Like Hiranza, Ruit City is also a city built on a mountain.
However, relatively speaking, the mountain of Ruit City is smaller. The city almost surrounds the entire mountain and is not built on the mountainside like Helensa.
This hill limits the size of the city of Ruit. Unless it expands to the plain at the foot of the mountain, the city of Ruit can only be so big.
The biggest feature of this city is that the urban area is divided by the originally built city walls.
The entire city is divided into five sections by terrace-like city walls. There are city walls between each section. However, there are dozens of city gates between these city walls, so vehicles can travel unimpeded in Ruit City.
It is divided into five major areas: slum area, workshop area, civilian area, commercial area, and aristocratic area. If Ruit City is expanded, the city will be like a fan shape. The farther you go to the foot of the mountain, the larger the land it occupies, and the less it will be.
valuable.
The nobles almost all live on the top of the mountain...
Surdak's castle happens to be on the top of this mountain. The back garden is completely suspended outside the mountain. The entire platform is fixed on the top of the mountain by the huge root system of sixteen ancient trees. It can be regarded as the top of the mountain.
A wonder.
Of course, Surdak does not want tourists who come here to visit his castle and see his swimming pool or bathroom.
So what else is worth visiting in this city?
Apart from the mottled ancient city walls, there are actually no monuments to show off here.
However, Suldak remembered that in Baron Martino's showroom, there seemed to be a huge corridor suspended on the city wall like a garden. The entire corridor was white. This corridor that spanned the entire city wall was completely made of dozens of meters high.
It is composed of Roman columns and forms a dome above the head. Countless vines hang down from the roof of the building, completely wrapping the huge corridor.
This huge arched cloister built on the city wall will give people a strong sense of emptiness, and the city wall of Ruit City is built from the foot of the mountain to the top of the mountain. If it is on the top of the mountain, this feeling will be even stronger.
That's why he proposed such an idea to Baron Martino. He wanted to build an almost miraculous building in Ruit City to attract travelers from the entire Bena Province and even the Green Empire.
Obviously this wild idea shocked Baron Martino, for no other reason!
"Are you going to build a hanging garden? Do you know how much it will cost?" After Baron Martino heard Suldak's idea clearly, the first thing he said was to talk about money.
Yes, this is the reality, because the amount of this project is really too large.
"Currently, the quarries around Ruit City cannot dig out stone pillars that meet the conditions. If you want to find these stone pillars, you have to open new quarries in the mountains. Secondly, you must also consider transportation issues. Even if you have Thunder
Rhinoceros, if you want to transport these stone pillars to the outside of the mountain, you must also build a road suitable for Thunder Rhinoceros to walk on. Just these preparations will probably take you more than ten years."
Martino planned to pour cold water on Surdak and let him calm down. He felt that Surdak must be a little nervous after becoming the great lord of the Ganbu plane.
Surdak shook his head and said: "Perhaps we can change our thinking. We can use a bridge structure built with volcanic ash cement and panels to connect the stone pillars and arched cloisters. You probably don't know that in the deserted land, my
There is almost nothing in the territory except volcanic ash everywhere."
"When this road is connected, I only need to organize a huge transport fleet to transport bags of volcanic ash to Ruit City, and then pour the city's huge cement stone pillars on the spot.
Surdak felt that it was not possible to express his thoughts just by dictation, so he picked up a pen and drew huge stone pillars erected against the city wall.
"Just like this..." Suldak said to Baron Martino.
The stone pillars painted by Suldak look very much like the cement piers under the high-speed railway in the previous life. They have no aesthetic feeling, but they appear to be extremely ingenious and strong in structure.
"Pozzolana cement... do you think that if you build such high round vaults, they will not collapse in the event of an earthquake?" Baron Martino continued to question.
Surdak drew a huge cement pier on a piece of parchment, and then began to analyze the structure inside, explaining as he drew:
"You can also weave steel keels inside and let the cement cover the dense steel frame, so that it can resist earthquakes..."
The thought almost rendered Martino speechless.
Looking at the drawings hand-drawn by Suldak, without Suldak's explanation, the lines on these parchments would look like random scribblings of a child.
But now, in Baron Martino's eyes, these drawings brought him a flood of inspiration. He just listened quietly and did not even want to say a word to avoid interrupting Surda.
Ke's thoughts continued until Surdak finished drawing the last piece of parchment, and the entire study was almost covered with messy parchment.
Martino, however, carefully sorted out these drawings as if he had harvested countless treasures.
"Duck, I think you are an architect with bold ideas..." Baron Martino finally couldn't help but praise.
Surdak glanced out the window, and the city of Ruit was reflected in the beautiful night.
"I just hope that one day in the future, all Bena people will know that there is a beautiful Luyite City in the Tarapagan area of Bena Province just like they know Bena City." Surdak
said.
Baron Martino held a thick roll of drawings, and Senator Macmillan stood on either side behind Suldak. The two of them followed Suldak and looked out the window.
Baron Martino said: "I will re-create a model according to your idea. However, such a huge hanging garden is almost more difficult than building the entire city wall. Although this can save a lot of construction costs, but
It’s still a huge expense, how are you going to solve this construction cost?”
Suldak turned around, glanced at Senator Macmillan, Baron Martineau, and the butler at the door of the study not far away, and asked:
"What do you think is the most profitable industry in the Green Empire?"
The middle-aged housekeeper immediately stood up and answered: "In my opinion, if you own several mines, you should be able to make a lot of money as a mine owner. This may be the most profitable industry at present."
Baron Martino thought for a moment before saying: "With the frequent occurrence of plane wars, I think the richest people at present are those lords who own large pastures and fine stallions. I think raising military horses should be the most profitable at present.
industry.”
Senator Macmillan said with a smile: "If we have a large number of elite troops, we should be able to gain greater profits by exploring unknown areas of the plane."
Surdak nodded and said: "Congressman Macmillan is right. The most profitable industry in the Green Empire is war, which is more profitable than any monopoly industry. However, opening up unknown areas has the lowest return rate. We
What needs to be opened up are the areas that are known to be fertile."
"So the next step is for me to continue expanding northward in Bailin..."
…
While Ruit City was undergoing urban construction in full swing, Surdak had already begun to summon the lords of the Ganbu Plane and began to introduce the rich northern area of the Bailin Plane.
Because during the battle with the demon army in the Ganbu plane, Surdak established good cooperative relations with several other lord armies.
So this time Surdak proposed a battle plan to form a coalition to attack the northern region of the Bailin plane, and it was quickly approved by the noble lords behind these lord armies.
In addition to the several lord armies in the Ganbu plane that had close cooperation in the past, the noble lords in Ruit City also wanted to take a share of the battle to open up the plane.
Among them, the Ludweide family's new private army of lords has the largest number.
Of course, Surdak himself also mobilized nearly 10,000 heavy armored infantry soldiers from the Ganbu plane.
This time the coalition forces from the Ganbu plane went to the Bailin plane, bringing a total of 50,000 lords' private troops. Of course, the armaments and supplies of these armies need to be paid for by the lords themselves. The lords' army does not need to consider logistical issues, because this army
Since its birth, it has had a fully functional military merchant group.
The reason why Surdak submitted an application to the military department for this expedition to the Bailin plane is very simple.
The territory located in Invercargill Forest is always on the edge of the red ant nest, and these red ants threaten the life and property safety of the residents in the Surdak territory at all times. So this time Surdak
Propose to the military department to completely eliminate the ghost-striped red ant nests in the Dark Worm Valley so that the northern residents of the White Forest Plane can have a better life.
Marquis Luther did not expect that Suldak would take such a big step. However, since Suldak had this idea, Marquis Luther, as the young leader of the main war faction, certainly would not fail to support it. The application was almost submitted to
After going to the military department, it was immediately approved.
Surdak has also begun to actively prepare for war in Luyt City.
When the news that 'Lord Surdak was preparing to enter the Bailin Plane' reached Ruit City, the radicals and conservative factions in the entire Ruit City immediately fell into fierce disputes.
The conservative faction headed by some established noble forces immediately pointed out many drawbacks of this expedition. Two consecutive years of war almost emptied out the city of Ruit and Ganbu. After a year of rest, the city regained some vitality.
But now Lord Surdak has actually begun to form a coalition army to fight in other planes, which is undoubtedly a serious blow to the local economy.
In fact, the starting point of the conservatives' view of the problem is still good, but some are conservative in thinking. What they often focus on most is maintaining the existing vested interests, and then they will continue to develop step by step.
In stark contrast to the conservative faction are the radicals in Ruyter City. They actually believe that this is an opportunity for them. Being able to ride on Count Surdak's express train may allow the family to develop rapidly.
But since it is a plane war, there are huge risks. Victory will bring an overnight fortune. Failure will not only bring all the troops into it, but it will also severely shrink the family industry...
It was amid such constant disputes that the Gambo Alliance Army formed by Surdak himself was assembled in Ruyite City.