Once the common people have money, they are willing to live their lives more nourishingly, so, after entering the middle of the month, Shannan Province, especially the people of Jiuyuan County and the newly established Jinan County, have begun to purchase a large number of New Year's goods, local specialties are not enough to meet their living needs, those high-end goods from Chang'an, they are also willing to spend money to buy, toothbrushes, toiletries, new quilts, cotton jackets, clothes, and even beef and mutton produced in the north, each family has bought a lot of home.

Now, when the boats on the Yangtze River pass by the river, you can often see a team of women, old and young men on the river embankment, singing and dancing with the sound of gongs, drums and musical instruments.

Therefore, the Yamen of Jingzhou's Grand Governor's Mansion is very busy, and the people who come to work here in the Northland or the Liaodong Peninsula hope that they can stay, get the high-yield fields and spacious houses here, and live a good life like the local people.

So, before the Spring Festival, the eldest grandson Wuji once again started a new round of the settlement policy in the field area, of course, this time, because there are many residents in the area itself, they will give priority to enjoying new houses, new field resettlement, and only half of the quota for the foreign population.

In order to live in the new house as soon as possible, plant high-yield fields, these people who come to work from other places are not willing to rest even during the Spring Festival, in this way, it makes the progress of the construction project faster, in March and April next year, before the snow in the north, there should be more than 10 fields here, and the original Zhongxiang County as a whole will be renovated.

Of course, the most important work handled by Changsun Wuji in Jingzhou was the advancement of the Yuantian project, and the large-scale construction of Jiangling City finally began officially with the arrival of a large fleet of cargo ships in Weinan into the Jiangling Wharf.

The group represented by the Wang family took the lead and finally got more than seventy percent of the construction land in Jiangling City, of course, they paid a lot of price for these lands, because other groups would not watch them eat all the meat of Jiangling, after learning that Wang Xu and others almost monopolized the new building materials, they even thought of the plan of using traditional construction projects such as civil engineering, and forced the Wang group to spend thirty percent more money to take down the expected part of the land.

In addition, there are 30% of the construction land that can be sold to the outside world, which is in the hands of other mountain forces, although only 30%, there are many land projects, because Gangneung City is large enough.

So far, the goal of the eldest grandson Wuji and Sun Xiangfu has been achieved, in addition to the construction land of the government's public projects, the first phase of the sale of nearly half of the construction land of the entire city has begun to enter the construction period, and the money obtained from the sale of land is enough to complete the construction of urban public projects, which makes the eldest grandson Wuji a lot easier in terms of finance.

A few days before the Spring Festival, Ma Lin Zhang Quan and others personally carried a batch of building materials to Jiangling City, and after the delivery of the goods, they immediately came to Sun Xiangfu's house in Jiuyuan County, which not only brought Sun Xiangfu some new research results, but also brought him a good news.

"It's been so long, this pendulum clock, we finally have the face to bring it to you."

Behind Zhang Lin and Zhang Quan and other four people, Marseille and Yu Jie, two small characters, lifted a large mahogany ornament to the center of the main hall of Sun Xiangfu's house, yes, this is a gear mechanical pendulum clock, hands, clock dial, are designed by Sun Xiangfu earlier, and it also has a chiming function, its time accuracy has been accurate to the second.

After Sun Xiangfu looked at the hands, dial and internal structure back and forth, he nodded and said, "Well, it's good, but in the future, you have to find a way to shrink it, preferably small enough to fit in your pocket, or, wear it on your wrist, which requires you to make the gears with a good enough metal material and accurate enough size." ”

On the dial of this kind of Datang pendulum clock, the day is divided into twelve hours, twenty-four hours, each hour, divided into four quarters, fifteen minutes per quarter, sixty seconds per minute, at a glance, as long as you change the habit of four quarters of an hour before, you can simply look at the hands on the clock and distinguish the hour, anyway, since the Sun algebra symbol was printed on the coin, everyone is no stranger to this kind of number.

"What are you doing with small things? His Majesty said that it would be better to make it bigger, and he asked us to build thirty-two bell towers in Chang'an City, and build this pendulum clock as big as a house, and place it on top of the bell tower, so that all people, when they go to the street, can look up and see the dial on the bell tower and know the time accurately. Every hour, the pendulum clocks of the thirty-two bell towers rang at the same time, accurately informing the people of the whole time, so that the changfu of Chang'an City no longer had to stay up late to pinch the time to watch. ”

Although Ma Lin was asking rhetorically, in his heart, he had already begun to ponder the benefits of making it small that Sun Xiangfu said, and he said this because he wanted Sun Xiangfu to tell him what the benefits of making this clock smaller.

In ancient times, it was indeed inaccurate to rely on the husband to inform the time, because the husband generally played the shift while walking, and one person was responsible for several blocks, and the time had already passed half an hour, and the people who lived in the place behind the route of the shift could not know the exact time throughout the year.

Sun Xiangfu shook his head at Ma Lin with a smile and said, "Your Majesty wants to make it bigger, because he wants to use our accurate time-counting clocks to bring convenience to the people.

For example, when you pour the cooling steel mold, the masters, are relying on experience, pinching a rough, with these clocks that can accurately calculate the time, you only need to find out the best cooling time, let all the workers pinch the standard time to do, so that when producing things, you can achieve the standard, and can be efficient, because you don't need to waste so many experienced skilled craftsmen in this link, you only need to send a skilled craftsman, with some people who can read the clock, to complete the process. The same is true for all other production links. ”

Accurate time calculation, is an indispensable part of industrial development to a certain extent, Sun Xiangfu just said, like Marseille Yu Jie, a young man with a relatively strong ability to receive, instantly seemed to be opened up to the second pulse of Ren Du, thought of a lot of benefits of applying it to industry, think of it, in the future, whether it is smelting, or ceramics, firing of glass and other projects, there will be a round of great progress and reform.

Of course, people like Marin Zhang Quan, who have become a little rigid in their thinking, have embarked more and more on industrial management, and are far away from the road of technical research, are more concerned about making huge profits.

They have already thought of what Sun Xiangfu just said, and the price after making it into a beautiful ornament that can keep time, but they are afraid that when the time comes, all the powerful and wealthy will pay for this kind of exquisite clock.

For the site selection and construction of various industrial branches under the name of Xingfu Village, Sun Xiangfu couldn't help, because he was restricted from the activity area and couldn't go out of Jiuyuan County, so he could only rely on a few of them to run around by themselves.

However, Changsun Wuji took the first step to set up the branch of Changsun's food factory in Jinan County, where there are more than 40,000 households, and in the future, they will be able to recruit enough workers.

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

The production speed of the shipyard has been raised, and at most in May and June next year, 20 large ships with more reasonable improvements will be launched, that is, starting next summer, the far-sea exploration fleet will be able to embark on their historic journey.

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

Hearing this, Sun Xiangfu looked at Li Chunfeng in a bit of a daze, "You don't want to verify what I said at the beginning!" ”

Li Chunfeng nodded and said, "Actually, after I looked at the moon with a telescope, I already believed what you said before, and now, I think I should let the world know some truths." ”

Sun Xiangfu said again, "The Taoist chief must think clearly, once this truth is confirmed, then, first of all, the Confucian theory of the round heaven and the earth will be overthrown, and the cultural and intellectual pattern of the whole world may face a major change." ”

"Hehe, don't pretend to try to persuade me, in fact, you know, if I go, the chance of the fleet returning safely will be higher, even if I confirm that the world we are in now is round, the first person to come up with this idea is still you, how to explain it to others, it's also your business." Li Chunfeng glanced at it, and persuaded his Sun Xiangfu with a fake look.

Sun Xiangfu was exposed, and he was not embarrassed, he smiled and said, "When the facts are in front of everyone, no one can question them at all, I don't need to explain it, so let's do it!" I will send a letter to invite Zhao Long and the main members who will go to sea next year to Jiuyuan County for the New Year, during this time, we will also draw up the possible situation and the tasks that need to be completed this time to make a detailed plan. ”

"You can do that! Anyway, they all come, and you will entertain them, but all the crew members who go to sea must let the poor road look at their faces, and no one who has a short-lived appearance is allowed to go to sea. ”

Sun Xiangfu heard this, if Li Chunfeng said that he could improve the probability of everyone's safe return by going to sea, he really couldn't say anything, but his knowledge of looking at qi, Sun Xiangfu felt that it might be useful, this kind of 'hope' is not to look at people's complexion, but to look at the complexion of the sky, predict the weather conditions, when at sea, accurately grasp the weather conditions, but very important.

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

In fact, it is most appropriate for him to go to sea this time, because he from later generations knows better which crops are useful to Datang, and how to preserve the seeds of these crops after they are brought back to Datang, they can still be planted, but now he is restricted by the emperor from freedom, and the research on rice planting has just been preliminarily launched, and he can't leave at all, so his eyes can only look at a few peasant disciples who are swinging the clock. ()

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