My Daming New Empire

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The lunar calendar is completely different. According to the calculation of the celestial stems and earthly branches, adjusting the year through the leap month can not only calculate the 24 solar terms each year, let farmers know when to farm, but also calculate the annual solar and lunar eclipses. The arrival of Halley’s Comet is accurate. time etc.

Zhu Zhanji didn't believe this at first, but the more he knew, the more precious he felt the wealth left by his ancestors.

Of course, the Gregorian calendar is not useless.The Gregorian calendar is the Gregorian calendar, which is calculated based on the revolution of the sun.

The lunar calendar is a lunar calendar, which is calculated according to the changes of the moon. The two methods have their own advantages and can form an effective complementarity.

But because that cannon proposed comprehensive westernization in 1912, aligning with the west and connecting with the world.

It led to the full adoption of Western calendars after the end of the Qing Dynasty.

The birth year of a religious person has become the chronology of an ancient oriental country. It is really funny to think about it.

In fact, the Gregorian calendar was originally changed from the Julian calendar, and the starting time of the chronology is not the current time, but it has been calculated since 45 BC.

When Julius Caesar served as consul for the third time, he appointed a group of astronomers headed by the Egyptian astronomer Sosigenes to formulate a new calendar, which is the Julian calendar.

But then the Roman Empire declined and theocracy rose, so the calendar began with the year Jesus was born.

For a large agricultural country, the abandonment of the lunar calendar has left the common people at a loss as to what to do.So in the end, I picked up the lunar calendar again and used the double calendar method.

In this era, except for a few countries that implement the Gregorian calendar, most countries still calculate according to their own national and ethnic calendars.

But Zhu Zhanji was unwilling to let the Jesus calendar rise, so after seeing the current chaotic calendar in Europe, he remembered to introduce the Yellow Emperor calendar to Europe.

Zhu Zhanji smiled and said: "Shangshu is too worried. I don't modify the calendar, but only follow the chronology. Although my Ming Dynasty implements the Datong calendar now, the Yellow Emperor's calendar has not changed. Now we publicize to the outside world, using the Yellow Emperor's calendar to add the throne of God. Announcement of the year, let people in the Western Regions also know the history of my Ming Dynasty."

Xie Jin is very clear about Zhu Zhanji's personality and always has a strong purpose in doing things, but he couldn't see Zhu Zhanji's purpose in this matter.

If there is no benefit, why would Zhu Zhanji take such an opportunity?He couldn't help asking: "Your Highness knows that this is a taboo, why do you insist on doing this?"

Zhu Zhanji said with a smile: "I have only recently considered this issue. Now the big cannibals in the Western Regions use the Muhammad calendar. This is a lunar calendar. It is not much different from my Ming Dynasty's calculation method, but their calendar is only 800 years old. The land in the west adopts the Gregorian calendar, which is far from my Ming calendar, and it has only been 400 years so far.

If we only show them the Datong calendar, wouldn't it mean that our Ming Dynasty is not as old as theirs?And actually?My Chinese calendar started from the Yellow Emperor, and it has been more than 4000 years. "

At this moment, everyone understood that Zhu Zhanji didn't want to revise the calendar, but just didn't want to lose face in front of people from the Western Regions.

As long as the calendar is not changed, it is only inappropriate to use the Yellow Emperor's calendar to publicize the year, but it will not make Zhu Di shy.

So everyone just hesitated for a while, and accepted Zhu Zhanji's opinion. In the future, the credential letters to the countries in the Western Regions will be based on the Yellow Emperor's calendar.

Of course, they don't dare to lose the current New Year's year, and they will definitely add the 15th year of Yongle.

At this time, Li Liang said: "Since this matter has been decided, let's move on to the next topic, my Ming's foreign propaganda of the name of the country..."

There was a sudden sound of war drums outside, and the sound was three long and two short. This is something new.

For a while, no one spoke, and everyone was waiting for the latest news from the messenger.

After a while, a loud voice sounded at the door: "Your Highness, the former army reported urgently and discovered a large city, and it is still a city that cannibalize people!"

Everyone was excited for a while, almost no one expected to find a big cannibal city thousands of miles away.

Having a city means having civilization, and having civilization means having large-scale trade.

Zheng He glanced at Zhu Zhanji, and said softly: "Your Highness, could it be that the Marin Kingdom that those businessmen mentioned last time has arrived?"

Zhu Zhanji nodded and said: "It should be, which also means that our destination is almost here."

The Kingdom of Marin refers to the later Morocco.In the eighth century, the Arabs traveled westward from Egypt and occupied North Africa, expelling all black people to central Africa.

After that, the Arabs gradually settled down from the nomads and established several dynasties, and the Marin Kingdom is now ruling this land.

Seeing that the journey of tens of thousands of miles was finally coming to an end, everyone's spirits were lifted up.

Zhu Zhanji is equally excited. It only takes ten hours for future generations to travel from Singapore to Spain by his own private plane, but in this era, the ten-hour journey has become seven months.

Although sailing across the ocean sounds romantic and brave, it was only after seven months of suffering on the boat that I realized how much I suffered.

He turned his head and asked, "What is the current dimension?"

A soldier on duty of Habayashi Guard School said: "Reporting to Your Highness, it is about [-] degrees north latitude."

Zhu Zhanji couldn't think of any city in this dimension for a while, so he became interested and said, "Then let's go out and have a look. The journey of more than 20 miles is now smooth, and we will arrive in half an hour."

As soon as they arrived on the deck, the ship in front was sending news again. Zhu Zhanji took over a telescope and looked at the semaphore from the ship in front.

The semaphore of the Ming Fleet was all modified by him for later generations, so he quickly understood that Haihai was just a small town with a population of about 2.

After a while, a messenger ship came to the flagship with detailed information.

The former army has landed and made initial contact with the people in the town. This place is called Agadir, a small town in the south of the Kingdom of Marin.

Because the population here is not large, it is not a suitable trading point. Four hundred miles to the north is their capital Anfa.

Now the former army asked if they should stay here temporarily, or go directly to the capital to contact them.

Zhu Zhanji thought for a while and said: "The former army continued to explore, left a few merchant ships for trading, and sent a forward battalion to Anfa as soon as possible to make initial contact with the opponent. The Chinese army went directly to their capital."

Anfa is the Casablanca of later generations. Since it is still the capital of Marin, it means that the Portuguese have not started their great age of voyage.

Because Zhu Zhanji knew that the capital of Morocco had always been Rabat, but Rabat became the capital because the Portuguese razed Anfa to the ground during the initial colonial war, so that Rabat became the capital.

Now that Anfa is still there, Zhu Zhanji will cut off the Portuguese's hand towards the Kingdom of Marin. This is not to help Marin, but to limit the Portuguese's desire to conquer abroad.

The Age of Discovery began in Portugal.

The fleet continued to sail northward, taking advantage of the wind, the [-]-mile journey was completed in a day and night.

The city on the shore has been reflected in Zhu Zhanji's field of vision, and countless figures are standing on the shore. From the telescope, you can clearly see the shocked expressions on everyone's faces.

Yes, Daming's fleet that covers the sky and the sun can make everyone fear it.

Yesterday, when five ships completely different from the Western warships arrived in the waters of Anfa, the Marlins were shocked. They never thought that there was another civilization besides those Europeans.

And this civilization looks so powerful, with the majestic warships, well-disciplined soldiers, and neat appearance.

Their officials are gentle and refined, looking at them with a reserved but calm expression.Marin's lord, Abu Saeed Osman III, felt that the other party didn't seem to take him seriously at all, and looking at him was like looking at a barbarian.

Where did they come from?Where did this Daming come from?

However, they didn't expect that these five ships were not all of them, but just a vanguard battalion.Without authorization, they refused to disclose any information, but told him that they came with sincerity and peace and were willing to trade with them.

They also sent gifts. Osman III didn't care at first, but when he saw the soft silk like skin, the fragrant tea, the exquisite porcelain that can be used as a work of art, and the spice that is more ghostly than gold, he First gaffe.

He remembered a legend he heard when he was a child. In the far east, there was a rich and oily country. It was an extremely powerful civilization. The former big cannibals relied on them to develop.

But then the Turkic people appeared, and the Mongolian people appeared, but that country never existed.