LOL: Summoner of Goddess Jana

Chapter 123 Can Zaun Be Independent? (Please subscribe~)

Zaun is the most suitable area for leaders to develop in Runeterra, because it is a large industrial city with a population of 200 million:
There are a large number of workers with low economic status, concentrated and full of combat effectiveness, which provides fertile ground for class struggle;
It also has a mature light and heavy industrial system. After independence, it does not need to go through the painful process of primitive accumulation on the way from an agricultural country to an industrial country.

"But as long as you do a little research, you will find that these are Zaun's advantages, but they are also Zaun's biggest disadvantages."

Lina introduced their findings to the host, which is also the biggest dilemma that Zaun may face in the future:
"There is no rural area in Zaan, the urbanization rate is 100%, and more than 200 million residents are industrial and commercial people without any agricultural skills."

Zu Ping'an is a city resident, there are no farmers, and they don't even know how to use a hoe.

Once faced with the enemy's blockade and embargo, and food supply problems, they simply cannot organize decent agricultural production in a short period of time.

If it is in other places in Runeterra, the leader can also mobilize the urban population who have lost a lot of unemployment due to the blockade, embargo and industrial shutdown, and take them back to the countryside, go to the countryside to farm, and survive The enemy's blockade created an independent industrial and agricultural system bit by bit.

But the problem is:
"This is Zaun. There is no agricultural land in Zaun."

Open the map of Runeterra and you will know:

To the east of Zaan is the sea, and to the west is also the sea;

To the north lies Piltover, and to the north lies the northern mountains controlled by Noxus.

The south is also blocked by continuous mountains and Kumanggu primitive jungle.

Not only are the mountains and forests dense, uninhabited, and difficult to develop, but there are also leopards that turn into women in the jungle, poodle tribes that hunt, thorn forests that eat people, etc., all kinds of weird things.

That is to say, there are natural barriers in the southeast and northwest of Zu'an, and the natural country is small and narrow, which is not suitable for the development of agriculture.

The few wilderness flats have long been polluted by the wanton discharge of alchemy toxins to the point of being unusable.

Even if the people of Zaun were willing to go to the countryside to farm, there would be no land for them to farm here.

"Zuun is too dependent on the Noxian-dominated international economic system, and we don't even have the natural conditions to get rid of this dependence."

"Once Piltover and Noxus kick us out of their economies, cutting off our raw materials and food supplies, we'll be suffocating in agony as if someone had strangled us."

It is not difficult for people of insight to understand the problems Lina mentioned.

But what Zuan lacks is this kind of insight.

Prior to this, the people of Zaun simply hated the Alchemy Barons and Piltovers, the great villains who exploited and oppressed them.

But no one has ever thought about how to develop Zaun and how to get rid of the predicament after overthrowing these big villains?
Everyone seems to only want to have a good fight, but never thought about how to establish a pragmatic and reliable new order after the old order was overthrown.

Food supply issues, raw material import issues, commodity export issues, employment issues, pollution issues, industrial structure, industrial added value, and industrial chain complexity.
These problems will not disappear out of thin air with the downfall of the Alchemy Baron.

But no one in Zaan has ever considered these things, only the leaders have considered them.They established an organization, designed a system, conducted social surveys, and began to check for leaks and fill vacancies for Zaan.

"This..." The male owner of this family was in a complicated mood.

He admired and was shocked at the same time: "Miss Lina, according to your investigation results, we don't seem to have the confidence to offend Piltover and Noxus at all."

"Zuun...it seems impossible to be independent at all."

"No, it's fine." Lena said, "But you have to kneel."

If after Zaun's independence, he still obediently sells cheap labor to Piltover, provides minerals and coal energy at low prices, and provides chemical raw materials and alchemy products at the cost of high pollution, then Piltover and Noxus may allow Zaun independence.

"But what's the difference between not being independent?"

Before independence, I dug coal to weave socks, and after independence I still dug coal to weave socks, so am I not independent for nothing?

"Does the leader have a solution to this problem?" the host asked.

"Yes." Lina replied: "Zuan has no shortage of talented scientists, engineers, and experienced technical workers. It is actually not difficult to increase productivity and achieve industrial upgrading."

"But Piltover won't allow it." The host asked sharply.

If the people of Zaun refuse to obediently make parts and modify electric vehicles, they will steal Piltover's business.

As long as Piltover seals the port and the canal, it can use raw materials and food to jam Zaun's neck.

At that time, the people of Zaun won't even be able to eat, so why don't they have to go back to work as coolies?

Therefore, the people of Picheng are actually not afraid of Zaan's independence at all.

Without economic sovereignty, even if Zaun becomes independent, it is a false independence with incomplete sovereignty.

So in the end, to solve this problem, we still have to rely on
"This?" the male host tentatively put his shotgun on the table.

"Ahem." Lina immediately emphasized with a smile: "Sir, our leader's philosophy is 'non-violent non-cooperation'."

The male protagonist is also a smart person: "Understood, understood. Piltover's combat power is limited, I mean, they may agree to 'cooperate'."

"What about Noxus behind Piltover?"

"Goddess Janna is on our side," Lina said. "Sooner or later, Noxus will agree to 'cooperate.'"

"Is the goddess real?" the host asked in surprise and joy.

"It's true." Lina did not explain further: "The goddess Janna will come to the mortal world soon, you can wait and see."

"This..." the host hesitated for a while.

It seems that he is not only a Janna believer who taught himself to master the theory, but also has long been eager to devote himself to this great cause.

So, the male master turned his head away and started communicating with his wife in a low voice: "Honey, do you think we should take that 'child' and go to Picheng to join these leaders?"

"Takeda has been sending people around to look for us. Zaun has become less and less safe, but these people may be able to protect us."

"No!" The hostess objected fiercely.

Seeing that Lina and others were following the reputation curiously, she lowered her voice and said:
"How long have you known these leaders? What if they are not as good as they say in that pamphlet?"

"Who knows if they will, like Takeda Saito. Use that 'child' as a tool and a weapon?"

The host also hesitated when he heard the words.

But he still said: "No, I think these leaders are different from all the gangs and organizations we have seen."

Before today, he also had doubts about the leader.

But after reading Lena's "Zuan Investigation Manual", the hero realized the extraordinaryness of the leader.

"They're not real idealists, and they don't really want to change the world. It's impossible for them to work hard and make such a detailed social survey report."

The leaders are by no means those sanctimonious "philanthropists" in the Shuangcheng who liked to decorate their appearance with public welfare undertakings in the past.

Otherwise, they only need to do something good to show off, and there is no need to spend so much manpower and material resources on Zaun social investigation.

"They're different." The host thinks so.

"." The hostess was gradually moved by the talk.

Their life in Zaan was actually not easy.Of course she also longed for a safe and secure place to go.

"But we still have to observe more." The hostess was still hesitating.

Outside the small building where the two lived, there was a tsunami-like sound of approaching motorcycle engines.

"Oops!" Upon hearing this voice, the host stood up reflexively.

He rushed to the window with the modified shotgun in his hand, opened the curtains and looked out:
"It's Takeda Saito—"

"Takeda Saito's prosthetic transformation unit!"

The face of the hostess and hostess suddenly turned pale.

"What?" Lina and the others reacted vigilantly in a daze: "Baron Takeda's prosthetic body transformation team?"

After these weeks of investigation and practice, they can't say that they know the situation of the major forces in Zaun well, but they can also say that they know everything well.

Takeda Saito is the leader of the big gang in Zaan after Silko and Renata.

And his prosthetic transformation troop is also one of the most powerful elite armed forces in Zaun.

These Lena and her teammates are clear.

But the background of the enemy is so great.How could they find two small alchemists who lived in seclusion in the gutter area?

"Because we are not living in seclusion here, we are hiding here for refuge." The male host sighed helplessly.

Who would have thought that one second he was still debating whether to go to Picheng to join the leader, and the next second he would be in great trouble, and he would not be able to leave even if he wanted to.

Now that things are up to now, it doesn't make sense to hide any more:
"Actually, my wife and I used to be alchemists working for Takeda Saito."

"To save that 'child' from the lab, we betrayed Saito Takeda and took him into hiding in the gutter area."

"And these lackeys of Takeda Saito are probably targeting our 'children'."

"Your child?" Lina was puzzled.

"Well, his name is ZAC."

"Our son, Zack."

　The second is later_(:з」∠)_
　　
　
(End of this chapter)