I Can Control My Ancestors-Chapter 296 - 12: Epoch-Making Reform and the Easing of the Forbidden Powder (Part 2)
However, the "Xuanji Counting Rods" are one of the foundations of the Gu Clan.
Unless members of the Gu Clan are involved.
Otherwise, it is most appropriate to keep such things.
Jiang Wan was watching very seriously, his brows furrowed, obviously quite hesitant.
This is also due to the era.
Natural disasters have always been accompanied by mysterious superstitions. The existence of a department specifically predicting natural disasters is rather baffling to them.
But thinking of Zhuge Liang’s previous instructions, he couldn’t help but look at Gu Ye and seriously asked, "Zhao De, are you really confident about this matter?"
"Chancellor, rest assured."
Gu Yi didn’t hesitate at all and quickly manipulated Gu Ye to nod and said, "I can assert that even if this department cannot predict all natural disasters."
"It can at least predict half."
Upon hearing this, Jiang Wan finally nodded and agreed.
This matter quickly spread.
The investment in such a department was naturally significant.
This surprised the ministers greatly.
A department specifically predicting natural disasters?
To them, this was undoubtedly a pipe dream.
But given Liu Shan’s trust in the Gu Clan, the matter was ultimately decided as such.
Gu Yi naturally didn’t care about the outside world’s opinions and firmly progressed along his own path.
After firmly deciding on this matter.
He quickly chose candidates from his memory and dispatched people to gather them from all over the realm to Luoyang, which also included some already present in the court.
For example, Du Yu.
Gu Yi intended to seize the opportunity during this era of renewal to initiate a scholarly reform in the Great Han.
When Du Yu heard that Gu Ye wanted him to revise the calendar, he was completely stunned.
He indeed had some interest in the calendar.
But how did Gu Ye know about this?
He definitely wouldn’t refuse such a task, knowing the calendar’s undeniable importance in the current era.
Actually, he wasn’t the only one with this inclination.
Besides Du Yu,
Gu Yi even gathered Liu Hui, who could be considered a pinnacle in academics yet remained unknown in history.
In the name of the court and the Gu Clan, he specifically tasked Liu Hui with annotating the "Nine Chapters on Mathematical Art."
Gu Yi himself could have done this, having received a modern education.
But the knowledge he learned wasn’t applicable to the current Great Han.
— He couldn’t accelerate the process unnaturally!
Academic progress can only advance step by step, not leap directly from one to one hundred.
For the Great Han, Liu Hui was the most suitable choice.
This guy could calculate the value of pi to 3.1416 in this era, which made him the pinnacle of his time.
With him on board, this task would face no uncertainties.
Liu Hui was actually even more perplexed by the situation than Du Yu.
After all, Du Yu was at least serving as an official in the court.
As for him, an obscure figure who had just developed an interest in annotating the "Nine Chapters," he was directly brought to Luoyang by Gu Ye.
How could he not be bewildered?
But since he was already there, no matter how bewildered he was, Gu Yi wouldn’t let him leave.
Gu Yi had long prepared his plans.
He was determined to introduce arithmetic subjects into the imperial examination earlier and to elevate the status of arithmetic subjects in history.
Though such a change might not be immediately apparent in the short term.
It would prove to be a significant change for the long span of history.
Besides that, there were artisans.
This was a trial conducted by Gu Yi in Julu, gathering many artisans to Julu.
This time, he didn’t choose to provide direct substantial assistance.
Instead, he offered them some conceptual guidance—
Encouraging these artisans to apply their talents based on that guidance.
A grand reform was brewing within the Great Han.
The ministers naturally wouldn’t interfere with Gu Ye’s actions.
After all, in their eyes,
All of Gu Ye’s actions were merely "trivial tricks."
To offend the Gu Clan and anger Liu Shan for such matters was evidently not worthwhile.
They continued managing the state as usual, without major mistakes.
Yanxi year five;
—Under the ministers’ advice, the Great Han initiated a new land survey.
To re-examine the lands of the powerful and the population of the realm.
This was also the main tone of the Great Han.
As long as these ministers in the court were still alive, this main tone would not change.
Gu Yi was also extremely concerned with this matter.
After all, under the current circumstances;
The population and land represented a country’s foundation.
But it ultimately required time.
What truly caught Gu Yi’s attention was his sudden realization that the "Forbidden Powder" had unexpectedly become one of the Great Han’s cultural trends.
Without him noticing, many things seemed to have returned to their original historical course.
There were far too many noble youths who had failed the officials’ examinations.
And their way of relieving their frustration was choosing to use the "Forbidden Powder."
This was how the matter gradually became a trend under their influence.
Regarding this—
Gu Yi’s attitude was very firm.
He could ignore other matters, but this land absolutely could not be tainted by such things.
He had Gu Ye travel all over Luoyang.
In the streets, watching those wearing unkempt hair and seemingly unnatural from the use of the forbidden powder, then immediately had Gu Ye find the already elderly Cao Zhi, intending to ask him to help write a memorial on the "Prohibition Movement."
