When walking out of Xuanyuan City Railway Station, Yuan Lin even thought that he had come to the wrong place.
In his initial impression, Xuanyuan City should have been a small city belonging to the Annan Kingdom. After it was divided, it became one of the cities belonging to Tiannan.
Tiannan has always been in a state of chaos, or undercurrents, and has never been calm.
This small city originally called Tunan is full of destruction, crime, and is full of violence and barbarism. The population here is getting smaller and smaller, and the city is getting more and more dilapidated. It is spread all over the city. Every street and every road should be...
There is an atmosphere of decay and depression.
This is the Tunan City in Yuan Lin’s impression.
After Tunan City became Xuanyuan City, Zhongzhou, East Palace and many wealthy families and investment institutions in Zhongzhou invested a lot of money here. According to various reports, the new Xuanyuan City is changing rapidly.
Yuan Lin has read many reports submitted to the cabinet. In his impression, this so-called rapid change should only barely get rid of the appearance of Tunan City before. At most, it is better than Tunan City, and it should probably be almost the same as Zhongzhou.
Inland counties are similar, and at most they are relatively well developed counties.
After all, no matter how fast a small city with a very poor foundation develops in two years, how fast can it go?
But the moment he walked out of the station, the scene in front of him suddenly made him feel a little dazed.
There are indeed no high-rise buildings like Youzhou Huating in Xuanyuan City.
The buildings here are relatively low, but they definitely don't feel dilapidated at all.
new.
They are obviously new buildings.
Each building has a different style. They are arranged neatly. There are large and exaggerated spacings between buildings, but they are not blank. They are all filled with lawns and gardens. The lawns and gardens are paved in the middle.
The clean stone path is quiet and tidy.
Among the buildings on both sides are wide and somewhat incredible streets.
The smooth streets stretch all the way to the end of the line of sight.
Perhaps because of the warmer weather in the south, even in winter, flowers are still blooming on the green belt that separates the sidewalks and driveways.
Under the bright sunshine, the fresh air with almost no industrial pollution blows in the face. Whether it is vehicles or pedestrians, there is an indescribable leisureliness in the sight.
No, not leisurely.
Yuan Lin was stunned for a long time before he realized the problem.
As the first deputy director of the Cabinet Office and the prime minister's secretary, he spent a lot of time in Youzhou, or followed Chen Fangqing on inspections in various places in Zhongzhou.
He traveled to many places.
But I have never seen a city similar to Xuanyuan City.
The biggest difference is population density.
There are very few people in Xuanyuan City.
It's a little bit unbelievable.
There is no heavy traffic, no dense flow of people, wide streets, beautiful city, fresh air, and almost cold population, making everything in this city look very leisurely.
This is a comfort that is difficult to describe in words.
"Is this really Tiannan? Tiannan Xuanyuan City?"
Yuan Lin was a little confused.
He walked out of the station in a daze and walked forward in a daze. He waited until the person responsible for picking him up said hello to him before he finally came to his senses.
"Hello Yuanting, I am Xiao Xu from the police department."
At the exit of the station, a tall and tall young man with gold-rimmed glasses smiled warmly and respectfully stretched out his hands to shake Yuan Lin's hand.
Yuan Lin came back to his senses, took a deep breath, and his tone was inexplicably low: "Let's go."
Xiao Xu nodded, took the small luggage in Yuan Lin's hand, and said softly: "The car is in the underground parking lot."
Yuan Lin hummed and followed Xiao Xu down the elevator.
The underground parking lot is also large and clean, with soft lighting.
There were not many vehicles parked inside, but Yuan Lin was once again in a trance.
Looking around,
The sparsely parked vehicles at various locations are basically no less than 300,000, even less than 300,000, and even less than 500,000.
Yuan Lin looked at the Hyundai in front of Xiao Xu and felt shabby no matter how he looked at it.
This is Xuanyuan City.
Is this Xuanyuan City?
Yuan Lin blinked, it all felt like a dream.
He walked into the back seat of the vehicle in silence, and the sense of superiority in his heart had disappeared without a trace.
The black Hyundai slowly left the parking lot, exited the station, and drove into the wide streets of Xuanyuan City.
Yuan Lin quietly looked at everything outside the window.
Exquisite architecture, huge spacing, and ample greening.
The willfulness of Xuanyuan City can be seen everywhere. No country can make such extravagant urban planning. This is almost no longer a city, but a huge garden with extreme luxury and exquisiteness. Such an exaggerated design style, etc. This city
After it is completed, how many people can it accommodate?
He had seen the city plan submitted by the Xuanyuan City City Hall in the cabinet. The new Xuanyuan City covers an area of approximately 6,500 square kilometers. The area of such a city is not large, compared to the 17,000 square kilometers of Youzhou.
, the area of Xuanyuan City is only a little more than one-third of Youzhou.
But Youzhou has a population of more than 20 million.
What about Xuanyuan City?
Yuan Lin is not an expert in this field, so he can only make a rough judgment. Such urban planning can only accommodate a population of hundreds of thousands at most.
Using more than one-third of Youzhou's area to support hundreds of thousands of people...
And it's not even hundreds of thousands.
Three hundred thousand? Or four hundred thousand?
What does this mean?
Yuan Lin took a deep breath and said in a low voice: "The development of Xuanyuan City is indeed good."
"That's for sure."
Xiao Xu laughed and said: "But that is the future, Yuan Ting, what you can see now and in a while is basically equivalent to one-fifth of Xuanyuan City. After all, more than two years is a bit short, Xuanyuan City is just
One-fifth of the renovation has been completed. Xuanyuan City has five areas. The names are very simple. They are the four districts of southeast, northwest, and the city center. Now most of the city has been demolished. Work is being done day and night. The entire Xuanyuan City is basically one.
At the construction site, we are now in the North District. Construction has just started here, but the renovation of the city center has been completed. After going to see it, I realized what exaggeration is. If this continues, if Xuanyuan City is completed, the entire city can almost be said to be a
It’s a luxury item.”
Yuan Lin frowned tightly for a while, then whispered to himself: "Where does the money come from?"
"This is also something our team leader wants to know."
Xiao Xu shrugged.
Yuan Lin was not talking, and seemed to be trying to figure out the source of the money from the Eastern Palace.
He is Chen Fangqing's secretary.
Chen Fangqing is the Prime Minister, and the main person in charge of Zhongzhou's financial department must also be his confidant. Zhongzhou still attaches great importance to the construction of Xuanyuan City. It has allocated funds three times in the past two years, and the total has reached nearly 40 billion. However, this number is relatively small compared to the establishment of Xuanyuan City.
For a city with almost nothing, this is obviously not enough. Looking at the situation in front of you, it is not that you have nothing at all, but that the East Palace wants nothing, and even spent money to demolish and rebuild all the original foundations.
40 billion is not enough even for the most basic construction.
Coupled with the interests of the five Eastern European countries, plus the investment of major wealthy families...
No matter how much he calculated, Yuan Lin didn't think that the Eastern Palace could build such a city.
A city that can be described as luxury.
The black modern drove into the city center in silence.
Yuan Lin watched quietly, feeling increasingly numb inside.
Hyundai drove along and finally entered a small forest.
Well, a small forest located in the center of the city...
The corner of Yuan Lin's mouth twitched as if he was stimulated.
Forest in the city center.
No matter how he thought about it, he felt that the city center and the forest were not connected at all.
No matter how small this small forest is, at least one large community, a commercial circle, or...
There are so many options.
But the East Palace was built here willfully, or a forest was preserved.
All the surrounding buildings seem to adapt to the style of this forest, and there is no sense of disharmony in the overall look.
Yuan Lin raised his head stiffly.
The road in front of him slowly ascended along an insignificant slope.
At the highest point at the end of the line of sight, there is a pure white building that looks like a castle. In a green forest, the castle is looming, with an indescribable purity of beauty.
The corners of Yuan Lin's mouth moved, wanting to say something, but he swallowed it back.
He had already made up his mind to sue Donghuang Palace severely when he returned to Youzhou.
This city has unimaginable luxury and beauty.
But all this meant nothing to him.
This is completely the willfulness of rich people.
To be precise, it is a wanton waste of resources.
Modernity keeps moving upward.
The pure white castle in front of me is getting closer and closer.
Yuan Lin's mouth opened slightly.
He watched the castle getting higher and higher.
Soft faint echoes in the forest.
His eyes widened.
stunned.
Really stunned.
This forest may be a hill preserved by the East Palace.
But the problem is, this pure white castle is not at the top of the mountain at all.
Huge, exquisite, luxurious castle.
Castle floating in the sky!
It's really a castle in mid-air.
It floated in the air at a height of about twenty or thirty meters, spinning gently at an imperceptible speed. The doorman ran over and opened the door respectfully. Yuan Lin got out of the car and looked up in shock.
From his perspective, you can see the huge base of the floating castle.
The pure white base is engraved with countless patterns, forming a clock pattern.
It was dusk now, almost nightfall.
The base of the castle shines with gorgeous light, illuminating the entire top of the mountain in an extremely dreamy way.
What's this?
What the hell is this?
this.
damn it.
Yes yes what?!
"City in the sky, the most high-end club in Tiannan."
Xiao Xu's tone was a little complicated: "This is an industry belonging to the East Palace. Xuanyuan City is the first one. According to their plan, in the next one to two years, branches of the City in the Sky will be established in every city in Central Continent.
In a first- and second-tier city, the initial plan is to build more than fifty similar clubs."
Yuan Lin swallowed hard and murmured: "How did you do it?"
"The power of money and privilege."
Xiao Xu chuckled.
Yuan Lin watched this scene quietly.
In his dazed state, he did not notice a black Passat slowly parked in the parking space near him.
The nearby doorman wanted to run over and open the car door.
On the driver's seat, Li Xiao waved his hand.
He turned off the car, but did not get out. Instead, he looked at Yuan Lin not far away.
"The Chief Secretary of the Cabinet?"
Li Xiao raised his eyebrows and laughed: "Why does he look like a country bumpkin? Is he scared out of his wits? No, he doesn't know how to get up, right? He wants to fly up, right? He definitely wants to fly up.
"
"When did it become so bad?"
Li Kuangtu glanced at him with a smile.
Li Xiao laughed and asked: "Your Highness, you came here today to see him?"
Li Kuangtu leaned back in his chair and narrowed his eyes: "Maybe, but it's not him who asked me out."