Knowing the identity of the investor of Guanghui Welfare Hospital, and meeting the benefactor she admires and appreciates, her relationship with her colleagues has also begun to improve... But under the triple happiness, Katie's good mood could not last long.

The reason is also very simple... Her father who had been missing for many years suddenly sent her a letter.

To be exact, it was the first day she met Leonardo. As soon as she got off work, she received this letter from the dean, which arrived in her hands after many twists and turns. It was an extremely long-distance letter from the Americas across the ocean, and the date of the letter was sent a year and a half ago... As early as when she was a female worker in the past, this letter had already been discovered. But if she hadn't become a celebrity in the North District because of "knowing Leonardo", I am afraid that this letter would not reach her in a few months. the reason is simple.

One because the courier couldn't find her at all.

When Katie's father left Sardinia, the North End wasn't as bad as it is today... of course. At that time, the West District was not as good as it is today.

In the ten years since the "gout man" was unable to handle government affairs normally due to his illness, the situation in the north of Florence has become worse. This is not simply a matter of public security, but also because the Pazzi family's political origin is in the north of Florence, which is only a lack of development. It's just a suburb. Although there are some illegal factories here, it is mainly known as a place for some kind of night entertainment, and the total income of the area is not low.

that time. The poorest are the mountainous areas on the east side of the urban area. The urban area of ​​Florence is in the central plain, and the west side is close to the port city of Pisa. Famous for its commerce and handicraft manufacturing. The southern part close to Siena is mainly engaged in the grape brewing and jewelry industries. However, the mayor later sold a large amount of land in the eastern district to factory owners at a cheap price, but instead formed an unusually concentrated industrial park. Even the Florence Polytechnic University moved its main campus to the east, and then a number of residential buildings were sold, followed by entertainment venues. In less than ten years, the east area of ​​Florence developed at an extremely fast pace. Waste of land. And it will make those well-to-do big businessmen, big factory owners, or middle-income earners who are struggling to maintain a decent dissatisfaction.

They need to keep more rich people from out of town. Therefore, while making the main urban area gorgeous and beautiful, it is also necessary to ensure that there will be no eye-catching and ugly buildings here.

Rather than leaving the shanty houses built by private parties, it is better to tear them down and rebuild them, even if they build the two main avenues.

Faced with this situation, he asked the mayor of Florence to voluntarily expel the poor to the north. They deliberately built a slum here to allow the citizens of the northern district to actively flow out. They allocated a piece of land for these poor people in the northern district and allowed them to build houses here...but they were not allowed to build factories here , and only maintain a minimum level of law and order—the police officers are not even willing to control the life and death of these untouchables. As the rest of Florence grew tidier and closer to heaven, the northern quarters became more chaotic and closer to hell.

In the original plan of the Pazzi, because of the large population, it will attract some speculative small factory owners to build illegal "black area factories". If the construction quality is very poor, the Florence city government will immediately seal them down. Give the factory buildings to the poor to live in; and if the factory is decently built, they will temporarily pretend not to see it, and after the factory owners make profits and earn back their capital for a period of time, the city government will suddenly close their factories directly. And after extorting a deposit, let them go to other places to build factories in the black area, so that in a few decades, the northern area will be filled with these factories. And the Florence industrial area, which was expanding rapidly, would be full at about that time. In this way, they can sell some cheap, directly sealed black area factories to these factory entrepreneurs.

As a result, Florence built a large number of factories without spending a penny. These r factories can greatly increase Florence's tax revenue and product profits, and the factories they resell after they are directly closed are another large sum of money. , One-time income.

The factory owners of those "black area factories" did not buy land when they built their factories - because they never sold it. They can only build in secret... but also save a lot of money and get an inexhaustible supply of cheap labor. A few years is enough for them to make back their money and even make a few times. District factories, and can be used normally as long as simple renovation and decoration. When all these high-quality factories in the North District are sold, the low-quality factory buildings can be gradually flattened, the poor people inside can be driven out, and new factories or residential areas can be rebuilt.

As a result, everyone has won money and the city is getting better and better.

Only they didn't only they were sacrificed. The wages of the factories in the district are extremely low, there is no school at all in the North District, and the law and order are chaotic and gangs are rampant. With the completion of the factory, their living space is also continuously compressed. In the end, when the factories were demolished, they even had a place to live and the right to live.

In the North District, no one dared to reveal where they lived or how many households they had. They don't even let their children tell others what they, their parents' names are...

Here, people often refer to each other by pseudonyms and nicknames. Be wary and polite not to ask for names and information about others. If it wasn't because she knew Leonardo and became famous among the "upper class" in the North District, she probably wouldn't have asked for this letter until Katie died. Nor would she be informed of the unexpected, disturbing news. The letter her father Qi gave her was very thick, with eight or nine pages, and there were also several letters of introduction, seals, and a dozen Teutonic silver coins fixed on a wax plate. This is so that when the letter is shaken, there will be no sound of silver coins hitting the ground. If odd money is needed, people generally choose this way to post odd coins, and stick the coins in the wax plate. Attached to the letter, a letter home from America. Eloquently wrote about four or five Dingshi's descriptions about "how good he lived in America" ​​and "how rich his life was", full of grandiosity and self-satisfaction, but that's nothing, in the last two pages of the letter , but wrote something that caught Katie's attention.

Her father swears that the Teutonic Kingdom has mastered a key and deadly technology. In three or four years at the latest, they are likely to attack the Principality of Sardinia. With the seal from Xinqi, he ran to Teutonic to hide. According to her cheap father, who barely remembered, he was quite sure that Sardinia would be defeated. Because he got acquainted with a Teutonic relative from afar in America, and Nafon was one of the masters of "that plan". He didn't elaborate on the specific situation in his letter. Just repeating "Katie, they are noble Teutonic people", "They should go back, return to their hometown", "Saran" over and over again, but these words did not make Katie shrink back. If put in a few A month ago, she might have had some expectations for this. Anyway, she has nothing to do in the North District, and life here is hopeless, so she might as well take the risk of being killed, sneak out of the country, and go to Teutonic to make a living...

But now it's different. She finally touched the tail of her dream—and she also found what she wanted to do...and...the person she admired. Katie hesitated for a long time, but finally made up her mind. She decides to go to her trusted Leonardo...and give him the letter. It's fine even if it's considered crazy. But she believed that if she did not notify Leonardo at this time, she would be tantamount to betraying him, Florence and Sardinia.

Although the latter two have nothing to do with her. When she told the dean about it, the dean almost thought she was dreaming. But in the end she reluctantly gave Katie Leonardo's address...

That was the residence of Lorenzo the Radiant in the center of Florence.