No matter from which angle you look at it, Princess Caroline cannot be described as greedy or ruthless. However, when Xu Yi led the convoy to Serwell City, he saw this girl next to Count Satsuma, who showed a continuous warm smile and was as beautiful as a flower. After seeing the top beauty, the smile on his face instantly became a bit embarrassing.
"Hey, dear President Xu, you are finally here." Princess Carolyn's smile became even brighter when she saw Xu Yi, and she took the lead in saying hello to Xu Yi. "I have been waiting for you during this period of time."
Xu Yi calmed down his slightly disturbed mood when he remembered what happened before, and said with a smile: "Your Highness, Princess, I have been waiting for a long time. However, coming to Sewell City to build a production base is a big event, and you must make complete preparations in advance. It will naturally take time to do it. "
"Of course I understand that." Princess Carolyn rolled her eyes at Xu Yi coquettishly. "It's just that I'm anxious and want to see you again."
Seeing the charming smile on Count Satsuma's face, Xu Yi coughed dryly, nodded, turned to Count Satsuma and said, "Lord City Lord, how are your preparations going?"
Earl Satsuma smiled slightly: "What? We haven't seen each other for more than a year, don't you believe in my ability to do things?"
Xu Yi waved his hand quickly: "How dare you? It's just that I want to know the specific situation so that I can arrange to start construction as soon as possible."
"You don't have to be busy for a while." Earl Satsuma looked past Xu Yi and landed on the long row of magic motorcycles behind Xu Yi, and nodded with satisfaction. "You just arrived today. Let's take a rest first and start discussing work tomorrow. Moreover, Princess Carolyn came here a full week in advance to wait for you. She must have a lot to say to you."
Seeing the sweet and seductive smile on Princess Carolyn's face, Xu Yi resisted the urge to roll his eyes at Earl Satsuma and turned around to greet the convoy members to go into the city together.
Compared to Batru City, which is much smaller and older than Bangta City, Sewell City, which ranks among the top in the Northeast Province, is obviously much larger.
Not to mention anything else, the walls of Sewell City alone are twice as high as Batru City, and much higher than Bangta City. And the thickness is even more astonishing. When passing through the city gate, Xu Yi observed that the wall near the city gate was actually more than five meters thick. Although other places may not be as thick as the city gate, they are definitely much thicker than the city walls in Bangta City that only have three layers of bricks.
Seeing Xu Yi looking at the city wall, Earl Satsuma who followed him into the city smiled and said: "After all, Sewell City is close to the northern border and must be on guard against the Sac Kingdom at any time, so it is appropriate for the city wall to be thicker."
Xu Yi nodded, and then thought of a question.
"In terms of being close to the border, Bangta City is actually only over a hundred kilometers away from the southern border of the kingdom. Why has the city wall never been thickened?"
"Because the Kingdom of Lampali is an old friend of our Kingdom of Lampali. The Kingdom of Lampali has been our loyal ally since the founding of the Kingdom of Lampali. It has never betrayed us, so naturally there is no need to be too defensive." Count Satsuma explained.
Xu Yi nodded slightly, but felt somewhat disapproving in his heart.
Although historically speaking, the Luersun Kingdom has always been an ally of the Lampali Kingdom, there are only interests between countries. Old friends are not always reliable.
In Xu Yi's opinion, the reason why Bangta City did not choose to strengthen the city wall was probably because it had no money.
The finances of the Lampali Kingdom are not generous. In addition to ensuring the operation of the kingdom, most of the limited financial resources are invested in the defense of the Sak Kingdom. Naturally, there is no extra money to invest in defense in other places.
Even though Bangta City can be considered very wealthy now, during the urban reconstruction project that Xu Yi and Count Satsuma carried out at that time. But they never considered rebuilding the city wall.
Because Xu Yi traveled from the earth, he never thought about the need to widen and thicken the city wall to resist the enemy, but Earl Satsuma ignored it because of his inertial choice.
"Actually, the walls of your Bonta City are already much higher and thicker than the walls of many cities in our Principality of Drake." Princess Carolyn, who was walking on the other side of Xu Yi, sighed quietly and looked at it. Take a look at the walls of Sewell City. "As for a city wall as thick as this one, I'm afraid I can't find the same one in all the cities in our Principality of Drake."
Xu Yi glanced at her and thought to himself that the reason why the Duke of Drake was able to survive in the gap between the Principality of Drake and the Kingdom of Lampali did not rely on the city wall.
With a thought in his heart, Xu Yi said to Princess Carolyn: "Your Highness, if you have any ideas about transforming the city wall, I have a good plan here. As long as the city wall is transformed according to this plan, I can guarantee that, Unless a magister-level magician takes action, there will definitely be no problems with the city wall."
Princess Caroline and Earl Satsuma 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.
"Your Highness the Princess, Lord City Lord, I believe you all know that roads are mainly paved with concrete. You should have some understanding of the strength of concrete now, right?"
Princess Carolyn shook her head: "I have experienced the convenience of roads in your Lampali Kingdom, but I don't know exactly how the roads were paved."
"Your Highness, if your Duke Duke wants to develop, then my first suggestion to you is to build roads." Xu Yizheng said. "Only by solving the road traffic problem and ensuring smooth and convenient transportation can the economy develop more easily."
"Well, when I went to Bangta City last time, I saw countless carriages going back and forth on the roads in Bangta City and several cities around Bangta City. I was shocked by this spectacular scene. If this happens in our Dukedom, it will mean that our principality has developed." Princess Carolyn said with emotion.
"This day will definitely come." Xu Yidao.
"Thank you." Princess Carolyn smiled sweetly at Xu Yi. "But President Xu, it seems that we have gone too far. Let me first tell you what you want to say about the city wall that even the great magician cannot destroy, right?"
Xu Yi did not answer the question immediately. Instead, he turned to Earl Satsuma and asked, "Sir, City Lord, do you still have an impression of the reinforced concrete structure used in the Sandy River bank reconstruction project?"
Count Satsuma'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. "Theoretically, as long as there are enough steel and cement, reinforced concrete structures can even be erected all the way to the sky."
Princess Carolyn raised her head and glanced at the sky in Sewell City, then pursed her lips and smiled: "President Xu, are you bragging? How can it be possible to lay the pavement so high?"
"Don't you believe it?" Xu Yi smiled, thinking that if you saw those hundreds of meters high skyscrapers on earth that soar into the sky, you probably wouldn't believe your eyes.
And in fact, under Xu Yi's suggestion, President Cruise is leading the Amri Chamber of Commerce to conduct corresponding experiments. I believe that it won't be long before there will be a city in Bangta City that far exceeds the current Sainz Continent. A truly tall building of architectural standards.
"Okay, that's just theory. But since you said so, Xu Yi, I think using this structure to assume that a high enough city wall should be no problem." Earl Satsuma nodded. "But there is a very important question, what is the cost of this kind of city wall?"
Hearing this question, Princess Carolyn stared at Xu Yi without blinking, her eyes full of concern.
"Lord City Lord, how much does it cost on average to build such a city wall of 100 meters?" Xu Yi pointed to the Sewell City wall that had been thrown far away and asked a rhetorical question without answering.
"As for Sewell City..." Earl Satsuma pondered for a moment and replied: "Excluding labor, the cost is about 30,000 to 50,000 gold coins per 100 meters."
"So many?" Xu Yi was surprised.
Princess Carolyn looked at Xu Yi with a puzzled expression: "Is this still too much?"
"Of course there are more." Xu Yi said immediately. "One hundred meters costs 30,000 to 50,000 gold coins. Then the total of all the walls in Sewell City must be at least more than ten kilometers. Isn't that 300 to 5 million gold coins? Isn't that much?"
"No, the total cost of building the walls of Sewell City is about six million gold coins, because you haven't counted the city gates and the arrow towers on the city walls." Earl Satsuma added. "Xu Yi, you think this cost is too high. Then will the reinforced concrete structure city wall you mentioned cost much less per 100 meters?"
Looking at Princess Carolyn's disbelieving but extremely expectant expression, 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 current estimates , if you build a reinforced concrete city wall that is three meters thick, five meters high, and one hundred meters long, the total price should not exceed ten thousand gold coins. "
"So cheap?" Earl Satsuma and Princess Carolyn both looked in disbelief.
But after a moment, the two of them changed their expressions of surprise.
Because both of them knew very well that Xu Yi would never make such a joke with them on such a matter.
Princess Carolyn 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 am doing by promoting the reinforced concrete structure city wall so hard?"
Princess Carolyn glanced at Xu Yi and hummed softly: "But you can't let us go all the way to Bonta City to buy it, right?"
"You are right, so after our Chamber of Commerce came to Sewell City, the first thing we built was the cement plant, and then the steel plant."