"Hey, all 12 main roads are equipped with kerosene street lamps and public benches?"

Wayne was a little surprised: "When did the Florent City Hall become so rich and generous, didn't it say that it had a fiscal deficit last year and sold 20% of the shares of the Florence public port?" ”

"How can the Floron City Hall be so generous, they have invested all the taxpayers' money into the bottomless pit of 'Pandora's largest ice-free port' over the years, and the poor jingle rings, even the salaries of the city hall officials have been delayed again and again, where is the money to do these superficial efforts."

Arnold sneered, shook the reins slightly, skillfully controlled the old horse with somewhat dull and dull hair, turned around, and continued: "All the money for the repair of kerosene street lamps and public benches is earmarked by the Ministry of Commerce and Industry of Ceylon.

The newspaper said that when the steam railway was opened, the Grand Duke of Ceylon was also going to invite the other six royal families of the southern continent and the western continent to cut the ribbon and watch the ceremony.

Florence as a starting point, we can't make the city look too dilapidated, even if those lords in the House of Representatives don't want face, our Ceylon royal family also needs face.

Oh, by the way, and there is also news that in fact, the money allocated by the Ministry of Commerce is also for the construction of a large green park in Florence.

As a result, the vampires who were even more stupid than Igor (Note 1) in the city hall continued to throw themselves into the project of "Pandora's largest ice-free port", and the news spread, and many citizens were ready to go to the city hall to protest......"

"Oh......"

Listening to Arnold's babbling voice, Wayne pulled out a newspaper from the mezzanine on the side of the car, nodded with a little smile.

Arnold's bottomless pit of "Pandora's largest ice-free port", as the name suggests, the Florent City Hall really wants to build the largest ice-free port in Pandora.

It's also interesting.

The southern continent is divided into two continents that are not connected most of the time – the West Continent and the East Continent.

There are a total of seven countries on the Western continent, three of which are coastal countries near the stormy ocean, and almost sixteen port cities, large and small.

As an important producer of grain, fabrics, logs, medicinal materials, gold, copper and coal, these sixteen port cities are the channels for the entire Xizhou to exchange and trade.

Among the 16 port cities, there are four ice-free ports, which continue to flow and transport all kinds of goods and people non-stop during the frozen season.

The public port of Florence in the Principality of Ceylon is one of them.

As a country where 75 percent of its tax revenue comes from commerce, it stands to reason that a city like Florón, with its ice-free port, is of great importance to Ceylon.

In fact, in the early years, Florence was once the most prosperous city in Ceylon, relying on its geographical advantages.

At one time, the Chamber of Deputies of Ceylon even deliberated a proposal to move the capital to the city of Florence.

But, it's embarrassing.

Just 20 years ago, through the Fourth Great Patriotic War, the countries of the West Continent completely expelled the three-armed alien race (Note 2) from the coastal areas.

In this war, Ceylon gained a new land adjacent to Florence called Femas, and was pleased to find that it had a natural super-large ice-free port, with a far better water environment than Floron, a developed fishery, and a greater cargo throughput.

In this way, Florent, who was adjacent but had the same functions, was completely suppressed by the aura of Femas.

Not only has the goods flow business been robbed of a lot, but even the annual state financial allocation is given priority over Femas's allocation.

In a few years, Femas has almost become the most prosperous port city in the southern continent and the western continent.

In contrast, the residents of the two cities are naturally more likely to be mismatched.

One thinks that you have robbed me of the prosperity that belongs to me, and the other thinks that you are an outdated city, I am better than you, and those allocations should have been given to me.

Eight years ago, the current mayor of Florence took office, and he was very ambitious, and he put forward a proposal called "Pandora's largest ice-free port project".

At the inauguration ceremony, he trumpeted the slogan of the Flolonian people uniting as one, building the largest ice-free port in Pandora, regaining the first port city in the southern continent, and increasing Flolonian's economic output tenfold, the minimum wage tenfold, and the welfare of residents tenfold.

In the first few years, the project of "Pandora's largest ice-free port" attracted countless attention, and almost all newspapers and magazines from all over the world focused on this incident, and countless scholars used various data to predict how Ceylon's cargo throughput and economic tax revenue would increase once the largest ice-free port in Florence was completed.

Influenced by the newspapers and the tasty tastile of the current mayor, the inhabitants of the city of Florence have embraced the project with great enthusiasm, and many people and companies have even solicited donations on their own.

But as the years go by, Pandora's Largest Ice-Free Port is like a bottomless pit, swallowing up a large amount of funds that were originally used for urban infrastructure, low-rent housing supply, residents' welfare benefits, etc., and continues to see the day when it is completed and reaped benefits.

The residents of Florence have changed from their initial support for this ambitious project to dissatisfaction, and countless tabloids have begun to satirize the stupid decisions of the current mayor.

Even the Public Prosecutor's Office of the Principality of Ceylon receives a large number of reports of corruption by officials of the City Hall of Floron every year.

In this way, the famous "Pandora's largest ice-free port" became a well-known joke all over the world.

So much so that in other places, often when you say that you are from Florence, Ceylon, many people will use a tone that is neither yin nor yang, as if to praise and sarcastically: "Oh, I know, it is the city of Florence that has the largest ice-free port in Pandora." ”

……

At the crossroads, under the red flag raised by a traffic officer of the Florentine City Hall, the carriage waited quietly for a while, and then with the yellow flag raised, it turned to the right, the most prosperous and expensive sailing street in the whole of Florence.

Horse-drawn carriages were stuck here, and it took a long time to move a small step forward.

Wayne put the finished newspaper back on the compartment compartment and turned his head to look out the window at the bustling street.

Restaurants, pubs, ready-to-wear shops, hotels, public bathrooms, shoe customization, fruit vendors, post offices, bookstores, carriage and horse shops......

Men wearing black, gray and navy blue double-breasted jackets, women wearing half-veiled irises and tunics or trench coats and shawls, men and women carrying women, and men carrying men and men carrying men, come and go.

"Knight Crash Test Assault Class, Wind Bird Logistics Trade, Grace Maid Recruitment Center, Abumu Advertising and Planning Company, Tracing Fox Private Detective Agency, Storm Bear Security Company, Pit Viper Mercenary Society, Sailor Nautical Training Center, Nagre Women's Ready-to-wear Brand Chain, Flying Wing Dragon Professional Training and Breeding Company......"

Wayne muttered about the signboard he saw, and couldn't help but sigh at the prosperity of Florence in his heart.

Pandora's technological water, if roughly speaking, is very similar to the first industrial revolution in the 18th century.

The advent of the steam engine not only led to the steam train, but also led to the invention of a large number of steam-powered machines and the emergence of their factories.

As a port commercial city, Florence has a large number of factories established or closed down almost every day, and with the large number of factories, the demand for labor has also prompted a large number of foreigners to pour into Floron.

The city is growing so fast that it changes almost every two days.

However, the rapid pace of development inevitably leads to some problems.

For example, the soaring prices, the lack of imperfect supporting facilities in the corresponding cities, and the chaos caused by the influx of a large number of outsiders.

Take a simple public toilet as an example, at first, because there are too few public toilets compared to the permanent population, many people secretly defecate in the streets and alleys.

The Florent City Hall could not bear it anymore and issued the most severe fine notice, as long as it was caught in open defecation once, it would be fined two gold pounds, and more than three times, and it would be directly expelled from Florent.

In this case, many businesses saw the business opportunity and built a large number of mobile paid toilets - hitchhikers, charging two pence per person each time, and actually earned more than 500,000 gold pounds in just one year.

That didn't last long, though.

Soon, free rides appeared on the streets of Florence, quickly crushing a large number of toll ride-sharing companies.

The way to make money from these free rides is to hoard the collected manure and sell it to farms outside the city.

It can earn more than millions of gold pounds every year just by selling this and urine.

The business experience and stories in this are simply incredible to outsiders.

There was a scholar named Robert Charley, who even wrote a book called "The Million Gold List in Excrement" for this purpose, which was once a bestseller in Ceylon.

……

Note 1: [Igor: A stupid and stupid omnivorous six-hoofed reptilian mammal.

The meat is delicious, and there is no attack power, but the curiosity is very heavy, and when you meet a predator, you often take the initiative to walk to the predator because of curiosity, and you stare curiously to observe, and then you are killed in a daze......]

—Excerpt from "Igor's Breeding and Breeding"

Note 2: [Three-armed alien: Erect humanoid sapient creatures with their own writing and language and their own social structure.]

In the year 686 of the new calendar, Muto When D. Sodoron led an ocean-going fleet and landed on the Southern Continent for the first time, he discovered this intelligent creature of the indigenous people of the Southern Continent.

This intelligent creature with a pale cyan jacket, two pairs of compound eyes, and three arms has a social structure similar to that of ancient human tribes, likes to build a treehouse life on trees, is optimistic and hospitable by nature, is close to nature, generally has a lifespan of about 140 years, is good at hunting with bows and arrows but refuses to use meat, and generally has a natural God-giver ability similar to the 'Holy Light Healing' divine art.

According to Muto M. D. Sodoron's journal records that at their first meeting, they were warmly welcomed by the three-armed aliens, who were skilled in making wine and crafts, and whose musical talent was a shame on the face of a human musical genius.

The most interesting thing is that this creature does not have a gender.

Or rather, every species is bisexual.

Their reproduction is to use the third arm (similar to the human reproductive * organ), after adulthood, inserted into the groove of the chest to carry out a fertilization-like conception method.

After a year and seven months of pregnancy, a new baby was born.

After being captured by scholars, it was found that a three-armed alien can give birth to children about three times in a lifetime.

Nowadays, after the four Great Patriotic Wars of the Eastern and Western States, this three-armed alien race has been hunted and expelled in large numbers, and only lives in the deep dense forests in the center of the Eastern and Western Prefectures of the Southern Continent, where most of the areas where poisonous insects and beasts are mixed......]

- "The Deformed Civilization of the Three-Armed Alien Race"