Take Taobao with you to another world

"Some inevitable factors prompted us to make this decision." Fan Tianlan said at the meeting, "The pattern of commercial trade, thanks to the efforts of the comrades in the advance detachment, has initially seen the scale. From November last year to the end of February this year, four monthly The summary report, the second advance team concluded in the three conclusions that the trade activities in Marsh City are increasingly hostile and interfered by the local class. These reports are made by the backbone of the detachment here. We also participated in several discussion meetings before departure. I Its content will not be repeated.

"Through the content of previous reports, and since October last year, the violent conflicts that have occurred successively in the New City of the Kanlar Tribe in the Orc Empire, the Fusong Port in the Kingdom of Orbis, and the city of Zhdan in the Northern Principality, we have temporarily gained a conclusion through these practices. Conclusion: In the cities and regions where the pioneering detachment arrived, conducted commercial operations, and tried to carry out moderate social transformation within the scope of local regulations, the operation methods were different but the results were similar. The root cause of the contradiction lies in the industrial base and local production efficiency of the representatives of the advance team irreparable gap.

"The huge gap in efficiency leads to the dumping of commodities, which impacts and even destroys the local initial market; the outflow of gold and silver and financial deterioration caused by one-way trade will not be suspended as long as the trade continues; it is also impossible to restore wealth to the local area in the form of infrastructure construction. Avoid shaking the ruling foundation of local rulers; in addition, the gap in productivity is not only reflected in the scale and cost of commodity production. Take the events of this flood as an example: large-scale rainfall began on March 130; on March 77, mothers and sisters found that The first case of contagious typhoid fever; as of March [-], [-] and [-] typhoid patients admitted to the Mahi Temporary Hospital survived. According to incomplete statistics, as of that day, [-] cases died; on March [-], responsible for the treatment The brotherhood of the rest of the dead reported that the number of dead bodies exhibiting the appearance of infectious diseases they collected exceeded [-] that day, a significant increase from the [-] dead bodies on March [-]. On that day, the lord of Mahi City ordered the closure of the docks and the city. On the same day, the Shinsegae No. [-] delivered the prescription medicine after a [-]-hour voyage.

"From the evening of March 170 to the night of March 25, members of the detachment led a total of 27 members of the fraternity and sorority, and fought fiercely with the city defense force, self-organized armed forces, and mercenaries. The Mayor of Maxi mediated, and the drugs entered the city and were first used in temporary hospitals; on the [-]th, the drugs were put into pre-blocked blocks; on the [-]th, they were extended to the whole city; from March [-]th, the drugs were limited to registered farmers and foreign business travelers Distributed. By April [-], the day before our arrival, the number of patients still in the temporary hospital had dropped to [-] cases. The data from the rest of the controllable urban areas also showed that the number of typhoid cases and deaths had dropped significantly. The epidemic situation has been significantly reduced. control.

"During this epidemic, the advance team undertook a considerable degree of rumors and physical attacks, and suffered certain losses. The process of promoting the drug also encountered obstruction from some local groups. In addition, it is important for our next decision The impact is the multiple negative actions of the ruling class in Mahi City during the outbreak of the epidemic." Fan Tianlan said, "In summary, we believe that the local ruling class in Mahi City does not have the ability to cooperate with the pioneering detachment in the next step. basic condition."

Compared with the previous theoretical process, this summary of "without basic conditions" seems a little light. During the brief intermission of questions, someone expressed his doubts:

"The conclusion means that the city lords, nobles and their armed forces in Maxi City, as well as the various industry associations in the city, cannot continue to survive after we seize power?"

The questioner was a woman.

Fan Tianlan looked at her, "Conflicts don't depend on people's will."

"What if someone is willing to compromise with us for exclusive agency rights?" Someone asked again.

"What is the purpose of the advance team's trade?" Fan Tianlan asked.

"'...not for profit, nor for occupying land, but for making a difference in a larger world and liberating the most people'." Someone repeated.

"But—is there only one way to make a difference?" Another person raised his hand and asked.

It was a man sitting in the left side of the third row. He had a thin face, curly hair and drooping gray-green eyes. He looked at Fan Tianlan and asked, "I know what happened in other cities, but is the blood really real?" Does it have to happen? To benefit others, why should we hurt them first? Can’t we use more reasonable methods to achieve our goals? We can change women, we can change beggars, we can change the harsh natural conditions, why can’t we use transformation Our own means to transform the city rulers who are also human?"

His voice was trembling with timidity, but this trembling disappeared quickly, and his words gradually became fluent. Sitting in his seat, he seriously expressed his opinion to the young man in front of the blackboard: "They not only have a better learning foundation, but also have more perfect logic and stronger rationality, but their eyes are blinded by greed. And they have richer experience in managing cities. The city's population in Maxi City alone is close to one With 5000 people, based on the fact that all the members of our Maxi detachment are only in the early 500s, and the number of members of the Brotherhood and Sisterhood is less than [-], how can we effectively manage the city while maintaining normal trade?"

Fan Tianlan looked at him calmly, as if encouraged by his gaze, Boravi continued, "Besides, our behavior will greatly affect our trading partners, if they think that our purpose is to use commercial How do we open up new trading points next if we invade their countries and cities?"

Some people frowned visibly, others either looked at him or Fan Tianlan, before someone stood up to refute him, Fan Tianlan nodded slightly and said: "There is indeed more than one way to make a difference. I also I believe that a formal, candid negotiation with the local superstructure can be attempted. However, this topic is for a later discussion.”

He picked up a piece of chalk from the table and turned around, "Before discussing this issue, there is a more important and more urgent reason that requires us to obtain control of a large amount of land as soon as possible."

The end of the chalk landed on the blackboard, "According to the intelligence, the scope of the flood affected by this flood includes three free cities, in addition to all the territory of the Earl of Cadlan, which belongs to Marcy City, and at least five noble territories with more than a thousand fiefs, 80.00 % and above, preliminary estimates show that the population directly affected by the disaster exceeds 20."

The data in this passage also came from the routine report of the detachment, but after Fan Tianlan repeated it, most of the people who heard it, including the detachment leader and secretary in the first row, couldn't help but straighten their backs.As the earliest advance team to carry out cross-regional development missions, a considerable number of people were directly guided by magicians. When carrying out construction and trade activities in Mahxi City, they were able to maintain a certain level of awareness with the help of books, radios and other tools. The state of learning, which allows them to have a basic quality to understand what this foreshadowing means, another development that they have not gone deep into.

"Floods not only damaged roads and houses, but also caused human and livestock casualties and property losses. They also seriously affected agricultural production. Taking Maxi City as the origin and the five-hour flight upstream and downstream as the diameter, this alluvial plain spanning the three kingdoms, According to previous surveys, the main crops are three kinds of wheat grains——summer wheat, which was sown in the previous year and harvested in June to July of the following year, with an average yield of [-] to [-] kilograms per hectare; soil wheat, sown in spring, and harvested in July to August , with an average yield of [-] to [-] kilograms per hectare; Marwheat, sown in spring and harvested from June to July, with an average yield of [-] to [-] kilograms per hectare. The planting area of ​​summer wheat accounts for about two-thirds of the arable land area. Wheat is next, and Marwheat accounts for less than one-sixth. Except for Marwheat, the output of summer wheat and soil wheat this year is expected to drop sharply by [-]% or more. And——

"After May, the Buber Plain will enter a dry summer. The high temperature and lack of water are not only unfavorable to the growth of crops. According to the past agricultural records collected, it is speculated that other agricultural disasters may occur concurrently." Fan Tianlan put down his hands in front of the blackboard, "I will not make the follow-up Taking natural disasters into consideration, the performance of the superstructure of Mahi City in this epidemic has been partially affected by the current food shortage.”

He turned to face the meeting room. Behind him, which filled the blackboard, was a full-scale map of the Buber Plains.

"Based on the past situation we have and the analysis of the current situation, it is inferred that after four months, at least 10 people will be in food shortage, and after eight months, this number will triple or more."

There was silence.

The total population of Marcy City is only over 4000, and Earl Cadlan's territory is not too big, and even counting Marcy City, it is less than 30.And maintaining the stability of a Maxi city already requires considerable effort, 20... Even if there are only [-] people, it is not the background of the autumn leaves like duckweed in those stories and legends, these people are alive, and they are almost a small and medium-sized kingdom. All the ruling population is distributed over a land of [-] square kilometers. In front of this volume and the terrible word famine, the problems that are happening in Maxi City, and even Maxi City itself seem so small!

The heavy atmosphere spread like wet water marks.When collecting and collating these basic facts, when writing those data in routine reports and special reports, no one in this conference room realized what a terrible picture of disaster would be drawn if they were connected. ?

At least some people can know.

However, the numerous and trivial daily tasks and the struggle against some strata in Marsh City have taken up most of their energy. They have also tried their best to do some work and improved the prestige of some pioneering teams, but their thinking direction is always the same as their greatest. It is also connected with the advantages of the country-steam-powered ships are almost unimpeded, and they can advance and retreat freely. It is also through the wide natural road of the Buber River that traders from all over the world come here, and they can spread out a trade network of this scale today. The city's merchants and nobles had their open support in their struggles.Although this kind of support is limited, the merchants have hinted to them in private that what they did in Mahic City has already made many people feel scared. , may be boycotted by the lords and nobles on both sides of the river, or even the worst thing happens.

Even if the worst happens, the advance team can still continue to develop downstream, but this not only means that all their efforts in the past three years have been wasted, but also consumes more manpower and material resources, and takes greater risks. The humiliation and failure, no one can bear to send this result to the magician.

If we really want to get to that point, we might as well let those who hinder us die—this is the true thought of some young people in the conference room that did not say it.When Fan Tianlan, the new leader, said that they wanted to capture Marsh City, they managed to maintain a calm surface, but they were already happy inside. To maintain the status quo, they had to continue to endure when their weapons and consciousness were very dominant, but From the day they took their oath and left the magician's shelter, the word "retreat" was removed from their dictionary, and their goal was to move forward, move forward and continue to move forward——

"We want to control the result." Fan Tianlan said.

Occupying Mahi City is a desired and not too difficult outcome, but occupation is only the beginning.

It is extremely unlikely to rely on the lord and his subordinates to save themselves; farmers and serfs are controlled on the land and subject to great personal constraints; there is a general lack of production tools; the level of productivity is low; the results of disasters can still be affected by manpower, but agricultural production must Obey the objective laws of nature; finally, to achieve their goals, they must completely change the local production mode and social structure on the basis of occupying a certain amount of land——

What they have to do is to use this as a fulcrum to leverage the surrounding areas after acquiring the city of Mahi, using all conditions, with nature, and with more people, to carry out an event on a vast land that involves 10 people The battle of fate.

In the face of such a picture and such a responsibility, the young people who had once been delighted by the small goal of Maxi City trembled.

Shortness of breath passed through the meeting room, someone raised his collar and fanned it gently, sweat dripped from his forehead.

Boravi, who raised the continuous questioning just now, was also trembling. He clenched his palms tightly and endured not to bite his nails—when he thought he could use other methods to alleviate or eliminate the dispute in front of him, the man on the stage, that man The magician's favorite student wants to start such a huge war!Compared with such a war, he is like a fire, trying in vain to smear mud on the thatched roof of the collapsed hut-does this man know what this war means?Know how much they will invest in it, how many people will be involved in this fire, and what situation will they put themselves in?

If the Warlock knows all this—it is impossible for him not to know, but he still, and even for this purpose, the Warlock sends his best students here, then—God!God!

"So," asked the detachment leader, "when and how did our work begin?"

Boravi lowered his head, his eyes were hot.

God, the God he longed for, pleaded with since he was a child, the God he had imagined countless times——

Shallow and narrow, what he has been praying to is not exactly such a god?

This meeting went on for quite a long time. It was not until the end of the night school self-study class, and the window time for supper was almost over, that groups of people finally appeared in the corridor. When they saw them, the people waiting on the benches were also in high spirits. up.After queuing up to receive noodle soup and scones, the backbone of the detachment sat together with the leader of the alliance they were in charge of, and whispered to them part of the content of the meeting and the arrangements for the next day's group meeting, and the hall was filled with buzz.Boravi was one of the last few people who came out. He hurriedly finished the noodle soup that his companions had brought for him, said something to them, and walked upstairs quickly.

The rest of the people looked at his back, exchanged glances, and packed the scones for him.

"He looked really...happy."

"He wasn't very happy before the meeting."

"Why?" It was one of the leaders of the Brotherhood who asked the question, "Before the meeting, did you quarrel about Kazakhstan?"

"It's not about those beliefs." A member of the detachment said.

"He always thought seeing blood was a bad thing," another added.

Another leader of the Brotherhood with a beard snorted, "But can we not do it? When others hit with a big stick, we can only use our heads to catch it?"

"No..." the backbone of the detachment who spoke first said, "He thinks, don't be so heavy, as long as you demolish the house, gently break the shell of the gentlemen, and shake your fist at them, they will know how to be afraid, and then Just wanted to hide in our house - so no one would say we were devils."

"Those lords and businessmen are really like devils when they do evil. Why don't you see them afraid?" The bearded leader scolded, "It's a dream to make them obey just by waving their fists! How many times have they killed more than one person? , do you still want your mother to continue to be a master?"

"So there is something wrong with his thinking. It may be that he has stayed with those people for too long, and he was a believer before, and some habits are hard to get rid of for a while." The backbone of the detachment said, "But our newcomer The chief is no ordinary man, and he seems to have a way of dealing with these things."

"You all say that you are a capable person, so he must be very capable." Another leader said, "But this is the first time we have seen that handsome young man. He wanted to do such a big thing when he came. It hasn't stopped yet, those lords and their knights are still waiting, are we ready?"

"He is the person we trust the most, that is, the person we should trust the most, not to mention his achievements are amazing. Through him, we know that the rain will stop in seven days at most." The backbone of the detachment said, "And our work We can't wait that long, three days, we must get a result."

A chopstick fell to the table, and the leaders all looked at the speaker.

"Please be prepared." The backbone of the detachment looked at them, "As for the war, that is our responsibility."

Boravi was walking on the stairs, and when he was about to reach the floor he wanted to go to, a shadow guarding the corner in the shadows startled him, and he was relieved when he took a closer look.

"Waterland, it's you!"

"It's me, Boravi." The priest with a sad face whispered, "I've been waiting for you, and you've been meeting more than twice as long as in the past."

"We are discussing something very important." Boravi walked up and stood side by side with him, "Very important."

The priest looked at him in surprise, and Boravi grabbed his arm and led him up together.

"What about your new arrivals?" asked the priest.

"Of course," Boravi said, "things are going to change soon."

Waterland looked in surprise at his eyes that were different from usual, shining in the dim light of the corridor, and a sense of ominousness crept up from the priest's back, "What happened, my friend, you are so happy?"

"We have received real instructions, and the conflict will subside." Boravi said, "Tomorrow, the day after tomorrow at the latest, we will negotiate with the city lord."

"Will that lead to good results?" Waterland asked hopefully.

Boravi paused.Waterland held his breath.

"Whatever the outcome," Boravi said, "ultimately it will be bright for the vast majority of people."

They were already standing in front of a door, and Boravi reached out and knocked on it.After a while, a beautiful young girl's face appeared through the crack of the door. She looked at her teacher and the familiar priest with some surprise and confusion. As an adult man, they never bothered her at night.

"Atolia." Boravi said to her softly, "I have something to trouble you."

"I'd be happy to help you anywhere." Atolia whispered.

Boravi coughed, "Then, you control your breathing and heartbeat first, listen to me - it's not a big deal, I know - I always knew, you've been writing to your father, Atto Leah."

Even though he had made the foreshadowing, Atolia's lips turned bloodless, as if he was about to faint, "Teacher, I——"

"Don't panic, Artoria, this is tacitly allowed! You are still a good boy!" Boravi gestured at her to appease, but he asked at the same time, "Tonight or tomorrow, Artoria, you May I contact your messenger?"

Atolia still looked panicked, "I, I—"

"We need to meet your father directly, His Excellency Robert Na Kael, and negotiate with him for the fate of the city of Mahi." Boravi said solemnly, "We will send him a formal letter, But before that, we also have to let him know that most of what he knows, we let him know."

The child was flustered for a while before she calmed down, and she agreed to the request.What other options does she have?

Before leaving, Boravi shook her cold fingers outside the door, hoping to give the poor child a little more courage to face reality, and also hoped that she would realize that this is actually a kind of relief, obviously between adults. how pitiful it is to use a child in such a way as to fight against the enemy!As her teacher, he also lied to her, which always makes him feel ashamed and guilty. This teacher-student relationship will end soon. I don’t know if this child will believe it. Of course, there is something hidden. They told her Everything is still true?

But with new jobs to start soon, they must focus elsewhere—

Waterland shoved him into the water room.

"Boravi, tell me!" his distant cousin asked in a low voice, urgently, "What are you trying to do?"

"Do what we're supposed to do," Boravi said, "so we have to fix these issues as quickly as possible."

"—what does that mean?" Waterland asked. "What do you want to do? Do you want to make peace with them, or do you want to go, or—do you want to take the city...? What makes you do it?" decided? What did you decide? What do you want to do?"

"We decided to get back on our path," Boravi said.

Waterland seemed to have heard something incredible, "The right way?"

Boravi smiled at him, "I'm surprised, cousin, I don't seem to be able to clear my head until I remember the most important thing—we didn't leave him to be a peddler."

Waterland grabbed him violently, "Tell me! What are you trying to do?!"

"We want to completely change this land and liberate everyone from the past order, whether they are coolies or nobles." Boravi looked at him, his eyes were clear, and his tone was not passionate, but he had been entangled before. The indecision in his words and expression has disappeared, "First, we have to get Marci City."

Waterland let go of him and took a step back, then another, looking at him like a monster.