Chapter 121: The Situation Collapses
After Coconut's death, Fort Town sent a non-commissioned officer, Leng Feng, to the residence of Ke Junxia in the Blackwater City-State, like Coconut's mother, Ms. Yeria, who is said to have fainted on the spot after hearing about it.
A week later, under the escort of the cold wind, Ms. Yelia went to the fortress town to mourn accompanied by her righteous daughter Kelina, and lived in the fortress town for a total of four days.
Since Leng Feng took over Coconut's position and was responsible for training the new army, this time the escort was transferred to another non-commissioned officer, Qiu Shuang.
Ke Junxia's departure was understood by many people as the result of a power struggle, which was nothing more than "taking advantage of your illness to kill you." What's more, he even publicly claimed: The era of Ke Junxia in Fort Town has passed. Ke Junxia has worked hard for so long, and once he was injured and his energy was low, he finally left the power in the hands of others.
However, this can only be regarded as a small wave for the successive events in the metropolis, and it will soon be of no interest, because this small-scale power struggle, and the frequent earthquakes in the metropolis, are nothing at all, the former is just the political interests of others, and the latter is related to one's own life.
Earthquakes are becoming more frequent, from once every few days in the past to several times a day, and each earthquake is accompanied by a rise in the water level, and no one knows if the next earthquake will be the last, one large enough to cause a major flood that will flood the whole city.
So people took their energy back and thought about their own lives first. Those who have the ability and money have emigrated to foreign countries, the weaker ones have also moved their families in the name of sojourn, and some of them have joined the Safe Island Project and moved to places like Fort Town, or simply moved to the wilderness, and in the end those who have no ability at all, they also try their best to buy some life-saving equipment, and when the day comes, try to save their lives.
However, there is another way of saying that is more in line with most people's wishes, that is, to move to the Yunmeng City-State by force, become a self-employed farmer, completely change, and live an alternative idyllic life.
Of course, this kind of armed migration is not invasion or theft, but the people of Yunmeng City-State are too bad, not only unwilling to actively help the victims of the metropolis, but also organize the self-help activities of the people of the metropolis, they raided, sabotaged the metropolis's canal drainage plan, and even killed a female general in the metropolis.
It's just that the stewards of the metropolis are really weak, and they are still unwilling to retaliate by force after being bullied like this, and they are still working hard for the last chance for peace.
Therefore, the canal construction site has become the best place for the victims at the bottom of the metropolis, although there is no salary to work there, but there is free accommodation and food, and more importantly, standing on the high post there, looking to the east, you can see the endless fertile fields in the distance, maybe in the near future, everyone has the opportunity to rush to the east with the sewage of the metropolis, take root in that rich land, and achieve another rich life.
In comparison, the disaster in the metropolis does not seem to be a bad thing. After all, if there is the kind of kind that can give a poor person at the bottom of the city a chance to become a wealthy peasant, then this kind of disaster is more like a gift.
So in less than 20 days, 200,000 young people gathered at the Grand Canal construction site, some of whom had even moved from the island, including Fort Town, for the second time, and these people generally believed that the wealth and living conditions they might get by participating in the construction of the Grand Canal would far exceed the asylum life in the safety island project.
Fort Town's attitude towards these re-settlers is also clear: you can leave if you want, and don't come back if you go.
In addition, the separatist tendencies of Fort Town are becoming more and more serious, and the separation from the metropolis is becoming more and more rapid, regardless of the rhetoric and the economy. But it's not surprising that almost all of the Cjka Island projects are gradually being separated from the Met, after all, when the flood comes, everyone has to go their own way, so now everyone is trying to gather as many resources and talent as possible.
It's just that there aren't many safe islands like Fort Town that aren't in the mainstream.
For example, now the Shui family is the hero of the metropolis, but Fortress Town has built a concentration camp to lock up all the people of the Shui family, including Shui Rou'er, the heir of the Shui family, and only provide the most basic living security every day. As the biggest enemy of the metropolis now, the Yunmeng people were treated like VIPs in Fort Town, and acted as the agricultural and forestry advisors of Fort Town.
This alone caused countless people to be dissatisfied, some protested, and demanded the immediate release of the people of the Shui family, the expulsion of even the agricultural and forestry advisers of the wall Yunmeng.
In this regard, the Fortress Town's handling is very resolute and timely, if the outsider raises these things, he will be immediately expelled or put on the blacklist of emigration, and if he is an insider of the Fortress Town, he will be immediately disqualified from emigration.
Some people don't care, anyway, they left the town of Fortress, and the Grand Canal. However, anyone who has left Fort Town has to admit that the Easigrata treatment and the protection provided by Fort Town cannot be provided by all the islands, including the Grand Canal construction site. Clean moving houses and comfortable beds have been replaced by rudimentary shacks, and even food has been turned into crude relief food. And the delicious Great Fortress beer was also cut off due to the break between the fortress town and the water family.
In addition to the demands of the people, there are also official mediations, to which the Fortress Town Executive Committee replied: At present, Ke Junxia is still the supreme leader of Fortress Town, and the legislature must also operate under the leadership of Ke Junxia; Now that Ke Junxia's physical condition does not allow him to exercise his powers, the Executive Committee can only work in accordance with the previous legislative rules and practices.
Whether it is the concentration camp of the Shui family, or other decisions that are needed, the Executive Committee has no right to make any changes, in a word, Fortress Town can only operate according to its previous state, and the work that needs to be made that is contrary to the previous regulations and directives needs to be decided after Ke Junxia's body recovers.
Everyone thinks this is prevarication, but there are people in Fort Town who have guns, and the most important thing is food, and they are really hard to speak, while other organizations and individuals are still too busy to take care of themselves, and other people's idle things, the meaning is just fine.
What's more, Mrs. Shui's attitude towards the concentration camp is also very strange, she actually expressed her gratitude, and said: In the current situation, the concentration camp is the best protection, as long as the fortress town can continue to manage the concentration camp humanely, then the fortress town and the water family are still allies.
For this reason, Mrs. Water also specially sent someone to transfer the living conditions of the concentration camp in Fort Town.
First of all, although the personal property of those who entered the concentration camp was seized, it was numbered to the individual, and there was no question of confiscation.
The camps provided the internees with a minimum subsistence guarantee, with separate beds, ample bedding, and mothers allowed to spend time with children under the age of fourteen.
In terms of food, the camps provided the detainees with two meals a day, a puff of Egyptian beer for breakfast, two slices (one inch thick) of black bread per person in the afternoon, and a box of soup.
The food standard was calculated only on a per capita basis, from infants to the elderly, and since this standard was not enough for some and too much for others, the camps also allowed the detainees to trade their own food.
In addition, the camps provided work opportunities for prisoners, who could earn food, mainly black bread, which could also be exchanged for Egyptian beer or soup. However, everyone especially loved rusks, because they were more resistant to hunger, and they were easy to preserve, and they were simply the hard currency of the concentration camps.
Madame Water seemed to be satisfied with the conditions at the camp, but she expressed her indignation that the town of Fort no longer provided relief food, weapons and guards for the construction site.
In this regard, after the executive meeting of Fort Town, headed by Irina, entrusted the representative of Mrs. Water to bring back a whole box of gifts and a handwritten letter from Ke Junxia when he was still conscious, Mrs. Water stopped mentioning this matter. Moreover, at this time, there are already more than 200,000 young people on the construction site, and what Fort Town can provide is only a drop in the bucket, and whether there is or not cannot affect the entire situation.
With the passage of time, when everyone shifted their enthusiasm for politics to fleeing for their lives, everything that happened before was slowly forgotten and no longer mentioned.
However, life in the fortress town has become more and more stable and quiet.
The town of Fort is now clearly divided into two parts, outside the wall and inside the town, but both inside and outside the wall, there is a relatively sufficient supply of food, disaster relief food and drinking water, and order and medical security can also keep up.
In addition, there are bars, entertainment venues and basic schools, and it is like a small, pocket-sized version of the metropolis, with the upper town inside and the lower town just outside the town.
There is only one difference in the fact that the town of Fort is a combat unit at the level of training camp.
According to the old laws of the Metropolis, the maximum strength of the Metropolis's individual security force was the squadron. It's not as good as the old Falcon Squadron and Alien Squadron of the Special Investigation Bureau. At the beginning of the construction of the fortress town, this law was also observed, and although some reason was often sought to increase the number of detachments, on the whole there was no obvious overnumber, and the weapons and equipment were relatively disorderly.
However, now, the fortress town has openly played the name of the garrison battalion of the fortress town, and because of the acquisition of the arsenal of the Shui family, the weapons and equipment of the garrison battalion are relatively unified into a system, but due to the lack of support weapons and the lack of experienced non-commissioned officers, the garrison battalion is still in a "security" nature, and there is no real combat capability at the battalion level.
However, this is not a disadvantage, the metropolis was originally an undefended city, and there was never a regular army, and it was all a security force.
In order to strengthen the military power of Fort Town, Manida, the customs supervisor of Fort Town, took the initiative to contact the mother of the arms dealer, hoping to provide a batch of weapons and equipment for Fort Town in the form of a transaction.
This deal was actually negotiated, after all, Ke Junxia has become such a person now, and I don't know if he can recover his health, so the problem of being a son-in-law can be put aside, but business can still be done.
But the first business didn't go well, and the trucks were robbed on the road by a group of militiamen who claimed to be part of the security forces at the Grand Canal construction site.
In fact, not only this batch of weapons, as long as the convoy going to Fort Town, it will be intercepted by the security personnel of the Grand Canal construction site, which is by no means a misunderstanding or an accidental phenomenon. The beams of the fortress town and the water family, this can be regarded as the end.