Chapter 329: Surprised Semiramis
While Alice was in big trouble, Semiramis in Jutland didn't stop building. Pen | fun | pavilion www. ο½ο½ο½ο½ο½ο½ γ ο½ο½ο½ο½
Semiramis is a smart woman, she knows that even if she has successfully advanced to the rank of legend, but her real strength, the power to fight head-on on the battlefield, is only at the low end of ordinary legends, not to mention that her ability is also related to the sea and water, if she fights on land, she may not be able to win the adult white dragon that was cleaned up by a few white bear people.
"So, all I can do is not to be a burden to Alice. β
And, let her gallop above the world without any worries. β
Semiramis, who had lived in Ascalon for a period of time, knew that although Jutland was comparable to the capital of the Assyrian Empire in terms of trade, economy, and population, in terms of infrastructure, the city and Ascalon became a small mountain village for the rural lords in the countryside.
Although a lot of planning has been done before, but the plan still can't catch up with the changes, Alice and Semiramis never thought that Jutland would actually undergo such earth-shaking changes in such a short period of time, because of the geographical location, the business of the goblins regards this place as a transit point for the entire northern trade, countless goods come in and out here, and there is an endless stream of merchant ships, coupled with the agreement between the North Sea overlord and Alice, so that Jutland's economy can be described as a daily gold fight.
In terms of population, thanks to the continuous wars in the north and the brutality of Attila's army, the human beings living on the northern road are constantly migrating towards Jutland, the city of peace, yes, Jutland is now also known as the city of peace, the city of war will not be favored by the god of war.
In the mouths of those fleeing human beings, this city built by Alice, without any historical background, has been praised by countless people, who thank Alice for bringing them a stable life and thanking for the gift of keeping war out, so in their mouths, the legend of the city of peace has been compiled into poetry and spread around the land.
Of course, many people also like to call Jutland the city where witches live, and those who hate Alice do their best to slander the reputation of the maiden, in their mouths, Alice is portrayed as a disgusting, ugly old woman, with a wrinkled face and pus and blood, who has to kill five babies every day for food, and needs to kill ten maidens and take their blood for bathing.
Fortunately, Alice used the harpy as a police officer to maintain law and order, so that she could barely control the city with a mixture of dragons and snakes, so that those rats hidden in the darkness did not dare to play tricks on the rulers of Jutland, at least on the surface.
However, using violence to suppress contradictions can only cure the symptoms but not the root causes, and when the contradictions accumulate to a certain extent, they will erupt again, especially at critical times, and may directly plunge the city into the abyss from which it will never recover...... Like the ruined port of Alexandria, like Ascalon, which has not yet been repaired, a single upheaval can undo the years of Alice and Semiramis's hard work.
"Sewers need to be widened. β
"Roads also need to be re-planned. β
"The commercial area, the residential area, and the army training quarters need to be separated, and oh, and the caster's magic tower is ready to be built. β
"Really, just for a wedding, how did Alice take so long. β
Semiramis looked at the northern sky for a while, and the heart in his chest had already flown to the black-haired girl's side, and when the height of the sun dropped to the window, Semiramis withdrew his gaze and put away the expression on his face.
In front of her, there were piles of documents, and several vampire maids were putting more things in front of Semiramis back and forth, because the whole city, tens of thousands of people, large and small trivial matters, all need to be seen by Semiramis, and a large part of them are documents accumulated by Semiramis when he broke through the legend in the previous retreat.
There is no way, the city of Jutland has too many secrets of Alice, she does not dare and is not worried about letting other people meddle in the affairs of the city, and those vampire maids who can reassure Alice have not yet grown up, so that they are qualified as maids, if they deal with the affairs of the city as officials, it will be even worse, except for the vampire maid head who is also a little useful, other maids can only do some basic trivial work.
"Scheme of underground waterways...... Well, it's this. β
Jutland had already built underground waterways when it first planned before, but at that time, the underground waterways were only used to cope with the rainy weather in summer and to drain domestic wastewater, and had no other functions, and the current scale could not cope with the living needs of tens of thousands of people.
While widening and reinforcing the underground waterway, Semiramis also intends to give it more functions, such as connecting the underground rivers under Jutland, guiding the clean water of the underground rivers into the underground waterways, as long as the underground waterways are built as complex as a labyrinth, and certain defensive traps and defensive armies are arranged in it, so that the outlet and source of the connection to the groundwater are hidden, so that the enemy cannot cut off, so that the city can stand for a long time when it is surrounded and will not be breached due to the lack of waterγ
"It's really troublesome...... If Alice had been here, it would have taken only a month to complete the project with those fossilized clay spells, but now it would take three months. β
Thinking of this, Semiramis couldn't help but sigh, now in the whole city, only Alice can really be called a spellcaster, although those vampire maids have been taught by Alice for a long time, but limited by qualifications and wisdom, their progress in magic is not satisfactory, not to mention the two simple spells of turning mud into stone and fossil into mud, even summoning a small earth element from the earth element plane requires several people to work together to complete, and the summoning time is still very short, only ten minutes a dayγ
Ten minutes is only a drop in the bucket for the huge underground waterway renovation project in the whole city, and it is better to count on those rhinoceros women who can bear hardships and stand hard work, these female rhinoceros people are also very hard-working, and if the construction is carried out in two shifts 24 hours a day, then the renovation work of the underground waterway can still be completed in two months.
In order to meet the drinking needs of tens of thousands of people, Semiramis divided into fifteen reservoirs throughout the city, each of which can radiate a radius of one kilometer, which can meet the living needs of thousands of people.
Jutland was not a place where water was scarce, and the rainwater that fell from the sky would fill it up as soon as it was placed, and they were used for war as well as the renovation of underground waterways.
Semiramis still remembers that when she was a student at the Academy of Magic, Alice once told her about something called Murphy's theorem.
1. Nothing is as simple as it seems;
2. Everything will take longer than you expect;
3. Things that go wrong will always go wrong;
Fourth, if you're worried about something happening, it's more likely to happen.
So when there is no war, being prepared for war is a normal thing in the eyes of Alice and Semiramis, even in the eyes of others, especially those goblins and green dwarves, the ideas of these two big men seem too cautious.
"Divide the commercial area, the agricultural area, the residential area, the harbor area, and the army training area, this is still too difficult to do when Alice returns, without her magic, the demolition work is still too difficult to carry out. β
Therefore, the construction and repair of the city wall also needs Alice's help, in this world, the city wall is not only used to defend against enemy attacks, it also has other functions, the city wall is deeply rooted in the earth, can be used as the basis for the arrangement of the barrier, the casters carved mysterious magic runes on these heavy masonry, to build an enchantment that wraps the area behind the city wall.
Because it is based on the city wall, the thickness and strength of the enchantment are also fully guaranteed, at least spatial spells such as [Teleportation], [Time and Space Gate], and [Teleportation Array] cannot be cast in the city, unless the user has the permission of the city owner.
Moreover, this enchantment can also be used to defend against magical attacks, such as the [Meteorite Technique] used by the shamans that Alice once encountered on the battlefield, and it can also be resisted when facing this enchantment.
As she spoke, Semiramis removed half of the papers that had been piled up in front of her and placed them on the other side, and then she continued to read them with the documents below.
"The harbor area is too crowded, and ...... do you recommend dividing it again?"
With a crisp sound as his slender index finger tapped on the tabletop, Semiramis took the black tea handed over by the vampire maid with his other hand and took a sip of it, once again falling into deep thought.
As I said before, because of the last victory, the vampire power was completely swept away by Alice from the Baltic Sea, and the overlord of the North Sea, Francis, also had an agreement with Alice, coupled with Jutland's unique location, a large number of merchants came to the city by ship, and countless merchant ships stayed here, injecting the city with prosperous blood.
The harbor that was built before is now completely inapplicable, whether it is at sea or on shore, it is too congested, and the congested traffic will affect the development of the whole port and the whole city, so the current seaport needs to be widened and widened again.
When Alice first built the harbor, she chose a natural deep-water port according to local conditions, but the location of the deep-water port was only a little bit, and if it was to be widened, it would be necessary to manually process the entire harbor, clean up the silt in the sea, widen the open space on the shore, build dams, jetties, docks, seawalls with wood, mud, and stones, and if necessary, build lighthouses and artificial islands on the sea.
In addition to this, Semiramis also planned to plan the harbor, dividing the harbor into four parts, in addition to the fishing port for fishing boats and the commercial port for merchant ships, she also planned to set aside a part for the warships and shipyards to be used for shipbuilding.
"It's another big and troublesome project...... Forget it, let's build a commercial port and a fishing port first. β
Semiramis wrote down his plans and opinions for the establishment of commercial and fishing ports, and also made a special area on the map to prepare for the establishment of military seaports and shipyards in the future.
If you want to firmly grasp the hegemony of the Baltic Sea, it is not enough to rely on the power on the shore and the power on the sea, and the force on the sea is also an indispensable thing, and the existence of shipyards can provide a large number of ships, those from the Scandinavian forests and Karelian forests, the wood will be made here in the future, the appearance of these ships can attract more merchants to join the sea trade, which will make the whole Jutland more prosperous.
In just two hours, Semiramis took care of the internal affairs papers, and the rest either needed Alice to make the decision, or Alice's magic, such as the transformation of the city and the construction of the city wall.
"Huh? This one............ It's funny...... A visit from a goblin? Maid, what's going on?"
Semiramis took the bottom document and asked the vampire maid in front of him, all the documents were screened and sorted out by the vampire maid, divided into three levels, and then sent to Semiramis.
According to the normal process, a visit from a goblin merchant should not be handed to Semiramis at this time, such a thing is usually handed over to the vampire maid head to deal with, and it is enough to notify Semiramis afterwards, only when the vampire maid head thinks that it is a very important matter, it will be delivered to Semiramis.
"Let me see, this ...... Uh-huh...... this is!"
Seeing what was written on the paper, Semiramis couldn't help but have a shocked look on her face, and she slammed up from her seat, and quickly and loudly ordered the maid who was waiting beside her.
"Hurry up! Hurry up and get that guy here! I'm going to figure out what's going on?!"