Chapter 462 [0457] Frozen Soil Construction

As the president of the Fosbyro Chamber of Commerce, Sambor personally leads a team to the Xiongdu to participate in the summer trade fair every year.

So, although there are no nobles in Fosbyro, he is accustomed to the hypocrisy and affectation of the Xiongdu nobles - when he heard Lux ​​promised "no tax within five years", he was very excited at the first time.

However, in addition to being excited, Sambor soon realized that something was wrong.

As a businessman, he is naturally interested in costs and gold coins, so when many Fosbyro people think that "Count Laxana is a good person and can get along with her", Sambor subconsciously thinks of Laxana's notification cost.

Although Count Laxana does not look like a very extravagant person, and her personal expenses may be different from those of the great nobles in Xiongdu, she has quite a lot of people under her!

Think about the scene when she arrived in Fosbyro that day!

Sambor didn't understand military affairs, and couldn't tell what level these soldiers brought by Count Laxana were, but he dared to say that it was definitely not an easy task to support hundreds or thousands of soldiers.

If there was no tax, where would Count Laxana get the money to support the army?

Even if this man was from the Crown Guard family... the Crown Guard family couldn't easily support so many soldiers, right?

Moreover, in addition to these soldiers, Sambor also heard that the Earl had brought a group of immigrants. These people did not enter the city of Fosbyro, but seemed to be planning to find a place outside the city to build a new base!

In a place like the North, it is very expensive to establish a settlement. Was Count Laxana a rich man before he was awarded the title?

While Sambor was puzzled, Laxana's story continued on the podium.

And the content of the speech began to move from the virtual to the real, and began to directly talk about the idea of ​​"taking advantage of this winter to build an artificial lake that can accumulate glaciers in the northeast of Fosbyro."

According to Lux, this artificial lake will be tasked with "carrying the surging icebergs on the Dragon Ridge Mountains in spring, stabilizing the Fosbyro water system, and making Fosbyro, like Miyin City, a northern city with abundant water resources."

Good guy, where have the people of Fosbyro heard of this?

For a moment, everyone was talking about it, and they all seemed to be very interested in Laxana's statement.

However, there are also many people like Sambor who are very sober and found the problem of this plan at the first time.

Breaking ground in winter, building an artificial lake, and carrying glaciers in spring?

Isn't this nonsense?

You know, Fosbyro is located in the northern plateau, and the land here is seasonally frozen!

Although Sambor is not engaged in water conservancy or construction, he is still very clear about the characteristics of the land in Fosbyro.

Located at the foot of the Feilong Ridge Mountains, the soil of Fosbyro is more rocky than soil. After the permafrost melts in spring, the glacier plows the riverbed of a seasonal river; however, when the permafrost is completely frozen from late autumn to early spring, the land here is completely frozen.

Let alone breaking ground and building an artificial river, you even have to use a chisel to dig a hole here!

Why can the people of Fosbyro only watch the glaciers plowing and the river changing every year? Is it because they don’t know how to build an artificial lake or don’t want to build an artificial lake?

Of course not!

The people of Fosbyro can’t afford it.

Even if all the people of Fosbyro are mobilized to work for a whole winter, the area of ​​the artificial lake that can be dug can only be described as pitifully small.

Then, when spring comes and the permafrost melts, the small artificial lake will be directly crushed into a mud pit by the glacier.

The glacier must be blocked and melted in Fosbyro as a water source to store water.

Artificial lakes that are too small cannot withstand the crushing of glaciers at all and cannot store water at all!

As for building an artificial lake after the permafrost thaws...

Not to mention that spring and summer are very busy times for the Fosbyro people, who are generally busy with their livelihoods and have no ability to build artificial lakes.

The most critical problem is that after the permafrost thaws, many thermal melt lakes will form near Fosbyro.

These thermal melt lakes are not large in area, shallow in depth, and have strong seasonality. They look like small pits of natural water storage.

However, it is these small pits that make the Fosbyro people face great difficulties every time they travel. A large part of the reason why the Fosbyro caravans take the glacier route is that there are no such annoying thermal melt lakes in the places "compacted" by the glaciers.

If you want to construct in the summer, it means that the Fosbyro people need to deal with all the thermal melt lakes above after choosing the site of the artificial lake-if it relies entirely on manpower, this is simply a more terrible project than digging a pit on the permafrost.

Although he is from Fosbyro, Sambor has to admit that compared to the Demacia plains, which are blessed with good weather, the northwest corner of the kingdom is not very habitable.

It makes sense that the ancestors of Demacia, who were determined to explore, stopped in a place like Fosbyro and built a fortress on the mountain!

However, now, Count Laxana said that he would build an artificial lake of a certain scale this winter...

How is this possible?

Even if you pull the Fearless Vanguard over to dig a pit, you can't build an artificial lake on frozen soil in just one winter!

Isn't this just bragging?

Originally, Sambor had a very good impression of this Earl - even if we did not talk about the benefits of connections she might bring to his chamber of commerce, Sambor felt good about her alone.

But now, no matter how I look at Sambor, I feel that the other party is bragging.

Or maybe she didn't know enough about Fosbairo's situation and substituted experience from other places into Fosbairo.

Therefore, after the speech, he immediately requested to see Count Laxana, hoping to persuade her.

After submitting the application and waiting for the interview, Sambor couldn't help but shake his head when he came back to his senses - he was actually trying to persuade an Earl to withdraw his unrealistic promise!

He must be crazy if he transcends his status like this!

However, maybe he thinks that Count Laxana is different from others, maybe because he is worried that forcibly building an artificial lake will bring greater trouble to Forsbarrow, maybe he hopes that the earl can save his energy and contact him to borrow it. Regarding the water transportation in Mithril City, Sambor finally gritted his teeth and insisted on completing the interview.

"Just think of it...for that lovely Lux!"

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Lux was very busy after her speech.

When it was Sambol's turn to meet, it was already evening.

"Mr. Sambor is coming to see me?" When Sambor was allowed to enter the temporary office, Lux was staring at a stack of documents on the desktop. "Is there something? About next year's summer trade exchanges. meeting?"

"Well, I do have something to say about this." Although Lux obviously had no intention of being aristocratic, Sambor was still instinctively nervous, "But today I mainly want to talk about the artificial lake. Need to report to you..."

"Artificial lake?" Lux raised her brows, showing an expression of surprise, "Mr. Sambol still knows about engineering?"

"No, no, no, I don't know much about engineering. I'm just a businessman." Sambor shook his head quickly, "However, I have lived in Forsbarrow for decades, traveling from north to south. I know something about the frozen soil here."

"Permafrost?" Lux was visibly stunned when Sambor said this word, "Yes, since the caravans all walk along the riverbed, you should indeed have some understanding of the characteristics of permafrost."

"That's right, that's right." Sambor breathed a sigh of relief and continued, "Miss Laxana has also walked through the river bed herself. You should know that the frozen soil in summer is soft and can easily collapse into small lakes. Difficult to construct.”

"That's right." Lux nodded when she heard the words, looking like she was convinced, "Thermal Lake is a big trouble."

"But in winter, it is also very difficult to start construction on frozen soil." Sambol did not ask what the meaning of the melting lake was. Although he had never heard of the word, he clearly understood what Lux meant, "hard frozen soil It is difficult to dig out. If you want to build a lake in one winter, it would be very difficult..."

Not necessarily avoiding offending the other party, Sambor expressed his opinions as tactfully as possible - talking about difficulty, but actually saying that "the promises in the speech are almost impossible to achieve."

Sambor was undoubtedly taking a big risk by talking to the nobles like this, especially by criticizing the "three things to do when a new official takes office".

If Lux was just a little surprised when Sambor took the initiative to talk about frozen soil before, then this time, she was really surprised.

Lux really didn't expect that just after she gave a speech in the morning, someone would come up to her in the afternoon and speak out for justice.

This Mr. Sambol is really a nice person!

However, things were obviously quite different from what he thought - building an artificial lake on the frozen soil was difficult for others in Demacia, but for Lux... it was actually not that difficult. .

If she dared to directly mention the specific construction period in her speech, Lux would naturally rely on it.

In fact, on the way from Xiongdu to Forsbarrow, while Lux was training soldiers, Sona, who was accompanying the team, was also performing her own mission. Her mission was to observe the dyed demons who were traveling north with the team. who.

Although the Demon Searchers have basic registration of these demon-contaminated people, from a professional perspective as a mage, the Demon-Seekers' records of these demon-contaminated people are really too rough.

The record of personal experience is okay, but the record of magical talent can only be said to stand out as a layman.

Therefore, taking the opportunity to take them north, Sona has been quietly observing these demon-stained people, observing their personalities and behaviors, and judging their talent types.

The result is...

Good guy, Sona could only exclaim in her heart.

Among the more than a thousand people infected with demons, except for a small number of people who have indeed committed crimes and need to go to the north to continue serving their sentences, a considerable number of them are delinquents who cannot control their magic power, as well as those who have amazing magic talents and have taken drugs. The magic-forbidden potion cannot suppress the magic power, and the demon-stained person is unwilling to leave Demacia.

The types of talents of these people can really only be described as varied.

According to the types of magic talents taught by Kalya, the talent of a spell caster is generally expressed in the form of "being sensitive to a certain energy and naturally possessing the means to manipulate that energy."

The "certain energy" here is elemental energy for most people, but there are also a small number of people who are naturally more sensitive to certain special fields such as the spiritual field, space perception, time perception, negative energy or positive energy.

Most of these demon-infected people who were imprisoned in the Forbidden Demon Prison have special talents.

According to Sona's observations, among the 981 demon-infected people who do not need to continue serving their sentences in the North, more than 500 are natural elemental mages. This ratio is quite low.

What’s even more outrageous is that, according to Kalya, usually, elemental mages who are easier to awaken are those who are more sensitive to common elements such as water, fire, wind, and earth. After all, these elements are easier to perceive and recognize.

But among the more than 500 elemental mages, the situation is completely different - except for a few common elemental mages with amazing natural magic power, most of the elemental casters have quite unique talents.

There are three light element mages, two shadow element mages, sixteen sound element mages, eight rock element mages, two mud element mages, and fifty-three ice element mages...

The types of talents that Kalya described as "rare" can only be described as being common in this team.

In addition, there are more than 400 other spell casters whose abilities can only be described as varied.

Those who create illusions, those who are naturally charming, those who are super sensitive to time, those who always appear in inexplicable places at inexplicable times, those who can become transparent, those who can communicate with animals, those who can catalyze the growth of plants...

Although Kalya is a very knowledgeable person, it is probably not an easy task to complete the "literacy campaign" of these demon-infected people so that they can initially control their own magic.

However, although the complex types of spell casters will make it difficult to learn magical knowledge, similarly, in terms of work, if they can cooperate, the efficiency of the work may be much higher than that of ordinary types of spell casters!

The frozen soil outside Fosbello City is difficult for ordinary people to dig, but for these spellcasters with various abilities, it is a top-notch training ground!

Here, they can use their power unscrupulously on the hard frozen soil. While learning to control their power, they can "incidentally" dig out an artificial lake large enough to accommodate the crushing glaciers after the spring!

Boss Sambol's concerns make sense to normal people.

But he obviously didn't realize that Lux and her demon-possessed people were not normal people in the popular sense of Demacia!

Kalya’s Little Classroom·Ronghu Lake:

The thawing lake in Forsbarrow is a natural lake formed after the local permafrost melts after spring, and the water contained in the soil is lost, causing the surface to collapse, and the melted water from the snowy mountains naturally accumulates.

Different from the reality of thermal melt lakes, which usually occur when there is permafrost underground and seasonally frozen soil on the ground, the thermal melt lakes formed around Forsbarrow are mainly caused by the huge amount of snow mountain melt water and moxa in the Longji Mountains. Dramatic seasonal changes brought about by Breath of Nivea.