Chapter 141: Choosing a City Site
Wang Yong left the kitchen that made him sick to his stomach, ran back to his room in one go, first took a shower, then lay on the bed, endured his nausea, drank two sips of water, forced himself to think of something else, and distracted himself.
Soon, the fatigue accumulated from several days of exertion began to attack, and Wang Yong quietly fell asleep.
In the dream, Wang Yong dreamed of many beauties, but the first thing Wang Yong saw was not their perfect and moving naked bodies, but the white and delicate jade hands of those beauties.
After getting up in the morning and washing up, Wang Yong summoned people to the hall for a meeting, Wang Yong thought badly: "Since I can't eat because I'm disgusting, I can't let those guys eat, let's starve with me, hehe!"
The so-called hall is the place where they often meet, and now the base has not been replanned and built, and this largest room serves as their meeting hall.
When everyone came to the hall, they all thought that today's breakfast was going to be solved here again. Unexpectedly, Wang Yong didn't mention breakfast at all, and when he saw that everyone was coming, he directly entered the topic.
Wang Yong asked someone to come over today to discuss a major matter, which was about the location of the city, so he specially called Hank and several aborigines from the original fishing village to attend the meeting.
Wang Yong enlarged the map brought to him by Prince Xihami and hung it on the wall of the hall, which was a very detailed military map.
Ryan saw this map, and he couldn't help but stand in front of the map, and he didn't know what he was doing.
Wang Yong cleared his throat and said: "Let everyone come today to choose a site for our future city, and everyone will express their own opinions, so as not to leave serious drawbacks in our city in the future." ”
Wang Yong pressed his hand to silence the people who had begun to whisper after hearing the news, and then continued: "Let me first talk about the area and main functions of the city I envisioned. First of all, the area of the city should be large enough, and the future development direction of our city is commerce. Therefore, in addition to being able to provide our own people to live in, this city also needs to take into account the problem of a large number of floating population. In addition, the military defense of the city should also be prominent, and it is necessary to look for a strong advantage in the field, which can not only save soldiers but also ensure the safety of the residents in the city. This is my request, now you can discuss it, what ideas can be said, and everyone will study it together. Once the city site is selected, it is not as simple as wasting money and labor, so everyone should actively speak and speak enthusiastically. ”
Blowing his head and asking, "Boss, what's the reward?"
Wang Yong said with a smile: "Don't talk about other people's rewards, if you can say useful suggestions, I will let you marry another wife as a lord, but I don't know if you dare to marry?"
The others began to laugh when they heard this, because everyone thought that if he bragged about his wife, let alone marry another wife, even if he dared to look at any woman a few more times, Lena would be able to beat him up.
Da Chui knew that he had been tricked by Wang Yong again, so he sat down depressedly, but he was really tempted, his eyes rolled vigorously, and he considered the feasibility of marrying another wife. Of course, the premise is that he is not killed by Lena.
The first to speak was Ryan: "From a military point of view, to the east of us is the Barron Province of the Eternal Empire, and there is a natural barrier between the two provinces - the Shenlong Mountain Range. Many years ago, the Shenlong Mountain Range belonged to our Aier Empire, but now it has been occupied by the Eternal Empire, and most of our provinces are plains, so there is no territorial advantage at all, so the east is the direction we must focus on defending, but it is impossible to completely defend against the Eternal Empire. ”
Wang Yong frowned and asked, "Is there any other way?"
Ryan shook his head and said, "No, unless we can snatch the pass on Shenlong Mountain, it will be difficult for us to defend the Eternal Empire." Let's just talk about it now, we often catch spies from the Eternal Empire, but because the relationship between the two empires is very complicated, we don't embarrass them, we just send them back to the Eternal Empire. ”
Wang Yong frowned and said, "Let's talk about the rest first, this matter is very important, and I will study it later." ”
Ryan nodded, and then said, "If the current situation is followed, I think we can rely on the base of the asphalt lake, develop to the east, build only one main city, and then build several acropolises around this main city that radiate the entire province." In this way, we can develop commerce in the main city, agriculture and military in the acropolis, and if we are attacked, the various acropolis can quickly support each other. ”
While watching Ryan draw on the map and listening to his explanation, everyone felt that what Ryan said was very reasonable, and even people who didn't understand military affairs could see a lot of ways.
Wang Yong, on the other hand, looked at the pass that Ryan said on the map, thinking about the feasibility of capturing it and the consequences it would bring.
On the map, thirty or forty miles east of the eastern border of Haibin Province, there is a huge mountain range, that is, the Shenlong Mountain Range, which is said to be the body of an ancient dragon after his death.
The mountain range runs north-south, reaching the seashore in the north and extending south beyond the coastal provinces until it overlaps and terminates at the border of the Eternal Empire in the middle of the Western Asian provinces.
Wang Yong's coastal province is sandwiched between the Biya Mountains to the west and the Shenlong Mountains to the east, two parallel mountains from north to south.
To the south of the seaside province are the Empire's provinces of Vado and West Asia, which should pose no threat to Wang Yong. To the north is the vast sea, and there is no large-scale navy in this world, so there is no need to worry about someone sneaking up on you from the sea.
Wang Yong touched his chin and thought to himself: "If you can take the pass of Shenlong Mountain and occupy all the land for dozens of miles east of Shenlong Mountain Range, then you will have no worries." Although the area of the province will not increase much, it should greatly improve the overall military defense of the province. ”
Murray went on to speak, mainly on the roads in the province. Murray stressed that no matter where the city is built, as long as the roads are clear, businessmen will come and do business.
Murray also pointed out that the road conditions in the province were terrible, and the current road conditions were so bad that out of a hundred loaded wagons, at most ninety-five would make it out alive, and the other five would surely fall apart halfway through.
Wang Yong remembered an old saying, if you want to get rich, build roads first. But it's not realistic to assign people to build roads right now, and now is the time to go all out to produce building supplies, and there is simply no surplus manpower.
Besides, Wang Yong felt that if he wanted to build a road, he had to plan it first, and build the best road at a time, but he couldn't be like the earth, he repaired and repaired, and repaired and planed, this is his own territory, and there is no place for corruption if he is planed around.
Therefore, Wang Yong decided to temporarily send a hundred people to simply pave and level along the only existing road, as long as the carriage could pass safely. After the city is built, we will concentrate manpower to plan and pave roads in the whole province.
Because Wang Yong had already decided when he saw the asphalt lake, the roads in the territory in the future would be paved with asphalt and small stones to form a flat and durable plate oil road.
Many people then expressed their opinions, including a series of issues such as water sources, land suitable for farming, transportation, and so on.
After nearly two days of discussions, the site of the city to be built in the future was basically determined by combining the local fishermen and Ryan, who had been here for several years.
The city to be built is a fairly large city, and it will not be much smaller than the imperial capital, conservatively estimated, it can accommodate at least 600,000 people, and if you squeeze it, you can accommodate a million people.
This figure is an astronomical amount for the current territory, but considering the future development, Wang Yong still decided to build such a big city.
Wang Yong, a guy who wanted to save trouble, directly named this future commercial city Seaside City, which attracted a burst of stares and disdain from everyone.
The western wall of the seaside city was built on the basis of the asphalt lake, and the road leading to the base of the asphalt lake was extended to the east as the horizontal axis of the city.
To the south of the city wall to the east, until the former residence of the Electric Light Bandits, is the lateral distance of the city. On the map, the future seaside city is rectangular in the middle of the entire province, longer from north to south and shorter from east to west.
In the northeast, east, southeast, south, and southwest of the coastal city, an acropolis that can accommodate tens of thousands of people will be built, and wharves and ports will be built in the north coastal areas in the future.
According to Hank, to the north of the coast, there is a small island, which is not very far from the coast, and can be reached in half a day by their humble boats. Wang Yong ordered Hank to find a few boats to build in the next few days, and when there was time, Wang Yong would go to the island to see it himself.
The day after the meeting, Wang Yong set out with the newly equipped werewolf cavalry and the aborigines of several fishing villages to survey the specific terrain in the territory.
During the nearly month-long inspection, through the explanation and personal observation of the fishermen, Wang Yong had a more intuitive understanding of his territory.
The climate here is very good, although there is no rainfall, but because of the coast, the air is humid and does not feel dry.
The entire southern part of the province is suitable for growing crops, and there are several rivers that flow from the snow-capped mountains of Bia that, with a little channeling and modification, can run through the southern part of the province and provide water for agriculture throughout the south.
These are fundamentally different from what the Marquis Martin said before, Wang Yong's analysis is either that the Marquis Martin has an ulterior motive to distort the facts, or that the Marquis Martin's hearsay has been deceived by others, and Wang Yong's analysis of the former is more likely.