Dutata City, the largest and most populous city among the three southern territories of the Rhine Kingdom (including Innatrix), has hundreds of thousands more permanent residents than Bugatti City, the industrial city of Otis Territory.

It has a large area and a large population, but the reputation of Dutata City is not very good, it can even be said to be relatively bad... Even passing merchant ships on the Barcelo River will not choose to stop in Dutata City when it is not necessary.

The reason is simple, the law and order in Du Tata City is too bad.

Times magazines and semi-monthly weekly newspapers in the capital of the Rhine have ridiculed the city as "the capital of crime" and "the den of evil" countless times to criticize Lord Adler's ineffective governance; cultural people in the Rhine wrote legendary novels related to urban crimes At that time, he was even more keen to use Du Ta Ta City as the stage of the story.

And if any outsider comes into contact with this city in person, he will not feel that the outside world's description of this city is exaggerated in the slightest—the actual Du Tata City is far worse than the rumors.

When the Darcy family's carriage drove up the territory road, the majestic big city on the horizon was visible to the naked eye... the first thing that caught the eye was the slums that could be described as endless.

Compared with the slums outside Du Tata City, the slum area that once occupied about one kilometer outside the west gate of Inadli is like a kitten compared to a tiger.

The south, east and west parts of the entire Duttata City are all occupied by endless low bungalows, grass sheds, and wooden houses, occasionally interspersed with two-story or two-and-a-half-story brick-and-wood self-built houses. .

Many houses share the same wall, crowded together, newspaper groups for warmth, and the alleys between the houses penetrate into the alleys like cracks, so deep that there is no end in sight.

To make matters worse, because Duttata City is not a vast plain, many slum houses have to spread to the mountains outside the city, all over the hillsides and valleys; The slums of the city are clinging to most of the urban area of ​​Du Tata City, desperately lingering with the city.

Before Darcy's carriage entered the city from the south gate, it drove for more than half an hour amidst the slums...

When the carriage passed by, there were bold people in the market on both sides of the road waving to the driver, gesturing to the skinny young men and women squatting on the side of the road in ragged clothes, and shouting loudly: "Dear gentlemen, you need manpower." The good boys and girls here can do anything!"

Naturally, the coachman couldn't talk to the coachman, and the guards and bodyguards of Darcy's family, who rode on horseback and followed the cart, followed closely behind the cart, constantly threatening to disperse the refugees who tried to surround themselves with beggars with their whips.

Zhao Zhenzhen who was sitting in the car frowned.

Zhao Zhenzhen had a rough idea of ​​the situation in Duttata City, so she was mentally prepared before coming here... After all, there are not no similar slums on the earth, and the slums in places like Rio and Mumbai can also catch the attention of Chinese people.

But being psychologically prepared is not the same thing as witnessing it with your own eyes. Seeing this Du Tata slum with residents similar to Rio slums but with a much worse environment than Rio slums, Zhao Zhenzhen still panicked.

The slums in Rio at least have traces of modern civilization. They are connected to electricity, and the building conditions are decent. They are similar to the towns of China in the 80s. They have internal autonomy in the community and garbage collection and distribution centers. The houses in some areas are not worse than the houses of Rio citizens. .

But the slum in front of me...can't see any impression that it has anything to do with civilization, or in other words, hope.

Through the window of the carriage, Zhao Zhenzhen could see a lot of women with low-quality cosmetics on their faces standing under the low eaves in the alleys near the road, looking in the direction of the carriage.

There are also many bare bottomed children playing and climbing up and down the deeper alleys.

In some courtyards surrounded by wooden boards, there are women and middle-aged and elderly men who are burying their heads in weaving straw mats, bamboo baskets and other things, which seems to be the work that some slum residents depend on for a living.

Farther away, closer to the banks of the Barceló River, one can vaguely see the clothes drying on the roofs of large bungalows and the crowds shuttling back and forth. It seems to be a very large, ecologically chaotic laundry place...

Zhao Zhenzhen retracted her gaze and took a long breath.

"The difficulty of the challenge is much higher than that of Inner City, isn't it?" Yang Qiu said to Zhao Zhenzhen with a smile.

Zhao Zhenzhen really wanted to ask how this guy could still laugh... Thinking of his experience, he changed his words to: "Have you ever seen a place worse than this?"

Yang Qiu glanced outside, and said calmly: "It's sort of."

The Kingdom of the Rhine has been peaceful for more than two hundred years.

The countries of Middle-earth... have been lingering in the chaos of war for four hundred years.

But Middle-earth is very close to Kenya, that's not where the current Yang Qiu can intervene.

Zhao Zhenzhen heard the seriousness of his tone and fell silent.

The earth... is actually not much better than this world.

On Earth, human-caused disasters have not stopped until now.

Yang has an enemy that is difficult to defeat, and that fierce enemy is still staring at him fiercely, making him restrained, so he has to be cautious and cautious, and he must not make mistakes; and Huaxia Kingdom, why not?

"Let's do the thing in front of me first." Zhao Zhenzhen withdrew her impetuous thoughts, and silently counted the manpower that Inadoli could draw.

Adler's population is similar to that of Innadali, about 200 million people.

More than 100 years ago, most of the areas in Inadili were still active areas of rogue horse bandits, and the development level was generally not high. Even agriculture and water conservancy had to be started from scratch.

The Adler Territory, which has been developed for hundreds of years, is much better than Innadali in this regard. The central, eastern and northern parts of the country have developed agriculture. In theory, there is no big problem in ensuring local food self-sufficiency.

But this theory is just a theory after all. In fact, the Adler collar, like the Innad collar, is the origin of the outflow of grain - the King of the Rhine has nearly [-]% of the grain, which is supplied by the Adler collar.

To make matters worse, due to the high degree of land development and relatively advanced agriculture, the local nobles in Adler did not need a large number of serf labor like the Innad Liling, which led to a large number of poor people who could survive starvation Serfs are not available, so they can only hoard around the city and struggle to survive.

Among other things, it is impossible for the hundreds of thousands of poor people outside Dutata City to have high anti-risk ability. You have to starve to death.

The matter of attacking Dutata City and taking down Adler's territory is not a problem at all in Zhao Zhenzhen's mind. After taking down Dutata City, how to quickly manage and resettle the civilians in the slums so that there is no chaos? is really a big problem.

Zhao Zhenzhen racked her brains to plan the resettlement period, and the carriage with the aristocratic family crest entered the city smoothly.

The scenery inside the city is a little more decent than the slums outside the city walls, at least the streets are cleaner, the houses on both sides are mostly brick and stone structures, and there are fewer wooden buildings, so it is not like the slums that make people like Zhao Zhenzhen feel worried fire hazard.

"The letter sent back by my aunt two years ago, the address is Liujiao Lane, Nancheng District, Apartment No. 189." Qina Daxi tried to show her role while suppressing curiosity not to look at the street scene outside, "This The coachman I brought with me had been to Duttata City before, and he knew the way."

Yang Qiu nodded slightly, and spoke to Qina who hadn't realized that she was nervous again in a gentle tone: "Do you still remember what kind of person your cousin is?"

Qina thought about it, and said: "Cousin Coulson is a bit shy, but he is a very courageous person. When he and his aunt came to Innadina that year, my cousin threw my pen into the pond. , Cousin Coulson immediately jumped in and helped me pick up the pen, and even got into a fight with my cousin."

"It seems that your cousin has a good character." Yang Qiu smiled and responded positively to Qina who needed encouragement and recognition, "Tell me about him again."

"Okay, Mr. Yang." Qina was greatly encouraged, and excitedly talked about more things about her cousin and aunt.

What kind of person Qina's cousin is is actually not important to Yang Qiu.

Yang Qiu doesn't care about the character of the puppet under his hands at all, just like he once said to Hal's irascible brothers, he doesn't care who is loyal and who is not... No matter how much bad water is in his stomach, whether the back of his head is not Yang Qiu doesn't care if he grows rebellious bones; as long as he doesn't have too many intellectual defects and knows how to do things within the range he set out, he is a qualified horse boy.

If you can be as good as Rex, then invest some resources and cultivate; if not, then do some work within your ability, and take on some responsibilities that elementary and middle school students can afford-like tailoring Anthony, the butcher Manan and the gang of former thieves can't do big things, but they can still do it as a tool man NPC and take care of a few female workers.

In Yang Qiu's view, Qina, a little girl who doesn't need to be ordered by the national team and can understand the intentions of the city hall by stealing her own teacher, is very useful...Cultivating value, in case Coulson is indeed a helper The mud that doesn't stick to the wall, it's no trouble to push Qina to the top.

While chatting, the carriage turned into a street full of red brick houses.

Entering this street where only two carriages can run side by side, Qina's expression became visibly incredulous.

This street is obviously not a place where good people live. The first floor of the houses on both sides even has no windows-this kind of building is very common in areas with poor public security.

Not to mention that the houses here have no yard or aisle in front of the door at all, the door is directly facing the street, and the windows on the second and third floors of some people have traces of repairs-the carriage cannot be parked in front of the door, and there is no money to replace the whole piece glass, obviously, the people who live here will never be too well off financially.

When Qina looked out the car window uneasily, a man with a tool bag over his shoulder just turned from the other side of the alley.

Seeing the carriage driving into the alley, the man subconsciously leaned over to the side of the road to make way, and just bumped into Qina who was poking out of the carriage.

"Cousin Coulson?!" Qina exclaimed in surprise.

"...Qina?" The man carrying the tool bag was pleasantly surprised and whispered nervously.

There was no parking in Liujiao Lane, and when the coachman drove the carriage to a nearby hotel to rent a parking space, Qina brought her two nurses, a maid, a housekeeper (Yang Qiu), and a bodyguard (Zhao Zhenzhen) to pay an official visit. her aunt's house.

A three-story red brick apartment building with a total of six rooms is the only property of Qina's aunt... When Qina saw her aunt who married far away in the early years, her aunt was wearing an apron , wearing a headscarf, cleaning the stairs in an apartment building.

In the living room on the first floor where there are no windows and candles need to be lit in broad daylight, Qina glanced at her aunt's gray hair, her rough hands, and Coulson's tanned skin, who looked like an ordinary worker Cousin, uncomfortable: "How did you get to this point, aunt, why didn't you tell grandpa about your situation in more detail?"

Both Qina's aunt and cousin looked a little embarrassed, one tried to hide her hand in embarrassment, and the other bowed her head in silence.

After hesitating for a while, Mrs. O'Neill, who looked almost like an ordinary citizen woman, reluctantly said: "Actually... we are not too sad, Qina. Compared with ordinary families, our family's situation It's passable."

"It's useless, Qina." Coulson interrupted his mother, and said dejectedly, "When my mother and I went to Inadili a few years ago, I actually told my grandfather about our situation... Grandpa just said a few words casually. Just one sentence sent me and my mother away, and when my mother and I came out of my grandfather's room, I heard him asking someone to change the carpet at the entrance."

Qina's expression froze immediately.

In the style of old Viscount Darcy... Grandpa really did this kind of thing.

A married daughter who is worthless and unable to keep her property is as unlucky to the old Viscount Darcy as if she had lost money in business.

Grandpa has so many sons and daughters, and his heart aches.

"I once heard my father say that the inheritance my uncle left to my aunt, you and cousin Colson, should have a farm and a residence in the inner city of Duttata." Qina said vigorously, "Nowadays, these properties are all In whose hands? Viscount O'Neill?"

Mrs. O'Neill didn't speak, but Cousin Coulson shook his head with a wry smile, and said, "I read the newspaper, Qina, after the vampire incident, you became a Viscountess, it's amazing... you want to help Let's take back the property, my mother and I appreciate your kindness."

"Cousin Coulson, don't you want to take back what originally belonged to you and your aunt?" Qina asked in amazement.

"I can't get it back." Coulson said disheartened, "Viscount O'Neill, my good uncle, is not someone who will leave a story for others... You know that the house in the inner city has already been transferred. How many times has it been handed over? Even now, the ostensible ownership is not in the hands of my uncle, but belongs to a Taqiya merchant, who seems to have nothing to do with my good uncle."

"Not to mention that farm, my mother tried her best to keep it back then, after all, it was the place where my father grew up - but my good uncle used some tricks to get the lord's housekeeper to come forward Come to ask about the resale price of the farm." Coulson became more and more desperate as he spoke, "Now that farm is nominally the lord's steward, and it is an estate purchased for the elderly... Tell me, how can you get it back?"

Standing behind Qina, Yang Qiu, who played the role of housekeeper, his eyes lit up at that moment...

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