industrial lord

Chapter 222 Another Wonder
"One hammer, two hammers, three hammers..."

The manor needed to repair the fence, which happened to give Frederick a chance to apply what he had learned. Psyche asked him to hammer the stakes, use anti-gravity when raising the hammer, and increase gravity when the hammer fell.

This is not over yet, when you are working, you have to count how many times you have hammered, from 1 to 10 cycles, and between 2 and 8, you have to put on a set of ice armor. When the number is odd, the hammer is enchanted with fire, and when the number is even, the hammer is enchanted with lightning.

Now everyone in the manor knows that the master and Li Xiao are very easy to talk to, just don't mess with the beautiful brown-haired female teacher, see her bully the master so badly, and even drive wooden stakes in hot weather.

As soon as he finished his day's tasks that day, Christian brought a middle-aged man with a high hairline.

Christian quietly gestured and told the leader that this person was here to solicit sponsorship.

After taking a brief bath, Frederick met this middle-aged man named Berhard in the living room.

"Observatory?" Frederick raised his teacup and paused, "Is there an observatory in Hanma City?"

Berhard replied with a little embarrassment: "Yes, it's just that our observatory is too small. Recently, the lights in the city are too bright and seriously affect our work, so we plan to build a new observatory outside the city."

Frederick understood that Hanma City has imported a lot of magic street lamps in the past two years. These lights are lit all night, and the current telescope technology is not good enough, so they suffer from light pollution.

He took a sip of tea unhurriedly, and then said: "How about moving to Wessen State? We have a mountainous area that will be a pine forest area in the future. Except for forest fires, there will be no forest fires for a long time in the future." light pollution."

Berhard drank his tea in silence. He just wanted to move the observatory outside the city, but never thought of moving it so far.

Seeing his reaction, Frederick continued, "I have a plan, which is to unify the time."

"Have you heard about the radio broadcasts in the city recently? I think the radio will broadcast them after the observatory determines the daily time. For this reason, I plan to build a radio tower for the observatory. By then, all radios will be able to listen to it, whether it is the North Sea or the Inner Sea. to the current time."

Frederick was already very proficient at drawing a big scallion pancake to fool people, and Berhard was taken aback by his plan.

However, Frederick's ambition did not stop there, he also wanted to grasp one thing - the prime meridian.

Now everyone knows that the earth is a ball, but only Psyche is estimated to be able to travel around the world. The dangers at sea are beyond people's imagination. It doesn't matter whether you are a magic god or a sword master. If there is no ship in the vast sea, you should drown or drown. die.

A problem arose when promoting the maritime positioning system this time. At present, there is no unified standard for latitude and longitude.

Everyone measures latitude against the stars in the sky. There is no Polaris here. Different stars are used in different places, so the final values ​​are also different.

Longitude is even more troublesome. It is determined by calculating the time difference at noon between the two places, which requires the prime meridian. Now the prime meridians used in different countries are different.

Now Frederick intends to use the opportunity of promoting the positioning system to promote his own system of latitude and longitude, and at the same time draw new charts, which requires accurate clocks and observatories that determine the time of noon.

Accurate clocks of this era have already appeared in Wessen. The lever escapement "invented" by Frederick replaced the existing shaft escapement. Coupled with the use of vernier calipers and a lathe dedicated to producing gears, the accuracy of the clock has been greatly improved, and the volume has also been reduced a lot.

However, the price of this kind of clock has not come down. After all, when Frederick was born in his last life, there was a watch in the "three turns and one ring". For a long time here, the clock and the pocket watch under development were still luxury goods.

But the shipowners are not short of money. An accurate nautical clock that can calculate latitude is still very cheap compared to a ship that hits a reef because of inaccurate positioning.

So Frederick is now short of an observatory.

Not long after the spring plowing began, the local gangster robbed a "passer-by" two streets away from the Observatory in Hanma City one night. And not familiar with the road and did not catch up with the robbers.

This incident was later known by Frederick, so he gave a low-interest loan to Hanma City for a "brightening project". The roads in the city are brightened and the security is improved, but the street lights around the observatory are brighter than other places. .

For a time, Hanma City was known as the "city that never sleeps", and the night market prospered, driving a large wave of nighttime economy.

Not long ago, some young people at the Observatory urged Berhard to move the Observatory to a place with less lights. If you have no money, you can try to find Duke Wesson. The families of these people all have an admission letter from Wessenburg University, the principal. personally issued.

Bohard didn't understand the doorway behind it, and said with some embarrassment: "I admire Duke Wesson's ambition very much, but the investment in building a new observatory is very large."

"I've also heard that a radio tower is very expensive, and I'm afraid it will be difficult to get a return on that money."

"Twenty thousand florins." Frederick stretched out two fingers, "I invested this much money in three years to build a new observatory. The later operation and new investment will be funded by the Wessen state government. The salaries of all personnel are Now three times, free housing, children of regular employees also enjoy the right to education of Wessen children."

"Now the best glass producers in the entire Rhineland Union are in Weissenburg and Nuremberg in Wessen. There are also excellent lens grinding craftsmen who produce microscopes, which can produce bigger and better astronomical telescopes."

Berhard's eyes widened all of a sudden, this condition was far beyond his imagination.

Among other things, observatories around the world are now sponsored by private individuals, and it is impossible to get sponsorship for everyone to drink northwest wind together.On the other hand, Frederick promised to allocate funds from the government, which meant that everyone would have an iron rice bowl immediately and their lives would be guaranteed.

Berhard was a little moved. In addition to the treatment, there are also glass-producing areas and lens-grinding artisans that Frederick said, maybe they can make better telescopes.

Frederick saw that his heart was moved, and he made the final blow: "I wrote the book "The Nature of Light". I have an idea for a new type of astronomical telescope, but I don't have time to take care of it myself. Someone to host."

"What kind of telescope?" Berhard asked a little excitedly.

Astronomers are also academics, and they believe that Frederick is possessed by an angel more than others, otherwise he is a monster.

Frederick played astronomy with his friends for a while in college in his last life, so it was not a problem to draw a reflecting telescope.

Berhard didn't understand it at first, but after Frederick explained it carefully, he felt quite reasonable.

"I want to think about it." Berhard still hesitated, "I want to discuss it with other people and see if they agree."

"Don't worry, I will not disclose the plan of this telescope."

Frederick replied with a smile: "It's okay, I'll wait for your good news."

After Berhard left, Frederick had a smile on his face.

He spent so much effort to build the observatory, determine the "Wessen time" and the prime meridian, not just for economic calculations, but to build this observatory and subsequent projects as wonders, just like Germain Cathedral and Edelweiss Like a big library.

Spectacles can increase the popularity and prestige of a territory in a huge range, let people from far away know that this place has such a powerful existence, and gradually form the idea that this place is very powerful. This is how soft power gradually increases.

If the Observatory is won, Frederick will have the wonders of the German Cathedral plus faith, the Edelweiss Library plus culture, the Observatory plus navigation, and there will be more wonders to be built in the future.

(End of this chapter)