Chapter 148: Train (1)
Laying down a railway is not as easy as it sounds. If there is a mountain, you need to either go around it or, in the worst case, tunnel through it. If there’s a forest, you have to cut down the trees to clear a path for the train.
Even in modern times, laying tracks properly requires years of land surveys and overcoming such challenges.
And in a continent where public safety is a mess, with monsters and bandits are everywhere, the difficulty of laying tracks only increases exponentially.
The process of laying the tracks itself is dangerous enough, but now you also have to worry about problems after the tracks are in place.
What if a group of malicious bandits deliberately destroys the tracks? What if a passing monster crushes the tracks with its massive body?
To lay tracks in the Empire, we had to be prepared for all sorts of crises like these.
Of course, before all that, the first step was to get permission from the Emperor to lay the tracks in the Empire...
"Could something like this really be approved so quickly?"
I looked at the document in my hands with astonishment.
[Land Development Permit]
It was a genuine development permit with the Emperor’s official seal stamped clearly on it.