The completion of the Martyrs' Shrine had a chain reaction. The common people in Bianjing City at least had another place to go to pay incense.

Many ordinary people don't know that there were so many heroes in the Song Dynasty who sacrificed their lives for their poor life.

With this rhythm, the pine and cypress trees in front of the Chungnyeolsa Shrine were filled with seasonal chrysanthemums overnight.

In September, Bingxu, Zhao Xu issued an edict that all prefectures, prefectures, and counties build martyrs' temples to record the children who died in the king's affairs over the years. In the spring and autumn, the chief officials of counties and counties led the officials to offer sacrifices.

Ding You sent envoys to Xihe, Shaanxi, and the Yongxing army fought with bones.

In October, Si Tianjian built a measuring instrument based on the number of days, and based on this, he designed a new astronomical instrument.

Under the guidance of Su You, the Guibiao, Armillary Sphere, and Floating Diaphragms completely abandoned all previous exaggerated designs, such as those decorative copper dragons and lotus flowers on the Floating Diaphragms. They all abandoned the "dao to simplicity" requirement.

Precise, with only etched numbers on it.

According to Shen Kuo's suggestion, the armillary sphere canceled the lunar ring to reduce the impact of the lunar ring on observations.

In addition, Si Tianjian also installed a large astronomical telescope on the observatory of the Hanlin Academy to provide more accurate observations.

Under the imperial edict, everyone below Su You was given silver and silk.

One of the most delicate items is the clock.

This is a clock in the modern sense. It is powered by a spiral thin steel spring, and a pendulum is used to control the escapement. A tourbillon and a torque chain are also introduced to control the stability of the force on the gear when the spring is tight or tight.

It is actually not difficult to drive the pointer to rotate with a spring. The difficulty lies in making it stable and precise.

Today's tourbillons cannot achieve the effect of the high-strength alloy wires of later generations. However, Shifu came up with a balancing system using three flywheels and a gear set to offset the mutual errors, making the actual error of the clock

, can be within the acceptable range.

So now the precision metal thing in Zhao Xu's house, which is 1.5 meters tall, can control the error to within three minutes a day.

This is the pinnacle of the level of mechanical processing in the Song Dynasty. Zhao Xu circled the clock curiously with his hands behind his back, listening to the pleasant clicking sound of the needle, watching the rotation of the machine parts and the swing of the pendulum below: "Why?

Why don't you put it in a box? How can such a delicate thing be damaged if it touches it?"

Su You said: "It has not been finalized yet, and there are still many problems. For example, Shi Gong found that the error of this thing changes from summer to winter. After calculation, Chen Zhaoming and others found that it is mainly due to changes in air pressure, and they are working on solving it."

Zhao Xu felt that he couldn't wait any longer: "Then install a few adjustment buttons. For example, you said that the speed of the pendulum is related to the length of the pendulum axis. By adjusting the pendulum axis, wouldn't it be possible to solve the impact of air pressure?"

"What does it matter if there is a difference of three minutes in one day? Isn't it enough to keep the time accurate every day? It's only three minutes, I can tolerate it."

Su You quickly praised: "Your Majesty has mastered the three flavors of science and engineering."

Zhao Xu did not accept this flattery at all: "Now that the real thing has come out, Si Tianjian quickly enlarged this thing and installed it on the Bianjing Pier for me!"

"At worst, we can arrange a team on duty to adjust the error every day based on the results of Si Tian's monitoring. What I want is that at the Zhengdan Dynasty next year, the envoys from all countries can see the bell tower on the dock! They can all hear the propaganda.

The bells ring throughout Bianjing City!"

Damn it! This is what we have been arguing about for a long time! Political influence!

Su You had no choice but to bow: "My lord, I obey your order."

Nowadays, the affairs of the Kaifeng Prefecture have been channeled. Judge Liang Yanming and recommendation officer Shen Chen have also been trained. They have figured out Su You's policy strategy and have become Su You's loyal supporters and powerful assistants.

Su You's focus of work shifted to two things - the construction of Kaifeng Prefecture's city defense and the Great Bell Tower.

City defense construction is a must. After the calculations of Si Tianjian, Kaifeng City's city defense construction was directly placed at the top of the city. The strength of the general cannons was worrying. It is possible that after a few cannons, the enemy did not kill many, and he destroyed the city wall first. .

Therefore, it is necessary to rely on the city wall to build a separate turret. On the outside of the city wall, use masonry and cement to build a stronger bastion, and place the Zhenguo general cannon inside the bastion.

To match it, the soldier cave, magazine, accessories warehouse, traction ramp, traction machinery, pulleys, and access channels all had to be redesigned, and the project was quite huge.

Therefore, the first phase of the project can only satisfy the north and east sides of Bianjing City first, while the west and south sides are temporarily postponed.

Several projects were kept highly confidential, and the people in Bianjing City did not know what they were doing. Kaifeng Mansion specially posted a notice saying that after the Xiang Army was dismantled, in order to strengthen the defense force of Bianjing City, the imperial court adjusted the defense scope of the Fourth Army.

In order to ensure the safety of the people, barracks will be set up on the city wall, additional bastions will be built, and additional troops will be stationed and lookout, so that everyone will not make a fuss.

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Northeast corner of Bianjing City, Jixi'er Lane.

This is the former location of the 28th warehouse, the large goods store, the small goods store, and the Dongdye Institute. It is next to the moat and Wuzhang River, as well as the horse market and horse store.

This is a Xiang Army concentration camp, but the most prosperous industry is not commerce and handicrafts, but brothels.

Fanlou, the famous gold-selling cave in Bianjing City, is just a block away, at the intersection of Jingmingfang and Guangfufang. However, compared with Jixi'er Lane, the scenery there is in the sky. underground.

There are many bachelors in the Xiang army, and the monthly salary is paid out, in addition to Guan Pu, to meet physiological needs.

Xiangjun troops cannot afford to go to a place like Fanlou, so the large area centered on Jixi'er Lane is different from the large area around the Imperial College. It is dominated by private houses that purely trade in flesh and blood, and even many Xiangjun soldiers Family members were all involved.

Corresponding to the Fan Tower and the large and small markets not far away, the "Ghost Fan Tower" and "Ghost Market" have also been formed here, where countless shady transactions are conducted privately.

However, after Xiao Taibao found a way out for the Xiang army, this area was like the old stone slabs under the walls of an old temple, which were suddenly lifted and exposed to the broad daylight.

The insects and ants below immediately exploded into a nest. They either hid themselves deeper in a panic or fled around to find other safe places.

The most obvious thing is that the number of private houses has suddenly decreased a lot. Many Xiangjun families, with their parents, wives and children, left this cursed place and went to the three counties of Dongming to start their lives again.

The big bosses who contracted the affairs of the village sent their own supervisors here one after another to take over this dirty place and improve it.

Jixi'er Lane is very narrow. The end is close to the inner city wall and beside the imperial ditch. Zhu Qianpo came out early in the morning to look for soup cakes.

Zhu Qianpo's husband and son were both Xiang soldiers. They were never heard from again after transporting military supplies to Shaanxi more than ten years ago. Fortunately, a small courtyard was left behind, so Qianpo could only rely on short-term renting to make a living.

Most of the people who come here to rent a house bring young women with them. Qian Po knows what kind of business they are doing. It is nothing to humiliate the family. People have to survive first, right?

Many guests who came to her home regarded her as their mother. The sisters and sons waited on her in the house, and sometimes sent her out to sell wine and order food.

These people tend to be very mobile, come and go quickly, and rarely rent for more than two years.

However, this house has been rented for a longer period of time recently, it has been two years, the girl is also very good-looking, and there are not many guests, only a fixed number of guests.

Qianpo estimated that Sister Jin was brought to an outhouse in Beijing by a high-ranking official from some family. The main house of the family could not accommodate her, so she found a place to live in her own house.

However, high officials rarely come here, and my sister is also restless, so she makes friends with a few promiscuous children and earns a fortune.

But Zhu Qianpo also understood very well that if you want to survive in this area, keeping your mouth shut is the most important thing.

Seeing the old neighbors moving around, Qianpo was very envious.

I heard that Xiao Su's Taibao regulations stated that if you move out of the city, you will have a job and land, and you will no longer stay at the base of the imperial city and live half-dead, but you will choose to fight for it. The vast majority of them choose to fight.

However, these good things could not happen to the lonely old woman. Zhu Qianpo had no choice but to sigh, it was fate, just take it one step at a time...

It's a little rainy, and it's a bit cold since winter, so Li San'er, who sells soup cakes, hasn't arrived at the alley today.

There was a drunkard lying on the side of the alley. Zhu Qianpo walked over and prepared to wake him up. The weather was freezing and this was no fun.

When I got closer, I found that the man had a pale face and a black stain on his chest. I couldn't help but take a few steps back, trying to scream as hard as I could, but no sound came out.

The sound of beating bamboo boards came from the entrance of the alley, which was the arrival of Li San'er's load of soup cakes.

Li Saner is discussing with his wife these days whether to sell soup cakes in another place, because the business of selling soup cakes at night has dropped a lot recently.

The woman was stingy and insisted that Li San'er was a goblin in the alley who couldn't bear to eat. She couldn't bear to change places because she couldn't satisfy her cravings. She even caught Li San's face before going out.
Chapter completed!