Chapter 912： Cold autumn season

The night was dark, but the starlight was not visible in the sky, only the haze shrouded the entire city hazyly, making this huge emperor seem illusory.

The weather has cooled down. Although there is still some time before the frost moon, in Aldernan, which is the most susceptible to fog, the fog has fallen on the plains one step in advance. In the past week, five out of ten days have been Foggy-Judging by the climate in previous years, the number of fog falls on the plains will increase in the next half month to a month.

Daniel put on a coat and left his room. He walked through the dark corridor in the mansion and walked to the balcony, looking out over the streets of Aldernan immersed in the mist in the distance.

The bright brilliance of the magic stone street lamp penetrated the mist, and various silhouettes were drawn in the night. There were silhouettes of buildings in the darkness, and there were many windows with lights on. The patrol soldiers holding dogs from nearby Passing through the street, leaving a gradually elongated shadow beside the street lamp.

This is a wealthy area, and the infrastructure and security management are second to none in the whole city. In civilian areas a few blocks away, the number of security soldiers will be less than half, and the street lights are not as bright as here. As for the poor areas ... … That's the same as it was a few years ago, at most there are a few new street lights, and some of them have been destroyed by the local gangster rogue.

Even so, ordinary people living in this city can clearly feel that this place is gradually becoming more prosperous, and this era is becoming more prosperous-those who have the opportunity to go to the Shadow Theater to buy movies "Citizens" who import food and shoes and subscribe to trendy magazines feel this especially.

Daniel built these little by little with his own eyes.

The old mage gently rubbed his fingers, and a layer of near-transparent shield shrouded beside him. In this cold autumn season, he created a small space that was warm and comfortable. He looked up to the southwest and saw In the depths of night and fog, bright lights illuminate, and the faint hustle and bustle comes from that direction.

There is the block where the "Fan There Ang Salon" is located, the far-sighted "upper world" built by the Earl of Van der An expensive, there are casinos, theaters, shops, stock exchanges, and the salon as the core Club-The wealthy people in Aldnam, including the so-called "new citizen class", have now regarded it as their heavenly kingdom on earth in this prosperous era, and they regard some novel, competing financial resources and exquisite lives as Themed social activities as a means to show their decency and indulge in it. From the entrance to the exit of Onsaron Street where the wealthy citizens and small nobles can find a place suitable for their own money, it is incredible.

And just one block away from the bustling lights, it was Aldernan ’s slum area, where the blackness seemed to disappear from the night, and the silhouettes of the buildings that emerged from the darkness occasionally were gloomy like ghosts.

"Where there is an salon" may be regarded as a microcosm of Aldnam's now-expanding "new wealth group", but Daniel is not interested in it and has always prohibited his apprentices from approaching similar places.

"Just a bad imitation."

At night, the old mage muttered to himself, and then took a step back, leaving the balcony that was being blown over and over again by the cold autumn wind.

...

In the morning of the next day, Gao Wen did not go to the government affairs hall as usual or deal with government affairs in his study, but went directly to the Institute of Magic Technology, where Daniel and Rebecca had been waiting in advance.

In a large laboratory, all kinds of devices used to control the rune system are placed on the four walls of the room, and there is only a wide metal platform in the center of the room. There are no complicated experimental instruments on the platform. There is only one set of adjusted crystal projection device. Above the projection device, there is a light blue translucent schematic diagram, which is briefly marked with the outline of the territory of the Cecil Empire.

"Master Ancestor!" After the appearance of Gao Wen, the first to be greeted was the rejoicing Rebecca, "You can count on it!"

"How old are you-do things a little calmer." Gao Wen looked helplessly at this great Zeng who had been active at all times ... The great-granddaughter glanced at it, although she knew it was useless to preach, she couldn't help but remind him .

Compared to when I first saw her five years ago, the slightly miserable "Lady Viscount" has grown up and turned into a girl with at least a mature appearance, but her personality has hardly changed. He seemed worried about this, but Gao Wen felt that this was not a bad thing-anyway, he was likely to chase this stupid deer into a king ...

Rebecca shrunk her neck to cope with it. She did n’t know how much to listen to Gao Wen ’s words. The latter did n’t care much about it. Carmel broke the silence. . "

Gao Wen nodded and came to the metal platform in the middle of the room. His eyes swept over the magic projection floating in the air. In his sight, he could clearly see Cecil City, Shilin City, Marks of cities such as Tamdul, Sorinburg, Saint Sunil, Fort Winter, etc., and there are bright lines connecting between the cities, and the light spots in the dim state can be seen around the lines .

"These light spots are the magic network nodes that have completed the infrastructure construction. The lines are the communication lines currently in use-except for the southern border, the other cities are basically single lines. The triangles next to these hub cities represent the construction. The progress, blue is completed, red is about to be completed ... "

Carmel floated beside the holographic projection, explaining the annotations on the image for Gao Wen, while constantly adjusting the projection device, allowing the screen to switch angles, showing a variety of details.

This made Gao Wen have to sigh the convenience of magic, and quickly focused on the last red triangle of this diagram.

"At present, only the node of Winterbath has not been completed yet ..." he said softly.

Kamal nodded: "Yes, the northern climate is cold, the construction time itself is a month later than other places, and there are more mountains, which is not convenient for construction, so the construction progress is the slowest one. But in Victoria Under the call of the consul, many of the local extraordinarys were directly invested in the first-line construction. The mountainous areas where large construction machinery cannot enter are all constructed by the masters who do not lose the efficiency of the machinery, so all the nodes have reached the construction period. The main hub of the Winter Castle will also be completed within a week. "

"Very good ..." Gao Wen exhaled, and finally felt a relief in his heart. "In this way, the magic net of the entire empire can finally be connected to the Internet and become a real" net "..."

Kamal's buzzing voice inevitably brought a touch of emotion: "It is true, Your Majesty."

Gao Wen didn't speak for a while, but looked at the flashing dots and lines in the holographic projection a little, and it was difficult to calm down.

The imperial kingdom's magic net is connected to the Internet ... This is one of his most ambitious plans, and it is also the longest time-consuming plan, the most manpower and material resources, and the most far-reaching plan to date.

The light spots on the projection are all large and small magical obelisks or hub towers. From the date of the establishment of the empire, even before the establishment of the empire, projects in related fields have been started.

Some of them were originally built by the Cecil Principality to build everywhere, some were built by the nobles of the Principality when the technology was exported, and today they were standardized and upgraded, and some were under the leadership of the Empire ’s highest government office in the last one or two years. When completed, nodes large and small are distributed in the main cities and transportation hubs of the empire, and use it as a base point to extend to the periphery, covering as much as possible "first-level urban areas", thereby forming a prototype of a "network".

Separate "regional magic nets" and magical obelisk are not real magic "nets", they are only small-scale energy stations and regional communication stations, and only connect them all. "Magnet" is truly a "net". The instructions from the highest government office and the information returned from all parts of the country can be quickly spread through this network. The energy supply of the entire Cecil will be guaranteed, and cities around the world And the wilderness between cities and cities will be protected. Where there is a magic net, there will be energy, information, security and productivity, and all these are the prerequisites for the further development of this country.

And this ambitious plan was launched as early as Cecil was a Principality. This piece of web has been laid out by Gao Wen for almost three years-these three years still have convenient magic power in this world, and each This basic technology already exists.

In order to make this huge network operational, one of the most critical facilities is the "main hub" installation located in important cities throughout the empire.

It is a very large magic energy crystal array, which is installed on a special high tower (or a tree), and their coverage is very wide, but the wide coverage is only one aspect of their role, they have a greater role It is to coordinate and balance all the secondary hubs connected to it, and to control the underlying nodes through the secondary hubs. Now the final step of Gaowen's "Empire Realm Grid Integration" plan is to wait for these main hubs to come online.

——At present, major cities in the empire rely on a series of relay towers to maintain single-line connections. This level of "connection" is obviously not enough. From the carrying capacity, the ability to resist risks, and the actual performance, they can not fully meet the requirements of Gao Wen.

"Wait for the whole world to be connected to the grid, the first stage of this project is considered to be completed," he said slowly after a long silence. "The next step is to continue to increase the number of basic nodes and secondary hubs in various places ... "

"Do you want to increase it?" Rebecca next to him couldn't help but say in surprise, "I feel that the coverage area is very wide now ..."

"It's not enough, it's not enough," Gao Wen shook his head, his eyes never leaving the light spots and lines, "not even half of them."

His words startled Rebecca, but it was completely serious-the scale of the magic network nodes established everywhere in the empire may be an incredible behemoth in the eyes of people of this era, but Gao Wen knew In the past three years, what he built was a "basic project." The seemingly large node coverage area actually only included major cities and large-scale towns in various regions, and the lower-level villages or more remote The settlement is incapable of covering.

However, in the eyes of many people in this era, this level of magic web is actually far beyond imagination-so that every town can use magic power anytime, anywhere, with strategic shields and instant messaging, with modern lighting and based on The entertainment and working conditions of the magic guide technology are enough. As for covering the magic net to the next level of the village, even the remote mountain and wilderness ... They do not understand what is necessary.

This made Gao Wen couldn't help but think of a ridicule he often heard in his previous life: Cuntong.

Cuntong.com ... This is a great thing.

Gao Wen exhaled and said slowly: "Continue to cover, cover every village, cover every place where people smoke, this is our next goal, this may take more three years, but this is very necessary."

Rebecca blinked her eyes. She was very talented in the technical field, and she was not stupid elsewhere, but she still could n’t do as much thought as Gao Wen, beyond the thinking of the current era, but this did not affect her. A bright smile, nodded hard: "You must make sense! Then do so"

Gao Wen looked at this silly roe with a weeping smile.

This child ... is reluctant to be a Viscount, if he succeeds to the throne ... forget it, or use it as a chase.

Instead, Carmel seemed to understand Gao Wen's idea. His eyes filled with arcane glance looked at the entire holographic projection map, and then nodded slightly: "As much as possible, cover as much as possible ... For the future of this country, it is of great significance to everyone in this land. "

With that said, the magician from a thousand years ago suddenly laughed self-deprecatingly and shook his head: "If the Gondor Empire was not too dependent on the Deep Blue Well at that time, if we had a way to distribute the magic power at that time. And cover the whole world ... Never destroy all the foundations because of the explosion of an energy well. Even in the face of the magic wave, the civilization that mankind finally preserved will certainly be more than seven hundred years ago. "

Gao Wen nodded gently, and then quieted down in the room for a while.

Half a minute later, he broke his silence: "After the matter here, you go to Veronica and go to the government office to find me."

...

Before noon, Kamel and Veronica came to the office of Gao Wen in the government office.

As soon as they entered the door, they found that Hetty and Amber were also on the scene.

"Sit down," Gao Wen nodded to the two ancient perverts, and motioned to the seat near the desk. "Call you all because I received some news about Tifeng here-now I doubt it might Connect with the gods. "