LOL: Summoner of Goddess Jana

Chapter 406 The New Year of the Zaun People (Happy New Year~)

"Happy New Year." LeBlanc said reluctantly to the visitor with a pouted face.

"?" Seraphine turned her head and looked at Li Wei in a daze.

For more than two months, she has been busy in the countryside of Ionia, and only returns to Zaun's home to rest at night.

Because today is the New Year, she gave herself a day off at Li Wei's request and went home during the day.

As a result, before Seraphine entered the house, she met a robot-like strange woman standing upright on the curb in front of her house.

"She is?"

"LeBlanc." Li Wei explained casually.

"She" Seraphine scrutinized her carefully, "Has she changed her appearance?"

"Yeah." Levi nodded.

The fact that Noxus was under the shadowy control of a leader, and LeBlanc's plea of ​​guilt, remained a secret on a public level.

Ordinary people only know that the Noxus Empire experienced a coup d'état, and two months later experienced an internal purge at the top of the empire.

In short, due to some reasons unknown to outsiders, some high-ranking generals of the empire, such as Amistein, lost the favor of Grand Commander Swain, and were completely and ruthlessly liquidated.

On the surface, the Noxus Empire is still in the hands of the military nobles represented by Swain and Darius.

But no one could have imagined that these two "emperors" were both leaders.As for Amistein and other senior generals who participated in the forced palace, their vacant positions were also promoted by Swain alone, and the imperial officers who believed in the leader quietly replaced them.

In other words, the current Leaders Association is like the Black Rose before, and has become the "deep state" behind the Noxus Empire.

However, in order not to irritate the warlords and princes in the empire with the name of the leader, Li Wei still needs to keep the leader hidden in the dark, let Swain continue to pretend to maintain the old order of Noxus But premature crash.

So LeBlanc's presence in Zaun is still a secret.

Her avatars were also transformed into disguises before being allowed to work on the streets.

"But... what is she doing in front of our house?"

"Look at the gate."

"?" Seraphine asked with a question mark on her face, "Do we still need guards?"

"Isn't it necessary to help her work hard?" Li Wei said: "This guy can create tens of thousands of avatars by himself. I really can't find any job to satisfy her, so I can only help her create some irrelevant avatars." An urgent position has come."

"Besides, she can not only watch the door." Under Miss LeBlanc's lustful eyes, he said with a chuckle: "She can also stand guard on the street, guide the way, help guide the traffic order, and supervise the uncivilized phenomenon on the road. , and at critical moments, some simple first aid diagnosis and treatment can be provided to passers-by in need.”

"I'm calling this project 'Neighborhood Helper'. It's just a pilot phase."

"When we have trained her well and her attitude is smooth, we can promote it to the whole Zu'an."

Saying that, I saw the avatar of the blue bird on LeBlanc's shoulder nodding slightly.
Then he lightly pecked her on the head very bluntly: "Warning! If you don't do the service with a smile, 1 silver wheel will be deducted from the food expenses this month."

"You?!" LeBlanc gritted his teeth.

"Huh?" Blue Bird tilted his head.

LeBlanc immediately squeezed out a smile like a bank front desk clerk caught on camera: "Happy New Year."

Seraphine: "."

Instinctively she felt a little sympathy.But thinking about what LeBlanc had done before, she couldn't sympathize.

"Come on, let's go home." Li Wei ignored LeBlanc, and only asked her to walk around the street more to practice her service skills with a smile.

Then, he took Seraphine's hand and walked into the house side by side: "You've been really busy recently. Even I haven't seen you for several days."

"Look at you, your appearance has changed."

Seraphine's appearance had indeed changed.

However, she didn't become so dark and thin.As an extraordinary person, staying up late and overwork can't affect her charming beauty nourished by magic power.

The main change of Seraphine is still in her style.

She took off her favorite princess dress, white stockings, and cowhide boots, and changed into an Ionian country-style coarse cloth tunic.

But at this moment, Seraphine's bare calf was still covered with fresh mud spots, and Bai Shengsheng was stepping on a pair of crude straw sandals under her feet.The row of pink toes protruding from the straw sandals is still stuck to mud that has not been cleaned.

It looked like he had just returned from the first line of Ionia, and he didn't have time to clean it up carefully.

Levi knew that fashion was Seraphine's greatest hobby after music.

Seeing that Seraphine was now dressed like an Ionian village girl, he couldn't help feeling a little emotional.

"Actually, you don't need to do this, little Sa." Li Wei said; "After all, the leader distinguishes comrades by faith, not by clothes. Even if you dress better and go to the front line, no one will blame you .”

"No, the situation on Balroue's side is different." Seraphine was rather free and easy.

"It's something I've only realized these days."

"What we are facing there is not the leaders who have read through the theory, and the Zaun workers who have listened to enough propaganda and education, but the vast number of Ionian farmers."

The native culture of Ionia is very conservative and xenophobic.Especially for those villagers who have lived in the traditional order all their lives.

Although the leader has gained their gratitude and trust through the confrontation with the Noxian invaders.

But if you dress differently from them, speak differently, or even look like a Miss Pichengyang from overseas, a big leader who came down to investigate, then the villagers will unconsciously change their attitude when communicating with you. become very unnatural.

"Using your words, I also wear it this way for the convenience of going to the masses." Seraphine said with a smile: "Besides, a little dirt is nothing."

"The leader is not afraid of getting dirty."

This is not expressive, but realistic.

I saw Seraphine throwing the dirty straw sandals on her feet at the entrance, and then summoned a gust of breeze.The airflow clings to her skin and swirls back and forth, gently removing the stubborn dirt between her toes and on her calves.

Then, Seraphine flew onto the sofa mischievously, and kicked her white and tender feet in front of Li Wei who had just sat firmly: "Look, this is clean, right?"

Li Wei: "."

"What?" Seraphine pouted, a little dissatisfied with her boyfriend's reaction.

But Li Wei was only silent for a while: "You"

"Did you step on fresh cow dung when you went to the countryside?"

Seraphine froze for a moment: "Did I not wash it?"

"." Li Wei was speechless.Janna flew away silently.

"Well" Seraphine is a little lady in Piltover after all.

She retracted her feet a little embarrassedly, then changed the subject with a blushing face: "Is Lina back?"

"Lena is not coming back." Li Wei shook his head: "There was a little trouble in the work she was in charge of in Ionia."

"Oh?" Seraphine was curious: "What is Lena doing over there?"

Although they are both on the front line of the Ionian countryside, the work they are responsible for does not overlap.She also hadn't seen Lena for a while.

"A pilot project of village self-government at the grassroots level." Li Wei replied: "In short, it is to let the villagers choose their own speakers."

The current Leaders' Association is really short of grassroots cadres, and it is impossible for every village to send Leaders' cadres for long-term management.

Moreover, most of the current cadres of Leaders are from Zaun and Picheng. They have no faith and enthusiasm, but they have never seen a village in their life, have never handled agriculture, and have no understanding of the complicated conditions in the Ionian countryside. any understanding.

Even if the Association of Leaders is willing to take the risk of making Zaun's administrative system malfunction, and airborne a large number of cadres to Ionia, and to every village in the province of Barua, the outcome may not be as good as they imagined. .

"So after discussion, we decided to only extend the presence of leader cadres to townships for the time being. The most basic village-level units are still elected by the villagers themselves."

"Oh." Seraphine understood a little bit.

Isn't this the community self-government practiced by Piltover in the past?It's just that it is now applied to the countryside of Ionia.

"What, is there a problem?" she asked.

"Is it okay?" Levi shrugged: "Salafini, think about it, was there a problem with the self-government of Piltover's community before?"

Seraphine's pink hair trembled, and she instantly understood.

That's a big problem.

Community self-government sounds good, and it actually works in Piltover, and it seems to be doing well—but only in wealthy and relatively upscale middle-class neighborhoods.

As long as it is a community with a slightly lower level and more disordered order, this community self-government system will immediately have chaos such as bribery, forced elections, statistical cheating, and votes by shady soldiers.

And if it is a Zaun community, the kind of dilapidated community full of poor ghosts, then even bribery and other operations are saved.

The gangsters are the actual controllers of this community, and the community council has long been completely controlled by the gangsters, and has become dead in name only.

And if this situation goes one step further, it will be Old Zuan.

Zaun was a complete split from Piltover.At the beginning, there was community self-government and a community council, but if you choose and choose, if you are elected, all the people involved will become gangsters, warlords and warlords. The omnipotent system that has been preached for years has become a dysfunctional joke.

"But." Seraphine frowned: "Ionia, but Lina and the others are in charge of supervision."

"Under such circumstances, to engage in villagers' self-government, can we still resort to bribery and forced elections to elect some local tyrants and village tyrants?"

"The tyrants of local tyrants and villages can't be that bad." Li Wei shook his head: "After all, we just destroyed a batch of them."

This has just been cleaned.It will take some years to form another batch.

"But the minds of some villagers are indeed too flexible or too stupid."

"They thought that the village head under the leader's rule could still be the emperor of the country like the previous village heads, so they wanted to choose this speaker."

"With the supervision of leaders and cadres such as Lina, they don't dare to go too far. But small tricks such as bribery are still indispensable."

"Electoral bribery?" Seraphine was puzzled: "How did they do it under the supervision of leaders?"

"They don't give money directly." Li Wei said: "They have a good relationship with you. They use their own money to buy a catty of meat, a dozen eggs, or a few cigarettes imported from Zaan, and go to your house to sit."

"You guys had a good chat while eating, and finally decided to vote for him-even if the matter is investigated by the higher authorities, it is difficult to characterize it as bribery, right?"

"This..." Seraphine instinctively questioned: "Ionian villagers can be bought with a catty of meat, a dozen eggs, and a few cigarettes?"

But soon, what she had seen and heard in the past two months overwhelmed the instincts she had cultivated as a lady in Piltover for more than ten years.

Yes, that's enough.

For the peasants of Ionia, although this gift is not heavy, it is not light.

"This is when we distribute the floating wealth to the villagers so that everyone has some money in their hands."

"If it was in the past, maybe two eggs would be enough to buy those poor farmers."

After all, this is also the first time to engage in village self-government.

Who can do it and who can't do it, whoever becomes the village head will be really good to everyone. How can the villagers speak for themselves?
In the end, we can only choose those who can chat and send things.No matter how bad he does in the future, I can still get a dozen eggs, right?
"So, we can only wait." Li Wei said: "There have been many problems in the attempt of villagers' self-government, but in the final analysis, it is a human problem, a human problem, and it can be solved through the belief test of the leader."

"We just need to wait a few years, when the team of leaders is truly cultivated from the masses, and every village has enough leaders, then we will add another line of 'Leaders to run for village chief'." The 'priority hire' rule will solve the problem."

"They want to be village tyrants, but that's impossible."

In an agricultural society, the existence of village tyrants is inevitable.In the industrial age, it is difficult for their influence to completely disappear.

Because even the current leaders cannot completely solve the problem of the polarization between the rich and the poor.Once a person becomes rich, he has energy in society, and he wants to use this energy to fight for a corresponding political status for himself.

As a result, the upper-class villagers who got rich first formed different factions in the village in order to compete for political power and resource redistribution power. The factions bribed elections in order to be elected. are almost unavoidable.

But fortunately, the Guild of Leaders has the plug-in of Goddess Janna.They can avoid this "inevitability".

"That's why we can win." Seraphine said with emotion.

"Okay, okay." Seeing that his girlfriend was more interested in work than himself, Li Wei couldn't help but knocked her on the head: "Today is the New Year, so we won't talk about work."

"New Year." Seraphine blinked: "What's wrong?"

In fact, she has been wanting to ask.

Levi seems to take the festival of New Year very seriously.Usually 007 is open all year round, but today he asked for leave for both himself and her for just a new year.

But in reality, New Year's has never been a big holiday in Zaun.

The people of Zaun don't celebrate New Year's Eve at all.Only people in Piltover would celebrate the New Year, and even regard the New Year as an important festival second only to Evolution Day.

Although Seraphine grew up in Piltover, she couldn't go out all year round because of her talent out of control since she was very young, so she couldn't enjoy the fun of celebrating the New Year.

In addition, her parents are from Zaun who do not celebrate the New Year, so her family has never had the custom of celebrating the New Year.

And after the leaders took over Zaan, the Leaders Association, which is dominated by people from Zaan, has followed this trend of not being new.

Although leaders have confirmed New Year's Day as a legal holiday this year, the streets of Zaun still don't feel festive.Everyone just uses this festival as an ordinary weekend, and the rest is over.

So Lina would rather work overtime on the front line in Ionia than come back for the New Year.

Because she felt that brother's request was simply inexplicable.An insignificant day, what do you go back to do?
Therefore, Seraphine couldn't understand: "Is this day important?"

Levi thought about it.Maybe not.

New Year's Eve is just a habit he inherited from his previous life, and it does not conform to his customs as a Zaunite.

"But it's weird, isn't it?" Li Wei said, "New Year is the beginning of a year, which symbolizes the cycle of the years and the renewal of everything."

"It doesn't matter if it's Demacia or Noxus, Shurima or Ionia. No matter which version of the calendar is used in any civilization, it is an extremely important festival."

"But why do the people of Zaun hardly celebrate the New Year?"

"Hmm." Seraphine thought about it seriously.

If it was in the past, she might start to answer from the perspective of cultural differences.

But now she can see the essence very quickly.

The people of Zaun don't just celebrate the New Year.
"The people of Zaun don't have festivals at all." Levi gave the answer: "We don't celebrate any festivals."

"Because the premise of the holiday is that the Alchemy Baron will kindly give you a holiday."

"Not to mention, most civilizations celebrate New Year's with family. And most Zaunites don't have a home."

Although rich or not, go home for the New Year.

But if you don't even have a home, what's the point of this year?
"So, the people of Zaun used to celebrate the New Year." Li Wei sighed: "But now, they can already have a good New Year."

"It's just that everyone has suffered for too long, and they haven't realized it yet."

"Li Wei." Seraphine couldn't help but think of her boyfriend's life experience.

She gently grabbed Levi's hand and said, "Let's call Lena back. The whole family is together"

"No." Li Wei shook his head: "This is also Lina's own choice. If she wants to work, let her go."

"Hmm." Seraphine sighed thoughtfully, but also emotionally: "Perhaps for us leaders, this process of chasing ideals and constantly moving forward is more joyful than festivals."

"Lena is a real leader. She doesn't pass the New Year, but also to let more people have a good New Year"

"Stop, stop." Li Wei held down the excited and trembling pink hair.

Don't sublimate first.

"I mean," he said, "Lena and I have lived together for half our lives, and I'm tired of being with my old brother."

"It doesn't matter if she doesn't come back. This year, two people have two ways to live."

"How?" Seraphine froze for a moment.

"It's all up to you." Li Wei said, "It's the New Year, what matters is just a game."

"Do you want to eat first? Or watch a movie first? Or first"

"I" Seraphine thought seriously for a while.

Then she lightly pecked Li Wei's face, like a happy bird, with bare feet and long hair fluttering, flew into the air by the wind: "Wait a minute."

"I'll take a shower first."

Janna: "."

Lady Goddess thought for a while, and finally flew farther.

　happy New Year to all.

　　I didn't watch the Spring Festival Gala today, and I planned to send it out before 0 o'clock to wish everyone a new year.

　　As a result, I found out as I was writing. I am so fucking like I used to be when I was sick. I wrote this chapter as the main theme of the Spring Festival Gala.

　　no way.I can only change it from the beginning, until now. I hope it will not be too Spring Festival Gala when I read it.

　　
　
(End of this chapter)