Chapter 460 The Marriage of Lycanthropes and Humans
Leaving the ordnance factory, Horn did not feel hungry because he ate late.
So he took a dozen gendarmes and headed south along the Para River.
The soles of the boots are stepped on wet cedar boards. On the brown-black wooden boardwalk, you can see two or three lycanthropes walking by carrying bags or pushing carts from time to time.
Under the shade of the trees by the river, you can also see couples cuddling together in twos and threes.
"Your Majesty, look." Rafael, who was following him, reminded Horn.
Horn, who was still admiring the beautiful scenery of the sparkling river, looked in the direction he pointed and was surprised.
Wearing human linen robes, they rub each other's ears, or tease the hair in their lover's ears.
Yes, along the way Horn saw couples, five out of ten couples were humans and lycanthropes.
In the process of Horn building the base camp of Qiu Mu Island, it gradually became the actual capital of the lycanthropic kingdoms.
The King's Council of the United Kingdom of Beastmen is on Qiumu Island. Any conflicts between beastmen are basically resolved through the mediation of the Senate.
Compared to the countryside, this dilapidated town is an international city bigger than the capital of Carthage for them.
Many kings of small lycanthropic countries simply adopted the monarchy offline system, moved their whole families to the island, and handed over all state affairs to the prime minister.
Horn also fulfilled his original promise and gave many lycanthrope nobles homesteads and allowed them to build their own houses on the homesteads.
In addition to returning to their old capital, the most important reason for their migration is——
In contrast to the lycanthropes of Osawa Township, where yin is strong and yang is weak, there are a large number of male bachelors on Qiumu Island.
When those female lycanthropes who could not marry husbands originally worked together with humans as laborers, things like "Brother, you smell so good" often happened.
As a subspecies of humans, lycanthropes are not reproductively isolated from each other, and the children born will not have mixed genetics, but will be either lycanthropes or humans.
Unlike dwarves, there is a certain degree of reproductive isolation from humans.
If a female dwarf marries a male human, the pregnancy will most likely be difficult because the baby is too big. It is extremely difficult for a male dwarf to get a female human pregnant. However, if successful, there is a high probability that a healthy mixed-race dwarf will be born.
Therefore, there are objectively few obstacles to intermarriage between lycanthropes and humans.
For these homeless bachelors, their criteria for finding a wife are two real criteria: "a woman, alive."
Although the face is a bit rough, it is good to have. The only dispute is that the male human and the female lycanthrope are trying to ask for dowry from each other.
This is a custom passed down from the ancient Aier Empire. Marrying a wife requires a dowry.
But since both parties are poor, most of the time they owe money first and go to the church to get married.
You must first have this proof of marriage before you can start applying for housing allocation. Get married early and get in line early.
Currently, formal workers in any state-owned workshop under the name of the Papal Palace can apply to be replaced by a larger Insula suite when they get married.
It’s just that the new batch of apartments are still under construction, so even if you have a wife, you still have to live in a small and low bachelor loft.
Soon after walking on this boardwalk floating in the mud, Horn arrived at the Engineering Research Institute on the south side of the east bank of the Para River.
Different from the Ordnance Factory, due to the special nature of the star-cast gears, they did not keep it as secretive as the Ordnance Factory.
However, because the Engineering Research Institute still maintains a certain degree of confidentiality, Horn also saw high and thick walls on the outside.
As the dean of the Institute of Engineering, Shilov will definitely not be present, and as the vice dean, Witte, who also serves as the mayor of an unknown town, is not present either.
The Engineering Research Institute is instead managed by pharmacist Sethi, who has little to do with engineering.
However, since 80% of the design tasks of the Engineering Research Institute are completed by Shilov alone, the mission of the Research Institute is mainly maintenance and improvement.
So this research institute is not actually studying the design itself, but studying why Shilov designed it this way.
The institute basically doesn't play much of a research role, and Horn came here just to find them some real research work.
"Don't mess with those red tapes. I'm just patrolling this time." After calling Sisi, Horn grabbed his arm and walked into the yard.
There are several sawing machines with prototype saw blades placed in the yard. Driven by star-cast gears and belts, they are sawing a short and thick log into wooden boards.
The thrown wood chips, with a touch of warmth, flowed down from the gap like a waterfall, accumulating a thick layer on the ground. Compared with the ordnance manufacturing factory, which was crowded with people and filled with smoke, the Engineering Research Institute seemed exceptionally clean.
Outside a carpenter's shed, Horn dragged a small bench and sat down. Sisi and other heads of several research institutes gathered around him.
Sisi introduced them to Horn one by one, and then Horn asked them to sit down and lecture: "You already know why I came to you, right?"
"It's a matter of weights and measures."
Sisi took out a piece of paper from his pocket: "You requested that neither the human body or old lengths nor special measuring tools be used. Those of us at the Engineering Research Institute Too stupid, I really don’t know how to regulate it.”
“So I call you a research institute? I don’t ask you to study Shilov’s design, but I hope you can. Have your own research.”
Looking at this group of idle watchmakers, waterwheel and windmill carpenters, and toy makers, Horn said in a dumbfounded voice.
"How about treating this as your first research project?"
The leaders looked at each other, but they were embarrassed: "But it is too difficult. We I really can’t think of it.”
“Did you all take the usual natural theology class?”
“It was a profound and profound class, but we only learned one or two. Yue, I really can’t think of it.”
A watchmaker raised his hand: "Your Majesty, can you tell me why you can't use the human body, a special ruler or an old one?"
Looking at their clear and unknown eyes, Horn thought again and again, and sighed. One breath.
If they were left to think about it themselves, I don’t know when they would have to think of it. The current method was proposed by Shilov.
We can't keep wasting it. Without a supporting education system, there is no other way except Horn giving them Eureka.
“The reason for not using the human body or the old system is very simple. For example, if your arm is long, the cubit will be very long. If your arm is short, the cubit will be very short.
The old fathom is also undesirable. The fathom in mountain counties is half a cubit shorter than the fathom in plain counties.
You also cannot use a guild-specific ruler. If it is based on a specific artificial item, it will easily become deformed, worn or lost over time.
Even if the standard appliances manufactured at that time have undergone very precise processes, they themselves may be affected by climate changes or accidents over time, resulting in inaccuracies in the standards.
Necessity is something that exists everywhere and will not change due to changes in the environment such as time and climate. "
"What is that? "Sisi really can't imagine it.
Amid everyone's confused gazes, Horn pointed to the sun in the sky and then to the earth beneath his feet.
“Nature itself, this is the best and most standard measure created by the Holy Father, and it is the same no matter where it is.”
So in Horn’s view, it is best to use natural phenomena to measure definition.
Because natural phenomena are universal and apply to all countries and regions.
"So what natural phenomenon should we choose?" Horn deliberately asked these engineering priests.
One of them asked cautiously: "The height of the tree?"
"Isn't that the same as a cubit?" Before Horn could answer, the companion next to him rushed to retort.
"What is that? Or should we calculate it according to the length of Qiumu Island? This will not change, right?"
"That is a lake." The same group of engineering priests were Self-refutation, "It rises in summer and recedes in winter. The lengths are different throughout the year."
"Then use an hourglass to calculate time, and then use weight?"
"It still doesn't work. I already said that using measuring tools does not meet the requirements..."
Seeing that they finally started to discuss, Horn nodded happily.
Although one month of natural theology and mathematics education failed to enable them to develop independently, their logical and critical thinking abilities have improved.
However, Horn and Shilov have discussed this issue before.
There is one thing, Horn is not sure how it manifests itself, but it should be almost the same everywhere and small differences can be ignored, that is - gravity.
(End of this chapter)