1649: Chapter 1645: The Big Fish 1649: Chapter 1645: The Big Fish “An unwelco visitor from the East has arrived at our last remaining holand.”
“The notorious Quasi-God threatens legitimate businessn, leading to the near collapse of the original trade chains.”
“A scheming couple has siphoned off a large fortune in cahoots, while local officials and businessn dare not speak out in anger.”
“An elegant Eastern guest graced the local charity event and brought greetings from the native lands of the East.”
“The system of military honors promises the return of our motherland.
Our dearest ally, the forr Commander-in-Chief of the Third Fleet, who fought bloody battles for Sakura Island for months, has made it clear that he is not involved with this installnt of the military honors system, but his arrival is no coincidence….
nor did he deny that this is his goodwill gesture!
He will forever be our friend.”
“It is said that Your Excellency wishes to select two or three disciples from among the local candidates.
This is a sign of trust in us, and it is our opportunity.
We must choose the most talented elites to impress the top Extraordinary from the Eastern Country with our excellence…..”
Even Lu Ping’an was a bit bemused by the changing public opinion along the way.
In fact, not just him, even Wanjing said they were startled by the sudden outburst of enthusiasm from the survivors of the Sakura Kingdom.
Given a knife, these people might very well take on the invaders head-on in their Single Wooden Boat.
“Stay a few more days.
We will send a coordination team and at the sa ti introduce so of their youths to beco disciples of our Strongn here.
The relationship between master and disciple is nice; it can be close or distant, all depending on the connection between the two…”
And the folks back in Eastern Country are even more agitated than Lu Ping’an.
Actually, they had already braced for the worst-case scenario of civil unrest happening once or twice….
after all, there had been new precedents before.
But make no mistake, it’s not refugees from other countries, but visitors from the Foreign Domain.
“….If possible, we do not wish to see a great exodus.
It’s not simply a matter of population; for Earth right now, each Order God that has grown up locally is an important asset.”
This perspective, if not pointed out by Wanjing, would never have crossed Lu Ping’an’s mind.
As a superpower, the governnt of Eastern Country is already obliged to take responsibility for the entire world.”
At this point, Lu Ping’an also realized that the currently dire Sakura Kingdom wasn’t truly destitute – they actually always had two major wealth assets.
One is the diaspora overseas and their assets…
in fact, with the fall of their holand, the main forces of the Sakura Islanders have long been constituted by the overseas diaspora, whose population is at least ten tis that of the survivors, not to ntion that their assets are relatively intact with stable connections and social relationships, all of which contribute to supporting their holand above re survival.
Indeed, without the return of the diaspora, there would be no continuance of this city with a constantly dwindling population.
It is precisely through the ongoing return of the diaspora that the city has managed to hold on…
in addition to the population, the Sakura Kingdom’s capital, corporations, and resource reserves that still exist abroad are continuously transfusing blood into the city.
This wealth, despite being tossed and turned by war, still literally constitutes a wealth strong enough to rival nations and is spread across the globe.
In so sense, Eastern Country is happy to see “remittances from abroad” supporting the construction of New Tokyo…
after a series of cycles, these riches and resources will eventually flow into the vast system of Eastern Country.
In the eyes of the resourceful, New Tokyo is like a leaking pot constantly losing water, simply surviving with Sicily as its main industry and an array of miners, making life unbearable for the refugees and diaspora….
They do wish to develop industry, but with a few hundred thousand in population, there’s nowhere to consu industrial products.
anwhile, the energy and resource chains are exorbitantly expensive.
To put it plainly, the cost of electricity, water, and food is so high that survival itself is difficult – and this is still the result of crazy subsidies from local governnts and foreign investnt.
In a way, they’re like building a floating platform city in the ocean or even in space, where just surviving incurs extrely high costs.
Yet to maintain a decent quality of life, they indulge in excessive wastefulness…
During warti, to maintain the normal daily life of a city as if living in the bygone era, is the ultimate form of extravagance.
“I can’t understand what madness they’re under.
Rationally thinking, with extrely limited resources and territory, implenting military governance, allocating everything on an as-needed basis, and subjecting all youngsters to obedience training from an early age, according to their ability and talent to allocate resources, seems to be an effective approach during tis of crisis.”
“Chris, I suspect you’re being too extre…
Uh, although I also have this thought, so people and ethnic groups, before their complete destruction, are willing to do everything to maintain their own dignity.
In a sense, it’s also about luring in investnts.
If there isn’t even a flag, overseas capital would never pour endlessly into a bottomless pit.”
“Tsk, such a waste.
Just think about how many resources that big furnace maintaining spring consus every day, and the electricity here is ridiculously expensive…”
The minor episode passed in a flash, and the Eastern Country, in fact, didn’t have much interest in the overseas capital of the Sakura Kingdom.
Even if they threw all their capital into this bottomless pit, it wouldn’t matter much, but there are certain things they really didn’t want to let slip away.
“My Lord hopes to strengthen cooperation with your country.”
“If one could have the qualification of a Proper God…”
“We can cooperate in a substantial manner…
I have a list of overseas Saints here, all of them being the hope of our ethnic resurgence…”
When Lu Ping’an and the Eastern Country extended further goodwill, the big fish that had been hooked finally started to bite.
Just like the Eastern Country has many Proper Gods, Sakura Island with its historical heritage also has nurous Deities, among which quite a few are old antiques of so age.
This was also the original reason why various countries believed that the Sakura Country could last for so ti.
However, the outco was utterly against all expectations, leading to a complete collapse and takeaway.
But looking back now, it seems they lost sowhat unjustly…
“We didn’t have any strategic depth at all.
When the sea brought those ghosts upon us, we were divided…”
“My Lord didn’t react in ti either…
Its power also required a vessel to be effective, and back then, even the arrival of several Saints couldn’t solve the problem.
At that ti, even when bestowing Divine Grace, the effect was too poor.”
“Helpless, with the Flood, they directly swallowed our position…”
As soon as the war from three years ago is ntioned, the relationship between the two sides imdiately warms up.
Lu Ping’an, as a participant in the war, indeed stands on the righteous side by nature.
In the battle of Sakura Island, its Deities faced a shaful defeat.
They were not only ineffective but even lacked the ability to save their own Believers and populace.
“It was impossible.
At that ti, teleportation was cut off, and it seed like so Power was eroding the entire island…”
Lu Ping’an just listened to various reasons, but the result showed that they lost their land, their people died, and the Gods fled.
What the Eastern Country is now worried about is the possibility of these Deities running away again…
So of them have already left this world, but Deities who have lost their ethnic group are also unlikely to have a good future.
In a sense, they are dood to be rejected by the new world like Big Cat was, unfortunate to be eroded away.
However, if the Sakura Islanders truly lose all hope, it’s very likely that a large-scale migration will occur, and the departure of the Gods would weaken our own combat power, and what’s more frustrating, would dig into the basic rules of the world, weakening the entire world’s defenses.
The departure of one or two Deities actually wouldn’t have much impact…
“Actually, our Alliance of Twenty-Six Gods of Sakura Island, along with the Heretic Eleven Gods, all long for the day they can reclaim their holand…”
This, after all, is the biggest target of this ti.
The ones stepping onto the battlefield and even becoming losers are not just Mortals.
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