In a luxurious room, the Socialist Party Candidate faced several of his most important supporters and voiced his thoughts.
"...There's no possibility of reconciliation between them anymore. Those silenced guards are the best example."
"So one of the two is bound to fall, and personally, I think the Conservative Party Candidate is very likely to lose!"
This luxurious house was located in the suburbs of Bu Peien, a particularly quiet estate covering an enormous area. It could even be called a "mountain villa"! It had a small artificial lake and a hill, making it one of the most expensive properties in the Bu Peien suburbs.
Over the past few years, Bu Peien's development had stopped expanding eastward and southward because the land in those directions was too expensive! Capitalists had crowded into the area north of eastern Bu Peien and begun building all kinds of manor houses and villas. All the way to southwestern Bu Peien, vast tracts of land had been purchased by capitalists and turned into private property.
If Bu Peien's urban area continued expanding in this direction, City Hall simply wouldn't have the money to buy up the land and the buildings on it.
Even if they could afford to buy them, they couldn't afford to demolish them.
Therefore, Bu Peien's future development would mainly proceed westward and northwestward. The western part of the city consisted primarily of the Lower District and the Slums.
The suburbs there were also inhabited mostly by poor people. Land and property prices were cheap, so expanding the urban area wouldn't place much financial pressure on City Hall.
The rich were unwilling to buy land and build houses there either. After all, no one wanted to live alongside the poor.
Not only was the stench of poverty everywhere, but it was also