The golden morning light illuminates the sky. At the end of the line of sight, a towering black shadow slowly emerges from the horizon. The magnificent skyline spreads infinitely to both sides. The colorful glazed tiles reflect the bright golden light under the rising sun. The whole city seems to be bathed in

Amidst the hazy colorful mist, it is as beautiful as a dream.

Standing on the bow of the boat facing the river breeze, Zhao Yinshun looked at the exaggeratedly large super city in the distance, and couldn't help but feel a hint of shock in his eyes.

We have seen cities with a population of tens of millions on the earth, but this fantasy version of a super city in front of us really gives people a sense of absurdity and beauty.

Different from the steel and concrete forests that are exactly the same as modern cities, the buildings here are all kinds of strange, but one thing stands out: randomness!

The exquisite pagoda with hundreds of floors is like a sharp sword thrust into the sky. Next to it is a single palace that is hundreds of meters high and covers an area of ​​several thousand acres!

The former is comparable to the Burj Khalifa in Dubai, while the size of the latter's building does not look like it is prepared for humans at all, but more like a lair made by mythical creatures that are tens to hundreds of meters long!

As the distance gets closer, more and more normal-sized houses come into view, but against their background, those super buildings appear even more majestic and majestic.

what is this?

Cultivation punk?

Looking at the majestic city that was approaching rapidly, Zhao Yinshun just raised an excited smile, and then he noticed something was wrong.

This scale... there must be tens of thousands of people at least, plus the cities, towns and villages seen along the way, the population of Zhili alone is probably hundreds of millions!

And the total population of the entire Damin Empire was only tens of millions?

It’s unscientific!

You know, the area of ​​Zhili can only be ranked in the bottom three among the thirty-six prefectures of Damin. The largest [Zhuzhou] and [Hanzhou] can be divided into ten Zhili if you just take one!

It's just that these states are located on the border, far away from the prosperous land of the Central Plains. They are either bitterly cold all year round, or windy and sandy, or lack water and rain, or are hot and droughty. Many areas are not suitable for long-term survival.

But even so, there are always a few "oases" suitable for survival in the vast area.

It is recorded in the history books that each of these dotted "oases" is a sacred place, housing millions or tens of millions of households!

This calculation is inconsistent with the recently recorded total population of the empire...

Even if the empire declines, demons run rampant, and natural and man-made disasters continue, we can see from Lanzhou to Zhili that the people everywhere are far from being unable to survive.

Nodding his brows, Zhao Yinshun seemed to have thought of something, and narrowed his eyes thoughtfully.

In the last years of the dynasty, in addition to land annexation, the biggest feature was the hiding of the population!

At this time, the huge cruise ship had entered the city. Along the river, the bustling streets spread out like a chessboard. Lively shouts could be heard endlessly. The whole city woke up from the dark night and exuded infinite vitality.

No wonder the Sanjing Grand Canal was built to connect the north and south. Without the support of water transportation, the underlying transportation capacity of the feudal era would not be able to support the operation of such a huge super city.

If you only look at the prosperous scene of the imperial capital, you will only feel that the entire Damin Empire is burning with flames and blooming with flowers, but you cannot tell that the people in other states and counties are living an increasingly difficult life.

"How about it? It's spectacular, isn't it?"

A little white cat jumped on the shoulder, admiring the magnificent super city with Zhao Yinshun.

"Senior sister, how big is the imperial capital?"

"About 300 miles from east to west, 400 miles from north to south, with Tianyuan in the middle, ruling the world!"

"…………"

After a little conversion, Zhao Yinshun found that the Damin Imperial Capital actually covered an area of ​​nearly 30,000 square kilometers, which was nearly twice the size of the imperial capital with a population of 20 million in the previous life!

I'm afraid he hasn't cultivated to the seventh ring, right?

Curling his lips, the young man looked around and found that the height of the building was increasing little by little.

This shows that the further you go, the higher the value of the land. When you get to the city center, it may be just like in the previous life, every inch of land is precious...

After walking down the river for more than an hour, a towering city wall gradually came into view. As the distance got closer, the majestic green-black wall with metallic luster "push forward" with an endless sense of oppression, giving people

There is a pressure as heavy as a mountain that makes people breathless.

Phew~

Caressing his chest gently, Zhao Yinshun took a deep breath slowly, understanding that this pressure was not an illusion, but a real and genuine divine power!

Majesty, holiness, vastness, ruthlessness...

The more powerful an individual is, the more clearly he can feel this mighty force that suppresses all things. The extraordinary power that distorts reality seems to have shrunk back into the depths of his soul little by little under the pressure of this force, and can no longer easily interfere with the operation of laws.

"Don't worry, this is the power of the [Emperor], just get used to it."

The kitten rubbed the boy's cheek and comforted him softly.

Soon, as he approached the foot of the city wall and looked at the perverted wall that was nearly a hundred meters high, Zhao Yinshun bent his neck at a ninety-degree angle and took in a breath of cold air.

In the previous life, the city wall at the pinnacle of ancient Chinese infrastructure was only about 20 meters high. Even so, in World War II, artillery of ordinary caliber could not penetrate it!

The city wall is not an ordinary building. Every time it rises one meter, the difficulty of construction increases geometrically.

For specific examples, you can refer to the Three Gorges Dam. That kind of gravity dam is basically a solid mountain built out!

Even if the nuclear bomb comes, it won’t work!

The problem is that the total length of the Three Gorges Dam is just over 2,300 meters, and the city wall in front of us...

Looking left and right, looking at the blue-black "mountains" extending to the end of his sight, Zhao Yinshun took a long sigh and shook his head with emotion.

I couldn't understand it, but I was shocked!

The productivity of the extraordinary world is so terrifying!

Fortunately, the area covered by the city wall is only equivalent to the second ring road at most. If all the land covering an area of ​​30,000 square kilometers were enclosed by this standard, it would really be Zenith Star Technology!

Immediately afterwards, the Grand Canal turned a corner along the city wall, winding down like a moat.

Admiring the majestic and majestic continuous city walls, Zhao Yinshun felt like an ant walking under the feet of a giant beast, and had a wonderful sense of freshness.

But soon, a new wonder came into view.

A river channel several kilometers wide cuts the Grand Canal in half, and together with a converging river on the opposite side, form the magnificent spectacle of the confluence of three rivers.

"That's [Dachuan]. The northern section of the Grand Canal starts from [Xuanwu Jing], the companion capital of [Youzhou], connects to [Dahe], and flows into the imperial capital from north to south."

"The southern section starts from [Zuozhou]'s companion capital [Suzaku Jing], connects to [Dajiang], and merges into the imperial capital from south to north, and this is their intersection!"

He stretched out his paws and pointed ahead at the huge lake formed by the confluence of three rivers as far as the eye can see. The little cat introduced it leisurely and leisurely.

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There will be another chapter later, but it will be very late, so don’t wait, just read it tomorrow.
Chapter completed!