Chapter 427 [Lillard Castle 1]

Anyone with a little knowledge of physics knows that the Alps are at a very high altitude and are frozen for six months a year. Although the surface soil melts in summer, if you dig ten meters down, you will see that there is permafrost or deep rock below.

In the Alps, you put a glass cover on the land and heat it inside, but you can't solve the temperature two meters below the land. In this way, no matter what plant takes root, it will not be able to go down when it reaches the melting point of the soil, and the temperature will drop sharply. Do you think these tropical plants can survive? Can they grow well?

But the owner of Lillard Castle was not short of money. Since he wanted to build a greenhouse garden, he thought of these results. The solution is to turn over the land he chose for the greenhouse garden completely in summer and dig a pit to a depth of five meters below.

Then buy a copper pipe with a diameter of more than 50 cm. Back then, it was also a precious metal and a currency. Why use copper? Because when iron is buried underground, the temperature difference between hot and cold is large, and the surrounding soil melts, which will form moisture and corrode the thickness of the iron pipe. In addition, the thermal conductivity is poor, so a very luxurious copper pipe is chosen.

You say you want to use it, so why use a 50 cm diameter half a meter? How much water pressure is needed to drive the hot water circulation in the copper pipe? To heat the five-meter position in the land, it can be said that the boiler used in Lillard Castle was the most advanced and had the highest pressure at that time.

A copper pipe is buried every one meter, and a copper pipe is buried every one meter. All the land in the greenhouse garden is covered with copper heating pipes. Then in the autumn, it is heated. It is not coal that is burned, which can not meet the temperature requirements. What is burned is kerosene, which was very expensive at that time.

Of course, it is now burned with diesel, but such a large area, how big a boiler is needed to heat five meters underground. The amount of diesel burned in a day reaches an astonishing one ton. How much does one ton of diesel cost? The greenhouse garden needs to be heated for six months a year. How much do you think it costs? What is this not a waste of money? What do you do if you don't have the capital to enjoy these greenhouse gardens? Tear it down.

Why not choose to tear down this greenhouse garden, this monster that eats gold? That starts with the so-called noble glory. The nobles were once prominent, and the greenhouse garden in the family can be said to be unique in the whole of Switzerland, a face-saving project for the family. If the greenhouse garden is really demolished to save costs, then how can the Lillard family live in the entire aristocratic circle? Who will make friends with you.

Just like this, the family's remaining property was squandered bit by bit, and in addition, many scums have appeared in the Lillard family over the years. What kind of strong family property can only be played by these boastful children for a lifetime, do you think he can not squander the family? It was really a complete failure, and I couldn't listen anymore, so I chose to sell Lillard Castle.

But Lillard Castle has no other advantages. Except for the greenhouse garden, it has no other advantages. Besides, after the end of World War II, social and economic development was very fast, and technology was changing with each passing day. Not to mention a small hill in the Alps, even if a greenhouse garden was built on the main peak of the Alps, what could be impossible?

100 years ago, this greenhouse garden was a luxurious status symbol. What is it now? It is nothing. Except for being a giant beast that swallows gold, it is nothing. What do you need it for? If I like it, I will build it myself. Besides, although fiberglass was very valuable back then, it is not as transparent now. The glass made in society now is better.

In this way, Lillard Castle has no advantage. What else do you have besides the five acres of land around it? How can you sell it? How can you sell a small castle with only a dozen rooms? And the price is as high as 20 million US dollars. Who is stupid enough to buy this broken castle?

Don't say there are really fools. Belsinger is a fool. He actually fell in love with the worthless Lillard Castle. Why did Belsinger fall in love with the useless Lillard Castle? First, the land of Lillard Castle is located near the top ski resort in Switzerland. It is just a walk away. It is not more than ten minutes away. Is it close enough? Convenient transportation, this is the first point.

So what is the second point? It is a matter of time. With the current wealth level of the Belsinger family, they can buy a piece of land and build a castle by themselves. But the castles built now are really not good. Some historical sediments lack the background and essence of those historical years.

This is one aspect. On the other hand, Belsinger has no time and energy to build a house. Now the character castle far away in the UK is still under renovation. Belsinger didn't even have time to take care of these trivial matters when the Singer Castle was being renovated. Do you think he can stay in Switzerland for insurance? Does he have that time?

If you don't have time, buy one. This is why Belsinger fell in love with the useless Lillard Castle. Time is not in a hurry. The two walked and talked all the way. Two hours later, they arrived at Lillard Castle. After getting off the car, they were disgusted to see a two-meter-high stone courtyard wall with snow on it.

People say that castles in Europe have no walls, and the entire castle is maintained and open, which is true. But those places are palaces, such as the Palace of Versailles, such as Buckingham Palace, and the castles where real rural rich people live. They have walls, and walls are an indispensable tool for defense facilities.

Who said that there are no bandits or robbers in Europe? You live in Lillard Castle, with no village in front and no shop behind, and there is no human habitation within a few kilometers around. What if a group of robbers really rob you and kill your whole family? Your castle has no towering walls. In the eyes of those robbers, it is like a girl who has taken off her clothes. What can they do with it?

The two-meter-high stone wall has a cast iron gate in the middle. Unlike the iron railing gates in Europe, this cast iron gate is actually two gates closed together without any gaps. You can see any building inside the manor, which means that the gate is dead. Unless you turn over, you can't see what is inside.

Switzerland is the richest and most advanced country in Europe. Although the Lillard Castle has a long history, it has been modernized. Watt Lillard took out the remote control and pressed a button. The gates on both sides opened and the car could be driven directly into the castle. What came into view was a giant glass greenhouse, like a round glass pot upside down on the ground.