Chapter Forty-Eight: The Prosperous Imperial Capital
This time, Romney returned to the capital without much fanfare.
Unlike when I went to worship the Dharma God and celebrated the whole country at the beginning, I can be regarded as a model of starting a business halfway through reading and running out after learning knowledge.
Without completing a decade of coursework at St. Aman's School of Magic, Romney is not a graduate.
But it was nothing, because he had already completed the basic courses.
And he is the only student of the Fashen.
Therefore, this graduation glory is indeed dispensable for Romney.
Some people may have a philatelic character, but Romney is useless.
His ability to combine science and magic proves that he is a doer.
Pragmatics don't care about the icing on the cake, they care about the real thing that can change the world.
For example, he just invented, the magic rail car.
This road goes north from Xinshanjin Town, and then turns from north to southeast.
The road is long, hundreds of thousands of miles.
Half a year has passed since Romney and his party went back and forth.
This is still the speed of the honor.
If it were a civilian, it would not take a year to go on such a trip, and it would definitely be incomplete.
Meditate on solving this mobility problem.
Romney finally invented the magic railcar.
Magic Railcar.
As the name suggests, it is a car that is driven by the magic of the tracks.
This kind of car, Romney designed it to look like a steam train in the previous life.
The drive is a power-mechanical core assembled using a magic furnace, combined with the configuration of the body and cabin.
In this magical world, the steam train of the past world, the magic rail car that is now invented, came into being.
Because he was still on the road, Romney couldn't build the magic railcar himself.
However, because of the existence of the magic teleportation cabinet, Romney had already sent the drawings, the list of materials required, the process requirements required for production, the arrangement of craftsmen, etc., back to the Academy of Magic.
The Academy of Magic, which was working day and night, at the same time that Romney arrived in the imperial capital.
In the new shining gold town, a shining initial test was held.
The test was successful.
As a result, he was still made fun of.
Just like when the steam locomotive was first invented, today's magic rail cars are also very slow.
Because the conversion efficiency of the Magic Furnace's Cathar Coal is somewhat low, the speed of the entire Magic Rail Car can only reach a speed of ten kilometers per hour, that is, twenty miles per hour.
It's slow, almost as fast as a person walking, and even lower than some people with fast feet.
To this end, Romney gave his own solution the night before entering the imperial capital.
One: reduce the weight of the carriage.
Two: Optimize the Mana Furnace, or simply develop the Cathari Coal Furnace. And the Khateri coal, that is, a combustible material similar to the coal of the previous life newly excavated by Romney within 50 miles of the new Shanjin town.
Three: Try using other fuels, such as inferior magic crystals.
The three solutions were soon put on the experimental agenda, and although there were no results yet, Romney was confident that the completion of the magic rail car would be completed while he was still in the imperial capital.
If there is time, then he will directly present it to his father, the Emperor, to test the results.
If it can be quantified on a large scale, then the Alec Empire will be the first country in the Holy Continent to start the magical industrial revolution.
It will be epoch-making!
It is also the source of the world's most likely to trigger the beginning of a worldwide revolution in the productive forces.
Romney is thrilled to think about it.
Once upon a time, the Industrial Revolution could only take place in someone else's country.
Although it has crossed over, the sense of glory of finally having an industrial revolution of its own in my own country.
Still deeply amused Romney.
No, when everyone slowly walked into the widest crossroads of the empire, which is also known as the Champs-Avenue, Romney took the lead in getting out of the magic experiment caravan and led everyone to the side of the carriageway.
The famous pedestrian street of the Champs.
The Champs-Ésieds promenade is located on the outermost side of the entire cross, with two pedestrian streets outside the middle six-horse carriageway.
The street is more than 20 meters wide, and there are shops facing the street in the area facing the Soma road outside the residential area.
There are many kinds of shops, the most common is taverns, followed by tailors, magic item shops, weapons and equipment stores, mercenary guilds, barber shops, grocery stores, etc.
The door signs of the shops have their own patterns and words, different colors and patterns, and the combination of them forms four very special Champs pedestrian streets.
That is, the four blocks that crisscross the cross.
Beyond the Champs-Élysées in the imperial capital, there are twenty-four middle streets and countless small streets.
The main and middle streets are allowed for cars and pedestrians, and the side streets are only for pedestrians.
Every 5 kilometers of the street, there is a local guard hall.
There are not many people stationed there, and there is only a team of fifty guards stationed in each local guard hall, but they are in charge of the security of a five-kilometer square area.
The position is small, the power is big, and the responsibility is heavy.
The guards of the Alert Hall, dressed in blue leather armor and armed with swords and shields.
Frequently go in and out of the streets and alleys, patrol and check.
On the walls of the imperial capital, there are other city defense troops, dressed in blue lion armor and holding fine iron spears.
With the forty-eight huge watchtowers in the city, they are combined to form a solid lookout guard control system for the entire imperial capital.
The watchtower is 50 meters high and 30 meters wide.
There are ten people on it, who use magic arrows to communicate with them.
Arrows are not used lightly, and flags and drums are often used instead of arrows to convey messages.
Romney and his entourage walked down the street, looking east and west, and reading the imperial capital was full of pedestrians.
The RV was controlled by a guard, and everyone walked the streets relaxed and happily.
"This imperial capital, with a population of 1.3 million, covers a total area of 150 square kilometers, that is, about 15 kilometers long and 10 kilometers wide. The whole is rectangular, neatly arranged and divided into four pieces. ”
"East City, West City, North City, South City."
"And finally a separate royal palace."
"Because there are too many people, the cost of entering the city is too expensive, and there are too few markets in the city."
"Therefore, outside the four cities of east, west, north and south, cloth shed trading areas will be set up every day."
"Let the merchants who come and go can trade directly in the cloth shed area, and also allow the bulk of goods to have an additional storage space."
"The Champs Avenue we are walking on now is actually a neighborhood where only rich people can make purchases."
"Ordinary civilians, if they want to purchase, will go out of their way to the cloth shed trading area to buy."
"One in and one out, plus the carriage entry fee, it will probably cost one gold."
"But it's a truckload of goods that can be brought in."
"If it is a collection and purchase purchase, several companies will share it, or even one will buy it, and then distribute it in a small area."
"One gold will not only return to the capital, but also be able to earn another two or three golds."
A child looks, holding a small blue flag, half a dozen children, telling the situation of the imperial capital.
The child is followed by a family who has come from afar, and he has just arrived at the freshness of the noble.
These nobles are dressed in luxurious clothes, wearing gold and silver, full of local pride, but not restrained enough, obviously not a column of big nobles, but like a small family to show off.
This group of people passed by Romney and the others, and the two sides passed each other without much to say.
Grace Emma eavesdropped on her attentive thoughts, and as she walked, she followed the group of pedestrians who looked like a tour group and turned into a small road.
Romney and the others had no choice but to follow Grimmar into the trail.
"What you see now is where the carriage of Prince Romney, once the most revered prince of the empire, stopped when he traveled."
"Yes, that's right, it's these four wheels."
"When Prince Romney went to worship the Dharma God as a teacher, his car stopped here."
"Don't look around the corner, you don't believe that the prince will not take the Champs-Avenue, but walk here."
"I tell you, on that day, when the streets were empty, the prince's chariot could not move at all."
"It was after taking this path that I left the imperial capital."
"It is rumored that only sixty thousand men saw off the prince that day."
"I tell you, 600,000 people!"
"Don't say I'm bragging, half of the imperial capital has come to see off the prince."
"To be able to worship the Dharma God as a teacher! The whole country celebrates, the first in history! ”
"Isn't it amazing?"
"If it's great, pay for it, come and step on this wheel."
"Stained with the prince's extravagance."
"Ten silver coins per person, hurry up."
The child was strolling around with everyone, and suddenly came to several small pits on the flat ground.
The small pit is not big, like the traces of the wheels of the car.
I don't know if the child is telling the truth, anyway, the nobles who just came here believe it, and after one of them paid ten silver coins, they couldn't wait to run up and pedal the tracks of the bicycle.
I want to get a touch of the extravagance of the prince of the empire.
The child charged all the way, and finally the charge reached Grace and Romney and the others.
After coming here, I found that several people were not ready to pay, so I raised my head, very impatient.
"Are you happy? If you don't get in the way, the prince's nobility is not something anyone can be lucky enough to touch! ”
The child is vivid, and the little profiteer is generally harsh.
"Hee-hee, Romney, he's funny, is he saying you're going to pay him to get your own luxury?"
Grace Emma grinned at the child's words and turned to look at Romney.
His eyes were full of mischievous joy.
Pickup next to him also picked up, expecting Romney's reaction.
Margareth's eyebrows flickered, but she also stared straight at Romney, waiting for Romney's reaction.
"I didn't expect that either."
Romney rolled his eyes helplessly and made a gesture in the eyes of everyone that I didn't expect.
He really didn't think that his car could still be used to make money after the wheels of the car that were pressed out?
Those who can discover this way of wealth are also full of business talent.
There are still people who believe it, some people pay the bill, and some people are willing to be extravagant.
It's also bizarre.