A brand new three-story building was built on the ruins of the former Supervisory Office fortress. It is square and square, with an all-wooden structure and plastered walls, and its appearance is not very beautiful.
But it is large enough and majestic enough. There are more than seventy rooms inside, and the design is no simpler than the city lord's palace.
Zhou Qingfeng has always wanted to carry out large-scale construction in the city. In addition to the Harmony Chamber of Commerce building a house in the east of the city, the inspection office building in the west of the city is considered a key project.
More than 30 buildings around the building are its supporting facilities. They include dormitories and training grounds that can accommodate 700 urban management personnel, as well as hospitals, colleges, warehouses, etc., forming a complete administrative area.
After taking charge of the city's financial power, Wilson became the first director of the Inspection Bureau as a direct descendant of Zhou Qingfeng. In order to be qualified for this position, he was filled with knowledge, mainly in management, organization and history.
In order to digest and absorb this knowledge, Wilson drank a lot of 'Fox's Cunning' potion.
In order to give full play to the role of the Inspection Office in controlling the city, Wilson knew that he had a heavy responsibility. The Lord not only gave people money to set up the entire organizational structure, but also gave many magical equipment.
For example, in order to ensure the extension of power, good communication is essential. In the director's office, which is more than 100 square meters, there are ten homing pigeons made by alchemy.
These pigeons can fly back and forth between fixed locations of ten kilometers, ensuring that Wilson can communicate with his superiors and subordinates at least once an hour.
In places that are difficult to reach by alchemy pigeons, the 'Fu Qiang Ling' used warehouses scattered outside the city to build a simple and effective relay communication system of semaphores, lanterns, and messengers.
It ensures that news within 20 kilometers of Cold Wind City can be conveyed within one day. If this system is further evolved, it can be used to serve as a regional post office.
In addition, the Inspection Office also controls the city information network composed of traffickers, slaves and handymen. This network penetrates into every corner of the city and transmits a large amount of information all the time.
Many civilians who provide information do not know who is behind the scenes. But they don't mind making a little money by selling some of the information they know.
The large number of "elementary students" trained by the Arcane Research Society came in handy. Students without arcane talents received special training and became civil servants. They sorted out information every day, selected the useful parts, summarized and submitted them.
Each piece of information is like a puzzle. When there are enough of them, the value of the combination is huge. Sitting in his spacious director's office, Wilson felt like he was in control of the entire city.
Businessmen in the south tried to join forces to raise food prices; outside gangs tried to control the water transportation trade in the dock area; some people were selling fake medicines among the poor;
The powerful people are at odds with each other, forming alliances or betraying each other; there are also the long-legged agents lurking in the dark, who are trying to cause destruction.
"That's ridiculous."
Wilson had the illusion that he could know anything he wanted to know just by reading the briefing. The various forces in the city had no idea how to keep it secret.
Many so-called superiors have just had an idea and taken action. The first person they tell is their personal servant. A loyal servant will turn around and sell the news, just to get some money to buy a glass of wine.
"Kent, the steward of the Minos family, recently met with Powell, the spy of the Longlegs family, and the two parties discussed it for a long time in the mansion on North Second Street.
Old Arad is gathering family knights at the manor outside the city, and is offering a high price, trying to win over the wizard group to join forces with him.
The Long Legs family has an active communication network in Cold Wind City, and multiple secret villas are under surveillance. However, the locations of some key personnel are unknown."
The power struggle is too complicated to make long-term plans. All the forces in Cold Wind City are trying to take advantage of each other, making the situation very chaotic.
When Wilson first took over, the Inspectorate's intelligence network felt overwhelmed. But once the interests were sorted out, the situation became more obvious.
This is a major reshuffle of forces in the city, and all parties involved in the game are trying their best to protect themselves or expand.
On the surface, the council quarrels every day and nothing happens. But secretly, one-third of the families in Cold Wind City have disappeared forever amid the quarrels.
In the undercurrent, the struggle is extremely bloody and cruel. For most families, there is only one chance to play their cards, and if they make a mistake, they are finished.
Whenever a family disappears, the 'rich leader' who has always stayed out of the matter will often send people to contact the remaining members of the family.
This icing on the cake is not as good as providing help in the snow. Many down-and-out nobles have to bow their heads and give up everything to join the "rich and powerful leader". They no longer enjoy privileges and become a screw in the war machine.
For example, in the past month, there have been more than fifty knights in the 'Fu Qiang Territory', all of whom have outstanding abilities and conduct and can be turned into armed personnel for their own use.
In the view of the victorious dignitaries of Coldwind City, those losers simply disappeared, perhaps went far away, or perhaps resigned themselves to perdition.
But in fact, many knights, warriors, and wizards whose families were ruined did not go far. They turned a corner and returned to Victor Hugo's command one by one.
During the trial during the day, the whole city knew that the Longlegs' sneak attack on the Harmony Chamber of Commerce failed, and the attackers were hanged openly on the gallows outside the Wizard's Tower.
This shows that the 'rich and powerful leader' who has been watching has finally publicly intervened in the chaos in Cold Wind City. When the strong dragon appears, what should a group of local snakes do?
It's very simple. At night, twenty or thirty people came secretly to express their sincerity to Monsignor Hugo. More and more people are aware of the change in the limelight, give up their illusions, and join the team as soon as possible.
But at this time, it is even more dangerous.
The remaining forces at the poker table are very powerful, and no one is willing to be driven away easily. Once the cards are shown, it will be a fierce fight.
Zhou Qingfeng didn't want to show off his cards. His power was in a period of rapid rise, and he became stronger every day.
His opponent, on the other hand, is getting more and more anxious. Maybe one day he realizes that he is unable to save himself and will risk his life to fight.
Wilson has also felt that the atmosphere in the city has become increasingly tense in the past two days. Every day's briefings show that several major families in the city can no longer hold back.
"Old Arad wants to seize power violently again. He has obviously learned the lesson of the Longlegs and is trying to gather enough troops before launching another attack.
The Minos family gave up on themselves. They hoped to join the Long-legs family again, hoping that their contribution would be great enough and that Phils. Long-legs would forget about it.
As for the Wizarding Group, those guys just want to take advantage. They will follow whoever is stronger."
Wilson will send the summarized briefing to the "rich leaders" outside the city. This information transfer must be done every three hours, even if there is no new information.
Once the transmission is interrupted, it means something happened, and you need to respond according to the plan.
When Wilson was about to conduct his last communication of the night, there was a knock on the door outside the office.
The adjutant came in and reported: "Director, in order to enhance your safety, Your Excellency Hugo has sent you a group of personal security personnel."
Wilson has an important position, but he is just a craftsman, and his force value is close to five. He has a group of recruited bodyguards around him, but their ability and quantity are far from enough.
Wilson was naturally happy to improve his defense strength. He wanted to meet his personal security, so several adventurers who were either burly, agile or calm came into the office.
But among these people, the one who attracted the most attention was the pale-faced Eve Lorraine.
Wilson knew this girl who always followed Zhou Qingfeng, and asked in surprise: "Miss Lorraine, why did you come to me?"
Lorraine was about to cry, and said in a sob: "I don't know. The Lord said that he would train me to be a Grand Arcanist and let me intern.
But I'm not even a wizard's apprentice, and I can't do any tricks. I only have a handful of gems and nothing else. Will bad guys attack me? I'm so scared!"