Chapter 133 Reinforced Concrete City Wall

No matter from which angle you look at it, Princess Caroline is not related to adjectives like greed, cruelty, and cruelty. However, when Xu Yi led the convoy to Sewell City, he saw this warm smile beside Earl Summer, who was as beautiful as a flower. Behind the top beauties, the smile on his face instantly became a bit awkward.

"Hey, dear President Xu, you are finally here." Princess Caroline smiled brighter when she saw Xu Yi, and greeted Xu Yi first. "I've been waiting for you all this time."

Xu Yi calmed down his slightly disturbed mood because of the memory of the past, and said with a smile: "His Royal Highness has been waiting for a long time. However, it is a big event to build a production base in Sewell City, and it is necessary to make complete preparations in advance. It takes time to get started."

"Of course I understand." Princess Caroline gave Xu Yi a charming look. "It's just that I'm anxious and want to see you again."

Seeing the smile on Earl Summer's face, Xu Yi coughed dryly, nodded, turned to Earl Summer and said, "My lord, how are your preparations going?"

Earl Summer smiled slightly: "What? I haven't seen you for more than a year, don't you believe in my ability to handle affairs?"

Xu Yi quickly waved his hand: "How dare you. I just want to know the specific situation so that I can arrange to start construction as soon as possible."

"You don't have to be so busy." Earl Summer looked past Xu Yi, landed on the long row of magic motorcycles behind Xu Yi, and nodded with satisfaction. "You guys just came here today, take a break first, and start discussing work tomorrow. And Princess Caroline came here to wait for you a full week in advance, and there must be a lot of things I want to say to you."

Seeing the sweet and seductive smile on Princess Caroline's face, Xu Yi resisted the urge to roll his eyes at Earl Summer, and turned to greet the team members to enter the city together.

Compared with Batru City, which is much smaller and older than Bangta City, Sewell City, which ranks first in the Northeast Province, is obviously much larger.

Among other things, the city wall of Serwell City alone is twice as high as that of Batru City, and it is also much higher than that of Bangta City. And the thickness is even more astonishing. When passing through the city gate, Xu Yi observed it, and the city wall near the city gate was actually more than five meters thick. Although other places cannot be as thick as the city gate, they are definitely much thicker than the city wall of Bangta City, which is only made of three layers of bricks.

Seeing that Xu Yi was looking at the city wall, Earl Summer, who followed him into the city, smiled and said: "After all, Sewell City is close to the northern border, and it must guard against the Sak Kingdom at any time, so the city wall should be thicker."

Xu Yi nodded, but then thought of a question.

"As far as being close to the border, Bangta City is only more than a hundred kilometers away from the southern border of the kingdom. Why has the city wall never been thickened?"

"Because the Rulson Kingdom is an old friend of our Lampari Kingdom. Since the founding of the Lampari Kingdom, the Rulson Kingdom has always been our loyal ally. It has never betrayed, and naturally there is no need to be too defensive." Earl Summer explained.

Xu Yi nodded slightly, but somewhat disapproved in his heart.

Although historically speaking, the Rulson Kingdom has always been an ally of the Lampari Kingdom, there are only interests between countries. Old friends and such are not secure.

In Xu Yi's view, the reason why Bangta City did not choose to strengthen the city wall was mostly because of lack of money.

The finances of the Kingdom of Lampari are not rich. Apart from ensuring the operation of the kingdom, most of the limited financial resources are invested in the defense of the Kingdom of Sark. Naturally, there is no extra money to invest in defenses in other places.

Even if Bangta City can be regarded as very rich now, but in the urban renovation project that Xu Yi and Earl Summer made together at that time. But never considered the transformation of the city wall.

Xu also came from the earth and never thought about the need to widen and thicken the city wall to resist the enemy, but Earl Summer chose to ignore it because of inertia.

"Actually, the walls of your Bangta City are already much higher and thicker than those of many cities in our Duchy of Drake." Princess Caroline, who was walking on the other side of Xu Yi, sighed and looked at the city. Look left and right at the walls of Sewell City. "As for a city wall as thick as here, I'm afraid we can't find the same thing in all the cities of our Dukedom of Drake."

Xu Yi glanced at her, thinking that the reason why your Dukedom of Drake can survive in the gap between the Dukedom of Drake and the Kingdom of Lampari is not relying on the city walls.

With a move in his heart, Xu Yi said to Princess Caroline: "Your Highness, if you have an idea about rebuilding the city wall, I have a very good plan here. As long as the city wall is transformed according to this plan, I can guarantee that Unless it is a magister-level magician who takes action, there will be absolutely no problems with the city wall."

Princess Caroline and Earl Summer were both surprised, and asked at the same time: "Really? What kind of city wall is this?"

Xu Yi smiled slightly, turned around and pointed to the road connecting Sewell City outside the city gate.

"His Royal Highness, Lord City Lord, I think you all know that roads are mainly paved with concrete. You should understand the strength of concrete by now, right?"

Princess Caroline shook her head: "I have experienced the convenience of roads in your Lampari Kingdom, but I don't know exactly how the roads were laid."

"His Royal Highness, if your Duchy of Drake wants to develop, then my first suggestion to you is to build roads." Xu Yi said seriously. "Only by solving the problem of road traffic and ensuring smooth and convenient transportation can the economy be developed more easily."

"Well, when I went to Bangta City last time, I saw countless carriages shuttle back and forth on the roads of Bangta City and several cities around Bangta City. I was shocked by this spectacular scene at the time. Yes. If our Principality of Drake becomes like this sometime, it means that our Principality has developed." Princess Caroline said quite emotionally.

"This day will definitely come." Xu Yi said.

"Thank you." Princess Caroline smiled sweetly at Xu Yi. "However, Chairman Xu, we seem to have dragged the topic far away. Let me first tell me what the city wall you want to talk about can't be destroyed even by great magicians?"

Xu Yi did not immediately answer this question, but turned to Earl Summer and asked, "My lord, do you still have any impression of the reinforced concrete structure used in the Sandy River bank reconstruction project?"

Earl Summer's eyes lit up: "Of course I have an impression. You mean... use that kind of structure to cast the city wall? But can that kind of structure support the city wall so high?"

"Of course." Xu Yi nodded. "In theory, as long as there is enough steel and cement, reinforced concrete structures can even be erected all the way to the sky."

Princess Caroline looked up at the sky of Sewell City, and pursed her lips with a smile: "President Xu, are you bragging? How could it be so high?"

"Don't you believe it?" Xu Yi smiled, thinking that if you saw those hundreds of meters high skyscrapers on the earth that shot straight into the sky, you probably wouldn't believe your eyes.

And in fact, under Xu Yi's suggestion, Chairman Cruise is leading the Amley Chamber of Commerce to do corresponding experiments. I believe that it will not be long before there will be a city in Bangta City that is far beyond the current Sains Continent. A truly tall building of architectural caliber.

"Well, that's only in theory. But since you said that, Xu Yi, I think it should be no problem to use this structure to assume a high enough city wall." Earl Summer nodded. "However, there is a very important question, what is the cost of this kind of city wall?"

Hearing this question, Princess Caroline also stared at Xu Yi with a pair of beautiful eyes, full of concern.

"My lord, if you build such a wall, what is the average cost of 100 meters?" Xu Yi pointed to the wall of Sewell City, which had been thrown away, without answering the question.

"For Sewell City..." Earl Summer pondered for a moment, then replied, "Aside from labor, the cost is about 30,000 to 50,000 gold coins per 100 meters."

"So much?" Xu Yi was taken aback.

Princess Caroline, on the contrary, looked at Xu Yi inexplicably: "Is this too much?"

"Of course there are too many." Xu Yi said immediately. "One hundred meters cost 30,000 to 50,000 gold coins, and all the walls of Serwell City add up to at least ten kilometers. Isn't that 300 to 5 million gold coins? Isn't it too much?"

"No, the total cost of the city wall of Serwell City is about six million gold coins, because you haven't counted the city gates and the arrow towers on the city wall." Earl Summer added. "Xu Yi, do you think the cost is too high, so will the cost per 100 meters of the reinforced concrete wall you mentioned be much less?"

Seeing Princess Caroline's expression of disbelief but anticipation, Xu Yi smiled slightly: "Of course. The main body of the reinforced concrete structure is steel bars, and the cost of concrete is much less. According to the current estimate , if you build a reinforced concrete city wall three meters thick, five meters high, and one hundred meters long, the total price should not exceed ten thousand gold coins."

"It's so cheap?" Earl Summer and Princess Caroline couldn't believe it.

But after a while, the two of them changed their expressions of surprise again.

Because both of them knew very well that Xu Yi would never joke with them about this kind of thing.

Princess Caroline blinked her big eyes, and asked again: "President Xu, do you have to buy all the reinforced concrete you mentioned from your Xinfei Chamber of Commerce?"

Xu Yi chuckled: "Otherwise, what do you think I'm doing so hard to promote the city wall with reinforced concrete structure?"

Princess Caroline glanced at Xu Yi, and snorted softly: "But you can't let us go all the way to Bangta City to buy it?"

"You are right, so after our Chamber of Commerce came to Sewell City, the first thing we built was the cement factory, and then the steel factory."