Datang Nongsheng

Chapter 604 Pendulum Clock
Once the common people have money, they are willing to live a more nourishing life. Therefore, after the middle of the twelfth lunar month, the people of Shannan Road, especially Jiuyuan County and the newly established Jinan County, began to gather in large numbers. They bought new year's goods, and the local specialties were no longer enough to meet their living needs. They were willing to spend money on the high-end goods from Chang'an, such as toothbrushes, toiletries, new quilts, cotton jackets, clothes, and even those produced in the north. Beef and mutton, each family bought a lot at home.

The ever-expanding square dancing team quickly spread this recreational activity in the two counties. Now, when the boats on the Yangtze River pass by the river, you can often see groups of women, old and young men by the river embankment , Singing and dancing with the sound of gongs, drums and musical instruments, in the eyes of these out-of-towners, the people here are simply too happy. After eating and dressing warmly, only the entertainment of singing and dancing is left.

Therefore, the yamen of the General Manager's Mansion in Jingzhou is very busy. The people who come to work here in the Northland or the Liaodong Peninsula all hope that they can stay and share the high-yield fields and spacious houses here, so that they can live a beautiful life like the local people. Life.

Therefore, before the Spring Festival, Changsun Wuji once again started a new round of settlement policy in the embankment area. Of course, this time, because there are many residents in the embankment area itself, they will give priority to enjoying new houses and resettlement in new fields. , the quota for migrants only accounts for half.

In order to move into new houses as soon as possible and plant high-yielding paddocks, these people who come to work from other places are not willing to rest even during the Spring Festival. Before the snow melts, more than a dozen paddocks should be built here, and the original Zhongxiang County has been completely remodeled.

Of course, the field project was advancing, and it was not the most important job Changsun Wuji was handling in Jingzhou. With a large fleet of cargo ships from Weinan entering Jiangling Wharf, the construction of Jiangling City finally officially started.

The group represented by the Wang family seized the opportunity and finally obtained more than [-]% of the construction land in Jiangling City. Of course, they paid a lot for these lands, because other groups would not just watch them After eating all the meat of Jiangling, after learning that Wang Xu and others almost monopolize new building materials, they even thought of a plan to use traditional construction projects such as civil engineering, forcing Wang's group to spend [-]% more money. Only then did the expected part of the land be won.

In addition, there are still [-]% of the construction land that can be sold to the outside world, which is in the hands of various other mountain forces. Although it is only [-]%, there are many projects that can be launched, because Jiangling City is large enough.

So far, the goals of Changsun Wuji and Sun Xiangfu have all been achieved. In addition to the construction land for government public projects, Jiangling City has entered the construction period of nearly half of the construction land sold in the first phase of the city. Moreover, The money obtained from the land sale is enough to complete the construction of urban public projects, which makes Changsun Wuji a lot easier financially.

A few days before the Spring Festival, Ma Lin, Zhang Quan and others personally escorted a batch of building materials to Jiangling City. After the delivery of the goods, they immediately came to Sun Xiangfu's home in Jiuyuan County, not only bringing new research to Sun Xiangfu. Some of the results brought him good news.

"After working on it for so long, we finally have the face to bring this pendulum clock to you."

Behind Zhang Lin, Zhang Quan and the others, two juniors, Ma Sai and Yu Jie, carried a large mahogany ornament to the center of the main hall of Sun Xiangfu's house. It was designed by Sun Xiangfu earlier, and it also has a snoring function. Its time accuracy has been accurate to the second.

Sun Xiangfu looked back and forth at the hands, dial and internal structure, nodded and said, "Well, it's well made, but in the future, we have to find a way to make it smaller, preferably small enough to fit in a pocket, or wear it on the wrist In fact, this requires that when you build gears, the material of the metal is good enough and the size is accurate enough.”

On the dial of this pendulum clock made in the Tang Dynasty, a day is divided into twelve hours, 24 hours, and each hour is divided into four quarters, each quarter is 15 minutes, and each minute is 60 seconds. It is clear at a glance. If you change the habit of four quarters of an hour, you can easily tell the time by looking at the hands on the clock. Anyway, since Sun's algebraic symbols were printed on coins, everyone is no stranger to this kind of number.

"Why do you make it small? Your Majesty said that it is better to make it bigger. He asked us to build 32 bell towers in Chang'an City. We built this pendulum clock as big as a house and placed it on top of the bell towers so that all People, when walking on the street, you can look up and see the dial on the clock tower, and know the time accurately. Every hour, the pendulum clocks of the 32 clock towers strike at the same time, telling the people in the whole city the time accurately. In this way, Chang’an City The watchmen don’t have to stay up late to catch the time to watch the watch.”

Although Marin was asking rhetorically, in his heart, he had already begun to think about the benefits of making it small that Sun Xiangfu said. He said it the other way around, because he wanted Sun Xiangfu to tell him what are the specific benefits of making this clock smaller benefit.

In ancient times, it was indeed inaccurate to rely on the watchman to tell the time, because the watchman usually made the watch while walking, and one person was in charge of several blocks. It is impossible for the people in the places behind the watchman's shifting route to know the exact time throughout the year.

Sun Xiangfu shook his head at Marin with a smile and said, "Your Majesty wants to make it bigger because he wants to use our precise time-calculating clock to bring convenience to the people. We made it small, in addition to being able to In addition to adding a profiteering commodity to us, it can also allow this precise time calculation function to enter our industry.

For example, when you are pouring cooling steel molds, the masters rely on experience to get a general idea. With these clocks and watches that can accurately calculate the time, you only need to find out the best cooling time and let all the workers pinch the time. Do it according to the standard time, so that when producing things, you can meet the standard and achieve high efficiency, because you don’t need to waste so many experienced craftsmen in this link, you only need to send one skilled craftsman, With some people who can read clocks, the process can be completed.The same is true for other production links. "

Accurate time calculation is an indispensable part of industrial development to a certain extent. Sun Xiangfu just said so. A young man with a relatively strong receptivity like Marseille Yujie seems to have been opened up in an instant. , Thinking of many benefits of applying it to industry, I think that in the future, whether it is smelting, ceramics, glazed firing, etc., there will be a round of major reforms.

Of course, people like Ma Lin and Zhang Quan's thinking have become a little rigid, and people who are more and more on the road of industrial management and away from technical research are more concerned about making huge profits.

They have already thought of what Sun Xiangfu said just now, the price after turning it into an exquisite decoration that can keep time. I am afraid that by then, all the rich and powerful will pay for this exquisite timepiece.

Regarding the site selection and construction of various industrial branches under the name of Xingfu Village, Sun Xiangfu was helpless, because he was restricted in the area of ​​activity and could not go out of Jiuyuan County, so he had to rely on them to run more around the surrounding area.

On the contrary, Changsun Wuji set up Changsun's food factory branch in Jinan County first. There are more than 4 households there. In the future, he can recruit enough workers.

However, another news brought by Ma Lin, Zhang Quan and others made Sun Xiangfu excited.

The production speed of the shipyard has been increased. By May or June next year at most, twenty large Baotou steel ships with more reasonable improvements can be launched. That is to say, starting next summer, the high-sea exploration fleet can set foot on them It's a historic journey.

Speaking of this question, Li Chunfeng, who had been observing the inner workings of the pendulum clock after opening the back cover of the pendulum clock, had something to say, "Pundao also wants to go to sea with the overseas exploration fleet next year."

Hearing this, Sun Xiangfu looked at Li Chunfeng in a daze and said, "Could it be that you want to verify what I said at the beginning!"

Li Chunfeng nodded and said, "Actually, after looking at the moon with a telescope, I already believed what you said before. Now that things have happened, I think it's time for the world to know some truths."

Sun Xiangfu said again, "The Taoist priest must think clearly. Once this truth is confirmed, then, first of all, the Confucian theory of round heaven and earth will be overthrown, and the cultural and knowledge structure of the entire world may face a major change."

"Hehe, don't pretend to be trying to persuade me. In fact, you know that if I go, the chances of the fleet returning safely will be higher. You are the one who thinks this way, how to explain it to others is also your business." Li Chunfeng took a look at Sun Xiangfu and persuaded him with a hypocritical look.

Sun Xiangfu was exposed without embarrassment. He smiled and said, "When the time comes, the facts will be in front of everyone, and no one will be allowed to question them. I don't need to explain it. Let's do it! I'll write a letter and tell Zhao Long And the main members who will go to sea next year are all invited to Jiuyuan County to celebrate the New Year. During this period, we will also draw up the possible situations we may encounter, as well as the tasks that need to be completed this time, and make a detailed plan."

"In this regard, you can figure it out! Anyway, they will all come, and you are the one to entertain them. However, all the crew members who go to sea must show their faces to Pindao, and no one with a short-lived appearance is allowed to go to sea."

Sun Xiangfu smiled when he heard the words, if Li Chunfeng said that going to sea can increase the chance of everyone returning safely, he really can't say anything, but his knowledge of hopefulness, Sun Xiangfu thinks it may be useful, this kind of hopelessness ’, it’s not about looking at people’s complexions, but looking at the complexion of the sky, and predicting the weather conditions. When at sea, it’s very important to accurately grasp the weather conditions.

Of course, what Sun Xiangfu is most concerned about is always the introduction of crops.

In fact, it is most suitable for him to go to the sea this time, because he, who comes from later generations, knows better which crops are useful to Datang, and how to preserve the seeds of these crops. After being brought back to Datang, they can still be planted However, now his freedom is restricted by the emperor, and the research on rice planting has just started, he can't walk away at all, so his eyes can only be turned to the few farm children who came forward to look at the pendulum clock read.

(End of this chapter)