Don’t raise unruly people in extreme cold weather

Chapter 801

The sky over Longton seems to be perpetually gloomy, as if the city is shrouded in a thick grey curtain that it can never escape.

In the past, many people always believed that the bad weather in Longton was due to industrial pollution.

After all, after the empire entered the industrial age, the sky in Langton has hardly ever been blue.

Whenever I looked up, all I saw was a gray sky, as if an invisible layer of dust was always floating above my head, blocking the sunlight and the blue sky.

However, with the arrival of the doomsday winter, a large number of factories moved from Langton to the north. The air pollution in Langton City has indeed decreased a lot, but the sky has not turned blue.

People then realized that Longton’s weather problems were not just caused by industrial pollution.

Ultimately, it is due to the latitude, topography and other factors of Langton that its weather is cloudy and rainy all year round.

Langton is located in the north of the empire, close to the poles, and the climate is inherently cold and humid.

Coupled with the surrounding mountains, the humidity is difficult to dissipate, causing the area to be shrouded in dark clouds all year round.

After the doomsday winter, the global climate changed drastically, and it became even more difficult for Langton to see the sun.

Especially in the cold season, when snowstorms rage, there is often no sunlight for several months.

The entire city seemed to be swallowed up by ice, snow and dark clouds, falling into endless cold and darkness.

Langton naturally faces no less difficulties than the North. In fact, because it is too close to the Old World, many of the problems and threats are even worse than those in the North.

The doomsday winter brings not only an extremely cold climate, but also the evil sects that are ready to make moves in the old world.

The activities of these sects in the empire itself are far more rampant than in the north. They take advantage of people's fear and despair and try to drag the entire empire into the abyss.

As the core city of the empire, Langton naturally became the main target of the evil god sect.

Fortunately, Langton and the North are still in contact, so Langton can be the first to apply the technology when the North is updated.

The breakthroughs in alchemy and the development of new energy in the North have provided certain technical support for Langton.

So even though the snowstorm raged, Langton was not completely destroyed. Although life was difficult, at least they could still hold on.

The state religion played a great part in this.

These religious personnel who remained in the empire greatly calmed the people's hearts and made the people of Langdon more endurable to suffering.

Although this is not something worthy of praise or promotion, it at least ensures that the people of Langton can survive better during the disaster.

If a person cannot endure suffering, it is very fatal when he is in trouble.

Because this often makes a person's ability to withstand stress very low, making it easier for them to have an emotional breakdown or produce more negative emotions when encountering difficulties.

Even if there were no external factors, this would be a fatal problem, not to mention that there were a bunch of gods in the old world waiting to destroy humanity.

It can be said that the problem of the evil god sect in Langton and the empire is far more intense and serious than in the north.

If it weren't for the support of the state religion, Langton would have fallen long ago.

But even so, Langton's situation was getting worse and worse, and survival was becoming increasingly difficult. The main reason was the shortage of materials. After all, if the empire had enough resources, Perfect would not have proposed the plan of abandoning the empire and moving the center of the empire to the north.

But now, having lost the supply of resources from overseas colonies, the resources in the empire's homeland are just a drop in the bucket for Langton today.

Although most people would not starve to death thanks to the compressed biscuits made by alchemy, the lack of fuel was a serious problem and threat that could not be ignored.

After all, a person wouldn't starve to death in a short period of time if he didn't eat for three to five days, but in this extremely cold environment of dozens of degrees below zero, without enough fuel, he would become stiff in a few hours.

This problem is also the most troubling problem for the Langton authorities and many cities in the entire empire.

In order to obtain fuel, the people in distress even dug up the ice covered with snow and dug out the frozen trees for fuel, including the oak forests planted by the Navy for shipbuilding.

It cannot be said that there is no coal resource in the empire itself, but it is also difficult to say that there is an abundance of it.

In particular, the distribution of resources is extremely uneven. Some cities may have relatively abundant coal resources around them, but the city of Langton is by no means rich in resources.

This forced Langton to find ways to trade with surrounding cities in order to obtain enough fuel.

When Perfect was still in Langton, he had sorted out the connections between the surrounding cities and Langton, so that the cities could share what they had and at least operate as a whole.

After all, some of the industrial base of Langton City has not been moved away, so it is no problem to maintain the industrial needs of itself and surrounding cities.

However, with the passage of time, especially with environmental changes, industrial demand in many places is gradually decreasing. The only thing that is on the rise is the demand for fuel, no matter which city it is.

This has caused the coal resources, which were originally just barely sufficient, to gradually become scarce, and the price has continued to rise.

The momentum of separatism is gradually increasing, and cities with coal resources are gradually starting to close themselves off, trying to maintain their independence so that they can obtain more resources and benefits from other cities.

While Sandri was still around, she could still manage things to some extent.

Although she is not good at administrative management, as the only demigod in the empire, her deterrent power is still enough.

As she clearly expressed her support for imperial orthodoxy, no one dared to say in front of her that they wanted to split and become independent.

But when Sandrion left Langton and went to the North to participate in the floating city project, the officials of the Langton authorities were unable to control the situation, and problems began to gradually increase.

Although officials of the government have considered asking respected clergymen of the state religion to mediate, it is difficult to assess how much role religious beliefs can play when a person's ambition begins to grow.

Ambition and greed often make people ignore the constraints of faith, especially when survival resources are extremely scarce, people are more likely to choose betrayal and division for their own interests.

The situation in Longton became more complicated as a result. The city's cohesion gradually disintegrated and the flames of separatism burned quietly in every corner.

In short, when Perfect arrived above Langton in the huge floating city module, the city was not yet in a precarious situation, but it could be said to be in danger.

The arrival of the floating city undoubtedly brought a glimmer of hope to the people of Langdon, but it also made those with ulterior motives feel threatened.

Perfect took over the city government of Langton as soon as possible and sent out floating cities to conduct a round of inspections of the major cities in the empire to deter disobedience.

As for herself, she began to sort out the various problems currently existing in the empire.

(End of this chapter)