LOL: Summoner of Goddess Jana

Chapter 249 Pilt City Great Depression

Swain led his direct wargroup and set off from the mainland of Noxus by boat. After a long voyage, they finally arrived at the port of Piltover after more than a month.

Amistan welcomes you at the port.

Seeing the arrival of Swain's reinforcements at this time, she might feel like Camille who welcomed her into the city back then.

And this time, it is the direct-line battle group cultivated by the general Swain himself. The combat power of this battle group is also firmly on the front line within the empire, and its strength is far higher than that of Amistan's battle group.

It stands to reason that Noxus sent such a powerful reinforcement this time, the soldiers and civilians of Piltover should be encouraged.

But this time when the imperial army entered, the atmosphere was obviously not as relaxed as last time.

The last time the Noxians came, they relaxed like they were on a paid trip.

But this time, the Noxus soldiers who got off the boat all had solemn faces and determined eyes.It was as if they had come not to the most prosperous city in Runeterra, but to the most terrifying and cruel battlefield in the world.

And the only person who greeted him on the pier was Amistan, and there was no atmosphere group like Picheng citizens, businessmen, or reporters.

On the contrary, there are quite a few people in Zaan watching from the other side, chatting and laughing while watching, making the atmosphere very casual and lively.

"General Swain, you are finally here." Amistan rushed forward to greet her as if seeing a savior.

"Cough, cough, cough." Swain had a tactical cough as soon as they met.

He coughed and trembled, leaned on a cane in his hand, and stood an unlucky red-eyed crow on his shoulder, looking as if he was too sick to walk.

Almost anyone who sees him will sigh with emotion, has the heroic commander of Noxus fallen to this point?
"General, are you okay?" Amistan's face was full of concern.

Swain only replied lukewarmly: "It's okay."

Amistan is the head of the old faction of aristocrats.

Although he was born in the old aristocratic family, he is actually a representative of the faction of the new military aristocracy.

Swain knew that Amistan would not have much real respect for him.

But her concern about his health was probably real—Amista must be very worried now that he would die suddenly, and then no one would come to pick up the deal that fell into her hands, Piltover.

So Swain didn't show courtesy to Amistan either.

He skipped the useless aristocratic etiquette and got to the point, "Amistan, I have to go to Zaun."

"This..." Amistan couldn't hold on to her smirk.

She asked nervously, "What are you doing in Zaun?"

"Issuing a formal diplomatic warning to Leaders regarding their unlawful interference in Imperial military operations in the Ionian province of Barrua."

Amistan understood.

This is to stir up troubles and conflicts from the very beginning.

"General Swain, your reinforcements have just entered Picheng. The soldiers are not yet familiar with the battlefield. Isn't it too hasty to rush to fight the leader now?"

It was too hasty.

Amistan originally planned to find a relationship to operate after Swain became the receiver, and transfer herself away from the Shuangcheng as soon as possible, far away from the leader.

Well now, she hasn't had time to run yet, and Swain is now representing the empire to "call the fight".

"Rush? Yes, I feel rushed too." Swain was also helpless.

How can he not see that this is Black Rose's bastards, forcing him to come over and detonate a local conflict with the leader?

These insects obviously wanted to use him to test the leader.At the same time, with the help of the leader, get rid of him and the war group he cultivated.

It was just a replica of the Battle of Presidium a year ago.

In order to avoid this conflict, and to gain more preparation time for the "countermeasures" he secretly planned, Swain has been working hard to delay the schedule.

The emperor ordered him to rush to Piltover as soon as possible to take up his post, and he said that it would take time for the chapter to get ready for battle.

After finally rectifying the battle group, the army boarded the troop carrier in Noxus, and the fleet experienced "various accidents" at sea, and had to stop at the shore again and again for repairs.

After procrastinating for more than a month, Swain's army finally arrived in Shuangcheng.

But when the army arrived here, he couldn't drag it any longer.

"This is an order from His Majesty the Emperor," Swain said.

"Okay, I'll help you negotiate with the leader and arrange a meeting." Amistan sighed helplessly, and had no choice but to bite the bullet and agree.

"No need to arrange." Swain had his own idea: "I want to go to Zaun by myself, and take a look along the way."

"I understand." Amistan nodded, "I'll prepare a car for you now."

She arranged for a car for Swain, and the two drove to Zaun together.

After getting into the car, Swain did not discuss the possible conflict that was about to erupt.

He was, as he said, "stopping by" along the way.

"Piltover, it seems to be a lot more depressed." Swain looked out the window and said suddenly: "The last time I led the army to pass by the supply, there were many more pedestrian shops on the street than now."

The current Piltover can only be said to be stronger than most cities in Runeterra.

But compared to the progressive city in Swain's memory, and even compared to Piltover just 2 months ago, the current Piltover looks so depressed, even desolate.

The gorgeously decorated shops on the street closed down one after another, while the humble roadside stalls sprung up like mushrooms after rain.

There are also few well-dressed, elegant, and energetic citizens on the street. On the contrary, there are many more drunken people who have nothing to do and wander around.

Those gentlemen and ladies with elegant and luxurious BMW cars have completely disappeared from the streets of Piltover.

The gangsters who only appeared in Zaun before, as if they only existed in the imagination of the people of Piltover, began to swagger through the market in a grandiose manner.

The "Hoover Lodge", which has disappeared in the Zaun community, has also appeared in the city parks of Picheng one after another.

Most notably
Ordinary Picheng citizens who were not too interested in the leader's theory in the past actually carried the blue bird's flag, picked up the leader's slogan, and started publicity on the street in a grand manner.

And the Picheng law enforcement officer didn't dare to control it at all, so he could only turn a blind eye.

"How did Piltover become like this?"

The state of Pilt City in the past, full of vitality and all things competing for development, is still in front of us at this moment.

But what Swain saw in front of his eyes was nothing but ruins.

"Can't you blame those damn leaders?" Amistan gritted her teeth in hatred.

When the leader came last time, he packed up all the high-tech enterprises in Piltover, and even the colleges and research institutes supporting the enterprises, and took them back with the factory staff.

Factory and equipment are moved to Zaun.

Workers and engineers also changed their jobs to get the high salaries offered by leaders, and moved to Zaun to settle down one after another.

Piltover lost a huge amount of excess profits in an instant, and also lost a large part of high-income people.

Without the drive of these high-tech enterprises, the accompanying small manufacturing industry would be finished.

Without the consumption of these high-income groups, the resulting high-end service industry will not be able to continue.

and worst of all
"The merchants in Piltover also ran away."

Yes, the Ziben family in Picheng were completely terrified by the supreme power of the goddess Janna.

Even if they hadn't been caught and liquidated by the leaders in the last war, they would never dare to stay in Piltover again.

And seed benzene has no borders.

Ziben family can also be without borders as long as it is necessary.

In order to escape the unstoppable leader, those surviving Piltover merchants naturally tried their best to sell their assets in Piltover, and then moved to the next place where they could safely parasitize their rent.

And their fleeing this time is not some cunning self-protection trick, but really removed all the roots of the Picheng chaebol.

The amount of wealth that these wealthy merchant families took away from Picheng was incredible. They almost evacuated most of the wealth accumulated in Picheng over the past 300 years overnight.

Therefore, Piltover not only lost high-end manufacturing.

All the money-making industries originally operated by those rich merchants and nobles, as the ballast stone of Piltover, the mid-end manufacturing and service industries that accommodate the largest number of employed people, almost all collapsed collectively in just two months.

In this way, the defeat of the war detonated Ziben to flee.

The escape of Ziben led to an avalanche of industries.

The industrial avalanche has driven a wave of unemployment.

then
"The Great Depression is coming." Amistan spread her hands helplessly.

Piltover is now like a defunct Jiangnan Tannery.The boss ran away with 3 million yuan and his sister-in-law, leaving only a large group of unemployed wage earners.

Fortunately, the precious metal currency used by Shuangcheng to preserve value; and the leader took over the bank and treasury in time when Ziben's family ran away, maintaining the most basic financial order.

The wealth of the citizens of Piltover will not be looted in this Great Depression.

With the savings accumulated in the past years, at least for now, most of Picheng's citizens are still able to get by.

It's just that it's not as good as it used to be.

Factories and shops closed down in droves during the Great Depression, and those factories and shops that could barely survive from the Great Depression began to carry out crazy "cost reduction" in order to survive.

How to reduce it?

In fact, there are only three ways, one is to transfer talents, the other is to work overtime voluntarily, and the third is to voluntarily cut wages.

And it's not just a star and a half, it's directly down to the same level as a Zaan apprentice.

Because at this time the Piltover plutocrats ran away, and the Piltover Council was finished.Piltover has completely become a Piltover under the control of Noxus, and the Piltover law enforcement officer has become a decoration.

The "Local Employees' Labor Protection Act", the "Foreign Manpower Employment Act" and a series of laws and regulations that favored the protection of the interests of local workers, originally formulated by the Piltover Council in order to stabilize the basic market, naturally became a dead letter.

Now there is no factory that is willing to pay ten times the salary of Zaun apprentices to hire locals from Piltover.

Piltovers could compete on an equal footing with Zaun apprentices if they wanted to keep their jobs.

How could the people of Picheng, who are used to being comfortable, compete with this group of Juan Kings from Zaun?
then
The workers in Piltover, who were pampered and pampered in the past, now also enjoy the treatment of the people of Zaun in the past: "This is the treatment, you can do what you like, or leave if you don't."

What can the people of Piltover say?Really can only do it.

After all, in the environment of the Great Depression, it is not bad to have a job to support the family.What bike do you want?

I didn’t see that outside the factory, there are still countless unemployed Piltover people who have started to rely on the “garrison economy” to make a living. They started to cook and wash clothes for Noxus soldiers, sweep the floor and shine leather shoes, and even pimp their lives with wine. Yet?

That's it. The standard of living of the people of Piltover has plunged at an alarming rate in the past two months, and is infinitely approaching the standard of living of Zaun's apprentices in the past.

Who is to blame for this?

Amistan felt that the leader should be blamed.

And this pot can indeed be thrown on the head of the leader.After all, the leader came to Picheng this time to move a lot of things.

It's shameless for Ziben's family to run away collectively, and the leader can also be responsible.

But the problem is
The news media in Piltover are now afraid to speak ill of Zaun.

In the past, Zaun used to be a sweatshop for Piltover, providing cheap goods, but was scolded by the Piltover media, saying that "they took the jobs of Piltover people".

Now that Zaan really took away the jobs of the people in Piltover, the media in Piltover didn't dare to scold them.

Not only did he not scold, he even licked it.

Even the Pilt City Daily, which was called "toilet paper" by Li Wei in the past, has transformed into a main theme newspaper dedicated to touting leaders.

Then, the people of Piltover were confused.

If the conflict cannot be transferred to the people of Zaun, it is natural to find the problem from within Pilt City.

Who else can this problem find?Of course, only Ziben's family ran away.

So, they finally understood what "direct education from Zibenzhuyi" was, and they also became interested in Janna's thoughts, and began to take the initiative to participate in various publicity meetings of Leaders in Piltover.

Even, some people from Piltover have applied to the leader in large scale, hoping to immigrate to Zaun, which they looked down upon in the past.

It's only been two months.The position between Piltover and Zaun has already reversed.

The beacon of civilization went out, but Zaun's spark burned brightly.

"." Swain was speechless upon hearing this.

The current problems of Piltover are indeed very serious.

But with his brain, he can still see that the problem of Piltover can actually be solved.

"Pilto City also has the huge profits brought by the Sun's Gate Canal, and the continuous replenishment of our Noxus garrison can also indirectly save Piltover's economy."

"Amistan, don't you plan to do anything?" Swain asked dissatisfied.

The geographic location of Piltover in Runeterra is almost equivalent to the combination of Singapore, Suez and Istanbul.

With this geographical location, it is really possible to put a pig here and take off.

What about a manufacturing collapse?The huge amount of income brought by the Sun Gate Canal alone can feed these more than 200 million citizens, right?

As long as the ruler of Picheng wanted to save Picheng, he would be able to save it.

What about your "visible hand"?Is it enough to use it once?
But the problem is
"Haha." Amis smiled triumphantly from the colonists: "The Sun Gate Canal, including everything in Piltover, is now the property of the Noxus Empire."

"The people in Piltover can't eat, what does it have to do with me?"

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