Shiqian City is very large, which is determined by the general trend of this era.

Every super-large population gathering place represents a huge accumulation of resources and a huge burden.

Due to the existence of certain black technologies, their existence alone can stabilize the order of the surrounding space and reduce the probability of various disasters.

It is said that the giant cities on the entire continent have certain patterns, like nails driven into the world (map), forcibly stitching the world that is about to fall apart into one piece.

With every additional nail, the world becomes more stable; with every missing nail, the world becomes less human.

The cost of each nail is so expensive and heavy that it must be shared by the entire race. This aspect is not limited to humans.

Let’s not discuss those legends for the moment. In reality, super giant cities that have surpassed the limits of the times have naturally brought about a series of troubles and disasters.

For example, corruption and regional independence.

There are only twenty-four districts on the fourth ring road of Shiqian City. Each one is no smaller than a quasi-first-tier city in the old era. It has independent hospitals, police stations, administrative offices, schools, stations, cinemas, military, and mercenary warfare.

group.

Yes, that's right, there are not only the police and the army, but also a large number of scattered mercenaries. In this super era where everyone knows how to use martial arts, when you are close to the border of a war zone, you must have sufficient self-protection capabilities. It is natural to have a relatively high level of self-protection.

independent military force.

This is just a fourth ring road. To be honest, there are six rings in Shiqian City in name, but the fifth and sixth rings are only on the map and in words. The four rings in the city are the limit of the city government's control.

From the beginning, the Fifth Ring Road must rely on armed convoys and giant trains, which are extremely inconvenient to travel. Its main social forms, resource towns and fortress towns, are basically completely autonomous. Whether to give face to the city government is a matter of personal choice.

Due to many factors, daily communication is often cut off. Not to mention the dream of real-time micro-control at the rear, it takes several weeks to send a courier back and forth.

The consequences of the chaotic era are that the local district government is often led by the strongest person in the region. Transportation and communication in the inner and outer rings are relatively difficult, there is no support, and the troubles and tasks sent to the district are indeed endless.

The leader must have enough personal authority to control the situation.

But as time goes by, as a result of allowing personal authoritarianism, regions become warlords, private fiefdoms, and the hereditary system of heirs comes as expected. It is friendly to listen to the instructions rather than the announcement. It is clear that those who refuse to dispatch personnel/dispatch personnel suddenly disappear.

There are not a few of them.

At this time, the reality that the whole people is super-military and that the people have higher armed forces has intensified the division.

Especially the reality that the closer you are to the inner ring, the safer and the better your living conditions are. As everyone knows, how can people in the outer ring not be jealous.

There is even an area within the first ring that preserves the pure technological lifestyle of the old era. The residents there live very comfortably, just like the wealthy businessmen of the old era and the great aristocrats in the eyes of the new era. This makes the border beat to death.

What do the working people think, especially since many important functional facilities are only located in one area, and what they see and hear in and out of the place only intensifies the contradictions and prejudices.

You know, even if you want to change the living area in modern times, you still need to submit a report to check the conditions and other audits. Even if you have money, you may not be able to pass it. In the beginning, walls were built directly between the areas.

Even if we can rationally understand that they preserve the fire for civilization and are also responsible for most of the scientific research work, there are always people who need to sacrifice and people who have to bear the burden and move forward, but

"Why are they not the ones who sacrificed? We are struggling to survive and feed our family with one piece of food, but they throw resources into useless garbage heaps, live a luxurious life, and laugh at our poverty and sorrow, saying that we don't work hard."

"We are planning for the future of our race day and night, and elites are filling this bottomless pit every moment, and are being slandered by those barbarians! This is a mockery of civilization and wisdom!"

Both sides cannot understand, and perhaps the more they try to understand, the more angry they become.

At the most critical moment, civil war is about to break out, and this kind of division is not only limited to one city at a time, but also occurs in large cities that implement environmental regulations (limited by the technology of the times).

Fortunately, the overall technology of the ethnic group achieved a breakthrough at that time, and the mass-produced imitation artificial spiritual weapon of the Spirit Blade was born. Not only did the inner ring become a high-quality scientific research and product production center, gradually gaining the right to speak, it also effectively improved the lives of the people in the middle and outer rings.

, which alleviates the conflict.

As Shiqian City grew, the spatial stability system was gradually activated, transportation and communication facilities were gradually improved, spatial disasters in the city were greatly reduced, and the central government gradually re-established its authority and took back a lot of power.

The most important of these is the power to appoint heads of local district governments, which was returned to the hands of the Grand Citizen's Assembly more than thirty years ago. It is also regarded as a sign of the advent of the era of centralization. Although every exercise, appointment and dismissal will still attract controversy.

A bunch of contradictions and conflicts.

Some people say that the act of providing subsidies to superpowers is the government’s attempt to win over people’s hearts and is also a way for it to take stock of local combat capabilities and strengthen internal management.

In the eyes of many people in the industry, local forces are not the most important. No matter what, we are all one family and no one can get off the boat.

Local large companies, cross-city (national) super companies, well-known war groups, powerful private independent war gangs, adventure groups and other "neutral" forces are nominally beyond the direct jurisdiction of the city government, but for the city government, how can

Maybe they really let them do what they want on their own territory.

There are too many messy things there. Where there are people, there are rivers and lakes, and where there are interests, there are disputes.

It can only be said that the triangular struggle between the central establishment, local warlords, and capitalist liberals has never stopped. This is still the main contradiction, and there are so many secondary contradictions such as sects, races, regions, etc. that it is impossible to list them.

"I'm so sorry, human beings are a kind of stupid life that can still insist on fighting among themselves even in the end of the world."

"But from another perspective, perhaps it is really the greed and desire deep in the soul that allows us to grit our teeth and persevere in the darkest times, and use our strong desire to survive to survive the most difficult years. Only then can we be the same assholes in this world.

In the new era, we are still living with joy.”

"From another perspective, there are some notorious bloody butchers in internal fighting, but when necessary, they sacrifice everything for the race and the nation. Perhaps this is the individual's desire for survival rising to the continuation of the ethnic group. Human beings are really complex and chaotic.

, wonderful beyond words.”

Let’s not go into the history full of conspiracies and the corresponding philosophical thinking. In the entire development history (history of struggle) of Shiqian City, one name is very eye-catching.

The Ministry of Internal Affairs among the twelve ministries, or to put it more bluntly, the secret police directly under the central government, are those poisonous snakes in the night.

At a certain period, they were the iron-blooded minions of the Central Party and the hawks in the eyes of the liberals. They were probably best at frame-ups and assassinations. They played an extremely important role in the internal reforms (bloody purges) more than thirty years ago.

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Among them, the three elite departments are the most notorious and famous, probably just like the stuff factories of a certain era.

The intelligence office marked by the snakehead is responsible for collecting and sorting out various internal and external intelligence. It is a spy nest that basically does not need to be concealed. It lives in the propaganda broadcasts of hostile forces all year round.

In reality, I often deal with major neutral organizations, and I also do tax inspections part-time. Well, it is said that even if you go to the territory of other races, the taxes will come as scheduled. The gods don't even know how many sites they have set up outside.

The second one is the safe place of the poisonous fang symbol. It is actually not safe at all. Even if we don’t go into details, everyone knows what they do. Those spies who died at their hands and were raped didn’t even get an obituary.

The first two departments are quite rare, mainly because they generally do not wear uniforms or bear insignia, and the number of them is not necessarily small.

Those unlucky ones who see them in uniform will probably not have a chance to brag.

The last member of the troika of "justice" is the Disciplinary Inspection Office.

This is quite common, and even most local cadres think they are too common.

"Obviously it's just a grassroots inspection, but he insists on calling the disciplinary inspection office. The way he looked at us always felt like he was choosing the place to strike, and he felt uncomfortable all over."

"You have a guilty conscience. Look, I take the initiative to greet him every morning, and he still smiles at me."

"Ha, is this why he raided your office yesterday? He probably thought you were acting suspiciously or had a guilty conscience, right? Is this what you asked for?"

"My office was ransacked!? Fuck%￥..."

Judging from the fact that this guy was just furious instead of turning around and running away, he shouldn't have much of a problem.

And the most painful thing is that he has to meet the disciplinary inspection cadre the next day, and he has to say hello with a smile, and the other party will respond to him with a smile, as if nothing happened or you suddenly stopped smiling.

Or avoid him, and he may suspect that you have changed your daily routine and acted suspiciously, and that there is something going on in your mind.

By the way, Xie Ying and Li Jia are not their original names. In order to avoid seeking revenge and being dug out by the hostile party, they will adopt a simple pseudonym as soon as they enter the security department.

Except for the division-level guard cadres who are stationed in each district, other personnel are often dispatched internally. You can't find him at all, or if you find him, you can't recognize him by name or his face has changed.

Not only the Disciplinary Inspection Office, but also the entire secret police department does not need to explain to outsiders. Overstepping of authority is considered normal. If you arrest the wrong person, you will often apologize and let the matter go. Raids and raids on homes are nothing. They are chronically neurotic and look at everyone as guilty.

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If nothing major happens, there will be very little accountability, and accountability will be an internal review, so we can only trust their "justice".

This obviously breaks the lower limit of social ethics. Every year, the Grand Citizen's Assembly raises issues to abolish the secret police system, and questions the chief on the spot. But even ordinary citizens know that this is just a formality. In today's era, the evil secret police has no place at all.

Possible cancellation.

"The secret police system is a cancer in peacetime, but is it now a peacetime? Can you accept a life surrounded by foreign spies, foreign capital tentacles, and the hegemony of local strongmen? Our existence itself is precisely to protect the weak.

You, ordinary ordinary citizens."

A certain supervisor’s answer in response to a question was also a garbled answer that he repeated countless times.

Although he was criticized to pieces by the discerning congressmen, what use is there for swords if words are useful?

The harsh reality and frequent cases have been enough to convince many people of the necessity of apparently excessive "justice."

The main responsibility of the people in the Disciplinary Inspection Office at the local level, in addition to daily anti-corruption, is to supervise the local government and multi-edged strongmen not to cross the line.

Their existence itself may be a symbol of the authority of the central government. Just pulling on the python pattern armband a little, the surrounding area will become blank, which is undoubtedly the best proof.

This is not a funny effect, but the idiot who is announcing, "I am at work. If you don't want to be regarded as an accomplice or covered in blood, just stay away." The idiot who ignores the warning will not know where to complain even if he is accidentally killed.

The black python armband originally represents the body of a black python. When the powerful wind blows or pulls, the armband ring slowly rotates, just like the python is slowly tightening its body. Be careful to be entangled and suffocated to death silently.

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The snake's head, fangs, and body, this snake seems to be missing many parts.

As for the existence of other parts, there have been many theories and urban legends. For example, in the legend, there is an organization with snake eyes and snake tail as its symbols.

But just these three companies on the surface are enough of a deterrent.

For local grassroots cadres, colleagues in discipline inspections can always refresh their sense of presence in inexplicable places. They usually smile and are easy to get along with, but they turn their backs and disappear as fast as they suddenly disappear. Don't think that their sudden disappearance is a good thing.

When a venomous snake suddenly lurks, it often means that it has locked onto a large prey and is lurking in preparation for a fatal blow.

Or a new, neurotic supervisor is about to be hired and a new search is underway.

Of course, not all of them do good deeds. Due to their widespread sense of justice that makes people suspicious of brainwashing, they often work part-time as Lord Qingtian and local security forces.
To be continued...