A Blessing in Disguise
For the next stretch of time, whenever Zhou Xu arrived at a city, he would stay there for a day or two to inspect it while also planning out his ideas for its future development.
During this process, he clearly discovered that, in terms of city count, the New North District, with its six cities, was not that far behind the New South District.
But in reality, the gap was considerable.
For one thing, many of its cities were smaller than those in the New South District. For another, the distances between the cities here were generally too short, making their distribution somewhat cramped.
If I get the chance, I'll still have to make a large-scale adjustment to the layout of the cities in the New North District. Why would this place need six cities? Four—no, to be precise, three cities and one fortress should be enough!
According to Zhou Xu's plans, as long as they chose their positions carefully and arranged two large cities in the core area of the New North District, they would be able to effectively occupy most of the land and resources there.
After that, they could arrange one city at the pass adjoining Anling City. Overall, the distribution would form a triangular layout, making it convenient for the three cities to establish connections with one another.
As for Plain City, they would follow the idea he and Shi Lei had discussed earlier and convert it into a military fortress. All they needed to do was strengthen its defensive power.
That was the result Zhou Xu hoped to achieve most at present.
But clearly, accomplishing it would not be easy.
In fact, according to Zhou Xu's plan, the locations of every city in the New North District were less than ideal.