It's not that there is no crime in the city in the sky, it's just that it's hidden deep and it's hard to be detected.

Where there are people, there are conflicts of interest, grievances and hatreds.

In the past few days, Chu Tianjiang has figured out that in this city, known as the "Gamma Seven", there is a resistance force dedicated to the empire. Because they didn't know the situation of the "Freedom Guards" in the Sky City, Chu Tianjiang and the others couldn't be sure whether this resistance force was related to the "Freedom Guards".

For the most part, this resistance force operates in the shadows, mainly against ordinary people who have close ties and interests with the imperial authorities. Maybe they will also attack the personnel of the Imperial authorities, but there is no absolute certainty, they will certainly not attack the qualitative people.

Here, there is no strong field constraint, and the superpower of the quality person is extremely powerful. Even if they have weapons and equipment, ordinary people are no match for qualitative people.

Of course, there is a very strict social hierarchy in the sky city.

The highest position was certainly possessed by the personnel of the imperial authorities, who were all qualitative people and enjoyed a lot of privileges, and some law enforcement officials responsible for maintaining social order even had the power to execute civilians. On the other hand, the personnel of the imperial authorities assumed the corresponding social and social obligations, and while enjoying privileges, they also contributed to society. Below them were a relatively small number of privileged people, ordinary people, but they were inextricably linked to the Imperial authorities, and therefore had privileges not available to other inhabitants, even the right of pardon by the Emperor himself. Almost all of these people are wealthy people in the air city, with large assets, and some even own private territories and private armies. Further down there were the working classes in the cities, who undertook the main social work, and most of them aspired to become citizens of the empire, and hoped to do so through labor. Comparatively speaking, most of the people in this class are relatively wealthy, have some privileges, or have earned some privileges through labor. At the bottom, there are the common people. Because they rarely participate in social labor, people in this class enjoy almost no privileges, and only live in idleness, or for the sake of living. They are not poor, but they are not rich.

For rulers, strict social hierarchies are definitely not a bad thing.

In this city in the sky with 100 million inhabitants, the number of Imperial personnel is less than 100,000, that is, almost one in a thousand. With these 100,000 people, it is possible to control about five million inhabitants of the second estate, then about twenty-five million inhabitants of the third estate, and finally about seventy million civilians. Because the imperial authorities actually controlled only the top strata, it was equivalent to controlling 100 million people with 100,000 people.

Compared to any period of human civilization, one in a thousand administrators is not too many.

Without such a strict hierarchy of society, it is clear that the Imperial authorities will need to use more personnel to control the civilians who inhabit the Aerial Realm.

Of course, such a division of classes has also greatly improved the stability of society.

The point is that for everyone living in the Sky City, there is an opportunity to move up the ladder, and even jump directly to a higher level. For example, for a commoner, as long as he is willing to participate in social labor, he can get a certain amount of labor remuneration, and if he has enough remuneration, he can apply to become an imperial citizen, and any imperial citizen has the opportunity to become a member of the imperial authorities.

It is precisely because of this that the crime rate of the air city is very low.

Of course, this also has a lot to do with the intensity of public security management. That is, when faced with the personnel of the imperial authorities, that is, those who are of good quality, ordinary people have very few opportunities to commit planned crimes, and it is difficult for them to succeed, and it is even more difficult for them to enjoy the benefits of crime. In a sense, even the most intelligent ordinary people simply cannot conceal the crimes they have committed without the assistance of others.

What's more, the Imperial authorities punished the crime very strongly.

The point is that there are no courts, no judges, and it is "law enforcement officials" who maintain public order. These people constituted a special group of people who had the power to enforce the law under the personal authority of the Emperor and were able to deal directly with all kinds of social security issues in accordance with the laws of the Empire, including the imposition of the most severe punishment on criminals. They are all genuine quality people, and they all have extremely powerful superpowers. In most cases, when a crime is ascertained and the offender is caught, they are immediately punished under imperial law, including the death penalty. As a result, any ordinary person who commits a crime does not even have a chance to argue in court.

Of course, most civilians have no reason to commit crimes at all.

For the vast majority of people, they can get everything they need for life in the sky city, and they are satisfied with this living situation.

In a sense, most of the residents of the city in the sky do not have lofty ideals, and live just to live.

Through the visits and investigations in the past few days, Chu Tianjiang and the others have also figured out some problems.

For example, in the early days of the Sky City, about 800 years ago, almost all of its inhabitants were able to obtain Imperial citizenship. At that time, many people only had to apply, and they would be approved by the imperial authorities, and then they would be transformed into imperial citizens and at the same time qualitative people. Most of these people went to the space city, and those who stayed became the first batch of law enforcement officials in the air city, and some became the managers of the air city. Later, as the number of urban dwellers increased, the empire set the threshold for becoming a citizen, and it was directly linked to participation in social labor. What's more, over time, in order to become a citizen of the Empire, you need to work longer, that is, accumulate more "labor points". Until now, an average resident would need to work for fifty years before it was possible to earn enough points. It is precisely because of this that it is becoming more and more difficult for ordinary people to become citizens of the empire.

Of course, it's not that you can't become a citizen of the empire, it's just that you have to pay a greater price.

In response to this problem, the imperial authorities introduced a number of more special services. For example, it is possible to extend the natural life expectancy with labor points.

In the city of the sky, the natural lifespan of the average person is one hundred and twenty years, and no one is an exception.

In other words, unless death is caused by an accident, everyone can live to be 120 years old, and before that time they receive full medical insurance. After living to the age of 120, if you do not manage to extend your natural lifespan, you will die a natural death the day after your 120th birthday, even if you are healthy and free from disease. Of course, this is only for ordinary people, and there is no lifespan limit for qualitative people.

The only way to prolong life is to redeem labor points.

To be precise, after having a certain number of labor points, you can apply to the imperial authorities to reconstruct the tissues and organs of the body.

It can be seen that the imperial authorities have established a complete and effective management system in the air city, as well as a relatively complete social order.

The problem is that there is absolutely no perfect social system.

Although the social system established by the empire meets the requirements of the vast majority of people, and also makes most people full of hope for the future, willing to respect the basic rules of the game, and use their own labor to obtain a better life and more rights, but not everyone agrees with this, and not everyone believes that the basic rules of the game should be observed, and a small number of people find loopholes in the rules of the game.

Of course, these people are only a very small minority, and the impact on society is not very large.

What's more, they are very well hidden, and they are extremely tightly organized, making it difficult to detect, and even if one of them is discovered by the Imperial authorities, it may not involve the others.

These people are the aforementioned resistance forces.

They are hidden in the shadows, they all have an identity that is recognized by the imperial authorities, and they are well-organized, specializing in shady things that break the basic rules of the game in society, provide some help to others, and at the same time extract benefits from others.

To society, they are saboteurs, but their presence makes the management system set up by the imperial authorities useful.

For those law enforcement officials, at least, the presence of resistance is crucial.

The reason is simple, almost all crimes are related to resistance.

Without the power of resistance, there would be no social crime, and naturally there would be no need to keep those law enforcement officials, and the control of the imperial authorities over the air city would inevitably be weakened.

For ordinary people, there is no special doorway, and there is no resistance at all.

Fortunately, Chu Tianjiang and the others are not ordinary people, so it is not difficult to find resistance.

In a sense, resistance is a special group of people who cannot be separated from society, but must be attached to society as a whole and derive benefits from society.

That is, they will be connected to the outside world in some way, and even have people who are specifically responsible for external liaison.

It only took Chu Tianjiang and them three days to figure out the situation, and they found a contact point and locked a contact person.

He is the owner of a bar, the general manager to be precise, and is in charge of the day-to-day management.

It's a very good cover for him to reach a lot of people without arousing suspicion, and there are at least tens of thousands of bar managers like him in a city of 100 million inhabitants. What's more, the customers he comes into contact with on a daily basis are quite special.

Of course, bars are public places, and it's normal for strangers to get together.

In addition, this guy is not really an ordinary person, but a very special ordinary person.