Chapter 1624: Withering Cherry Blossoms

"Tsk, New Tokyo, you're really bold."

When I got off the train and stepped into the city, I felt a warmth completely different from the snow outside.

Of course, it's not that it's summer inside, but it's about 20 or 30 degrees below zero outside the city, but it's only a few degrees here. Even the cold wind that occasionally blows in from outside is still biting.

Looking up, the first towering tower in the city center, the little firelight on it, brings warmth and precious sunshine in the snow.

Floor heating? Or ground veins? It's a technology I haven't seen before, or it may be that I caught an extraordinary firebird directly.

"Welcome, welcome!! Your Highness Lu. Mr. Lu has worked hard all the way!"

Looking at the middle-aged man in front of him who was smiling very flatteringly, Lu Ping'an also smiled. After all, others have taken the etiquette team, the red carpet and flowers, so they have to give some face.

Taking the flowers from the JK girl who smiled very stiffly, Lu Ping'an did not make things difficult for the person who picked up the car.

However, Lu Pingan touched his chin. This girl seemed to be a famous idol girl. She was wearing a miniskirt and holding her face in her hands. She was frozen.

And this receptionist seemed to be a famous artist. Was he reemployed based on his resume? Were those drummers also professional drummers? Forget it. It felt more and more wrong.

Lu Pingan got on the car directly. He was too lazy to understand what these twisted and pathetic refugees were thinking.

The target this time was the city hall conference hall of New Tokyo.

".Are all the others here?"

"Almost all of them are here. You are late."

Lu Pingan chatted with the receptionist, but he was also a little interested in New Tokyo. He had heard a lot of rumors, but it was his first time to come here in person.

This is the south of Siberia. In theory, it is the territory of the Red Star Republic. In reality, they have long ignored it. It is too far away. Dongguo spent some money and resources to build a development zone and tourist zone here, and obtained a lease of more than 100 years, which actually gained control of this place.

For ordinary people, this place is not a good place, because it is too cold and too remote. The only advantage is that it is not really in the East Country.

". They have enough fun, and the East Country is bad enough."

Is there really nothing here? Siberia's natural gas and minerals are also ranked among the best in the world.

It's just that now it is jointly developed, and the Sakurajima people who plant potatoes and bear the labor and work in person only get wages, while the shareholders are Red Star and East Country. They provide money, technology, resources and even land, so they naturally get the majority of shares.

However, their ethnic group is still willing to invest in it and build a city in the vast snow, perhaps just for the name of "New Tokyo".

At present, the city has a population of less than 300,000, and a considerable number of them are not the suffering Sakurajima refugees, but the Sakurajima natives who returned from overseas.

In a sense, this is the government in exile, but no one recognizes it, and they dare not declare it themselves.

At least 90% of the population of Sakurajima has been integrated into the new towns and industrial cities in the north and west of East Country. The best of them have also obtained work passports to the interior of East Country.

Many of them have understood the situation and have rationally chosen the future.

However, there are always people who indulge in the glory of the past and even hope to take back Sakurajima and hand it over to the Sakurajima people. Even the people of Leighton Peninsula dare not think about this.

By the way, when the situation is not good, the people of the peninsula are quite realistic. They quickly integrated into East Country, causing the number of Korean-mixed people in East Country to increase many times.

"If it is really conquered and conquered, it will definitely belong to East Country."

This is the future that everyone can see, but there are always people who pretend not to see it.

And East Country did not push too hard. Although a minority called "Sakura Clan" has appeared in the East Country's ethnic system, it still acquiesced to their actions to build a new Tokyo in this ice and snow.

Geographically, this is Red Star's. Administratively, this is East Country's border joint development, a super-large mining area and ranch. Spiritually, this is Sakurajima's New Tokyo.

It seems to be a hidden danger. Indeed, but East Country doesn't want to force them too much.

"Mr. Sakata, long time no see."

"Hehe, I saw your tower from a long distance. It seems that the quasi-god is not far away."

"Mr. Yamamon is in the hospital again. Did he run back to his hometown alone? It's good enough to come back alive."

Along the way, after entering the venue, Lu Pingan kept dealing with "acquaintances".

The Sakurajima people did lose a lot, but some things that are worth a lot of money have been preserved. These high-level combat forces, these strong men above the gold level, are a huge wealth, and at the same time, they are also unstable factors.

These big guys, in fact, don't make any difference where they live, but they are still tied here by their own people and bloodlines.

In Lu Pingan's view, the current practice of the East Country people is the most advanced.

On the one hand, they showed goodwill to ordinary people at the low end, offering them the temptation of "integration" and "equal treatment" to let them make their own choices. Even the quasi-gods from Sakurajima in front of them could not stop their people from pursuing a better life and future.

On the other hand, they regarded foreign invaders as imaginary enemies, so these high-level combat forces were naturally driven by the East Country. To be precise, they begged the East Country to send troops to conquer Sakurajima, and even took the initiative to participate in the battles of grassroots soldiers, just to improve the refugees' favorability.

Drive the lower with profit, drive the upper with hatred, simple and direct, without even a trace of active interference, and no matter ordinary refugees or those top combat forces, they all have to thank Dongguo for its accommodation and righteousness in terms of morality and appearance.

".Mr. Lu, I wonder when Dongguo is going to launch a major counterattack this time."

"Yes, Your Highness, what role can we play? If possible, we hope to be the vanguard"

Most of the people here are fanatical fighters, they probably know better than Dongguo people that if they can't return to their homeland in ten years, there is actually no hope in this life.

Lu Ping'an sighed, you have a population of more than one million, what are you playing with division, faction, surrender, and infighting. Lu Ping'an knew that the one in front of him who was the most ruthless called "counterattack the homeland", and even hostile to Lu Ping'an, a foreigner from Dongguo, had actually surrendered to Wanjing and even got the Dongguo ID card.

Now the total population of Sakurajima bloodline is only more than one million, this is the largest population gathering, and at the same time, it is also the last persistence of the diehards.

But there are still people who can't stand the environment and low wages here, as well as the relaxed working environment, and choose better cities. Most of the work here is related to resource collection, and you have to go deep into the snowfield outside the city and often go into the frozen ground. Even with protective clothing, people often freeze to death.

Now it is already a modern country. Unlike those strong people in the outside world who have the final say, the top strong people on the earth are just one of the common people and cannot force their own people to stay in the snow.

All the naked eyes can see that if they continue, the Sakurajima people, who are already small in population, will be dragged into the annexation, but they can't do anything about it.

In a sense, many people look at this new Tokyo like the 38th parallel drawn on the desk of a child. Even if they shout "Don't come over, this is my territory", they will only look at it with sympathy and pity.

In the end, the children's play stops here, and the beautiful dreams of the past will eventually wake up, and the people here have to accept the facts. But before that, it's harmless for them to do a little.

"Everyone. I brought news from Wanjing." But this time, they can't play house here anymore.