"Xiao Du!" Du Wen shouted. She was used to working at night, so the people around her had to become night owls with her. oレ♠レDu Mei naturally couldn't sleep before the chief went to bed. She was lying sleepily on the wooden sofa in the office. When she heard the chief's cry, she quickly got up and wiped the saliva from the corner of her mouth. He straightened his hair, trotted all the way to Du Wen's desk, and stood at attention.
Du Mei did not wear the unwritten uniform of life secretaries, the maid uniform, but she wore the standard uniform of ordinary civilian members of the Senate: a cotton "civilian uniform" with only two pockets. There is an identification strip on the chest.
"Call me right away and tell the office that I need to move."
Du Mei had long been accustomed to Chief Du's working style and knew that the chief's order must be "unconditionally and promptly fulfilled." However, at this moment she could not help but express her dissent: "Chief, it is eleven o'clock in the evening." …”
"Call the duty room of the general office. How many times have I told you that the Senate will never fall asleep!" Du Wen raised his eyes coldly and said.
"Yes, Chief." Du Mei didn't dare to argue anymore. In fact, making a phone call was no different from calling Ming Yao early in the morning. The clerk in the duty room just recorded it. But she already knew the temper of the female leader very well. He quickly asked for instructions: "Excuse me, where are you going, Chief? Where are you going?"
"I'm going to Jeju. Get ready to send a ship. The time is within a week."
"Yes, Chief."
At this moment, even kilometers away from Lingao, in a place called "Hutou Village" in the west of Chengmai County, the light of electric lights was shining in the dark night.
Although Chengmai has been a "blue zone" since the victory of the second anti-encirclement and suppression campaign, it was also the first place to establish preliminary county-level political power. But the Senate's institutions here are still very few. Most are concentrated around the county. In the vast rural areas, we have just begun to establish grassroots political power.
In this total darkness, the lights of Hutou Village seemed very abrupt. It is surrounded by water on three sides, and only the east side is connected to land. During the construction of the Lingao-Chengmai highway, a branch road was specially built to connect here. However, the branch road came to an abrupt end when it reached Hutou Village - a trench was dug where it connected to the land, separating it from the land and becoming an "isolated island" connected only by a suspension bridge.
As if the blocking ability of the trench was not strong enough, there was a high earth embankment behind the trench, with barbed wire fences and watchtowers standing on the embankment. The electric light shines brightly on the only entrance and exit on the embankment - a closed wooden fence gate. There is a wooden sign hanging on the fence gate, with "Restricted Area" written in two large ink characters on it.
On the coastline of this small "isolated island", the numerous reefs serve as Yaoran's defenses, and the watchtowers guard against all threats from the sea. As long as sea conditions permit, Coast Guard patrol boats will guard the surrounding waters around the clock - ships without permission are not allowed to approach this place.
The sentries changed their posts every hour, and dog patrols patrolled the seaside, looking for any sign of suspicion. They had no idea what they were defending in the face of an overwhelming enemy. Most of the soldiers had never entered the core area during their entire tour of duty: the compound on the hillside of this small island.
The compound is very large, and the walls are made of local stones. The walls are high and thick. From the outside, you can only see the roofs and towers protruding above the walls.
The compound is also heavily guarded, except that every few days, some boxes will be transported by land or sea, and some boxes will be transported away. Otherwise, the door almost never opens. But the soldiers sometimes heard the loud ringing of bells coming from the courtyard.
Some people say that the courtyard is an "Australian temple". But the bell didn't ring as punctually as in the temple, and they couldn't see anyone who looked like a monk.
"Don't listen, don't see, don't ask, don't teach." The eight-character mantra is painted on the walls with lime water, adding to the mystery here.
This is the Yaowentai of Hutou Village, the timing center of the Senate.
In an era without satellite navigation and positioning, timing was a crucial technological point for a regional hegemon like the Senate that relied heavily on sea transportation. When a ship sails on the sea, it must accurately position itself, and determining its route depends on longitude and latitude measurements.
Dimensions are easy to measure. Because latitude is determined by natural laws, the equator is zero latitude and the poles are 90 degrees. It is the same no matter where it is. Positioning through Yaowen observation: Whether it is a sextant using the height of the sun as a reference or a starboard to observe the position of stars, the dimensions of the ship can be determined quite accurately. But longitude is different. The earth is always rotating. There is no simple way to determine the position of zero longitude. It can only be determined as a rule. Likewise, there is no body that can be used to visually display differences in longitude.
So people began to try to use time to test longitude very early. People at that time already knew that the earth rotates 360 degrees every 24 hours. Each hour is equivalent to 15 degrees of longitude. As long as you know the time difference between the two places, you can know the longitude difference between the two places. If you know that 12 o'clock noon in a certain place is exactly 10 o'clock in the morning in London, then it means that this place is 30 degrees east of London. Therefore, the problem of longitude is converted into an equivalent problem: how to measure the time difference between two places.
In 1530, the Dutch mathematician Gamma? Geafrisius proposed using clocks to measure time differences to deduce the longitude of a location. According to his idea, use a clock to always keep the time in a place such as London, and then take it to a new location, use the height of the sun to measure the local time, and then compare it with the clock in London to know the time between this place and London. Longitude difference.
This idea was simply impossible to realize due to the craftsmanship and longitude of the clock at the time, but it had initially proposed the epoch-making concept of a marine clock.
Before the satellite positioning system was put into use, it was precisely because of this idea that sailing ships could break free from the shackles of sailors who had to rely on coastlines and island chains for thousands of years to sail anywhere in the sea.
The Senate had no satellites to use, so equipping fleets and merchant ships with navigational clocks became an urgent matter.
Every ship that crossed over on D-Day was equipped with multiple additional navigation clocks. However, the ever-expanding fleet and the requirements for accurate timekeeping in all walks of life have a strong demand for clocks. For now, there are a lot of clocks and accessories stored in the warehouse of the Planning Institute, and some elders also bring a large number of private watches, but relying on reserves is not a long-term solution.
As soon as the Ministry of Science and Technology was established, the two primary tasks assigned by the Executive Committee to Zhong Lishi were precise timing and radio technology. As a member of the Science and Technology Entry Committee, Zhong Lizhi decided to go into battle personally to solve this problem.
To accurately time the time, you must first have an accurate time measurement mechanism, which requires a chronometer.
The Senate once planned to build a Yaowen Observatory in Gaoshanling, but Zhong Lishi believed that the location of the Yaowen Observatory was not good. By comparing maps and field surveys, he chose the longitude 110 degrees east longitude as the meridian to determine local time.
The most suitable land observation point on this meridian is this place called "Hutou Village". This Taibai Yao Observatory with an altitude of 15 meters cannot be called a formal Yao Observatory, it is just an institution for measuring time. This place is not an ideal site for the Yaowen Observatory. The altitude is too low, and the many typhoons and rainy climate give Zhong Lishi a headache.
According to the development plan he submitted, this place was only used as a time measuring platform during the 1525 period. After the Second Five-Year Plan, another suitable location will be selected - if possible, it would be best to capture Greenwich.
"If you give me an invincible fleet, the country I most want to attack is Britain, and the place I most want to occupy is Greenwich Village."
——"Time and Longitude"
Academician of the Imperial Academy of Sciences, Dr. Zhong Lishi, Taibai University Press, first edition in 1645, second edition in 1655, 178th printing. When there was no Greenwich as the Yaowen Station, Hutou Village was still suitable. It has convenient sea and land transportation. It is also close to Lingao and is the core area of the rule, which is convenient for security. Yaowentai needs to install a large number of "black technology" products brought by 1st Time and Space, and safety work is the top priority.
After the construction of the Yaowen Terrace in Hutou Village started, a certain elder and literary youth felt that the place name "Hutou" was silly and unsophisticated. Based on the coincidence that this place is located in the west of Chengmai, he changed "Tiger Head" to "Taibai" after the legendary Western spiritual beast white tiger, and gave "Hutou Yaowen Terrace" a name that made Dr. Zhong almost wet his bed - " Taibai Yaowen Terrace".
The Taibai Yaowen Observatory is equipped with many equipments, including a satellite instrument, a Yaowen clock, a shortwave timing radio, and so on. Among them, radio timing is a black technology that only the Lingao Navy flagship has the right to use. Radio technology solved the problem of time accuracy of marine clocks from another aspect.
This is also the location of the clock workshop of the Ministry of Science and Technology. There are four test bell towers in the compound for testing hammer-powered clock machines. Lightning rods are installed on the bell towers. Zhong Lishi's home "Taibai Mansion" is also here. Later, a university - "Taibai University" was developed based on Taibai Yaowen Station.
"Father is coming, Father is coming." A slender hand gently pushed Dr. Zhong's shoulder.
"Well... I can't eat anymore..." Dr. Zhong muttered, and his clothes slipped to the ground.
"Father..." There was a hint of helplessness in his voice. The manager with delicate hands knelt down, picked up the clothes and put them on him again, "The executive committee is holding an enlarged meeting!"
"Huh?!" Dr. Zhong froze and his eyes opened suddenly, "Tell them to wait, I'll go right away!"
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