January 19, noon.
In the wild, Lin En, Jasmine and their group were standing.
This place is not far from Blackwater City, only a few dozen miles away. The terrain is flat and it is said to be an excellent area for growing food. However, because the land is barren, there is a lack of precipitation, and there are no rivers around for irrigation, it has been abandoned.
At this time, everything was covered with dry weeds. Occasionally, there were a few tenacious plants. They still maintained their green color in the cold wind of the ice moon, which was regarded as embellishment.
Lin En looked around, looked at Jasmine with confusion, and asked, "What are we doing here?"
"Carrying on to the next big mission." Jasmine responded aloud. At this time, she was still wearing the scarlet dress, as if this was consistent with her title of blood princess. In a sense, this was her intention to strengthen her image.
Lin En was still confused and asked: "What mission?"
"Build a new city." Jasmine answered.
Lin En frowned and recalled for a moment, remembering that the scroll that Richard gave him before did mention this matter. But it was only a short line and a few words, so he didn't pay much attention. Now it seems that this matter is not ordinary.
Looking up, Lin En looked around again and asked aloud: "So, a new city is going to be built here? So how big will it be? What are the specific plans? Do we need to discuss these, or ask Richard for instructions? grown ups?"
"There is no need to discuss or ask for instructions. It was all decided a long time ago. It's just that you were busy with the efficiency department at that time, so I didn't tell you to save you from being distracted." Jasmine waved her hand, tilted her head slightly, and called out, "Su."
"Princess." The lame witch Su Wensheng came up and handed out a very long and thick scroll.
Jasmine took the scroll and handed it to Lin En, saying, "Take a look, here is the planning map of the new city."
Linn took it curiously, placed it on the ground, and slowly opened it.
In the end, I only opened it a little, and after taking a quick look, I narrowed my eyes.
Then he breathed slightly, opened the scroll quickly, and opened his eyes wide.
He saw that the entire scroll was painted with extremely complex architectural planning diagrams. Because it was too professional, he could not fully understand it. However, this did not prevent him from knowing how large the scale of this diagram was.
The reason is very simple. This diagram directly includes Blackwater City, which is dozens of miles away, and it only occupies a small area the size of a palm. According to this proportion, what was built was not a "city" at all, but a "piece" of the city.
Urban agglomeration
How many people do you want to accommodate
One hundred thousand people? Millions of people
Tens of millions of people? Thousands of people
Anyway, it is more than enough to accommodate everyone in Sarin.
This is so crazy and so unrealistic.
How is this possible? It will take a hundred years to build this, right
Lin En frowned deeply, trying not to lose his composure. He looked away from the scroll, looked at Jasmine, and asked aloud: "Are you sure that this scroll is the new city that Lord Richard asked to build? Are you not joking?"
"Oh, I know you feel shocked and impossible. In fact, when I saw it, I felt the same way." Jasmine said, "But you can rest assured that this is just an imaginary final form. Now we need to build , It’s not that exaggerated, it’s just a matter of completing a small part of the plan, and the rest will be expanded by others later.”
As she spoke, Jasmine called again: "Su."
Witch Sue came up again, this time handing over a shorter, smaller scroll.
Jasmine handed it to Linn, who opened it and looked at it carefully for a while, exhaled, and relaxed slightly.
This time, the plan on the scroll finally looked a little more normal. Although it was still complicated, far more than any city he had ever seen, it was at least a city—it could be built. At most, it was a matter of the length of the construction period.
Putting away the scroll, Linn asked Jasmine: "How long will it take us to build this city?"
"It will take up to half a year. Of course, it would be better if it was done earlier." Jasmine said lightly.
"Half a year?!" Lin En raised his eyebrows. Instead of shouting out like an impatient young man, it was impossible. He walked around for a while and said, "If it takes up to half a year, then the manpower, material and financial resources will be used." It would be a very exaggerated number, and I don’t know if I can support it, after all, Sarin has never had much money.”
Jasmine replied: "You don't have to worry about money. You may not know that your current Mr. Richard is most in need of money. As for manpower - remember what I told you, others will come. , competing with you for the position of Deputy Director of the Efficiency Department, so don’t worry too much about this, at least half of it can be solved in terms of manpower. And what you have to be responsible for is to find ways to mobilize material resources to ensure that there will be no supply of materials during the construction process. Not on."
Lin En listened and nodded thoughtfully: "So when did the city start to be built?"
"Now." Jasmine said simply.
…
As we all know, building a city actually only requires three steps.
The first step is to make the decision to build a city.
The second step is to build.
Step three, done.
Among these three steps, the first step obviously does not require much effort, and the third step is not difficult either. The most difficult step is the second step.
And Lin En was going through this second step at this time.
Jasmine announced the start of city construction, which was very straightforward, but all the things that followed were weighing on his head.
What he said at the beginning was that he could only be responsible for materials, but to be responsible for materials requires money, and this must involve money.
Although Jasmine brought him a large amount of gold and silver coins and told him that he could spend as much as he wanted, he was still skeptical about whether he could continue to supply money in the future, so he tried his best to spend every gold and silver coin in the right place. mobilizing resources.
For example, to build a city, the first thing needed is stone.
The sand forest is mountainous and the stone can be mined nearby, it is cheap and easy to transport. But the problem is that the quality of the stone is often not very good, and because there are no mature large-scale quarries, the mining volume is also a problem.
In this case, either funds will be invested to build new quarries, or old quarries will be expanded, or stone materials will be purchased directly from other places.
This is not a simple question of which one is better and which one is worse. It requires comprehensive consideration, and the decision after consideration is to do both - part procurement and part self-exploitation, so as to meet all needs and minimize costs.
The stone problem is solved, but it does not end there. After all, materials only have meaning if they are used. And this requires people to complete it, and Linn has to participate in part of the management of human resources.