The history of the Hanlin Astronomical Institute is also quite long, but in the previous dynasties, it was only a place where the emperor himself used astronomical instruments as playthings, only for the emperor to enjoy, and basically did not have the function of astronomical observation. After entering the Song Dynasty, out of distrust in any institution, for the purpose of having the same organization, the Hanlin Astronomical Institute was enriched and became a small Si Tianjian in the palace.

Si Tianjian was organized under the Zhongshu Sect, and the Hanlin Astronomical Academy was under the Dianzhong Province, an outer dynasty and an inner dynasty, and the choice of ministers was very obvious. Moreover, it involved the detective of the Imperial City Division, and the ministers present were even more disgusted, no matter what, they did not let the inner dynasty gain the upper hand, quoted scriptures, and resolutely demanded that the Si Tianjian be the mainstay.

The Imperial City Division was the most rampant in Taizong's time, and it was still called Wude Division at that time, even to the point that Emperor Taizong knew what the minister ate last night. Such an institution aroused public anger, and it was not clean in itself, and all kinds of violations of law and discipline emerged one after another, and they were attacked by the ministers of the DPRK and China. In the end, there was no way, Taizong changed the name of Wude Division to the Imperial City Division, and clearly stipulated that the privacy of ministers should not be probed, and the affairs of the affairs were restricted, and the relationship with foreign dynasties eased. In fact, after being changed to the Imperial City Division, the emperor still used them to spy on affairs, and after Zhao Zhen became pro-government, his power tended to expand again.

The ministers here don't really know what a telescope is or what they can see, but they have a clear position, and they must suppress the momentum of the rise in power of the Inner Dynasty. No matter what the telescope is, since it is useful for observing celestial phenomena, it must be used in the Si Tianjian first, and when there is spare power, it can be built again in the Hanlin Astronomical Academy.

Song Shou, who spoke the most meanly, openly and secretly sarcastically ridiculed Zhao Zhen for using the Imperial City Division to investigate affairs, which was a distrust of the ministers. Zhao Zhen could only pretend to be stupid, and he couldn't explain it. Since the time of Taizong, there have been clear restrictions on the authority of the Imperial City Division, and some things can only be done but not said, otherwise it may cause a great storm. Zhao Zhen wanted to reorganize the psychology of the government after being pro-government, so he mobilized the Imperial City Division again, mainly only to collect civil information, and did not take the initiative to spy on the minister's privacy. He himself knew that once that taboo was breached, it could cause a fierce conflict between the internal and external dynasties, and in the end, it would not end.

In the end, as a result of the discussion in the apse, both sides took a step back, and Si Tianjian and the Hanlin Astronomical Institute each built a telescope to observe the sky at the same time. As for what this telescope looks like and what its function is, no one knows, anyway, it fell on Xu Ping's head. (To be continued.) )