Some tourists from the mainland revealed that many lords have even begun to contact the Severington Council for subsidies and support!
When Chateau learned about this situation from Gibb, he couldn't help but wonder whether those territories were really unable to sustain themselves, or whether the lords were too shrewd (greedy).
This matter is not good news for Xia Duo, but it is not bad news either. No matter what the true purpose of those lords is, they have to consider a very practical issue -
In the past two years, production has been reduced due to the climate. So next year, the year after, and even every year after that, will production be reduced and the citizens continue to be subsidized?
If not, then the climate anomaly in the past two years can at best be regarded as an emergency that lasted for a long time.
But if it continues like this in the future, unless the Severnton Council completely takes the matter into consideration, many lords may have to consider reducing the number of subjects.
According to Xia Duo's speculation, the climate anomaly in the past two years is likely to be related to the Dragon Kuang Mystic Lock, which means that there is a high probability that it will not get better in the future, but may actually get worse.
As for the Sevington Parliament, it is only a relatively loose center of power. It usually does not have much real power over the various territories below, and it does not need to bear much responsibility when incidents occur.
The so-called "clear rights and responsibilities" are just like this. Only those with power have responsibilities. Without power, there will naturally be no responsibilities. Lords everywhere can't want the benefits of independence while not wanting to bear the risks of independence!
Xia Duo estimated that when this matter comes to an end, Severnton may provide some assistance, but the impact of the abnormal climate is extremely wide, and it is impossible for the Seven Towers to unilaterally take the whole situation. In the end, it will either be a deal or ignore it.
But the Seven Pagodas have the title of ruler after all, and this alone determines that they must do something about it. However, from last year to now, Xia Duo knows that the Seven Pagodas have indeed made a lot of efforts, but now they
We haven’t even touched the source of the climate anomaly yet!
Perhaps the little assistance given in the end was out of compensation for one's own incompetence. Of course, it would not be stated explicitly.
As for the impact of this incident on Xia Duo, it is mainly in two aspects-
One is that continued climate anomalies have made the "Book of Agriculture" more widely disseminated, making cooperative society more popular, and can promote agricultural development, as well as the progress of primary agricultural product processing and other industries.
But this also brought about more serious land annexation. The cooperatives initiated by the Nese lords in the current era cannot transfer a large amount of wealth to the grassroots like Xia Duo did in the Great Xia Territory. (The Great Xia Territory has not yet been able to do so.
No cooperatives were promoted)
The efficient production of cooperatives will eventually lead to the emergence of a large number of landless farmers, which may extend the timeline. From a longer-term perspective, this will be beneficial to Netheril.
But now, this process will not be as dull as described in future history books, and will always be accompanied by a large number of real tragedies.
To this end, Chateau plans to use Azure Manor as a long-term transfer station for recruiting new territorial citizens, and arranges fleets to widely absorb the population in the Nese River Basin.
The main purpose of his doing this is not to specifically recruit people. After all, there are still many mainland lords still exploring new lands in the Abby Hills and Cologne Plains. The abnormal climate has not affected the development itself.
In fact, since the development of these two areas involves the delineation of the borders of the Nese territory at the future Northland Alliance meeting, the Seven Towers have given a lot of support.
This also includes the population, but the size of those two areas is almost as large as the core area of Nese, which means that there are enough people to eat.
If it were not for the difficulty of self-sufficiency in the abnormal climate, those two areas would become the largest black hole of population inflow in Netheril.
The last two times that Shado recruited new citizens from Sevington, they both used special channels. One was to request people from the Sevington Council in the name of Brod to develop the territory. This is the practice of the Grand Arcanist's development. Seven
The tower didn't want to break it yet, but just sent someone to remind Xia Duo, and the matter was over.
The other is a reward for assisting in cooperating with Hildalanna at the request of Seven Towers.
Just like Brod's time, it also had a population of 50,000.
Apart from this, there are only some slaves bought sporadically by the four chambers of commerce in Savile Territory. If it were in the past, Sha Duo would have attached great importance to this channel, because it was almost his only channel to obtain new territory citizens at that time.
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But after several times of absorbing tens of thousands of people, sporadic gains from this channel have become commonplace.
But one of the biggest impacts of this climate anomaly on Xia Duo is that except for those lords with rigid development targets, for ordinary lords, population is no longer wealth, but a negative asset.
As long as you keep searching, even a trickle will eventually add up to a big number.
Chateau set up the Cerulean Manor in Severton as a transit station and spread the word to recruit new subjects. In addition to being able to recruit new people, he also wanted to use this to influence the lords who established cooperatives and let them treat the people well.
This seems somewhat contradictory to Xia Duo's purpose, but in fact it is not contradictory, because he has already recognized the subjects of other lords as his, and now he is only temporarily raising them with those lords.
Xia Duo's demand for population is never satisfied. In the future, the southern border will continue to absorb population. Where the population comes from, a considerable part must come from the mainland and the newly developed areas.
Since they are his future territorial citizens, Xia Duo can now make plans for them. This may increase the cost of bringing in new people to the territory in the future, but Xia Duo's vision has already gone beyond the scope of general monetary interests, and is more focused on the overall situation.
, and the future.
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As time passed, Sha Duo led Niya and Aibok to finally complete the last bit of construction of the floating city. At the same time, the number of tourists from the north to the south also began to decrease sharply.
Although it has not been completely cut off, it has temporarily lost its growth potential.
Xia Duo knew that this was because there really wasn't much in the southern region that was worth a special trip. He originally thought that the more mature Saville Territory might become an important money-making spot.
However, later statistics revealed that mainland tourists generally have no intention of staying in Savile Land. At most, they just go there to take a look, and then choose to take a large airship back, or continue to take the free portal back.
The real big money earners are in Daxia!
The profits are mainly concentrated in catering and accommodation. Of course, there are no other industries in Daxia Ling that can be operated externally.
It can also provide tourists with food and accommodation.
As for the order in Daxia, according to some information collected by Gibb's security guards, it has indeed become a beautiful scenery in the eyes of mainland tourists.
But whether it was out of curiosity or whether he really understood the charm of order, Xia Duo had a big question mark in his heart.
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That is to say, the day after Shado came out of the blue crystal plane, news suddenly came from Sevington. Sruvend, who had been in a strange state of silence recently, suddenly sent invitations to the countries of the Northern Alliance.
Invite all countries to jointly develop the newly discovered ancient fortress!
Xia Duo was shocked when he learned the news. He didn't know what was hidden in it, but when he went to Severton last time, he heard Yin Olem mention that Yeerlan was preparing for war.
Why did Sruvander suddenly invite all countries to jointly develop it?
Is this a signal from Erlan, or was it decided on its own for some reason?
"Demon?"
Shado couldn't help but have the image of the demon elves appear in his mind. Ever since the assassination of Ankarita, the great elder of Evereska, the demons have been quiet. Even if a secret base was taken away, there was no movement.
If he hadn't seen the demons with his own eyes in that secret base, Xia Duo would have doubted their true existence!
Therefore, he immediately decided to go to Severton again, not only to inquire about the latest situation on Sluvende's side, but also to urge the progress on Yin Orem's side.
Now that Xia Duo has completed the construction of the main functions of the floating city (the internal facilities are still empty for the time being, but it does not affect its own offensive and defensive capabilities), the only thing missing is war spells, the most important strategic weapon.
If this drags on until the Sluvende incident comes to an end, then he might as well not drive the floating city to Sluvende. Without strategic weapons, the floating city itself is not enough in deterrence.
Especially when Ye Erlan has made preparations for war, Xia Duo will be heartbroken if he is defeated. What is more realistic is -
The Tower of Time does not have the extra resources to build another floating city in a short period of time, not to mention that the construction itself will take time.
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At the same time that Shado was heading to Sevington, far away in Sluvende, the top leaders of the [Ecrix Contract] organization gathered together to discuss the next course of action.
"Is there no response from Ye Erlan yet?" one of the leaders asked in a deep voice.uu看书www.uukanshu
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Another leader who may have mastered secret intelligence gave his own answer: "Yes, as of now, they still have no response."
But his answer made the other leaders feel heavy. In their original expectation, Ye Erlan would be discouraged because they invited various countries to jointly develop the ancient fortress, and then immediately start a war.
In that way, the rhythm of the war will be largely in their hands, but the current silence on Yeerlan's side may indicate that the coming blow will exceed the endurance limit of the [Ecrix Contract] and even the entire Sluvend.
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Perhaps the atmosphere of silence in this situation was too oppressive, so one commander couldn't help but say:
"No matter whether they react or not, in the end it's all about strength. We have the war weapons that General Cruz brought out from the fortress, and the balance of victory is in our favor!"
His words may be the consensus of many members in the organization, but on this occasion, several leaders acted so cautiously, and other leaders did not dare to express their opinions lightly.
"Tell me about the demon!"
A leader tried to break the deadlock, but the atmosphere became even more freezing. If Erlan, who has a big family and a big business, may finally choose to give up "supervising" Sluvende because he cannot bear the losses of the war.
Those demons hiding in the dark are the biggest variable!
In the previous "Unified Opinion" operation, the [Ecrikes] organization discovered many demons, and some have even sneaked into the position of political elders!
If the demon descendant's matter is not handled well, even if Sruvend successfully escapes from Yeerlan's "supervision", he may eventually face an abyss that is difficult to escape from.