Chapter 851: Flower Sea, Difference Engine, Education, Punch Machine, Household Registration System, Lathe, and Scale Hermitage

While the wolf girl was observing the slicing of the red knight, Horn quietly went out.

He knew that the wolf girl hated being disturbed when she was doing research.

When she was with Horn, and when she was interrupted while doing research, the wolf girl rarely showed facial expressions.

Walking out of the Mechanical Palace, Horn stretched.

He hasn’t had any free time for a long time, so for the sake of viewing, he has created a large sea of ​​flowers in front of the Mechanical Palace.

The land, about the size of a football field, is full of flowers of various colors, with red roses entwined around the fence and freesias standing tall and lush.

At the foot of the fence, white chamomiles compete with purple irises for beauty.

Under the warm spring sun, the fragrance of flowers was overwhelming, making Horn want to jump in and roll around a few times.

However, he was stopped by Bonard after taking only two steps.

“Your Majesty, according to the schedule, our next step is to meet with the dwarves who converted to the Holy Way and inspect the difference machine. Do you want to change it?”

Looking at the peaceful and tranquil sea of ​​flowers in front of him, and then looking at the research institute in the distance that was humming and smelling of lubricant, Horn forced a smile and said, “Let’s go. Do I have any choice?”

“Shall we go meet those dwarves first?”

“Let them go to the workshop. I remember the differential engine is placed together. Let’s go and take a look.”

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Standing in the empty workshop, the curved dome is covered with roof panels made of mountain copper waste.

There is no second floor in this six-meter-high mortar workshop, but only a second-floor viewing passage along the surrounding walls.

Holding on to the wooden handrail, Horn could still see the details of the brass behemoth from more than three meters away.

It is about three meters high and covers an area of ​​six or seven square meters.

From a distance, it consists of dozens of huge gear towers and brass brackets.

The connecting rods, crankshafts and chains are placed alternately, and the brass pull rods on the operating console on one side are as densely distributed as piano keys.

In the spring compartment at the bottom level, eight sets of mountain copper springs are evenly outputting energy under the control of the escapement mechanism.

The dial used to monitor the energy storage of the mainspring ticked away as seven or eight operators, under the direction of a scholar holding a spreadsheet, continuously pulled rods.

Then Horn could hear the sound of gears turning and meshing echoing in the workshop.

This kind of order and machinery brings beauty, and not only Horn, but also many dwarves who are manufacturers and designers are intoxicated by it.

“It is driven by a mountain copper spring and can complete a calculation every 10 seconds. As for complex high-order differential calculations, it will take several minutes.” The scholar at the side introduced enthusiastically.

“This differential machine was built entirely by hand by us dwarves, and a large amount of rare minerals were used to achieve precision.” The converted dwarves also came to claim credit.

“how much did you spend?”

“More than 2000 gold pounds.”

Horn’s cheeks bulged at his back teeth: “Worth it.”

In this world, mathematics is also a difficult problem that stands in the way of scientific progress.

With this machine, they can quickly calculate more weak points in the star realm, and even summarize regular formulas based on these weak points.

But before that, they are still in the stage of observing the phenomenon, and they have to dig out the weak points of the star realm one by one, just like mining.

This wasn’t something that could be accomplished overnight, nor was it something Horn could be guided by knowledge from past lives.

“Did you figure out the problem that Shilov gave you last time?”

Although he didn’t understand what the math problem was about, the scholar nodded and said, “With the help of a hand-cranked calculator, the star trajectory formulas can be solved very quickly.

We can solve the astrological mathematical problem you gave us in about three to five days.”

“very good.”

“Do you still need this prototype of the Difference Engine? I mean within this month.”

Horn blinked and understood immediately.

It’s not just Horn who has difficult mathematical problems to solve, these scholars do too.

Currently, the natural theology research of the Holy Way School has entered the school of quantification of all things that revived the ancient Aiel Empire.

This trend is especially obvious after the promotion of holy units.

As long as the mathematics itself is correct, the conclusions of various reasonings based on mathematics are unlikely to be wrong.

In this trend, a large number of scholars in the Pontifical University of the Holy See chose to use mathematics to try to solve the existing difficult problems in the imperial academic community.

It has to be said that Horn’s routine of “observing phenomena – making bold guesses – conducting experiments – summarizing laws” is quite useful.

The research results, which seemed insignificant to Horn but were considered quite important by scholars, were progressing at a very fast pace.

It is expected that in the next four or five years, the Holy See Pontifical University will usher in a wave of research results. “In the next period of time, I think I can lend it to you for a month. Remember to write an application…” Horn thought for a while, “Then it will be used for household registration statistics and the third astrological breakthrough point…”

“One month is fine, I’ll live here.”

Horn couldn’t help laughing. Actually, it would be okay to let the scholars use it for a while longer.

The main reason is that the household registration calculation in the coming autumn is too important.

Currently, the Holy Alliance consists of two parts: Thousand River Valley and Black Snake Bay. We will not talk about Black Snake Bay for now and will come to it slowly later.

Just talking about the Qianhe Valley, there are currently about 450 million to 500 million people in the Qianhe Valley.

The registered population of the Hundred Household District is approximately 428 million, and the update frequency is once every four years for the County Association and once every eight years for the Imperial Association.

A household registration book is divided into four copies: one for the head of the household, one for the township order, one for the county order, and one for the imperial order.

For religious orders, if anything is lost, it must be reported immediately to make up for the loss.

For civilians, if the household registration book is lost during verification, they will have to provide public services for a week.

In this way, unless someone can get all the way from the bottom floor to the Mechanical Palace, these key information will be difficult to modify.

And unlike other tax rolls of the period, Horn’s household register is more detailed.

It records age, date of birth, gender, background, occupation, and even how much property the family has.

After the first statistics were completed last year, the household registration books that were transported to Qiumu Island were first delivered by more than a dozen horse-drawn carriages, and then transferred to ships to be transported to the Great Library.

Now it is just the household registration book. After the surveying and mapping is completed, there will be a map book, and later after the land clearing is completed, there will be a land book.

After industrialization, the rapid flow of urban and rural residents and immigrants will lead to more complicated household registration changes in the future.

The bank had drafts and passbooks, and not only paper money plans for the future, but also an identity card that Horn was hesitant about whether to involve Dan.

It would be beyond our capabilities to handle this information using the original written documents.

If you want to rule deep into the grassroots, you have to eliminate local forces such as the nobles.

But since power and responsibilities are equal, Horn must shoulder the responsibility of grassroots governance.

The future second differential machine and the punching machine under construction are preparations for future modernization.

This is necessary.

In this era, apart from the church using it to collect taxes, most lords ignored the enormous power contained in the household register.

In the real world, ruling a country is not a game, and not every corner of a country can be seen.

There are three million gold coins in the warehouse in the game, that is really three million gold coins.

If you really take the three million gold coins recorded in the account book seriously in real life, it would probably be only three hundred thousand copper coins when you need them.

The reason why Horn was able to use his two territories, Thousand River Valley and Black Snake Bay, to resist the nine territories of the Kingdom of Leia and the Church was because of his meticulous control over resources such as population.

He was willing to compromise with the nobles and implement the system of 100-household districts and household registers just for this reason.

He knew where there were many people to mobilize, he knew where the grain production was, he knew that Tinsmith Ferry was rich in tinware, he knew that Mason Parish was rich in wood…

With the coordinated efforts of Pettier and the Magdi Chamber of Commerce, the Holy Alliance has made extremely high utilization of resources.

This is the invisible thing behind the repeated victories of the Thousand River Valley Holy Alliance.

Horn has five fingers but can make a fist, while the Leia have three heads and six arms but look like they have Parkinson’s disease.

If it were the Thousand River Valley independence in the old days, I’m afraid Lavle’s first wave of attack would have broken through.

Because the nobles were not united, and because food and supplies could not be transported to the front line.

Just like in Hotam County under Leia’s rule now, the people in one village responsible for transporting grain are almost dead, while another village next door is so idle that they fight crickets every day.

After inspecting the difference engine, Horn went to visit several research institutes next door.

Including the dwarf lathe workshop, currently the technology of keel steel and precision parts polishing are only mastered by these dwarves and human masters.

The lathes currently on the market all use advanced lathes to grind out parts, but advanced lathes and tools can only be used by dwarves to grind by hand.

Fortunately, with the clockwork mechanical drive, the efficiency of many miscellaneous tasks can be improved.

However, there are still many reformist dwarves who still hold conservative ideas and are unwilling to use clockwork-driven machinery.

It is believed that excessive use will lead to the deterioration of craftsmanship.

It was not until dinner time that Horn was called away by the aide-de-camp who had hurried over.

“What are you asking me to do so urgently?” Horn asked Zhongsi while wiping the lubricant off his hands with a handkerchief.

Without even waiting for an answer, Horn knew it when he saw the members of the Sicheng Priory glaring at the attendant at the door.

(End of this chapter)