Chapter 624 Funding the Natural Sciences
William's opponents were not only kings, princes, clergymen, careerists, and thrones, but he also had to fight a tiger at night.
He took the invincible long sword, aimed at the target and stabbed down fiercely, hundreds of times in a row, then upward stabs, and hundreds of times, hitting the target one after another.
Opposite him, his opponent let out a high-pitched and sometimes low-pitched roar, as if he had no power to parry it.
Taking advantage of William's inattentive kung fu, his opponent seemed to be unwilling to be at a disadvantage, and launched a counterattack violently, and this was when he had just deflated his breath and was a little exhausted, and as a result, he was inadvertently overwhelmed by his opponent, so he had to let others do it, and then he regained his strength, turned over violently, and gained the upper hand again.
"Oh, William, spare me......" Uraka pleaded for mercy as she threw herself on William's chest, gasping for mercy.
"Uraka, aren't you going to be a female knight, didn't you just be reckless on me?" William stroked her cheek and reached down, all the way down her neck and collarbone......
"William, I have a hunch that we have another child." Uraka's face was flushed, and he said softly and happily.
"That's great, Uraka." William hugged her tightly, stroked her hair with his right hand and said, "Thank you for bringing me everything, and my children!" ”
Urraka has given birth to two healthy children for William in the past few years, the eldest son Richard is five years old this year, a strong child, and his heir, currently under the tutelage of Enrico, Hubert and Ladolph, and the second son, Friedrich, who was born only last year, is a very intelligent child, he is always full of curiosity about the things around him.
In the future, his eldest son will inherit his three crowns, England, France and Lorraine, and the Norman crown will naturally be inherited by him, and the Norman crown has been annexed to the French throne by William, and the two countries are once again one.
And his second son, William originally planned to let him inherit a crown, perhaps the Kingdom of Ireland, perhaps the Kingdom of Scotland, or the Kingdom of Burgundy that he would seize in the future, but his father-in-law Ferdinand I asked his grandson Friedrich to inherit the title of Count of Zamora and become a nobleman of Castile in Spain, so William had to give up for the time being.
But who knows for sure what will happen in the future, and perhaps Friedrich will inherit the Kingdom of Castile from the Jimena family in the future.
"Uraka, in the future our child will be called Robert if he is a boy, and Cecilia if he is a girl." William whispered in Urakar's ear.
"Robert, is that your uncle's name?" Uraka pursed his lips and smiled.
"Yes, that's my uncle's grandfather's name, he helped me selflessly when I was down, and I still can't forget it." William said as he recalled the smiling voice of his uncle, Robert, Earl of Evreux, as a child.
"William, you are always like this, the children have not been born yet, and you are in a hurry to come up with good names for the children." Seeing a look of remembrance on William's face, Uraka hurriedly changed the subject.
"That's nature, love for children, even if I exhaust all I have, it's not enough." William said proudly.
"Don't spoil the children, you spoiled 'good father' of the children."
"Of course not, they will all become righteous, brave, fearless, and fair knights, and they will also become true kings." William assured Uraka.
William talked to Uraka for a long time, until Uraka fell asleep, and then slowly got up and left.
As a flower planter in later generations, William did not have the habit of going to bed early, and although there was no rich entertainment life here, he still couldn't sleep.
Pushing open the door, William was about to take a walk in the garden to watch the stars, but found a petite figure on the side.
"Avella, is that you?" William asked, a little unsure, as he tried to ask.
"Oh, brother-in-law, what a coincidence I met you here." Avella pretended to be light-hearted and beckoned to William.
"That's a coincidence, Avella." William smiled slightly, he didn't know that this girl was listening to the corner in front of the door, but he didn't pierce it, and followed her words.
"Yes, Avella is almost a big girl, she will be 16 years old next year, and she is also the age of curiosity." William thought.
"Brother-in-law, if it's okay, then I'll go first." Avilla Xu is a thief, covering her reddish cheeks, said goodbye to William, hurriedly turned around, and ran away with her little feet.
"This Avella is so cute." William didn't hate this lively little sister-in-law, young women always made him feel the breath of youth.
At night, when everyone, whether nobles or commoners, put down their day's work and affairs and fell asleep, and there was a group of people still working, and they were the astrologers that William had hired from Italy.
William has always attached great importance to the study of natural sciences, and he is very aware of the importance of these theories, although he knows these simple things, but if he has not put forward these theories like a mature research system, maybe after his death, these advanced theories will be forgotten like Leonardo da Vinci.
It is only through the discovery of these theoretical phenomena by people themselves that they are valuable.
The study of astrology is one of the research directions that William focuses on and invests in.
Astrology, also known as astrology, is the study of the effects of celestial bodies on living and non-living things, and how they reflect their influence on celestial bodies.
Astrology is recorded in the earliest historical records of mankind, and it is generally believed that astrology originated from the ancient Semites of the two river valleys, India, Europe or China, and astrology first flourished in Babylon, then spread eastward to Persia, India, China, and then westward from Greece to Egypt, Rome, Spain, and other places.
Astrology, astronomy, or astrology, because of its particularity, is closely related to medicine, literature, politics, religion, and other activities.
People living in the Middle Ages were still in an atmosphere of ignorance, and they saw eclipses, comets, and planetary phenomena as harbingers of all kinds of human events.
Therefore, astrologers who knew astronomy were always respected, and they used astrology to divinate the king's fortune and evil, and acted as advisors to the king, occupying an extremely important position in the court.
Although William was not as obscurantist and secretive as those medieval emperors, astrology or astronomy was still very important to him, on the one hand, it could be used to predict good fortune and evil, boost the morale of the army and the country, on the other hand, it could break the ignorance, break the church's right to speak and interpret in this regard, and it could be of great help to the kingdom's future navigational career.
Because of the need for these three aspects, William specially funded several astrologers from Italy to build a huge observatory for observing the stars.