Protect Our Clan Leader-Chapter 675 - 80: Lead Trouble Away! Wilderness Pioneering Outside the Territory (Ask for Monthly Pass)_3

Within Wang Shouzhe’s planning:

This quality cement road, called "Shouzhe Road", is more than four zhang wide, can accommodate five carriages side by side, and extends for a staggering eighty li! If it were on Earth, a mere eighty li widened concrete road wouldn’t be considered a significant project.

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Yet for the Wang family, the internal construction cost of this road amounts to two hundred and sixteen thousand Qian Gold. It will require three thousand laborers and take six months to complete.

The timeline for the "Shouzhe Road" project is extremely tight, requiring completion before the next rainy season. Otherwise, if it drags on until next March, construction difficulty will skyrocket.

It will traverse the outer territories, and at the end of the eighty li is a wide abyss of a canyon, a corridor formed by two parallel mountain ranges.

Whenever pioneering land in the outer territories, it is essential to select natural barriers for fortification. Otherwise, no matter how well the land is developed, there’s no resistance against the onslaught of beast tides, and the losses would be immeasurable.

Truth be told, the construction site for "Shouzhe Pass" isn’t ideal right now.

However, after investigating the terrain within a radius of two to three hundred li, it’s the best of a bad lot. All the other sites fall far behind it.

The reason why the "Shouzhe Pass" construction site is deemed unideal mainly lies in the width of the corridor being too big. Even the narrowest, most suitable building site would require the Pass to be built ten li wide! Continue reading at novelbuddy

A Pass that’s ten li wide! It’s evidently a rare occurrence even in Da Qian.

The "Zhou Xuanguan", which the Wang family previously took great pride in, is just over one hundred zhang wide, far less than one li wide.

So you can imagine how enormous the yet-to-be-built "Shouzhe Pass" is going to be.

That’s also why no neighboring family has ever attempted to pioneer the outer territories beyond Zhou Xuanguan in the past few hundred years. The construction difficulties and expenses of a Pass of that level are definitely not affordable by an average 7th-rank Aristocratic Family.

In fact, most of the Rank Six Prominent Family may not even be able to construct it.

The reason why the Wang family, led by Wang Shouzhe, dares to ambitiously construct the "Shouzhe Pass" is twofold: First, the Wang family’s annual income is high. Second, they have a lot of experience with concrete construction.

According to the estimate made from the blueprint.

The "Shouzhe Pass" along with its Zun City, will demand a total of forty million dan of cement, eighty million dan of crushed stones, two million dan of crude iron melted into reinforcements, and ninety million dan of high-quality thick stone blocks for wall building and paving.

The human resources planned for the project will reach ten thousand people.

The total construction period for the "Shouzhe Pass" and its Zun City will be ten years, and the total expenditure is projected to be about fourteen million Qian Gold. This doesn’t even include the costs required to set up the Divine Might Cannons on Shouzhe Pass.

(Le Ao roughly sketched a blueprint and did a simple estimate of the work and material costs. No choice, Le Ao spent an unprofessional year or two as a project cost estimator in his youth and even took an exam for it, it was easier back then... Hence the slight OCD.)

Transporting such a huge amount of construction material through "Shouzhe Road" is not feasible. First, the size of the transport load would be too massive. Second, the cost would be excessive.

Therefore, before the construction of "Shouzhe Pass" commences, it is necessary to first build cement factories, stone quarries, and accommodation quarters for laborers around the building site.

Of course, these are not the biggest difficulties in infrastructure development in the outer territories.

The greatest difficulty lies in its risk and uncertainty. The Wang family must take advantage of this coming fall and winter season for a large-scale cleanup of "Shouzhe Pass", eliminating all dangerous flora and fauna.

Simultaneously with the construction of "Shouzhe Road", patrols and clearances must also be carried out along the way, to ensure the safety of the road laborers.

Based on the above.

It would be too demanding for the Wang family to single-handedly pioneer the land.

The affiliated families of the In-laws Alliance, led by the Wang family, were also drawn into this ambitious pioneering plan. Each family needed to delegate a portion of their manpower, mobilize their subjects to join the labor team, and bear a portion of the costs.

Of course, the Wang family contributes the most capital and can mobilize the largest number of laborers from their jurisdiction of hundred and fifty thousand commoners. The Wang family will go all out for this wave of outer territory development, and the benefits to be gained in the future will also be the greatest.

The Wang family machine roars into motion.

In Longzuo County Town, inside Tian Yuan Danfang compound.

Wang Shouye, an alchemist who is being prioritized for training by their family, is carrying out his task.

"Brother Wen Shan, thank you for taking the time to refine these hundred first-grade Detoxification Pills. Here is two thousand five hundred Qian Gold notes, please take it."

"Brother Jing Fu, thank you for your time in crafting these two hundred first-grade Healing Pills. Here is four thousand Qian Gold notes for you, please accept it. I hope you can make more when you have the time."

The pioneering of the outer territories is a highly risky and unpredictable system project. Detoxification Pills and Healing Pills are indispensable strategic supplies. The former can neutralize most of the lower-level toxins, and the latter can effectively heal injuries and save lives.

However, such first-grade Dan medicines are only effective for cultivators in the Qi Refinement Realm and mortals. They have almost no effect on cultivators in the Spirit Platform Realm, for a very simple reason: the leap and transformation in their life level makes them much more powerful, rendering low-level toxins and injuries ineffective against them.

But once they are seriously poisoned and injured, those low-level Detoxification Pills and Healing Pills aren’t going to be of any use either.

Consequently, a good number of third and fourth-grade Antidote Pills, Creation Pills must be prepared. These must either be refined by Wang Shouye himself or be commissioned to other higher-graded alchemists for refinement.