From troll tribes to elf empires

Chapter 241 The appearance of the world and the changes brought about by technological changes

In the current knowledge of trolls, the world is undoubtedly a huge sphere;

The southern half of this sphere is still an unknown world due to the shielding of the southern sea, but the side of the northern hemisphere itself has a relatively clear concept through so many years of exploration.

This piece of land is roughly circular in shape. Its northernmost end crosses the extreme north and extends to the other side of the sphere. Together with a large piece of land on this side, it forms a region where there is permanent daylight for a long time in the year.

Or the arctic ice fields of eternal night.

On the other side of the ice sheet is an ocean that seems to be permanently frozen;

On this side of the Black Forest, the ice sheet area is formed all the way to the south, frozen forest, frozen desert, frozen forest, grassland, wasteland, next door, wasteland, grassland, cultivated land, grassland, desert, grassland, cultivated land, cultivated land

·Desert, cultivated land, and many other transition zones formed due to different climates.

In the middle of these transition zones, there are scattered some extremely abrupt climates and environments;

For example, in an endless desert, a large forest may appear inexplicably;

For another example, in the ice-green northern frozen forest, there may be a circle of treasures with a warm and comfortable climate.

And it is the entire "continent outside the mountains" including these "singular points" that collectively form what the trolls call the "Northland".

Therefore, it is obvious that "Northland" is a rather inaccurate title. It is only a vague definition based on the early concept of location of the trolls.

If the 'Northland' goes further south, you will reach what the trolls call the 'Northern Mountains', and the lone boat sandwiched between the mountains - the Northern Plateau.

The mountains, with their complex terrain and the presence of magical beasts inside, have made themselves an area that is almost impossible to climb;

The tribes in the north will probably not be willing to look back south until they fill up all the suitable living areas in the north with their own population.

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The Department of External Exploration's current "pain and joy" is actually only a part of the impact of technological breakthroughs.

At this time, there are more government departments and even private trolls, who have to change the way they do things in this rapid and violent technological change.

For example, as a result of this industrial upgrading, many parts accumulated in the past are completely useless now;

In particular, because the 'plant materials' do not have the function of 're-refining', unless the witch doctors personally change their specifications to adapt them to the new needs, they will either be discarded or abandoned.

It is reused after cutting.

If you start from the mountains and go further south, you will finally reach the vast black forest belonging to the trolls, elves, and the western wind wolves.

All in all, the Black Forest is located in such an environment, facing mountains on three sides and the sea on one side. With its own climate and environment that is very different from the north, it has given birth to biological populations and even civilizations that are completely different from those on the mainland.

Relevant departments must apologize, but after all, the problems encountered this time are actually 'first encounters', so it has not yet reached the point where everyone needs to resign;

She knew that what she was about to send out was actually good news, which would not only make the department's work more efficient, but also reduce the number of liaisons and intelligence officers on the front lines who were always at risk.

Such a scale, coupled with the intelligence agents active on the front line, makes the entire northern civilizations exposed to the Republic's sight almost all the time.

21 years have passed since the External Exploration Department became independent from the Farstrider Force (Rune Calendar 33);

However, the exploration work was extremely difficult. Even with the "500-kilometer medium and long-distance acoustic communication stations" as the core and the establishment of arc-shaped echelon chains of acoustic communication extending in different directions, it was still unable to fill the obstacles caused by distance;

As a result, the intelligence agents' information return work has become very unsatisfactory, and they have to deal with various dangers from civilized races and ensure their concealment at all times.

In order to carry out their work smoothly, the professional correspondents responsible for transferring intelligence at the liaison station had to establish the station in an uninhabited land where traces of life were rare;

And such areas are either extremely cold, have thin air, or are filled with monsters. Almost none of them are suitable for survival.

But what is being abolished now is the result of twenty-one years of hard work by her and her colleagues. The sacrifices and honors she suffered during this period suddenly become very ridiculous in the face of this advanced technology.

"Well, it's a good thing anyway. Let's send it out and let the frontline intelligence agents and liaison officers come back in batches to receive new equipment."

As totem technology, and the resulting assembly lines, have been gradually and even blindly popularized in recent years, resulting in a large number of factories no longer requiring so much labor to maintain operation.

In addition, from the increasing number of ‘interest classes for the prime of life’, some older trolls who have learned corresponding skills will come to each session.

Ever since they had a better understanding of the 'Northland' in the early stages of exploration, the Republic has understood that the exploration of this area can no longer be left to the 'Northern Exploration Department' to conduct independently.

The waste caused in this process is far greater than the benefits that the 'market' can bring.

The other side thinks it's inappropriate, and their point of view is not entirely an 'economic issue'.

They believe that the original intention of empowering people with ‘production capabilities’ is not just to ‘activate the market’;

More of the considerations are to allow the people to maintain a certain degree of independence from the authority of the ruling government, or even the Rune Council, so as not to become an accessory of the powerful;

The opposition believes that the people should be the most indispensable and main source of productivity in society;

However, with such a long distance, so many base stations to be built, and hundreds of liaisons and intelligence agents need to be deployed, and they need to be given a minimum rotation period and supplementary supplies, you can imagine what a huge project this is.

Therefore, even the Ministry of Foreign Affairs and Exploration, in close cooperation with other fraternal departments of the ruling government and the Central School of the Republic, spent nearly 13 years patching it together to complete it.

This is not the end yet. As long as the "three-year duty period" does not end, they will have to set out again to find more suitable locations for establishing base stations.

As for the headquarters, after taking note of the locations where ‘bunkers’ are buried, station liaison officers will be dispatched to station them there, even if those bunkers have not grown enough to protect them from wind and rain.

If their production capacity is completely stopped and all are renamed "public", but in fact they inevitably need factories controlled by a minority group for production, then the people may become a kind of "public" in a sense.

'Beggars'.

Each of these "backbone stations" can cover an audio range of 785,000 square kilometers;

Even the horn-hoofed species had no choice but to go south to survive. And even if they were very lucky to find the weak zone in the mountains north of the northern plateau, they still paid a huge price to successfully get here.

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And this is the result of including those continuous deserts and ice sheets.

Zolni's face, which had become extremely beautiful after turning into an elf, was now filled with entanglements;

And when this signal has passed through each contact station at the speed of sound and been sent in all directions, a Northland intelligence agent is either on the front line or at the contact station, hard working on his mission.

In order to prevent their work efficiency from being interrupted by frequent rotations, they have to stick to the site alone on a "year" basis, carrying out the boring work of "voice receiving" and "voice sending" day after day.

It can’t be said that it’s not difficult,

Regarding this, those who agree believe that at this stage, only a few "factories owned by the whole people" should be retained to meet all domestic welfare needs and foreign economic and trade exchange needs, and the remaining people should devote themselves to study and practice.

They feel that productivity has exceeded actual needs by too much, and so many goods produced can only be piled up in warehouses to eat dust. Moreover, with the continuous innovation of technology, these old goods may be eliminated at any time.

Therefore, in subsequent work, the External Exploration Department further subdivided the concept of "Northland" into four regions: "East, West, North, and Middle";

Among them, except for the 'Central Area', which is under the responsibility of the Southern Exploration Department, the rest of the area was handed over to the other three departments according to their titles to start work respectively.

Some of these expatriate liaison officers are technicians from the former Ministry of Communications, some are retired non-commissioned officers of the Central Standing Army, and directional training trainees who graduated from the First Central School;

The entire Northland, named "Northern Continent", has a land area of ​​approximately 470 million square kilometers. If you want to achieve full coverage, you need to spread out more than 600 base stations.

What's more, this so-called "market economy" created by trolls is, to put it bluntly, a form of territorial encirclement.

The Republic is not surrounded by strong enemies from the outside, and it is even less likely that there will be any displaced people internally, so there is actually not too much dissatisfaction on the part of the Baominyuan.

The difficulty in establishing semi-permanent contact points lies not only in the calculation of reasonable locations;

Perhaps more importantly, it lies in overcoming the dangers encountered along the long journey.

After that, they have to travel all the way back to the sound transmission range to transmit the coordinate information and environmental information of the 'bunker' they planted back to the rear.

The overly large area and overly complex racial distribution will make the Northern Exploration Department a bloated monster that cannot reasonably complete the exploration work.

Each troll intelligence agent needs to cover his tracks and obtain food in various unfamiliar environments without the support of the armed forces from the rear group. After exploring the suitable location of the contact point, he needs to plant seeds.

It carries a magic plant that can grow into a bunker-like form.

Whether they were self-employed or employed by the public before, many trolls who were engaged in non-agricultural businesses suddenly became idle.

In addition to the problem of labor surplus, with the substantial improvement of production efficiency, problems such as unsalable products have also arisen;

After a period of brewing, they were like a heavy hammer that hit the fragile internal market of less than 70,000 people.

Of course, because there are areas like the Arctic Ice Sheet where base stations are not required to be deployed in the short to medium term, coupled with some reasonable geometric location distribution, the External Exploration Department has only spent about one hundred and twenty years doing medium and long-range operations.

The base station' has completed the general coverage of the civilized area;

And it is this kind of system, starting from the creation process, that has supported almost all the external cognitive abilities of the trolls, and also has the geographical common sense mentioned before.

But today, Zolnetes had to use a complicated mood to convey a 'dismissal message' that was born due to technological breakthroughs.

After losing the restriction from the 'physical body', the listening tree's infrasound signal reception capability at this time has reached a terrifying radius of 2,000 kilometers;

Soon, after a seemingly prosperous period of production capacity adjustment, the economic environment of the Republic ushered in a cold winter.

What followed was a series of letters of impeachment against the ruling government. In almost a short period of time, they filled the table of the Rune Council.

Moreover, in the face of a famous citizen holding a real sword and a real gun, the banking industry, which has really suffered huge losses this time, cannot really confiscate their assets unless they think that their lives are too long.

The so-called 'economy' and the so-called 'market' are actually more like a 'house game' for the Republic, but everyone plays it very seriously.

Therefore, when the ruling government and the Rune Council faced this ‘economic winter’, what they discussed was not ‘how to save the market’;

On the contrary, the topic that everyone is currently discussing is - 'Is it time to end this game?'.

In fact, without their existence, it would have been impossible to complete this task solely with the original employees of the Department of External Exploration.

These soldiers may receive glorious awards after success, or they may burn themselves with acid due to exposure and failure. The intelligence network they have jointly created can be said to be full of glory, but also has a strong sense of security.

The smell of blood.

From then on, the entire northern continent only needs to maintain less than 47 transfer stations to be able to conduct all-round monitoring in the plane without blind spots;

Of course, most of these trolls who became intelligence agents and liaison officers were not motivated by any 'righteousness', but simply because they had hearts that could not bear comfort and ordinaryness;

Therefore, they believe that they should survive this crisis as much as possible and continue to maintain the existing ‘game’;

And not just this time, until it truly becomes the operating rules of society and has the ability to self-regulate, support for this fragile game should continue.

Of course, waste is shameful, and oligarchs cannot appear, so how to support it and which industries should be supported require further discussion.

Strictly speaking, none of the witch doctors in the Republic is running a factory, and none of them has an unspeakable interest in this 'market game';

Therefore, although their positions at this time are different, Nesta believes that the holders of the two views, at least at this moment, are adhering to their respective public intentions to support their own views.

But it is precisely because of this reason that the 'choice' has become not an easy thing.

So, should we choose the market? Or should we choose a completely welfare-oriented public policy?

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(End of chapter)