Chapter 92

In Tang En's bedroom, bursts of maniacal laughter occasionally echoed out. The consequence of forgetting to cast a silencing spell was that Tina and the others were all scared to approach him.

They thought Tang En must have fallen ill, which led to them looking at him with strange eyes for the next few days.

"I am a genius!"

In the bedroom, Tang En looked at the circuit board in front of him, lavishing himself with praise. If the narcissistic Karl were here, he would definitely have a lot in common with him.

On the circuit board in front of him, the triple magic array, activated by his magic, flickered with a faint light, clearly operating very smoothly.

Above the circuit board, a device similar to the ram of a stamping machine was suspended. However, at the bottom, there were faintly visible protruding patterns. If one looked closely, they would find that these patterns were identical to the magic array on the circuit board.

Indeed, the method Tang En thought of was stamping.

Using the ram to stamp the magic array pattern onto the circuit board, and then evenly covering it with magic dust, a triple magic array was thus completed!

In Plandar, all mages knew that the success of a magic array depended on three factors: first, the accuracy of the array's drawing; second, whether the magical materials used could withstand the power of the array; third, whether the magic source used could drive the array.

The second and third factors were actually the easiest to solve. What had always hindered mages from learning and mastering magic arrays was the first point: how to accurately draw the magic array.

On Earth, the simplest way to reproduce a beautiful pattern was to use a printer, and a slightly simpler method was to use a stamp, which even children knew how to play with.

Tang En couldn't create a printer, which was much more complex than a printing press, whether in terms of inputting or outputting magic array data, both were challenges.

However, based on the principle of stamps, creating a stamping version of the magic array was entirely feasible.

The principle of a magic array was that magic flowed through a specific path formed by magical materials, producing a specific effect. The magic array Tang En engraved on the ram was protruding, and after stamping, it would form a matching indentation on the circuit board, with absolute precision and zero error, perfectly reproducing the magic array Tang En had carved!

The next step was simple. Tang En just needed to sprinkle magic dust into the indentations and activate the magic array. The magic dust would solidify under the influence of magic, fixing it in the indentations. Then, by replacing the magic source with a magic crystal, the function could be perfectly realized.

"I am indeed a genius!"

Tang En praised himself again, shamelessly claiming this "patent" as his own.

After discovering that this idea could be realized, Tang En applied the concept to other areas, instantly thinking of many other methods. For example, he could combine the logo of the Great Tang Chamber of Commerce with the magic array to achieve genuine anti-counterfeiting functions. He could even use this principle to directly enchant armor and weapons in mass production, allowing his army to fully adopt enchanted armor and weapons in the future!

The success of this idea opened up Tang En's thinking, making him excited and restless. With this method, he no longer had to worry about mass production when using magic to create other Earth products in the future!

The only constraints on his development were the supply of raw materials and the population.

The best and cheapest material he could think of for raw materials was steel. The nearby Brussels iron mine could provide him with a steady supply of iron ore. As long as the steel mill's production capacity could keep up, there would be no shortage of basic civilian and military materials. In the future, when his strength grew, military materials could be replaced with superior magical metals.

However, before that...

"Population..."

Tang En couldn't help but sigh. Population was always a big issue. Not to mention the population of Ellington, even the entire Ilrus Empire had a population equivalent to a medium-sized province in China, with only a few tens of millions—considering that the Ilrus Empire was once a unified human world after the Chaos Invasion War, it was now in such a sorry state.

These few tens of millions of people were scattered throughout Ilrus, making it extremely difficult for Tang En to attract people from other places. Unless there was a complete transformation in Ellington, making everyone aware of its existence and encouraging them to come here voluntarily.

Tang En had no doubt that one day Ellington would become the hottest place in Ilrus, and even in all of Plandar, but that would take a long time to develop.

"Ah, before that, I should focus on planning first..."

Tang En pinched his brow, feeling a bit of a headache.

He had never studied urban planning, and such major tasks had never been related to him, a commoner. However, not having studied it didn't mean he hadn't heard of it.

There were many things to consider in urban planning, such as the spacing, layout, and lighting of buildings, as well as green spaces and the width of roads, and the development period. Even if he didn't know much, he could guess the general idea. Even with just his memories from Earth, his planning would be better than Ellington's current haphazard development.

The current dirty and chaotic situation in Ellington was relatively mild because of the small population. Once it developed, if there were no corresponding solutions, it would quickly become like medieval Europe, with filth and sewage everywhere.

Just thinking about such a consequence made Tang En shudder, and he shook his head vigorously.

Planning, must plan!

Tang En took out two sheets of parchment. The paper he made was not very durable, suitable for toilet paper and newspapers, but not for recording things, so using durable parchment was better for such planning diagrams.

"First, the division of buildings... separating the industrial and residential areas, with a green belt in between..."

Tang En mumbled to himself as he roughly drew a map of the current Ellington on the parchment, even including the surrounding environment. This was the reference map, and the other one was the planning map.

Although the so-called industrial area of Ellington currently only included the steel mill under construction, the charcoal factory, and the logging camp... or should it also include the mint and soap workshops next to the lord's residence? Tang En felt it was better to plan ahead, so that the development of the industrial area and the construction of the residential area could be isolated in the future.

Considering the future increase in population and the expansion of the city, Tang En completely isolated the residential and industrial areas in a parallel design, allowing them to expand outward without affecting each other.

"Hmm, we also need to consider the transportation of residents to work... a horizontal thoroughfare should be reserved at regular intervals..."

Tang En mumbled to himself as he drew two horizontal thoroughfares on the planning map.

"Although the population is currently small, this will be the central area in the future, and the road traffic must be wide enough... six meters? Eight meters? Forget it, let's go all the way to twelve meters!"

Tang En decided to set the road width to twelve meters. Although it was a bit wide, it was better to plan ahead than to demolish later. Before the roads were fully utilized, the sides could be used as areas for shops to set up stalls, without wasting space.

Tang En was afraid that over time, this main road would spontaneously turn into a market...

"Let's plan the residential buildings in a grid pattern. I'll draw a rough sketch, and Fiona can figure out the details..."

With a bold stroke, Tang En easily and casually determined the main layout of future buildings in Ellington.

However, for a city, the isolation of industrial and residential areas, the layout of green spaces, the pattern of residential neighborhoods, and even the width of roads were not the most important. The most important thing was what Tang En was now starting to worry about.

In modern cities, there are public restrooms and fire stations at regular intervals, which are essential infrastructure. Strictly speaking, there should also be park planning, but since the area that needed to be rebuilt in Ellington was small, these issues could be temporarily ignored. However, there was one issue that could not be avoided and needed to be determined in advance.

That was the city's underground drainage system.

Indeed, since Tang En arrived in Ellington, he hadn't seen any underground drainage facilities, not even surface drainage ditches...

Tang En didn't know if it was because the rainy season had less rain, or because the terrain was high and the Emerald River was low, so drainage wasn't necessary. However, a city couldn't possibly exist without a drainage system.

A city without a drainage system would be unimaginably dirty and chaotic once the population increased. Tang En didn't want his city to become a stinky place.

However, Tang En only knew that a city's drainage system handled and discharged urban sewage and rainwater. In a system where sewage and rainwater are separated, sewage is collected by drainage pipes and sent to a sewage treatment plant, then discharged into water bodies or recycled. Rainwater is collected by drainage pipes and discharged into water bodies nearby.

But he didn't know what to pay attention to in designing a drainage system.

"Hmm... the diameter of the drainage pipes? Durability? Ground load-bearing structure?"

Tang En thought for a long time but was still confused. In the end, he wrote down these points based on his previous impressions. No matter what, the drainage pipes had to be durable and the diameter had to be large enough, otherwise, frequent blockages would be unbearable.

As for separating rainwater and sewage, it was simple: completely isolating the two systems. Rainwater would be drained directly into the Emerald River, while the underground drainage system would connect to each household to discharge only sewage.

As for the sewage discharge point... it could be directly connected to the large sewage pool of the paper mill, and regularly sent to the Fire Elemental Plane for destruction, no problem!

If the sewage treatment capacity was insufficient, it could be solved by increasing the size of the sewage pool and the frequency of sewage disposal.

"I am truly a genius!"

Tang En looked at the blueprint and exclaimed, giving himself a big thumbs up!

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