In China, there exists a type of city known as ghost cities, where towering buildings abound, yet they remain eerily uninhabited. Consequently, many foreign journalists have reported on the supposed collapse of China's economy.
However, once shops start to move in and facilities begin to operate, these places quickly become populated by Chinese people and turn into new bustling districts.
Liszt greatly admired this model.
He requested to construct many such ghost cities within his own territory—houses empty, streets empty, roads empty, even the farmlands outside the city bare without crops. Essentially, along major transportation routes and flat arable lands, ghost cities were everywhere.
These were not just small-town-level ghost cities but also included small-city-level ghost cities.
Even more so, Liszt planned to build several large-city-level ghost cities in the key areas of Flame Island.