Isekai Kenkokuki - Ch. 65

[MangaDex]

 

[Vanness]

Oh look, something that isn't an April fools chapter.

 

[Amariithynar]

Huh, there was a lot of assumed knowledge in the conversations this chapter... feels weird. At least they had an actual reasonable decision for why the three rivers' area wasn't already populated; heavy flooding issues are a big concern.

 

[Madologist]

And then centuries later after another disastrous flooding of the capital costing countless lives, the people ponder "why on earth did we build our capital amongst three flooding rivers?"

 

[theShear]

And then centuries later after another disastrous flooding of the capital costing countless lives, the people ponder "why on earth did we build our capital amongst three flooding rivers?"

They intend to build infrastructure to solve that first. Several Cities in my country (including the one I live in) are build around flood risk areas and have no Issues with floods thanks to those and the trade the rivers brought in the early middle ages and before are usually the reason those Cities got so big in the first place.
They also acknowledge that this won't be easy and needs careful planning which is why they get multiple people with know how.

 

[ciera]

thank you

 

[Sylveran]

Thanks for the chapter.

"The Earth is the one that orbits the sun - it's the only way the math makes sense."

"HE'S A WITCH! BURN HIM AT THE STAKE!!!"

 

[Tju]

They intend to build infrastructure to solve that first. Several Cities in my country (including the one I live in) are build around flood risk areas and have no Issues with floods thanks to those and the trade the rivers brought in the early middle ages and before are usually the reason those Cities got so big in the first place.
They also acknowledge that this won't be easy and needs careful planning which is why they get multiple people with know how.

but flooding areas are very fertile lands and generally good for farming, because the floods washes nutrients onto land. just look at ancient egypt, which only prospered because of the nile and its floodings.
so building a dam / water management facility to reduce floodings hinders the goal for more food production which was specifically mentioned as important.
so tbh right now this looks like the author accidentally looked at the issue with a bit too modern perspective and not the needed low tech / ancient history perspective that would be needed.

 

[HYBRID_BEING]

At least use a different name for your not-Copernicus, lol.

 

[WhimsiCat]

but flooding areas are very fertile lands and generally good for farming, because the floods washes nutrients onto land. just look at ancient egypt, which only prospered because of the nile and its floodings.
so building a dam / water management facility to reduce floodings hinders the goal for more food production which was specifically mentioned as important.
so tbh right now this looks like the author accidentally looked at the issue with a bit too modern perspective and not the needed low tech / ancient history perspective that would be needed.

Quick googling say even Egyptians ALSO had water management facility:
https://ancientengrtech.wisc.edu/ancient-egypt-water-engineering/
The Egyptians practiced a form of water management called basin irrigation, a productive adaptation of the natural rise and fall of the river. They constructed a network of earthen banks, some parallel to the river and some perpendicular to it, that formed basins of various sizes. Regulated sluices would direct floodwater into a basin, where it would sit for a month or so until the soil was saturated. Then the remaining water would be drained off to a basin down-gradient or to a nearby canal, and the farmers of the drained plot would plant their crops. This practice allowed the ancient Egyptians to control the rise and fall of the river to best suit their agricultural needs.

So...sounds you're the one who need to look at history better?

 

[Ncararc]

(1) Most early civilizations grew up around rivers (e.g. Egypt and Sumer) and had to deal with flooding problems early on.

(2) When faced with a surplus of military personnel during peacetime, the economic burden can be reduced by returning the soldiers home; alternatively, they can be used as a labor force (e.g. Roman road-building).

(3) Galileo got his trial for using the name (and making fun!) of his supporter in his pro-heliocentric work. Said supporter was the Pope.

 

[amamiya426]

Almus's reason to move farther from Griffon's forest sound fine on paper.
But marching a large army to ambush them through the forest isn't as easy as it sounds.
If anything, its really a natural barrier.
Training 30 something rangers and voodoo girls to booby trap and keep watch, acting as a guerrilla squad would take less human resources too.

 

[AnotherDuck]

One of them is wide awake, one is half asleep, and one is assaulted. Seems like a regular morning with a pet.

She looks so different when he pushes her hair back. Well, manga characters are like 80% hair unless you count clothes.

Yeah, moving the capital is a bit of a big move.

A natural forest is basically impossible to traverse by anything other than foot. Horses will be slowed down too much, and forget about carts. An ambush could happen, but not by any significant force, so it would most likely only be used for infiltration and assassination attempts.

The argument about the size of the capital doesn't make much sense. The size of a city is not static. If more people need or want to live there, it will expand.

The problem with placing a new capital like that on the map is that if it's such a great location for it, there would already be a city there.

Regular floods tend to be good for crops, not bad. Those are quite often some of the most fertile lands.

If having the capital close to Domorgar is for military purposes, moving it away signals that you're not interested in attacking, which would encourage a more peaceful mindset between the nations. Of course, they might also get the idea of attacking since it makes it weaker, but that's only going to be temporary, which will lead to a prolonged war.

She's right about mishandling that amount of water. Regular flooding is already hard to control, and failing to do it properly can easily make it worse.

Calling someone a weirdo like that is a little bit on the rude side. Though they don't care about behaviour at all, it seems, considering how casual they always act.

She's objecting to what he calls her? I think he's entitled to call her whatever he wants after she called him a weirdo.

Ah, yes, the geocentric vs heliocentric beliefs. Been around for a long while. Most of the time it shows up is when people start claiming it's been known for ages, but it isn't as clear-cut as that. Sure, the heliocentric model is much older than people think, maybe ancient Egypt or something, but it wasn't the most common belief. I think it was the classic Greeks who made it more popular, but I'd have to look it up for accuracy. The Earth being round was accepted much before that, though, and it's probably some confusion about which people are talking about. But at any rate, this is a completely different world, which as far as we know might even be a geocentric one. Though I doubt it.

The heated way they argue rings true, though. Scholars do that.

so tbh right now this looks like the author accidentally looked at the issue with a bit too modern perspective and not the needed low tech / ancient history perspective that would be needed.

There are a lot of problems with how the world works in this manga. It's long been clear that the author doesn't know too much about things, and is doing at most surface levels of research.

They constructed a network of earthen banks, some parallel to the river and some perpendicular to it, that formed basins of various sizes.

Holding water is one of the best ways to reduce the impact of flooding, while keeping the water on hand or in the ground during dry seasons. Much of the industrial-era expansion made water flow too quickly, so you got flash-floods and longer dry seasons, which leads to desertification.

 

[thycondrius]

Thanks for the chapter

 

[asdman]

So at this pace when should we expect the inquisition?

 

[tekkenshu7]

Thanks for the new chapter!

Aside from the monumental undertaking of relocating a capital and also making new infra over and beside moving water, we see the introduction of another character named Nikolaus.
He is basically an isekai version of Nicolaus Copernicus, most famously known for coming up with the theory and preliminary math for heliocentrism (e.g. the planets in our system are revolving around the sun). It's no coincidence the author used the same name (and like Copernicus, he is also ridiculed by the local scientific community because he is against common standards and scientific and religious belief), and especially he is a Kirishian - which is based from Girisha (the japanese term for Greece), which is one of the center of knowledge in the ancient/classic world.

 

[hanfeizi]

Thanks for the chapter.

"The Earth is the one that orbits the sun - it's the only way the math makes sense."

"HE'S A WITCH! BURN HIM AT THE STAKE!!!"

Depends on whether he weighs the same as a duck.

 

[hanfeizi]

So at this pace when should we expect the inquisition?

NOBODY EXPECTS THE SPANISH INQUISITION!!!!

 

[asdman]

Depends on whether he weighs the same as a duck.

This duck better chonker or those guys got wild diets man!

 

[hanfeizi]

This duck better chonker or those guys got wild diets man!