Chapter 1957 Online News
Less than half an hour after leading the swarm to fly out, Joan saw the shadow of the sail of the "Coral".
At the same time, the lookout on the expedition ship also saw the buzzing swarm of bees in the air, and quickly blew the horn to warn the sailors on the ship to prepare for the enemy.
Captain Odysseus rushed to the deck with a gun in his hand, and saw four familiar figures among the bee swarm through the binoculars. Then he realized that he had made an "oolong", and severely reprimanded the nervous lookout, ordering his men to pull down the sound. Sirens, to welcome the swarm of escorting refugees to land on the deck.
The "Coral" has limited space, and Captain Odysseus could only place hundreds of refugees on the open deck, and ordered the crew to bring them food and water. Anyway, fill their stomachs first, and then discuss it with Hailar , it is suggested to temporarily change the course and send the refugees to the nearest port first, so that they can go ashore to fend for themselves.
Hailar discussed with Joan and Zion, and everyone felt that the sea was turbulent and the nights were full of dreams, so it was better to send the refugees ashore as soon as possible, so they agreed to Captain Odysseus's proposal.
The expedition ship turned around and sailed westward. If there were no accidents on the way, it would arrive at the port by tomorrow afternoon at the latest.
Calculated in this way, the refugees will have to stay on the open deck for at least a whole day. These old people and children are very weak, and they may not be able to bear the wind and sun from morning till night.
"Should we build a few refuge cabins on the deck to accommodate refugees, at least to help them shelter from the wind and the sun." Holden looked at Joan.
Joan wanted to nod in agreement, but suddenly thought of a spell that was more suitable as a refuge than the "refuge hut", which was the arcane "portable laboratory" of the 4-ring protection system he learned from his mentor.
"Portable Laboratory" is a spell invented by Professor Moriarty based on the "Refuge Cabin". Four improvements have been made on the basis of the latter: the duration is longer, the indoor space is larger, the room can be divided, and the spellcaster is not required to stay indoors.
Joan took out a glass bead from the spell-casting material bag, walked to the center of the deck, waved his hand to signal the refugees to make room, and then cast a spell to build a building made of opaque force field walls. The upper and lower floors were divided into countless A small room, shaped like a beehive.
These small rooms are a bit like single rooms in a cheap hotel. The living environment is not comfortable, but it is much better than being exposed to the wind and sun.
During the resettlement of refugees in this temporary "hotel", Qiao An asked them where they came from and why they took the risk of crossing the ocean to come to the New World.
All the refugees gave the same answer. They were originally self-cultivated farmers who had lived in the interior of the empire for generations. Their lives were already very poor. The land reform policy implemented by the imperial authorities this summer made their situation even worse and deprived them of the little land they had. , fell into bankruptcy.
These small peasants who lost their land had nowhere to go, so they had to spend their last bit of money to buy boat tickets, boarded the immigrant boat with their families, and traveled across the ocean to the sparsely populated New World to seek a living.
Unexpectedly, misfortunes never come singly. The immigrant ship escaped the storm, but it failed to escape the pirates' looting. All the young men and women on board were taken away by the pirates. Ann rescued them and gave them a way to survive.
The refugees thanked him with tears of gratitude, but Joan didn't care. The bloody and tearful complaints of the refugees to the imperial authorities touched him deeply, and he was eager to find out what happened in the interior of the empire in the past six months, so that the people were in dire straits.
"Joan, when I was in Canaan, I heard Brother Colofa talk about the reform policy implemented by the imperial authorities, and he also made many criticisms. Looking back now, my elder brother's criticisms can be said to be sharp, and almost all of them have been verified. .”
After all, Holden came from the royal family of Canaan, and he majored in journalism at university. He is much more informed than Joan, an otaku who keeps his ears to the outside world and concentrates on research.
"Since this spring, the 'reformists' headed by Crown Prince Frank at the top of the Ashan Empire have taken control of the actual power of the cabinet. They first started to implement banknote reform in the financial sector, and then introduced many more reforms in other areas of the national economy. Radical reform measures."
"On the surface, most of the reform plans led by Prince Frank followed the policies implemented by the Kolas regime in the Far East, such as emancipating serfs, revising tax laws, establishing state farms, etc., but the results received are quite different from those in the Far East. Instead of reversing the financial difficulties of the empire, it caused great pain to the people at the bottom of the rule, and further exacerbated domestic conflicts and social unrest."
"The self-cultivating peasants who lost their land during the reform, including many so-called 'liberated' serfs, are living a worse life than before. In order to find a way out, they had to leave their hometowns and immigrate to the New World."
After listening to Holden's story, Joan still couldn't figure it out. Prince Frank and his financial advisor, Mr. John Lauer, are both very smart people. Their courage to advocate reforms is admirable, and they are all implemented in the Far East. A policy that has been implemented for at least a year and has proven to be effective, how did it become unacceptable when it was transferred to the interior of the empire, and turned into the current corrupt situation?
What is the problem?
"Joan, it's hard for me to explain the questions you raised in a few words, but I happened to read an article that analyzed these questions very thoroughly. If you're interested, I can find them for you."
"Okay, what kind of article is it?" Joan inquired with great interest.
"A front-page article published by "Motherland Daily" in early October is about a speech delivered by His Royal Highness Roland, Prince of the Far East." Audrey walked over and answered for her younger brother with a smile.
Joan frowned and couldn't help questioning: "Our expedition ship just left Elephant Man Island in early October, and then encountered a storm and drifted at sea for days. How could you see the Far East newspapers issued during that time?"
"My friend, it's the 'cloud age' now, and only bumpkins buy newspapers!" Holden smiled and revealed the answer, "My sister and I log in to the news forum of Yunwang every day, and directly subscribe to the newspapers of different countries on the Internet. Published news reports."
Qiao An was stunned for a moment, and suddenly remembered that not long after the store and shopping function was launched on the cloud network, he had indeed launched an online news service, but he had already developed the habit of buying newspapers every day, so he didn't pay much attention to this new service. Function.
After being teased by Holden, Joan realized a very serious problem - no matter how perfect the newspaper's distribution and distribution network is, there will always be corners that cannot be reached.
For example, a person drifting at sea is equivalent to being isolated from the world, and cannot buy newspapers, so of course he knows nothing about the current news.