Chapter 389 The Prince's Confusion
Maybe it's an illusion.
The prince didn't care much about the lighthouse. There were too many things in Castel that interested him, such as the church in front of them.
"I had heard about the magnificence of this church before I came here, but I was still amazed when I saw it with my own eyes." The prince sighed and looked at the Castres Cathedral.
"It actually doesn't have any design worthy of praise. It's just a purely functional building. We urgently needed permanent fortifications during the deep-sea war, so we built it urgently. It's made entirely of reinforced concrete, which is something similar to cement. The thickness is enough to withstand the bombardment of a battleship's main guns - although we currently have neither battleships nor main guns."
The prince nodded.
It's just cement, he has seen it.
Rhine architects often like to use this kind of easy-to-shape object to decorate their buildings.
It is easy to prepare and pour, but its disadvantage is that it is too brittle. It is not suitable for construction, and even for decoration. It can easily fail to survive the sun and rain.
Can this thing be used for construction? The prince actually didn't know that the cement he saw in the Rhine and the concrete that Hughes talked about were almost two completely different things.
The cement that appeared in the Rhine was still quite primitive. It was mostly used as a binder between stones. It was somewhat like the mortar used by the Romans, with the main ingredients being limestone, sand, volcanic ash, etc.
Apart from its good plasticity, its strength and various data cannot be compared with modern cement.
The technology used by Hughes is quite mature. The limestone treated by calcination and other processes produces a chemical reaction during the hardening process, and concrete goes a step further on this basis.
It uses cement as the raw material, mixed with sand, gravel, and slag from the blast furnace of the steel plant, and adds steel bars as the skeleton, which becomes reinforced concrete.
The prince's eyes fell on the outer wall.
Because the walls of the cathedral needed to withstand head-on collisions with sea urchin monsters, the thickness of the walls was extremely exaggerated. After the new stellar furnace was built, the overall thickness was even thickened once more to ensure that there would be no accidents.
All these added together formed the monster before the eyes of the few people: the outer wall thickness of the entire church reached an insane three meters, and the core part exceeded seven meters - it was almost a concrete lump.
The core circle of Castel has no walls, but is surrounded by permanent fortifications one after another, and any place is a fortress.
After seeing the thickness, the prince's doubts disappeared.
With this thickness, not to mention cement, even a wall made of mud can be guaranteed not to collapse.
But why use such a fragile thing to build it? "This is a scaled-down model of the cathedral." Hughes took out an exquisite little box and gave it to the prince. He picked it up and played with it for a while before putting it away.
The carriage drove towards the gate of the core circle and was about to enter the fortress group. The prince suddenly noticed that the enchantress who had been traveling with the two of them had disappeared. He looked outside through the window of the carriage in confusion.
The road we came from was all plains, and we could see very far away, but there was no sign of the two banshees.
"They left through the webway." Hughes mentioned casually.
Webway? Perhaps it was a facility similar to a sewer. As a new large city, Rhine had a very complex sewer system. The prince knew about it and nodded, not quite understanding it.
It didn't take long for the two of them to arrive at the church. At this moment, there was a lot of shouting and yelling in the church. Several banshees had just let down Monica who was tied to the monument.
Xius was a little embarrassed: "Well, these banshees are a little too lively. They have been dealing with newspapers and other things recently, causing a lot of trouble."
The prince naturally knew what newspapers were. This kind of thing was not even fashionable, but because it required some printing equipment to publish, it was basically only available in a few cities near the Rhine.
But that's not where his focus lies.
"Do you allow them to touch newspapers?" He looked carefully at the different daily clothes of the banshees, and then looked at the people next to them.
Some of these islanders are working the night shift, while others are enjoying the holidays. It is obvious at first glance that they are just ordinary people.
They were gathered in a circle to watch the fun, and seemed to have become accustomed to the existence of the banshee.
The prince's eyes gradually narrowed.
"No, it seems that I was wrong. These extraordinary creatures of the alien race are not just warriors. You treat them as ordinary subjects, let them interact with humans, and let them do other jobs, right?"
Hughes looked directly into the prince's eyes and nodded quietly.
"Why?"
"If it were you, what would you do?"
"Set aside an area for them to live in, separate the banshees from humans, implement militaristic management, grant them privileges without being bound by the law, and train them to be loyal warriors. This is the sharpest sword in my hand." The prince answered without hesitation.
After saying this, he looked towards the banshees who were fighting and making noise in the courtyard.
"Newspaper? Production? Even if a banshee can match the productivity of a hundred workers, it is not necessary. A hundred or a thousand workers are easy to find, but a banshee can change the situation on the entire battlefield."
He withdrew his gaze and looked at Xiu Si.
“It’s a huge waste.”
"So, why?"
The prince was right. The place where the Banshee could play the greatest role was on the battlefield.
As for scientific research, although many things were invented by Banshees, such as Ash's polluted plants, Nini's fish herding spell, Monica's Machine Soul and Noisier, in fact, Banshees do not have many advantages over humans in scientific research.
And on the battlefield, Banshees can do things that humans are simply unable to achieve.
It would be fine for a monster like [Mother], but if it were a human battlefield, the Banshees only needed one charge to destroy almost any line built by the enemy.
In fact, the setbacks encountered by the Empire in the Northern War were similar to the situation. The priests of the Silent Church wore heavy armor and sang hymns loudly, while they withstood the barrage of bullets from the musketeers and tore a hole in the front line.
Since then, there has been no more war in the North. The Empire and the White Crow Duchy signed a treaty of non-aggression and turned the war to the west.
It was not until the White Disaster occurred that the White Crow Principality completely collapsed and the refugees continued to move south, but that is another story.
The prince still cannot forget those heavily-armored priests on the battlefield, and can even be said to be haunted by them. The moment he saw these banshees appear on the stage at Blood Harbor, the memories of the past came to his mind.
He looked at Hughes with sharp eyes, waiting for the border earl to explain.
(End of this chapter)
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