With the growth of the population, the material conditions of the Black Iron City are getting richer and richer, and at the same time, the safe and peaceful environment also makes the atmosphere of infighting more and more intense, and at the same time, in this period of time, in just three years, the Black Iron City has entered the stage of the second industrial revolution from the original low-end industry, in this span, a large number of new industries were born, such as electricity, coal industry, and a large number of heavy industry, light industry, some of which naturally relied on this opportunity to develop and become rich, and some of the old Skywalker families, is still immersed in his own fantasies, did not keep up with the times, so compared to other new family forces, but regressed, the most simple and clear of which is Lin Bida and Fu Erdong, through Shu Han's help, Lin Bida has made great achievements in the field of heavy industry, with more than four factories under his name, producing all kinds of guns and bullets and steel, and Fu Erdong's subordinates have now surpassed the Liu family to become a provider of medical equipment through Shu Han's efforts.

A large number of scalpels and needles and a series of drugs have made remarkable achievements, the wealth of the two people is also increasing day by day, under the background of the new and old times, the conflict is naturally constant, after the young group has wealth, it is natural to want to have a greater right to speak, and those old groups in order to keep their own right to speak, naturally unwilling to give in, and this is concentrated in the contradiction between Huajin City and Black Iron City.

A large number of emerging technologies and a series of factories have been built in Huajin City, creating a large number of emerging capital groups, which is now the Joaquin faction that revolves around Shuhan, and the corresponding is the Black Iron City faction represented by the Black Iron City Skywalker, the relationship between the two parties can be said to be full of contradictions, and they are a little unpleasant to each other, the former thinks that the latter is an old antique and should withdraw from the stage of history, while the latter believes that Joaquin City is just a brand new city, and there is no foundation to be born. If you want strength or strength, you should obey the jurisdiction of Black Iron City, although there is no problem between the two on the surface, but in private, all kinds of contradictions are already very complicated, and in the face of war, the opinions between the two sides are also different.

Joaquin City's opinion is mainly peace, and in the case of peace failure, one faction should be chosen to cooperate as soon as possible, and Joaquin City thinks that the object of cooperation should be Guangyuan Kingdom, the reason is also very simple, because Joaquin City is located in the southernmost part of the Black Iron City's sphere of influence, and faces the least threat of war, so when thinking about the problem, they are more able to think from a rational point of view, in their opinion, the border with the Holy Alliance has built a very strong fortification, if there is a war with the Holy Alliance, At least it can ensure that the Black Iron City will not be quickly conquered, and on the side of Guangyuan Kingdom, because of the mountains and rocks, there are not many fortifications built, and the cost is really very high, only a few outposts are used to supervise.

Therefore, from the perspective of preserving its own strength, Joaquin City should choose to cooperate with Guangyuan Kingdom and wage war against the Holy Alliance, so that even in the worst-case scenario, it can ensure that the interior of Black Iron City will not be affected by the war, and as for the future, the people of Joaquin City can't think of it that far.

And Black Iron City's idea is much simpler, they want to form an alliance with the Holy Alliance, and then attack Guangyuan Kingdom, of course, this is also out of practical considerations, but the angle they stand on is different from Joaquin City, in Black Iron City's view, if there is a war with the Holy Alliance, no matter how the Holy Alliance will attack, in the end, it will hurt the power of Black Iron City, because whether it is Asakusa City or Rongcheng, it is all established by Black Iron City, and this foundation cannot be harmed.

And competing with Guangyuan Kingdom, the battlefield is between the foothills of the city and the city, two or three hundred kilometers away from the Black Iron City, the damage to the Black Iron City itself will not be so great, although the Black Iron City now also has a large number of citizens and villagers of the foothills and the city, but the top is still the elders of the Black Iron City, in their eyes, the foothills of the city and the city are still not their own people, and they are still wary of them in their hearts, and because of this, they don't care too much about the life or death of the foothills and the city, this is what they think, Therefore, in their opinion, cooperating with the Holy Alliance and fighting against the Guangyuan Kingdom was obviously the best way.

This is the struggle between the two largest factions in Black Iron City today, the opinions between the two sides are completely different, and in addition, there are two forces in Black Iron City today, one of which is the army led by Liu Sanyi, Liu Sanyi has 35,000 directly under the direct army in his hands, this is a very powerful army, not to mention that the Liu family, as the largest wealthy family in Black Iron City, has the largest number of minerals and factories in his hands, so he can completely form his own faction, and his opinion has not yet been determined. Shu Han exchanged letters with him several times, trying to find out Liu Sanyi's thoughts, but Liu Sanyi never said anything.

For Liu Sanyi's approach, Shu Han can't be sure what Liu Sanyi thinks, one of them may be that Liu Sanyi may really not know what to do, and he is still a little confused about who to attack, but Shu Han doesn't believe in this, how can Liu Sanyi know nothing about these things after so many years of marching and fighting?

In his opinion, Liu Sanyi has not yet made a decision, he is completely waiting for the price to sell, deliberately doing it, hoping to increase his bargaining chips, so as to ensure that his position can be stable, which is also a common way for those in power, or he wants to use this statement to determine the strength and faction of their respective forces, so as to ensure that he can define everyone's faction, which is possible, and Shu Han can only accompany him to act.

As he grows older, Liu Sanyi's temper towards others is indeed getting worse and worse, a bit like the meaning of rejuvenation in it, and in addition to Liu Sanyi's faction, there is also a faction in today's Black Iron City, that is, a faction composed of Foothill City and Picheng, they named themselves the immigration faction, and the Black Iron City called it the Overseas Chinese School, these two cities were originally on the same page, and there were many contradictions between each other, but after being conquered by the Black Iron City, it was also considered to have experienced some difficulties, and a large number of people were moved away by the Black Iron City. The strength is not as good as before, and in order to have a certain right to speak in Black Iron City, they began to unite with each other.

Today's strength is also very strong, some of the Skywalkers of the two cities are still involved, and they are considered the fourth force of Black Iron City, their attitude is of course very simple, that is, contrary to Black Iron City, after all, they don't want war to break out around their city, so their attitude is the same as that of Joaquin City, hoping to start a war with the Holy Alliance, and then keep peace or form an alliance with Guangyuan Kingdom.

Among them, although in the end their decision was the same as that of Joaquin City, but the reasons were different, firstly, they did not want the war to break out around their own city, thus affecting the lives of the locals, and on the other hand, the two cities and Guangyuan Kingdom had a long time of trade, and the relationship between them was very good, and even in recent years, the two sides of the friends married each other, so the folk feelings were there, and it was difficult to start a war with each other.

Another reason is that the road between Shanlu City and Picheng is narrow, and the road to Guangyuan Kingdom is even more rugged, if there is a war, it is difficult to mobilize a large army to fight, and if a little bit of troops are dispatched, it is difficult to defeat the army of Guangyuan Kingdom, so in terms of terrain, it is relatively difficult, and the Holy Alliance is a horse Pingchuan, from the Yangtze River to the past, as long as it crosses the Yangtze River, and then there is a vast plain, which is very suitable for cavalry attack, while Guangyuan Country is mostly mountainous, not easy to attack.

These three reasons are undoubtedly reasonable from the perspective of Guangyuan Kingdom, and at the same time, Shu Han also believes that Guangyuan Country should not be used as the target of war, so the overseas Chinese faction and the Joaquin faction are common on this point, but Black Iron City still believes that the war should not be carried out between the Holy Alliance, and the strength of Black Iron City is still the strongest, so in the face of the opposition of the other two factions alone, it is not left behind, and the entire Black Iron City is under the pull of these four forces, it is difficult to sit down and decide, and this is the trouble of Black Iron City now.

Zhang Ruoming has commented on this, because of the family politics, the degree of centralization of Black Iron City is very low, which was still possible in the past, in order to ensure that all Skywalkers have equal rights, in order to ensure the equality of status between Skywalkers, so that Black Iron City can live in peace, so that the current set of family co-governance system was designed, which can be used when the city is still small, because the city is small, there are few things to manage, and each family can share a little.

But now this system is obviously no longer suitable for today's Black Iron City, which is already a city with a population of nearly two million, and the number of Skywalkers has exceeded a hundred, if you remove those Skywalkers who evolved by taking Neidan, the number is also about sixty people, so many people, such big interests, such complex relationships, if the original system is adopted, it will be like now, through the relationship on the local land, a local interest group will be formed, And then there is no way to negotiate effectively at the meeting, this is the current situation of the Black Iron City, as long as the design of a large project, if you want the entire Black Iron City to work together, you will often encounter difficulties that are more difficult to overcome than the mountain, and this obstacle is becoming bigger and bigger.

This is also where Zhang Ruoming and others are worried now, in Shu Han's view, today's Black Iron City should have replaced a system, whether it is a republic or a representative system, it is better than today's Skywalker Citizens' Assembly, the efficiency of this system is too low, and Skywalker itself pays more attention to force, and family affairs are handed over to others to manage, but when making decisions, Skywalkers are required to make decisions, which is a typical layman leading insider, and it also makes the operation of the government very complicated, Often a matter has to be transferred several times before it can be finalized by negotiation, and the time wasted in the middle is enough to make this matter forgotten by the person who proposed it, which is the disadvantage of today's Black Iron City.

The family co-governance system is like a maintenance system, it has reached the verge of being abandoned, but unfortunately, unlike the maintenance system, the maintenance system is abandoned, not only recognized by the lower classes, but also recognized by the families, because the families also hope that they can have children of their own bloodline, and the other point is that through Neidan, they can completely turn their children into Skywalkers, which is not very difficult.

The children of these families can often enjoy the best treatment, so the body is naturally very good, and as the descendants of Skywalker, their genes are naturally incomparable, the best in the entire Black Iron City, and the other is the regulations of Black Iron City, Skywalker can have four wives This does not change, so as long as a Skywalker is in a normal state, he can often give birth to more than fifteen children, and even more than twenty, like Fu Erdong, who has only been a Skywalker for two years, She already has five children, three boys and two girls, and the speed is so fast that she can be rated as a heroic mother.

So many children, this gives a lot of convenience to the creation of Skywalkers, even if the children in the family are not competitive, they can also be exchanged for quantity, according to today's proportions, one of the three people can often become a Skywalker, which can ensure that their family will never be broken, so even if the maintenance system is canceled and the original family system is restored, these families can still rely on the inheritance of Neidan to ensure that their families will not weaken, in this case, there is naturally no need for the maintenance system to exist, so the maintenance system is eliminated, It can be said that this is the consensus of everyone at the bottom and at the top, while the family co-governance system is different.

In Black Iron City, there were originally sixteen Skywalker families, and these sixteen Skywalker families controlled everything in Black Iron City, and with the growth of Black Iron City, the power of the Skywalker family continued to expand, but the upper echelons of Black Iron City have not changed, it has always been these sixteen Skywalker families, plus new Skywalkers like Lin Bida and Fu Erdong who were born in Black Iron City, as for the losers in Picheng and Foothill City, they are not given any political rights, they only have a certain social status, but they will not be given rights, Therefore, the power structure of the entire Black Iron City is still composed of these Skywalkers.

And these people obviously can't represent the interests of all the people in the entire Black Iron City, whether it is the interests of the citizen class or the interests of the capital class, or those Skywalkers who are excluded from the family co-governance system, their rights are also not guaranteed, and even the new Skywalkers like Lin Pida, they are also suppressed by those old families, so this system can only represent those old families in Black Iron City, not everyone, in the past, this is naturally possible, Because the Skywalkers have mastered the highest-end force in the entire Black Iron City, they are naturally rampant and domineering, and they can completely suppress all the resistance forces with their own strength.

But now, with the rise of industrialization, the power that ordinary people can control is getting bigger and bigger, and the composition of society is becoming more and more complex, and commoners like Shu Han have begun to rise, and they are not included in the decision-making level, which will naturally cause dissatisfaction, so now this system has actually reached the point where it should be reformed, but these families are still unwilling to let go, after all, relying on this system, they enjoy unparalleled privileges in political and social status, how can they hand it over at this time?

The superstructure is unwilling to accept the reform, then the reform will naturally not be implemented, unless Shu Han launches a bottom-up reform, but this is too dangerous for today's Black Iron City, a careless will hurt the muscles and bones, and there are strong enemies around, at this time to carry out drastic reforms, will undoubtedly expose the Black Iron City to danger, so it can only stalemate.