Chapter 464: Which is better? (5,000 words long chapter. Please vote)
The sundial is what Luo Chong said about the recording tool, but a proper sundial does not need to be used for recording. You only need to adjust the tilt angle of the sundial disk according to the local latitude, and then check the time according to the shadow of the pointer.
Then the problem comes. This is not the earth at all, and Luo Chong does not know the latitude here, so how can he determine how much the sundial disk should be tilted? So this is a problem, and there is only one solution, which is to measure day after day and find the pattern.
Soon, the Rat Wizard, who received the new task, cheered up and began to eat with the service of his grandson. After he was raised for a few days, Luo Chong's sundial was also completed.
This sundial is not tilted, but a horizontal sundial. In addition, its pointer is also perpendicular to the ground, which is different from the traditional horizontal sundial. Moreover, this sundial is made of wood, a round wooden disk with a bronze pointer in the middle. With this pointer as the center, there are fourteen concentric circles of different sizes to determine the fourteen months.
In addition, there are 24 hours of scale on this disk, and the direction of 24 points is directly south, which is the direction of the shortest shadow in a day.
Of course, according to Luo Chong's speculation, the rotation time of this planet must be more than 24 earth hours, which doesn't matter. You must know that the original rotation time of the earth is not 24 hours. It will be a little less, more than three minutes less every day, and accumulated day by day, and finally people have to add one day to make up for the error between rotation and revolution, which is the leap year every four years, February 29th.
But this planet is different now. There are 14 months in a year, and a cycle of 14 years. There will be a leap year every 14 years, and a leap year will have 14 more days. This shows that the speed error between the planet's rotation and its revolution around the star is still very large, and
it takes 14 more days to balance the error. The task of the rat witch is to draw the trajectory of the pointer shadow on the disk with a pen every day, and draw an arc every day to see the direction of the sun's movement in each month. Because there are obvious changes in the four seasons here, the sun's projection in these months must be different.
As long as the rat witch can record these changes in detail, Luo Chong can roughly infer his latitude on this planet from these arcs.
This is a long-term project, and it is the only way to study astronomy, so it is still necessary to set up the Qintianjian, an astronomical observation unit.
Of course, the ancient Imperial Observatory did more than just this. They not only had to observe celestial phenomena, calculate solar terms, and formulate calendars, but they were also responsible for astrological divination and predicting good and bad luck. However, this is a bit nonsense. Luo Chong certainly doesn't believe it, so Luo Chong's Imperial Observatory is just an astronomical observation department.
The appointment was soon made. Shu Wu was appointed as the first supervisor of the Imperial Observatory of the Han Tribe. This official position is probably the director of the National Astronomical Observatory in modern times. In addition, one female student who graduated from the first term was selected to serve as the deputy supervisor of the Imperial Observatory, that is, the deputy of the supervisor.
Secondly, there are four supervisors of spring, summer, autumn and winter. Their work scope is to assist the supervisor in observing the four seasons and deduce the solar terms. Finally, there are two bell and drum officials, who are in charge of the bell tower and the drum tower respectively, which are used to tell time every morning and evening.
In this way, the entire Imperial Observatory was set up, and Luo Chong also arranged a large office for them in the government office building, which was specially used for the Imperial Observatory.
Without exception, a plaque was hung in the main hall of the Imperial Observatory, with four large red characters reading "Observing the celestial phenomena and giving the time". Luo Chong had seen this when he was traveling in the capital. Now that he thought about it, it was really appropriate. Isn't this "observing the celestial phenomena and giving the time"?
After arranging all this, Luo Chong, the highest leader of the Han tribe, was going to check the business. The statistical work of the Hanyang County Government had been going on for half a month, and the number of various materials was almost the same. It was time to check it.
On this day, Luo Chong sat in a large office on the top floor of the office building. On the large desk were handwritten books and reports. Opposite the desk, there stood a group of officials, either formal or intern, ready to answer Luo Chong's questions at any time.
He opened a "yellow book", and the pages were full of dense household registration records. Although the words were not good-looking, they were neat because they were all recorded according to the house numbers.
When Hanyang City was first built, all residential areas were neatly arranged in several alleys, with house numbers next to each other. There were not many households, so the records were relatively clear.
This yellow book has one household on each page, and the fonts are all arranged horizontally from left to right, and the most important thing is that it has punctuation marks.
No. 4, Row 6, District 1, Hanyang County, the head of the household, Tan Sitong, 22 years old, has two spouses, Xue, 22 years old, and Chai, 21 years old. They have six children, the eldest daughter Tan Xiaohua, 9 years old, the second son Tan Ergou, 8 years old, the third son Tan Fengshou, 6 years old, the fourth son Tan Dazhou, 6 years old, the fifth daughter Tan Zhu, 4 years old, and the sixth daughter Tan Hong, 3 years old.
There are a total of nine people in the household, and the ancestors are deceased, which means that the grandfather generation is dead.
This dense household registration information gave Luo Chong a headache, but he managed to remember the most basic information, including gender, name, and age. Although the age might not be accurate, it was almost accurate, because some people could no longer remember how old they were, but age was the most important.
Only by knowing the age can we collect taxes and corvée more reasonably, or recruit young and strong people to join the army according to age groups.
However, this "yellow book" still looked messy. Luo Chong thought about it for a while, and finally decided to print a form, and print out a form with the necessary information of various household registrations in a fixed format. At that time, the statistical information can be directly filled in. This way, it is not only clear at a glance, but also more convenient to record. He
did it as soon as he thought of it. Luo Chong asked someone to call Bai Qi, who was in charge of the printing workshop, and then drew a household registration form, asked him to carve one out with a wooden engraving, and then print it in large quantities.
Putting down the household registration "yellow book", he picked up the report beside him. This form looked clearer. There was no detailed household registration information on it, but it summarized the population situation of Hanyang City, allowing Luo Chong to see what he wanted directly.
It was written that Hanyang County had a total of 594 households, a total of 4,752 people, 1,784 adult men and women, 1,698 people aged 6 to 13, and 1,270 people under the age of six. At the end, it was specially noted that "slaves are not counted", which means that slaves are not counted in the population.
But this is understandable. Luo Chong didn't regard these captives of the cannibal tribe as human beings. He would kill them when he wanted. Anyway, he would not let this race continue to reproduce.
Among them, there are 627 adult males and 1,157 females. The male-to-female ratio is still very large. However, these current adults are actually all refugees from various tribes. In the old tribal period, the male-to-female ratio was already large. But now that they have joined the Han tribe, food and safety are guaranteed, so the survival rate of males will greatly increase in the future, and within a few generations, the male-to-female ratio will naturally balance.
According to these data, it can be seen that Hanyang City has actually reached a bottleneck in development. Hanyang City has a total of 9 urban areas, of which the central urban area is the location of the square and school, as well as the county government. In addition, there is an urban area specially developed into a livestock area, where a large number of cattle, horses, sheep, alpacas, spotted pigs, etc. are raised. Secondly, there is an area for factory warehouses, smelting, woodworking, textiles, and storage, all in 12 large warehouses in one urban area.
The remaining six areas are all residential areas, each with 99 households. According to the current statistics, Hanyang City has a total of 594 households. Doesn't this mean that people are already full? Hanyang City has no empty houses to live in. Therefore, when someone becomes an adult and wants to separate from his parents, he can only migrate outward to the new cities under construction. This is an issue that must be taken seriously.
However, at present, both Fumaguan and Ruyang County lack population. If the population of Hanyang City exceeds the standard, some people can be directly moved there. The distance is not far, so there is no need to be too nervous. In recent years, the pace of building new cities in the Han tribe will definitely be faster and faster. There is no need to worry about the problem of too many people. What we are afraid of is that the population is not enough. After all, in this era, population is the primary productive force.
After looking at the population data, the next is the livestock data, but this is not too concerned. In addition to strategic materials such as cattle and horses, the number of pigs and sheep is constantly changing. They are born quickly and eaten quickly. As long as there is a rough data, it will be fine.
Moreover, with the rise of grassland trade in the past two years, the per capita ownership of cattle and horses in the Han tribe is very high, almost reaching two or three large animals per household.
This actually depends on the problem of sparse population. You should know that there are countless wild cattle and horses, but there are not many humans. Maybe at this time, the number of humans is not as many as the cattle and horses in the world. Once humans begin to rise, that is, after the population surges, even if the number of cattle and horses is still the same, the ratio with the number of humans will be reversed. At that time, the per capita ownership of cattle and horses will be irreversibly reduced.
However, according to the current development situation, there will be no need to worry about the shortage of cattle and horses within one or two hundred years. As long as Luo Chong makes good plans for the future, there will be no need to worry about future problems.
After checking the work handed over to the county government, Luo Chong asked them to collect the frozen fish according to the population on the household registration. The remaining large amount of fish maw was directly handed over to the woodworking workshop for them to make various utensils. Then he checked the progress of the woodworking workshop's composite bow processing.
Since all the projects in Hanyang City have been completed and the tables, chairs and benches have met their own needs, the woodworking workshop now has only three jobs left, producing pencils, producing wooden boats, and producing bow tires.
And because the woodworking workshop is the third most populous workshop after kiln workers and textile workers, the progress of various tasks is not slow.
There are only two carpenters making pencils, because the current demand for pencils is not large, so they can still cope with it now. The team responsible for producing wooden boats is a ten-person team. They only need to make a keel and then paste the automatically cut wooden boards on it. Finally, they can do some waterproofing.
The remaining 28 people in the woodworking workshop were devoted to making bow tires. This was not only because making bow tires was a delicate job, but also because the production task given by Luo Chong was also large. During the four months of winter, at least 6,000 bow tires had to be made, of which 2,000 were short bows for cavalry and the other 4,000 were crossbows for infantry.
This meant that these 28 carpenters needed to make at least two bow tires every day. However, a bow tire was not a bow after all, but a carrier for gluing horns and tendons. Its production difficulty was not much more difficult than making a single longbow. One was made in the morning and another in the afternoon. After two or three months, when they were proficient, it would be no problem to make three a day.
Many people followed Luo Chong to inspect the production of bow tires that day, including Shu Da, Ying Rui, Da Li, You Ye, and the elders. Among these people, Shu Da was the leader, who was a conservative who supported the longbow. Only You Ye and Luo Chong were supporters of the composite bow.
"Chief, our longbows are pretty good. They are fast to make, powerful, and impressive to hold in your hand. Why do we have to make this composite bow? It takes a year to make a bow. Isn't this a waste of time? Why don't we do something else with this year, even if it's just making a few more cars?"
Shu Da looked at the piles of bow tires in the workshop and couldn't help complaining. These are all semi-finished products, just a part of that composite bow. If they were used to make longbows, what they have now would not be bow tires, but thousands of longbows. Isn't this a waste of time?
"You are right. Longbows do have many advantages, especially their power and long range. The most important thing is that they are easy to make. But what we need now is a short bow for cavalry. Can you ride on horseback and shoot arrows with a two-meter-long longbow?" Luo Chong glanced at him and asked contemptuously.
"But, but we don't need to make so many, just one or two thousand for the cavalry, why do we need to make so many crossbows, these crossbows are not only large in size and inconvenient to carry, but also very troublesome to fire, not to mention the firing rate, which is incomparable to the longbow, then why do we still make so many crossbows, it would be much better to make longbows with this time." Shu Da continued to refute.
Shu Da's words surprised Luo Chong for a while, he didn't expect this guy to be able to summarize so many shortcomings of crossbows, he really deserves to be a leader, studying weapons and fighting every day.
"Well, you are right, crossbows do have these shortcomings, but its advantages are also obvious, and the advantages of crossbows are very prominent, which is exactly where we need it most, so compared with its advantages, the shortcomings are not important." Luo Chong nodded and said.
"Advantages? What advantages? Why can't I find any advantages? To shoot an arrow from this crossbow, you have to pedal it with your feet first before you can string it. After stringing, you have to load the arrows again, and finally you can lift it up to shoot. In this time, the longbow has already shot three arrows. What advantages does it have?" Shu Da argued in disbelief.
"With your brain, you are a leader, but you can't even find the advantages of the weapon. Youye, your reconnaissance team has used this crossbow for several months. You come and tell Shu Da what the advantages of this crossbow are." Luo Chong said angrily.
"This, this I don't know too much. If you have to say what advantages, it may be that it is more accurate than the longbow. After all, there is a sight for aiming on it." Youye scratched his head and said.
Alas,
Luo Chong couldn't help but sigh. Youye, who had used the crossbow for several months, didn't really find the strength of the crossbow.
"Let's go, I'll let you see what the strengths of this crossbow are."
After saying this, Luo Chong immediately led them out of the workshop and headed straight to the square in the city.
Today was a sunny day. Some half-grown children could not stay at home any longer, so they ran to the square in groups to play football, which made this bleak winter more lively.
When a group of children saw the leader coming with a few people, they stopped chasing the ball, and did not know why the leader came to them.
Soon, the leader came to them.
"Today, I want to find a few people to try out the newly made bows and arrows. It would be best if they were almost adults. Who of you would like to try it?"
When the group of naughty children heard that the leader wanted to try the bows and arrows, they immediately became excited, jumping and shouting, "Me, me, leader, choose me, I am strong."
Luo Chong casually selected five of the tallest and strongest children, and then asked Dali and others to set up fixed straw targets in the distance, and then began to let these children compete.
Shu Da was watching closely beside them. He still did not understand what the benefits of this crossbow were, and did not know what tricks the leader was playing.
"First, you shoot three arrows with a longbow to see who shoots more accurately. Shu Da, you teach them. These kids have never played a bow before. They don't even know how to hold a bow or draw the string. You have to teach them seriously." Luo Chong said solemnly to Shu Da, who looked indifferent.
"That's no problem. I'm the best at archery. It's not easy to teach these kids. Watch me."
Shu Da was stunned when he heard this, and then he laughed. He didn't expect the leader to mean this, so he quickly started to teach the five children.
"Come on, stand with your legs apart, and hold the bow loosely, don't hold it so tightly, the bow is to be pushed forward, not held in the hand."
"Hook the string with three fingers, yes, put the tail of the arrow on the string, clamp it with your fingers, pull it back hard, pull it back, look at the direction of the arrow, aim at the straw target and shoot."
Bang bang bang bang
With the sound of bowstrings being released, some arrows were shot out, but they deviated greatly from the straw target. What's worse, the arrows of two children didn't even shoot out, and fell at their feet with a plop.
At this moment, Shuda's face immediately fell, and he couldn't help cursing in his heart, "Damn, what a bunch of trash, the children nowadays are really worse than the previous generation"
(End of this chapter)
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