"Where were we?"
After putting down the phone, Lin Qi washed his hands and returned to the room.
By then, many people were already seated inside. He found his place beside the Lieutenant General and sat down.
"You were talking about the New Military Region..."
"Yes, yes, I remember now!" Lin Qi smiled and nodded. Apart from the Lieutenant General and his two aides, everyone else in the room was a member of Congress.
This was the first time the Lieutenant General had seen so many congressmen gathered somewhere other than Congress! There were fully sixteen senators present! This further deepened his understanding of Lin Qi's power!
Just as he had said, he really could handle Congress!
"The importance of Nagaril to us needs no further explanation. Especially now that we have decided to establish a Maritime Transportation Hub there that will influence the entire world, as well as an economic center for the Southern Hemisphere, we can no longer afford to abandon it."
"It has brought us so many things: population, resources, cheap labor, and a free market that continues to grow and has tremendous depth and breadth."
"And yet we haven't made greater defensive preparations there!"
"That's dangerous!"
"Once Populism begins to take root in Nagaril, it will cause the Federation a great deal of trouble. And the soil for that already exists there."
As the Mid-Eastern Region of Nagaril was taken over by the Federals, Nagaril's local upper and middle classes began concentrating in the cities of the Mid-East.
Even though they were not yet able to live in cities controlled by the Federals, they did their best to settle in areas close to those cities.
In other words, the class divide in Nagaril had become extremely stark. The original "Nagaril People" were being divided by class