Chapter 760 The training meeting in the swamp and the drastic changes in the southern sea
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There is no cafe or restaurant in No. 721, but there is a library.
Not only that, there are a lot of books here, and the decoration is very grand. It is basically the largest "cement house" in the town.
Usually in the morning, school-age students are in school and workers are working on the well team, so three "college people" who returned home to visit relatives chose to get together here.
And Night Ten from Alliance.
Jiang Xuezhou originally planned to make a cup of coffee for everyone, but as soon as he took out the coffee pot, Wu Xiaoxiao took it over.
"I'll do it." The girl smiled shyly, with shallow dimples on her face.
Jiang Xuezhou did not refuse, politely said thank you, then pulled out a chair and sat at the table.
Soon there were four cups of coffee on the table.
Seeing pairs of expectant eyes looking at him, Ye Shi, who had just picked up his coffee and took a sip, immediately understood their eyes and coughed lightly.
"Where did I talk last time?"
Li Xiang said with bright eyes.
"The Showdown on Beit Street!"
"Oh..." Ye Shi suddenly remembered, and the old memories also opened up.
But then that thing is also called a decisive battle?
But after all, he was the one who told it. Ye Shi cleared his throat and continued speaking based on the emotion at that time.
Everyone, including Wu Xiaoxiao, who was still a prospector, listened in ecstasy.
But just when he was talking about the beginning of the alliance's industrialization, Li Xiang suddenly raised his hand and interrupted his story.
"Wait a minute, there is one thing I didn't understand... You just said that most of the initial residents of the Alliance were wastelanders and liberated slaves. They had no education at all and didn't even know how to develop industry.
Woolen cloth?"
Wu Xiaoxiao also nodded in agreement.
"I heard that people in the wasteland can't even do math..."
Ye Shishen nodded in agreement.
"This is indeed difficult. Even our wise and powerful manager found it difficult, but he was not discouraged. On the one hand, he called on knowledgeable shelter residents to join the front-line construction, and on the other hand, he set up night schools in the industrial zone to transfer production
He taught the liberated people his experience, methods and techniques, and even...he even served as a tutor himself."
Li Xiang asked with a slight frown.
"Night school... is it a kind of school?"
Ye Shiyan said concisely and concisely.
"That's right, but unlike the school on Beit Street, the night school is mainly to help adults with literacy. After all, workers have to go to work during the day and can only study at night."
He is a professional fighting player. Although he participated in construction work in the early days, he later fought more.
In contrast, the professional players in the league may have a better understanding of the situation at that time. After all, he heard many things from the forum.
"Working during the day and studying at night...then they don't have much time in the day." Wu Xiaoxiao said with emotion while holding a warm coffee cup.
"Learning is also for themselves. If a person wants to be relaxed, he must use more advanced production tools. If a group of people wants to be relaxed, most of them must use more advanced tools. The alliance cannot be built today by relying on pot machines.
Although it was essential at the time.”
After a pause, Ye Shi said again.
"Moreover, their hard work was only temporary. Later, we gave them back their time, including other things we borrowed from them."
Li Xiang asked with interest: "For example?"
Ye Shi thought for a while and said: "For example, power and responsibility, in the future we will no longer teach them step by step how to make products better. They have their own industry representatives and institutions. They need to make their own rules and define them themselves."
What is 'good'? Not just products, but also lifestyles, etc. After all, version... Well, I mean the world is constantly being updated, and we are ahead of the world, for example, to liberate more people."
The eyes of the three people were shining brightly, and they were attracted by the story he described.
Strictly speaking, this cannot be considered a story. After all, this is something that happened in the wasteland and is happening now.
Although the light emitted by that wisp of fire itself is not surprising, what is surprising is that it was born in the ruins of nothing.
There is no near-magical technology of the Science and Technology Committee, no iron-like dominance of the Legion, and no rich resources of the enterprise. There is only a group of surviving people themselves.
It would be great if such a miracle could be born in the Wandering Swamp. Although it is a bitter cold place, the conditions are actually much better than those in the river valley province.
With longing shining in the eyes of the three of them, Ye Shi coughed lightly and said.
"...I still have to say that our method is not the only one. You are actually doing quite well. The people here are already living better than most survivors in the wasteland. You don't have to be certain.
We have to start from scratch, otherwise we are putting the cart before the horse."
Li Xiang looked at him and asked sincerely.
"Then what do you think we should do?"
"How would I know, I'm not you..." Ye Shi said dumbfounded, scratched his head and gave an ambiguous answer, "For example... we still have the long-term goal of finding a new home, but at the same time, we also have deep feelings for those who have left.
Are people who don’t have access to the New World better off?”
When he heard this sentence, Wu Xiaoxiao's eyes suddenly became a little frightened, and he lowered his voice and said.
"This is something that only the Doctor can decide..."
"Then don't set such a lofty goal. Just start from the small things around you. For example, it's always possible to be a little better to the ordinary people around you and use your knowledge to improve their living conditions. G points can be exchanged for
It should be more than just food.”
"Yes," Jiang Xuezhou looked slightly stunned and nodded thoughtfully, "I can bring back some tools that the well team can use."
Ye Shi said patiently.
"It's not just tools, there are more critical methods... Although the description is a bit abstract, your vision is much higher than that of the residents of No. 721, and there should be a lot you can do to help them."
Li Xiang touched his chin and thought to himself.
"Are you talking about knowledge? But the college has a school, and the people here have been studying since they were born. I'm afraid they don't need us to do anything."
Jiang Xuezhou shook his head.
"The academy's schools only teach them what the academy needs, but very little what they need themselves. We have to teach them the latter, just like the schools in the alliance teach them scientific methods and the logic of exploring the laws of the operation of objective things.
…At least we can’t let them become selfish guys like Su Qiming.”
Night Ten: "Su Qiming?"
Li Xiang said with a smile.
"Ah, he is the one who had the argument with you on the train. He is an E-class researcher and a refined egoist."
He said the second half of the sentence in a teasing tone.
Ye Shi suddenly came back to his senses.
"Oh...I had completely forgotten about this."
But does that gentle wording count as a quarrel?
Sure enough, the guys in the academy are not ordinary-minded...
Wu Xiaoxiao said hesitantly.
"But we can't take up the children's time, they need to take exams."
Jiang Xuezhou touched his chin and nodded.
"I also think... How about after-school tutoring? We only teach children aged 12 to 14 and young people aged 18 to 20. The former has just met the age limit for taking exams, and the exam pressure is not that heavy, while the latter has basically already
The chance is slim. If it can influence more people, it might be able to promote the spontaneous reform of the Science and Technology Committee."
Li Xiang's eyes lit up.
"This is a good idea! I agree!"
Seeing that both of them agreed, although Wu Xiaoxiao was a little hesitant, she didn't refute anything.
Seeing that someone was supporting him, Jiang Xuezhou's eyes became brighter and brighter. He clenched his fists on the table and continued talking enthusiastically.
"We have to give this organization a name... How about calling it the Student Union?"
At first, Ye Shi watched their discussion happily. When he heard the name of the bird, he almost spit out the coffee in his mouth, coughed twice and said.
"Let's call it a training meeting...it sounds better."
Because of playing this crappy game, he often got points deducted by that thing during bedtime checks, although he didn't know what the point of deducting that thing was.
Jiang Xuezhou and Li Xiang looked at each other, didn't have any objections, and nodded.
"I think it's okay."
"I don't care...then this name is good."
"Then I... also agree." Wu Xiaoxiao's eyes were a little worried, but in the end she didn't say anything.
The Science and Technology Committee does not restrict researchers from organizing survivors' studies in the Science and Technology Committee, but this has never happened.
She admitted that the story of the alliance sounded very attractive, and she was even vaguely tempted to go there and take a look.
However, although some stories sounded good, she didn't know if they were right if she really wanted to make some changes.
In the final analysis.
Senior Xuezhou is just a D-level researcher.
Even though she is a promising researcher in the Department of Research, and her mentor is only one step away from being an A-ranker, this power is still too small compared to the entire academy.
What's more, this kind of thing may not be supported by her mentor.
The second half of the meeting basically turned into a discussion of the details of the seminar and how to attract more researchers to participate.
To this end, they also discussed specific policies to help school-age students enter the college and thereby expand the seminar's influence among the grassroots forces of the college.
Ye Shi originally wanted to continue telling the story he had just made up, but found that both Jiang Xuezhou and Li Xiang had lost interest in the second half of the story. Only Wu Xiaoxiao looked at him eagerly, looking forward to the continuation of the story.
Before I knew it, it was already evening.
It wasn't until Ye Shi followed Jiang Xuezhou back home and stood in the entrance hall that he suddenly reacted.
He originally wanted to poach the college, but he spent the whole day telling stories. As for the serious work, he completely forgot about it and made no progress at all.
"Damn, you're cheating me!"
"Wocao?" Jiang Yuehan, who was quietly hiding next to the entrance and peeking, tilted his head.
"Children shouldn't learn this." Ye Shi quickly went up to cover her mouth, but was caught by Jiang Xuezhou.
"What do you want to do to my sister?"
"No, I -" Meeting that murderous gaze, Ye Shi had a constipated expression and hesitated for a long time without explaining clearly.
The little guy hiding behind the shoe cabinet smiled happily and made a naughty face.
"Keke, wocao!"
Ye Shi: “…@#%!”
…
Just when Ye Shi was caught by Jiang Xuezhou and banged on the head, and he hid in the kitchen to take refuge, there was also a joyous and lively scene on board the Rourou docked at Xifan Port.
The pier of Sails Harbor.
In Rourouha's vault, a man and a bear were wallowing in a pile of gold coins.
Lying in a large shape on the floor covered with gold coins, Tai did a backstroke while talking in his sleep with his eyes closed.
"Oh oh oh, Rourou, you know! I always had a dream when I was a kid! To be able to swim in the pool of the vault like McDuck!"
"What is McDuck?"
"Hey hey hey, haven't you seen Donald Duck?"
"...Pfft, there is still some gap between our treasury and that guy's."
"It doesn't matter! Just feel it!"
Completely unable to follow the conversation between the two, Sesame Lake stood aside and admired it with an aunt-like smile on her face, while Si Si sat at the table and meticulously reconciled the accounts.
A total of 650 tons of goods have been completely sold out, with total sales reaching 4.9 million silver coins.
After deducting the purchase price, labor expenses and other shipping costs and taxes, the profit from this trade reached an astonishing 2 million silver coins!
Part of the payment was made through the electronic currency settlement system of the Union, and part of it was paid directly in dinars at an exchange rate of 1:5.
Taking into account the exchange rate difference, the profit from his trading is probably higher than the actual calculated amount.
After all, in the Legion's main trading area, the general exchange rate between dinars and silver coins is around 1:3.
At this moment, Awei and Rourou had spread all the gold coins they had earned on the ground, saying they wanted to experience a gold coin bath that was difficult to experience in reality.
"...When I get old one day, I will convert all my money into gold coins and hide it on a small island!" Taili, who was tired of playing, suddenly sighed and stretched his hand towards the ceiling.
"Can you secretly tell me where you plan to hide?" Rourou asked with his ears pricked up.
Tails chuckled, climbed up from a pile of gold coins, and sat cross-legged on the ground.
"Oh! Do Rourou also want Black Tail's treasure? Then go find it. It is at the end of the sea of stars! Go, all the wealth in the world is there!"
This joke is too old. Rourou rolled his eyes and did not accompany this guy to be stupid.
In fact, she is an easily satisfied person and has no special desire for money. She enjoys the process of taking risks with her partners more than the process of making money.
In contrast, Sisi may enjoy making money more, after all, she is always so serious.
But what makes Rourou curious is why she would share this profitable business on the forum.
The furry bear paw picked up a gold coin. She looked at Sisi who stretched out and leaned on the chair and asked curiously.
"By the way, why would you put such a profitable route on the official website? Isn't it bad to make a fortune in silence?"
Sisi couldn't help but smile when he heard this and said casually.
"It is possible to make a small fortune by taking advantage of information gaps, but it is still difficult to make a big fortune."
"Huh?" Rourou tilted his head in confusion.
Seeing the confused expression on her face, Sisi thought for a moment and continued.
"This is actually the same as the listing of Baiyue Company. It is indeed feasible to keep all the shares in your own hands. And with the current scale of Baiyue Company, there is really no need to share the profits with others. As long as you hold on to the existing cake,
Okay. But if we want to go further on this, we must get the support of more people. Not just the support of our customers, but also the support of most residents of the alliance... And the fastest way to get their support is
Just let them become our shareholders.”
Although NPCs in the alliance do not have the GM authority to ban accounts like managers, they still have some authority.
For example, they can truly participate in legislative work through the representative council, and can participate in the selection of personnel in local agencies and alliance agencies, etc. In other words, they have the value of win-win.
This doesn't mean buying or anything.
It's just that if Baiyue Company's profits are also shared by those NPCs, rather than just shared among players, it will be safer for Baiyue Company.
I think those NPCs, even if it is for their own interests, will consider the interests of Baiyue Company more without touching the principles, instead of singing the opposite tune on some issues.
When an organization accumulates huge wealth but is stingy about sharing it with the majority of people who created the wealth, it is a dangerous thing at any time.
What's more, the funds brought by the listing itself can also accelerate Baiyue's overseas business expansion.
There is a huge virgin forest in the Baiyue Strait, and it is far from enough to expand operations with the little savings and current limited profits that the players have.
They need to make use of the temporarily unused savings of the alliance residents, and if necessary, they have to rely on the power of Ideal City to use the huge legacy left over from the Prosperity Era.
Administrators have helped pave the way for them, including the earliest currency exchange protocols, as well as today's electronic payment and settlement systems of the Adhesive Community, etc.
"So...opening up new routes is also a way of making the pie bigger?" Zhima Lake asked thoughtfully, trying to understand the complicated mystery.
"That's right."
Sis nodded approvingly and continued.
"It's difficult for us to make this pie bigger by ourselves, even if we buy a few more ships and make more trips. It's better to let other players who are interested in sailing join in and use their strength to make the pie bigger."
The entire market is getting bigger... What's more, even without us, they would have discovered it sooner or later, but we have accelerated the process."
Although West Sail Harbor has a large population, it still belongs to the territory of the Willant people, and the situation is far more special than Golden Gallen Harbor.
Under the iron-fisted governance of the Weiland people, the locals had no political power, and did not even have the freedom to eat. They could only serve as slaves of the Weiland colonists. Even if they wanted to make money from these people, they had to
Let the locals get rich first.
There is no point in selling goods to animals.
Currently there is only this route from the Eastern World to the Western World, but it will be different when other players from the Alliance come here.
When players become active locally, they can even expand the branch of the Knights of White Bear Bank here to help newbies who want to start a business solve their financial problems and provide shovels to those who want to dig for gold.
This business can make much more money than simply running a business.
Taili also nodded his head in a serious manner, and said with dignity, "That's right, Rourou, you have to take a longer view! Only then can we buy a ship five light years away!"
Rourou couldn't help but complain: "That's just a plan to draw a cake!"
Tails raised the corners of his mouth proudly: "You're so naive, Rourou, how do you know it's not true? After all, no one has been there to see it."
"Is it called the planet Gaia... I really want to know what it's like there." Looking at the vast ocean outside the porthole, Sesame Lake said with a look of fascination.
Tails: "Oh! Xiaoyu's hometown! There must be a lot of weird tentacles!"
"Ahaha..." Zhimahu smiled reluctantly.
Then forget it.
Although Xiaoyu is quite cute, if she is the kind in the center of Qingquan City, she is somewhat mentally polluted...
…
The Rourou, bound for Xifan Port, is just an extremely ordinary cargo ship.
At this moment, neither the few guys laughing and playing in the vault nor the drunken sailors realized that they had unknowingly planted a seed in this land that had not been seen for two hundred years.
The stevedores at the port looked at the sailors with envy, or rather at the wine bottles in their hands.
It was an imported product from the east of the mainland. A bottle cost several hundred or even a thousand Xilan coins, which was probably more expensive than working at the port.
It was obvious that there were some people from Borneo among those sailors, and they couldn't understand why those guys were treated so differently even though they were obviously the same as them, and even less able to endure hardships than they were.
Sure enough, it was those hateful Yue people who stole their pockets...
In the Silver Moon Church in the port area, Melgio was shutting himself in the attic and wondering about the name of the newly established newspaper. His eyes happened to fall on the crescent moon outside the window, so his eyes lit up and he read "The Gospel of the Silver Moon".
The name with a religious connotation was written on the paper.
Originally this newspaper was also intended to spread the beliefs of the Silver Moon Sect.
However, out of consideration for the feelings of the local people, he thought about it and removed the word "month" and changed it to "Silver Gospel".
Although it seemed a bit inappropriate to serialize something entertaining in such a religious newspaper, after all, the book was handed to him by the incarnation of the Silver Moon Goddess walking in the mortal world, so it could not be considered irrelevant.
Compared to the Spirit of the Sand Sea, the Silver Moon Sect itself is a sect that has undergone secularization and reform. It is not so stubborn in its dogma and is open to new things.
Moreover, he carefully read the old books he picked up from Rourouhao. Relatively speaking, the story of "Boer the Awakener" may be the easiest to resonate with the locals, and it is also more suitable for illiterate people to pass it on orally.
Just when the new wind blowing into the wasteland became more fierce, the situation in the southern seas finally changed after a long period of silence.
An uprising broke out on Shazhou Island, which had surrendered to the Northern Federation under the pressure of the battleship "Haiya", triggered by the "Off-site Garrison Law" signed by the new cabinet.
The island's guards quickly dispatched, first suppressing the local military camp, and then occupying the Governor's Palace, declaring Chalas's new cabinet an "illegal institution", and declaring Shazhou Island to secede from the Northern Federation in the name of defending the declaration.
Although it sounds strange, there are only 70,000 people on Shazhou Island.
The total number of soldiers on the entire island is less than one company, while the boys from the Security Bureau have one battalion.
In addition, the stability of the Charas authorities was completely maintained by the battleship, and the legality itself was a question mark. The soldiers could not muster any will to resist. After firing a few shots, they tied up their commander.
So much so that this bizarre uprising ended without even a drop of blood being shed.
The boys who were making noises were actually confused. They were dissatisfied with Charas and looked down upon Charas' puppets, but they really hadn't thought about what to do if they drove the guy away.
What's even weirder is that when they occupied the Governor's Mansion, the Governor sitting in the Governor's Mansion simply took off his hat and threw it to them with relief, said "You won" and resigned on the spot.
They did something that everyone expected, but no one knew what to do next...
But one thing is for sure, it is clear that Charas will not tolerate this betrayal, and neither will the radicals who stand behind him.
They need to use the blood of traitors to scare other people who are ready to take action.
Not to mention they’ve done it once before—
Ordered the battleship Haiya to fire towards Anle Island.
The new authorities of Shazhou Island obviously realized that Charas would definitely respond, so they hurriedly sent a surrender telegram to the South China Sea Alliance.
Behind the South China Sea Alliance is the Alliance, and behind the Alliance is the Adhesive Community. This big tree is much easier to get shade from than the Northern Federation, and it doesn't have so many outrageous demands.
After receiving the telegram from Shazhou Island, the South China Sea Alliance authorities indeed attached great importance to it. They became even more vigilant when they discovered that a destroyer was covering another landing ship converted from a cargo ship departing from the North Island.
This looked like a bait. Charas could not have predicted that they would dispatch, and the battleship might have been quietly ambushing somewhere on the sea.
However, this cannot be ruled out as an opportunity.
In order to gain complete assurance, while mobilizing the fleet, Commander Li Minghui immediately called Potato Port, hoping to receive reinforcements from the alliance.
After receiving the telegram, Chang Chang did not hesitate and took action immediately after asking the governor appointed by the administrator for instructions.
Substantial military friction has already occurred between the two sides, and there is no need to hide anything anymore. What's more, the collusion between the Northern Federation and the Torch Party members is already an open matter, and at most the window paper has not been pierced.
That guy squatting in the landing craft might be a mutant controlled by a torch!
This isn't the first time!
Two H-10 "Overlord" transport planes stationed at the military base on the north side of Friesport took off in an emergency, carrying two companies of the Burning Corps and flying towards Shazhou Island.
Also dispatched at the same time were two L-10 "Thunder" forward-swept wing vertical take-off and landing fighter jets.
Full loads of ammunition hung under the steel wings, and the pilots of the Goblin Corps were also ready.
The quiet sea is brewing with the sound of rolling tides, and invisible waves are rolling up and down on the sea surface.