Chapter 565: Forced Requisition of Shangcheng District
Requisition? Can't conquer anything.
The upper town is completely different from the lower town and outer city. It used to be populated by the upper class of Langton.
My ancestors who did not follow the late emperor through the customs were embarrassed to greet people here. Throwing a brick and hitting it could hit eight nobles.
Those who can buy real estate in this area are not ordinary people. Many people have lived here since the founding of Langton City, and even followed the previous emperors of Victory in the north and south.
There are inevitably some who have declined, but most of the nobles who can still live in the upper city still have some connections or wealth in their families.
After all, Langton is the capital of Victoria, and the cost of living is unimaginably high. It is impossible to live in this area if the family does not have enough income.
The Brandless family once bought a villa in the uptown area when Purficott's grandfather was still alive. However, with the death of his old man and Purficott's parents, the villa was The villa was directly occupied by relatives of the Brandlis family.
But they did not occupy this place for long. In less than half a year, they sold it when they could no longer afford to live in the uptown area.
As you can imagine, those who can buy real estate in Shangcheng District and live here for a long time are rich and powerful.
Now even if they have all moved to the north, it is still almost impossible to expropriate the properties here.
Not to mention anything else, the combined influence of those noble servants, family members, and minor nobles who failed to go to the north is beyond the capabilities of the Langton City Government.
Facing the influence brought about by their union, Perficott himself had to carefully consider how he should make his choice.
Of course, if Perficott himself wants to expropriate the properties in Upper Langton, those nobles may not dare to unite to oppose it. Instead, they will protect their own interests in other ways and try their best to reconcile with Perficott. Make a deal.
It’s just that although Purficott has appeared in front of Langton city officials, she still has not disclosed the news that she has returned to Langton. This is still a secret.
Purficott did this, on the one hand, to reduce unnecessary trouble for himself. After all, once he knew that she had returned to Langton, nobles from all walks of life who had not yet left Langton would inevitably come to her door to ask for help.
There are various reasons why these nobles failed to go to the Northern Territory, either because they were poor or because they were incompetent. In short, they were worthless to the Northern Territory.
So Purficott doesn’t want to bother with these people, let alone waste time with these people.
Of course, these nobles are only part of the troubles that Perficott will face once his identity is revealed, and they are the most insignificant part.
The real trouble is that she is now the most unquestionable dignitary in the entire empire. There are only a few people with higher status and more power than her, and now they have all gone to the north. Once Perfico If the news of her return is disclosed, then she is the person with the highest avatar in the empire.
Not to mention the people in Langton City, the managers, dignitaries and wealthy businessmen from other cities in the empire will definitely come to her.
Their purpose is also very simple, either to find a way to get a ticket to the north, or to hope that Perficott can regain control of the empire.
Because the initial strategy was to abandon the empire's mainland, when the empire's center moved to the north, it was actually in a state of complete abandonment of the empire's mainland. Although this is still imperial territory and is still managed by imperial administrative agencies, in fact the imperial 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 mainland is small and has scarce resources. In the past, it relied on maritime trade and overseas colonial imports to maintain the prosperity of the empire's mainland.
When all connections between maritime trade and overseas colonies and the mainland of the empire are severed, the original prosperity of the entire mainland will decline rapidly.
During the period when Purficott was in charge of Langton, a series of problems such as food shortages and factory shutdowns in Langton were the additional effects of the interruption of overseas trade.
After the empire's center moved to the north, the empire didn't even bother to pretend or sent an unlucky guy to stay and take an overview of the local affairs. Instead, it directly let each place fall into a situation of independent management.
Although the patriarch of the church still remains in Langton, he is only a religious person and has no intention of intervening in government affairs.
Not only the Patriarch, but also the entire church did not get involved in the political situation. It seemed that they only cared about how to save the people.
This means that those cities with resources are okay, at least they can rely on coal mines or grain output, but those that have already abandoned traditional agriculture and transformed into industrial cities are more unlucky.
Although there are still some material exchanges between various places, due to the poor resources of the entire empire, it is actually difficult to meet the resource needs of all cities.
If Purficott reveals her identity, it is hard to say that these independent cities will not ask her to take charge of everything.
Perficott, who originally felt that he had enough things to do, did not want to be entangled in the empire's local government affairs again.
However, even though things were like this, she still asked Sandrillon to come forward and expropriate as many properties in the upper city as possible using a combination of force, coercion and exchange of interests, and work hard for the follow-up plan.
Among them, those little nobles who are still stranded in Langton are easy to deal with. Most of them just want a ticket to the north.
But the owners of those properties have gone to the north. The servants or family members who guard the houses are not qualified to deal with these properties. But they don’t dare to fight with Sandri forever, so they can only ask grandpa to sue grandma. I tried to find a way to contact the main family in the north.
Faced with this situation, Sandrillon did not talk nonsense with them and directly carried out the demolition in accordance with Purficott's instructions.
As for losses? Naturally, the blame was passed on to the ‘Perfect in the North’, and they were asked to go to the Northern Lords to demand compensation.
Of course these people can't do anything to Sandrillon. They can only follow her instructions to find a way to report the situation to their master far north, and then find a way to calculate the losses.
After obtaining enough building land, Sandrillon also began to preside over the construction of large shelters and energy towers, trying to find ways to give Langton at least the ability to withstand wind and snow.
At this point, the church has provided a lot of help and has also used some of the resources they have hoarded for construction.
However, there is a problem that needs to be solved urgently in front of everyone, that is, there are still many evil sects entrenched in the outer city and lower city, and their existence has greatly interfered with the progress of the project.
(End of this chapter)