When Taylor heard the female mage's provocative words, her expression was strange, half-smiling but not smiling, so she had to quickly welcome Mithras into the office upstairs.
"Why are you anxious? I have a new batch of raw materials here, do you want to take a look?" Mithras played with the crystal scepter.
"No need, Mithras...the raw materials provided by Miss are always reliable." Taylor waved to other shop assistants to receive the goods.
The shop assistants looked at the tall and graceful female mage walking side by side with Taylor with admiration, and couldn't help but whisper:
"I didn't expect that the supervisor would actually get to know such a beautiful female mage. I see that the magic items on her body are all expensive custom-made products, not cheap goods produced in batches."
"Nonsense! Don't even think about it. Director Taylor is a student of the Duke of Mind, and those female mages with average backgrounds and poor skills can't even reach the same level!"
"Looking at their attitudes, they seem to have known each other for a long time, right? I'm so envious. A few days ago, the daughter of the governor of Changxia City just invited Director Taylor to attend an art exhibition and auction. The two had dinner together, and...
…Hehe, Director Taylor only came back the next morning.”
"Tell me, did Miss Mithras receive any news, so she quickly came to Changxia City to compete with her?"
"But Director Taylor is already married, and his wife Ivita is a high priest of the Order of the Stars!"
"Priest Yveta didn't come to Galard Continent with her either. And what if she got married? With Taylor's position as a supervisor, it's normal for her to have several mistresses."
"Okay! You guys hurry up and get to work. If you don't have the ability, don't fantasize!"
…
"Hey, little Taylor, you're quite successful, and you even have the governor's daughter throwing yourself into his arms?"
The female mage Mithra waved her crystal scepter, and a "mage's chamber" effect enveloped the office, as if something ambiguous and unpredictable was going to happen in this confined space.
"Ahem, teacher, stop joking with me." Taylor looked ashamed and did not dare to look directly at the female mage.
"How is it? This look is indeed very attractive, isn't it?" The female mage Mithra, or in other words, the incarnation of Xuan Weizi, turned around in a circle and looked at her new look: "I have put a lot of effort into transforming my spiritual power into something special.
Using the aura effect of energy, modifying it into an arcane form, and pretending to be a high mage, this is not as eye-catching as the 'Duke of Mind'."
"But you are already very eye-catching!" Taylor couldn't help shouting: "I received your message before, and originally thought that 'Mithra' would be a low-key and simple old mage. But you are like this
, everyone will guess your origin!"
"Then let them guess!" Xuan Weizi's incarnation snapped his fingers, changed back to his original appearance, and then explained to Taylor: "Providing others with wrong information and making them tired of searching and guessing is sometimes more effective than keeping a low profile.
It’s easy to use. And when you come to Changxia City on behalf of the Changqing Chamber of Commerce, you can’t keep a low profile, otherwise the governor’s daughter won’t find you.”
Taylor couldn't help but nod. After the incarnation of Xuan Weizi left the Wildfire Islands, the Evergreen Chamber of Commerce had already set its sights on the Old Continent.
Nowadays, the business of the Evergreen Chamber of Commerce is getting bigger and bigger. The empire originally banned the import of goods from the Mutual Protection Alliance, but it is difficult to put an end to smuggling. In particular, Changxia City on the southern coast of the empire has become the main smuggling channel for the products of the Evergreen Chamber of Commerce.
From rare medicines that can extend life span and slow down aging, to cheap fabrics and waterproof canvases, even if they are several times more expensive than the sales price in the New World, they are still the most sought-after goods, and you even have to spend extra money to reserve them.
Now that the power of the Eye of Mystery has shrunk and the empire is divided, Changxia City has seized the opportunity and invited the Evergreen Chamber of Commerce to set up a branch. The main person in charge of Xuan Weizi's arrangement is Taylor.
"Teacher, do you want to build this place into a fortress like New Camelot City?" Taylor recalled Xuan Weizi's words just now.
"You don't even have a permanent 'Mage's Secret Room' here, so it's still not convenient enough. Even if you're doing business, you have to keep information confidential, right?" Xuan Weizi said.
Taylor nodded and said, "I didn't think carefully enough."
"It's okay, the manpower I brought is to help with this." Xuan Weizi said: "Recently I got a batch of crystal steel in Nahasa, which is suitable for shaping with psychic powers, and various long-lasting effects can be added to it.
Psychic effects.”
"Does the teacher plan to let the Golden Flower Society also open a branch in the Old Continent?" Taylor asked.
"That's right, but I wouldn't choose a place like Changxia City." Xuan Weizi said: "Even if you have excellent talents, practicing psychic powers still requires a relatively peaceful and calm external environment, leaving people directly in the bustling and noisy city.
In a busy city, if you let your mind and thoughts follow the outside world, it will definitely be difficult to practice successfully."
Practicing psychic powers is not like studying normally and going to school. It is also different from the various intellectual exercises and experimental research of mages. It requires inward exploration and observation. Unless you are a race that is naturally good at psychic powers, ordinary humans are not used to this kind of thinking.
pattern.
And considering that very few humans have psychic talents, in the more densely populated Old Continent, the Golden Flower Society may be able to find more apprentices with psychic talents. After all, the population of the New World is still far less than that of the old since the colonization of the New World.
The mainland is vast and sparsely populated.
"By the way, the elf envoy is staying in Changxia City now." Taylor asked: "I have inquired about it. Several independent city-states, led by Changxia City, all hope to establish stable commercial trade with the elves. At present, they have basically established
It’s settled.”
"Did you learn about it from the governor's daughter?" Xuan Weizi said.
Taylor nodded sheepishly: "Uh...that's right."
Xuan Weizi joked: "I just heard someone outside mention that you didn't come back until the next day?"
"Teacher, you are thinking too much!" Taylor quickly explained: "How can I have such leisure now? I left after the banquet that night, but on the road in the city, I noticed unusual fluctuations in necromancy, so I went alone
Check it out."
"Necromancy? Is there anything unusual?" Xuan Weizi took out the Zhaoying Hanguang Jian.
"Someone is taking advantage of the hungry people outside the city, sending them into a huge corpse pit to perform necromancy rituals." Taylor said: "After investigation, I found out that it was a place where undead creatures and undead creatures were buried after a necromantic disaster.
The huge pit of corpses seemed to have been dug up again not long ago due to land development issues."
"Fill the corpse pit?" Xuan Weizi asked: "Don't the people in the church just care?"
Taylor said: "It is because after the First World War in New Camelot City, the Church Scribes openly sided with the Kingdom of Ansel. The empire was quite dissatisfied with this, and many local wealthy people and officials also took a fancy to the Church's real estate.
So they expelled the clergy from the scribal school one after another. Neither the Mission School nor the Charity School had time to arrange manpower, so this happened."
"I'm obsessed with money." Xuan Weizi shook his head and sighed: "If I'm not wrong, after those rich people and real estate developers dug up the land, they found that the ground was filled with corpse pits. It was very troublesome to deal with it, and they didn't want to return the land to the church.
, so he sold it to the Necromancer?"
Taylor also looked a little unbearable: "Yes. What's worse is that famine has broken out in many places in the Old Continent due to the cold weather and reduced food production. A large number of homeless refugees have gathered on the outskirts of big cities. Changxia City
It’s no exception. The situation is even worse than the Canned Food Street when I was a kid. Many people don’t even have the chance to work as coolies or do odd jobs.”
"And these people are exactly the raw materials needed for necromancy." Xuan Weizi stroked the mirror with a slightly cold face: "Maybe in order to survive as a family, we have to sell newborn babies to necromancers.
, in exchange for the rations that barely survive. In a place like Changxia City, there is probably a complete business operation... From what I see, you seem to have plans to save the people here? "
Taylor seemed to show a trace of determination, but was defeated by the heavy reality in the blink of an eye: "Actually, I also understand that to solve the suffering and poverty here, relying solely on inner kindness and kindness is simply not enough. There are a large number of hungry refugees inside and outside the city.
It is the result of the empire's long-term accumulation from colonial development to the present, since it destroyed the green ring and annexed rural land wantonly.
Many resources and wealth in the New and Old Continents are controlled by mages and a handful of wealthy nobles. The successive emergence of the Mutual Protection Alliance and the Kingdom of Ansel has caused the Old Continent to lose an important source of wealth. However, due to the exploitation of mages and wealthy nobles,
It has not weakened at all. Moreover, the war that divided the empire will further deepen the pressure on the people's survival."
Xuanweizi looked at Taylor and was speechless for a moment. Compared with Milda who had obtained the true inheritance of his own alchemy, Taylor's talent in alchemy and spiritual energy was not outstanding, but what he had learned among Xuanweizi's children and descendants was
What I have experienced is the most mixed.
Taylor's martial arts and archery skills are quite good, and he has also learned the summoning spells of the Order of the Stars well. He is not proficient in medical treatment, but it is enough for self-protection. He has served as a scout in the army of the Mutual Protection Alliance, and also commanded
After serving as a soldier, he went to the Wildfire Islands to learn from Xuan Weizi and teach him the Taoist methods, and to train people. Now he is responsible for the commercial affairs of the Evergreen Chamber of Commerce branch.
What's even more rare is that Taylor was born in a slum and has truly experienced suffering. Under Xuan Weizi's training, he has neither lost his original intention, nor is he blindly arrogant, relying on his passion and disregarding the actual difficulties.
"I want to remind you. Changxia City is not Huowu City, and the Old Continent is not the New Continent." Xuan Weizi said.
"I understand." Taylor sighed slightly: "I am not as powerful as you, teacher."
"Even I don't have many options." Xuan Weizi glanced at the mirror in his palm: "It's just like Chaidui Town, where I made my fortune. It was remote and poor at first, but in fact there are a lot of resources that can be developed around it, and it has to be faced.
The natives are not that powerful either. Even if we ignore creations like ancient giant ruins, I still have the ability to slowly develop and expand Chai Dui Town.
The same is true for the Mutual Protection Alliance and the New World. In the early days of colonial development, a large number of natives were slaughtered and a large area of land and resources were occupied. Such superior conditions were not available in the Old World. Any redistribution of resources must go through brutal and fierce battles.
There are too many forces in the Old Continent, they are too complicated, and they are too stubborn, and I don’t have much choice."
Taylor said: "Yes, just in these commercial cities on the southern coast of the empire, the relationship between the upper class has long been intertwined. Through marriage, teachers and students, classmates, etc., an extremely tough network has been formed. If there is any trouble, they will immediately contact each other.
By responding and communicating, even if we can 'redistribute resources and interests' in one of the cities, we will definitely face counterattacks from armies and mages organized in other cities."
Xuan Weizi tapped the mirror. In this world, people are not simply different because of their wealth and power, but because of the huge differences in the violence that individuals control.
On earth, even if ordinary people are extremely wealthy and powerful, they still need to eat when they are hungry, drink when they are thirsty, and wear clothes when they are cold. With a pistol to their foreheads, the head of state is also facing death. People at the top use systematic methods to
They use the power to control violence, thereby dominating others and protecting themselves, but they are essentially no different from other ordinary people.
But when a person is not afraid of water, fire, swords and weapons, then he is no longer an "ordinary person" in essence. The inequality created in this way can be said to be rooted in the operation of the rules of the world. It is impossible for Xuan Weizi to admit that a ninth-level mage and an ordinary farmer
They are equal. Even if the ninth-level mage takes off all the magic items, he can crush a hundred farmers to death like ants with just a few clicks of his fingers.
Because there is an extremely huge difference in individual control of violence, which naturally extends to the control of resources, wealth, and control of power, there is an incomparable gap. This is inevitable. Therefore, Doragon does not need to bother thinking about what system and what
In terms of national construction, as he is the most powerful mage in the Dragon Kingdom and the Nahasa Chiefdom, resources, wealth and power will naturally be concentrated in him. This is almost a rule.
Therefore, to change the existing resource distribution pattern, it must be a game confrontation between the strong. If you cannot climb to the top of the violent circle, you will not be able to dominate the resource distribution, and you can only serve as a vassal and follower of the top strong.
Grab some leftovers.
There is no doubt that legendary casters are the masters of violence in this world, but they are separate individuals, and many specific details of their rule also require human assistance. This has led to the formation of a group with legendary casters as the core and a small number of advanced spellcasters.
It is a form of operation with warriors as management and low- and medium-level spellcasters and warriors as labor.
As for the civilians, their only value is to produce for the upper class. The poor are probably not as important as the magic raw materials... Oh, maybe in the eyes of the necromancer, the poor civilians are cheap magic raw materials. The more chaotic the world, the cheaper human life is.
In fact, Tyro is now regarded as a high-level figure in both magic and martial arts. As a student of the "Duke of the Heart", he personally came to Changxia City to serve as the branch director. Outsiders thought that he was condescending to appoint a middle-level person for such a thing.
Anyone who casts a spell can do it.
However, Taylor himself did not have the consciousness of being a superior. On the one hand, he made rapid progress, and on the other hand, Xuan Weizi may have suppressed his advancement in status intentionally or unintentionally.
Xuan Weizi glanced at the mirror again: "It is most taboo to talk about things like changing the world. Since you want to do it, let's start from now."