"I hope that this matter can be completely organized by the association. As for the manager of the fund, please recommend him. "
"Oh, you're not going to do it yourself?"
Lin smiled awkwardly and said, "Just distributing the magic stones to each village in my name would probably be messed up by the nobles. If the association were to step in, there shouldn't be such a problem. Besides, I'm more interested in staying in the tower to do research. Managing such a large amount of work is beyond my ability. So I can only ask the president for help. "
In the southwest peninsula of the mainland, the strength of the four regional branches was indeed greater than that of any country. As the head of the tower, it was taboo to expand his influence beyond a fixed territory of X (10 km). But if the branch were to step in, no country would dare to say a word. So Orange Eaton agreed with Lin's reason. He thought for a while and said:
"In that case, I recommend my student Shure Eweng as the manager of the fund. He was the magician who came with the convoy last time to send back your two apprentices and goods. How about this? "
"Magician Eweng is a very reliable candidate, I have no objections." He had already recommended his student, how could there be any objections? Lin complained in his heart.
Then he thought of the young man he saw before. He was kept by the old man's side but was sent to run errands. There was probably trust, but he was slightly lacking in ability. Fortunately, the matter of the fund was more academic and there was no need to worry about casualties. It didn't need any ability, it was enough as long as it was safe.
As for the operation of such a sum of money in other people's hands, would it be stolen? Lin Yi didn't plan to delve into this problem. It was originally used as protection money.
One had to know that the scale of the economy in the maze world was still based on bartering. Especially when the southwest peninsula was separated from the wilderness, the rise of civilization was only a matter of the past two or three hundred years. It couldn't be compared to the areas with a long history of civilization. In a situation where the economy was small, the demand for the circulation of money was naturally lower.
And what did Lin Dong's tens of thousands of gold coins mean? The tax revenue of many nobles in the southwest peninsula might not even add up to this amount in several years. Even the annual tax revenue of some kingdoms was far less than this. The Tower Master of the Tower of the Great Sage was a title that was well deserved, but at the same time, it was also a title that was coveted by others.
Even if the Xijia District Branch of the Society of Sorcerers, the head of the four giants in the Southwest Peninsula, had to pay Lin in full, it might affect the branch's cash flow. Therefore, no matter if it was the president or the managers of the subsidiary companies, they were all trying to sell things to the Tower Master of the Tower of the Great Sage. As a result, Lin bought a lot of flashy items.
It couldn't be helped. After all, his research topic wasn't something that could be solved by spending a lot of money to buy a lot of materials. The Magicians in the Lost Earth World had always used the method of exhaustion to conduct their research. They did not use scientific methods such as statistics or induction. Therefore, they lacked the funds to purchase enough experimental materials.
Lin, on the other hand, was just observing the stars and calculating. Strictly speaking, as long as he had food to eat, he could continue his research. After all, the computerization of the Magic Tower hadn't reached the limit yet. Naturally, it wasn't like when he was on Earth, where he always had to think of ways to get the boss to upgrade the computer hardware to increase the efficiency of computing.
Previously, Lin had entrusted the Chamber of Commerce to start collecting the materials to build the third and fourth meditation rooms. This time, he had earned a lot of money. If he didn't spend it quickly, many people would feel uneasy, including Lin himself. He wasn't afraid of thieves, but he was afraid of the jealousy of the higher-ups.
These reasons were also why Lin didn't make any other contributions to the application program. The money earned from a browser and a forum was enough to put him in a dangerous situation. If he were to research the email system, instant messaging, message boards, or even Windows, he would go crazy.
If he didn't charge money and wrote these applications for people to use, Lin wouldn't have the motivation to complete this complicated work. Which of those applications was simpler than the forum? As for doing free work, he wasn't a saint who had traveled through time to benefit the Lost Earth World, so he didn't have to torture himself. Besides, which of those applications wasn't completed by a team? Was it too healthy to do it alone?
Anyway, the natives of the Lost Earth World didn't know what else was in his mind. Naturally, no one would kneel down and beg, so he just pretended not to know.
Lin discussed the details of the fund with Orange Eaton for a while. On a whim, he said with emotion, "Originally, I wanted to ask for the title of Great Mage for Teacher Charlie Richard. That way, the name of the fund could be 'Great Mage Richard Foundation', which would sound more important. It's just that although the title of Great Mage is given to the strong and those who have made great contributions, for a long time, only the strong have won this honor. There's no conclusion as to what level of contributions one has to achieve to get the title of Great Mage, so I don't know where to start. "
Lin's unintentional lamentation had a different meaning in the ears of the old man Orange Eaton. It was just like the proverb in China on Earth: When a man dies, he leaves his name; when a tiger dies, he leaves his skin. When people reached a certain age, they would think about what to leave behind for their descendants. It wasn't just to leave a legacy, but more to leave a name.
Little Brother Richard had a good student. Orange Eaton sighed in his heart. As long as the Great Mage Richard Foundation was established and operated smoothly, it was inevitable that people would ask the question 'Who is Richard?'. Just like that, people would always remember him. As for 'Orange Eaton', after a few years, he would only be replaced by 'a certain chairman'.
"Little Brother Trippwood, you don't mind if I call you that, right? Although the matter of a posthumous title is only done by those in the church, and there are no precedents for mages to follow. However, the establishment of the foundation is also an unprecedented move. So, I will do my best to facilitate this matter. Just wait for the good news. "
Lin Yi didn't expect that his unintentional lamentation would raise his status to the level of 'little brother' in one breath. He hurriedly stood up and bowed, saying, "I'll have to trouble the chairman."
The old man nodded and didn't say anything else, cutting off the communication.
Finally, this worrying matter was over. Lin Yi wasn't in the mood to recover the mood of his research that had been interrupted several times. Besides, he had been a little lost recently. Although the goal was clear, which was to find the way home from the stars, there were a lot of things to do. Instead, he had a feeling that he didn't know how to proceed.
Feeling that he was at a bottleneck, Lin Yi simply put aside all research and wild thoughts, and prepared to welcome the upcoming astronomical event: the alignment of six stars. That was the day when the six planets in the star system of the Maze Earth were connected in a straight line.
Although it was called a line, it wasn't a straight line that connected the six planets, but an angle. Using the Maze Earth and the Sun (the sun of the Maze Earth world) as a baseline, when the other planets were also connected to the Sun, there would be an angle with the baseline. This was because the orbit of each planet wasn't on the same plane, but was slightly tilted.
Generally, the so-called alignment of planets was when all the planets moved to the same side of the Sun and converged in a fan-shaped area with a small angle.
Ignoring the angle factor, assuming that all the planets' orbits were on the same plane, the cycle of the alignment of six stars, according to Lin Yi's calculations, would occur about once every eight and a half years. But considering the angle value, it had to be limited to a small angle. That was to say, when observed with the naked eye, there would be an overlapping phenomenon, not just a crossing. According to calculations, the time would be stretched to about 122 years.
If Lin Yi's observations and calculations weren't wrong, this year's astronomical event of six stars alignment would also occur at the same time as a lunar eclipse. In other words, among the two moons, the Nanna Moon, which rose in the east and set in the west like the sun, would participate in the alignment of six stars, becoming a rather peculiar six plus two stars alignment – six planets and two moons.
The other satellite that participated in the alignment was the Gudalana Moon, which had a constant position in the sky, referred to as Gudalana Moon. According to Lin Yi's understanding, the speed of Gudalana Moon's revolution was synchronized with the rotation of the maze. Such a fast movement caused the phenomenon observed on the surface, which was that Gudalana Moon always hung in the same position in the sky.
The speed of the Nanna Moon's revolution was similar to that of the Earth's moon, which was about 28 days, while Gudalana Moon was synchronized with the maze. The positions of these two moons plus the positions of the other five planets were the basis of which astrologers relied on to predict the climate.
However, using the words "climate prediction" here was not a very accurate description of the results of astrologers. Climate was of course one of the key points of concern, but the predicted results also included increased production of certain species, increased fertility, locust disasters, flooding of rivers, grumpy people, increased susceptibility to war, and so on. There were all kinds of very unscientific predictions.
When Lin first came to the maze world, he scoffed at the predictions of astrologers. However, on a certain Twin Week, he witnessed two chicks hatching from an egg. On a certain Twin Week, when the weather was clear and there were frequent thunderstorms, he listened to the occasional dry thunder for a week. Lin was convinced that he was living in an unreasonable world of magic.
And now, this astronomical event was an opportunity for Lin to verify whether his calculations in astronomy were correct. What he wanted to verify was, of course, a Magic Tower that had been computerized to a certain extent. This included whether the design of the program was correct, and whether the functions used for the calculations were correct. If even the predictions within a star system could be wrong, then there was no need to consider the entire star system or even the universe. As for calculating by hand, that was not within the scope of consideration from the beginning.
Another reason for his interest in this kind of verification was the wall of planets in the dining hall on the first floor of the Tower of the Great Sage. It was said that it had been there since the beginning of the tower, and all the changes in the positions of the planets were also based on reality, although it was only a flat version. According to the records of the Magic Tower, every time the six stars were aligned, this wall would have a special change for a period of time.
In addition to seeing the changes on this wall, Lin also wanted to know whether the accuracy of this thousand-year-old star map wall was still perfect and could completely match the situation in reality. If it was, the principle behind this technology was worth studying, and perhaps he could add it to his own space exploration tools.
Unfortunately, in one of Lin's calculations, he found that the results of his calculations were slightly different from those of the star map wall. Then which one was right, which one was wrong, and what was the reason behind it? All these questions would only be answered when the astronomical event of the alignment really came.
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