"Is this our Taiping Royal City?" Lei Xiaochun looked at the land getting closer and closer with some disappointment.

Because his father joined the Taiping Kingdom's nationality, he was a little excited and was full of expectations for the recent rumor of Taiping Island, but his first impression of coming here was still very different from the so-called royal city he imagined.

"Didn't it mean that a great city is being built here? Why don't there be even some decent tall buildings?" He looked around depressedly. After leaving the airport and driving along the newly built highway, the buildings within his sight were basically low. Perhaps better than the buildings in some small county towns, but compared to Kyoto, he came to him, it was like the countryside, and it was not as great as others praised.

"A city is not great because of tall buildings." Lei Yun, who was deeply moved in his heart, said this to his son Youran.

He never expected that his son could change his nationality to Taiping Country a year ago. Although he could not join Taiping Country like his third brother Lei Shi because of taking care of his family, he would not try it easily.

But his current thinking has changed.

Perhaps in the eyes of most people, Taiping Kingdom is always just a small country that cannot control its destiny, even if they lucky enough to beat Japan for one or two rounds. But for the thunder clouds who have been staying in Taiping Kingdom and seeing Taiping Kingdom look like one day, Taiping Kingdom is simply a place where miracles are born.

Just like this city, the reason why the people of Taiping Kingdom affectionately call her her royal city is because miracles are happening, and the city is growing rapidly and moving towards a real super metropolis.

Newly arrived outsiders can only feel this city on the surface, but those who are used to seeing local high-rise buildings feel that it is even more so, but they don’t know that the city is expanding and extending underground every day.

Leiyun even believed that the depth of Taiping Island extending underground is definitely not weaker than the height of the so-called high-rise buildings, and the underground passages extending out are denser than roads in metropolitan areas. Because there is absolutely more than one floor to expand underground.

As an old acquaintance of Taiping Country, Lei Yun visited at least three floors of underground space. He had not finished shopping for two days. This was only the part that was open to civilian projects and some parts that could be open to outsiders. There were more sensitive areas that could not be approached due to his identity.

"We can discover new caves every day!" This is a drunken word collected by local intelligence personnel stationed in Taiping Island, but many people believe it is true, and there are even laughter about changing Taiping Island to a hanging island.

In their opinion, on this new island, the magma from the mantle seemed to burn every inch of space it passed through. Even if many of them just saw those areas open to civilian projects, they had already sighed.

From the very beginning, the underground space was partially planned for the purpose of civil projects and was part of the creation of a three-dimensional metropolis.

"So much precious underground space is really a waste for civilian use!" Local intelligence personnel, including Lei Yun, often complained about the waste of Taiping people after seeing the dense and spacious subway stations on Taiping Island.

If these underground spaces are used reasonably, the local area will be enough to nail a nail that makes Americans unable to sleep or eat. At that time, Americans will not be involved in East Asian things, even at their doorsteps. Although the underground space here is not very large or deep, as long as it is transformed and with the continuous development of modern missile technology, it will be greater than the threat posed by the Soviet Union's use of Cuba.

From a military perspective alone, the role of the Taiping Island, which has huge underground space, is not inferior to that of Hawaii's role in the Americans' Pacific Heart. Even if it is not enough to directly blockade the local area from three island chains, it is enough to make the Americans afraid.

"We actually don't need to open up so much underground space for civilian projects." Taiping's own people also have many regrets. In their opinion, if the confidentiality efforts are increased, the military defense system built in this way will cause headaches for any enemy who dares to invade Taiping Island.

"Our underground space has fresh water and enough space to store food and ammunition, so we can completely build an irresistible underground fortress. Even if Americans come, they can only grieve." The General Staff of Taiping State even formulated a military use plan for underground space early, suggesting that more underground space be left.

The battle in underground space is more complicated than street fighting. Many weapons such as aircraft, tanks, warships, missiles, etc. of military powers are almost useless. Even if Americans with advanced individual weapons want to capture the underground space of Taiping Island little by little, the possible casualties will be enough to prevent them. If they cannot break the underground space, even if they occupy the ground, they will not be able to use it, and they will eventually be regarded as a useless person.

"These underground spaces are used for civil use, but they are not wasted at all." Li Xiang and a group of urban planners were both determined in this regard.

"Have you considered the transportation issues that need to be solved in a city, especially a super metropolis?" Tian Qing's tone has always been rude.

To attract people's attention and lead the cultural trend, building a super metropolis is essential. Building a great super metropolis is also a lifelong dream of a planner. But reality is restricting the infinite expansion of the city, and transportation is a world-class problem.

Because the automobile industry involves huge interests of giants such as energy oligopolies, steel and rubber, as well as arms dealers, it is difficult to change the power method of converting gasoline to diesel and oil into electricity, let alone hindering the expansion of private vehicles. Just like the local area, everyone knows the various benefits of public transportation, but under the baton of internal and external interest groups, the growing private cars are still made into a long queue of traffic jams.

Not to mention the activity space squeezed by parking spaces and the pollution of exhaust and noise, the saturation capacity of only about 270 vehicles per kilometer will eventually become the insurmountable red line. The cost disadvantages and the need for a certain area of ​​land also make it impossible to make up for this defect. The ground resources of a city are limited after all, and the emergence of some extremely popular traffic nodes has become a fatal shortcoming of urban traffic.

What made Tian Qing happy was that the huge underground space resources on Taiping Island had innate advantages over three-dimensional transportation lines such as spending huge amounts of money to build several subway lines. In her opinion, the interlaced lava tunnel is simply a gift from the Creator and the best resource for developing the transportation system.

"We can distribute the subway to every point in this city!" After Tian Qing received the newly added underground space exploration report, she rarely exaggerated, who has always paid close attention to actual data.

"With these underground transportation routes, even if every family drives two cars, I can guarantee that there will be no traffic jam under normal circumstances." Pang Cheng, who became Tian Qingxin's assistant, also magnified.

"Transportation is the conscience of a city. These underground spaces can solve the traffic problems that everyone has troubled. What is there to waste?" With the support of a group of planners, Tian Qing responded with confidence.

Obviously, having enough underground space not only solves the conscience of transportation, but also the conscience of the sewer in this original sentence is very good, but no one is too entangled in this.

"The underground spaces are used for civilian purposes. Once a war breaks out, they can also be converted into military purposes." Li Xiang is not worried about the purpose. "Even if the enemy marks the entire civilian underground space map, we only need to change the structure and set more levels. It will make the enemy dizzy and unable to distinguish between east, west, south and north."

Others may worry about the leak of the map, but for Li Xiang, who can move mountains and fill the sea, it is easy to change the structure of the underground passage. Just moving some rocks can make the enemy's explosives that can open the way.

"The more underground space we show, the more the enemy may make the enemy guess our unknown space, and they dare not act easily, and fall into such an underground maze." Li Xiang was not worried about safety. "Besides, our strategic policy is to actively defend and defend the enemy outside the national gate. If we really have to wait until the enemy attacks the island, then our losses will be great."

Li Xiang was not worried about other people's attacks at all. If someone really wanted to attack Taiping Island, there was no need for tunnel battles. Li Xiang himself might be impatient and began to use unconventional means. He had never announced the harmonious declaration to anyone that he would not take the initiative to use nuclear weapons, nor did he oppose the kindness of killing and killing into the enemy's nest.

"Ground space is also extremely precious!" Part of Li Xiang's view is also based on this.

For Li Xiang, being able to bathe in the sun and in the fresh sea breeze is more precious.

In order to save energy, he built more holes on the Taiping Island than people imagined. It is not a false statement to discover new caves every day. Li Xiang cannot always be a charlatan. Many cave discoveries were discovered by Taiping people after exploration step by step. Just like the speculation of thunder clouds, the deepest cave has reached the bottom of the sea hundreds of meters deep.

In order to solve the problem of discharging seawater, those huge holes are directly located at the bottom of the sea, which accommodates a large amount of seawater. Just Li Xiang needs to use some magma to plug the surrounding holes and drain the seawater. Larger caves will greatly expand the underground world of Taiping Island. Li Xiang can even use the protection of seawater to build more undersea caves around Taiping Island or further away. This is much simpler and easier than building a ground space that is easily exposed to its secrets when exposed to the water.

With more cave bases, it can be used for military purposes, and some of them will not affect their use for civilian purposes. Even in Li Xiang's plan, in order to occupy less ground space, more caves will be converted to civilian services.

"Underground caves are less sensitive to external conditions and are very suitable for reconstruction as warehouses. Such warehouses are also more suitable for wartime conditions and are not afraid of enemy bombing and destruction. Our subway lines can directly penetrate these strategic warehouses, and their application will not affect their daily applications at all." In the blueprint of the planners, they also highly support Li Xiang's idea and try to move more buildings to the ground.

"These distributed power stations using fuel cells can also be placed underground, and even some factories can operate underground. Our dense and in-house official website lines can create an environment that is not inferior to ground space."

From the surface, there are not many large factories on Taiping Island. But Lei Yun knew that Taiping Country had several electronic production lines that were world-class, and the underground vacuum dust-free constant temperature workshop built for this purpose was also world-class.

Li Xiang only needs to borrow the gas in the space earth, which can easily create a vacuum environment where others invest heavily. Such vacuum conditions are even cheaply used in underground production workshops where some daily necessities are used. In places where thunder clouds cannot be seen, and where others cannot see, more underground factories are constantly being built and improved in Li Xiang's hands.

The thick strata became the best cover for Li Xiang to exert his magical powers.

But the ground buildings are eye-catching and can only be carried out step by step. This is also because Taiping Kingdom has no high-rise buildings so far. According to the architectural rules, just one year is not enough to erect countless high-rise buildings on the ground. But Thunder Clouds never doubt the future of this city.

"The greatness of a city is multifaceted. The greatness of this city has begun to rise from the underground. Don't just look at the surface of this city, you must understand it more deeply to understand its greatness." Lei Yun solemnly said to his son, "Tomorrow is the winter solstice, and the meeting of the Supreme Power of this country will be held on this day. At that time, you will understand the true greatness of this city." (To be continued...)
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