After telling everything he knew, Ike finally seemed to have completely exhausted his energy and collapsed beside the bar - today, he had run at least dozens of miles, plus he was carrying Victor's cutting machine.
After working in the mine for a long time, for a child, he has now reached his limit.
Almost as soon as he lay down, he started snoring slightly.
Everyone's eyes were on Ino, even Fandel and Silko were no exception.
They were waiting for Ino to make up his mind.
After all, starting from the explosion in the mine, the subsequent development has completely exceeded the capabilities and even the imagination of everyone here - whether it is the underground laboratory, the Noxians with ulterior motives, or Peel who abandoned Zaun.
Twow…
Thousands of thoughts are mixed together, and it makes people's scalp numb just thinking about it.
However, Ino was not in a hurry.
Because after combining the information from Ike, Kalya has almost figured out all the situations.
Heimerdinger and Camille have obviously reached a political alliance and plan to shrink their power and clean up the dead members of the Parliament who have defected to Noxus.
In order to achieve this goal, they chose to give up the Zaun mines and even the entire Zaun in exchange - you can do whatever you want in Zaun.
As for whether this will cause the Noxians to not leave at all, or Piltover will no longer be able to control Zaun... I'm sorry, Piltover is not worried at all.
The city of Zaun is really too special. Most of the entire city is located underground, with very few direct connections to the outside world. Material supplies are highly dependent on Piltover.
It is no exaggeration to say that without the port of Piltover, the people of Zaun would not have anything to eat!
There was also a trade route from Zaun to Kumanggla or Kalduga.
However, with the opening of the Piltover Canal, the advantages of maritime trade were revealed, and land trade quickly declined.
There is no way. Taking the land route from Zaun to Kumangla requires passing through a jungle and an uneven hilly area. Even if it goes well, it will take at least three to five days - but taking the sea route only needs to go along the coast.
, there are no reef whirlpools along the way, and it can be reached in one day if the wind and water are smooth.
There is a huge cost difference between eating horse chews for three to five days and setting sail for one day. Businessmen naturally vote with their eyes closed.
In addition, the Piltover Council "kindly" exempted Zaun from taxes on imported food and other necessary supplies, and even allowed these basic supplies to be smuggled. As a result, Zaun's channels to the outside world were closed one after another, and the entire
Zaun's foreign trade fell entirely into Piltover's hands.
Spreading out the map, the urban area of Zaun is very large, and hundreds of miles to the south is the famous granary city Kumanggela.
But in fact, the food in Kumangla is transferred through Piltover before it reaches Zaun!
This means that once Piltover cuts off its supply, Zaun will quickly run out of food!
The blockade was both a statement of non-participation and a move to tighten control over Zaun and prevent the Noxians from going too far.
Not only food, but many other basic supplies in Zaun are facing a similar situation.
Why can Piltover lie on Zaun's body and suck blood?
Why can Piltover arbitrarily squeeze Zaun's human resources and talent resources?
It's not just because Piltover has a big fist - a big fist is only a necessary condition, and what's even more terrifying is the series of systems that go with it.
Import and export are controlled, leaders are bribed, smart people are absorbed...
Piltover is the true master of Zaun!
Ordinary Zaunians saw the Piltover being arrogant.
Some further saw Piltover transferring highly polluting industries to Zaun.
After some thinking, someone discovered that Piltover was consciously absorbing Zaun's elite.
After Piltover's socioeconomic survey and Zaun's historical economic and social research, what Lux and Ino saw was far more shocking than these.
It is precisely because of this all-round grasp and control that the people of Piltover have the confidence to carry out strategic contraction at this time - the Noxian personnel can do whatever you want, and on the premise that you cannot directly send troops to occupy it, do whatever you want.
Enough is enough, Zaun is still Zaun of Piltover.
After Kalya thought about all this clearly, he laughed silently.
If Piltover completely colludes with Noxus, I'm afraid even he will have to go through some tricks to do so.
Now that Piltover is letting go, they think it will make the Zaans fearful and overwhelmed; it will make Noxus wary.
In fact, Kalya didn't know whether the Noxians would care about it.
What Kalya knew was that what the Zaun people lost were only their shackles, but what they gained was the entire independent Zaun!
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The next day, Heimerdinger's opinions were formally approved by the parliament. Except for Levi, the unlucky guy who colluded with Finn, everyone tacitly agreed with Heimerdinger's opinions.
Recall law enforcement officers, block the entry and exit of people, and restrict the flow of materials.
Gilaman and several neutral factions did not want the turmoil in Zaun to spread too much, so they agreed to leave Zaun alone and let the law enforcers shrink their defenses and maintain order in Piltover.
The Noxian faction is very uncomfortable. Many of their interests lie in Zaun, and blocking Zaun will damage their strength.
Unfortunately, they have received a death order and must not let Camille interfere with Noxus operations anymore - Cassiopeia originally thought about whether she could win over Jagu, but after the "Cyclops" incident,
She believes that she needs to devote all her energy to the excavation of the ruins.
Under such circumstances, it would be great to be able to reach a tacit understanding with Pi City.
Only Levi, who hoped to expand the scope of his real power by joining forces with Finn, was knocked dizzy by this stick. Unfortunately, he was not a member of the House of Representatives with real power. When other people reached a consensus, he seemed to be particularly soft-spoken.
However, fortunately, he and Finn colluded early enough - before the complete blockade, Levi could at least send some supplies as support.
By the way, Finn is reminded to go ahead and do whatever he wants, as long as he doesn't mess with the Noxians.
So, when he woke up early in the morning, Finn was delighted to receive a batch of supplies secretly sent from the sky, as well as a reminder from Levi - ignore the Noxians, make good use of these things, and take advantage of the blockade.
Expand your influence.
Finn, who didn't know the truth behind it at all, was overjoyed.
This is inside information from the Parliament!
This time I really got a chance to get in touch with the parliament!
Finn, who had originally planned to set up a new middleman base, is now more confident than ever - Zaun will soon face a blockade. Although all the alchemy barons have material reserves, his own material reserves are particularly large!
With these supplies as the foundation, our own middleman base can soon replace Fulgen's Tavern!
Not to mention that Fandel and Silko are finished - at this moment, even if he knows that these two guys survived the disaster, Finn will be confident!
Fandel is loyal and fair.
But loyalty cannot produce food!
Hilko has a brain and is well informed.
But he has no news from the Piltover Council!
People are like iron, and food is like steel. If you don't eat one meal, you will feel hungry.
When the blockade is strict and food supply is insufficient, every one of you will be dumbfounded!
However, after calming down, Finn quickly realized a serious problem - if he hoards food and others hoard guns, wouldn't he become someone else's granary?
In Zaun, big fists are the last word!
No, you must prepare the means to deal with powerful enemies - especially the means to deal with powerful mages.
To this day, Finn is still frightened when he thinks of Ino's performance that day. He doesn't drink with ice recently.
However, several sets of rune steel armors that I had finally collected before were borrowed, and I saw that they were borrowed but not returned...
Finn, who was anxious, began to spread money around, use gold hex to buy gangsters, and expand the scale of his thugs. At the same time, he also began to inquire about more information about rune steel armor on the black market.
Ordinary thugs are too weak when facing mages. You must have the means to deal with mages!
Judging from the results, Finn's luck seems to be good.
Just this morning, the black market received news that two sets of armors had actually flowed into the black market.
Moreover, these two sets have been authenticated by professionals. They are not the retired goods like last time, but "genuine Demacia goods with the inscription erased."
"Wearing it, you can move freely among the mages of Noxus, and those idiots waving their staffs can only stare at you."
Finn was overjoyed after receiving the news, and immediately contacted the black market and met with the seller.
The seller was a guy he had never seen before, wearing a mask and not showing his face.
The figure didn't look familiar to Finn. After thinking about it for a moment, he gave up guessing the identity of the seller.
Runesteel armor is the key!
Because he was in a hurry to buy, Finn was willing to compromise on the price.
However, due to large-scale recruitment, he is now a little tight on money and cannot produce a large amount of gold hex at the moment.
However, as if he was favored by the goddess of luck, when Finn tried to negotiate the price, the other party said in a very humane manner, "We can also accept other payment methods in kind, and the price is fair."
Finn, who was overjoyed, immediately said, "Would you like some food?"
This question made the masked trader stunned for a long time, and finally nodded.
"want."
In this way, Finn paid one-fifth of the food he received from Levi and exchanged it for two sets of extremely exquisite rune steel armors that looked extremely delicate and reliable at first glance.
Compared with these two sets of armor, the one I lent to Hilko before was simply rubbish!
Worse than trash!
After getting the armor, Finn directly wore one for himself and one for his most trusted personal bodyguard.
Then, after spending a lot of effort and happily putting it on, Finn was surprised to find that the armor fit well everywhere, but only the chest area was not right.
Why do I feel empty in front of my heart after putting it on?
Didn't the seller say that this is a Demacia aristocratic style?