If you ask the Francois, where is the most beautiful city in the Francois Empire.

Some people may choose Miria City because it is the headquarters of the Continental Parliament, and the members of various countries also live there, and they not only bring the living habits of various countries, but also the food, architecture and art of various countries, and it is not impossible to call Miria the capital of all nations.

However, there will also be people who disdain this, believing that the most beautiful city in the French Empire is León.

Although the city of Miria is beautiful, it does not belong to the French Empire, and the only thing that can really represent the beauty of the French Empire is Leon, the capital of the Seven Dynasties, where there is a thousand years of historical precipitation, cultural heritage, and the most beautiful hanging gardens.

However, there are still people who will disagree with this statement, they will think that Leon is the rotten corpse of the past, that city is full of corpse stench, and only the iron-blooded, solemn Winter Rin City can be regarded as the most beautiful city in the modern French Empire.

It is difficult to have a definitive conclusion about the ownership of the most beautiful city in the French Empire, once it is taken out and discussed, there will be no result, everyone will choose the city in their mind, there is no public opinion.

However, if the question were to change to what was the largest city in the Francois Empire, then everyone would not hesitate to choose Lancet.

Lancey was the largest slave city in France hundreds of years ago, and thousands of slaves were caught and killed in the Lancey Gladiatorial Arena every day, and it was also the starting point of the slave uprising that almost wiped out the royal family of France, and it was the capital of the slave kingdom later.

Later, the entire city of Lanxi was destroyed in the war, and the sole survivor of the royal family of France completely razed the city to the ground, destroying all the buildings, including the magnificent gladiatorial arena.

For more than 200 years, Lanxi was uninhabited, and the stone that was left behind the destruction of the building became the cornerstone of other urban buildings, until the emergence of industry, the wasteland that had been vacant for a hundred years was reused.

Although the royal family of France is extremely disgusted with the land of Lanxi and wants to abandon it permanently, when faced with the need for a large amount of land to build factories, their minds can't help but think of Lanxi.

The geographical advantage of this land is too great, this is the intersection of the four plains of the western continent, and the ancient military roads on the four plains will meet here, and it is definitely accessible in all directions. Even later, when the railroad tracks were built, there was no need for additional surveys, and they could easily be built into a railway network covering the entire western continent by directly following the ancient marching road.

In addition, the water system here is also very developed, the ice water left from the highest mountain range in the western continent Rhodes Mountain converged into the Rhodes River to Lanxi, and in Lanxi split into two, a tributary that went south and eventually flowed into the Falling Star Sea still retains the name of the Rhodes River, while the other tributary to the north was renamed the Rhodes River, and finally merged with the Veronte River and flowed into the Endless Sea.

With the water network formed by these two large rivers and their tributaries, cargo ships on the water can easily send Lan Xi's goods to any place.

It is precisely because of such a huge geographical advantage that the French royal family eventually built a large number of factories here, and it became the largest industrial city in the French Empire.

With the continuous development of nearly a hundred years, the number of factories in Lanxi, coupled with the living areas of factory workers, made the urban area of Lanxi continue to expand, from the old Lanxi City, to the new Lanxi City, and then to the outer plain area, until now Lanxi finally expanded into the largest city in the French Empire.

The good deeds had carefully measured the area covered by the city of Lanxi, and after calculation, they found that it would take four Leons to piece together to be equivalent to the area of one Lanxi, while Miria was slightly better, requiring two and a half points.

Although the city of Lancy is widely regarded as the largest city in the French Empire and the world's industrial laurel of which the French people are proud, no literati would write an article in praise of such a great city, because it is very ugly in the eyes of those people.

Countless monster-like factories crawl within the sight of the horizon, and chimneys up to a hundred meters high rise from the ground, just like mature trees, but these trees do not grow leaves, only spew smoke, covering the entire sky, so that Lanxi City will always be in a dim and dark environment, so some people call Lanxi City the city of eternal darkness.

If it were just a factory with no aesthetic appeal, even the houses where the workers lived would look so strange and unsightly.

I don't know what the people who built the apartment dormitories for the factory workers thought in the first place, the apartments were built so close together, the roads between the apartments were so narrow, and the three people had to walk side by side next to the wall.

If you compare the people who live here with the dormitory apartments they build, it's a bit cramped, but it's not particularly difficult to live in.

But the problem is that with the large number of factories stationed in Lanxi, the number of workers accompanying the factories has also increased rapidly, from more than 50,000 people a hundred years ago to a huge population of 3 million now.

With so many people moving into the city, it was only natural that housing had to be built.

However, with the completion of the railway network, the land in Lanxi has become very expensive, doubling every year.

It is very cost-effective to buy the land, whether it is to wait for the land to rise in price and sell it in the future, or to use it directly to build a factory, but the apartment used to build the workers' apartments is definitely a loss-making business, and it is a big loss, and no chamber of commerce can afford such a huge loss.

So those factory owners began to use their crooked brains, and I don't know who started first, he did not tear down his workers' apartment buildings and rebuild them, but directly built floors and rooms upwards like building blocks.

In order to save costs, the architects who built these apartment buildings directly moved the stone of the ancient city of Lanxi to build the foundations, walls, load-bearing columns, etc., which are the best granite stones in the world, and the strength is self-evident.

It was precisely because of such a solid foundation that the factory owner did not collapse after he built the house by such opportunistic methods.

Because there was an example to demonstrate, and other factory owners followed suit, the house was built layer by layer, floor by floor, and finally increased to more than 30 floors, the builder found that the structure of the house showed signs of tilting, and if it was not treated, the house would inevitably collapse.

For this reason, these factory owners, who were not originally architects, once again came up with a bad idea, and they connected all the workers' apartment buildings with beams and columns like steel rails, connecting all the apartment buildings into a single whole, and forcibly strengthening the foundation of the apartment building.

Although the method was a bad idea, the effect was unexpectedly good, so the factory owner continued to add buildings, and then connected and reinforced them when they could not support it, and finally formed the current apartment city with more than 200 floors, occupying one-sixth of Lanxi City, like a monster.

Because the roads were so narrow, it was impossible for the workers living in these houses to walk from the bottom of the road, so the workers who lived here spontaneously used scrap iron collected from the factories to build air bridges that could pass through any of the apartment buildings using the steel beams and columns that connected the apartment buildings.

In addition, there are also highly skilled workers who built some steam engines themselves, installed them on the outermost side of the apartment city, connected to steel cables and iron cages, and made a crude steam automatic elevator for the workers to travel.

It is precisely because of these steel frames that the entire apartment city looks like a huge cage from a distance, so some people jokingly call it the cage city.

In addition, because of the indiscriminate expansion and construction of the inside of the cage city, the terrain inside is like a labyrinth, even if the workers who have lived in the cage city for a long time are in danger of getting lost if they leave their familiar living area. As a result, the workers living in the interior of the cage city are also somewhat bored to refer to the dark environment and labyrinthine roads inside, jokingly referring to the Black Forest made of steel, cement and granite.

Whether it is Cage City or Steel Black Forest, these two names are not good names in Lanxi, and the Lanxi City Council regards Cage City as a cancer, but they also know that this cancer cannot be moved, because the entire Lanxi factory needs this cancer to supply enough labor, so they simply ignore this cancer.

So, there is an interesting scene in Lanxi, obviously the huge cage city is a landmark building in Lanxi, just like the triumphal arch of Winter Rin City, the statue of Miria's goddess of peace, anyone can see this kind of building when they enter the city limits.

However, no newspapers, magazines and other publications in the entire city of Lanxi will write anything related to this place, and even people in other residential areas in the city are reluctant to mention this place under the influence of the city council, and even if they want to mention it, they will only use pronouns such as "that place" to describe it, and a few years ago, a wall was built between the city and the ordinary residential area, completely isolating the city from Lanxi.

Now, Leo, Nelson, and Jason are standing in front of this huge complex that doesn't want to be mentioned by ordinary citizens of Lancy, looking for an entrance to the city.

In fact, an hour ago, the moment the train entered the city of Lanxi, Leo saw such an eye-catching cage city at a glance.

Unlike Nelson and Jason, who couldn't help but exclaim when they saw the huge and strange building, he seemed very calm, and did not hide the disgust in his heart, and said bluntly to the two companions, "I hate it here, especially those factories, it's so uncomfortable here!"

Leo was a little surprised by his straightforward expression, and they couldn't help but ask Leo why in curiosity, because in their opinion, the factories all over the land represented the degree of development of human industry, and also represented the highest power that human beings can now grasp, and it was a thing to be proud of.

However, Leo did not answer the questions of the two, but silently looked at the gray air outside the car window.

The reason why Leo behaves so disgusted is because the sights he sees now remind him of some bad experiences in the past.

Although the economists of the Earth Federation have tried their best to whitewash the prosperity of the Federation's economy, anyone with a discerning eye knows very well that the Federation's prosperity is entirely based on the plundering and exploitation of those resource stars on the Federation's borders.

For the vast majority of federal citizens, they have never been to the Resource Star, which is just a concept and a name in their minds, and they are not interested in what kind of environment it is there or how the people live there.

However, Leo, as a biological weapon of the Federation, has been to these resource stars more than once because of the needs of the mission, and he knows very well how bad the environment there is and how bleak the people there are.

At that time, as a cyborg, he had no superfluous emotions and could not have any sympathy for the people there, so he didn't have any feelings.

But now it's different, as he gets more and more used to this body, the fused memories really turn into his own memories, and he also has feelings that he didn't have before, and when he recalls that memory, it also makes him feel extremely uncomfortable, even if the harsh environment of Lan Xi in front of him is far from being compared to the hellish situation of the resource star.

He hated the uncomfortable feeling he had never experienced before, and it affected his emotions, giving him the urge to destroy everything in front of him, and this emotion was brought down the train and brought to Cage City.

The Freight Train Center is located in the northeast corner of Lansey City, while the Passenger Train Center is located in the northwest corner, which needs to cross the Rodland River. Nelson, who had never been to Lancy City, was also unaware of this, so they searched for a ticket office for the train to move to Miria City at the freight train center station after the train, and finally it took half an hour to figure out the situation.

After that, under the guidance of the people, they took the urban steam rail car to the passenger terminal station on the other side of the river, but when they got there and found the ticket office of the Miria special train, they learned that just ten minutes before they arrived, the train had already left, and the next train would not leave until two o'clock tomorrow afternoon.

At this time, there was still nearly a day and a half until two o'clock tomorrow afternoon, and the three of them felt that it was not possible to wait at the station, so they had to find a hotel to stay for a day. However, Nelson suddenly proposes to take advantage of this time to go to Cage City to meet one of his old classmates from many years ago, and Leo and Jason do not object, and return to the East Coast on the steam railcar.

It was only after arriving at the place that Leo learned that Nelson and the old classmate had only written a few times in the years after graduation, and that the old classmate had opened a private clinic in the workers' apartment town in Lancy to treat the workers here, but he did not know where the clinic was.

"Let's find someone to ask!" Leo saw Nelson like a headless fly on the iron wall in front of him, looking for the door to enter the cage city, so he said impatiently: "By the way, also ask the location of your old classmate's clinic, if your old classmate is not a quack doctor and has not been killed, he should have some reputation here." ”