Dragon, choose cultural victory to make money

Chapter 256 Waterdeep: Skyline

The church eventually adopted many of Drogo's plans, of course, mainly because they themselves could not think of any better way.

Online public opinion is really a blind spot in knowledge.

After closing the comment section and removing the trending searches, the effect was very significant. At least we no longer see large-scale discussions on the steam engine curse online.

Drogo took advantage of the situation and offered a further package.

Relevant banned words are set on Weibo, forums, and Tieba.

Drogo didn't make the restrictions too strict, so talking in the chat group wouldn't blow up the group.

Anyway, the church leaders in the chat group won’t read it.

It can achieve the effect that what is not visible is not there.

The church is very satisfied with this service. It is a service that needs to be renewed on a monthly basis. The church will directly pay the money for one hundred years. It believes more than Drogo Benlong that Drogo Group can become a century-old enterprise.

According to the church, the way of setting forbidden words is very familiar, a bit like commandments.

Don’t question why this commandment is there. In short, it is a forbidden area and you are not pious enough if you violate it.

However, "smart" believers will circumvent the precepts in various ways.

Smart netizens will also find ways to bypass banned words.

After a brief period of discomfort, various steam engine curse-related homophonic puns and emoticons gradually appeared on the Internet, and the trend was becoming increasingly simple.

How to put it? In Drogo's opinion, it already feels like the embryonic form of an abstract culture.

The steam engine plus curse is completely abstracted and symbolized, and is deeply imprinted in the minds of deep network users.

Any combination of machinery and curse patterns, even the spraying of curse patterns, represents this thing.

The first completely native popular meme in Feilin was born and spread wildly on the Internet. It can be played in almost all occasions and people will respond immediately.

Its abstraction and popularity are a bit like seeing black on top and gray on the bottom with two vertical white strips, and you can immediately associate it with the picture and music.

In addition to the banned words, the church also approved plans to broadcast public trial scenes live on the Magic Viewer.

They were obviously very good at this kind of thing. They didn't even involve Drogo in the planning. They designed a segment on their own during the trial that would allow the victims and their families to face the "culprit" directly.

There was also a live broadcast of the evil followers of the former patriarch being paraded through the streets.

The church pastor expressed deep regret, expressed condolences to the victim's family, and provided a help program, helping one family in each episode.

In the show, the pastors will form a group of aid pastors and argue endlessly about which aid plan is more appropriate, which is very bloody.

But in the end, they will definitely "go through hardships" and come up with a proper plan, with a fixed "dumpling smash" at the end of each issue.

The church does have some talent for creating show effects, which should be the experience accumulated from performing miracles in the past.

The series of programs they launched successfully filled the variety show gap after the completion of the first season of Feilin's Good Songs.

There were even voices in society soon supporting the church.

However, it is hard to say whether those supporters are “pure passers-by” found by the church itself.

Maybe there are, but there must be many people who have been fooled by the church.

Because compared with some royal families who don't care about anything when something happens, the church is still relatively human and at least takes some responsibility.

"Don't always think about what the country can do for you. Don't be part of the problem, but be the solution..."

The rulers of many countries here really treat civilians with this attitude.

The church is generally very satisfied with the public relations results achieved during this period, and even the Drogo Group has become a "loyal friend" of the church.

Although everyone knew that this was just a superficial friendship, Drogo still reached a number of cooperation projects with the church while the relationship was temporarily good.

For example, building a Hell's Gate in Waterdeep would make it easier for this city, which is still in the planning stage, to become a transportation hub for the devils to communicate with each other in the main plane in the future.

The only thing that made Drogo unhappy was the plan to create some other big news to reduce the heat of the steam engine curse, but the church did not accept it.

Especially the idea of ​​creating some scandal for Saint Astrid.

Drogo really wanted to see the whole nation discussing which boyfriend the Saint had found. Gossips about popular female stars are always hot.

Of course, Drogo’s focus is not the fact that the saint is looking for a boyfriend, but the fact that such a discussion can greatly undermine the seriousness of the church.

Let the church gradually become more fun.

Unfortunately, the church rejected it sternly. They still kept their last sanity and did not entertain themselves to death. The image of the saint in the church system is still very holy.

Drogo gained the support of the church, and the church improved its own public opinion environment. It seemed like a win-win situation.

Everything was calm again.

Just calm on the surface.

This incident ultimately sowed the seeds of dissatisfaction with the church in the hearts of many people.

Once they find an opportunity, they will all burst out.

It's just that the opportunity is a bit rare.

We have to wait until the day when the magic goddess can no longer function...

So Drogo, who had nothing to do for the time being, came to the first major city of Phearinn in his plan for the future.

Waterdeep.

It is still Shamshuipo Village.

Drogo was holding a map and surveying this large area, which was still a wasteland.

There is a large plain at the estuary, and a wide river that just doesn't freeze in winter flows directly into the sea. The most rugged place is a small hill with an altitude of only 300 meters.

This thing can only be considered a mountain here.

If it is placed in other places, a nicer name would be hills, and a less nice name would be a mound of earth.

Overall, it is a very suitable place for urban development.

It is not difficult to understand why it has not been built in the past.

There is absolutely no strategic terrain to defend here, which does not meet the defense needs of cities in the last era.

The deep-water port at the estuary has no advantage over other ports on the mainland, as today's maritime trade has not yet developed to that level.

The climate conditions are not good either. It is only slightly better than the places of exile in the north. The temperature in winter is not cold enough to kill people, but it is quite uncomfortable.

However, these problems will not be considered problems once the technological level reaches the standard.

And because it's just a village now, it's very easy to plan the city from scratch.

Many well-known cities on the mainland are difficult to replan due to the traces left by history. Generally, the opportunity to redesign is only available after a major disaster has occurred and a large number of buildings have been razed to the ground.

After flying over the entire plain, Drogo returned to the camp where the advance engineering team was stationed outside Deepwater Village.

The first batch of engineering team members were mainly tieflings, most of whom were converted tieflings with construction experience, a small number of humans who came to take a gamble, a few goblins, drow engineers, and orcs responsible for security.

It doesn't look like they are here to build a city, but more like they are here to massacre the village.

Therefore, on the first day of their arrival, the villagers of Shenshui Village were scared half to death.

The first task of this group of engineering teams was not to start building the city directly, because the specific plan for urban planning had not yet been finalized. Their work was mainly to build a residence for themselves and the engineering teams that would arrive later, and to discuss the demolition with the local villagers.

The orc who led the team, along with a few friendly-looking humans, repeatedly went door to door to explain and gathered all the villagers together to preach several times before they understood that this group of ferocious-looking, ugly people were here to carry out construction.

However, looking too much like a villain is not without its advantages. There is not a single stubborn household in the village, and no conflict occurred during the demolition negotiations.

All the villagers signed the demolition consent form quite happily, and were extremely surprised when the orc leader gave them money and promised to build new residences for them.

Zhuo Ge was very generous in the demolition compensation. After all, he was demolishing someone else's home. Even if it looked shabby now, he still had some attachment to the place he was used to living in.

On the other hand, everything is cheap here. What Drogo considers to be a slightly generous compensation is a staggering amount of money in the eyes of the local villagers.

This made Drogo wonder for a moment that although this place and the Twin Towers City both belonged to the Kingdom of Sutton, the exchange rate of gold coins was different, but he didn't know it.

After returning from the expedition, Drogo went into his big tent.

The furnishings inside were simple, because before the city was built, Drogo's main activity area was still in the Twin Towers.

There is only a nest and a game console in the tent. Games are necessities of life for Drogo.

There is also a huge devil sandbox.

The sandbox is not for playing, and Red Alert is still in the development stage.

Instead, Drogo discovered another amazing function of this sandbox - it can be used directly as Cities: Skylines.

As for Cities: Skylines, what is it?
It was a traffic jam simulation game.

Sometimes it can also be used to simulate city construction.

Just now, Drogo went out for a walk to record the terrain into the sand table.

Then various house models, selected from the game department's resource library, can be directly displayed on the sand table, and he can control their placement at will.

However, it does not have the functions of The Sims, so it can only be regarded as a beggar's version of Skyline.

Limited playability.

But as mentioned before, Drogo does not intend to use this sandbox for fun. After all, he has a real city to build and does not need to play with the simulator.

He plans to build Waterdeep City on it.

Of course, Drogo did not complete the planning by himself. He was only responsible for proposing some ideas and opinions. The design and implementation of the specific plan still had to be handed over to professionals.

"Where are the city planners we recruited? Ask them to come in and share their ideas," Drogo ordered.

In order to build Deepwater City well, he recruited a number of urban planners and worked together.

At present, urban planning is not yet a formal discipline, so these planners mainly rely on experience.

If the experience of one person is not credible enough, just collect a few more to create one that is credible enough.

After all, the need to build large cities has only emerged in recent years.

The size of cities in the past was much smaller than it is now.

Moreover, it is difficult to say that many major cities have any planning, and only a small area within the city walls has been planned.

As for most of the living areas outside the city walls, they grew up completely wildly and at will.

After a short wait, several planners came to Drogo's tent one after another.

They arrived a few weeks ago with the engineering team to conduct a field survey.

At that time, Drogo only gave them the possible scale of the final city and let them design it freely to see what they came up with.

Of course, the estimate given by Drogo was not very certain. It was just a guess based on the big cities in his memory. He didn't know how the cities here would eventually develop.

"Are you familiar with the operation of the sandbox?" Drogo asked.

He asked the planners to present their ideas on the sand table.

Drogo didn't want to look at the blueprints, and he couldn't quite understand them.

Several people nodded.

"Very good, let's start. You go first." Drogo pointed directly to the first person.

"Ok."

The first one is an old man who is not young anymore. He has participated in the construction of many cities, but he has participated most in castle-related work.

The old man looked very confident and was dressed in an artistic style, with an exquisite beanie and a fancy scarf.

He first drew small squares on the sand table.

"My idea is to break the entire city into small community structures, just like these squares, which are actually composed of four buildings, forming a community, and then hundreds of squares form a city."

The old man then demonstrated several different building modes.

Drogo had never seen those models in the group's art library.

"Did you make these?" he asked curiously.

"Yes, Mr. Drogo, I was an apprentice in a painting studio when I was a child. I studied painting for many years and also studied sculpture." The old man explained.

Employment directions for art students!
"Yes, please continue with the introduction."

"Communities are divided into several types: residential areas, where the open space between buildings can be used to build gardens for people to rest and relax; commercial areas, which are made up of different businesses..."

The old man then introduced the design concepts of various architectural combinations.

Then the building modules are pieced together, much like playing with building blocks, and the final effect is quite beautiful.

“I believe that such a structure is full of beauty, and the design of the community will also bring people closer together, with order and warmth coexisting.”

The old man finally rose a little higher.

Zhuo Ge looked at the demonstration effect he built, and the more he looked at it, the more he felt that he had seen it somewhere.

No, isn't this Barcelona?
A city is made up of various square-shaped communities, and it really looks good.

And there are ports too.

It is reasonable for the old man to come up with such a design. If I remember correctly, the era background when Barcelona was planned was very similar to the current era of the Felin Continent.

There's just no magic.

"Ahem," Drogo coughed twice, "First of all, I really like the look of the city you designed. It's very beautiful."

"Thank you." The old man returned the greeting.

"But," Drogo changed the subject, "Remember when I was conceiving of the future scale of the city, I mentioned that people would use a new means of transportation in large numbers?"

"Oh, I remember, it was called a car, right?"

"Yes, I have already provided you with the relevant information about cars. This means of transportation will require wider streets than horse-drawn carriages. In addition, Waterdeep will be an industrial city in the future. Where will you place the industrial area?"

Drogo thought about it, how did Barcelona do it?

One-way streets, sidewalks, communities are pieced together to form super communities, and new cities are built on the outskirts.

It may be convenient for life, but Waterdeep also has many utilitarian purposes and is not very suitable.

(End of this chapter)