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Ambergris
During the Shaoding period of the Southern Song Dynasty, Bai Nian, the general manager of Fanfang in Quanzhou, translated the shipping account for the city's shipping department for seven years, until a corpse hidden in a "glass" box and a three-kilogram piece of ambergris were carried into the extraction field - he had to decide what to translate a word into between the official account, the love of Fanfang, and his own incomprehensible origin.
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At a river-control construction site during the Kangxi reign, an illiterate water-measuring laborer uses a measuring rod marked with nine notches, left by his father, and a wooden basin of water to measure the true thickness of the embankment. But he discovers that making the river flow according to his measurements will mean holding some other people's homes beneath the water forever.
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A Dyson swarm project takes eight thousand years, and ordinary humans won't live long enough to see it finished. So civilization created the "Undying" to carry out the work on humanity's behalf. One hundred and eighteen years later, a lunar core auditor discovers in the launch records that one percent of the mass never reached its destination. Someone used her planet to prepare an escape route for another ship.
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The Misprinted Heavenly Book: Ten Thousand Worlds Share One Dynasty
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Star Map of Shazhou
A young man from Dunhuang secretly studies the stars and calculates the calendar. Over sixty years, he investigates a star chart that has been repeatedly altered, only to discover in the end that every record came too late, including the one he wrote himself.
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Seventeen Milliseconds
When a brain-computer interface calibrator was tracing a dispatch accident that resulted in the deaths of 1,847 people, he discovered that someone had prepared a complete set of "truths" for him earlier than he did - and the purpose of the other party was not to lie to him, but to make him sit down.
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The Tianshu Calamity: Fifty Years in the An Lushan Rebellion
A private manuscript of celestial observations, mistakenly rumored to be a “star chart that can predict a nation’s fate,” passes between the Tang court, the puppet Yan state, the Uyghurs, and the Hebei warlords during the eight years of the An Lushan Rebellion. The junior clerk of the Bureau of Astronomy who possesses it is forced to spend his life answering a question left behind by his grandfather: Should celestial signs reflect human affairs?
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Fragments of the Star Raft
On the night of the eighth day of the fourth month in the nineteenth year of Yongle, lightning and fire struck the Three Halls. Jiang Buzhi, a clepsydra specialist at the Imperial Astronomical Bureau, burst into the home of Shen Shouzhuo, an expert in yin and yang, and handed him half of a "Star-Sighting Chart." He left behind three words: "Stars are not stars," "Qinghe," and "Head south." Then he shut the door behind him and lured away the pursuers. That night, Shen Shouzhuo was taken away by a
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Bow Rope
In the 9th year of Wanli's reign, the emperor went to Huating County, Songjiang Prefecture, and a housekeeper measured the world's fields for the court. However, on a page that had been cut out of an old book, he found out the account that his father had buried thirty years ago.
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