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Chapter 114 Weights and Measures

The weights and measures of the Sassen Empire were established thousands of years ago at the beginning of the founding of Albis the Great, when the empire was only a kingdom, and it was full of roughness.

For example, the unit of weight is pounds. According to Xia Lin’s calculations, 1 small pound is roughly equal to 3.5 grams he defined, while 1 pound is 350 grams, and 1 heavy pound is 3500 grams. Then?
Then there will be no bigger weight unit!Because the ministers who were in charge of formulating weights and measures during the time of Emperor Albis did not expect that there are still hundreds of thousands of pounds of unmeasured weight in practical applications. When they describe this kind of weight, they can only describe it as the ancients in Xia Lin's previous life. Like a mountain, it is already an imaginary number.

So now, Xia Lin asked the managers in the factory to write down thousands or tens of thousands of pounds when recording the output, which was quite inconvenient.

There is also a big problem with the length unit of biney. 1 bini is 1.2 centimeters defined by Charin. The small biney is really too big, the accuracy of the naked eye can reach 0.1 mm, and one tenth of the biney is an unacceptable error in industrial applications.

As for the 1.2 decimeter short beanie, the 1 meter long beanie is also very strange. Why is the short beanie at the back of the beanie longer than the beanie?The rand unit that is roughly equivalent to kilometers after the long biney is also confusing.

It all looks extremely complicated, let alone actually used.

面积单位也有同样的问题，1阿尔是大约1.44平方千米，1小阿尔居然是1.44平方分米，而1大阿尔为什么会是1.44平方米？
The square centimeter-level area does not seem to be within the scope of use by the people of the empire. It is really strange to Xia Lin that the people of the Sassen Empire have continued to use such a weird weight and measure for thousands of years.

Therefore, after Xia Lin started magic research, he used his spare time to redefine a set of metric units. Naturally, there were differences between this set of units and the metric units of his previous life, but it was much easier to use than this set of imperial units.

mm, cm, decimeter, meter, kilometer.

Square centimeter, square decimeter, square meter, mu, square kilometer.

Grams, kilograms, tons.

Milliliters, liters, these familiar units, when Xia Lin recorded the data, it was several times more convenient than the imperial units, and even a group of researchers were also familiar with this kind of weight and measure specifications.

In addition to this, the dwarf masters of the machine tool factory also used the metric units formulated by Xia Lin, because it is too troublesome to use these words such as Piñal in industrial production, and Xia Lin did not bother to consider these when designing the machine specifications. unit conversion problem.

In addition, the dwarf masters originally had their own set of weights and measures, and using imperial units was not as easy as Xialin's metric units, so the machine tool factory became a member of the Metric Units of Measures Alliance over time.

This time, the R&D center of the alliance was established. In order to facilitate the establishment of the industrialization system in the future, Xia Lin decided to immediately start promoting the metric system of measurement units within the alliance.

This is an extremely complicated and difficult job. The stewards and accountants of various chambers of commerce have been trained in imperial weights and measures since they were young. They use pounds and pounds instead of grams and kilograms for buying and selling goods. .

But Xia Lin still decided to promote it. After all, the imperial weights and measures are too anti-human, difficult to remember, and troublesome to use. Previously, he used the metric unit defined by him in the mathematics textbook he wrote in Xinglan Elementary School.

When I came to Antioch Palace, I met with His Royal Highness, Xia Lin explained her purpose of coming one by one, the princess took a sip of black tea, and said thoughtfully:

"Sir Xia Lin, it's not a problem for your research institute to recruit sergeants. My grandfather has also conveyed to the Administrative Office the hope that the palace guards can train a group of new troops. In the recent court meeting, the ministers will Discuss the matter.

The road repair plan in the imperial capital and surrounding areas will also be proposed by Earl Karen at the court meeting. If there is no need to use the funds from the imperial treasury, I don't think it will be hindered too much.

The R&D center investigates and invokes the R&D of the artisans belonging to the alliance member chambers of commerce. This is something that has been established since the establishment of the alliance. You only need to communicate with the members at the next alliance meeting.

But this weight and measure, are you sure you must change it? "

"Yes, Your Royal Highness! Our current weights and measures are completely unable to meet the needs of the alliance. This is not only a problem of our Xinglan Industrial Park, but also a problem of the entire alliance and even the entire empire.

There are many benefits to the new metric units, like I just need to write and you'll see! "

Xia Lin nodded and took out a pen and paper to draw two tables. In one table, the data was recorded in metric units, and in the other table, the data was recorded in imperial units.

Metric units only need to record how many m, how many km, how many t, etc. Xialin uses the reduced units of Sassen letters, which is clear, intuitive, simple and clear.

The imperial unit has to record several words, and after shortening them to initial letters, due to the difference between the units such as benny and rand, it is impossible to distinguish the size of these data at once, the short benny, the long ratio The difference between Ni and Biney is even more confusing.

"Well, it looks like the new unit you made is really convenient.

But our empire has been using this set of weights and measures for thousands of years. Everyone keeps accounts and counts in the same way. Even if this proposal is submitted to the alliance meeting for discussion, I don't think there is any possibility of passing it. "

Although Princess Dorothea quickly saw the many benefits of the metric system, after thinking for a while, she shook her head and rejected Xia Lin's idea of ​​promoting the metric system in the alliance.

"Your Highness, this is not necessarily the case. When I was with dwarf masters in the machine tool factory, I heard them complain a lot about the imperial weights and measures.

In Karl's lab, my fellows also often say that imperial units are a counterintuitive measure for mages.

These voices all show that everyone is actually very dissatisfied with the inconvenient imperial weights and measures, but no one is willing, and no one has the power to change this situation.

Moreover, as a superior, one should not only see people's opposition and follow people's thinking to formulate policies, but guide people's thinking so that they understand and approve of their own governance.

The promotion of the metric system will indeed affect the lives of many people, but its benefits can be seen by everyone, but it will cause a lot of pain in the initial stage.

Members of the business alliance, I don't think they are necessarily unwilling to change, but the price of their change is a bit high.

When we put forward the proposal, we can propose to establish an alliance metric unit promotion office, so that a group of accountants and stewards who are willing to learn metric units can first go to Xinglan Primary School for a period of training, and then help everyone sort out the recent old-style account books into a new ledger.

In the future, the alliance will also support the members of the alliance in these aspects, so naturally, the metric system will be promoted. "

Facing the empress's veto, Xia Lin had no intention of giving up. In his opinion, the imperial unit was the biggest difficulty hindering the establishment of the industrial system.

Such an anti-human unit has no other benefits except that it increases countless costs when cultivating talents and takes countless detours in the establishment of an industrial system.

"Guide people to agree with me? Sir Xia Lin really has a lot of unique insights.

But is everyone really dissatisfied with the current measurement units of the Empire? "

After hearing Xia Lin's insistence, Princess Dorothea frowned slightly and asked with some doubts.

"Your Highness, I don't think anyone will be satisfied with this weird weight and measure. It's just that they are used to it. If they want to change it, we still have to rely on our alliance to force it."

Xia Lin said affirmatively, even their group of mages with extraordinary memory are quite uncomfortable to use weights and measures, what is the need for their existence?The so-called tradition is meant to be smashed and rebuilt in the midst of change.

"I understand. I will ask the members of the alliance if they have any problems in this regard, and tell my father about this matter and what you said about the admission of graduate students by the Royal Academy of Magic."

After thinking for a while, Princess Dorothea felt that after what Xia Lin said, the imperial unit did have a lot of disadvantages. She nodded and decided to summon some alliance members during this period to ask their thoughts on this.

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