Chapter 247 I want to sing a song of the Snow Country
United Kingdom of Toronto.
Although it is named as a satellite city under Ryan City, its land area is far from comparable to that of a satellite city.
From the banks of the Bingling River in the south, to the Qianbian Mountains on the Echo Seashore in the east, to the continuous frosty snow-capped mountains on the edge of the Alta Desert in the west, to the eternal night ice field formed by the permanent ice layer of the Arctic.
A total of 10.93 million square kilometers of vast land are all its territory.
Although the land area is extremely amazing, and it is almost twice as high as Inuit, there are not many places to live in Toronto.
More than 80% of the cities in China are basically distributed in the Hebei Plain behind the Bingling River.
Before Toronto was officially established, these places actually belonged to the territory of the original northern lords of the Podia Empire. The hometown of the Kingdom of Toronto established by barbarians is located further north of the Hebei Plain. The population still lives there is even greater than that before.
few.
There is no way, the terrifying low temperatures in the vast ice field and the endless blizzards are really not conducive to human survival.
In an era when technology was underdeveloped, a sudden super-powerful blizzard was enough to make a seemingly powerful barbarian tribe disappear quietly on the white land.
Until a hundred years ago, most of the land within the Arctic Circle was still worthless Jedi.
However, with the development of science and technology, especially the technological outbreak during the Industrial Revolution, the resources buried under the ice sheet for billions of years have become the supreme treasure that contributed to the rise of Toronto.
Deep in the relatively warm plains in the south, there are minerals such as coal, iron, copper, gold, and silver buried, and the snow-capped mountains in the east are rich in various gems.
The shallow water strata below the Arctic ice sheet are buried with almost all kinds of minerals known to humans and the second largest number of subsea oil fields in the world.
The United Kingdom of Toronto, which relies on the huge profits of export resources, has been committed to developing industry. In modern times, it has completely completed industrialization reform in less than 20 years and has become the seventh in the world with a complete industry.
The country of chain.
From a poor relative who was not taken seriously by the United States at all, it has become a powerful economy in the world in the top ten.
Therefore, Toronto is also very confident to challenge Inuit, one of the world's five top powers.
At least once the full-scale war really reaches the confrontation stage of competition and consumption, Inuit, whose sea transportation is blocked, may not necessarily waste them.
But that doesn't mean that all Toronto people want to fight.
In fact, many people in Toronto expressed opposition to the war with Inuit.
However, relying on the desperate situation of the Bingling River, these anti-war factions are not worried that they will be pushed back by Inuit once they fail, but that... the gain is not worth the loss.
That's right, it's actually difficult to get any profit when Toronto sent troops to attack Inuit's northern region.
Although the Hebei Plain north of Bingling River is a bit cold, it is rich in minerals and fertile land. With rich Arctic fishery resources, even if it is mature every year, it can still feed Toronto's not particularly large population.
But to the south of the Bingling River, the northern border of the United States of Inuit, is even more desolate than the Hebei Plain in the north.
There is no way, the Bingling River Plain is already the best place in Toronto, and everyone has no choice but to concentrate most of their manpower and material resources here, forcibly opening up a prosperous place in the snow and ice, but for Inu
For the people here, they have better choices.
The United States, which occupied the richest areas of the empire, has large areas of habitable land in temperate and subtropical areas, and countless excellent natural ports to enjoy the benefits brought by the ocean.
Therefore, after New York was officially established and the people's migration ban was lifted, the population in northern Xinjiang has been losing wildly to the south.
Now, the Hanfeng County, where the entire northern border is located, has a total population of more than 7 million, which is not as large as that of Changhe City.
Without people, industrialization is naturally impossible to talk about.
Moreover, it has been 1334, and people on both sides are generally related to each other, so the army will definitely not be able to loot the civilians. In other words, even if Toronto takes over the entire Hanfeng County in one go, it will not be able to catch the entire Hanfeng County, at least it will have to fight further south.
Only a place to do.
But not to mention whether we can surpass the United States and kill a whole county in one go. Just because the front line is too long, it is easy for the United States, which has a stronger total force to close down and beat dogs.
However…
All these seemingly rational analytical oppositions were defeated in the face of the crazy slogans of the pro-war faction.
Because the pro-war faction said- "We must kill back, those despicable betrayers are not worthy of enjoying the territory of the empire!"
That's right, to this day, the United Kingdom of Toronto, a "kingdom" without a king, still considers itself a part of the Podia Empire.
In the noble parliament that ruled the country, every person in power followed the ancient titles originating from the empire.
The Toronto people, who have been completely "imperialized" in politics and culture, now follow the traditions of the ancient empire together, no matter what ethnic origin they were originally from.
They even built the "Sun and Moon Palace" without residents in the original ancestral land of the Yuezhi and Chao clans.
However, Toronto people did not recognize the Yuezhi king who re-established the Kingdom of Kante in the east.
The obvious reason is that the lords of the northern land believed that according to the imperial royal inheritance law, the founding monarch of Kante, "Yue Ao", belonged to a remote branch outside the royal family for five generations, and had no right to inherit the empire at all, so he could only be considered independent.
Be king.
And the actual reason...of course, it is for independence, and independence.
After all, at the end of the empire, these northern lords had already been obedient to the tune and not the announcement. They were not even a word from the real emperor back then, so how could they still pay attention to you, a guy who came out of nowhere?
It is precisely because of this that the relationship between Toronto and the Kingdom of Kante is not much better.
Basically, no one cares about anyone, and even the joint invasion of Inuit has never really reached a consensus.
After all, Kant said, "I am your emperor!" and directly responded, "You are a traitor who proclaims himself king, and everyone can punish him!", and the atmosphere instantly became awkward.
This means that it is not directly bordered, and the middle is completely separated by Inuit, otherwise these two might have been tied up long ago.
"After tradition, strong and wild, heavy industry... These Toronto people remind me of some guys on the earth."
Looking at the city of Santa Mogo, the capital of Toronto, which was completely covered with snow below, Alvin, who was possessed by Shadow 008, was silently thinking in his heart.
Then, he looked up at the sky above his head.
In the clear sky, the sun in winter spreads bright sunshine to the earth, which seems to be warm and beautiful.
But at a level that humans cannot peek at, negative forces that are as huge as substance are like thick dark clouds, shrouding on the vast land.
It is the unwilling wail of the dead, the roar of the desires of the living, the continuous sin, and the proof of destruction.
"The nobles' wealth that lasted for hundreds of years has successfully accumulated wealth that people cannot imagine, but... the rich people smelled of wine and meat, and the road was frozen to death."
He looked at the earth under his feet again and stared at some of the pitiful bones that had been buried by snow in the corner of the bustling city. He couldn't help but shake his head.
"A country that seems to be powerful is actually in danger in secret, just like a towering building with a foundation that has been smashed. A shock may cause it to collapse..."