"Well, Stormcastle has always faced a population shortage, so I'm out of this time, and you're doing better than I thought. ”

Duke didn't hesitate to praise him, anyway, he didn't need money to praise him, and he could get closer to his subordinates, so why not?

After Fedor and Hammer finished speaking, Michelangelo continued to narrate to Duke: "The residence of 150,000 people is a challenge for Storm New Town, you must know that the previous planning of Storm New Town was only 100,000 people, and later because of the cost problem, it became a town of 50,000 people, and now it has tripled and it is very stressful to build. ”

In the face of Michelangelo's words, Duke also nodded in agreement, he himself was a civil engineer in his last life, so he naturally knew what the concept of tripling the capacity was, which was also a challenge for Michelangelo.

"But luckily, the previous shooting of Storm New City was 100,000 people, and by mistake, no walls were built, which means that it will not be limited by the area. What's more, the cement invented by Lord Duke, once matched with steel bar, can withstand amazing power. ”

"In this way, we can continue to build directly on the original building, not only saving the construction cost of the foundation, but also not having to open up new roads, so that the construction time and cost have been significantly reduced, and now the entire Storm New City has three to four floors, which can accommodate all the people to the greatest extent." ”

"It's just that even so, there are still more than 30,000 people who have not been allocated housing, but according to the current progress of the project, they will definitely be able to live in Storm New City before winter!"

"Well, that's good, I've worked hard for you for a while. ”

Duke said gratefully to Michelangelo, the winter of Storm Castle is relatively cold, equivalent to the location of North China and Northeast China in another world, if there is no shelter from the cold in winter, it is estimated that I don't know how many people will freeze to death, this world is far from being comparable to future generations in terms of physique, resistance, or medical conditions, and freezing to death is too common.

After encouraging Michelangelo, Duke turned directly to Bashir, the civil governor of Stormcastle, and said to him: "Every family that has been allocated a house must be registered, these houses are not given to them for free, and in the future, they will use their own labor to pay for the house." ”

"Yes, my lord. ”

BASHIR NODDED DIRECTLY AND SAID YES, THIS IS ALSO DUKE'S CONSISTENT PROPOSITION, THAT IS, IT CAN BE GOOD FOR THE PEOPLE, BUT NOT TOO GOOD, SO THAT THEY HAVE SOME UNREALISTIC IDEAS, BECAUSE THE MATERIALS OF STORM CASTLE ARE FAR FROM ABUNDANT, AND THEY CANNOT MEET THE NEEDS OF COMMUNISM.

So Duke emphasized from the beginning that the house can be given to you to live in, but you must pay the corresponding fruits of your labor. And the houses in this are all rented, and the house can only be purchased after accumulating the value of the house itself.

Michelangelo actually didn't understand Duke's decision, because in his opinion, since everything had already been built, why not directly distribute it to the poor people and exploit them? But Storm Castle was Duke's decision, and this article was also enforced, and no one else could change Duke's decision.

After saying this, Duke continued to visit the storm new city, and Duke had no interest in houses or anything, after all, he had seen hundreds of meters of high-rise buildings in the future, and it was impossible to be amazed by the three or four story buildings like the people of this world.

The main part that Duke looked at was the construction of sewers, and if there was anything that really surpassed this era in Storm City, it was the construction of sewers. Underground pipes made of cement are used to discharge sewage directly into the Sea of Death.

There are also centralized toilets, and Duke has also dug a number of large biogas digesters, using the principle of composting to treat the excrement of Stormtown, and at the same time providing fertilizer for the newly reclaimed land in Stormcastle in an era when there is no large-scale fertilizer production.

It can be said that the sewer and sewage treatment system is the essence of Duke Storm New Town. Judging from Duke's inspection, the sewer system was similar to his previous design, Michelangelo executed it well, and the large pools of compost had already been built and used. And every once in a while, a special scavenger comes to clean up and use the fertilizer in the farmland. If nothing else, Stormcastle's food production today, with the blessing of fertilizer and magic seeds, will reach a peak, and it will be completely self-sufficient, and it can even lay the foundation for next year's reserves.

After all, as the situation in the Fran Empire became more and more tense, it became more and more difficult to purchase grain, and even Andorra City was wary of the strength of Storm Castle, and there were many restrictions on food procurement, resulting in Storm Castle could only be purchased little by little from farther territories, and transported to Storm Castle in batches by storm wagon, which was also very large on the road.

It can only be said that fortunately, the attack of the Shark Tribe was repelled before, allowing the Wave Tribe to have a fishing territory, basically now the Fish-Man Tribe has almost returned to its previous self-sufficiency state, and with the expansion of the territory's fishing and hunting range, there will soon be surplus seafood to supply the Storm Castle headquarters.

Fish and meat are all consumer goods that need to be met after food and clothing, and Duke stresses the need to meet demand. After all, there are no mechanized groups in this era, they all rely on the human body itself, and the quality of physical fitness directly determines the combat effectiveness of an army, so Duke must ensure the high-quality supply of troops in Storm Castle so as to deal with future threats.

After a round of inspection, Duke was very satisfied with the construction of Storm New City, and it seemed that during the period of time he was away, the operation of Storm Castle was still progressing in an orderly manner.

After inspecting Storm City, Duke's next target is a new site that Storm City and Storm Castle have opened before, that is, the Storm Market that Duke planned before leaving.

If you want to reduce transportation costs, sell goods faster, and attract people and money to Stormcastle, you have to create your own marketplace for a long time. This is how the Stormy Market was born, and Duke has put some of Stormcastle's unique products, such as the Storm's Carriage, high-end ironware, and jewelry, on the exclusive sale of Storm's Marketplace in order to attract more merchants to come, and now it's time to see the results.