Chapter 252 The Ritual
The war must be reconstruction. When the thunder season comes to an end, the arrival of the first rain also marks the beginning of the messy March rainy season.
After thunder, it is often raining heavily. This common natural law still exists on this wasteland, but the way it is manifested is a bit strange.
Although there was a half-year thunder season, the subsequent heavy rainstorm season would not exceed a month. Although the continuous rainfall was annoying, the amount of rainfall did not reach the level of what was called trouble.
As the rainfall occurs, the dark clouds that create thunder will gradually dissipate. During the interval between spring rain, you can occasionally encounter sunny days when you see the sunshine for a few days.
Walking back, the magic fog dispelled by the thunder season was about to return, and the dark Harlett Wilderness was coming.
Generally speaking, the great star of the Seymour people in Kaohsiung City will calculate the longest sunny day in advance and announce it to the public.
This is probably the best time of the year in this wasteland. At this time, as the focus of tourism projects, Jiaocheng will also hold the second half of the Sunshine Festival, which is a final celebration after the end of the thunder season.
As time goes by, this is no longer a simple celebration. The traffic inconvenience caused by the thunder season will affect the circulation of a series of commodities. Half a year of lock-ups will make many materials scarce. In fact, the shortage of supply and demand and the ubiquitous price hikes will naturally raise prices to the highest point of the year.
The consumption of half a year will make even the most skilled housewife face the shortcomings and the forced demands of life. Even if it is three times the original price of pigs, you still have to buy a little.
If the thunder season lasted a little longer than ten thousand years, the more materials it consumed, such as the rock salt needed by Seymour people in daily life, the daily necessities that must be stored for limited time, and even the current situation is that there is a price but no market cannot be bought.
At the end of the thunder season, it doesn’t matter if you purchase at a premium of dozens of times, and you can’t see the goods at all. Ninety-nine percent of citizens just want to buy at a premium, but they don’t have a channel.
At this time, the people of Jiaocheng became more and more envious of their fellow tribes living in New Tonya City. They heard that their prices were quite stable. Even if there was fluctuation, they would have a reasonable range of up to 10% to 20%, and there would be no situation where money could not buy goods... Once the stock was out of stock, the prices were slightly higher, and the Ashes profiteers who were driven by interests would go crazy. Because there were too many competitors in various industries, most of the materials could be produced by themselves. New Tonya City profiteers just wanted to spoil goods.
Some people may be able to freight air, but in the era of Earth, we knew that the freight of air freight was extremely expensive. Basic physical rules determined that large ships and planes had to consume huge energy when they entered the sky, so the corresponding fuel fee was necessary. This was the same in any world... Many cheap materials were put into the sky and then entered the ground, and they became special supplies for nobles, and ordinary citizens could not afford them.
Under the current conditions of Anthoren, land transportation is the mainstream of logistics.
The opening of the Sunshine Festival is the beginning of the Thunder Season and the last caravan promotion. Foreign travel chambers of commerce clear all inventory and return to their homes. Local merchants will start various big sales. Citizens who have reserved the Thunder Season supplies will naturally buy.
The celebration season, which ends the second part of the Sunshine Festival, is the end of the Thunder Season and the first wave of large circulation after the Thunder Season.
In the past, in the last few days of the Leishi, large caravans were waiting at the entrance of the Harlett Wilderness. As soon as the Leishi ended, it was the day when the big caravans entered the Corner City, and it was also the day when citizens began to make crazy New Year purchases.
But this year, amid the expectations of all the people in the Jiaocheng City, news came... The second half of the Sunshine Festival has been finalized in New Tonya City!
Can you bear it? Looking at the empty rice jars in the house, the citizens fell into an inexplicable anger... Cough, serious, the news came out, and it was quite a bit unlucky to the unlucky guy who was about to lose food. The new grain booked by your family this year was taken away by the wolf, which naturally caused a big wave.
But soon, the second wave of news came. It turned out that the first wave of news was wrong. It was not that New Tonya City took away the right to host the Sunshine Festival, but that the two places jointly held this year's Sunshine Festival.
"I heard that this Sunshine Festival is divided into two venues, and Tonya and Jiaocheng are organized together. Several great lords are responsible for the previous ones. Tonya City is amazing, not only traditional projects, but also Ash people participate. It is said that the merchants there have now prepared a large number of extraterritorial specialties, and foreign specialties that have never appeared here."
“…It sounds really good, but it’s too far…”
"During the festival, tickets are half priced, and every ten passengers will get one free ticket, and there will be a shopping voucher of 100 SGD and a discounted accommodation ticket."
“…I’ll book tickets now!”
"It's too late, and the next ten days are gone. The scalper tickets on the market are already four times the sales price..."
"That's not twice the original price! What the hell is this discount! Is it meaningful to tell me if I have lost my tickets?!"
"Well, of course it makes sense... I have a batch of tickets here, which is just three times the sales price."
"So you are a ticket seller!"
In a sense, the development of the situation is really sad.
If you don’t buy the original price ticket, it stimulates consumption after discounts but cannot buy it. There are many people who buy the scalper tickets that are far higher than the original price.
But no matter what, this time the shipping sales were successful. The train tickets between Jiaocheng and New Tonya City were sold out. The midnight express train was temporarily added. The tickets for the stunt motorcycle on the roof of the train were also snatched up. Some people even organized a hiking tour group to walk along the railway.
Both parties report together? No main venue? Haha.
Even the people of Jiaocheng who are optimistic know that Jiaocheng and Xindong Niya City are not comparable at all. If this project is held at the same time, it will be more interesting and rewarding there at a glance.
Although the Ashes did not clearly snatch the festival of Jiaocheng people, if it develops to an unprecedented general grand occasion and the crowds are flowing, and there are two or three kittens without even the festive atmosphere, then what is the point of retaining a name?
Businessmen will also make choices, and hold them a few more times and the gap will continue to widen. I am afraid that outsiders will not know whether this is a festival there.
Undoubtedly, this is not good for the Gang City. The past sunshine festival has long been not only a commercial festival that stimulates the economy and the market, but also a symbol of national unity and racial harmony. Can this be tolerated by someone?
But this time, they couldn't refuse because the other party gave too much reason.
"We have just suffered a disaster and hope to use a festival to dilute the atmosphere and let the people come out of their sorrow."
Yes, this reason is very powerful. Many regions and countries are accustomed to holding celebrations after the victory of the war. The Victory Day parade is not only a real commemorative significance, but also mourns the dead and comforts the living. Use the joy of festivals and victory to dilute the sorrow of war and sacrifice, which makes people feel anesthetized and painful, and re-enter normal life after the festival.
But if that's all, the big guys in Jiaocheng would probably say to them, "You have suffered heavy losses and care about our affairs. Why do you want us to share our festival to forget your sorrow?"
What's more, it was not the one who was damaged in this disaster that Dongniya's family. On that night, the cultists in Jiaocheng caused a lot of trouble. If the evil god had not turned all his attention to the distance, Jiaocheng would have suffered a lot of losses.
But Luo Xia, who was in charge of contact at the time, blocked all the complaints of the big guys in Jiaocheng in one sentence. No, to be precise, just using one name, it occupied the moral commanding heights.
"Ahem. Felix a Zilil."
After saying this name, Roxa looked at the embarrassing bosses of the Jiaocheng happily.
"...This person should be considered one of your senior executives."
This guy was charmed by the evil god during the war between the evil gods and became the evil god's minions. He led the fleet to stab Xin Dongniya.
"Do we need to calculate the war reparations?"
Although this incident eventually became the achievement of the Game Church, the airships and warship fragments that were still burning in the airport were real astronomical and astronomical damages.
Although everyone knows that he is a bad guy controlled by the evil god, Felix was once a man from Sidion and one of the great warlords of the Gangcheng City. He is an absolute and powerful senior official in the city.
The real power of a gang city leads a fleet to attack the airports of other cities and kill civilians when other cities are dealing with powerful enemies. This is an act of absolute war.
If we ignore the fact that he is the minion of the evil god, this fact can already be used as a reason for declaring war. Even the Seymours in both cities will feel that this reason is completely overwhelming.
As a result of the declaration of war... there will be only one ruler in this wasteland. Now the combat power of both sides is not at the same level. Moreover, although Xindong Niya City has experienced the war, it has just received strong support.
Even on the twenty-person board of directors, someone proposed this idea and took the opportunity to solve the problem once and for all, but was opposed by most people.
After all, we are not fools, and now we are not a feudal era where we are encircled and kings. We really play the politics of unification and power. Ashes are rulers, Seymours are ruled, and we still know what will develop over time.
With the few, the more the more the foreign race suppresses the indigenous people. The time is short, but over time, there will basically be endless problems.
If you don’t handle it well at one time, endless uprisings and political struggles are inevitable... The key is that the benefits are relatively low, and most of your energy needs to be devoted to politics and military, and these are all extra money!
To give an inappropriate example, churches are here to run companies that make money. The most important thing is to bring stable returns from a stable political situation. They are enthusiasts of strategy management games, not those lords who have expanded their territory. They play power politics and big government strategies and take the route of military conquest.
The Ashes were already very tired and wanted to mine and start a factory and become a boss to make small money, instead of being an official or a lord, a rich man in the old era... If you want to build a castle and hire a pretty maid to play hide-and-seek social security, isn't it the same to use money, and it's also worry-free and labor-saving.
The different concepts of the times have caused the two sides to view the problem completely differently, and also caused serious misjudgment by the big guys in the Jiaocheng City.
The Ashes don’t want to play unification, but the people of Jiaocheng don’t know that most of the big bosses of Jiaocheng are warlords. In their eyes, what they have to deal with now is the real threat of war. Now the enemy is strong and I am weak. "If I were the Ashes, I would definitely take the opportunity to conquer Jiaocheng!" The warlord idea of "There is a chance to conquer Jiaocheng!" is deeply rooted.
For the warlords on the weak side, as long as they can avoid one-sided war, what is the "Sunshine Festival" worth cutting some meat?
Even if we have not reached the point of war, if we only calculate the compensation for those who lose warships in the airport, Jiaocheng may not be able to pay.
Roxa was the negotiating deputy (he was responsible for shutting up most of the time with a mask, only reading and not talking), and he had long seen this kind of little thought.
Talk about the Sunshine Festival? It's too simple, but this is indeed the first step in Rorschach's plan.
To uncover the lid, and to make this wasteland your own home, it is impossible to do it in a hurry.
"The first step is to disrupt your vision and divert the public's attention."
Chapter completed!