Take Taobao with you to another world

Ella had half a month's vacation, and he spent several days to understand the current life of the tribe.

Compared with the more and more detailed occupations in the industrial city, the current status of the Leopard people can be summed up only by the word "farmer".Of the more than 3000 residents in the new residence, more than 90.00% are engaged in agricultural activities. They cultivate land, manage fruit trees, grow vegetables, raise poultry and livestock, and only a few of them are engaged in off-production work. These few people are selected Those who came out were in charge of operating canteens, grocery stores, and guest houses, as well as maintaining some public service facilities, such as residents' activity centers, small libraries, and residential primary schools.They also have their own clinic.Although the function has been simplified compared to the city, the No. [-] residence is undoubtedly a new settlement that is more livable than any other tribe.

At the beginning, most of the materials for the new residence had to be imported from the industrial city by train, but after a year of construction, the new residents have already obtained a considerable harvest on the nearly [-] hectares of land surrounding the new residence. The area of ​​the land makes up for the tribe of the unit output, and now the second harvest is being done. According to the estimates of the working group, after the settlement of this harvest, the debts of the leopard people will be reduced by one third, because they will continue Expand the size of the land, so it won't be long, in the foreseeable future, these leopard people who are ashamed of their sins can enjoy what they have now without heavy pressure.

The transition from being a hunter and nomad to a career in agriculture is not an easy one for anyone.What's more, this major transformation was not voluntary in the beginning.Panicked Leopard people were forced to leave their valley and come to this wilderness. The new residence was not as complete as it is today. Although there are not many temporary managers here, they represent the authority of the industrial city. Leopard people Having just experienced the brutality of a werewolf patrol, he is as docile as a sheep under this authority.They quickly and had to move into a new life, because on the first day they arrived in their new residence, they were burdened with huge debts to the industrial city-they had to accept expensive new residences, use the facilities already installed in these houses All kinds of daily necessities, hungry and thirsty, they can't use the well in the yard to draw water, and use the pots and stoves in the kitchen to cook food. As a matter of course, the food piled up in the big tank is sent to the new residence every day. Meat and vegetables are priced.

They are accumulating debt every day they live here.In order not to let those alarming numbers continue to increase, people immediately began to look for partners who could bring benefits, but at this point they don't need to worry, the new residence is only partially developed, and the rest of the plan to be completed is enough They have struggled for several years.If they were particularly dull and uncooperative, the time to complete the plan would be infinitely extended along with his debts, but Leopard had accepted the reality faster than anyone else.

What's so hard about accepting reality?The new house they were forced to live in was as big and beautiful as a palace compared to the huts they lived in when they were in the tribe. They had rooms, kitchens, toilets, and a large yard; Every bite must be repaid with the future harvest of the land allocated to their own names, but they came here with almost nothing. The seeds, agricultural tools and planting skills are all provided by the temporary managers of the new residence. Few people feel that they are That rough labor is worth the value set by the Industrial City; although the labor is hard, it is far from unbearable, and the people sent by the Industrial City to lead their labor patiently taught them all the skills—— In fact, one-third of the houses in the new residence were completed with the assistance of these immigrant tribes.

And more than one tribe came to the new settlement.

Perhaps the other tribes did not relocate as a whole, and their number was smaller than that of the Leopard tribe, but they almost all came voluntarily. None of these tribes colluded with the northerners and intended to betray the former patriarch of the alliance.After the former patriarch was humiliated by werewolves and deprived of his position as patriarch, he was not taken to the prison in Industrial City and imprisoned. Instead, he followed others to the new residence for "reform through labor" after losing his power.The interim managers not only allocated housing, food and tools to him, but even if they knew what he had done, they did not restrict his activities, and never specially assigned heavy work to him.

But the more they did it, the more unbearable that former patriarch was.On a winter night, he escaped from his new residence with a few Leopards who were loyal to him.People speculate that he may have fled to the railway first, grabbed a passing train, jumped off a certain section of the road, and then sneaked into the city of Kanlar, passing through the open trading city to the north.He took away most of the remaining iron coins, gold and silver of the tribe, and was able to continue to sell the alliance to enter the orc king's court. After leaving the tribe and the alliance, he should and could continue to live with dignity.

But his second betrayal caused great confusion and anger to the people.

Colluding with the northerners is a betrayal of the industrial alliance, and fleeing is a betrayal of the tribe. In the face of such shameless behavior, everything the former patriarch said has become a lie.All his promises and oaths to his tribe were false, his slander against the industrial city, his slander against the sorcerer, all his actions of avoiding labor and making others rebel against the administrator in his new place of residence, nothing he did was as good as What he said was for the benefit of the tribe, but out of his own despicableness, selfishness, jealousy of magicians, humans, and industrial cities.

They deserted the tribe, and the tribe spurned and deserted them.

Because of this kind of spurning, the Leopards completely turned to the working group that came to them from the industrial city, accepted the suggestions of these people who supported them in the most difficult time, and after electing a new patriarch, established Neighborhood-based street committees and land-based farmers associations brought the spirit of the clan back together through these new organizations.Although they were not very comfortable with these organizational forms at first, the facts quickly proved to the leopard people the necessity of the existence of these autonomous organizations.

Among all the tribal people who migrated to this new place of residence, the leopard people are the most numerous and the ones who have accepted the new production method the best.Even Ella is a little hard to imagine. Nearly half of the current houses in the new residence contain the labor of the leopard people, and outside the residence, the leopard people have cultivated two-thirds of the land that has been reclaimed.The Leopards used their hard work to wash away the shame brought to them by the former patriarch. No tribe in the new residence said that the Leopards should not enjoy the treatment of the industrial city. They established a new image of the Leopard tribe in the new residence, and even When the tribesmen are unable to complete the production tasks assigned to them (this is by no means an uncommon situation), these people also hire leopard tribes to help them do the work.

The working group has never objected to this, and the Leopards can accept these remunerations with peace of mind.Although there may still be people who are still dissatisfied with being forcibly relocated, and some people are nostalgic for the days when they rose day by day, slept with the stars, and ran freely in forests and wilderness, but people have spent countless years like this, without enough food. However, the hardships of wind, rain and snow never improved until Industry City traded with every tribe.However, nomadism and hunting accumulate wealth at an extremely slow rate. People's lives have only improved slightly, and they are still far away from real prosperity and happiness.

Then happiness descended, most suddenly, with a ferocious countenance.

When Ella walked on their land with her father, listened to the former hunter tell him how they started from a piece of farmland that had only been rough tilled, fertilized, sowed, raised seedlings, weeded, thinned, Topdressing, deworming... Just like managing a new territory, take care of the crops on this vast land step by step, day by day.Naturally, there were many hardships in this process, but Ella's father said very little. There is no new survival skill that is not difficult to learn at the beginning: can't use farm animals, can't master the amount of fertilizer well, leopard people don't even Knowing what is farming time, monotonous and repetitive labor is tiresome and tiring, hands that can hold a hunting knife tightly may not be able to wield a hoe for a long time, for a long time, people have regarded doing farm work as a punishment... …even if all the food goes off the debt during the busy season doesn’t make them smile.

until harvest.

The tribal people don't know the usual yield of these ordered crops, but when they are harvested by hand, they are dug out from the soil, filled with bags one after another, piled up on the wide drying ground to form mountains, and finally passed After rows of steel scales piled up to a staggering number in the workgroup's notebooks, letting their debts evaporate like boiling water, the joy came.

The leopards of the tribe swallowed their first farm income with tears. Although the same inexperienced breeding farm failed and failed to add luster to that harvest feast, people's hope for the future has been extinguished by the flames. lit.They have received more support from the industrial city for the new planting season, and some of the most active people have even offered to claim more land. They know through the radio and newspapers that a powerful machine called a tractor is in the construction of the new Mahi city. Having played an important role, and learning of the favorable effect of deep plowing on crop yields, someone ventured to ask the working group whether they too could apply for such a fetish.

Their wishes were passed on to the council of delegates, and they were granted.

The scene of the tractor rumbling across the fields of the new residence No. [-] is like yesterday in Ella's father's memory.At the suggestion of the working group, more than a dozen families joined forces to rent these machines from the industrial city. Although this added to their debt, the harvest this autumn proved that it was completely worth it.Although Ella didn't experience these things personally, she felt the changes in the tribe from her father's whispered narration.

As the sun was setting, on the way home, Ella's father asked him, "Everything is getting better. But can we go on like this forever? Do we really own it all? Who owns the land we farm? Who is the master of us and the land?"

In addition to humiliation, the former patriarch left people with doubts.Even though most of the nonsense he had poured into the minds of his people who believed in him had disappeared with his escape, there were still shadows hovering.As the "demonstration" being tested, the leopard people have already developed feelings for this new homeland, but apart from the debt that weighs on everyone equally, there is no contract that can guarantee that they can live here for a long time.Maybe they will be driven back to the old site of the tribe one day - thinking of this possibility, not many people will feel happy.

Ella didn't know that her people would think about these things in hard labor.Although there was no direct conflict, the entire tribe of Leopard people who moved here still had a competitive relationship with the later tribes of different species. They were a little proud at the time, so they didn't look forward to the future of multi-tribal coexistence.Every time a new immigrant arrives, outstanding representatives of the leopard people will work with the working group to help them adapt to the new life. During this process, the leopard people gradually accumulate dissatisfaction.

Of course, there are incentives for helping new immigrants, but these individual incentives cannot compensate for the occupation of housing resources by new immigrants.Tools, livestock, the attention of the working group, they want everything, impatient to learn new survival skills, but eager to see the fruits, lazy, easy to give up, and get angry when they are accused; the clean streets are full of other tribes When Leopard families go out to work, these unruly little animals will jump over the fence and jump into their homes... Even if not all new immigrants are like this, even the Leopards admit that most immigrants are not like this, even The mistakes they made, the Leopards themselves have made more than one, but—

The leopard people already had the idea of ​​letting the tribe take root here, and the arrival of every new immigrant means that they are farther and farther away from the goal of monopolizing the new residence, or at least gaining a dominant position.

Obviously, their wish is almost impossible to be satisfied.

The working group knew what the Leopards wanted, and according to the rules that were tried out in the new place of residence, they did have the right to strive to be representatives of the whole new place of residence—a part of it.The number of new immigrants is close to one-third of the total number of people in the new place of residence. Although they all come from different tribes and are not as united as the leopard people, they are also in accordance with the rules of residence, and no single tribe is allowed to have more than two people in the new place of residence. one-third.Land reclamation is still going on, and the new settlement can at least accommodate ten times the population. No matter how united the Leopards are, they will only become a minority.

These rules made the leopard people feel a little uncomfortable, and they were not very looking forward to the development of the new residence in the future.But they can't just accept the majority of the rules that are beneficial to them, but reject the minority that they don't like.So they didn't directly ask Ella whether he could express their request to some more powerful people after returning to the industrial city...Of course, they knew that there was little hope of success, but it should be worthwhile to try. There will be no serious consequences, right?

The magician has always been very tolerant.

Ella looked at her people, not knowing what to say.

"The working group will leave." The Leopards reminded him, "We have to plan as soon as possible."

"Can't it be like Kanlar City?" Ella asked. "It's also a place where there are many tribes. It's very prosperous now."

The leopards shook their heads and said, "But the people of Kanlar are werewolves. Even if they were werewolves, Kanlar is not in their hands. If the werewolves of Kanlar were removed from that city, how big would it be?" The city is still there, the market is still there, and those caravans will still come. The Kanlars can still rely on their relationship with the Sashere werewolves, but what do we have?"

"The new residence was proposed by the magician, and the working group represents the will of the magician..."

"The working group said they would leave." The leopards said, "They will leave when they have done what they should do, the magician..." They whispered, "If the magician also leaves one day, what should we do? "

Ella stood up abruptly, "The magician won't leave!"

People look at him.

"Then, why did the magician build a new city on the border of mankind? In just a short time, his students conquered a royal capital for him, and built a city almost as big as an industrial city for him." , They are all human beings, don’t they want the magician to be their king?” People said, “How can human beings not want the magician to be their king?”

Ella was momentarily speechless.

He hadn't thought about it.

"The magician, the magician will never abandon us," he finally said with difficulty, "if he would, why would he pay so much for us?"

No one contradicted him directly, but Ella knew she hadn't convinced anyone either.Why do people think that Warlocks will leave them? The answer to this question is likely to be the same as why Warlocks came to the Orc Empire. He encountered a group of people who were poor and could hardly survive... and there are such people everywhere ?Even in the orc empire that has been greatly changed by the sorcerer, isn't the north where the war is taking place already asking him for help?Or like the populous city of New Mahi, wasn't it rebuilt because the famine was foreseen, and then absorbed countless victims in the disaster that happened, and became bigger and bigger?And what is the purpose of Industrial City to help those strangers that is beneficial to itself?

Ella recalled the reports she had read, that for no other reason, a huge catastrophe was about to happen, and they had the power to save others, so they did.

The pioneers did gain land and population through their relief actions, took root in foreign countries, became famous among the countries, and could easily shake the separatist power of a kingdom.But you can't put the cart before the horse and think that they are doing hard work for the sake of land and population. They have an easier way to achieve this goal.Ella had read in the newspaper that the nobles of Orbis had sharply commented on the stupidity of sending a detachment from New Mahy City. At such a precarious moment, they did not have to fight against the local ruler at all, as long as they donated to the king at that time. Some food and money, they will soon be able to get the title awarded by the king, and there is a reason to do anything after that, instead of being the notorious invaders and population plunderers who are still notorious.

So, how did the pioneers of New Mahidol respond to the criticism of those loathsome nobles?

Ella thought back on this sleepless night.

They said: "The source of all our power and justice is that we are fighting for the most fundamental interests of the greatest number of people."

The bright moonlight shone outside the young man's window, and the mosquito-proof window also blocked the refreshing night wind. Slight sweat stained the reed mat. Ella opened her eyes, thinking about these words over and over again in her mind, and her hands The hair on the back of his upper neck exploded slowly as he breathed.

The clear night sky heralds the good weather tomorrow, the soft moonlight falls on the vast field, and the long wind blows from one end of the field to the other like people's sleeping breath.Countless tribes have fallen into a vague dream, and only a small number of new settlements are still shining with artificial lights in every corner. These non-flickering twilight lights have formed easily recognizable signposts on the earth, pointing to a glorious city. city.

No moonlight, however gentle, can lull this dynamic city to sleep.Tall street lamps illuminate the wide hardened road. People walk in twos and threes. It is not working time, but people in the industrial city have a very rich night life. They either just finished an event and are going home, or they are going to the next One, the long night is long, there are more meaningful things than simple sleep, why waste time?

The faint sound of music came into the room through the wall. Scar threw dozens of documents on the table, leaned back on the chair, and let out a long breath.This breath almost spit out his soul.

When the pharmacist came in, he saw him hanging on a chair, his eyes were blank, his head was almost tilted, and his tongue stuck out. Even after decades of being together, it was hard for the pharmacist not to feel sympathy for his appearance.He put the supper on the table, straightened his head, put his thumb on the forehead, and the other four fingers pointed to the side of the neck.

Scar took his hand.

"Do you want to see if I'm dead..." Scar said, "or do you just want to press me?"

The pharmacist sighed, and stretched his fingers into his thick and rough hair, "Let me see how many white hairs you have grown."

Scar immediately sat upright, "I'm fine! I don't have any stray hairs! I can hit ten more!"

The pharmacist put his head between his hands and asked, "Who was hit?"

After a while, Scar's voice came lazily: "I don't want to hit anyone. I don't want to hit anyone right now."

The pharmacist came back from washing his hands, watched Scar Gudu Gudu drink up all the soup, then put the bowl on the table and exhaled.He walked over, pulled the chair over and sat beside Scar, shoulder to shoulder with him, and looked at the pile of paperwork on the table together, "It's almost finished, isn't it?"

"almost."

"It's hard to imagine," said the pharmacist, "that we've come this far."

Scar didn't speak.

After a while, the pharmacist asked: "For such an important matter, that young man will come back soon, right?"

"Of course he's coming back," Scar said. "His teacher is waiting for him."