Volume 4 Chapter 96 - Astute elder Lisanya (1/2)

This method could be summarized in one phrase.

It was too tall? Very simple, they could just flatten it!

A fifty meter tall cliff was a natural moat that couldn’t be jumped over for most people of the continent, so whether it was the Rudson Kingdom or the Amrit Chamber of Commerce, they all thought that Xu Yi was insane when he wanted to build a road that connected to the Rudson Kingdom.

But for Xu Yi, one the technologically advanced earth, a cliff of fifty meters wasn’t considered that difficult to take care of at all.

On earth, there were many methods to solve this problem, but with the limited technology on the Sines Continent, Xu Yi chose to use the most simple and crude method which was to flatten this cliff.

To put it specifically, it was using a large amount of stone and dirt to fill up the low topography of the Stantine Duchy. They would forcefully connect to the Rudson Kingdom on the other side of the cliff.

It was naturally impossible to completely flatten everything. What Xu Yi wanted was to lay down the road on a hill shape.

With the height of the cliff and the gradient of the road, the length of this hill would be five kilometers. With the cliff that was at least fifty meters tall, it would require an astronomical amount of stones.

With the previous technological standard of the Sines Continent, whether it was digging out the stones or transporting them, they could only depend on manpower. To complete such a large project, it would take over ten thousand workers and would take at least ten years to complete.

This kind of project was impossible unless it was something undertaken by a country.

But with the magic machines developed by the Frestech Chamber of Commerce, this project was much more simple.

With the careful calculations of the Amrit Chamber of Commerce, their final estimate was that as long as there were enough large and medium sized Magic Excavators and large Magic Cars, this large project would take no more than three thousand people and could be done in two years.

If everything went smoothly, the Stru Road would be completed in just five years.

Although the amount of people and time had been drastically decreased, the investment hadn’t decreased by much.

According to the estimates, the Stru Road would definitely be the most expensive road the Amrit Chamber of Commerce had constructed.

The one hundred and forty kilometers of road in Xu Yi’s territory to the border would cost three hundred thousand gold coins.

Then the five hundred and sixty kilometer road on the Rudson Kingdom side to their capital Caraca City would cost one million and one hundred thousand gold coins.

These two roads would be built with the normal method, so they cost the same as normal.

But for the flattening project, to reach the cliff and enter the Rudson Kingdom, it cost a shocking eight hundred thousand gold coins just for the five kilometers.

Adding it together, the seven hundred kilometers of the Stru Road would cost over two million gold coins, it might even reach two and a half million gold coins.

Even if the Rudson Kingdom was in charge of investing for this road, chairman Cruise felt that the cost of constructing this road was very high and wasn’t worth it.

To him, the Frestech Chamber of Commerce was spending this much on a single road. It was better for them to circle around and spend a few more days on traveling instead of building this road.

But Xu Yu didn’t care too much about this price.

On earth, building a highway would cost tens of millions of yuan for each kilometer. For this road that cost less than ten thousand gold coins for each kilometer was considered much cheaper.

Although the materials and labour on the Sines Continent was cheaper and the road quality couldn’t compare to the highways that were built on earth, Xu Yi was still able to accept this.

The reason he insisted on investing this large amount to build this road was actually also because Xu Yi didn’t want to use the method that chairman Cruise proposed.

Detours in transporting to the Rudson Kingdom were feasible, but they had to enter the Lampuri Kingdom for that detour.

First not mentioning how every product that entered the Lampuri Kingdom meant having to pay a tariff, if the Lampuri Kingdom ever chose to ban the Frestech Chamber of Commerce’s products, it would be too late for the Frestech Chamber of Commerce to come up with a solution.

In the end, the Frestech Chamber of Commerce developing the large Magic Boats that could enter the sea and constructing this Stru Road was to make it easier for the Frestech Chamber of Commerce to transport goods across the continent.

The Stantine Duchy had good weather, was good to live in, and wasn’t affected by much, but the terrain here was actually limited. If they couldn’t find a way to solve this problem ahead of time, the Frestech Chamber of Commerce only had a path to death.

Of course, this problem wasn’t something that elder Lisanya considered. This time she came to meet with Xu Yi because the flattening project of the Stru Road passed through the Moon Shadow Forest of the Moon Shadow Tribe.

To flatten the ground, they had to raise the elevation which would greatly affect the landscape of the Moon Shadow Forest, so Xu Yi had to earn the support of the Moon Shadow Tribe ahead of time.

When Xu Yi proposed this project to elder Lisanya, elder Lisanya had agreed to cooperate in the beginning.

And when elder Lisanya came this time, she didn’t seem that strange and Xu Yi naturally thought that she agreed to this cooperation.

As expected, after hearing Xu Yi’s question, elder Lisanya nodded, “Un, there’s no problem with this. After all, it would be good for our tribe if we can directly connect to the Rudson Kingdom.

Xu Yi revealed a faint smile and calmly waited.