Chapter 114: The Calendar and the Founding of the State

On the 315th day of the new calendar, while cultivating and sowing, Yuancheng also began to build roads, this time it was not the road inside Yuancheng, but the road leading to the outside, one leading to Xiyu City and the other leading to Yancheng.

These two roads will connect the three cities and facilitate trade. Yuanchen Luxi Yucheng is close to each other, but it is necessary to bypass the rugged mountain road, and the construction of the road is estimated to be completed in two months; And the one between Yuancheng and Yancheng is not only a long distance, but also needs to cross the Yuanhe River and the forest.

Although there are already a lot of boats floating on the Yuan River, and the power point of Yuan City has been established on the other side of the river, the problem of distance is still the most difficult to overcome.

According to the calculations of the Road Department of the Yuancheng Political Yuan, it will take at least 20 to 25 months to build a road connecting Yuancheng and Yancheng, and even if both sides build it at the same time, it will take at least a year.

Although it will take a long time to build the road, it must also be started, first explore an easy road, make it easier to travel between the two cities, and then slowly build the road, and at present, there is not so much urgency for this road, and wait until a year later, when both sides are materially secured, there will be more other derivatives, and the trade will inevitably be more prosperous at that time.

Now Lin Yue also knows that he can no longer hold on to a city, because in that case, the development of the city will actually be much slower, and only by trading between many places and circulating various resources can cost savings and development be accelerated.

Therefore, the development of the road is very necessary, but this is only for the long-term consideration, and the most important thing to solve at the moment is the problem of food and clothing.

After the overfishing of the Yuan River in the past few months, the number of fish and shrimp that can be caught has actually decreased a lot, because there are many people fishing along the river to the upstream or downstream.

While it is true that continuing to eat weeds and gnaw grass roots can sustain a living, it can lead to malnutrition for many people if they continue to live for too long.

However, the amount of food cannot be increased for the time being, which is a bit difficult to solve. Therefore, the focus at the moment, Yuancheng will still focus on solving the warmth and preparing for the winter of the second year.

And if you want to keep warm, you can only use cotton and other cotton plants to make cotton clothes. Although cotton plants have been found in many plants in Wonsan for a long time, the number is too small, and it is impossible to grow so much cotton to make cotton clothes in a short period of time for planting, so it is extremely necessary to expand the cultivation of cotton in the spring.

Therefore, these plants such as cotton and rice are because the base is too small, and they must go through a two-year buffer before they can be applied to the public, except for these two plants, most of the other plants must be expanded after the beginning of spring, and the buffer will not be completed until the end of the second year.

After the beginning of spring, Yuancheng is completely different from the lifeless atmosphere of winter, there is labor everywhere, a fire, and a lot of wasteland has been reclaimed.

And unlike the vitality of Yuancheng, N City is still overstretched in front of the issue of life and death, because they don't want Yuancheng to be prepared as early, in the past few hundred days, they have been caught off guard every day, how can they have time to plan for the future, and now seeing that Yuancheng is fully prepared for the development of the new year, they are all like ants on a hot pot, so anxious that they jump to their feet.

And in the face of this huge gap, more people chose to give up their power and joined Yuancheng instead.

However, since Yuancheng no longer recruits people, they can only be arranged in Xiyu City. The development of Xiyu City is no less than that of Yuancheng, in just over a month, the number of people has approached Yuancheng, and various new buildings have also risen there.

Since there is no need to think about life and death, people do not only pursue speed and shoddy construction when building houses, but they give full play to their artistic cells and build one creative building after another.

Due to the large lack of numbers, the many forces in the area of N City suddenly shrank a lot, and some relatively small ones directly decided to join Xiyu City, but their mayor asked to serve as a more powerful official in Xiyu Town, but Lin Yue directly refused.

"The mayor of any force does not have the privilege of serving as an official of Xiyu City, and all officials in the city are directly appointed by Lin Yue, and they must serve the people with their ability." Lin Yue's public statement angered many leaders of the forces in the N City, and they immediately threatened to unite all forces to capture Xiyu City.

But this is only a small number of people clamoring, and there are not many forces that really respond. All in all, Xiyu City is completely stable in this area within the scope of N City.

On the 318th day of the New World Calendar, the scholar in charge of observing astronomy in Yuancheng reported to Lin Yue that after nearly a year of continuous observation and calculation, he had measured how many days a year there was in the New World.

Astronomers in the city had observed that the universe in which the New World was located was very similar to the solar system, and they had already observed the moon, Mars, and Jupiter, which were easily observable stars.

However, no star similar to Venus has been observed, and there is no conclusive conclusion as to which position in the solar system the planet of the New World corresponds.

These objects remain a mystery for the time being, but what really needs to be solved at the moment is the rotation of the New World and the revolution around the Sun.

This result is different from that of Earth, but it is very similar. The time of the year in the new world is about 358 days, and the time of a day is about 23 hours and 31 minutes, although this value is only an approximation, but the error is not too large.

In response to this time difference, astronomers have long ago made corresponding clocks with the help of some craftsmen, and still set the day as 24 hours, 1 hour and 60 minutes, and 1 minute and 60 seconds, but the length of this second has been slightly adjusted.

And this

"Seconds" was also renamed

New Second. Due to the limitation of materials, there are not many such clocks and watches, and they are all hung on some public places, but with these clocks, people's concept of time is also clearer.

The concept of the time of the day has been decided, and the concept of the year has to be decided. Astronomers divided their calculated 358 days into 12 months, each with 30 days, and the missing two days were adjusted by leap months.

And where is the first month of the year, almost the entire Yuan City thinks that it will be the day when the Great Crossing takes place.

That day was January 1 of the first year of the new calendar. According to calculations, the 318th day of the new calendar is October 18 of the first year of the new calendar.

Unlike Earth, spring in the New World is in October. Once the calendar is established, the corresponding festivals will also be established, the first of which must be set, and that is the day when the Great Crossing takes place.

As for whether that day should be called a new day or a disaster day, everyone in Yuancheng has been arguing, and finally Lin Yue made a decision and named it the New Yuan Festival.

This day is not only a tribute to the old world, but also a ushering in a new world. In addition to the New Yuan Festival, the Hundred Days Festival will also be an extremely important festival in the Metaverse City, because they have been celebrated by the Hundred Days Festival long before, and the second Hundred Days Festival is naturally the same.

In addition, Yuancheng also established a number of relatively small festivals, some to commemorate the soldiers who died for a new life, and some to celebrate the success of Yuancheng to meet which standard.

Like the reclamation of agriculture after the beginning of spring, it is also a day worth celebrating to ensure the material life of Yuancheng in the future.

Closer to this date, there is another one that is even more worth celebrating, which is the birth of the first newborn in the New World Metaverse City.

This newborn can be regarded as the first crystallization of the struggle of the people of Yuancheng so far, and it is a sign that the people of Yuancheng can live in peace.

Lin Yue also personally named the newborn

"Yuansheng", even if it means that he is the first newborn born in Yuancheng, it also means that the entire people of Yuancheng love for this newborn.

Soon after Yuansheng was born, a large number of newborns were born one after another, most of these newborns were conceived shortly after the establishment of Yuancheng, and life at that time was initially stable, and many families were formed at that time.

The good news appeared one after another, and at this time, Lin Yue could feel that all his efforts were worthwhile, and only by developing Yuancheng would it not be in vain for Lin Yue to be reborn once.

On November 1, the first year of the new calendar, a new round of Yuancheng meeting was held in the Great Hall of Zhongyuan District of Yuancheng, and many representatives of Xiyucheng District came to participate in this meeting.

The main purpose of this conference is only one, and that is to talk about the issue of nation-building. Although Yuancheng's political system has been relatively perfected before, it has not yet reached the point of founding the country, and now Yuancheng's power is not only Yuancheng, but also includes Xiyucheng and the influence point on the other side of the Yuanhe.

Although the number of people in that power point has not even reached 10,000, it basically occupies the core of that position, but considering that the power point is too close to Yuancheng and is not suitable for building a city, it has been governed as a ** district.

If the conditions are ripe for all sides, the trend of statehood will already be obvious. However, many of the meetings that began on November 1 were just preparations for the founding of the country, and the actual date of the founding of the nation would be set on January 1 of the second year of the new calendar.

There are many items to be discussed at the meeting on November 1, and the first one to be determined is the country name.

The name "Yuan" has been used since the founding of Yuandong, and it is no exception until now, so when Yuancheng was founded, it will be named

"Yuan Country". ...