Volume 2 Chapter 185 - Such a large hat (1/2)

Three days later, when the people of Banta City woke up in the morning, they found that Banta City was different from normal.

The most obvious thing was that the streets were filled with fully armoured city guards. Each crossroad had two guards standing there and all the streets were guarded.

After looking carefully, they would find that all the small and large streets had been cleaned very strictly.

The stalls that were along the normal roads had all disappeared today, it was like they had been erased by someone.

The stores by the roads were all different from normal. They didn’t display their products outside and had taken them all into the store, placing them neatly without a single speck of a mess.

On the streets that would be a bit messy normally, they had been completely cleaned today. It was even so smooth that people could see their reflection.

Everyone was a bit surprised at first, but they soon quickly reacted.

Three days ago, the «Banta Times» had already announced something big would be happening today! The changing of City Lords!

Since the current king took the throne, Count Sean had been the City Lord and fifteen years had already passed.

After such a long time, everyone in Banta City was already used to him being there.

For most people in Banta City, when they mentioned the Lord City Lord, it was referring to Count Sean. Many people in Banta City even forgot the Lord City Lord’s name, they just knew that he was the Lord City Lord.

After being used to something for so long, now that the City Lord was suddenly changing, Banta City’s people felt a bit strange after learning this matter.

In the fifteen years that Count Sean had been the City Lord, he had been very proper.

Although for the first ten years, because of Banta City itself, Count Sean couldn’t make Banta City richer, to the citizens, the City Lord had always fulfilled his basic duties.

In the first ten years, Count Sean didn’t drive the economic development of Banta City, but he had properly managed the city.

In these ten years, although Banta City didn’t have a high standard of law and order, it was still in good order without any major turmoil.

Moreover, what the citizens praised the most was that he didn’t allow the small and large nobles to bully the citizens.

Under his management, there were few events each year where the nobles bullied normal citizens. Moreover, if it was discovered, the noble that committed the crime would be heavily punished by Count Sean.

To the citizens, just this alone was enough to make them support this Lord City Lord.

After these first ten years, when the Frestech Chamber of Commerce appeared, driving the development of Banta City and greatly increasing the economy, Count Sean didn’t hesitate to use the extra taxes collected to increase the standard of living for Banta City.

In these two years, Banta City had completely changed.

First, not mentioning large projects like the Sandy River bank project and roads connecting all over the place outside the city, just the fact that Banta City had a public transportation system made it much easier for people.

Just a few days ago, there were Magic Street Lamps that were installed on the major streets of Banta City.

It was like in the new city square, every night, those Magic Street Lamps would light up and illuminate those streets. It would allow the people of Banta City to walk around on those streets without heading into the darkness like before.

The street lamps were just the first phase. According to the plan announced by the City Lord Manor, the Frestech Chamber of Commerce would be building street lamps on every street of Banta City during the next period of time, lighting up the entire city. It would be like Count Sean had said in the «Banta Times» before, Banta City would be the “city without a night”.

The people of Banta City were waiting and expecting that day to come.

But since three days ago, when they saw the news in the «Banta Times» that the City Lord would be changing, people couldn’t help feeling unsettled.

If Count Sean was to leave, all the city changes that were good to citizens in Banta City, would they continue as planned?

“There is no need to worry at all.” Count Sean had the same confident smile as he said to the «Banta Times» editor in chief Nakhi, “Although I am leaving Banta City, chairman Xu and the Frestech Chamber of Commerce are still here. The Banta City changes that you mentioned, most of them came from chairman Xu’s suggestions to me. Even most of the money used to implement these projects came from the Frestech Chamber of Commerce, the City Lord’s Manor doesn’t have that much money. So that means that as long as chairman Xu and the Frestech Chamber of Commerce are here, everyone doesn’t need to worry about this.”

The two of them were waiting with a large crowd of people outside Banta City’s northern gate.

Today was the day Count Stagg would take over, so as the previous City Lord, Count Sean had led all the people with power in Banta City to come greet Count Stagg.