Chapter 357: Urban Construction
After running around in January and experiencing hardships, he finally arrived at the territory, everyone cheered, and Wang Xiaoming also breathed a sigh of relief.
It's not a good month.
Along the way, there were bandits everywhere and strange beasts everywhere.
Forget about the bandits, seeing that their team is overwhelming, the general bandits are afraid to come, but those strange beasts are not afraid of many people, the more people, the more foreign beasts attack in groups, if it weren't for Wang Xiaoming taking the lead in suppressing the formation, and there are mercenaries to protect them, they really have no way to come over.
This is also the characteristic of the world of Lola, there are too many strange beasts, it is not safe anywhere, and there is naturally no fear of strange beasts in the city, but it is a paradise for foreign beasts, and it is impossible to avoid the attack of foreign beasts.
In particular, Wang Xiaoming's territory is the border of the kingdom, which is the most remote place, and there are the most exotic beasts.
Along the way, even with Wang Xiaoming's protection, there were hundreds of casualties, and you can imagine the danger along the way.
When I arrived at the territory, the danger was lowered, and although it was a barren place in the wilderness, there were fewer dangers here than on the main road.
There is naturally a reason for this, the reason is that this is a strange beast that has been cleaned up by Wang Xiaoming once before this.
Since he knew that he needed a territory, Wang Xiaoming was naturally prepared for a long time, before going to the royal city, in fact, Wang Xiaoming had checked the ownerless territories all over the Starlight Kingdom, and then determined this territory, so that he could choose this place at a glance when choosing the territory in front of the king.
To others, this territory is a barren land, and there is no point in occupying it, but Wang Xiaoming has already come here to check it out for himself, and knows that there are huge resources hidden here, which can help his own development. This is the most suitable place to become Wang Xiaoming's territory.
When he arrived here, Wang Xiaoming led the way and led the team to the foothold.
That foothold is also the place where Wang Xiaoming painstakingly searched, surrounded by mountains and rivers, which is not only convenient for life, but also easy to defend and difficult to attack.
Two days later, everyone followed Wang Xiaoming and finally arrived at the place where they settled.
Looking ahead, there is a majestic mountain in front of you, with dense jungles and flocks of birds. At the foot of that high mountain there was a col, and the col was so great that a city could be built here, and on the left side of that col was a huge lake, and with this lake there was no need to drink water.
"A few masters, look at how it is here, but you can build a castle here. Wang Xiaoming pointed to the col and said.
"Good place. Really nice place to build a castle here, couldn't be better. The several mages who came with Wang Xiaoming all said with amazement on their faces.
Castles are built on the continent of Lola. Instead of using artificial, they use spells, and the city is built by earth mages who cast earth spells, and the city is built by these earth mages. The fastest can complete the construction of a castle overnight, and the slowest is only half a month's effort, which is very convenient.
Each mage has its own skills. The best skill of the earth mage is to build houses and engage in construction, which is also the main means for earth mages to make money.
In order to establish his own city, Wang Xiaoming hired a team of earth mages in the name of the king, although the number of team members is small, only fifty people, but the leader of them is an earth archmage, as well as seven senior earth mages, fifteen intermediate earth mages, and the rest are all junior earth mages.
With such a team in hand, it only takes one month to complete the city planned by Wang Xiaoming.
The people were busy camping by the lake, and the earth mages followed Wang Xiaoming to the col at the foot of the mountain to conduct field investigations.
For the construction of this city, Wang Xiaoming had already calculated and designed the drawings when he came here to check before, and he had also designed the drawings, and on the way here, the drawings had been shown to the earth archmage, and along the way, the master was studying the drawings, and at this time he had already kept the content of the drawings in mind, and he only needed to compare the field to build the city.
This master took the manpower, checked in the strength, turned around, recorded the size, checked the land and the reality, and so checked, for three days, and with the drawings provided by Wang Xiaoming, he could finally start building the city on the third day.
Earth mages also have their own set of methods and rules for building cities, and the first step in building a city is to build a foundation.
The foundation they built is also said, the first step is to lay the foundation firmly, level, and then build a magic circle on this flat and solid foundation, there must be a deposit of this magic circle, in order to build the city, otherwise, without the protection of the magic circle, the city is just a castle in the air, without fighting.
The reason for this is that if an earth mage can build a castle, he can naturally destroy the castle, and among the earth spells, there is a large earthquake technique, and multiple earth mages can use the great earthquake technique to destroy a city.
That's the power of the Great Earthquake.
However, with the protection of the magic circle on the foundation, the Great Earthquake Technique immediately loses its effect on the city, and the safety of the city can be guaranteed.
Almost all cities must build a magic circle to defend against earthquakes when building foundations.
The mages began to build the foundation, the foundation is the foundation of a city, not the slightest sloppiness, plus Wang Xiaoming's requirements for the foundation are relatively special, and the sewer system needs to be built on the foundation, which is even more troublesome.
Even so, with the efforts of these mages in their spells, the foundation was completed in seven days, and the layout of the circle was completed in three days, and the foundation of the city was completed.
After the foundation is completed, it is time to build the city walls.
Under normal circumstances, the construction of the city wall is very troublesome and time-consuming, but when the earth mage builds the city wall, it is simple, all the mages cast spells together, and the archmage coordinates, and suddenly a huge earth wall rises from the ground.
When the earthen wall is raised, the earthen wall is strengthened to make it extremely hard.
In just a few simple steps, one wall is built, and then the next wall is built, and one wall after another is built, and all the walls are connected together, and there is a circle of walls.
The city wall designed by Wang Xiaoming is not a conventional quadrangular city wall, but a diamond-shaped castle. The city wall is a diamond-shaped castle, which is an M-shaped castle, and after multiple M-shaped castles are connected together, it is a diamond-shaped castle, and the advantage of this castle is that no matter which direction the opponent attacks the city from, it will encounter a flank attack on both walls, thus increasing the attack power.
In addition to the different shapes of the city walls, a fort was also built on the city wall, of course, Wang Xiaoming naturally did not explain to these mages who built the fort that this was a fort, only that this was a special arrow tower.
The foundation is laid. The city wall was much more convenient, and in just three days, a circle of walls was built.
Even at this speed, it is because Wang Xiaoming has relatively high requirements for the city wall, which makes the other party spend some more time building the city wall more solidly.
The foundations are laid, the walls are built, and the outline of a city is basically completed.
However, at its current scale, it is still some time before it is completed.
After the walls were built. It's the construction of the city.
Wang Xiaoming also has a long-term plan for the construction of the city.
The city is divided into five major districts, residential and commercial. Industrial Zone, College Zone, Military Zone.
A residential area is a place where people live, and a commercial area is a place where you buy and sell. The industrial area is where the factory is set up and is the largest area of the area, and the college area is the place where learning and imparting knowledge are used. The last military zone is where the barracks are located.
Although these mages built houses very quickly, they couldn't resist the fact that Wang Xiaoming had to build more houses, and it would take at least three months to complete the city.
Wang Xiaoming naturally can't wait that long, but it's not like there's no way.
The natural method is to build in sections, and it is not necessary to build the whole city at once, but to build the places that need it first, so that the speed of construction will be very fast.
In just three days, the outlines of the five districts were built, and then the buildings that needed to be used in each area were also constructed.
For example, a factory has been built in the industrial area, and the residential area has built the place where everyone needs to live now, and the rest of the houses are being built slowly.
It is expected that it will take three months to complete the project.
Three months is a bit of a long time, but with the current construction, it's enough.
These mercenaries are all people who collect money to work, and the deadline for Wang Xiaoming to hire them will soon come, which is also a very helpless thing, most of Wang Xiaoming's money is spent on buying materials, and that's all the treatment that can be given to them, so it is naturally impossible to keep all of them.
Yes, not all of them, but some, some, there are not many people, only about twenty people.
The twenty or so people left behind were not mercenaries, but were recruited by Wang Xiaoming as his own private soldiers.
Wang Xiaoming sent a recruitment request to all the mercenaries, but unfortunately, most of the mercenaries were not optimistic about the future of Wang Xiaoming's territory, and Wang Xiaoming couldn't come up with the money now, so in the end, only about 20 people were willing to stay.
The twenty or so people who stayed behind were all old mercenaries, and the youngest was in his forties.
The reason why they are willing to stay is also because they have been mercenaries all their lives, they are really tired, and they don't want to take any more risks, so they want to find a place, return to their roots, and enjoy the rest of their lives.
What's more, they are all family people, and when they settle down here, Wang Xiaoming has promised them that he will let their families move in together.
Although the number of these twenty or so people is small, they are all old mercenaries with rich combat experience, which is extremely useful to Wang Xiaoming, who lacks manpower.
It's just a pity that these old mercenaries have a lot of experience, but their strength is a little worse, only three of them are first-order, and the rest are not ranked.
It's just that then again, if it weren't for their low strength and no better way out, they wouldn't have stayed here.
With these 20 veterans taking the lead, Wang Xiaoming selected 200 young men from his subordinates to let them take the training, and a small team began to be established.
Just trying to count on them to fight, that's a dream.
Wang Xiaoming didn't expect them to fight, he just treated them as seeds.
In addition, the soldier's training manual was also written by Wang Xiaoming himself, and of course, most of the content was provided by Superbrain.
These veterans are actually quite confused about the training methods recorded in the training manual, because in their opinion, how can soldiers train like that?
But Wang Xiaoming is the lord, they are just small soldiers under the lord, and they can only carry out the lord's orders, not oppose them.
If you have any doubts about the method of military training, you can just follow it.
Wang Xiaoming still attaches great importance to the training of soldiers, and he will go to the location of the barracks every day to watch, and it is also because the lord will watch it every day, so the soldiers train extremely hard, and no one will cheat and play tricks.
In addition to the matter of military training, there is another thing that Wang Xiaoming values more.
That is the construction of industrial zones.
Prior to this, Wang Xiaoming had already found craftsmen to build a lot of utensils for the construction of the industrial zone, which were transported to the territory and assembled in the industrial zone.
After the assembly is completed, there are two large appliances.
One is a generator and the other is a lathe.
The generator was installed in a specially built fortress near the lake, which was driven by the flow of the water of the lake and thus generated electricity, which was not used in the city, not that the city could not use electricity, but that it was not in the current conditions to use electricity.
This generator is also too small to power the city.
The real purpose of this generator is to replenish the power of Night Fight.
The driving energy of the Night Fighting God is not electricity, but a more high-end energy, but that kind of energy, Wang Xiaoming can't get it, so he can only use electricity to convert.
All of the electricity generated by the generators is injected into Nightfight, providing power to Nightfight.
But this generator is still too small for the Night Fighter, even if it runs all day, the power that can be provided for the Night Fighter is extremely limited, with the power of this generator, there is no way to make the Night Fighter start.
Despite this, for Wang Xiaoming, being able to charge is good news, and he will not have any complaints about it.
As for making a few more generators to increase the speed of power generation, it is not impossible, but it is necessary to wait for Wang Xiaoming to make money and have extra funds to make more generators. (To be continued......)