World-Ending Demon Emperor-Chapter 1657 - 734: Frenzied Devouring! Visit from the Tiancha Emissary!
It has been almost two years since the construction of Flame Demon City began. Although it is still a massive construction site, it has already taken shape.
The total building area of the entire city exceeds 280 square kilometers.
The working population reached more than 700,000 at its peak. After several reallocations and new entries, there are still 400,000 to 500,000 people, including 350,000 Near-Human Tribe, 100,000 Rakshasa Tribe, and 100,000 Indigenous Barbarian Tribes.
The original plan for the city walls was 70 li long, but after three extensions, it finally reached 95 li.
After several months of construction by hundreds of thousands of people, the 95-li long city wall is now completed.
The original plan was 15 meters high, but upon actual completion, it rose by two meters to a full 17 meters high.
A city with a 95-li circumference would have been a super city even in ancient China, nearly encircling the entire Mirror Mountain.
The thickest part of the city wall is a full 20 meters thick, and even the narrowest part is 7 meters wide, with a large fortress every 5 li.
Although Lanling’s cannons have not been created yet, the 70-li city wall retains openings for cannons, capable of accommodating over a thousand cannons.
Moreover, the moat outside the city walls is nearly complete.
The moat of Black Demon City is on average about ten meters wide, while the moat of Flame Demon City is over 20 meters wide and 15 meters deep.
For this moat, Lanling deployed countless stones and steel to reinforce the city wall to prevent the foundation from being eroded and collapsing due to water saturation.
Flame Demon City is the capital of the Flame Demon Banner, so all its scales must exceed those of Black Demon City.
The interior of the city wall was originally a forest, now all cleared, preparing it as the city base.
Houses in the outer city have not started construction yet, so everywhere is densely packed with tents.
Thousands of houses in the middle city have been completed, and the castles in the inner city have also been completed.
At this moment, Flame Demon City is far from completion, with less than half finished.
Once fully built, the entire Flame Demon City will become the most advanced city in the Rakshasa Domain, able to accommodate over 800,000 residents.
Additionally, the entire city will rise over 3,000 meters in elevation from bottom to top, making the real city area far exceed the 95-li circumference flat city due to this slope city layout.
For the water supply of Flame Demon City, Lanling mobilized tens of thousands of people and used large-scale force to open a tributary from a super-large river in the north, flowing through Flame Demon City, not only supplying the city but directly feeding into the moat.
Moreover, Lanling ordered tens of thousands of people in the Silver Alliance’s territory to open up over millions of acres of land, planting millet, rice, corn, sweet potatoes, and flax.
In the Human Kingdom, such work efficiency would be impossible, but here it is the Barbarian Tribes. Especially the Centaurs and large Barbarian Tribes, their speed in opening up land is incredibly astonishing.
There are not only millions of acres of farmland but also millions of acres of pastureland.
Although there is no harvest yet, it can be foreseen that within a year, the food, meat, salt, and steel production in the Silver Alliance territory will exceed ten times that of the primitive extensive economy before.
Within three years, the output from the Silver Alliance territory alone can sustain the entire Flame Demon Banner.
The agricultural organization of Flame Demon City not only studies seeds but is already improving the soil by digging up bird droppings.
Moreover, Lanling has dispatched tens of thousands to the seaside to rebuild the shipyard, working on constructing more advanced ironclad ships.
As for the power of the ironclad ships, sails, steam power, crystal stone power, and even Star Magic Meteorite, many Shamans are researching.
In the depths of the caves, studies of Mystical Energy Studies began, and the research on gunpowder was restarted.
Be it agriculture, animal husbandry, steel, Mystical Energy Studies, gunpowder, etc., they all require the Near-Human Tribe, which is work the Rakshasa Tribe cannot accomplish.
Thus, the Flame Demon Banner now has nearly a million Near-Human Tribe members, yet Lanling still wants more. These Near-Human Tribe members are wiser, more honest, hardworking, and robust than humans, the best citizens, and truly the more, the better.
Now Lanling has gathered everything from Tianshui City.
Back then, the maximum manpower Lanling could muster was no more than 200,000 to 300,000. Today, he can command over 10 million.
Moreover, there is the Centaur Legion, Griffin Legion, and even the Ghoul Ray Legion, such super forces.
And more than a million of the original barbarian tribes.
In Tianshui City, everything depended on money for Lanling.
Now, what is money?
Lanling possesses astronomical amounts of money, not earned, but unearthed.
More than a million square kilometers of land are his, and the resources in the Demon Territory far exceed the Human Kingdom, including gold mines and even mithril mines, and he continues to encroach north and south along the coast.
The key is Lanling is the supreme master of this more than a million square kilometers, he does not need money to get people to work, just one command, hundreds of thousands or millions will die for him, such power he never had even as Regent King of Rage Wave Kingdom; it was always full of balance, compromise, mediocrity in Rage Wave Kingdom.
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In less than two years, from the Flame Demon Tribe to Flame Demon City, earth-shaking changes have already taken place.
Flame Demon City is really changing day by day, growing rapidly, like a pearl inlaid on the coast of the Southern Barbaric Lands.
