In Wenhua Hall.

Seeing that Xu Fan did not answer, Li Chunfang joked in a relaxed tone: "Besides, whether Confucius actually executed Shao Zhengmao is still a mystery. In fact, only Xunzi said this. Since the young minister does not believe in his teachings, he should not believe this."

What a joke, the truth is that he is the master of science. Do you want to make students think that their master is made of mud by bullying science like this?

The true self also has pursuits, self-respect, and bottom line, okay?

Xu Fan then came to his senses and his heart skipped a beat. He never expected that two university scholars would speak for Zhao Hao one after another.

Unexpectedly, another university scholar, Chen Yiqin, also spoke up:

"Young Lord, calm down. Have you forgotten that Emperor Xiaozong had long allowed the people to study astronomy, and ordered the recruitment of scholars who were well-versed in history and hermits in the mountains and forests as candidates? So it is not taboo for Zhao Daizhao to study astronomy. I think he can help the Imperial Astronomical Observatory improve..."

This time, not to mention the young minister, even Minister Xu suddenly opened his eyes.

The four ministers in the cabinet, except for himself, were actually speaking for Zhao Hao. What was going on?

Seeing that the atmosphere was a little awkward, Heavenly Official Yang Bo smiled and tried to smooth things over, "Well, this originally sounded quite interesting, why did it suddenly go off topic?"

As he said this, he looked at Zhao Hao and said, "But what the young elder said is right. Little friend, remember this lesson, concentrate on science in the future, and don't talk nonsense."

The young cabinet minister rolled his eyes secretly after hearing this and cursed in his heart, he had said everything he needed to say!

In fact, at this time, Xu Fan's arrogance had been suppressed.

But he still insisted: "There are so many solar eclipses every year, how do you know what the cycle is? Did he find it from a pile of old papers?"

"Young Lord, it has been verified. There is no problem with this cycle." Bei Jianzheng couldn't help but speak out.

"If you say it's okay, then it's okay?" Xu Fan glared at him fiercely, thinking to himself, you useless thing, why are you still turning against me? !

"That cycle is used to predict solar eclipses. Has it ever been predicted? How dare you say it's OK?"

"This..." Bei Jianzheng lowered his head helplessly. "Isn't this the first time you've heard of this?"

"I really predicted it." With the support of the big boss, Zhao Hao's voice became louder.

"Words are not enough. You have to prove it to us once." Xu Fan cheered up again.

His wishful thinking is simple: it is unknown how long it will take for the next solar eclipse to occur.

Before that, it will be enough to crush Zhao Hao and his science to ashes!

Those cronies also echoed: "That's right, no matter how accurate your predictions were in the past, they don't count. Your predictions will only be useful if they succeed!"

"How about we make a bet?" Zhao Hao scratched his ears. It was so noisy, like a bunch of crows.

"What are you betting on?" Xu Fan looked at Zhao Hao warily, afraid that he would jump into a pit.

"I'd like to ask the young minister first." Zhao Hao smiled and asked, "How long does it take for the news to get from Hangzhou to Beijing?"

Xu Fan squinted at him for a long time before he said vaguely, "About three to five days."

"Are you sure?" Zhao Hao asked.

"Sure." Xu Fan nodded.

"Can you pass the news over within one day?" Zhao Hao asked again.

"No!" Xu Fan said impatiently, "It's 2,500 miles from Beijing to Hangzhou. Even a carrier pigeon would take three days to fly."

"So it's impossible for me to know what happened in Hangzhou yesterday, right?" Zhao Hao smiled playfully and still asked patiently.

"Yes, yes, yes!" Xu Fan waved his sleeves, and suddenly his heart tightened... Today is the second day of April, and yesterday was the first day of the lunar month.

A solar eclipse only occurs on the day of the new moon...

"You mean?" Xu Fan felt a little bitter in his mouth.

"Yes, I can guarantee that there was a solar eclipse in Hangzhou yesterday!" Zhao Hao smiled very proudly and looked at Xu Fan provocatively.

"If there is no news in a few days, I will let the young minister decide. But if there is news, the young minister should at least kowtow to me and apologize, right?"

Zhao Hao's words seemed to make him the one who suffered. But it was precisely because of the unequal conditions that Xu Fan, as the one being favored, could not refuse.

Zhao Hao has already let you deal with him, and you just kowtowed to apologize. If you still refuse to agree, you are really not a responsible person!

But the other party was obviously setting a trap and still jumped into it. Xu Fan thought to himself, am I that stupid?

After all, that damn "Huating cycle" has just been verified with historical data. If it can really predict a solar eclipse, wouldn't I be in trouble?

How can a third-rank official have the nerve to call himself "Little Prime Minister" when he kowtows to his enemy?

Well, he didn't realize that he was having a lot of fun fighting with a fifteen-year-old kid, which was already laughable enough...

Seeing that Xu Fan was still reluctant to agree, Zhao Hao said again, "How about this? I'll give you another earthquake prediction. There's no reason for the young minister to refuse, right?"

"What? You can even predict earthquakes?" Xu Fan's eyes almost popped out.

"What, you can even predict earthquakes?!" The emperor and all the officials screamed and looked at Zhao Hao as if he were a monster.

It felt like it wouldn't be strange if he just grew wings and flew away the next moment...

Bu Gu's beard, which had just stretched out, wrinkled slightly again. He felt that Zhao Hao was overdoing it.

Predicting earthquakes is much more frightening than predicting solar and lunar eclipses...

After all, everyone can see the cycle of the sun and the moon clearly, so everyone can accept what he said about the regularity of solar and lunar eclipses.

But earthquakes are hidden underground, how can we predict them? Are you Zhao Daxian?

Wang Dingjue displayed a map of the northern territory of the Ming Dynasty, with densely packed red dots at different locations on it.

"Since the Huaxian earthquake in the 34th year of Jiajing, there have been 127 aftershocks north of the Yellow River."

Zhao Hao ignored the shocked looks of the crowd, walked to the territory map, pointed at a dozen red dots in the capital area and said:

"Fourteen of these earthquakes were felt in Beijing, the most recent of which was on March 28th!"

"Oh..." The young minister laughed when he heard that. It turned out that you were beating around the bush to talk about this matter.

"So he wants to whitewash Xishan?" Xu Fan sneered and looked at his mad dog commandos.

"This matter has long been a matter of public opinion. You cannot clear yourself of this!" The censors understood and immediately came back to say:

"West Mountain is connected to the dragon vein. Mining coal in West Mountain is damaging the dragon vein!"

"Yes, that's why the earth dragon flipped over!"

"You are talking nonsense again." Zhao Hao glanced at the barking censor with disdain, then turned to Emperor Longqing and said, "Your Majesty, earthquakes are caused by movements deep in the earth. It is extremely difficult to predict them in advance."

Everyone breathed a sigh of relief, thinking that this was more like it.

"I can only predict one kind of earthquake, that is the aftershocks after a major earthquake." But Zhao Hao changed the subject and said confidently:

"Because aftershocks are triggered by the main shock, it is the main shock that triggers the reorganization of the crust near the fault. Therefore, the more aftershocks occur, the clearer the location of the fault can be outlined. In the past thirteen years, 126 earthquakes have been enough to outline the entire earthquake zone - the area from Taihang to the capital to Bohai is at its edge, and the degree of impact is second only to the Shaanxi area. Therefore, the frequent earthquakes in the capital over the past decade were caused by the Huaxian earthquake, not some earth dragon turning over!"

That is true.

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