Chapter 177 - 168 Lock Fan and the Dog
After Nono’s conquest, Yuanghua was transformed from a private dominion of the empire’s vassals into a directly governed dominion of the empire. The stable transfer gate to Yuanghua was officially completed three months ago. As a regular civilian transfer gate, it couldn’t transfer many people at once, only about twenty. As long as the fee was paid, one could directly reach Yuanghua’s main city, Gold City.
Due to the past chaos experienced by Yuanghua, there was a significant vacancy in the population within the dominion. Furthermore, for the revival and development of a dominion, the empire would also provide corresponding policies, under which many people were willing to willingly move to Yuanghua to live and develop.
Hu Feng City has seen a surge in the number of people it has accepted recently, and the City Defense Army is strictly registering and verifying the identities of people coming and going at the city gates.
"Where do you hail from?"
"Replying to the military officer, I’ve traveled thousands of miles from my homeland in the Kedadi dominion."
"Oh? Kedadi is quite far from here." The City Defense Army officer took the middle-aged man’s identity documents for a careful check, nodded, and said, "Must have spent a fair amount of money on the way, huh? Remember to register at the national supervision office once you get to Yuanghua, you can receive half of the subsidy."
"Aiyo, yes, yes, thank you for the guidance, military officer. Thank you for the guidance!" The middle-aged man quickly thanked the City Defense Army officer upon hearing the words. They were people from the lower echelons, and many of them didn’t know much about the many policies issued by the empire, such as this transportation subsidy; indeed, they were unaware, so many times such subsidies were secretly pocketed by others.
"Go on in, go on in, don’t delay those behind..." The City Defense Army officer looked up and felt an involuntary sense of wariness in his heart at the sight of the group of people before him.
"Who are you?" the chief officer of the City Defense Army demanded, "Please show your identity documents."
This chief officer had joined the imperial army long ago and had participated in many big and small battles. Enduring many hidden injuries over the years, he had retired from the front lines and was transferred to be the chief officer of the City Defense Army in Hu Feng City. Relying on his years of military experience, he could tell that the aura of death had not yet dispersed from the group of more than twenty who had just arrived, clearly having been through a significant slaughter just the day before.