Love and passion, cutting up the wasteland

"It can't be the North District." Lu Meng said while playing with the wine glass.

He was still wearing the module tonight, and no matter what he drank, it was like water, and he didn't even feel tipsy, which was a pity.

He told some of his experiences on Qingyang Street.

The two leaders, Hu Guan and Wang Hu, would rather risk sacrificing the miners to forcefully mine the mine. For this reason, they even broke out a war with the Fog People, in order to quickly drain the value of the mine and destroy the miners buried in the mountains. Ore is converted into obtained coins.

But why are these two leaders so anxious? They have no immediate need for money themselves.

The only person who can put this kind of pressure on them is the supervisor.

Even when the Fog Man was plundering, the supervisor could secretly exert such influence on these gangs. His control over the North District was not as low as it seemed on the surface.

"Are you worried that the chaos in the North District is actually a trap?"

Leiber’s struggle experience is far richer than that of the average person. He said:

"That was in the past, just like no one could have expected that someone like you existed, and no one would have thought that you would bring connections to the Brotherhood.

"With Mr. Tang's support, we can win the North District even if Fangshi is prepared."

"I don't doubt the ability of Boss Lei and the guys." Lu Meng said, "There are two other reasons why I don't recommend starting from the North District."

"First, time. How long will it take to control the entire North District?"

"At least a month." Leiber replied immediately. This was not something he had just calculated. It was obvious that this person had already made a plan in his mind before tonight.

On the surface, the North District does not have a powerful supervisor, and indeed there are many neutral forces. Then it's not as simple as wiping out Fangshi's power in one battle and then letting everyone surrender.

Each street is like a separatist force, and it will definitely take a long time to root them out one by one.

One month is already a pretty efficient situation.

"There may indeed be many changes during this period," Leiber pondered.

Once they take action, it is equivalent to starting a war with Fangshi. If the Holy Kingdom still has an agreement with them and the delay is too long, the North District will be the first place where the Holy Kingdom's reinforcements hit.

"Thank you." Lu Meng thanked him and took the new wine from Wei Hong, "Please change the glass of water next time."

The constant conversion of alcohol into energy made him a little hot.

"If you want to drink water, go get it yourself." Wei Hong said expressionlessly.

It's easier to explain if you ask her to mix drinks and bring them to you. At least it can be considered creative work and realize value. Doesn't it mean that you are just serving people by serving tea and water?

"Pour it for Mr. Lu."

"……OK."

Lu Meng Moisturizes Throat:

“The second and most important reason is that winning the North District will not affect the situation of the entire hub.

"I think the premise of your initial plan, Boss Lei, is to protect yourself. It is understandable to occupy a territory first to preserve your strength..."

"But what we want now is an attack, an attack against Fangshi.

"If the situation at the hub cannot be completely disrupted, there is still the possibility that the Holy Kingdom will intervene."

It is different from the situation when Fangshi first made his fortune in the North District. At that time, the entire hub was in chaos. The director of the North District was the first to establish order here, and the result was a dimensionality reduction attack on other places.

The current North District has no obvious advantages compared to other jurisdictions in terms of population or resources. Taking over here is just another new supervisor.

Leibo has been operating here all year round. He knows this information no less than Lu Meng. The difference in choice is due to differences in strategic purposes.

Leiber spoke slowly: "According to your opinion, the hub station has only one target that meets these conditions..."

The two looked at each other and said in unison:

"East End!"

The Eastern District controls most of the water sources and farmland!

The problem of supplies is still a secondary issue. If Leiber is in other places, he can temporarily solve it through business relationships.

The most important factor is——

"Slavery, production in the East District promotes slavery." Lu Meng said:

"Different from the 'supervisor-city-gang-street-resident' structure in other jurisdictions, the director of the East District, Li Ken, is a warrior himself. He is equivalent to the leader of the largest gang in the East District. The entire East District is a large street, and there are no other small streets. separatist forces."

"Such a structure would allow Ken Li to achieve high-handed rule over slaves——

"But on the other hand, as long as Ken Li and his core forces can be eliminated, no one else in the East District can organize an effective resistance force."

The Southern District under He Shun's governance also has a trend of changing in this direction.

It's just that he hasn't had time to get to the point of completely enslaving the residents.

“In addition, residents in other jurisdictions will be afraid of change, because any unrest may make their lives worse, and they will subconsciously resist you——

"But the slaves are different. They want to die with Ken Li. Even if the Lang Ninja Group simply cuts off the shackles and distributes weapons to them, riots will sweep the entire East District in an instant..."

Lu Meng looked at Lei Bai: "I think the Lang Ninja Group is against slavery, right?"

"Yes, although this is not our main purpose, it is indeed an important part of it - to tell you the truth, I was once a slave..."

Leiber sighed.

"But Mr. Lu, there is a problem that you seem to have deliberately not mentioned..." He used the honorific again and his tone was serious.

"Do you know why slaves are used in the East District? Or to put it another way - what will happen to these slaves next?

"The several weapons workshops in the East District are quite small and cannot accommodate many people at all. The majority of their output is agriculture.

“The land in the East District is said to be cultivated land, but in fact it is all sandy soil, no different from other land in the hub.

"The reason why they plant cacti here is of course related to the water source, but more importantly: there are no ruins or relics in the East District, so it cannot support the large number of scavengers, and no traders are willing to patronize it.

"As you can tell from the name, cactus chewing sticks are not meant for people to eat. Even if the market has monopolized its production, the price still cannot be raised...

“Their profits only come from one thing: not treating slaves as human beings. Only by keeping production costs to a minimum can cactus be worth growing.

"The lives of slaves are just consumables. The East District seems to be growing food, but in fact it is just using a medium to exchange the blood flowing in their bodies into jingling coins."

Speaking of this, Lei Bai's eyes were dark.

"This is the same even if the Lang Ninja Group comes. Even if the treatment of the original slaves is only slightly improved, the industry in the East District will become a negative asset that continues to lose money.

"Conditions are restrictive. The more they farm, the more the new residents will lose - no matter how motivated they are, how can they compare with the intensity of labor that consumed the lives of the previous slaves in just a few years?

“It won’t be long before the population is almost completely lost, and we will be trapped alive in this barren land in the East District.

"Laws cannot be defied by humans."

Productivity... Lu Meng sighed in his heart.

Emancipating slaves is not something that can be accomplished with passionate slogans by rushing forward with slogans about ideals and human rights.

Since the wasteland, how many jobs can only be completed by squeezing people's lives. Everyone has just learned to be smart and know how to sacrifice other people's lives.

If the environment does not change and civilization cannot regain its previous technology... then nothing will change and it will only continue to cycle and then die.

The hub is a drying quagmire, and so is the world as a whole.

Lu Meng couldn't answer such a big question, but fortunately, he was already prepared on how to solve Lei Bai's current doubts.

He took out an instrument and a piece of ore and handed them over.

The instrument is a mining metal detector equipped with a battery.

The surface of the ore was brown, black, and green. Leiber cut it open with a knife, and found that the inside was red with a metallic luster.

It turns out to be a rare natural elemental copper ore, which is reduced from copper sulfide under geological effects. It contains an astonishing amount of copper per unit mass.

Lei Bai looked at Lu Meng in surprise.

"This is the last gift I prepared for you, Boss Lei."

Lu Meng chuckled.

After the crisis in Qingyang Street was resolved, he turned on the metal detector to search for mineral veins at the location in his memory.

This copper mine will have huge output in the future and will solve the livelihood problem of countless scavengers.

It happens to be located right on the East Side.

——The mines currently controlled by Fangshi are still iron ore or even stone mines.

Lu Meng would definitely not be able to mine and monopolize such a mine based on his personal abilities.

Now, as long as the Lang Ninja Group takes over the East District, the newly liberated slaves can become the first batch of labor force.

In any case this job would be much better than the miserable situation they were in.

The economic strength of the Eastern District will also form a crushing trend at the hub.