The ancient city was not large; it ranked below the first-tier cities in Eastern Country and was slightly above average among the second-tier cities.
As an industrial center from the old era, many of the former factories and workshops had become the tears of time.
The legacy left to the new era included a slightly larger amount of education, medical care, and other infrastructure, along with an unusually high population of over a million in a second-tier city.
For local law enforcement and watchers, this was not good news. Too much work with too little funding was one aspect, while relatively low living conditions and wages further inflated some people's ambitions and desires. The "passionate crime rate after gaining power" was on the rise year by year.
However, it still couldn't change the city's reality as a second-tier city. For many ambitious professionals, it was seen as a peaceful place to retire, a relatively safe and quiet countryside...
