Let them offer their loyalty!

As for making connections with the upper echelons of which Sanctuary?

Qiu Tu had already thought of someone — Elder Wang.

In the last few days, he had learned about the faction distribution in the Eighth Sanctuary from Tang Feifei.

According to Tang Feifei, the Eighth Sanctuary had only been established for about a decade, and it was the prime time for faction integration and division.

Inside the three major institutions, there were over a dozen factions, large and small.

The largest ones included six: the Iron-Blood Faction, Fengtian Faction, Free Democracy Faction, Local Armed Alliance, Academic Faction, and Reformist Faction.

Among them, the Iron-Blood Faction was the largest faction in the Eighth Sanctuary, headed by Speaker Rao Shou, with its main influence within the military.

The middle and upper ranks of the Iron-Blood Faction mostly came from the military. They were either former subordinates of Rao Shou or military leaders and warlords with good relations with him.

Thus, they held the most formidable armed forces and troops of the Eighth Sanctuary.

The second-ranking was the Fengtian Faction. The name "Fengtian Faction" comes from the former location of the Eighth Sanctuary, "Fengtian City."

This faction had a regional character, primarily consisting of three major political families surrounding Fengtian City: the Tang Family, Zhou Family, and Song Family.

These three political families were centuries-old before the Cataclysm, powerful in their own right. Although they lost a significant portion of their power due to the Cataclysm, they still had a wealth of talented individuals, and their followers were also exceptionally capable.

Initially, the Eighth Sanctuary was established with Rao Shou as the framework, and these families as the flesh and blood.

Hence, their influence spread across various departments in City Hall and the Investigation Bureau.

And Tang Feifei was the legitimate descendant of this faction.

The third major power was the Academic Faction, which could be considered a foreign faction.

During the formation period of the Eighth Sanctuary, the Third, Sixth, and Seventh Sanctuaries all provided certain support.

The most significant support was helping to establish a comprehensive talent system and training institutions, namely The Eighth Sanctuary Military Academy.

Officers who came from the Military Academy naturally carried the traits of this faction, such as Huang Shangzong, Yan Chen, Jia Shu, Yu Zhengyi, Shi Youxin, all belonged to this faction.

Due to its training mechanisms, the main influence of the Academic Faction lay within the Investigation Bureau and the military.

The fourth major power was the Local Armed Alliance.

Though the establishment of the Eighth Sanctuary was dominated by major warlords like Rao Shou, it also embraced several medium and small armed forces.

To avoid being swallowed up by Rao Shou, they spontaneously formed a tight alliance and, with support from the Third Sanctuary, they gained a firm foothold in the Eighth Sanctuary.

In the fourth year, they successfully obtained a Deputy Speaker position, securing their own influence.

The fifth and sixth major factions differed from the previous four.

The first four factions included camp-based and region-based factions, while the fifth and sixth were ideological factions:

The Free Democracy Faction and the Reformist Faction.

The former was founded by a figure of substantial influence before the Cataclysm.

He was one of the founders of the Eighth Sanctuary, advocating for the restoration of pre-catastrophe free democracy, which is — universal suffrage.

The Free Democracy Faction hoped to grant every adult citizen of the Sanctuary the right to vote, unrestricted by status, gender, or wealth scale.

They demanded the enactment of laws to protect the democratic nature of the Sanctuary and limit the power of the higher-ups.

The latter (Reformist Faction) was established by Elder Wang. Its primary political endeavor was to reform the political system, to achieve democracy, civil rights, and people's livelihoods!

Its main political demands were: breaking the lifelong tenure system of the Sanctuary's higher-ups, opening up pathways for middle-level advancement, and conducting reasonable democratic selection processes.

However, these two factions, being "ideological," didn't have their own political "base" like the preceding four factions, so their influence was much smaller.

But as the Sanctuary's development accelerated, the consciousness of the middle class and the public was awakening, and the strength of these two factions was also growing.

This is also the main reason why the Supreme Council added two Deputy Speaker positions in the last few years, bringing them into the fold.

After understanding the situation of all factions from Tang Feifei, Qiu Tu did a quick calculation.

If his guess was right, Ye Mingfeng should be from the Iron-Blood Faction, and Yan Chen was part of the Academic Faction.

Commissioner Jiang was most likely from the Free Democracy Faction or the Reformist Faction — as he didn't seem too familiar with Tang Feifei.

And through analyzing the relationships of Dai Yukang, Qin Shuman, and Ye Mingfeng, it was likely that the two of them were from the Iron-Blood Faction as well.

Tang Feifei belonged to the Fengtian Faction, and Liu Xiongyuan to the Reformist Faction.

So, as Tang Feifei had mentioned, all the high-ranking officials of the major cities, or those in line for high-level positions, indeed needed to have factional backgrounds.

The factions Qiu Tu could reach were only three: Iron-Blood Faction, Fengtian Faction, and Reformist Faction.

The former two were powerful, but Qiu Tu's standards were quite different from theirs, and even if he could join, he would be a fringe member with little support.

Therefore, after considering all options, the Reformist Faction was still the best fit for Qiu Tu.

No wonder Liu Xiongyuan, after recognizing his potential, immediately took him to see Elder Wang; and when Tang Feifei found out, she did no "persuading" to keep him — the Reformist Faction indeed was the most suitable place for Qiu Tu now.

Thinking this way, and after going through the information about the six major factions of the Sanctuary in his mind, Qiu Tu no longer hesitated.

He picked up the Communicator, ready to call Liu Xiongyuan, and formally join the Reformist Faction.