Lin Gao Qiming

Chapter 1127 Dr. Zhong

"Xiao Du!" Du Wen shouted. She is used to working at night, so the people around her have to be night owls with her.Naturally, Du Mei couldn't sleep before the chief went to bed. He was lying sleepily on the wooden sofa in the office. When he heard the chief's cry, he quickly got up and wiped the saliva from the corner of his mouth, and quickly cleaned up. Hair, trotted all the way to Du Wen's desk, stood at attention.

Du Mei did not wear the unwritten uniform of life secretaries - maid uniform, but the standard uniform of ordinary clerks of the Senate: cotton "people's clothing" with only two pockets.Identification patch at chest.

"Call me the office immediately and say I need to move."

Du Mei has long been used to Chief Du's way of working, and knows that the chief's orders must be "satisfied unconditionally and as soon as possible", but at this moment she still couldn't help expressing her dissent: "Chief, it is eleven o'clock in the evening ..."

"Call the duty room of the general office, how many times have I told you that the Senate will never fall asleep!" Du Wen raised her eyes coldly and said.

"Yes, chief." Du Mei didn't dare to continue to argue. In fact, there is no difference between calling and calling tomorrow morning. The clerk in the duty room just recorded it.But she already knew the temper of the female chief very well.Quickly asked again: "May I ask where the chief is going? What day?"

"I'm going to Jeju. I'm ready to send a boat. The time is within a week."

"Yes, Chief."

Just now, even kilometers away from Lingao, in a place called "Hutou Village" in the west of Chengmai County, the lights of electric lights are shining in the dark night.

Although Chengmai has been a "blue zone" since the second anti-encirclement victory, it was also the first place where a preliminary county-level government was established.But the institutions of the Senate here are still very few.Most of them are concentrated around the county seat.In the vast rural areas, the establishment of grassroots political power has only just begun.

In the darkness, the lights of Hutou Village seemed very abrupt.It is surrounded by water on three sides, and only connected to land on the east side.When the Lingao-Chengmai highway was built, a branch road was specially built to connect this place.However, when the branch road came to Hutou Village, it stopped abruptly—a trench was dug at the place where it connected to the land, separating it from the land and becoming an "isolated island" connected only by a suspension bridge.

It seems that the blocking ability of the trench is not strong enough. Behind the trench is a high earth embankment, on which barbed wire fences and watchtowers stand.The electric light shone fiercely on the only entrance and exit on the embankment - a tightly closed wooden fence gate.There is a wooden sign hanging on the fence gate, on which are two big ink characters of "restricted area".

On the coastline of this small "isolated island", numerous reefs act as natural fortifications, and watchtowers guard against all threats from the sea.As long as the sea conditions permit, the patrol boats of the Coast Guard will guard the surrounding waters 24 hours a day—ships without permission are not allowed to approach this place.

The sentries changed every hour, and patrols with dogs patrolled the seaside, not letting go of any suspicious signs.They didn't know what they were defending, and most soldiers never entered the core area during their entire duty period: the compound on the hillside on this small isolated island.

The compound has a large area, and the walls are made of local stones. The walls are tall and thick. From the outside, only the roof and towers protruding from the walls can be seen.

The compound is also heavily guarded, except that every few days, some boxes will be transported by land or sea, and some boxes will be transported away.Besides that, the gate is almost never opened.Sometimes, however, the soldiers would hear the loud ringing of bells in the courtyard.

Some people say that there is an "Australian Temple" in the courtyard.But the bell didn't ring as punctually as in the monastery, and they couldn't see anyone who looked like a monk.

"Don't listen, don't look, don't ask, don't pass on", the eight-character mantra is painted on the wall with lime water, which adds to the mystery here.

This is the Hutou Village Observatory, the timing center of the Senate.

In an era without satellite navigation and positioning, time service is a crucial technological point for a regional hegemony like the Senate that relies heavily on shipping.When a ship sails at sea, it must accurately position itself and determine its route depending on the measurement of latitude and longitude.

Dimensions are easy to measure.Because latitude is determined by the laws of nature, the equator is zero latitude, and the poles are 90 degrees, no matter where it is.Positioning through astronomical observation: Whether it is a sextant that uses the height of the sun as a reference, or a star plate that observes the position of stars, it can quite accurately determine the dimension of the ship.But the longitude is different, the earth is always rotating, there is no natural way to determine the position of zero longitude, only man-made.Likewise, there is no celestial body that can be used to visually show the difference in longitude.

所以人们很早就开始尝试利用时间来测试经度。当时的人已经知道：地球每24小时自转一周360度。每个小时就相当于经度的15度。只要知道两地的时间差异，就可以知道两者之间的经度差了。如果知道某地的正午12点正好是伦敦的上午10点，那么就说明此地在伦敦东边30度的地方。于是，经度的问题就转换成一个等价的问题：如何测量两地的时间差。

In 1530, the Dutch mathematician Gemma Frisius proposed to use clocks to measure the time difference to infer the longitude of the location.According to his idea, use a clock to keep the time of a certain place (such as London) at all times, and then take it to a new place, use the altitude of the sun to measure the local time, and compare it with the clock in London, you can know the time of this place and the clock in London. The longitude of London is poor.

This idea was limited by the technological level and longitude of clocks and watches at that time, and it was impossible to realize at all, but it has initially proposed the epoch-making concept of nautical clocks.

Before the satellite positioning system was put into use, it was this idea that sailing ships could break free from the shackles that sailors had to rely on coastlines and island chains for thousands of years, and sail anywhere in the sea at will.

The Senate had no satellites to use, and it became imminent to equip the fleet and merchant ships with nautical clocks.

Every ship that passed through on D-Day was equipped with multiple nautical clocks, but the ever-expanding fleet and the requirements for accurate time synchronization in all walks of life have a strong demand for clocks and watches.For now, the warehouse of the Planning Institute has stored a lot of clocks and accessories, and some veterans have brought a lot of private watches, but relying on reserves is not a long-term solution.

As soon as the Ministry of Science and Technology was established, the two primary tasks assigned by the executive committee to Zhong Lishi were precise timing and radio technology.Zhong Lishi, as the People's Committee of Science and Technology, decided to personally go into battle to solve this problem.

In order to accurately timekeeping, an accurate time-measuring mechanism is first required, which requires an observatory.

The Senate once planned to build an observatory in Gaoshanling, but Zhong Lishi believed that the location of this observatory was not good. After comparing maps and field surveys, he chose the meridian of 110 degrees east longitude as the meridian for determining the local time.

The most suitable land observation point on this meridian is the place called "Hutou Village".The Taibai Observatory at an altitude of 15 meters cannot be called a formal observatory, it is just an institution for measuring time.This place is also not an ideal site for the observatory. The altitude is too low, and the typhoons and rainy climate make Zhong Lishi a headache.

According to the development plan he reported, this place was only used as a time measuring station during [-].After the [-]th, another suitable location will be selected-if possible, it is best to capture Greenwich.

"If you give me an invincible fleet, the country I most want to attack is England, and the place I most want to occupy is Greenwich Village."

—— "Time and Longitude"

Academician of the Imperial Academy of Sciences, written by Dr. Zhong Lishi
Taebaek University Press 1645st edition in 1655, 178th printing in [-] second edition

When there is no Greenwich as an observatory, Hutou Village is still suitable. The sea and land transportation here is convenient, and it is close to Lingao. It is the core area of ​​​​the rule, and it is convenient for security. The observatory needs to install a large number of "black technology" products brought by the old time and space. , Safety work is the top priority.

After the Hutou Village Observatory started construction, a certain elder Wenqing felt that the place name "Hutou" was silly and uncouth.Based on the coincidence that this place is located in the west of Chengmai, the legendary Western Spirit Beast White Tiger was attached, and "Tiger Head" was changed to "Taibai". ".

The Sunshine Observatory is equipped with a transit instrument, an astronomical clock, a short-wave timing station, and many other equipment.Among them, radio timing is a black technology that is only authorized to be used by the flagship of the Lingao Navy.Radio technology solves the problem of travel time accuracy of nautical clocks from another aspect.

This is also the location of the watch workshop of the Ministry of Science and Technology.There are four test clock towers in the compound for testing the hammer-powered clock machine, and lightning rods are installed on the clock towers.Zhong Lishi's home "Taibai Mansion" is also here.Later, relying on the Taibai Observatory, a university - "Taibai University" was developed.

"My lord, my lord." A slender hand gently pushed Dr. Zhong's shoulder.

"Well... I can't eat any more..." Dr. Zhong muttered, his clothes slipped to the ground.

"Father..." There was some helplessness in the voice, the owner of the delicate hands knelt down and picked up the clothes and put them on him again, "The executive committee has an enlarged meeting!"

"Huh?!" Dr. Zhong shuddered, his eyes opened suddenly, "Tell them to wait, I'll go right away!"

(End of this chapter)