Chapter 251 Yu Yu Clarifies

The Gate of the Sun Canal Bridge.

This is the border between Zaun and Piltover. Piltover law enforcement officers used to set up a checkpoint on the bridge, and anyone trying to enter Zaun from here had to go through strict security checks and identity verification.

But when Swain came here with Amystan, the situation had changed 180 degrees.

The Piltover law enforcement officer who was harassing Zaun people with a baton disappeared. Instead, Zaun set up an entry checkpoint and began to conduct inspections on people entering Zaun from Piltover.

Swain passed the checkpoint by car. After Amystan revealed his identity and explained his purpose, he was soon allowed to pass.

The car drove across the Sungate Bridge, passed the people of Piltover who were queuing up to apply to enter Zaun, and finally entered the territory of Zaun.

And this new Zaun under the rule of the Wind Leader...

Well, not that new.

It has only been a little over two months since Zaun officially became independent. How much earth-shaking changes could have taken place?

The thick industrial smog still hung in the air, though it was lighter than Swain remembered.

The sky in Zaun used to be dark, but now it is gray... Well, it's an improvement.

The smell of the alchemical wastewater is much lighter than before, and the water seems clearer than before.

But the air still smells like a strange sweet alchemical potion.

"Cough, cough, cough..." Swain supported his "old, weak and sick" body and coughed a few times symbolically.

“Zaun seems to be pretty much the same as before,” he said.

"It's natural." Amystan was not surprised.

All the highly polluting enterprises in the Twin Cities, especially the alchemy factories, are all located in Zaun. How can Zaun's environment be good?

And it is impossible for the leader to give up Zaun's alchemy industry.

Not to mention that the alchemy industry is an indispensable and important part of modern industry. Without it, the entire industrial system of Runeland would come to a standstill.

The hundreds of thousands of workers in Zaun's related industries who rely on the alchemy industry for their livelihood are enough to make the voice of "environmental protection" disappear in Zaun for a time.

If the people of Zaan want to work and eat, they can only suffer at the hands of nature.

"So," Amystan said to Swain in a familiar voice, "The Wind Leader has only ."

First, do our best to improve the production environment and provide the best personal protection measures to front-line production workers in high-pollution industries.

This is the easiest to do.

But the former alchemist baron was so well-fed that he refused to even spend a penny to equip his workers with breathing masks.

The only production safety they care about is the safety of the factory's equipment and property. The health and life safety of the workers are completely out of their consideration. Anyway, people are too cheap in this world.

Now that the leader has arrived, it is natural that we must implement these most basic production safety measures.

Second, accelerate the development of emission reduction and pollution reduction technologies.

Since Zaun cannot give up the alchemy industry, it can only find ways to use science and technology to improve the treatment of wastewater and exhaust gas and reduce the pollution and damage to the environment caused by the alchemy industry.

However, although Zaun's alchemical technology is advanced, the alchemy barons in the past never cared about environmental protection, and naturally no one studied sewage treatment technology or waste gas emission reduction technology.

Zaan’s technical reserves in environmental science are almost zero, and everything has to start from scratch.

So even though Zaun now has countless brilliant scientists and leaders have invested heavily in supporting the development of environmental science, it will probably take a long time for this initiative to bear fruit.

3. Piltover is prohibited from dumping garbage into Zaun.

This method is the most effective and immediate.

The environment in Piltover used to be very good, but what was strange was that there was not even a garbage disposal site within the boundaries of this "environmentally friendly city".

Because the garbage is dumped directly from Piltover into the sewer area of Zaun through the sewage pipes under the city.

A "garbage industry chain" has even emerged in Zaan as a result.

There are countless gutter orphans, including Levi and Lina, who lost their parents when they were young, and they barely survive by picking up garbage thrown away by the Piltover people in the gutter area.

Now that Zaun is developed, of course it looks down on this so-called garbage industry.

So Levi sent people to block the sewage pipe from Piltover to Zaun, and issued a clear ban on Piltover from dumping garbage into Zaun in any form.

As a result, the environment in Zaan immediately improved significantly.

However, Piltover hadn't dealt with its own garbage for more than 200 years, and it happened to be in the midst of a great economic depression, with social order in chaos. They were actually stumped by this small garbage disposal task.

That is to say, Swain arrived early.

If he had arrived a little later, what he would have seen was not just a desolate Piltover, but a Piltover surrounded by garbage and stinking with stench.

Fourth, clean up the entire city and remove accumulated garbage.

Piltover's garbage is dumped into Zaun every day, and Zaun's industrial wastewater is also dumped into the sewer area every day, and it has been doing so for more than two hundred years.

The ground under Zaun is full of industrial waste, so dirty that rats have grown into it.

It is said that the giant rats in Zaun are not only huge in size, but also spread plague. There are even some mutant individuals with extremely high IQs who will attack humans in the sewers with venom-enchanted crossbows.

So after the Leader took control of the entire Zaun, he immediately launched a vigorous civilized hygiene campaign throughout Zaun to "clean up garbage, maintain hygiene, prevent plague, and eliminate rat infestation."

Within two months, most of the garbage that had accumulated in Zaun over the years was disposed of, and the giant rats hiding in the dungeon were also killed.

“I see…” Swain nodded secretly.

No wonder he always felt that Zaan looked similar to before, but there seemed to be something obviously different.

It turns out that Zaan used to be polluted and dirty.

That kind of filth permeates every street, every house, and even every person in Zaun.

The gutters are full of garbage and wastewater, and no one is bothered to clean up the garbage on the streets; the streets are so smelly that people can tolerate the houses being a little dirty and dilapidated; and living in such an environment, there is little point in paying attention to personal hygiene.

So in the past, the city of Zaun was dirty from the inside out.

Although there is still pollution in Zaun and the sky is covered with smog, the appearance of the city has changed.

The garbage on the streets has disappeared, there are more trash cans on the streets, and there are organized sanitation workers who keep the streets clean at all times.

The pedestrians on the street also dressed themselves up neatly. Although their clothes were not as gorgeous and elegant as those of the people of Piltover in the past, they at least looked clean and tidy, giving off a positive and new look.

This is no longer a garbage city.

But it is a civilized industrial city.

"Zaan has indeed changed." Swain had to admit it.

What he saw was not only the changes in Zaun's urban environment, but also the powerful organizational and mobilization capabilities of the Leader.

Swain was also a local lord. He certainly knew how much administrative power it would take just to stabilize people's hearts and restore order after the imperial army occupied a new city.

The Leader not only stabilized Zaun's social order, but also strengthened Zaun's economic production. While doing all this, he also had the spare capacity to organize all the people of Zaun to carry out a large-scale civilized and hygienic campaign.

"It has only been less than a year since the Wind Leaders were born, and less than half a year since they entered Zaun..."

"Is it possible to have such a capable grassroots team and such an efficient administrative system in such a short period of time?"

Swain knew that even the Noxian Empire, which was known for its efficiency and strength, might not have the same administrative efficiency as the Leader.

What's more, the leader achieved this level from scratch.

"Their system is indeed not simple..." Swain couldn't help but praise.

How could he not see that the Leader could quickly mobilize more than 2 million people in Zaun to carry out sanitation and cleaning in peacetime, and in times of war, he could quickly mobilize these more than 2 million people to defend the country and go to the battlefield.

This powerful and efficient administrative system and mobilization system was exactly what he wanted.

So how did the leader do it?

"General Swain, I have to tell you about the fifth article of the Leader's environmental protection measures." Swain was thinking, but Amystan suddenly interrupted him and brought the topic back.

“Hmm?” Swain looked over curiously.

But Amystan didn't say anything, just pointed out the window:

"Look, this is the fifth environmental protection measure of the leader——"

"Well... it is also the 'daily activities' of the people of Zaun now."

Daily activities?

Swain looked out the window.

The clock pointed to 12 noon and a melodious music broadcast sounded over the city.

Passers-by, shop customers, and shop assistants along the way, everyone Swain saw stopped what they were doing.

They raised their heads, looked toward the sky, and sang the leader's song along with the radio.

And then...

It's windy.

The singing voices gathered into a sea, and the breeze condensed into a storm.