LOL: Summoner of Goddess Jana

Chapter 407 Happy New Year (Two in One)

While Levi and Seraphine snuck in and interacted intimately, the people of Zaun were also spending the New Year in their own way.

"Boss, here's a raw pickle." Chuck was trying to find a seat at the entrance of the restaurant.

"Long time no see, Chuck!" Zeli suddenly jumped out like a rabbit, and patted her old friend on the shoulder from behind.

"Zeli?" Chuck was taken aback for a moment, "You came back from Ionia?"

He looked at Fa Xiao, whom he had not seen for several months.

I saw that Zeli, who used to dress up like a little girl in the spirit of Zaun, has now replaced that tattered jacket with a crisp white navy uniform.

Zeli's clothes and pants are neat and her shoes are shiny, and she has been tidied up from beginning to end.Even the original messy green hair double ponytails have been combed a lot more neatly.

Of course, the most eye-catching thing is the two brand new medals hanging on her chest.

One of them is a commemorative medal for the Zuan Navy to annihilate the Noxus Empire Navy in the waters of Balua and achieve a complete victory in the naval battle;

The other Blue Bird Medal is a reward from the Leader Association to those fighters who have fought bravely and performed meritorious service on the battlefield.

Chuck read it in the paper, so he probably knew.

Zeli appeared on the streets of Zaan in the appearance of this heroic soldier, and in this restaurant of the Moma Frog, immediately attracted everyone's respect and admiration.

"You've changed so much." Chuck was surprised.

"You too." Zeli sat down in front of Chuck boldly, and shouted to the shop owner: "Uncle, give me a raw pickled marsh frog!"

"Add alchemy dipping sauce! The current magic marsh frogs are not grown in the smelly ditch, and they are not authentic without dipping sauce."

"Okay!" The store owner responded from a distance.

Then, Zeli turned her head to look at her little one again: "Chuck, you also said that I have changed a lot—look at you, you are becoming more and more like a student boy in Piltover."

A year ago, Chuck was just a Zaun street thug, a poor child laborer who was sold by his mother to an alchemy factory.

Later, he was lucky enough to be rescued by Levi, and was temporarily arranged to work in the Hex Audio Factory by the Leaders Association, which was only a fledgling at that time.

Later, with the liberation of Zuan and the official establishment of the leader regime, the education and welfare system under the leader's rule became more formalized and perfected.
Chuck was forced to leave the factory because he was still young, and went to the free school specially set up by Leader for out-of-school teenagers of this age in Zaun, to teach them science, magic and cultural knowledge.

And after six months of off-the-job study, after soaking in the ivory tower for a long time, now Chuck is not only wearing a neat student uniform, and has a clean short haircut, but also has a little more gestures than students in Piltover. Smell——He really doesn't look like the wild boy who used to hang out with Zeli on the streets of Zaun every day, "opening treasure chests" in the garbage dump.

"That's not bad." Zeli muttered.

Although Chuck looks like a Piltover boy now, all the Zaun kids know that the "Pillowtown boy" they say is actually a compliment.

After all, who wouldn't want to go to school and get an education like a Piltover kid, if he could?
"That." Compared to Zeli's attention to her friend's appearance and temperament, Chuck cared more about her recent situation: "Zeli, when did you come back?"

"I..." Zeli came back to her senses and couldn't stop saying, "I just came back."

"You know, I'm serving in the navy this time, and I'm in charge of manipulating the Hex electromagnetic gun. But the navy of our leader only fought one battle, and gave the Noxus navy, which claims to be number one in the world, to All wiped out."

"Speaking of which." The girl stretched out a light-white finger, and the fingertips were bilibili bursts of thunder: "At that time——"

"Guided by the firepower of the incarnation of the blue bird, I fired a full-power Hex super electromagnetic gun and killed the flagship of the Noxus Imperial Navy at a distance of 80 miles."

"After the whole battle, the enemy fleet was wiped out by us without even seeing our ship."

"It's amazing." Chuck sighed at the right time.

Zeli is a mage and a rare natural awakening thunder elementalist.Hearing her hard-to-repeat legend, he was indeed envious of Fa Xiao's achievements from the bottom of his heart.

At this time, Zeli continued to mutter: "For more than two months, we have been doing some insignificant escort and patrol work in Ionia."

"The research above judged that the Imperial Navy is no longer able to pose a threat to us, so I retired and came back."

"I have nothing to do when I come back. I wanted to go to school to find you, but I didn't expect to meet you here."

Chuck patiently listened to Zeli's ramblings, and then continued with a smile: "That's a coincidence."

"Yes." Zeli wiped her nose guiltily.

"Hahaha." A laugh came out of nowhere.

It turned out that it was an old acquaintance of the two teenagers, the owner of this restaurant, who came to serve them personally.

Everyone lives in the same community, and Zeli, as almost the only person who was born here and has both parents, is also a well-known community treasure who is outgoing and outgoing, and likes to deal with people.

So as early as many years ago, Zeli and Chuck knew each other when they were kids and the shopkeeper was just an inconspicuous roadside vendor.

"What a coincidence?" The shopkeeper put the two plates of raw pickled marsh frogs on the table, then looked at Ze Li jokingly and said, "Chuck, it would be strange if you didn't meet her on this street." Woolen cloth."

"As soon as this girl came back, she ran around the street in her navy uniform, showing off the two medals on her chest everywhere. From morning to now, I don't know how many times I have seen her wandering in this street."

"Ahem." Ze Li blushed and covered her shiny medal: "I, I just haven't come back for a long time, and I got lost."

"Hey." The shopkeeper said with a smile, "I'm staring at you, girl."

"Tell me, from the grandma who sells fried bananas on the street to the customers who come to eat in our store, who else has never seen you or heard your story of 'a bombardment of the flagship of the Shen Empire from 80 miles away'" Is it?"

"Hmm..." Zeli's face turned red, and her green hair was so embarrassing that it glowed with white thunder.

"You, you all know?"

She thought she was showing off very low-key.

"Haha." Chuck couldn't help laughing too.

"Zeli used to be like this. When she was 'lost' on the street last time, she had that portable player hanging on her waist. It was a self-made Walkman she made out of discarded parts." .

Seeing the electric light flickering on Zeli's head, she was so embarrassed that she didn't know whether it was about to short circuit or explode.
Chuck changed the subject a little scared and said, "That, Zeli"

"You just said that you have retired from the Navy? Not on vacation, but retired?"

"Yes." Zeli seemed to have finally found a hole in the ground that could be drilled in, and hurriedly answered: "The mass-produced electromagnetic gun driven by the Hex gem has been successfully researched."

"Now the navy does not lack my humanoid electromagnetic gun, so I retired and came back."

"After all, I'm not a soldier, but a graduate student in the Scientific Equipment Department. I heard that Mr. Victor has recently proposed the idea of ​​a miniaturized electromagnetic rifle, and I still need my ability to help with the experiment."

"Being a scientist?" Chuck thought about it for his friend, "That's pretty good too."

Zeli is not only talented in magic, but also a scientific genius.She has learned scientific knowledge from her parents who are alchemists since she was a child, and being a scientist is also in line with her life plan all along.

"What about you?" Zeli asked in turn, "What do you want to do after you graduate from school?"

"I" Chuck thought for a moment.

Then he said solemnly: "I want to be a worker."

"Pfft——" Zeli almost sprayed Faxiao's face with the magic swamp frog meat she just ate.

"Ahem." She slid down the food with difficulty, and then looked at Chuck puzzled: "Do you want to be a worker?"

This topic is a little tricky.

Although Zaun is a purely industrial city, for more than 200 years, Zaun workers have been the lowest-status group of people in the city.

Even gangster gangsters, kiln sisters doing service, and gutter orphans picking up rubbish can all look down on those miserable people who enter the factory to work.

Because everyone knows that this job is not done by humans.

In the true old London factories of Old Juana, workers lived well past thirty.Only those who can't survive and starve to death if they don't work will be reduced to work in the factory.

So over time, the gangster thug who followed the Alchemy Baron to do his best became an ideal job for the people of Zaun.

And the workers who are the cornerstone of this advanced industrial city have become the bottom of the society who are despised and pitiful by people.

This situation was not improved until the leader appeared.

Workers have personality equality, legal protection, and a huge improvement in welfare benefits, and their social status has also been greatly improved.

but.
Although this improvement is huge, it is only from 0 points to 75 points.Passing, but not good enough.

It's clear to everyone that working is still not an ideal first-choice career in Zaun today.

Doctors, teachers, soldiers, police officers, journalists, writers, scientists, artists, engineers, self-employed, including business owners who have been beaten by leaders and can only shrink their tails
Which of these occupations is not more popular than workers?
"Well." Zeli hesitated a little: "Chuck, why is your ideal only to be a worker?"

"What happened to the workers?" Chuck asked back.

"Um..." His tone was relaxed as if he was joking, but Zeli was suddenly speechless.

It's hard for her to say that workers are inferior in economic status.

She is the leader.This is not in line with the political correctness of the leaders.

"No—" Zeli woke up instantly.

If, for the sake of so-called political correctness, she obsessively calls the ugly beautiful, the fat thin, and the sick healthy, then that is a violation of the greatest correctness of the leaders—seeking truth from facts.

Leaders must be realistic.

If you don't seek truth from facts, you won't be able to recognize the current problem.

These problems may not be resolved now.But if it can't be solved now, just treat it as if it doesn't exist, then there is no possibility of solving the problem in the future.

"Chuck, you know that. Even now, a worker is not an ideal profession." Zeli was about to say.

"Hey, that's what you said." The shop owner couldn't help interjecting before he had gone far, "Everyone is equal now, so what's wrong with being a worker?"

"Cut!" Zeli glared at him: "It's so good to be a worker, so uncle, why don't you change it with Chuck?"

"You go to work for Chuck, and Chuck will help you open the store."

"Ahem." The shopkeeper was suddenly speechless in embarrassment.

His magic marsh frog shop is booming.A lot of silver wheels come into the account every day, what kind of factory do they go into?
"Look——" Ze Li rolled her eyes: "People who sell magic marsh frogs don't even look down on you."

"This, there is no way." The uncle of the shopkeeper muttered his best theory:
"After all, we are still far away from Datong society. We are still a market economy. Private ownership not only exists objectively, but also has strong vitality."

The tone of the shopkeeper's uncle was a bit tangled.

This question involves the leader's route.He also couldn't figure it out.

Let alone him, if all leaders come to a meeting to debate, it may not be possible to discuss a perfect result.

In short, the current Association of Leaders is still taking the moderate route of market economy and policy intervention.

Because Li Wei, as well as most leaders and cadres, believe that with the current level of productivity and the fact that most areas of Runeterra are still in a feudal agricultural society with zero industrialization. The steps taken by leaders in production relations, It can't be too big.

The advantage of a planned economy is that it can concentrate its efforts on major tasks, which can help backward countries achieve rapid industrialization, while at the same time improving their independent national defense capabilities and ensuring their own security.

But now the most advanced industrial technology in Runeterra is already in the hands of leaders.In this magical world, the national defense of the leader depends more on the goddess Janna than on the industrial level of the two cities.

Leaders have no need for rapid industrialization at all, so they are naturally unwilling to take the risk of choosing a planned economy that they are not familiar with.

Therefore, the market economy under policy intervention and the economic form combining planned regulation and market regulation have become their deliberate choices.

But to make corresponding choices, you have to face corresponding problems.

The problem with the plan is that the limited computing power of the leaders cannot keep up with the complex and ever-changing commodity demands of consumers.

The problem with the market is the almost unavoidable divide between the rich and the poor.

"Oh, there's no way," the shopkeeper uncle sighed: "The market economy distributes according to the role of each factor in production."

"This is doomed, workers who occupy the least factors of production and are at the bottom of the market distribution system cannot earn more than those in the middle and upper reaches of the occupation."

"The leaders rely on taxation, welfare, public services, etc. to carry out redistribution, which can only raise the lower limit of workers' treatment. As for the upper limit."

The upper limit is there.

No matter how much the workers do and how skilled they are, they cannot surpass that of a thriving restaurant owner.

"Perhaps, Ze Li is right." The uncle owner admitted his mistake while looking at Chuck.

He also believes that since Chuck has a rare opportunity to receive education, he can set his goals in life more ambitiously.

"No, you got it wrong." Chuck shook his head.

He finally had a chance to speak.

"It's not that I don't understand reality. I just recognize my abilities."

"I have no talent for magic or science. The ideal of a scientist is too lofty for me. Being a skilled worker is my best choice."

Chuck said calmly.

"This..." Zeli and the shopkeeper were silent.

Only then did they realize that they were not ordinary people.One of them is a unique extraordinary mage and scientific genius, and the other is also a successful businessman who is one in a million.

And Chuck was just a normal guy, the most normal kind.

Their self-motivated experience may not be able to be copied to ordinary people.

"But you can't lie flat." Zeli murmured, "Chuck, I believe in you, as long as you work hard."

"Lie flat?" Chuck smiled and said, "Haha, what are you thinking! I am the leader, how could I lie flat?"

"Actually, I just want to use this method to practice my ideal as a leader."

"This..." Zeli remembered at this moment that Chuck was also the leader.

And he, like her, is an "old man" who joined the Leaders Association nearly a year ago.

"That's right!" Zeli immediately thought of a way out for her friend: "What leaders lack most now are grassroots cadres like you who have firm beliefs. Since you want to practice your ideals, why don't you go for the civil service exam? "

Although the salary of civil servants is not higher than that of workers, and under the leadership of a group of workaholic leaders, the work is not easy at all.

However, in today's era of vigorous development of leaders, the promotion opportunities and room for advancement of civil servants are far greater than those of working in factories.

"Because you made a mistake, Zeli." Chuck said, "What leaders lack the most is not grassroots cadres, but skilled workers."

"Huh?" Zeli was slightly stunned: "The leader lacks skilled workers? Where is the shortage?"

What the Shuangcheng lacks most is workers.

"But what about Ionia?" Chuck asked seriously: "What about Noxus, Demacia, and other places in Runeterra?"

"This..." Zeli fell silent thoughtfully.

Chuck continued to sigh: "Zeli, you are still standing a little too high."

"You think there is no future in being a skilled worker, but have you found out?"

With a stable job, a moderate income, good treatment, and generous benefits, you can spend your life in peace——

This is a happy life that the people of Zaun in the past and the vast majority of people in Runeterra can't even imagine.

"What is this good life based on? It is based on the excess profits brought about by Zaun's advanced industrialization level."

"Now that we have a good life for ourselves, shall we forget about those who suffer and suffer outside Zaun?"

Chuck sighed deeply.

"I see." The uncle, the shopkeeper, seemed to see something.

"Chuck, you want to participate in the plan of 'dedicate yourself to industry and support the second line' proposed by President Levi, right?"

Li Wei pointed out a problem very early on, that is, the current Zaun is not fundamentally different from the previous Piltover.

And he has always been worried that when this generation of old Zaun people with faith and ideals passed away, the new generation of Zaun people enjoyed the best welfare in the world, and forgot where this welfare came from
Will the future Zaun become another Picheng in fact?
Will there be apprentices from other places in Zaun's factories?
Will there be any more discrimination against foreign students in the universities in Zuan?
Will the pain he and his sister go through, what happened to this generation of Zaun in Piltover, will it happen to the Shuriman and Ionians who come to work here in the future?

In the future, will rural farmers in Demacia and Noxus spend their entire lives trying to be a Zaun resident?

definitely will.

Levi knew the answer.This is the law, and he cannot completely avoid it.

But he has a way of easing it.

First, stick to the faith.

The education of Janna's thoughts can train Zaunites to be leaders instead of Lords of Uptown.

And as long as the leader's beliefs remain unchanged, resources such as medical care, education, and industry will not be excessively tilted towards the city of Zaan.

Therefore, there is a second method - to transfer resources to support backward areas.

The people of Zaun are never poor.

Even if there is no policy preference and no advantage of the capital, the Shuangcheng can at least reach the level of Singapore by relying on the Sun Gate Cross-sea Canal alone.

As long as there is no problem with distribution, the people of Zaun cannot be poor.They will always be the de facto "uptowners."

So how do you reduce the de facto inequality between Zaun and other economically backward regions?
Of course, it is necessary to do everything possible to help backward areas develop industries, increase productivity, and make all parts of the world as rich as possible.

"However, to realize the industrialization of the whole world, a large number of skilled workers are needed."

"However, skilled workers are not like leaders' cadres, who can be trained 'out of thin air' from the grassroots in Ionia—they must have received comprehensive scientific education and vocational training."

"At present, only Zaun and Piltover have the ability to provide this kind of training."

The uncle owner recalled the article he saw in the newspaper.

Only now did he understand why Chuck said that what leaders lack the most now is not cadres, but skilled workers.

"That's why you aspire to become a skilled worker?" Zeli looked at Chuck in shock.

"Yes." Chuck nodded: "I have signed up for the 'Talent Cradle Program' of the second-tier construction."

"After I finish my studies, I may go to Ionia, or other places - it all depends on the organization."

"Chuck." Zeli and the shopkeeper were shocked and speechless.

Now even a fool can see that the identity of a Zaan resident will be an extremely valuable thing in the future.

But Chuck wanted to leave Zaun voluntarily for his ideals and beliefs, and devote himself to the second-line construction.

This walk may be a lifetime.Never come back.

"I admire you!" The uncle owner patted Chuck on the shoulder: "Young man, you are very good."

He knew as much theory as Chuck.But here lies the gap between theoretical masters and real leaders.

"Chuck!" Zeli also looked at him with admiration.

"Hey" Chuck muttered helplessly: "What are you doing? I'm exiled. To support the construction of the second line, the treatment is not bad."

Li Wei doesn't like to only talk about dedication, not about treatment.

Good people shouldn't let the guns be pointed.Leaders are willing to sacrifice, and it is not the reason why they deserve to suffer.

Therefore, those workers who support the construction of the second line, the allowances they enjoy must surpass those of the local workers in Zaan——

The money is deducted from the transfer payment provided by Zaun.Let those "uptowners" in Zaun who don't want to go make some contributions together.

"Okay." Zeli finally restrained her subtle look at the martyr.

But in the face of Chuck's decisive choice, she couldn't help feeling sad again: "Oh. It seems that we will be separated in the future."

"No, there are Hexfly doors." Chuck smiled.

"You lied to me that there aren't many cities in the world that have hex-flying gates."

"That's okay. Even if it doesn't, we'll build it up brick by brick."

"." Zeli was speechless.

After a long time, she finally choked out a sentence: "Happy New Year."

"Huh?" Chuck looked at her puzzled.

People in Zaun don't celebrate New Year's Eve.He couldn't understand.

"President Li Wei taught me this." Zeli said, "I was showing off on the street before, and when I got lost, I met him."

"He said Happy New Year to me."

Zeli didn't understand then either.

She also thought that President Li Wei had contracted the stink of the Picheng guy, and had started celebrating some meaningless New Year's Eve.

But Levi told her that the people of Zaun could have a good year now.And the mission of their leader is to let people all over the world live a good year.

Now the people of Zaun have a New Year holiday, but countless people in the world suffer and starve on this day.

Therefore, this "Happy New Year" is not only a good wish between people, but also a warning to those who lead the way-the struggle has not yet been successful, and comrades still need to work hard.

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Although Li Wei privately refused to let Seraphine sublimate.

But as the chairman of the association who focuses on theoretical work, he has sublimated in front of his subordinates, which is a set of things.

This little girl, Ze Li, is only 15 years old this year. Once she was educated by this "old senior", she took his words as a life creed and deeply remembered them in her heart.

"I remembered, but I didn't do it. And you, Chuck. You are the real leader."

"So it is!" After hearing this story, Chuck was also deeply encouraged.

He stood up and formally extended his arms to Zeli:

"Comrade Zeli, Happy New Year!"

"Well, happy new year!"

The two hands were tightly held together.

(End of this chapter)