"You want to pave the roads with concrete? Are you serious?"
Leonardo da Empoli could only blink when he heard about the plan to pave the roads with concrete. Concrete construction techniques had declined since the fall of the Western Roman Empire, but they were still used in a variety of fields.
Concrete had even been used to build the port of Vintenheim.
But no one had ever come up with the idea of paving roads with it.
There had been plenty of paved roads in Roman times, but after Rome fell and the medieval era began, road maintenance fell into such neglect that people pried up the paving stones to use as building materials.
Our ancestors were ignorant barbarians who tore down the Colosseum and other Roman ruins to build Germanic-style dwellings, so you can imagine how they treated the roads.
Only the streets in city plazas and other important areas were maintained; everywhere else, paved roads simply didn't exist. Rosenheim was no exception.
