On modern Earth, building one kilometer of concrete road cost roughly 400,000 yuan.
Depending on the complexity of the terrain and the materials required, the price fluctuated slightly from there.
Calculated over 150 kilometers of concrete road, the construction cost alone exceeded 60 million yuan.
Of course, that was by modern standards.
In the Wasteland, both materials and labor were incredibly cheap.
Take the first step in building a concrete road: clearing the foundation.
If it were done entirely by manual labor in modern times, workers would have to be paid at least 500 yuan a day before anyone would be willing to do it.
But in Tian Yuan Territory, wages had been practically nonexistent during the original construction. The village only had to hand out two extra buns a day, and countless people were willing to do the clearing.
Another material was even easier to obtain.
As the base material for the concrete road, crushed stone was everywhere in the territory. It was especially abundant in the Dense Forest to the west, and there was enough to last at least several years at the current rate of use.
The Silicate Cement laid over the crushed stone had never been in short supply either. In fact, the Empire Building Materials Factory now produced more than the territory needed, even supplying some of it for the reconstruction of Pingtan Shelter's western suburbs.
Nothing was lacking here, and nothing was lacking there.
That was how this broad, level concrete highway had come into existence!
"The territory is really huge!"
Fan Jing leaned against the window and craned his neck to look outside, his face filled with shock and yearning.
There were also vast stretches of undeveloped wasteland around Taihu Territory. Old Zhan, the lord, had designated them as the territory's controlled region,