If you ask the French people, which is the most beautiful city in the French Empire?
Some people may choose Milia City because it is the headquarters of the Continental Congress, and members of parliament from various countries also live there. They not only bring the living habits of various countries, but also the food, architecture and art of various countries.
Wait, it’s not a bad idea to call Milia the capital of all nations.
However, some people will express disdain for this and think that the most beautiful city in the French Empire is Leon.
Although the city of Milia is beautiful, it does not belong to the French Empire. Only Leon, the capital of the Seven Dynasties, can truly represent the beauty of the French Empire. It has thousands of years of history, cultural heritage, and the most beautiful hanging gardens.
A scholar once said that even a brick on the ground in Leon could write a huge book about his experience.
However, there are still some people who will disagree with this statement. They will think that Leon is the rotten corpse of the past. That city is full of corpse stench. Only the city of Donglin, which represents iron blood and solemnity, can be regarded as the modern French Empire.
the most beautiful city,
It is difficult to reach a final conclusion about the most beautiful city in the French Empire. Once it is discussed, there will be no results. Everyone will choose the city in his or her own mind. There is no universal conclusion.
However, if the question is changed to where is the largest city in the French Empire? Then everyone will choose Lanxi without hesitation.
Lanxi was the largest slave city in France hundreds of years ago. Thousands of slaves fought each other in Lanxi Arena every day. This was also the starting point of the slave uprising that almost led to the extinction of the French royal family.
Later the capital of the slave kingdom was located.
Later, the entire city of Lanxi was destroyed in the war. The only survivor of the French royal family completely razed the city and destroyed all the buildings, including the magnificent arena.
For more than two hundred years, no one lived in Lanxi. The remaining stones from the destroyed buildings became the cornerstones of other city buildings. It was not until the emergence of industry that Lanxi, a wasteland that had been vacant for hundreds of years, was reused.
Although the French royal family was extremely disgusted with the land of Lanxi and wanted to abandon it permanently, when faced with the need for a large amount of land to build factories, they could not help but think of Lanxi.
The geographical advantage of Lanxi is really great. It is the intersection of four plains in the western continent. The ancient military roads on the four plains will intersect here. It is definitely connected in all directions. Even the railway tracks were built later.
At that time, there was no need for additional surveys, and by directly building along the ancient military road, a railway network covering the entire Western Continent could be easily built.
In addition, the water system here is also very developed. The ice water left from the Rhodes Mountain, the highest mountain range in the Western Continent, converges to form the Rhodes River and flows to Lanxi. It is divided into two parts at Lanxi. A tributary that flows southward and finally flows into the Falling Star Sea remains.
The name of the Rhodes River was changed to the Rhodeland River, and another tributary going north was renamed the Rhodeland River, which eventually merged with the Velonte River and flowed into the Endless Sea.
Relying on the water network formed by these two large rivers and their tributaries, cargo ships on the water can easily deliver Lanxi's goods to any place.
It is precisely because of such a huge geographical advantage that the French royal family eventually built a large number of factories here, and it became the largest industrial city in the French Empire.
With the continuous development of nearly a hundred years, there are more and more factories in Lanxi, coupled with the living areas of factory workers, the urban area of ​​​​Lanxi continues to expand, from the old Lanxi City to the new Lanxi City, and then to the new Lanxi City.
Expanding to the outer plain areas, until now, Lanxi has finally expanded into the largest city in the French Empire.
Some good people once carefully measured the area covered by the city of Lanxi. After calculation, they found that it would take four Leons put together to be equivalent to the area of ​​​​one Lanxi. Milia was slightly better, requiring two and a half.
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Although the city of Lanxi is recognized as the largest city in the French Empire and the world's industrial crown that makes the French proud, no literati would be willing to write an article to praise such a great city, because in the eyes of those people, this
The city is very ugly.
Countless monster-like factories are crawling within sight of the horizon. Chimneys that are hundreds of meters high rise from the ground, just like mature trees. However, these trees do not grow leaves, only leaves.
It spews thick smoke and covers the entire sky, leaving Lanxi City in a dark and dim environment forever, so some people call Lanxi City the City of Eternal Darkness.
If it were just a factory without any sense of aesthetics, even the houses where the workers live would look so strange and unsightly.
I don’t know what the people who built apartments and dormitories for factory workers were thinking. They built the apartments so close to each other and the roads between the apartments were so narrow that three people walking side by side had to touch the wall.
If the people living here are compared with the dormitories and apartments built, although it is a bit crowded, it is not particularly difficult to live.
But the problem is that with a large number of factories stationed in Lanxi, the number of workers accompanying the factories has also increased rapidly. From more than 50,000 people a century ago, it has now almost exceeded 3 million people.
Since so many people have entered the city, housing must be built.
But with the completion of the railway network, land in Lanxi has become very expensive, and the price is doubling every year.
It is cost-effective to buy land, whether it is to wait for the land to increase in price later, or to directly use it to build factories, but using it to build workers' apartments is definitely a loss-making business, and it is a huge loss. No chamber of commerce can
Can't bear such a huge loss.
So the factory owners started to use their brains. I don’t know who started it first. Instead of knocking down the apartment buildings of his workers and rebuilding them, he just continued to build floors and rooms like building blocks.
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In order to save costs, the architects who first built these apartment buildings directly brought stones from the ancient city of Lanxi to build foundations, walls, load-bearing columns, etc. These stones are the best granite stones in the world, and their sturdiness is self-evident.
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It was precisely because of such a solid foundation that the house did not collapse after the factory owner used this opportunistic method to build a house.
Because there was an example as a demonstration, other factory owners also followed suit. The houses were built layer by layer, and the floors were raised layer by layer. When it finally reached more than 30 floors, the builders found that the structure of the house was tilted.
If the signs are not dealt with, the house will inevitably collapse.
For this reason, these factory owners who were not architects once again came up with a bad idea. They connected all the workers' apartment buildings together with beams and columns like steel rails, connected all the apartment buildings into a whole, and forcibly reinforced the apartments.
The foundation of the building.
Although the method was a bad idea, the effect was unexpectedly good, so the factory owner continued to add to the building, and when it couldn't support it, he connected and reinforced it. Eventually, it formed the current building with more than 200 floors, occupying 6% of the building.
One is Lanxi City, a monster-like apartment city.
Because the roads are narrow, it is impossible for the workers living in these houses to walk on the lowest road, so the workers living here spontaneously built a new building using scrap iron picked up from the factory and using steel beams and columns connecting the various apartment buildings.
There are air bridges that can reach any apartment building.
There are also highly skilled workers who have made some steam engines themselves, installed them on the outermost side of the apartment city, connected them with steel cables and iron cages, and made a crude automatic steam elevator, specially designed for workers to travel.
It is precisely because of these extended steel frames that the entire apartment city looks like a huge cage from a distance, so some people nickname it the cage city.
In addition, due to the random expansion and construction of the interior of Cage City, the terrain inside is like a maze. Even workers who have lived in Cage City for a long time are in danger of getting lost if they leave their familiar living area. Therefore, the interior of Cage City
The workers who lived there were also somewhat bored, jokingly calling it a black forest made of steel, cement and granite based on the dark environment and maze-like roads inside.
Whether it is Cage City or Steel Black Forest, these two names are not good names in Lanxi. The Lanxi City Council regards Cage City as a cancer, but they also know that this cancer cannot be touched because the entire Lanxi city
All factories need this cancer to supply enough labor, so they simply ignore this cancer.
As a result, an interesting scene appeared in Lanxi. The huge Cage City is a landmark building in Lanxi, just like the Arc de Triomphe in Donglin City and the Statue of Peace in Miria. Anyone who enters the city limits
You can see this type of building.
However, no newspapers, magazines or other publications in the entire city of Lanxi will write anything related to this place. Even people in other residential areas in the city are unwilling to mention this place under the influence of the city council.
Even if it was mentioned, it would only be described with pronouns such as "that place". A few years ago, a separation wall was built between Cage City and ordinary residential areas to completely isolate Cage City from Lanxi.
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Now, Leo, Nelson and Jason were standing in front of this huge building complex that did not want to be mentioned by ordinary citizens of Lanxi, looking for the entrance to the city.
In fact, an hour ago, when the train entered the urban area of ​​Lanxi, Leo saw such a striking Cage City at a glance.
Unlike Nelson, Jason couldn't help but exclaimed in exclamation when he saw the huge and weird building. He seemed very calm and did not hide his disgust. He said bluntly to his two companions: "I hate this place.
Especially those factories, it’s really uncomfortable here!”
Leo expressed his views so bluntly, which surprised both of them. They couldn't help but curiously asked Leo why? Because in their view, the factories all over the land represent the degree of development of human industry, and also represent what humans can do today.
Mastering the highest power is something to be proud of.
However, Leo did not answer the two people's questions, but silently looked at the gray air outside the car window.
The reason why Leo was so disgusted was because what he saw now reminded him of some bad experiences in the past.
Although the economists of the Earth Federation have tried their best to whitewash the prosperity of the Federation's economy, anyone with a discerning eye knows that the Federation's prosperity is entirely based on the plundering and exploitation of resource stars on the Federation's borders.
For the vast majority of federal citizens, they have never been to Resource Star. Resource Star is just a concept and a name in their minds. They are not interested in what kind of environment it is like or how the people there live.
However, as a federal biological weapon, Leo had been to these resource stars more than once due to mission requirements. He knew very well how harsh the environment there was and how desolate the people there were.
As a cyborg at that time, he had no extra emotions and could not have any sympathy for the people there, so he had no feelings.
But it was different now. As he became more and more accustomed to this body, the fused memories truly turned into his own memories. As a result, he had feelings that he had never had before. When he recalled that memory, it also made him feel extremely
It's uncomfortable, even though the harsh environment in Lanxi in front of me is far from comparable to the hellish situation in Resource Star.
He hated this uncomfortable feeling that he had never experienced before. It also affected his mood and made him have the urge to destroy everything in front of him. This mood was brought down from the train and brought to the front of Cage City.
The freight train center station is in the northeast corner of Lanxi City, while the passenger train center station is in the northwest corner and needs to cross the Rodland River. Nelson, who has never been to Lanxi City, is not clear about this, so they have been waiting after the train.
They were all looking for the ticket office for the train moving to Milia City at the Freight Train Central Station, and it finally took half an hour to figure out the situation.
After that, under the guidance of others, they took the urban steam rail car to the Passenger Transport Center Station on the other side of the river. Only when they arrived there and found the ticket office for the Milia train did they realize that just ten minutes before they arrived
, the train has already left, and the next train will not leave until two o'clock tomorrow afternoon.
At this time, there was still nearly a day and a half until two o'clock tomorrow afternoon. The three of them felt that waiting at the station was not an option, so they wanted to find a hotel to stay for a day. However, Nelson suddenly proposed to take advantage of this time to go to Cage City and pay a visit.
Looking at an old classmate of his from many years ago, Leo and Jason did not object and took the steam rail car back to the east coast.
Only after arriving at the place did Leo learn that Nelson and his old classmate had only exchanged letters a few times in the years after graduation, and that he had opened a private clinic in the workers' apartment city of Lanxi, specializing in treating workers here.
, but I don’t know where exactly this clinic is.
"Let's ask someone!" Leo saw Nelson looking for the door to enter the Cage City on the iron wall in front of him like a headless fly, so he said impatiently: "By the way, let's ask.
Chapter completed!