Urban Sims

Chapter 404 Golden Development Period

For Limburg Township, after the first severe survival crisis passed, the following time can be described as "a smooth road".

The reconstruction work started immediately, and various undertakings were flourishing.

Only eight months later, Limburg Town, whose city wall was completed, was officially upgraded from a town to a city after a plaque was hung on the square gate tower.

Zhenlin City!
A wealthy town with a population exceeding 10,

But in private, someone gave this city another name - Tuxian City.

Many years later, in other places, the name of Tuxian City is far more famous than Zhenlin City.

There are even some people who only hear about Tuxian City, but not Zhenlin City. They don't know that these two names represent a place.

As for why it is called Tuxian City... There is no doubt that there must be immortals who fell in this city, but few people know that the first person who fell here was a demon named "Old Patriarch of the Netherworld" .

Whether it is the nearby Jinyan City or other cities farther away, there are not many monks who have heard of the name "The Nether Ancestor", but through some channels, they know that there is a strong alchemist who can fly with imperial weapons, and the town After a conflict broke out in Lincheng, the mysterious strongman hidden in Zhenlincheng killed him with one blow, which was shocking.

From this, it is concluded that Zhenlin City is protected by strong men above the Gudan stage.

The number of powerhouses in the solid alchemy stage is very rare, let alone one out of tens of thousands of ordinary people, even among monks, one out of 1, I don't know if it is possible to produce one out of [-]?
Therefore, for the newly established Zhenlin City, all forces are extremely jealous, and those with malicious intentions dare not act rashly.

Invisibly, this has reduced a lot of interference to the development of Zhenlin City.

So in the next five years, Zhenlin City entered a period of rapid development that can be called the "golden development period".

The speed of development is so fast that it is dizzying and feels that it is changing with each passing day.

Almost every day, there are visible changes.

Almost every year, people feel that they have changed the city they live in.

So, in the past five years, what kind of changes have taken place in Zhenlin City?
It can be seen from many aspects.

First, the most important population.

The population of Zhenlin City has actually increased from over 10 to 50.5 within five years. The sudden increase in population has made the urban area, which was originally empty enough to accommodate a population of 30, become extremely crowded. In the end, the Urban Planning Bureau had to build commercial and residential areas one after another outside the city, and due to the existence of rail transit, the outer city wall was not planned to be built.

With enough population influx, the agricultural and industrial output value of Zhenlin City both experienced explosive growth.

Take the simplest "total grain output" in the field of agriculture as an example. In the past five years, the total grain output of Zhenlin City has increased dozens of times due to the realization of full mechanization (animal power) from sowing to harvesting. , the total grain output has increased from 20 tons five years ago to the current 100 million tons.

Such a huge amount of food, with such a small population in Zhenlin City, couldn't handle it at all, and couldn't eat it all.

Even if you add the 10 people in Jinyan City and help to eat, you can't finish it.

Then process it into feed, feed pigs, horses, cattle, sheep, and rabbits... Improve the food of animals so that they can grow meat and hair faster.

Grain can also be used to make wine, brewed in large quantities, and under the special distillation and purification process, the brewed fine nectar is strong, mellow and long-lasting, and the sales volume is extremely hot. We will eliminate all those "worse than water" hogwash on the market... ... There was even a sect that placed an order for 30 altars in one batch.

After various measures have been taken, millions of tons of grain have been completely digested, and farmers are even being encouraged to increase production.

As for agriculture, in addition to traditional food production, there are two new fields that have developed very rapidly in recent years.

One is the herb farming industry.

One is the beast breeding industry.

The value of medicinal herbs is very high, and the demand is also very strong, but under the conditions of wild growth, after long-term excavation, the number of medicinal herbs is getting smaller and smaller, the age is getting lower and lower, and the medicinal properties are naturally much worse.

In the end, the mountains and forests close to human cities and high-value medicinal herbs can be said to gradually disappear.

It is more dangerous to go to the deep mountains to dig.

Then, will the medicinal properties of artificially grown herbs be significantly reduced?

Some medicinal farmers tried to grow and found that: under artificial environment, the medicinal properties of medicinal herbs will decrease, but not too much. If the cultivation time is long and the soil is full of nutrients, the medicinal properties will tend to be the same.

Therefore, the medicinal herb planting industry has great potential.

Another ferocious animal breeding industry, how to develop and how to raise it?

It's very simple. Hunters first contract a large piece of primeval forest, and then reduce the frequency of hunting in the mountains, and only go in once in a long time. For the first period of time, they don't hunt ferocious or exotic beasts, and they don't hunt for food from these beasts—— Such as wild boars, wild deer, etc., specially attack those carnivorous animals that are not considered beasts - such as wolves, hyenas... artificially regulate the ecological chain, and turn that jungle into a paradise for beasts and strange beasts.

When their number multiplies enough, the harvest season for hunters will arrive.

The emergence of the wild animal breeding industry also marks a drastic change in the way hunters work compared to before.

Let's talk about industry.

The development of the industrial field can be divided into two aspects: light industry and heavy industry.

Light industry is mainly the production of non-staple food, furniture, daily necessities, clothing, and luxury goods, which are related to all aspects of quality of life... There is nothing to say.

Heavy industry is the focus of Zhenlin City's development in the past five years.

Especially the metallurgy industry (equivalent to the steelmaking industry), is the focus of the focus.

Near Jinyan City, there is a mineral called "Yaojin Stone". It is not only a common refining material, but after high-temperature oxidation and reduction, a golden metal can be obtained. It has a hard texture, high strength, and good toughness. It is widely used It is used in the production of kitchen knives, weapons, armor, and the most commonly used currency in circulation - gold coins (1 gold coin can buy about 10 catties of grain), and it is also made of Yaojin.

Jinyan City prospered precisely because of the distribution of "Yaojinshi". The reserves of Yaojin mines in many nearby mines are also quite considerable. Zhou Ming has visited several large mines and found that the reserves of each mine are more than [-] million tons.

The total reserves are at least [-] billion tons or more.

However, those families in Jinyan City who own mines are extremely backward in their smelting technology. Zhou Ming estimated that, apart from selling raw ore, Jinyan City's annual output of pure "Yaojin" will not exceed 1000 tons.

With this output, Zhou Ming was moved and wanted to cry.

And the metal "Yaojin" reminds Zhou Ming of "steel", but "Yaojin" has lower density, higher strength, and corrosion resistance, which is more similar to the so-called "titanium metal", so Zhou Ming Ming also called this metal "Yao Titanium".

Zhou Ming, who had his eyes fixed on Yaoti, imported a large amount of raw ore from Jinyan City, and began to conduct industrial smelting experiments. He quickly found a smelting method, established a titanium smelting plant, and smelted Yaoti on a large scale.

After the titanium refinery was put into operation, in the first year, 5000 tons of bright titanium were refined.

With a large number of bright titanium, manufacturing steam engines, there is also a basic material guarantee.

Not bad!

This plane cannot develop high-tech, but it does not mean that low-tech such as "steam engines" cannot be developed.

After all, water also exists in three forms on this plane. After the water is boiled, it can also open the lid of the teapot.

There are even "thunder and lightning" in this world, and thunder and lightning often occur on rainy days... It shows that there is no big problem in engaging in electric lighting, electric motors, generators, telephones and telegraphs.

With the steam engine, both industrial and agricultural production efficiency can be greatly improved, especially in transportation, the combination of the steam engine and the track can put wheels on everything and run quickly.

but……

Although the steam engine is good, it also has the problems of low efficiency, large volume, high noise, and serious pollution, which will bring a series of negative impacts on the environment. Therefore, Zhou Ming does not intend to fully promote it on the premise that he already has a large number of hydraulically driven machines. Steam engine - except in the field of transportation.

He is more optimistic about another form of power device - the psionic machine.

Compared with the psionic machine driven by spiritual energy and spiritual power, the antique steam engine can be said to be weak.

As for the psychic machine, as long as you have enough mental power, the psychic machine can work continuously and generate huge power. It can be used to drive cars, pull trains, drive propeller planes to take people into the sky, and even act as a rocket engine... The application prospects of functional machines can be called unlimited.

The construction principle of the psionic machine is not complicated, similar to the spirit gun and spirit gun, but the limitation is that only monks can control and use it.

In Zhenlin City, apart from Zhou Ming, there were no more than 100 students trained by the Huxiang Academy in the past few years, who were at the early stage of Qi refining and above.

Therefore, the road of psionic machines has to wait for the population of the "monk class" belonging to Zhenlin City to exceed a certain base before it can develop vigorously.

And Zhou Ming is already full of confidence in this!
I am confident that within 20 years, the power in my hand will develop into a high-tech cultivating society.

Because from the first year when Zhenlin City was built, Zhou Ming enforced 9 years of compulsory education throughout the city.

All children over the age of 6 must enroll!Accepting compulsory education, if a school-age child does not go to school and is discovered by patrol guards, the parents will be warned the first two times, and the third time, the whole family may be expelled from Zhenlin City.

In addition, the 9-year compulsory education not only exempts all tuition fees, the school also manages food and drink, and also teaches students culture and practice courses...to improve the quality of the whole people, and some students with higher qualifications will receive key training, and eventually they may become ordinary people. The unattainable "immortal".

Once the 9-year compulsory education system was implemented, people were shocked, and immediately took action, expressing great enthusiasm and welcome... During the implementation process, there was almost no resistance.

Parents not only send their children to school, exhort their children to study hard, but also don't forget to send some money or gifts to teachers, and ask teachers to help take care of them.

Zhou Ming was quite amazed by this scene. No matter what world or class, for future generations, parents basically hope that their children will become dragons and their daughters will become phoenixes. They are extremely positive when faced with things that are obviously beneficial to the development of their children. To support and promote them, showing their wisdom and long-term vision.

Especially for things like schools, Zhou Ming believes that even if there is a small fee, there will be many parents who will generously pay.

What surprised Zhou Ming even more was that there were many students from other places in the schools in Zhenlin City—thousands of them.

Most of these non-local students come from Jinyan City, thousands of miles away, from middle- and lower-class families...the parents of these students, after hearing that Zhenlin City implemented 9-year compulsory education, even taught them the Immortal Family Kung Fu. So they rushed here with their children, and successfully enrolled in the school before the registration deadline.

The schools in Zhenlin City have no clear restrictions on the source of students... They also enjoy free education.

This is naturally Zhou Ming's intentional opening to attract students to immigrate.

In the second semester, more students rushed from Jinyan City to Zhenlin City to sign up. There were more than 5000 students. Together with their parents, that was nearly 2 people.

There are even more than a dozen students who signed up, from Wuhe City, which is more than 1000 miles away from Jinyan City.

A few years later, due to the highly developed education system, student immigration has become the main reason for more than half of the immigrant population in Zhenlin City to immigrate to this city.

Education for all has become a magic weapon in Zhou Ming's hands, making his power develop and move forward at an astonishing speed in the following years, expanding rapidly like a monster.

The pace of expansion and advancement has never been interrupted by any force.

This is something that even Zhou Ming himself did not expect at the beginning.

In the future, everyone will also witness that the enormous power of the knowledge bomb-like education system for all is, for any force, so... so terrifying.

(End of this chapter)