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Chapter 1762 1763 The familiar and annoying atmosphere in the station

Binghan Yishi was a little flustered when he looked at the scenery outside the car window, because he could hardly recognize this city that once belonged to him.

The last time he came here to inspect was more than a year ago. At that time, he was full of confidence and thought he had done something great.

The dwarven newspapers gave great coverage to the Emperor's trip, with an entire page devoted to praising the great Emperor for giving Everwinter Harbor a new life.

After taking Hot Wind Port back from the Tang Dynasty Group, the dwarves expanded the port on a large scale for the first time and renovated some port equipment.

Yes, you read that right. Everwinter City had not made any effective investment for many years after it returned to the hands of the dwarves. They had been using the equipment and construction left by the Tang Dynasty Group until they completed a round of expansion and renovation more than a year ago.

This is actually a common phenomenon in this world: the nobles live off their wealth, exploitation and oppression are common, and development and progress are rare bright spots.

No one cares about the profits brought by improving productivity. They are more persistent and sensitive to the cake in front of them. Everyone is desperately trying to grab the leftovers left by the Datang Group, and they are eating them with their mouths full of oil.

  The money needed to improve and expand a modern port is too much, so much that even the emperor cannot bear it. Since the port can still meet the export needs of the dwarves, there is no need to expand the investment, right?

What's more, the investment left by Datang Group was so advanced that many infrastructures were built according to the development needs of ten or even twenty years, including the sewer drainage system, the scale of ports and terminals, the planning of supporting urban areas, etc. ... So, wouldn't it be no problem to continue using it with minor repairs?

In fact, the dwarves did not completely ignore investment in Everwinter Harbor. They also purchased some new generators and built some supporting power plants and factories, but systematic expansion and renovation only took place once, about a year ago.

That time, the dwarves needed to export a large amount of minerals and oil, and they found that the throughput capacity of Everwinter Port was somewhat tight, so they reluctantly increased some investment.

But now, right now, Binghan Yishi was sitting on a transfer train, looking at the city outside the window, and it seemed as if he had returned to ten years ago.

That was when Datang Group had just obtained the development rights of Everwinter Harbor and fully supported the Ice Kingdom to expand. At that time, Ice Kingdom I also came to Everwinter City and forged deep friendships with many humans...

Recalling that time, he was even a little dazed. The humans he met at that time were full of a strange aura that he didn't like very much. They were hardworking, smart and willing to work hard, and exuded confidence, as if there was a light shining that made people unable to open their eyes.

Under the leadership of those people, Hot Wind Port can be said to have new changes every day: today a chimney is erected here, a pipeline is buried there...

Thousands of Guangxias were lined up one after another, and roaring factories rose from the ground. At that time, the streets were always dug up, and transportation was often inconvenient. Pedestrians who took detours from the edge of the pit were always in a hurry, and they always had endless work to do.

I vaguely remember that at that time, the workers in Everwinter Port always had smiles on their faces, and their lives were getting better day by day. Even some tropical fruits from Neverwinter City appeared in the port of the Ice Kingdom.

Now, through the window, Binghan Yishi once again felt the familiar breath, and once again smelled the unfamiliar smell that made him a little disgusted. When the train entered the platform, he saw some scaffolding and workers standing on it, including dwarves and elves. Those who had fought for their lives worked together here to build a huge train station on a grand scale that he dared not imagine.

But he heard that this was just a passenger station. There would be a much larger freight station, ten times the size of the current train station, which would be built here and connect to the mining area in the north and other important cities.

Products from the Western Continent will be transported through here to the original ruling area of ​​the Ice Empire, benefiting the hundreds of millions of people living here.

At the same time, Binghan Yishi also heard that the damaged oil refinery had resumed work and production had been restored in just a few months, and even a new round of expansion had begun.

He originally thought that Everwinter Harbor was still in ruins. He originally thought that Marshal Moss had held out here to the end, leaving only ruins for humanity. But the reality is that this place is now full of vitality, and there is almost no trace of the war.

The station where fierce fighting had taken place before was rebuilt, and its scale was five times that of the last time Ice Frost I came. The huge station had not been fully renovated, but its scale was already apparent.

There were still a large number of workers in the station. To welcome Binghan Yishi, a somewhat special guest, the mayor of Yongdong City in Tang State did not suspend the construction of the station.

It was a sunny day here. The elven prisoners and dwarf craftsmen who were working saw the train slowly stop, then withdrew their gazes as if nothing had happened.

They were already used to seeing trains coming and going here, some going to Ben in the north, some going to Saint-Lo in the south, in short... they were so common that they didn't arouse any curiosity.

The workers who were working did not know that in this seemingly ordinary train sat the former emperor of the Ice Empire, now the Ice Marquis of the Tang Empire.

The weather is still cold at this moment, but because of the continuous snowfall last month, the weather has been very good this month. Construction has resumed, and the Tang Empire has shipped a large amount of snow removal agent, which can ensure that the ice and snow in key areas melt quickly, allowing many tasks to be carried out normally.

Wearing orange work clothes with reflective strips and thick cotton or down underneath, these workers are treated much better than the soldiers on the front lines of the coalition forces.

So they look more respectable. The actual situation is that the workers who can work here with peace of mind are all excellent prisoners of war with good performance. As long as they continue to work for another half a year, they can improve their labor reform treatment and enjoy the privilege of one day of rest every Monday.

While serving their sentences, their basic human rights are also guaranteed: they have labor protections, can get medical treatment if they are sick, and those with skills can even be transferred to relatively leisurely corresponding jobs.

The soldiers recruited from various countries were doing the work they were good at in the areas controlled by the Tang Empire. This was a great irony for the coalition forces.

(End of this chapter)