Magic Industrial Age.

Chapter 392: Reality and the Ideal City (Subscription Request)

Lion Manor, second floor, in the study.

In front of Luo Yi, on the desk, were piles of thick documents. Even the thinnest one was as thick as an adult's palm.

The largest ones are even more than fifty centimeters.

Luo Yi just pulled the books one by one from left to right in front of him and read them page by page.

He flipped through the pages very quickly, turning two or three pages per second on average.

Coupled with the densely packed text and extremely complex drawings, no human should be able to read at such a fast speed.

Luo Yi couldn't do it either, but the one he was really looking at was not him, but Shenlan, who took in all the information through the scanning of his eyes.

On the side, Oliveira glanced sideways.

Although he had seen the same scene many times, he was still amazed at Luo Yi's inhuman reading speed and ability to handle government affairs.

He had followed Count Carl Raymond. When he was young, the old count was also a powerful knight, but after he inherited the territory, he neglected his training.

It wasn't that he wasn't determined, nor that he didn't want to practice, it was simply that he had too many government affairs to attend to and he couldn't spare much free time.

Moreover, these government affairs are actually very annoying and disturbing. Even if you practice cultivation, it is difficult to completely calm your mind.

Only Luo Yi handled government affairs very quickly. Once he made a decision, he never hesitated and would resolutely execute it.

When practicing, you can calm your mind in the shortest possible time and will not be disturbed by external things.

Perhaps, it is because of these qualities that Luo Yi can balance the improvement of his personal strength and the development of his territory.

Luo Yi naturally didn't know what Oliveira was thinking. All his attention was focused on what he saw.

There, a city emerged out of thin air and continued to improve.

A pile of information is the design plan of a city. When Luo Yi was flipping through it, Shenlan began to simulate and construct it based on this information.

The time is too short to be considered complete, especially since many places are not mentioned in the information, and the cities are blank.

But the general outline and characteristics are revealed, and are more intuitive.

Gradually, as he read through the materials and collected information, cities began to appear in Luo Yi's eyes.

In the end, after reading all the information, he saw eight more cities.

It should be said that the impact of the imperial war was enormous. He hired nine great designers, one of whom chose to give up directly after receiving the news.

Tiel Martinez, the great designer who is obsessed with creating various sculptures, is criticized by other designers for only being able to flatter the emperor.

But don't forget that he is also a fourth-level natural disaster mechanical mage, works in the Magic Association, and is an honorary professor of the Imperial Royal Academy.

As soon as the war broke out, he chose to return to his country to serve. He ignored the assistants he brought with him and returned alone as quickly as possible.

Of course, he still asked someone to send a letter to Loyi, explaining the situation and vaguely mentioning that he was being recruited by the legion to go to the east of the empire.

There, in the East Prussian province, borders the Slavic Empire!

If nothing else happened, he would have joined the army to fight against the Slavic Empire.

This person was also particular and not short of money. He also sent one thousand gold thirs as a polite way of declining this project.

As for the proposals submitted by the other eight great designers, most of them were incomplete or half-finished.

Many people have already started their journey back after submitting these materials.

Although there is only one fourth-level mechanical mage like Til Martinez, other great designers also have their own careers in the empire.

They may work in colleges, be consultants for groups, have their own factories, or have various industries...

Now, with the war breaking out, they could no longer hold back and naturally chose to return.

The information sent here can be regarded as offsetting the fees Luo Yi paid to them. We will deal with the follow-up matters later.

The only one left was the twenty-year-old boy named Julius Martin.

He has a low status, weak strength, no fame, and no industry, but he wants to fight for this project even more.

Luo Yi blinked, and a city emerged with columns of instructions next to it.

Those are the core points distilled by Deep Blue, with concise words.

After Luo Yi carefully reviewed the design plans for the eight cities, he couldn't help but close his eyes and rub his brows, and asked in his heart: "Deep Blue, which one do you think is the best?"

"Master, don't you already have an idea?"

"Yeah, I do have an idea!"

As Luo Yi spoke, he opened his eyes, picked out two designs from the eight in front of him, and pulled them in front of him.

The one on his left is the thickest and most complete of all the design plans, and it comes from the great designer Earl Charlie Brooks.

Although this earl also had family territories, his generation hardly took care of them and instead they were managed by people sent by the empire.

He can take away certain tax benefits as agreed.

This is also a very popular model in the empire nowadays. When under empire trusteeship, the empire will continue to increase investment. After the territory develops, the part of the profit they take away will be more than before.

The liberated nobles were more likely to be accepted by the royal family, considered their own, and could shine in different fields. This earl liked design and put the most effort into it.

His original design concept was to follow a tourist route, focusing on food, drink and entertainment, and emphasizing service and convenient transportation.

However, the design drawings submitted this time have undergone major changes, from a pure tourist city to a model that combines industry and tourism.

The specific location of the new city he planned was to the west of the industrial zone, where he would build a large civilian magic energy pool to provide lighting needs.

The city is mainly distributed with high-rise buildings, industrial areas, living areas and green plants. The goal is to make both life and industry comfortable.

But that doesn’t mean we no longer need the old town!
When the construction of the new city is almost complete, most of the industrial personnel can be siphoned away, and the old city can be renovated after it becomes relatively empty.

During the renovation, the high-rise building route was not taken. Instead, the original style was maintained and internal renovation was carried out, making the old city more livable, more stylish and more distinctive.

If possible, add enough hot springs, dance halls, bars, casinos, brothels, and even arenas.

In this way, enough nobles can be attracted to visit here.

The most interesting thing about his designs is that he predicted that when high-rise buildings become standard, these primitive buildings will demonstrate status and style.

Unfortunately, the whole plan is only half completed. The design of the new city is almost complete, but the renovation of the old city is still in the planning stage.

However, even so, this is the most suitable one to receive flowers.

As for the second plan, it is the thinnest one, and it comes from the great designer Skadi Donovan.

This person is not a Habsburg, but a Slav.

His family fell into poverty. His parents' generation lost in the struggle for power in the Slavic Empire. Before being liquidated, the whole family moved to the Habsburg Empire.

However, this person relied on his own abilities to be admitted to the Imperial Royal Academy, and took advantage of the period when magical machinery became popular to become a famous designer in the empire.

The solution he proposed was very advanced, so advanced that it almost seemed like the ravings of a fool.

In his plan, he needed twenty-one super-large magic energy pools, which would be distributed throughout the city in order to connect the entire city together with magic energy.

As for the foundation, it needs to be poured a hundred meters underground, dividing it into different areas until it merges into one.

All buildings are actually located in this huge energy field. No matter what you want to do, as long as you use magic energy, you can extract it.

Of course, if you want to equip it with enough Mage Towers, Activated Tower Spirits, Mechanical Mages, and a large number of Floating Rings...

When necessary, you can make this city fly and drive it around.

The reason why this design is the thinnest is probably because Skadi Donovan himself thinks that he is just daydreaming.

In order to implement this design plan, it requires not only wealth, but also extremely exaggerated productivity and a huge amount of magical materials.

This is not something that can be achieved simply by having money.

But Luo Yi just couldn't let go of this plan.

how to say?

He had a delusion that one day he would drive his own city and travel around the world!
Or, if someone provokes him, he will drive the floating city directly to that person's hometown and block the door of his house, which is guaranteed to scare the other person half to death!

Looking at the two design plans, Luo Yi patted the one on the left and said, "This is reality!"

He patted the one on the right again and said, "This is ideal!"

"Deep Blue, you said that reality and ideals collided, what should I do?"

Shenlan said: "The master said that only children make choices, and adults want everything!"

Luo Yi: "But I can't afford it, it's too expensive!"

Deep Blue: "Then do it in stages! Build some first, then build some more. As long as the plan is well made, everything is possible."

Luo Yi nodded with satisfaction: "You still understand me, let's do this!"

“Deep Blue, based on Earl Charlie Brooks’ design, combines the advantages of other design proposals to improve the design drawings.

This is Project One.

The name is the New and Old Brussels City Construction Plan.

“Project 2: Taking Skadi Donovan’s design as the lead, fill in enough content and then break it down into smaller parts.

According to the three stages, the final product needs to be a city big enough for a million people to live and work, and it should be able to become a strategic killer.

This is the Flying Lion City."

"The project has been established, calculation begins!"

Shenlan said again: "Master, do we need to stop the secret sacred skill project first and focus on them first?"

"No need. Building a city cannot be done in one go. Take your time!"

At this point, the city-building turmoil has come to an end, but for Luo Yi, these are related to the future, but they are not urgent.

What is truly urgent is the all-out war before us!
As time goes by, news comes in endlessly.

For example, Archduchess Aphra found out that the Bonaparte Empire had also drawn up a battle plan called "Plan 17"!
(End of this chapter)