"I see," said Nightingale, who pondered for a moment, "that it is much easier to lay a hard road between two unconnected rivers than to build a complete railway." And you can't build a railroad without Anna and skilled workers, but anyone can build ordinary roads, even those who have just arrived, so we can save a lot of time!"

"Yes, that's another advantage of it," Roland approvings, "and with proper planning, it can ease the logistical pressure in a month or two at most, which means a lot to us when every second counts." It seems that you can think of the crux of the matter once in a while. ”

"Hehe, of course...... No," the corners of Nightingale's mouth quickly turned up again, "What do you mean occasionally! As long as you think about it, I can do it too—whether it's to help you with official business or to deal with ......exams."

Although she said it with a straight voice, the voice of the second half of the sentence was obviously a little lower than the first half of the sentence.

Roland couldn't help but chuckle.

Perhaps for the nightingale, the premise of serious thinking is not to fall asleep first.

He moved his gaze back to the map on his desk, the quickest way to connect the Grey Keep with the Dawn waterway was to build a road to the eastern inflection of the Chishui River to the City of Eternal Night, and then head north, through the Windward Territory of Dawn, to connect with the neighboring Flashing River.

The river originates in the Hermes plateau and its main channel divides into three in the old provincial capital, with two wide tributaries running from north to south across the country and finally into the sea. In order to further utilize shipping resources, the Moya family opened up three east-west canals in a hundred years, which is equivalent to adding three more horizontal to the two herringbone tributaries, which greatly facilitates the domestic commercial circulation of Dawn and also provides a shortcut for Roland.

From the flash river to the Mobei River, and then build a road to the cage mountain, the two places separated by thousands of miles have a "special channel". Compared to the extremely expensive railway line, the project would require the construction of two sections of hard roads, which add up to less than 200 kilometres, and three supporting loading and unloading docks.

Considering the destructive power of trucks on the road surface, if the road is paved with lotus and the workers are sprinkled with gravel to tamp it, it will not take long to send people to repair it, and it will disintegrate even faster in heavy rain. Therefore, Roland intends to use cement-stabilized sand as a hardening layer in one step, and a specification for the roads in Neverwinter.

Cement is not a rarity for Neverwinter these days, but it is still a time-consuming and laborious task to travel thousands of miles to Dawn. Rather than wasting capacity, it is more convenient to produce locally.

After finishing the drawings, Roland wrote a letter to the acting king of the neighboring country, Andrea's father, Hofford Quinn.

He decided to send some of his technicians to Glow City to teach the three families of the royal capital the cement calcination recipe and the assembly technology of steam paddle steamers, so that they could build factories and repair roads to share the pressure of Neverwinter.

He believed that the nobles would see the potential and value of cement.

With these two technologies, Chenxi's domestic transportation can be solved by themselves.

As for the steam engine itself, it is still provided by Neverwinter - not that he is reluctant to pass on the core technology, but except for Neverwinter, other cities have no industrial base at all, and it is meaningless to have no technology and raw materials still need to be transported, so it is better to send the finished product directly.

Roland is not at all worried that the other party will disobey or work hard. If the Red Mist did appear at the top of the Desperate Mountain, Hoford should hear about it soon, and by then, he would naturally know what to do wisely.

......

Two days later, Roland witnessed the arrival of the first migrants at the top of the Miracle Building.

The long fleet barely ends, and the black and white columns of smoke seem to form a high wall perpendicular to the riverbank. The dense crowd stepped onto the pier and was guided by the police into the pier. For a while, there was a rush of people beside the Chishui River, and colorful heads filled all the open spaces.

"Fifty thousand...... You've emptied an entire city, Your Majesty. Barov sighed with mixed joy, "I never thought I'd see tens of thousands of wolfhearts or eternal winters in the city of Grey Keep. At this rate, I'm not worried about the 200,000 annual growth target at all, but about your treasury. ”

"There are also security and management issues," said Chief Knight Carter, also worried, "and I am afraid that these strangers know very little about your prestige, and for the sake of the safety of the inner city, I suggest that they be isolated in a specific area, so that it is easier to control." ”

"Then they'll never fit into the Grey Keep. Roland shook his head, "If the police department is short of people, go to Barov and ask for it, punish those who break the law, reward those who do excellent work, and send those who refuse to change their ways to the mines—I need workers, not a bunch of guarded slaves." ”

There is no doubt that the influx of a large number of foreign populations will significantly reduce the security environment in the royal capital, which is also one of the inevitable side effects of the rough population introduction plan. He didn't want to do it if he had time. But what is most lacking now is time, and even if the plan has all kinds of hidden dangers, he must carry it out.

After all, these side effects are nothing compared to the benefits of population growth.

For example, if only 10,000 of the first 50,000 people will be in factories, the existing ordnance production will be doubled, which means that more weapons and ammunition or other new equipment can be obtained at the front.

Now that the manpower and technology are ready, he can officially launch a new generation of projects based on the Rubik's Cube power unit.

Over here...... Where is it?

When Vakiriss awoke again, she found herself lying in a snow-white house, brightly lit from the ceiling and the walls. A strange instrument beside him kept making a monotonous ticking sound, like some kind of timekeeping thing. A bag of clear liquid hung above its head, dripping through the pipe, and it noticed that the liquid seemed to be flowing into its body.

A flood of unfamiliar information floods into its mind, making it difficult for it to respond effectively. There are scenes everywhere that have never been seen before, or there are things that even if they have been seen, it is difficult to associate them with the images in their memories.

For example, the white shorts on his body, with stitches as thin as hair, are completely different from anything he has ever seen before.

It closes its eyes and focuses on itself - no matter how strange it is, everything in its eyes is just a foreign object, and since it is in a strange and strange place, the only thing it can rely on is its own powerful ability.

Then Vakiris's heart sank.

It discovers that the body does not belong to it at all.

Although it looks exactly the same, the magic stone embedded in the body is gone, and if this happens, then it should die instantly.

But now, it doesn't feel any discomfort.

The magic still flowed through it—in a way unheard of.

At the same time, it can no longer feel the whispers of consciousness.

No matter how much Vakiriss tried to gather her spirit, or even pull down her face and call for the Lord of the Celestial Firmament, she received no response.

That means, it's stuck here.