Every June marked the beginning of summer, and with it came the most beautiful time of the year on the Gozdali Plains of the Ice and Snow Wilderness.
Yet this summer, the Gozdali Plains were not only at their most beautiful—they were also at their liveliest.
Beginning in Black Iron Calendar Year 896, after three and a half years of round-the-clock construction by nearly a million people, a majestic city had risen upon the Gozdali Plains.
This city was the second city in the entire Ice and Snow Wilderness, as well as the capital of the Sacred Ice Island Kingdom. Before its master had even decided on a name, a name had already quietly spread among all the Slavs of the Ice and Snow Wilderness—a name they had given it of their own accord: Saint Petersburg.
Everyone, even the elders of the Icefield Giant Bear Tribe, felt that the name suited it perfectly.
Over more than three years, in order to build Saint Petersburg, steel mills, cement plants, machinery factories, foundries, and workshops of every size had sprung up across the Gozdali Plains like bamboo shoots after rain. The entire Gozdali Plains had begun to truly prosper.
The influx of over ten million immigrants had brought ample cheap labor to the Ice and Snow Wilderness, along with great numbers of skilled workers, engineers, and talents from every profession. At the same time, these people unleashed enormous market demand, while the ninety million gold coins Zhang Tie had poured into the construction of Saint Petersburg released a powerful cash flow at the heart of the Ice and Snow Wilderness. That cash flow was the guarantee of economic prosperity.
With the construction of Saint Petersburg at its center, those ninety million gold coins flowed like blood pumped from the heart of the