The Rise of the European Emperor

Since metropolitan areas like Paris and London in future generations are to be established, the entire city must be re-planned. Because, at present, the expected population capacity of Aurich and Emden is only 20,000 people. The two cities together can accommodate up to 40,000 people.

Therefore, if you want to build a metropolis, you must expand the size of the city. But there is a problem - in this era, cities must build walls...

Because, in this era, the war is still raging. In order to ensure the safety of the city, a tall city wall must be built to protect the safety of the city. Unlike later generations, the city has only abolished the city wall because of world peace and weapons can easily penetrate the city wall.

But this era is different, because there is the threat of war, and the city wall can fully resist the attack of the enemy. Therefore, the richer the city, the more it needs to build tall and strong city walls.

However, in this way, it runs counter to the development of the city. Because, while ensuring the safety of the city, the city wall also limits the expansion of the city.

Of course, these are small things. The biggest problem is - in this era, there are not enough floating population!

For cities to develop, there must be enough floating population. Why are there so many floating populations in later generations? Because of the mechanization of agriculture! In the era of lack of agricultural machinery, farmers are trapped in the land, and it takes a lot of manpower to sow the land and harvest it. Moreover, in order to cultivate the land, the farmers work very hard, and it is very appropriate to use the phrase "face to the loess and back to the sky".

But with the popularization of agricultural machinery after the 1990s, everything from arable land, sowing to harvesting has been mechanized. At this time, the rural population is idle. Because there is no need for strong support at home, women and the elderly can go to hire machinery to help with work, and do not need strong support anymore. Then, there was a boom in part-time jobs, and migrant workers crowded out Beijing, Shanghai, and Guangzhou.

However, in the absence of agricultural machinery, Marin can't let the serfs from the manor flood into the city to become citizens now. Because that would waste farmland.

After thinking about it, Marin can only rely on recruiting the surplus population of other vassal states to enrich. And businessmen, mainly rely on good policies to attract from other German regions. For example, Marin will legislate to protect businessmen, learn from the Western laws of later generations, and stipulate that "private property is sacred and inviolable", and no nobles are allowed to oppress and extort those businessmen. In this way, it will be attractive enough for businessmen.

However, because of the cost of building the city wall and the limitation of too few floating population, Marin's idea of ​​building a metropolis with a population of one million cannot be realized. Now Marin has only set a small goal, which is to make the metropolitan area have a population of more than 100,000 and reach the level of Milan...

Fortunately, Marin now has the cement manufacturing technology to produce cement in large quantities. As soon as the cement production facility in Corner Brook, Newfoundland is fully constructed,

And start to burst into production capacity, Marin can get a large supply of cement, so as to build the city more cheaply.

Now, the first thing Marin has to do is to repair the concrete road leading to Emden from Aurich. Also, make it big enough.

Before, due to cost considerations, the experimental concrete road that Marin repaired was only 20 cm thick and 3.5 meters wide. Such a road can only be said to be barely sufficient. However, it would be too narrow to be used for the main road in the metropolitan area.

Therefore, Marin decided to build a major road with four lanes in both directions. Of course, the width cannot be compared with the later generations. Later generations of two-way four-lane expressways, each lane has a width of 3.75 meters, which is larger than the width of rural concrete roads. However, that is because later generations of large trucks are wider.

But this era is different, the width of the carriage wheel is generally more than one meter. Usually the British standard is 1435mm, which later became the width of the rails.

Of course, tracked and trackless are different. Railcars can travel precisely on the track, while trackless cars can easily sway from side to side. Therefore, the width of the road lane is generally much larger than the width of the vehicle body.

Taking into account that the width of the carriage is generally not more than 1.5 meters, Marin finally decided - set the width of the single lane to 2 meters. If there are four lanes, the total is 8 meters. But because there is a block in the middle, the final road width is set to 10 meters. The thickness is increased to 25 cm. The total length from Aurich to Emden is about 20 kilometers. Therefore, the engineering team needs to build a large cement road 20 kilometers long, 10 meters wide and 20 centimeters thick to achieve rapid communication between the two cities.

As for the interior of the two cities, there is no need for these two four-lane roads. Moreover, the cost of this road is also a little higher. Marin intends, in the city, mainly to use the east-west and north-south avenues, the kind of 5 meters wide. On other roads, village-level concrete roads with a width of 3.5 meters are still constructed. After all, carriages are not wide these days, and there are not many. For general roads, 3.5 meters wide is enough. Even when visiting the city, Marin found a lot of small streets only one or two meters wide.

In addition, new cities also need new planning. In addition to the planning of the main streets, the drainage system is the most important, and there are public toilets.

Drains need to be constructed with cement, which also facilitates the flow of sewage. And public toilets, this is very important. why? Because Marin wants to collect the feces of the urban population as fertilizer.

So, Marin ordered that the use of toilets be promoted in the city. Moreover, it is strictly stipulated that every household needs to pour the feces in the toilet into the nearby public toilets in the early morning. Those who defecate anywhere will be punished severely. Then, every day, Marin arranged for serfs to go to the public toilets in each community early in the morning, and use a dung truck to transport the dung in the pool. Then, it is transported to a fertilizer processing plant to be processed into fertilizer.

Of course, on the surface, Marin's argument was that the feces were too smelly and had to be pulled out of town for disposal. As for how to deal with it, it is none of the residents' business.

And for the sake of confidentiality, the serfs in the manure transportation and fertilizer processing factories under Marin are all employees of "state-owned units", and they are treated well. That is, the usual work environment is a bit harsh. But Marin also gave them masks to prevent them from being smoked to death. Moreover, at the end of each day's work, he would take a shower in a specially-built bathroom in the fertilizer processing plant to wash off the fecal smell from his body.

After several years of management, the city under Marin's rule has achieved centralized treatment of excrement. Therefore, in East Frisian cities, people can't smell the feces that are everywhere in other cities, and the environment is not known how much better.

In fact, people in other countries don't know the role of feces, and they think that Marin is too clean, or has a cleanliness addiction. Therefore, outside, Marin's concentrated cleaning of excrement was ridiculed by many princes, who thought he was a waste of money and food. After all, dispatching a large number of workers to transport feces also consumes a lot. At the very least, a lot of food needs to be consumed to feed those workers.

However, if they knew the benefits of the feces going to the ground, they probably wouldn't think so, but would rush to follow suit...

In addition to road planning and centralized waste disposal and transportation, Marin also set up an environmental protection bureau to select the poor middle-aged and elderly (not too old) in the city and make them sanitation workers responsible for cleaning the streets. On the streets of this era, in addition to ordinary garbage, there is a very special kind of garbage, that is, horse manure.

After all, Marin can prohibit people from urinating everywhere, but he can't prohibit horses from urinating everywhere. In this era, horses and carriages are important means of transportation, and there are many on the road. Therefore, it is normal for horse manure to appear on the street. This requires sanitation workers to clean up the horse manure in a timely manner. Of course, according to regulations, these horse manures must be sent to public toilets and not put together with ordinary garbage. Because, this horse manure is also fertilizer...

After road revisions, centralized disposal of excrement, and frequent cleaning by sanitation workers, cities in the Grand Duchy of Beihai will become the cleanest cities in Europe. Coupled with Marin's policy of encouraging business development and preferential treatment of businessmen, it will attract a large number of businessmen to live in Emden, and then contribute to economic development and taxation here...