LOL: Summoner of Goddess Jana

Chapter 259 Demacia's Filter

The news from Janna made Li Wei move a little bit.

He glanced at the pink-haired girl lying lazily in his arms, she tightly wrapped her white arms around his neck, tangled for a while, but she was not willing to let go.

He just took the time to confirm with Janna: "The Demacians will arrive tomorrow? I remember, didn't these old antiques come by boat? Why is the time so much earlier?"

Taking a boat from the capital of Demacia to Zaun almost crosses from the westernmost side of the Valoran continent to the easternmost side.Its voyage is long and the distance is far away. At the speed of the sailing ships that still dominate the current mainstream, it is impossible to complete the journey in less than two months.

Li Wei had kindly suggested before that he could send a "Mutated Demon Swamp Frog" who is good at teleportation spells, and go directly to Demacia to pick up people to visit Zaun—yes, in order to prevent outsiders from being "devil" two Shocked by the words, Tamm's official identity disclosed to the public is the "Mutated Demon Swamp Frog" that the leader subdued in the sewers of Zaun.

Levi wants Tam to pick him up.

If it doesn't work, he will go to Demacia by himself, and discuss things over there.Anyway, there is an abyss dive, so it is convenient to go back and forth.

But the Demacia side felt uncomfortable when they heard the "spell", and resolutely refused any magical creature to set foot on the territory of the Demacia Kingdom in this open form.Including Li Wei, the chosen mage, and the "mutated demon marsh frog" in his mouth.

In addition, Demacia is also willing to investigate the situation in Zaun on the spot, so they decided to follow the traditional practice and send a mission across the sea by boat to visit Zaun secretly.

"But they only went to sea more than ten days ago? How can they arrive tomorrow?" Li Wei was puzzled.

"It's like this." Janna said: "According to Miss Mel's news, these Demacians first sailed to Kalamanda on the golden coast in the northwest of Shurima, and then stopped at the port of Kalamanda for a whole day. internal debate."

"Debate? All day long?" Seraphine raised her head from Li Wei's arms and asked with wide eyes curiously, "What are these Demacians arguing about?"

"They're discussing whether the Hexgate counts as a teleportation spell, and whether riding the Hexgate counts as 'demonization'." Janna said: "If they take the Hexgate in Kalamanda to save the distance, The door goes straight to Zaun, will you be arrested by the Demon Seekers from Demacia when you go back?"

Levi, Seraphine: "."

"And then?" They were really curious about how these Demacians faced Hex technology, a new thing that was born in Runeterra not long ago and combined technology and magic.

"Then the chief ambassador of the secret mission, Madam Augsa of the Crownguard family, took the relationship of her sister-in-law who married the leader of the Demon Seeker Corps as a guarantee, and everyone agreed to take the Hexgate to save time."

"So they can arrive in Zaun tomorrow morning."

Levi, Seraphine: "."

Lady Augesa of the Crown Guard family, that is a first-class figure in Demacia.

This is equivalent to a diplomat traveling on a business trip by plane, and the Minister of Foreign Affairs has to come and approve the note in person.

Li Wei did not comment on this, but nodded after a subtle silence: "Okay, I understand. I will prepare in advance for the meeting with the Demacia mission tomorrow."

"Hmm." Janna flew away from Li Wei's shoulder in satisfaction after delivering the message.

The business is finally done.But the topics that were opened were not so easy to close.

Seraphine was still concerned about the news just now: "Li Wei, do we really want to form an alliance with the Kingdom of Demacia?"

"This." Seeing that Seraphine was so curious, Li Wei was not in a hurry to learn music.

In fact, he feels that it is true happiness to have such a girlfriend who has similar interests and souls with him, and who can chat with his girlfriend about his ideals and work, and they can always chat together.

So he carried Seraphine back to the bedroom, tucked her long knee-length ponytail that hindered her movements, put her down gently on the side of the bed, and sat down beside her without distraction, chatting with her about his Demacia's view:

"Our tentative contact with Demacia started a few months ago."

"But. Form an alliance? Actually, I never thought about it."

A few months ago, when the leader was not yet firmly established, forming an alliance with Demacia would be courting death.

Because Zaun is too close to Noxus and too far from Demacia.

If Zaun openly allyed with Demacia, it would only lead to crazy revenge from the Noxus Empire in the first place.And Demacia is beyond reach, even if it forms an alliance, it can't take care of too much.

The specific situation can be roughly predicted by looking at what happened in Cuba, Sulian and Mi Lijian in the past.

So not only is Li Wei not interested in forming an alliance, Demacia also looked down on these Zaun visitors at first.

It wasn't until later that the goddess Janna came to the Twin Cities——Demacia was surprised to find that Zaun was not a burden that needed to be taken care of, but a nail firmly embedded in the throat of Noxus. Si did not dare to offend a powerful city-state that was too deep.

Zaun doesn't even need to do anything, just needs to exist, and can help Demacia share a lot of strategic pressure.

Therefore, after a period of internal discussions, Demacia took the initiative to find the leader and demanded the establishment of diplomatic relations.

But this time.
"We don't really need this ally anymore." Li Wei spread his hands.

Due to the deterrence of Goddess Janna, Noxus dared not go to war with Zu'an at all.

And if Noxus really made a desperate move, then Zaun's real combat power really couldn't handle it.But there is still the same problem: you are too far away from Demacia, and you can't help if you need help!

"So when I first sent people to contact Demacia, I just wanted to do some private business with certain nobles in Demacia and import food from Demacia."

"As you know, Seraphine, all our food now comes from Noxus and the colonies of Noxus. This situation is very dangerous. We need more food import channels, and this channel, currently It can only be Demacia."

There are many areas suitable for growing food in Runeterra, but you only need to spread out the map to know:
The coastline of the northern continent of Valoran is almost completely occupied by the two great powers, the Noxus Empire and the Kingdom of Demacia.

There are quite a few small countries in Valoran with well-developed inland agriculture, but without the nods of the two big brothers, Noxus and Demacia, their grain cannot be shipped at all.

Overseas, Ionia is also in continuous war, unable to guarantee a long-term and stable large-scale food supply.

The Manghang Islands have many high mountains and little flat land, which is not suitable for the development of agriculture at all.Otherwise, the Baru people would not be a fishing and hunting people on the sea, but a farming people on the island.

As for the Shurima continent in the south, it is either a mountain and a desert where there is not enough food for itself, or it is a colony already occupied by Noxus.And Ixtar, who is hiding in the tropical rain forest and is isolated from the world, and Icacia, who can't survive the plague rats.

In short, in the current Runeterra, if you want to import a large amount of food for a long time, apart from the Noxus Empire, then only Demacia can really talk.

"But." Seraphine blinked in confusion.

She seemed to think of something: "Didn't the Demacia government always prohibit foreign trade? They also export food?"

"Haha." Li Wei couldn't help laughing: "Demacia officially prohibits trade, but Noxus officially prohibits killing! Do you think this delays the killing of those nobles?"

"Hmm." Seraphine immediately understood.

Demacia officially prohibits trade, but it does not mean that there is no trade.

My Ming Dynasty still engages in sea bans.As a result, there is no shortage of private trade, and silver is still pouring in like a tide.

It's just that in this feast of overseas trade, private smugglers and gentry lords made a lot of money, but the government could only follow behind and eat leftovers, and they couldn't even collect tariffs.

Although Demacia doesn't have gentry lords, they have something that is almost outdated - powerful nobles.

"These nobles resolutely opposed the opening of the sea ban in the court of Demacia, but in private they made overseas trade business fly."

"How did we connect with Demacia? It wasn't through the trade relationship of the Midarda family. Then how did Midarda, as a noble merchant from the Noxus Empire, establish trade with the closed-door Demacia? Contact?"

"The answer is self-evident."

"This..." Seraphine was a little surprised.

She doesn't know much about the situation in Demacia, and like most people in the Twin Cities, she just has some stereotypes.

In the stereotype of ordinary people, Demacia has always been the embodiment of light and justice.

After all, since the founding of Demacia, it has never stepped out of the land outside the forbidden magic stone forest, and has never invaded other countries from the physical level. Instead, it has contributed countless times to help the allies resist the invasion of Noxus.

Therefore, compared with the greedy and tyrannical Noxus, the image of Demacia is much more brilliant.

In the stories of bards and knight novels, Demacia is a perfect country of knights.

Because most of these poets and authors are not writing about Demacia, but about where they are.Demacia on the other side of the ocean is nothing more than their spiritual sustenance, a perfect country in their imagination that can contrast with reality.

Of course, this kind of imagination has a subjective addition, and it is a filter.

But now, as soon as I understand it, the filter will be broken immediately.

Seraphine couldn't help but sigh; "Demacia, it turned out to be just a..."

She would have liked to use some more negative adjectives.

But think about it carefully, how can there be a perfect country in the material plane?

Her original inexplicable longing for Demacia, believing that there is a kingdom of righteous knights on the other side of the ocean, this kind of unrealistic fantasy is incorrect.She had set her expectations too high.

Now put aside the filter and think about it:

Too.There is no such thing as a human kingdom.There are no exceptions except for leaders.

Compared with its peers, Demacia isn't that bad, it's just not that good.

So Seraphine sighed: "Demacia, it turned out to be just an ordinary kingdom."

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