Chapter 161

Along the four established main roads leading into the marshland urban area, huge city gates had already been built at all the marshland intersections. Within the marshland itself, two intersecting major roads running east-west and north-south had also been completed. At this point, eighty percent of the residents of Tieshi City had already moved into New Tieshi City. Although permanent residential housing had not yet been constructed, jurisdictional and defensive living spaces had already been assigned to everyone within the culverts beneath the wide city walls. All temporary tents leaning against the culverts had also been fully erected, and coupled with the bonfires visible everywhere, the temperature in New Tieshi City was a good three to six degrees higher than that in the Tieshi Mountains. Because of the numerous culvert constructions within the city walls of New Tieshi City, as many as half of the seven to eight hundred thousand working people were accommodated in the culverts beneath the city walls. After all, over the next two to five years, the majority of the population would live and reside in these culverts on a long-term basis until the housing in the urban area was gradually and fully constructed. Additionally, within New Tieshi City, newly constructed manufacturing areas with temporary workshops were established. After May and June, as the accumulated water entirely flowed into the moat and lakes, the wetlands in the marshland would gradually subside and har…