A week has passed since that purely high-level meeting.
During this period, the tasks of building boundary walls have been assigned one after another.
This news also spread among various cities.
As this news spread, the thoughts of many people were quietly changing.
Especially ordinary residents have begun to privately regard this topic as the most "fashionable" topic of conversation after dinner.
Most people are dissatisfied with this.
Although they had originally been included in Xu Jiang's jurisdiction, first of all, Xu Jiang was still a native of Shangcheng.
Moreover, Xu Jiang’s identity is the son of the imperial tutor Xu Kui.
With this title, the people in the upper city can feel more or less at ease.
But later, when people from the lower city came to the upper city and cooperated with Xu Jiang, many people complained.
Xu Jiang is such a high-ranking person, but he actually chooses to cooperate with cockroaches and rats in the downtown area. Isn't this a bit of a self-depreciation?
Even from that time on, remarks like "Xu Jiang has brought shame to the people of Shangcheng" had already appeared.
However, these attitudes are only discussed privately by ordinary people. As for the top leaders in each city, they dare not speak out.
The reason is very simple. The million-strong army that came down to the city is not just for show.
The people below can say whatever they want, but if you senior executives also show obvious resistance...
Then they had also heard of Ning Fan's methods.
Therefore, the top leaders remain silent and ordinary people cannot change anything. In this vicious circle, Xu Jiang's territory is relatively stable.
However, this stability is only temporary.
Just like now, when everyone knew that the people in the lower city were going to build a wall on both sides of the border, even those timid senior officials could no longer sit still.
Because this matter really involved them.
The most intuitive ones are the cities closest to the border.
Building a city wall definitely requires manpower and material resources, right?
So who will come up with these things?
Because Ning Fan's meaning was very clear, from the moment this decision was made, building a boundary wall was already on the agenda.
This means there is not enough time to properly allocate materials and manpower.
The cities closest to the border will naturally have to pay a little first.
As to whether compensation will be given later, no one can guarantee.
But even if Ning Fan made a promise, they were not willing to take the lead in paying.
Beyond that, there's the issue of safety.
This is a fallout with Diancheng!
Just as Ning Fan and Luo Xiu said, the people of Shangcheng are born with a fear of Diancheng.
From the moment we are born, we will get the information that "Diancheng is terrible" from various channels.
This fear that is deeply ingrained in the bones will never be changed by a few casual words from a few people in the lower city.
Even though the people of the lower city and the top city now each occupy half of the territory, most of the people of the upper city still stubbornly believe that it is just that the top city is too lazy to put in the effort.
No matter how powerful the people in the lower city seem, as long as the people in the top city really take action, their true colors will be exposed and their nature as clowns will be revealed.
The vast majority of people hold this view.
At the same time, although the team from the lower city had shown off their muscles before, this only made the people from the upper city feel afraid, and another idea also emerged.
If you are really capable, why don’t you go and attack Diancheng?
Therefore, under this general mentality, the cities closest to the border expressed unprecedented dissatisfaction and resistance after receiving this news.
If Diancheng really turns against them, they will become the front line.
Who would want their homeland to be invaded by war?
As for the last reason...
The most difficult problem to solve is that Xu Jiang has now "abdicated".
It turns out that it can be said that Xu Jiang and Ning Fan are collaborating.
But now there is news that Xu Jiang intends to completely hand over the [Qiuying] to the people of Xiacheng, and give up the absolute ruling right of this land.
After hearing this rumor, the people of Shangcheng angrily cursed Xu Jiang, saying that he was a disgrace to the people of Shangcheng.
On the other hand, they had to endure that from now on, as people from the upper city, they would live under the leadership of the dirty people from the lower city.
All the contradictions have begun to accumulate slowly, but so far, they have not reached the point of explosion.
"Whoever wants to build this wall can do so. We in Yulan City will definitely not build it."
In a city near the border, the city lord who had just received the news was smoking a cigarette, with a sullen face, venting his dissatisfaction to his subordinates who came to report.
"Why would that Liang ask us to provide food for the construction team? If we give them the food, what are we going to do?"
This morning, he received a call.
The other party was an old man who called himself Liang Ming.
Liang Ming told him that because Yu Lan City had the highest grain production among the nearby cities and had a large amount of grain reserves, he hoped that he could take out some to supply the team that would arrive to start construction.
Of course, he will help to recover the supplies provided by Yu Lan City from other places.
At the same time, because Yulan City provides food, you don’t need to pay too much in other aspects.
This was also the result of discussions between Liang Ming, Lu Li and others.
They could foresee that building a boundary wall would definitely cause unrest.
This is a very simple truth. If they were in their place, they would also have great resistance.
But this is also a process that must be experienced if one wants to completely rule this place.
What they need to consider is how to keep this turmoil within a controllable range.
The city lords would definitely not be willing to let the cities sacrifice their own interests for something they do not agree with.
Therefore, Liang Ming meant that arrangements should be made based on the more "abundant" resources in each city.
Of course, after consulting Ning Fan, Ning Fan also agreed to the compensation Liang Ming would prepare for them.
That’s the path to advancement after the merger.
While building boundary walls, the cities will also be merged.
At present, most of the cities are in a state of fighting each other, and each city is considered an independent entity.
This situation is obviously not in line with Ning Fan's next plan.
Therefore, merging these cities into a whole is also the next focus.
The condition Liang Ming gave was that whoever provided the greatest assistance in the construction of the boundary wall would have his city become the main city after the merger of this area.
The original city lord will naturally become the chief city lord.
Liang Ming believed that with such a large increase, there would definitely be people who would be tempted.
Because this means that a city lord may be in charge of more than ten cities instead of just one.
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