CIATB Chapter 1624: Withering Cherry Blossoms
Chapter 1624: Withering Cherry Blossoms
Chapter 1624: Withering Cherry Blossoms
"Tsk, New Tokyo, you're really brave enough to say that."
When I got off the train and stepped into the city, I felt a warmth that was completely different from the snow outside.
Of course, it's not that it's summer inside, but the temperature outside the city is about minus 20 to 30 degrees Celsius, but here it's obviously only a few degrees. Even the occasional cold wind blowing in from outside is still biting.
Looking up, you can see the first tower rising into the sky in the center of the city. The little lights emanating from it bring warmth and precious sunshine to this snowy land.
Floor heating? Or ground veins? I have never seen such technology before. It may be that I have directly caught an extraordinary firebird.
"Welcome, welcome!! Your Highness Lu. Thank you for your hard work along the way, Mr. Lu!"
Looking at the middle-aged man in front of him who was smiling very flatteringly, Lu Ping'an also smiled. After all, others had the etiquette team, the red carpet and flowers, so he had to give them some face.
Lu Ping'an took the flowers from the JK girl who had a very stiff smile and did not make things difficult for the person who came to pick him up.
However, Lu Ping'an touched his chin and saw that this girl seemed to be a girl idol who had some fame before. Here she was wearing a miniskirt and holding her face in her hands and she was frozen.
And this receptionist seems to be a famous artist. Is this a job re-employment based on his resume? Are those drummers also professional drummers? Never mind. It feels more and more wrong.
Lu Ping'an got into the car directly. He was too lazy to understand what these twisted and pathetic refugees were thinking.
The target this time is the city hall conference hall in New Tokyo.
".Are all the others here?"
"We are almost here. You are quite late."
Lu Ping'an chatted with the receptionist in a few words, but he was also a little interested in this New Tokyo. He had heard a lot of rumors about it, but this was his first time to come here in person.
This is southern Siberia. In theory, it is the territory of the Red Star Republic. In reality, they have long since stopped caring about it as it is too far away. The Eastern Country spent some money and resources to build a development zone and tourist area here and obtained a lease for more than a hundred years, which in a real sense gave them control over the place.
For ordinary people, this place is not a good place because it is too cold and too remote. The only advantage is that it is not in the east of China.
".They played a lot, and the East Country was pretty bad."
Is there really nothing here? Siberia's natural gas and minerals are also among the best in the world.
However, now it is a joint development, and the Sakurajima people who plant potatoes and do the labor themselves only get wages, while the shareholders are Red Star and East Country. They provide money, technology, resources and even land, so naturally they get the bulk of the shares.
However, their ethnic group is still willing to invest in it and build a city in the vast snow, perhaps just for the name of "New Tokyo".
Currently, the city has a population of less than 300,000, and a considerable number of them are not the suffering Sakurajima refugees, but expatriates from Sakurajima who have returned from overseas.
In a sense, this is a government in exile, except that no one recognizes it and they themselves dare not declare it.
At least 90% of the population of Sakurajima has been integrated into the new towns and industrial cities in the north and west of the East Country. The best among them have also obtained work passports to the interior of the East Country.
Many of them have understood the situation and made rational choices for the future.
However, there are always people who indulge in the glory of the past and even hope to take back Sakurajima and hand it over to the people of Sakurajima. Even the people of the Leighton Peninsula dare not even think about this.
By the way, the people of the Peninsula were quite realistic when the situation was bad. They quickly integrated into the East Country, causing the number of Korean-mixed people in the East Country to increase many times.
"We really conquered it. It must have belonged to the East Kingdom."
This is the future that everyone can see, but there are always people who pretend not to see it.
The East Country did not push too hard. Although a minority group called the "Sakura Tribe" had already appeared in the East Country's ethnic system, it still acquiesced to their efforts to establish a new Tokyo in this snowy land.
Geographically, this belongs to the Red Star; administratively, it is a joint border development of the East Country, an oversized mining area and ranch; and spiritually, this is the New Tokyo of the Sakurajima people.
It seems to be a hidden danger. Indeed, but Dongguo doesn't want to push them too much.
"Mr. Sakata, long time no see."
"Heh, I can see your tower from quite a distance. It looks like the quasi-god is not far away."
"Mr. Shanwen is in the hospital again. Did he go back to his hometown alone? It's good enough that he came back alive."
Along the way, after entering the venue, Lu Ping'an kept interacting with "acquaintances".
The people of Sakurajima did lose a lot, but some priceless things were preserved in large quantities. These high-level combat forces, these strong men above the gold level, are a huge fortune, but also an unstable factor.
For these big guys, it actually doesn't matter where they live, but they are still tied here by their own tribesmen and bloodlines.
In Lu Ping'an's opinion, what the Dong people are doing now is the most advanced.
On the one hand, they should show kindness to ordinary people at the low end, offer them the temptation of "integration" and "equal treatment", and let them make their own choices. Even these quasi-gods from Sakurajima cannot stop their own people from pursuing a better life and future.
On the other hand, if foreign invaders are regarded as imaginary enemies, then these high-level combat forces will naturally be driven by the East Country. To be precise, they beg the East Country to send troops to conquer Sakurajima, and even take the initiative to participate in the battles of grassroots soldiers, just to improve the favorability of the refugees.
It is simple and direct, driving the lower ones with benefits and the upper ones with hatred. There is not even a trace of active interference. No matter whether they are ordinary refugees or top fighters, they should thank the East Country for its shelter and righteousness morally and openly.
"Mr. Lu, I wonder when the East Country is going to launch a major counterattack this time."
"Yes, Your Highness, can we play a role? If possible, we hope to be the vanguard."
Most of the people here are fanatical war seekers. They probably understand better than the people of the East that if they cannot return to their homeland within ten years, there is actually no hope for them in this life.
Lu Ping'an sighed, you have a population of more than one million, why are you still playing games of division, faction, surrender, infighting? Lu Ping'an knew that the most ruthless one in front of him, who was called "Counterattack the Homeland" and was even hostile to Lu Ping'an, a foreigner from the East, had actually surrendered to Wan Jing and even obtained a Dongguo identity card.
Now the total population of the Sakurajima bloodline is only over one million. This is the largest population gathering place and also the last holdout of the diehards.
But there are still people who can't stand the environment, low wages and relaxed working environment here, and choose better cities. Most of the work here is related to resource collection, and they have to go deep into the snowfields outside the city and often go into the frozen ground. Even with protective clothing, people often freeze to death.
It is now a modern country. Unlike those powerful people in the outside world who have the final say, the top powerful people on Earth are just one of the countless living beings and cannot force their own people to be trapped in the snowy area.
It was obvious to the naked eye that if this continued, the already small population of Sakurajima would be dragged into the annexation, but there was nothing they could do.
In a sense, many people look at this new Tokyo as if they were looking at the 38th parallel drawn on a child's desk. Even if they shout "Don't come over here, this is my territory", people will only look at it with sympathy and pity.
Eventually, the children's playfulness will come to an end, the beautiful dreams of the past will finally be awakened, and the people here will have to accept the facts. But before that, it won't hurt if they do a little.
"Everyone, I have brought news about Wan Jing." But this time, they can't let them play house here anymore.