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Chapter 565: Conquering Upper City

Requisition? Not at all.

The Upper Town is completely different from the Lower Town and the Outer Town, and was previously inhabited by the upper class of Longton.

Those whose ancestors did not follow the late emperor through the pass would feel embarrassed to greet people here. If you throw a brick down, it could hit eight nobles.

Those who can buy property in this area are not ordinary people. Many people have lived here since the establishment of Langton City, and some have even followed the previous emperors of Victory in their campaigns.

Among them, there are inevitably some who have fallen on hard times, but the vast majority of nobles who can still live in the upper city still have some connections or assets at home.

After all, as the capital of Victoria, the cost of living in Longton is unimaginably high. It is impossible to live in this area without sufficient income at home.

The Brandelis family once bought a villa in the upper city when Perfectcot's grandfather was still alive, but as he and Perfectcot's parents passed away one after another, the villa was directly occupied by the Brandelis family's collateral relatives.

But they didn't occupy the place for long. In less than half a year, they could no longer afford the expenses of living in the upper city and sold it.

It is conceivable that those who can buy property in the Upper Town and live here for a long time are all rich and powerful.

Even if they have all moved to the North now, it is still almost impossible to requisition the properties here.

Apart from anything else, the combined influence of those noble servants who stayed behind, the family branches, and the minor nobles who were unable to go to the North is not something that the Langton City Government can withstand.

Faced with the influence brought by their union, Perfecto himself must also carefully consider what decision he should make.

Of course, if Perfectcot himself wanted to expropriate the properties in the upper town of Langton, those nobles might not dare to unite to oppose it. Instead, they would safeguard their own interests in other ways and try to reach a deal with Perfectcot.

Although Perfect has now appeared in front of officials from the Longton City Government, she has not announced to the public that she has returned to Longton, and this remains a secret.

On the one hand, Perfect did this to reduce unnecessary trouble for herself. After all, once the news of her return to Langton was known, the nobles who had not yet left Langton would surely come to her for help.

There are various reasons why these nobles were unable to go to the North, either because they were poor or because they were incompetent. In short, they were of no value to the North.

So Perfect didn't want to bother with these people, let alone waste time on them.

Of course, these nobles are only part of the troubles that Perfectocte will face once his identity is revealed, and they are the most insignificant part.

The real trouble is that she is now undoubtedly the most prominent figure in the entire empire. There are not many people with higher status and more power than her, and now they have all gone to the north. Once Perfectcot announces her return, she will be the person with the highest avatar in the empire.

Not to mention the people in Langton City, the managers, dignitaries, wealthy businessmen and the like in other cities in the empire will definitely come to her.

Their purpose was very simple. They either wanted to get a boat ticket to the North or hoped that Perfectoct could regain control of the empire's homeland.

Because the initial strategy was to abandon the Empire's homeland, the Empire's center was actually completely abandoning the Empire's homeland when it moved to the northern border. Although this place is still Empire territory and is still managed by the Empire's administrative agencies, in fact, the Empire's center has basically given up and no longer has any direct jurisdiction or investment in this territory.

This is actually easy to understand. After all, the empire's homeland is small in area and has scarce resources. In the past, it relied on maritime trade and imports from overseas colonies to maintain its prosperity.

When all connections between maritime trade and overseas colonies and the empire's homeland were cut off, the original prosperity of the entire homeland would rapidly decline.

During the period when Perfect was in charge of Longton, Longton suffered a series of problems such as food shortages and factory shutdowns, which were additional impacts brought about by the interruption of overseas trade.

After the center of the empire moved to the north, the empire was too lazy to even pretend or send an unlucky guy to stay behind to oversee the affairs of the land, but instead let each place fall into a situation of each doing its own thing.

Although the Patriarch of the Church still remained in Longton, he was only a religious figure and had no intention of interfering in government affairs.

Not only the Patriarch, but the entire church did not get involved in politics. It seemed that they only cared about how to save the people.

This means that cities with resources are fine, at least they can rely on coal mines or grain output for support, but those that have long abandoned traditional agriculture and transformed into industrial cities are in trouble.

Although there is still some material exchange between different places, it is difficult to meet the resource needs of all cities due to the scarce resources in the entire empire.

If Perfecto revealed her identity, it would be hard to say whether these independent cities would not ask her to take charge.

Perfect, who already felt that he had enough to do, didn't want to be entangled in the political affairs of the empire.

However, despite this, she still asked Sandrion to come forward and use a two-pronged approach of coercion by force and exchange of interests to collect as much real estate as possible in the upper city, making efforts for subsequent plans.

The petty nobles who were still stranded in Langton were easy to deal with. Most of them just wanted a ship ticket to the North.

But the owners of those properties had already gone to the North, and the servants or family branches who guarded the houses were not qualified to handle these properties. But they did not dare to confront Sandryong, so they could only beg for help and find a way to contact the main family in the North.

Faced with this situation, Sandrion did not waste time talking to them and directly carried out the demolition according to Perfectcot's instructions.

As for the losses? Naturally, they passed the blame to "Perficot in the North" and asked them to go to the Lord of the North to ask for compensation.

Naturally, these people could not do anything to Sandryong, and could only follow her instructions to find a way to report the situation to the master family far away in the north, and then find a way to calculate the losses.

After obtaining enough land for construction, Sandrion also began to oversee the construction of large shelters and energy towers, trying to make sure that Langton at least had the ability to withstand the wind and snow.

In this regard, the church provided a lot of help and took out some of their stockpiled resources for use in the construction.

However, there is a problem that needs to be solved urgently, that is, there are still many evil cults entrenched in the outer city and the lower city, and their existence has greatly interfered with the progress of the project.

(End of this chapter)