Munitions Empire

Chapter 1076: Discuss the price before cursing 998 times

Tang Empire, Nanshan Port.

This recently acquired territory of the Tang Empire was still bustling everywhere. The civil officials who had traveled from the Tang Empire were driven insane by the relentless administrative duties these past few days.

If they hadn’t seen it with their own eyes, they wouldn’t have believed that such a shabby city could exist in this world.

Compared to the port area and connected train stations and airports built with the help of the Tang Empire, the overall urban development of the city was pretty much the same as twenty years ago.

There were no connected sewer systems; the city’s sewage had to rely largely on manual scavengers and a few sewage trucks.

All the prosperity and glitz were just a facade, with up-to-standard buildings not far from a regularly emptied septic tank.

The “villages within the city” were a common sight, populated by impoverished residents living in low-rise buildings. Most urban areas, especially those expanded in recent years, consisted of houses built with wood, lacking any modern touch.

The nobility residential areas seemed fine, but their presence rendered the urban land usage efficiency extremely low in Nanshan Port, hence, it had to be addressed promptly.

These were merely infrastructural issues; adding the local issues of education, hygiene, and even employment, there were urgent problems needing resolution.