Chapter 352 [0349] Nashramei's Next Move

Lacus and Ino are enjoying the festival.

Kalja is reminiscing about the past.

At this time, Ms. Saga, the port governor of Nashram, is holding a staff meeting on the specific use of some equipment imported from Vazuan.

When Vazuan was rebuilt and the Golden Feather of the Regent Prince was taken out, the representative of Nashram was undoubtedly the most generous among the representatives of various city-states.

Nashram, who had just made a lot of money from the Noxians, even generously ordered a series of lighting equipment directly, intending to light up a city area directly!

As for why the Nashram people are so generous... it starts with the municipal construction of this city.

You know, the public facilities in the Shurima Empire style that Kalja has seen along the way and that the Nashram people have worked hard to preserve to this day are roughly only three types: water supply and drainage facilities, traffic and road facilities, and ancient buildings.

Among them, among the water supply and drainage facilities, most of the water supply facilities have been abandoned.

The water network that originally relied on the sun disk and the two parallel networks has now dried up. Nashiramie can only carry out targeted transformation of the remaining water supply facilities. Naturally, there is no cheap tap water. Only a few water supply pipes are still connected to the water tanks, supplying expensive water sources to some urban areas.

Drainage facilities are still running well because Nashiramie is close to the sea. Unfortunately, the sewage treatment device has almost completely failed. The wastewater of the entire city can only be discharged directly into the ocean after simple standing and filtering. Fortunately, Nashiramie does not have much water to use, and there are no highly polluting industries locally. Relying on the self-cleaning ability of the ocean, drainage pollution is not a problem at present.

As for the ancient building complex, after years of patchwork renovation, it is like the ship of Theseus, which is completely different from the original. In addition to the similar appearance, the interior of these ancient buildings has long changed, and the functions are completely different, so this part is the purest cosplay.

Therefore, after setting up the sun disk and repairing and restoring the ancient buildings to the extreme, Nashrameh wanted to continue to carry forward the glory of the Shurima Empire, so working hard on traffic and road facilities became the only direction.

To this day, the street scale and vehicle standards of Nashrameh still follow the requirements of the Shurima Empire era, and even specially divided the berths for multi-man behemoths on the main roads.

The material of the street pavement has always maintained the requirements of the Shurima Empire. It must be based on the solid rock blocks shaped by the rock elemental mage, and then poured with asphalt paint, rolled flat, and it looks magnificent at first glance!

On both sides of the road, Nashrameh also preserved the lighting devices of the Shurima Empire period - street lamps.

However, it is embarrassing that even if Nashrameh's craftsmen can perfectly reproduce the shells of these street lamps, the lighting system is highly dependent on the energy transmission of the magic network. Without the magic network, Nashrameh can only use expensive whale oil on the main road to light up these magic street lamps.

Although it cost a lot of money to purchase lighting equipment and subsequent facilities from Vazouan, in fact, the consumption of using whale oil to light street lamps is actually more expensive. Although Nashrameh is close to the sea, there are actually no large whale activities in the Valoran Straits it is close to. If you want to buy whale oil, you must buy it from the old sea dogs in Bilgewater at a high price, and then pay an additional luxury tax when passing through the Piltover Canal.

Replacing whale oil lighting with new lighting equipment in Vazouan is a cheaper option in the long run.

Moreover, although whale oil lighting is also effective, it is somewhat inferior to the public lighting recorded in the books during the ancient Shurima Empire.

Although everyone knows that the means of lighting during the Shurima Empire were probably not Hextech, for peddlers and hawkers, they don’t understand Hextech, but they know how to burn whale oil. Compared with the country bumpkins who usually use whale oil to show off their wealth, Hextech cosplay looks more like that.

Therefore, even though it costs a lot of money to purchase these devices, Saga's staff all agree that the money is worth spending.

However, on the issue of "which city to place the new lighting equipment in", the staff's attitude is no longer unified.

Some people think that it should be placed in the noble area to give the upper class the best enjoyment.

Some people think that it should be placed in the commercial area to replace the whale oil lamp to attract more businessmen.

Others say that it should be placed in the civilian area to absorb more desert nomads and then expand the city.

Everyone has their own ideas and reasons. Everyone has prepared a speech that sounds quite reliable and clearly explains their opinions.

Saga, who was sitting in the main seat, leaned back slightly, leaned on the wide chair, tilted his head slightly, squinted his eyes, listened quietly to everyone's ideas, and nodded from time to time.

But from beginning to end, Saga's expression did not change at all, and no one could see any tendency or attitude from her face.

In fact, the staff who dared not even breathe did not know that their female governor was actually daydreaming at this moment.

That’s right, although the meeting was in progress, this lady Saga was actually distracted.

This nearly 40-year-old but still charming lady, although her right hand was unconsciously stroking her slender thighs under her silk robe, her mind was not recalling the pleasure of last night. The reason for her distraction was that she didn't really care where the lighting facilities were placed, and on the other hand, she had been thinking about a big plan recently.

Although people often talk about the think tank under the female governor of the port when talking about Nashram, in fact, unlike what people think of as "respecting the wise and learning from others", Saga is actually a person with her own ideas.

Saga has never been afraid to delegate power, not because she is generous, but because she delegates power that she doesn't care about.

Just like now.

For small issues such as where to place the new lighting facilities, she will hold a meeting seriously and listen to the opinions of her subordinates humbly, and even directly make a decision according to the final result of everyone's discussion without any change.

However, in some matters that she thought were very important, even if all the staff members opposed it, she would still go against the crowd without hesitation - just like the decision to turn against Noxus before.

At that time, Saga was even ready to fight Noxus at all costs. At her request, the staff and the staff collected and calculated a huge amount of data, estimated the number of Noxians who might land in the early stage, and planned to take the initiative to attack when the other side made a slight move, and give Noxians a hard blow, and it would be best to take Uzeris directly.

However, the silly port governor of Uzeris - oh, now it should be called the service officer - Finn Tang finally realized the problem. He was unwilling to let Uzeris become the front line of the battle between Noxus and Shurima, and even more unwilling to become the cannon fodder of Noxus. With his full mediation and the strategic eastward shift of Noxus, the war did not start.

(By the way, the "Ramos' appearance" that Kalya guessed did not really happen, and the rumors and gossip about Ramos' appearance were actually spread by Saga.)

Whether it was to set up the sun disk or to break up with the Noxians, Saga had only one goal - she wanted to be the second Setaka.

……………………

Saga was planning her new actions.

And Kalya, who had recovered from the state of being reminded of his country by the sight of things, saw a lot of clues in the details of the city of Nashram after putting aside his complicated emotions.

Although he did not know Saga's specific ambitions, after being led by Lux and touring Nashram, Kalya was very sure that this female governor might have a big plan.

Even though Lux and Ino were just strolling around and didn't take the initiative to go to some sensitive areas (such as the city walls and gates), the guards who maintained order in the streets and alleys, the urban areas that were obviously professionally planned, the number of urban residents who were shoulder to shoulder, and the professional markets with amazing scale and complete categories, all fully demonstrated the uniqueness of this city.

Although it is different from the vibrant and competitive situation of Piltover and Zaun, for those who have not really experienced the Shurima Empire like Karya, Nashramme does give people a sense of extreme grandeur and profound heritage.

Even for Lux and Ino, who were taught by Karya himself, Nashramme satisfied a lot of imaginations about that glorious empire!

Lux ​​and Ino are like this, let alone those desert survivors?

At first, Karya just laughed, but as he laughed, he noticed something wrong.

If a city, whose legal system comes from the Shurima Empire, claims to be the orthodox heritage of Shurima, whose residents are descendants of the people of the Shurima Empire, and whose urban style is also very similar to that of the Shurima Empire...

Then in the eyes of many people, is it the Shurima Empire?

Or, if this city can expand into an empire, is it the next Shurima Empire?

Thinking of this, Karya finally had some sudden realization - his previous judgment on Nashramme seemed to have some deviations. Nashramme said that they wanted to revive Shurima, but their definition of Shurima seemed to be somewhat different from what Karya knew.

To be precise, it seems that the Shurima that Nashramme wants to revive is a Shurima that looks as highly civilized as the Shurima Empire, but its core actually has nothing to do with the Shurima Empire... New Shurima.

Really interesting!

It seems that this lady Saga is probably quite ambitious!

Of course, Kalya doesn't mind someone having ambitions. Even if Nashrameh is just a facade, it is still far better than other cities that Kalya has seen along the way.

It's no exaggeration to say that in the whole of Northern Shurima, apart from Vaz'uan, Nashrameh is probably the only one with the ability and spare money to hold a celebratory festival like Ramos Day.

From the perspective of development, Nashrameh is doing pretty well.

But what Kalya cares about more is that he actually wants to know more about how Nashrameh can maintain his extravagant style of nouveau riche after the Ionian War ended, the Noxians stopped large-scale military purchases, and even started infighting?

Where will the ambition of this female governor of the port fall?

Without the extravagant purchases of the Noxian warband, there is also commercial competition from Vaz'uan in the east...

Even at this moment, Nashrameh's trade is still prosperous, but how long can this prosperity last?

When the merchants' rejection of Uzeris gradually fades, and when Shurima's business level gradually returns to normal, can Nashrameh go further by simply relying on the low-cost labor advantage brought by attracting desert immigrants?

There are slums in Nashrameh.

Judging from the accents of the poor here, most of them are desert immigrants from other places. Although they have become a member of Nashrameh, Nashrameh does not have sufficient municipal conditions to maintain their relatively decent lives.

In other words, Nashrameh does not intend to give them a relatively decent life.

Even though the southern wall is being rebuilt and expanded to continue to increase the area of ​​the city, the city area of ​​Nashrameh has reached its limit without the power supply of the solar disk.

Vaz'an, which once had a canal, also went through this step. As a result, due to the widening gap between the rich and the poor, Vaz'an eventually became Zaun and Piltover.

In Nashram, as long as the port governor is not stupid, she will never allow the city to split for some reason in the future - and from her methods against the Noxians, she is obviously not stupid.

When the Ramos Day parade on the street ended, Lux and Ino returned to the hotel contentedly. After two days of silent observation, Karya finally got the answer by elimination.

Nashram is planning a war.

In other words, unless the Nashram people have a certain magic or technological breakthrough in secret, which can keep it developing like Hextech and Alchemy Rune Technology, war is the inevitable thing that Nashram has to face.

At least from Karya's point of view, he can't think of anything else besides war to digest the desert survivors attracted by Nashram's crazy hoarding of reputation, what else can keep Nashram's momentum of development, and what else can organize the internal division that Nashram may face next.

So, here comes the question.

If Nashram wants to start a war, who will be its target?

Considering the civil war in Noxus, the conflict between the Rakor and Noxus due to conscription, and the long-standing commercial competition and conflict between the neighboring city and Uzeris, the answer to this question is obvious.

Uzeris.

After reaching this conclusion, Karya finally sighed helplessly.

Karya's small class · Ramos Day Tumbling Competition:

In Nashram, there is a very interesting event on Ramos Day, the Ramos Tumbling Competition, in which contestants need to imitate Ramos Tumbling and roll forward on a specified street sprinkled with paint, covering a distance of nearly 100 yards.

After all the contestants finally reach the finish line, the referee will judge the winner based on their speed (the faster the better)

and the amount of paint on their bodies (the less the better).

PS. One chapter today.

Ye Yinxiao, Ye Yinxiao, how can you be so lazy... 10,000 words tomorrow!