Chapter 45: Site selection and construction start

When the sample was successfully run for three days without any errors, Zhou Mengchen stopped paying attention.

This effect is enough.

If Zhou Mengchen doesn’t pursue what extreme accuracy, can he create an atomic clock now?

Moreover, Zhou Mengchen knew that this sample is a sample after all. When the size of this sample is enlarged by more than ten times, the error will also be enlarged. Now the accuracy does not say everything.

Therefore, Zhou Mengchen was very tolerant and could be comparable to Su Song. Zhou Mengchen did not want to compete with the ancients on this, there was no need and no sense of accomplishment.

He devoted more energy to the site selection.

The emperor wanted to choose the address in the palace city. To be precise, it was Xiyuan, which is near the emperor's current residence.

In fact, considering the use of water, there are not many places available for Zhou Mengchen to choose from, and it is nothing more than the land on both sides of the North Sea, the Central Sea and the Zhongnan Sea.

Before the Ming Dynasty, it was very panicked. At one time, it was a place where the emperor could ride a horse and shoot arrows. The large-scale construction of palaces was a matter of the Jiajing period. It can even be said that the layout of the Xiyuan period was formed during the Jiajing period, and there was no major change since then.

Fortunately, Zhou Mengchen came to the middle stage of Jiajing. If it was the late stage of Jiajing, he wanted to find a piece of water that was not very remote and had a good scenery. It might not be easy to find. Even now, it is not very easy to find.

Zhou Mengchen could only choose a piece of land near the platform.

The reason for this is that first of all, we have to get close to Wanshou Palace to facilitate Emperor Jiajing to come, and Emperor Jiajing is a wise otaku. It is too far away, and Emperor Jiajing is probably unhappy.

Secondly, you must consider the issue of vision.

The highest observatory is built in an open place, and it is best to be located at the highest peak nearby. The commanding height of the Forbidden City is Wansui Mountain, which is Jingshan, and the coal mountain that Emperor Chongzhen hanged. Zhou Mengchen wanted to build it on Wansui Mountain, but he still gave up after thinking about it.

After all, it is difficult to construct on Wansui Mountain. And it is also inconvenient to use water.

So Zhou Mengchen seems to have many choices, but in fact, they are not too many.

Just east of the platform, near the Central Sea, the location was selected.

But Zhou Mengchen didn't know that this land had a name in later generations, called Zhongnanhai, and the platform established a building in the Qing Dynasty called Ziguang Pavilion. He had never entered Zhongnanhai, so he naturally didn't know where he chose.

Even so, Zhou Mengchen changed the plan and built three more high platforms to raise the height of the building. Nothing else, at least it must exceed other buildings in the Forbidden City, such as the Hall of Supreme Harmony, which is more than 30 meters tall and Wansui Mountain is more than 40 meters tall.

Although Zhou Mengchen chose the site and deliberately avoided this place and tried to open up space with them, Zhou Mengchen could not make the celestial body movement instrument too low.

After Zhou Mengchen returned, he revised the drawings again and changed the two layers to three layers.

The first floor is the mechanical layer, which accommodates the operation of a large number of wooden machinery and leaves a maintenance channel. A room is added, which may be used as a rest space for staff, and of course it is also to support the height. When it comes to the third floor, that is, the space of the fake Tianyi, the relative height has reached about twenty meters.

At this height, it is also a certain distance from the Forbidden City and Wansui Mountain, and it will basically not affect stargazing.

However, the three masters already knew Zhou Mengchen’s ideas very well, so this level of modification was completed in just one morning.

Only then did the formal announcement that construction can be started.

When Tengxiang heard the news, without saying a word, he asked several eunuchs to lift the small example and said, "Master Zhou, come to the palace with me."

Zhou Mengchen said, "Didn't we just come out of the palace?"

Tengxiang said, "Oh, my Lord Zhou, Your Majesty has been waiting for two months. Before you start work, don't you present a sample first, let Your Majesty take a look?"

Zhou Mengchen said, "Your Majesty didn't say it?"

Tengxiang said, "Are you waiting for Your Majesty to say it?"

Zhou Mengchen also felt stupid for a moment. In fact, he enjoyed the time to concentrate on studying something, and even made him forget about the world, whether in ancient times or in modern times. After all, mathematics is the same, science is the same. It is nothing more than that the projects are different.

I didn't get rid of the pure attitude of research for a while. Now I have realized that the messy things in the world really cannot be ignored.

In the Palace of All Things.

Emperor Jiajing lowered his head, his eyes fell on the small sample, and walked gently, and circled around with interest. Listening to the "da" sound inside, he immediately stood up and said to Zhou Mengchen, "Are you sure this thing can run for a day, right?"

Zhou Mengchen left room and said, "I dare not say that it is true, but it is absolutely no problem when it is used correctly."

After all, such time accuracy is absolutely sufficient for life alone.

Emperor Jiajing said, "Is this the water bell you made in Wuchang City?"

Zhou Mengchen said, "I am ashamed that the water bell I made cannot be just a leak, and it cannot be compared with Duke Su Wei."

Su Song was posthumously awarded the title of Duke of Wei.

Emperor Jiajing said: "How about the leaks in the palace?"

Zhou Mengchen said: "I have never seen the creek in the palace, but I think it is just a variant of the lotus creek, far from comparable to the masterpiece of Su Wei Gong."

Zhou Mengchen has a very strong say in this. Although these timing principles are ultimately timed according to the constant flow of water, Su Song's handling method is more clever.

Jiajing said, "This is a little example, just stay here. I feel comfortable."

The emperor said this, what else can Zhou Mengchen say? Anyway, this little sample is just a derivative product, so it is not important at all. Zhou Mengchen said: "Your Majesty, there is a problem with this little sample, which is that the amount of water is too small, and you have to add water several times a day."

Huang Jin said: "You can create another one, why do you need to say more?"

After hearing this, Zhou Mengchen looked at Jiajing, saw Jiajing agreeing, and immediately said, "I understand."

Seeing that Jiajing was still interested, Huang Jin said, "You can do it."

Zhou Mengchen said, "Yes." Then he slowly retreated.

After leaving the palace, he remembered what Huang Jin had just explained. He said in his heart: "The emperor wants the timing device in the small sample. After returning, let them create one alone." Zhou Mengchen was not worried. Anyway, after understanding the principle thoroughly, there would be no problem in rebuilding anything.

Just thinking of the timing device made Zhou Mengchen unable to help but think of the clock.

He said to himself: "The principle of single pendulum and escapement seem to be a piece of window paper between it and the pendulum clock, but how should this window paper be pierced? Oh, the tutor is right, I am indeed not suitable for scientific research."

This is his biggest golden finger. He knew that something could be made and then reversed the original design, or the traditional skills of Chinese scientific and technological personnel, reverse engineering. However, Zhou Mengchen had not learned the magical power of getting pregnant after just one glance.

Moreover, in the era when he lived, the pendulum clock could only be seen in museums. He had never disassembled it with his own hands. He had figured out the principles, but he was still confused about many technical details.

Of course, he was unconfident in studying and understanding it. But it took time.

Now Zhou Mengchen put this matter aside and was busy with construction first.

After Zhou Mengchen left, Jiajing suddenly said to Huang Jin: "Get the handle." Then the king and ministers took action together, and took apart several blocks of the outer baffle of the sample. You could see the complex structure inside, which made Jiajing a little dizzy, with the complex gear structure inside, as well as the transmission rod, etc. For those who don't understand, it was even extremely magical.

Jiajing said: "Huang Daban, what do you think of this thing?"

Huang Jin said: "The magical mechanism is unpredictable, it is really unpredictable."

Jiajing said: "It is indeed unpredictable."

For a time, Emperor Jiajing was more interested in what Zhou Mengchen created. He was also more interested in Zhou Mengchen. Jiajing said intimately: "Things are unpredictable, what if people think of them? Could it be that he can really understand the way of heaven and respond to the way of humanity and help me with the way of immortality?"
Chapter completed!