The locomotive Wang Qi rode passed the station without stopping, and drove directly into the access point of Xincheng Heavy Industry to park.
Here I delivered some cliche speeches, and awarded the third-class Phoenix Medal to Benz's team, the director of the heavy factory, and other coordinators.
This is also the first time that the Phoenix Medal has been awarded in public. Previously, only military officers had received this type of award.
Slightly different from the War Bear Medal, the replica of the Phoenix Medal for daily wear has not been modified for multi-purpose purposes. It is just a decoration with a gold-plated frame instead of real gold.
The few medals given out made them even more valuable and more effective than giving out thousands of dollars in bonuses. Benz and the others wore the medals and giggled until the group broke up.
After coming out of Xincheng Heavy Industry, the officials took a handcart back to Phoenix City. Wang Qili thought that this group did not go back directly. The train added a few extra carriages and converted it to a mixed load of passengers and cargo, and stopped at Fenggu.
Wang Qi and his party arrived at Fenggu City on foot.
There was an animal-drawn cart, but I didn’t ride on it.
The area between Fenggu City and Fenggu Town has not yet been filled in, and the planning is sparse. It may be completely demolished and rebuilt.
However, there are still not enough machines and tools, so things have to be done slowly.
The purpose of coming to Fenggu is to directly listen to the municipal report here.
The former Lord of Wind Valley, Sylwen, has stepped down as acting mayor. After the handover, the municipal government did a lot of document sorting work. There are a lot of things. The reporting process in Phoenix City will be very long and fragmented. It happened that the locomotive was about to be put into use, so it was arranged that Wang Qi would spend half a day here to listen to the report.
The agency period of the small mountain city has also ended, but it is relatively isolated, with a small population, limited communication with the outside world, and relatively few things.
The river flowing through the Wind Valley is a tributary of the Luna River. It turns dozens of kilometers west of the Wind Valley and turns to a north-south direction. It merges into the main river about a hundred kilometers west of Pangxun City, and then enters the territory of the orcs.
The idea of building a railway along the river seems good, but the section near the Luna River is too close to the orcs' Fartel Empire. Due to the productivity gap, even though it is relatively small, it can easily be regarded as a threat, and the existence is trapped in a multi-front war. risks of.
It is better to develop eastward. This tributary called "Emerald" goes eastward and develops from the mountainous terrain in the north. After the mountainous area (the peak-to-valley drop is more than 500 meters), there are still several hilly areas along the river. A small territory.
The scale of these territories is smaller than that of Fenggu. The biggest reason is that the rivers are immature. In human terms, there are many large rocks that are not rounded. The water is shallow and fast, which affects the safety of boats, so the fishery is not developed well.
Coupled with the on-site disasters caused by the previous wave of major collisions and the subsequent reduction in food production, these small towns have become somewhat unsustainable.
Before Lord Silwen left office, someone from the nearest small riverside town had already sent people to contact him, planning to surrender the city just like Silwen.
However, Sylwen still couldn't change some of her ideas. She was afraid that nearby cities would seize the development prospects of Wind Valley, so she put the matter on hold while she was in office. She waited until the new mayor who passed the review and palace interview among officials took office, then brought it up. schedule.
Wang Qi's view is to accept it if you can.
Artifact seeds can directly produce sugar when planted. Unlike annual crops, which also waste a lot of nutrients to grow irrelevant structures, they have a higher effective utilization rate of sunlight and a greater heat energy retention ratio.
In addition, the genetic products from Elena’s hometown, Giant Xiaoqiang, do not need straw to survive, fermented sawdust is very good.
Together, food is the least important thing for the small kingdom to worry about, and it is also the reason why Wang Qi dares to vigorously develop productivity.
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For other lords, expansion has to consider whether they can support so many people. For him, it is just asking Akeem to make more trips to plant seeds. At least two-thirds of the new population will be after passing literacy education. , if you can invest in the development of the industrial system, you will make money no matter how you look at it.
Although there are many refugees, they have only increased by less than 100,000 in the past year. They have extended their tentacles to the east, closer to the war-torn areas, and it is more direct and faster to receive the refugees.
From a military perspective, Wang Qi also needs new population replenishment points. In addition to industrial and magic-related research work, what currently limits the development of military capabilities is ethnic issues.
For example, there is a certain number of another Qingyan tribe called Pugolis in the kingdom.
Most adults of the Qingyan tribe are between 1.9 and 2.1 meters tall. The average height of one hundred randomly selected individuals is 2.02 meters. Their shoulder width is about the same as that of a 2.2-meter-tall teenage sharp knife.
Pugolis are a gray-skinned ethnic group. Their average height is only 1.65 meters. Compared with normal human proportions, their shoulder-to-width ratio is narrower. They are not suitable for physical labor. They are mainly engaged in animal husbandry, small craftsmen and other occupations. .
From these two groups, we can see that introducing a new ethnic group into the army means customizing a complete set of related standard clothing, equipment, and logistics, which is a very scary thing.
In fact, if you want to look for people similar to the Night Clan, that is, hybrids that are close to normal human body shape, there are not many. Based on height alone, they can even account for half of the total population of 300,000. But building an army does not just depend on height. Some people have tails. , some have appendages, it’s a big problem whether they can work together normally, let alone leaving the opponent’s back to fight.
Therefore, in order to introduce a new garrison army in addition to the Blade and Night Clan, there must be a large enough population base to support a mixed-blood legion that uses the same system and has similar bloodlines.
Or to think about it another way, if the population base is large enough, Wang Qi can completely militarize the sharp blade. How can he have a base of more than 80,000? Putting aside women and children, the issue of gender change in the army can at least mobilize 30,000 people at any time. , that is, the size of two divisions is enough to deal with a relatively large-scale and high-intensity war.
Therefore, when it comes to contributions, the principle of receiving everything is adopted. Except for maintaining a buffer zone with the Orc Empire in the west, anyone from the other directions will not be rejected as long as it is not an enclave.
In fact, in addition to the east side of the Emerald River, there are two other cities currently under negotiation for investment, in the east and west directions with Junction City as the center.
The distance between Fenggu and Junkou City is less than 40 kilometers. From the rough map, the city to the east of the two is no more than 50 kilometers. Once the two are completed, the one to two thousand square kilometers in the middle will be surrounded by three sides. If the villages, towns, and bandits there don't want to live a stable life, they have no choice but to go to the east.
It was only after seeing the possibility of this lump of money being pocketed that Wang Qi really started thinking about the "kingdom".
The existing territory is basically a winding belt, and because military deployment mainly faces threats from the north, there is no control over it if it is far away from cities and railways.
If we win these two new cities, will we have to draw a national border?
After thinking about it, forget it. The current shape of the territory is not good enough, and there are not enough troops to patrol the border after drawing it, which means there is no such thing.
Returning to Fenggu, in addition to these external things, Wang Qi came to set a longer-term development plan for Fenggu. Although this place is not the capital, it will assume the role of an industrial and commercial center for a long time.
Within the city, from Fenggu City to Fenggu Town, from the river bank in the north to the highest point of the hill in the south, it is necessary to implement comprehensive road hardening and a complete set of large-scale urban water supply, drainage and sewage treatment systems.
Outside the city, a railway was laid eastward on the north bank of the river.
It was chosen on the north bank because the terrain on the north bank is relatively steep and not suitable for building large residential areas. It is more conducive to railway safety management. As for the part that needs to cross the river, just build a steel bridge and it will consume some steel. The width of the upper reaches of the Emerald River , and there is no construction difficulty.
After the railways along the river are laid, we can use the railway transportation capacity and exchange materials to establish several river shipyards to transform the rivers.
Both are long-term tasks, and now there is not enough manpower, so we need to speed up and make full use of the help of machines.
