Urban Sims

For the town of Limburg, after the first severe existential crisis has passed, the future can be described as "a smooth road."

Reconstruction work began immediately and various undertakings prospered.

Only eight months later, the town of Limburg, where the city wall was completed, was officially upgraded from a town to a city after hanging a plaque on the Sifang gate tower.

Zhenlin City!

A wealthy town with a population of over 100,000,

However, in private, some people gave this city another name - Tuxian City.

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

Some people even only heard of Tuxian City and not Zhenlin City, and did not know that these two names represented the same 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 to fall here was a demon named "Ancestor Netherworld" .

Whether it is the nearby Jinyan City or other cities further away, there are not many monks who have heard of the name "Ancestor of the Netherworld". Only through some channels, they know that there is a strong man in the solid core stage who can fly with a weapon, and he has the same relationship with the town. After a conflict broke out in Lin City, he was killed by a mysterious strongman hidden in Zhenlin City with one blow, which was shocking.

From this, we came to the conclusion that Zhenlin City was protected by strong men above the Gudan stage.

The number of strong men in the solid core stage is very rare. Not to mention one in tens of thousands of ordinary people, even among the monks, there is only one in ten thousand.

Therefore, all forces are extremely wary of the newly established Zhenlin City, and those with bad intentions do not dare to act rashly.

This invisibly reduces 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 like it is changing with each passing day.

Almost every day, visible changes occur.

Almost every year, people feel like they are living in a different city.

So, what changes have taken place in Zhenlin City in the past five years?

It can be looked at from many aspects.

First, the most important demographic.

The population of Zhenlin City actually increased from more than 100,000 to 505,000 in five years. The sudden increase in population made the city, which was originally spacious enough to accommodate a population of 300,000, become extremely expensive. After the congestion, the City Planning Bureau had to build one commercial district and residential area after another outside the city. Due to the existence of rail transit, the outer city wall was not planned to be built.

With enough population influx, Zhenlin City's agricultural and industrial output values ​​have experienced explosive growth.

Take the simplest "total grain output" in the agricultural field. In the past five years, Zhenlin City's total grain output has increased by dozens of times due to the realization of full mechanization (animal power) from sowing to harvesting. , the total grain output has increased from 200,000 tons five years ago to the current 1 million tons.

Such a huge amount of food cannot be eaten by Zhenlin City with such a small population, and it will not be eaten until it dies.

Even if the hundreds of thousands of people from Jinyan City were included to help eat, they still wouldn't be able to finish the meal.

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

Grain can also be used to make wine. When brewed in large quantities, using special distillation and purification processes, the wine produced is strong, mellow and long-lasting, and its sales are extremely hot. It has eliminated all the "water-like" water sellers on the market... ...There was even a sect that placed an order for 300,000 altars in one batch.

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

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

One is the herb cultivation industry.

One is the breeding industry of wild and exotic animals.

The value of medicinal herbs is very high, and the demand is also very strong. However, under the wild growth conditions, after long-term mining, the number of medicinal herbs is getting smaller and smaller, the vintage is getting younger and younger, and the medicinal properties are naturally much worse.

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

It is more dangerous to go digging in the mountains.

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

Some medicinal farmers tried planting and found that in artificial environments, the medicinal properties of medicinal herbs will decrease somewhat, but not too much. If the cultivation time is long and the soil nutrients are complete, the medicinal properties will tend to be the same.

Therefore, the medicinal herb cultivation industry has great potential.

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

It's very simple. Hunters first contract a large area of ​​virgin forest, and then reduce the frequency of hunting in the mountains. They only go in once a long time. In the initial period, they don't hunt wild beasts, strange beasts, or the food of these beasts - Such as wild boars, deer, etc., specifically hunting down carnivorous animals that are not beasts - such as wolves and hyenas... artificially regulate the ecological chain, turning the jungle into a paradise for beasts and exotic beasts.

When their numbers multiply enough, the harvest season for hunters will arrive.

The emergence of the breeding industry of wild beasts also marks that the way hunters work has undergone earth-shaking changes 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. It is related to all aspects of the quality of life... There is not much to say.

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

In particular, the refining industry (equivalent to the steel-making industry) is the focus of attention.

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

Jinyan City prospered precisely because of the distribution of "Yuojin Stone", and many nearby mines also had considerable reserves of Yaojin. Zhou Ming had visited several large mines and found that the reserves of each mine were over hundreds of millions of tons.

The total reserves are at least 10 billion tons.

However, the smelting technology of the few families who owned mines in Jinyan City was extremely backward. Zhou Ming estimated that apart from selling raw ore, Jinyan City's annual output of pure "Yujin" would not exceed 1,000 tons.

This output made Zhou Ming so moved that he wanted to cry.

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

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

After the titanium smelting plant was put into operation, 5,000 tons of titanium were produced in the first year.

With a large amount of Yaotai, there is basic material guarantee for manufacturing steam engines.

good!

High technology cannot be developed in this plane, but that does not mean that low technology such as "steam engines" cannot be developed.

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

Even in this world, "thunder and lightning" exist, and thunder and lightning often occur on rainy days... It means that there is no big problem in making electric lighting, motors, generators, telephones and telegraphs.

With steam engines, production efficiency can be greatly improved in both industry and agriculture, especially in transportation. The combination of steam engines and tracks can put wheels on everything and make it run fast.

but……

Although steam engines are good, they also have problems such as low efficiency, large size, high noise, and serious pollution, which will bring a series of negative impacts to the environment. Therefore, Zhou Ming does not plan to fully promote it on the premise that he already has a large number of water-driven machinery. Steam engines - except in transportation.

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

Compared with psionic machines driven by spiritual energy and mental power, antique steam engines can be said to be weak.

As for the psionic machine, as long as you have enough mental power, the psionic machine can work continuously and emit huge power. It can be used to drive cars, pull trains, drive propeller planes to take people to the sky, and even serve as rocket engines... Psionics The application prospects of energy machines are unlimited.

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

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

Therefore, the path of psychic machines has to wait until the population of the "monk class" belonging to Zhenlin City exceeds a certain base before it has the prospect of vigorous development.

And Zhou Ming is already full of confidence in this!

I am confident that within twenty years, I will develop the power in my hands into a quasi-high-tech society of cultivating immortals.

Since the first year after Zhenlin City was built, Zhou Ming has enforced nine years of compulsory education throughout the city.

All children over the age of 6 must attend school! Receive compulsory education. If a school-age child fails to attend school and is discovered by patrol guards, his or her parents will be warned for the first two times. The third time, the whole family may be expelled from Zhenlin City.

In addition, the nine-year compulsory education not only exempts all tuition fees, but the school also provides food and drinks for the students, and also teaches cultural classes and cultivation classes... to improve the quality of the entire people. Some students with higher qualifications will also receive key training, and they may eventually become ordinary people. The elusive "immortal".

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

Parents not only send their children to school and tell them to study hard, but they also send some money or gifts to the teachers and ask the teachers to help take care of them.

This scene made Zhou Ming sigh. No matter what world or class they are in, parents basically hope that their children will succeed and their daughters will succeed. They are extremely positive in the face of things that are obviously beneficial and helpful to the development of their children. They provide strong support and promotion, showing their wisdom and long-term vision.

Especially for things like schools, Zhou Ming believes that even if they charge a certain amount of fees, many parents will pay generously.

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

Most of these out-of-town 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 nine years of compulsory education, even taught the Xianjia exercises. So I rushed there with my children and successfully registered for school before the registration deadline.

Various schools in Zhenlin City currently have no clear restrictions on the source of students... they also enjoy free education.

This was naturally a hole deliberately left open by Zhou Ming to attract students to immigrate.

In the second semester, more students rushed to Zhenlin City from Jinyan City to register, more than 5,000 people, and together with their parents, the number was nearly 20,000.

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

A few years later, due to the highly developed education system, student immigration became the main reason why more than half of Zhenlin City's immigrant population immigrated to this city.

National education became a magic weapon in Zhou Ming's hands, causing his power to develop and advance 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 was something that even Zhou Ming himself did not expect at first.

In the future, everyone will also witness that the huge power of the national education system, which is like a knowledge bomb, is so... terrifying to any force.