Take Taobao with you to another world

The industrial federation is on the move.

Faced with a definite crisis, the behemoth began to change direction.

This is not difficult for it. From the first day of its establishment, its founders thought of the storms they would face in the future. No matter whether the hostility comes from the Middle Continent world or other places, they will bear the brunt of future wars There is still room for them to survive and develop.

Before the opponent has actually arrived, the first step in preparing for war is a large-scale mobilization of population and materials.

Inventory before transfer.

The industrial alliance that has developed to this day is undoubtedly a big country, no matter in terms of land or population, even though the surrounding countries and regions still don't know it clearly, its production capacity is recognized as far exceeding common sense country.The members of the alliance see the continuous progress of the alliance through the charts and data on the work report every year, realize how rich the fruits of labor they have created, and feel the various guarantees and rewards given to them by the alliance.

Many people know that the conditions in which they live and work in the Union are superior, but the material needed to ensure this superiority is only a small part of the total.Most of the fruits of people's labor in factories and farms are collected and redistributed and reproduced through the highest body of the Union Congress and its subordinate executive agencies. This is a common sense operation order of the Union.Whether it is a senior builder who experienced the initial period of the alliance with the magician, or a new resident of the alliance who joined the alliance actively or passively, they all recognize and maintain this order from the bottom of their hearts.

This order makes the industrial alliance, as a multi-racial and multi-ethnic aggregate, more concentrated in power than most countries in the world. This concentration also makes it almost impossible for them to deploy production and living materials.

However, contrary to the concentrated population mobilization for war preparations, the trend of material mobilization is scattered.

When Herman took the train, he traveled back to the central area of ​​the Industrial Alliance from the North Territory. As the vehicle entered the station and stabilized, he got off the train, followed the flow of people up the escalator, walked through the long walkway on the pedestrian platform, and saw There were three trains passing by at the same time on the track. Different from the green iron roof of the passenger train, the freight train passing under their feet happened to be of two types, one flat and one open. Pack goods and various building materials.

People made exclamations of wonder and involuntarily slowed down their pace, and some people stopped by the railing, very surprised to estimate the total load of these trucks and their destination with their companions.

"People from the old world", these people reveal their identity information all over their bodies, and no one pays much attention to them. As the economic, political and cultural hub of the Western world today, Industrial City will certainly attract many people for various purposes. It is not surprising that the people of the Union verbally refer to the Middle-earth area outside the Union and the United Kingdom as the Old World, and every Individuals can feel the stark gap between the new rules and the old order the moment they set foot on Union soil.

Not a short period of time has passed since the Industrial Alliance let the old world discover its existence through the two base cities of New Marsh City and Fusong Port, and today the Alliance has grown into a giant land whale that everyone admires. But instead of narrowing, the distance between the two forms of civilization widens—as these steel dragons contrast with the richly colored aristocrats who comment from the perspective of tourists rather than learners.

How sad.

In the wind that smelled of young crops and soot, Herman, who also came from an aristocratic family, once traveled from Fusong Port to Industrial City as a spy, and finally became a reporter due to various factors, thought so.

The sound of the wheels and rails colliding echoed under the elevated dome of the metal structure. The train was like a long train moving forward, and the flow of people flowed through the zigzag bridge, which was like a labyrinth, and passed through the exit to the central hall.The scale of this building is commensurate with the grandeur of the Industrial City Railway Station. Once hundreds of passengers walk into it, it is like a school of fish scattered into a pond.

On the high roof, a large amount of bright light spilled onto the ground through the glass. Herman bought a few newspapers at the newsstand in the hall, held them in his hand, and walked down the wide steps in front of the hall with his luggage, across the square. , go straight to the bus stop.

The volunteer wearing an armband standing under the awning turned his head and glanced at him. He easily recognized the urban atmosphere on his body, ignored him, and walked behind him to ask those who were newcomers or inexperienced. Do trembling travelers need help.

Herman boarded the bus, chose a seat at random and sat down.The vehicle started quickly, and the mechanical vibration was transmitted to the body through the seat. Looking at the familiar scenery passing by outside the window, he exhaled a breath, and only then did he have the tangible feeling of "coming back".

For those who enter the industrial city for the first time, the city is terrifyingly huge, with straight wide streets, huge buildings with regular lines, white walls, black iron, and glass curtain walls that are the same color as the deep sea, even small forests Generally, the green space everywhere neutralizes the somewhat indifferent industrial atmosphere, and people still tend to feel weak here, because no matter how noble their status is in the place where they come from, it is meaningless here.

But Herman liked the city.

Not only does it have a mesmerizing beauty of pure reason, but it also makes him feel power, order and guardianship.

Just like the league itself.

Before the vehicle arrived at the station, Herman had roughly browsed through the newspapers of the day, and was not surprised to see hints or explicit information about various recent changes.The bus he took will take him directly to the newspaper office. Although Herman, who has worked for many years, has his own independent residence in Industrial City, he has not yet married, and he does not spend much time in his new home as he often travels. This time, I also filed a report to apply for dormitory before I came back.

The editor who contacted him said that they have many, many important tasks ahead.

So Herman walked through the stone pillar gate surrounded by flowers and trees, walked through the shade, and walked into the dormitory that had been tidied up in advance, put down his luggage, took off his coat, and fell asleep on the bed that exuded the sunshine.

After resting for a day, Herman started to attend the work meeting, and obtained the internal information about the recent changes in the alliance's affairs at the first work meeting. Although he had heard some secretly circulated news when he was in the north, he saw them It was confirmed in black and white, and Herman was still shocked. Not only him, but also the other dispatched journalists who attended the meeting had similar reactions.

No one will doubt the authenticity of these materials.

"What should we do?"

"Do all we can," said the editor curtly.

The second rift war, even knowing that the Alliance’s rapid development was related to it, but realized that it was coming, and the key to history repeating itself turned out to be a high-energy city floating in the air from another world, And there are undisclosed channels that have confirmed that the city is about to fulfill its mission as a beacon. For reporters like Heman, it still feels very unreal.

It took them some time to accept the information, and then they recovered their basic professional qualities and began to devote themselves to the work in front of them.

The alliance is very powerful, with a collection of elites, and the most important thing is the nature of the subject of "liberators", which means that no matter from which side the war is ignited, they must assume the responsibility of defending the entire human race.The alliance must not inform people of this crisis that affects the fate of all people after the signs of the rift restart appear, nor can it only notify the rulers who account for only a few, but how to make the most people accept the rift in a short period of time in an appropriate way? The complex information of the war, mobilizing people inside and outside the industrial alliance to prepare for the second rift war is the task that these media workers are facing.

This is of course a great challenge, but they are duty-bound.

What makes Herman different from other journalists and writers is that when he participates in these works, he not only cannot stop the issues on the construction of the North in his hands, but also makes them more prominent.Because they have to face such a major crisis, the reform paradigm of the Northern Territory has its representative value.

Even if the industrial alliance must and irreplaceably assume the responsibility of leading the second rift war, other countries and regions must also be organized-whether in terms of the experience of the alliance in foreign wars or the experience of journalists and foreign affairs personnel. He said that most countries and regions have serious problems with their organization and solidarity.Generally, the feudal governance system based on the small peasant economy lacks population and is difficult to raise resources. It is almost impossible to carry out effective defense and counterattack on its own.

The alliance must give them due assistance and assist them to improve these problems, the first thing is to establish effective information channels.

At this point, the alliance has accumulated a wealth of experience. The channels connecting the east and west sides of Central Continent have proved their reliability during the long-term use. Many countries and regions outside the alliance also know that the alliance has its own Its special and efficient means of communication. It would be a lie to say that they do not want such technology, but no one has formally requested it so far.

The reason is that the speed of the alliance's development is too alarming. Even if they think that this speed is reasonable, in fact, except for the United Kingdom, which is also undergoing drastic changes, the outside world is still in the process of accepting such a "monster" Among them, before they explored how to deal with this evil country, they had already lost the initiative due to the impact of the alliance's products and culture; the second was the double impact of the alliance's products and culture, which made them realize that the alliance The real threat of the industrial alliance, and then realized that if it used the same technology and incorporated itself into the alliance's communication network, it would no longer be possible to resist the intrusion of the industrial alliance's mature spirit-this has been demonstrated in many polemics. fully manifested.

The countries of the "Old World" were both terrified and fascinated by industrial alliances.Even if the alliance has never actively oppressed a weak country, its existence is like a giant celestial body, which will involuntarily distort the surrounding environment towards it.

While the nobles and the church irresistibly used a large number of industrial products that made their lives more comfortable and superior, they watched the order of the country and the territory, as well as the morality of the people, "deteriorating" day by day.Even though strict defenses are strictly guarded, many people still flee their homes regardless of hardships and dangers every year, rushing to the legendary land of abundance.And as long as they enter the territory of the industrial alliance—whether it is the White Ship or those commercial districts set up like cancerous tumors in major cities, those shameful defectors will be sheltered by the alliance people, as long as the pursuers do not show their real If there is no criminal evidence, the defectors will get what they want, and they will be sent to the border wasteland of the Industrial Alliance in the name of asylum.

The nobles and the church said angrily that these defectors died on the road or had become slaves of the alliance people, but there were always such ghosts who sneaked across the porous defense line and took away the remaining family members, making more people feel guilty. The Industry Union is a good place to be even more convinced.What's more deadly is that even though many nobles and devout believers insist on unshakable faith, young people in this class are more and more easily bewitched by heresies from that world, because young people are more honest in their hearts and admit a The existence of a country that is large, strong, rich, rapidly expanding and at the same time surprisingly stable is reasonable. Not only is it reasonable, its system that is completely different from the general form of the country and its maintenance methods are also completely worth learning.

Herman has been caring about the situation of these aristocratic overseas students out of his personal willingness to work, and his profession also makes him more aware of their changes in the alliance than ordinary people.As the influence of the industrial alliance continues to expand, more and more people go to the industrial alliance for study tours in recent years. Depending on the way of study tour and the length of time they stay in the industrial alliance, the evaluation of this pagan country also shows a year-on-year change from polarization to A converging trend.However, even if the industrial alliance is a more promising advanced civilization is becoming their consensus, there are still not many nobles who are willing to start from scratch and learn production technology "dirty and tired".

The first is that self-esteem does not allow it, and the second is that even if they are willing to let go of their dignity, they know that individual efforts cannot bridge the huge gap between feudal small production and large industrial production.And referring to the political and economic system of the industrial alliance to go back and reform their own territory, they knew it would be a dead end before trying.

Although the fundamental reason is that they are very unwilling to transfer power to the people of the lower class - the industrial alliance opens education to them on extremely favorable terms, and the only requirement is to bind corresponding quotas for civilians.This was originally a very beneficial thing in the eyes of the nobles, but after the alliance took the opportunity to comply with their request and let the common people receive education in another area, they found themselves in a trap: those who should be loyal to their masters, try their best The civilians who used the resources of the alliance to become right-hand men in the future quickly changed the object of their gratitude, not only completely forgetting that they could come here because of the choice of the master, but even actively engaged in various aspects with their master under the instigation of the alliance people competition.

This kind of competition is the root cause of noble students' bad impression of the alliance in the early stage of their studies, but the basic qualities of rulers make them gradually wake up to this arrangement. On the contrary, this arrangement allows them to recognize the nature of the industrial alliance in advance, knowing that the meaning of its existence is to shake It even completely negates the foundation of the existence of the nobility and the church.But after acknowledging this fact and actively investing in learning for a period of time, some miserable nobles discovered the alliance's principle of "making a teacher famous" by virtue of their low moral standards. No matter how the population is exodus, restrain force and try to avoid bloodshed, then they can maintain their ruling order before the alliance launches an overall offensive against the old world, and enjoy their luxurious life until that moment.

In other words, they lay flat.

Not only the former aristocrats like Herman who have become members of the alliance, but also the resolute ones among these aristocrats can't see the result of their study in the alliance, and it has caused several disputes.

While continuing to write articles on the restructuring of the Northern Territory, Herman thought about the different tendencies of these aristocratic international students, the soil foundation for their differentiation, and their different performances after the end of their studies.These aristocratic students can at least finish one semester in the Industrial Alliance, and only a very small number of them never return after that. Regardless of whether they are lying down or struggling, they will try to bring some of the results of their studies back to their family territory. Large mechanical products.Chime clocks, cameras and bicycles were all the rage.

These actions will undoubtedly enhance the outside world's understanding of the industrial alliance.But what is interesting or very ironic is that after such communication, the noble families of the Lieping faction are more willing to continue to deepen their relationship with the industrial alliance. They are much more positive than the struggling faction.The struggling aristocrats also decided to continue to increase the number of nobles and civilians studying abroad - even though the minds of these young people will inevitably be polluted by paganism, their education and living costs are almost entirely borne by the industrial alliance. Nobles can reap the fruits with almost no cost, and use them selectively, or raise those common people who have learned, like the production tools and daily conveniences they bought, they become completely for them, only controlled by them. driven by something.

Under the general trend, this kind of "struggle" behind closed doors is actually meaningless.

The overall technical level of the industrial alliance, as well as the efficiency of communication, production, and organization, determine that it can not only manage the existing vast area, but also effectively control more population and land without significant effort.Although strong mergers and backwards are the weak and the strong prey on the strong, it is not a principle advocated by the industrial alliance, and the liberators also try their best to prevent themselves from becoming a new oppressive class under the guidance of the magician, but the more they interact with the "old world", people will be more aware of it. Realizing the irrationality of the superstructure of the aristocracy and the powerlessness of religion, and realizing the inevitable replacement of the backward by the advanced, people could not help but imagine that the eastern and western parts of Central Continent developed relative to each other while the United Kingdom in the East was undergoing a drastic transformation. The world will be fully connected, and the new order will be extended to the entire Central Continent. There will be no more hunger and poverty in the world, and mankind as a whole will enter a new era of prosperity and beauty.

This is an extremely crazy dream, but it is an ideal that the liberators are willing to spend a long time and unremitting efforts to realize.And they are not just wishful thinking themselves, almost everyone who accepts the value system of the industrial alliance will become their help.

Not even the Second Rift War will stand in the way of this desire.After all, referring to the experience of the last rift war, human beings will become particularly united in the face of inescapable crises.Hermann knew that the alliance would soon spread the news about this war, and the "Old World" might have avoided it at first, even though the alliance had the credibility to make all its statements important because of its strength, but Even Heman and others will feel unreal at a certain moment. For those who have been in peace for more than two hundred years—compared to the peace of the last Rift War—whether they are half-believing or completely denying this is a reasonable reaction.

Herman is loyal to the alliance with all his heart and soul, and even if it conflicts with common sense, he firmly believes in the judgment from the upper echelons of the alliance.In his opinion, who still refuses to apply to become a liberator, when the omen becomes a reality and the invaders from the other world appear in front of all human beings, the industrial alliance will really enter its development period. The decision of the countries to join the alliance seemed unreasonable and spineless submission to the "Old World", but it would not take long before the mindless "Northern Barbarian" they called would become their role model and object of admiration.

Based on this understanding, after handing in the manuscript for the restructuring of the Northern Territory, he tried his best to win a place to go to Xizhou Plain as a representative reporter of the headquarters.The task of this quota is of course not to explore the extent of the alliance's erosion of the Western Continent countries. They have already received sufficient feedback through various signs. A senior reporter whose personal career has closely followed the development of the league, the still young Herman is going to witness another new piece of history this time.

The "City of the Sky" is about to be decoupled from the ground. Then, when it anchors, the resistance forces on the ground will explode—even they won't wait until this day, because the nobles of Sky City, represented by Prince Rand, are going to Reaping the consequences, their two ruling systems, heaven and earth, have severed the connection.

Those who resist will know this vital intelligence, and its source need not ask.

The Alliance will intervene in this war in an unprecedented manner.