Chapter 496 [0491] Spring Speech

In different places and facing different people, the strategies adopted in speeches are naturally different in order to achieve the desired effect.

In the grand square, the content of the coronation speech of the King of Demacia is close to the people, but in essence it is for the nobles to listen to, so behind the plain sentences and wonderful descriptions, there are often aristocratic metaphors.

In the Zaun Tavern, the speech to unite the workers must be clear and insightful, and can mobilize the emotions of the people to the greatest extent through the common experience of the Zaun workers, so that everyone can follow them.

In Fosbyro, facing the northerners who have just finished a long "hibernation" and have not yet fully entered the working state, Lux used the casual tone that both the host and the guest felt comfortable when visiting Fosbyro.

Using the most northern expression, as if just chatting, he talked about how he quietly did a big thing in the winter and talked about what changes he hoped would happen in Fosbyro this year.

Lux had heard this tone for a whole winter. Most Fosbyro people would use this tone when talking about their children. Even if they called their children "smelly brats" and "little bastards", as if their children were all extremely naughty bastards, in fact, they remembered any small achievements of their children more clearly than the children themselves.

Lux naturally had no experience as a parent, but this did not prevent her from using her learning advantages to flexibly apply the skills she learned from chatting with Fosbyro people in her speeches.

"If you want to build water conservancy projects, you must first know where the water comes from."

"The water in Fosbyro comes from the Dragon Ridge Mountains. In spring, the snow melts and the glaciers rumble out a new river channel. The subsequent meltwater flows southward from this river channel."

"But the problem is that the roads made by the glaciers are different every year. These seasonal rivers are like shallow plates for soup. Not to mention using them for water conservancy transportation, you don't have to worry about getting your thighs wet even if you wash your feet."

"So, the first step in building water conservancy projects is to gather these waters. To drink soup, you must at least prepare a soup basin."

"So, I took people to spend a winter digging a big soup basin for Fosbyro's soup plan - but this soup may be a bit slow to drink, and now there is only ice in the soup basin."

The vivid metaphor caused a low laugh among the people of Fosbyro. There was no ridicule in this laughter, only understanding and empathy.

By this time, most of the Fosbyro people who were listening to the speech had already understood why the huge lake was dug.

"Now that we have the soup bowl, the soup is slowly melting from the ice. The next step is to think about how to drink it."

"Such a large soup bowl will definitely not work with a spoon. If we want to use the water, we have to make it flow. Flowing water can carry and transport, communicate trade, and sell more of Fosbyro's products to Pinara, Edessa, and Demacia!"

"Only in this way can we exchange our harvest for other things we need - in summer, we don't have to wear woolen sweaters, but can tear off a few feet of cloth to make new clothes for our families; when we encounter illnesses, we don't have to pray that it can be cured by Fosbyro's local herbs, but can have holy water and medicines from other places for treatment."

Strictly speaking, Lux's words are empty promises, but she knows Fosbyro very well, so she knows what the people of Fosbyro need and what kind of promises they should make so that the people of Fosbyro will find it fragrant.

Since there is almost no silk, cotton, and linen textile industry in the local area, the people of Fosbairo have to wear woolen sweaters even in summer.

The elder sister of the hunter family she visited at the beginning, who showed her the fur processing technology, liked a piece of clothing the most, which was an ordinary blue cotton robe. It was exchanged for a complete dragon-back lynx skin by her husband when she got married - it was not Samborhei, but the Chamber of Commerce's annual transportation capacity was limited, and there was no space to transport too many materials.

For the people of Fosbairo, joining the army not only means a way to rise, but also various military supplies are also things they value very much, and the most important of them are three sets of military uniforms from inside to outside.

Among food, clothing, housing and transportation, clothing is the biggest pain point of Fosbairo's material scarcity.

As for medicine, it was because before this, Lux, who had pretended to be an intern of the Illuminati, had visited many families that had been eroded by the shadow. From the mouths of those helpless Fosbyro people, Lux not only learned about the situation of the shadow erosion at that time, but also had some understanding of Fosbyro's life-and-death medical technology.

If the Fosbyro people were sick, if it was a minor illness or a problem that could be treated with special herbs from the North, then everything would be fine.

But if more therapeutic drugs produced elsewhere were needed, then it would be up to fate.

These were all things Lux discovered through observation, things that the Fosbyro people cared about but had no way to deal with, so here, she directly told all these things in front of all the Fosbyro people.

The metaphor of digging a soup bowl to drink soup can let the Fosbyro people know why an artificial lake was built, and the subsequent examples tell the Fosbyro people that water conservancy construction can truly solve everyone's difficulties and bring changes to everyone.

When Lux said "there is holy water and other medicines for treatment", the laughter in the crowd had disappeared - many people who had always felt that the lord was very familiar were surprised to find that she seemed to be exactly the same as the "Illuminati apprentice from Xiongdu who taught the use of holy water" during the epidemic!

Then, just when these people were confused, Lux on the podium blinked.

"Thanks to the Law Guardians who came to Fosbyro from the Illuminati's silent people." Lux continued, "They spent a winter digging this soup bowl on the hard frozen soil with their own methods; and this year, they will spend a year to connect this bowl of northern soup with the Meilan River for us."

As she spoke, Lux took the initiative to applaud, and as the applause rang out, the representatives of the Law Guardians were invited to the podium, which was much larger and stronger than before.

Starting from the first group, Lux introduced the types of projects represented by each person to the Fosbyro people with an extremely proud tone. Some of them dug the lake, some built dams, some compacted the earth, some filled the surrounding hot melt lake, some planted trees to protect the dams, and some provided logistical guarantees for the entire camp...

Before today, Lux had a frank conversation with Fosbyro's private army. After a long period of historical education, coupled with the ice-breaking of Sislia and Fuquelin, this army no longer hated the Guardians - especially after the artificial lake was finally built. Even the most stubborn soldiers had to admit that with the leadership of Count Laxana, these infected demons... Guardians can do some serious work.

They are indeed different from those bastards who were sent to continue serving their sentences.

After doing a good job of ideological work for the army, Lux finally brought these talented spellcasters into the city of Fosbyro for the first time, brought them to the people of Fosbyro, and announced their titles of Spellbinders in public.

The people of Fosbyro did not know the identity of the Spellbinders, but they still had the most basic respect for the people who spent a winter digging soup bowls for Fosbyro.

However, this was just respect. At the beginning, no one applauded with Lux.

Then, just when the scene was about to become awkward, Bull, who had a strange disease last year and had been lying in bed for several months and was weak, and his old mother who depended on him for life, suddenly clapped their hands vigorously together.

In addition to them, there were many people who had contracted the disease last year and were eventually cured by holy water or who had been delayed for a long time to heal themselves. They seemed to understand something and applauded vigorously.

Words like "Illuminati", "holy water", "the Count has been here for a long time" began to spread among the crowd, and more and more people began to clap their hands. The applause was like the initial sporadic splashes of water, gradually turning into a roaring river, and finally interweaving into a vast ocean.

The Archons, who were originally a little embarrassed on the stage, proudly raised their chests in the applause.

Three days ago, when the artificial lake was officially completed, they, as representatives of the project, had already accepted the internal praise of the Archons.

And now, they were pleasantly surprised to find that this praise might not only come from the Archons circle - for these people who had been abandoned by Demacia, standing on a high podium and accepting the applause of the Demacia people from the truth was something they had never dreamed of.

To be fair, their achievements are completely worthy of any praise, and a mere applause is not enough to reward them for their contribution to Fosbyro.

But as the former demon-tainted, a fair evaluation and a sincere gratitude are precious enough.

From now on, they can no longer live in a temporary camp.

Amidst the applause, the Guardian finally saw the warm sunshine again.

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After explaining the significance, ideas and necessity of water conservancy projects, Lux untied the speech and focused on this year's plan.

Combining the draft for comments issued earlier, she proposed three important plans.

First, strengthen commercial trade in view of the products and business environment of Fosbyro.

This year, the artificial lake is still mainly in the stage of water storage. The snow mountain meltwater that exceeds the capacity will be introduced into the river channel last year, so the transportation method from Fosbyro to Demacia Xiongdu has not changed for the time being.

However, because Lux has "few connections" in Xiongdu, the large-scale trade that used to take place once in summer can now be supplemented with multiple small-scale trades. Fosbyro will use small-scale trade to help Fosbyro people sell more goods and commodities while ensuring concentrated trade in summer.

At the same time, the Archons will also purchase other specialties from the North and add them to the trade of Fosbyro. Lux did not mention this part explicitly, and the main content is the Freljord trade and the Mithril City trade.

Second, try to reform the herbalist industry in Fosbyro.

With the support of the Herbalist Guild, the herbalists who are too old to climb the cliffs will cooperate with the Archons and try to use artificial cultivation to grow the North's specialty spice crops including Lingjiang, Fuwu Grass, and Cassidoros Flowers.

I believe that with the help of the Archons, Fosbyro will soon test out an environment suitable for the growth of these plants - and considering the amazing price of natural spices in Runeland, this will be the source of Fosbyro's future wealth!

Third, Lux will take the lead in integrating resources for Fosbyro's mining industry.

Specifically, it starts with ore washing and crushing, and gradually regains the blue ochre industry chain!

As the origin of blue ochre, Fosbyro can only earn a little basic mining money, which is really a loss. Lux, who has been in charge of Zaun for three years, knows better than anyone that the blue ochre industry, which absorbs a large number of laborers, is the best industry for cultivating organizations and the industry that is most likely to accept progress!

Therefore, whether it is to make Fosbyro rich or to lay the foundation for Fosbyro's take-off, the blue ochre industry will definitely be the focus of the next work!

In the past, Fosbyro had no water source for ore washing and no manpower for crushing.

But now that the artificial lake has been built, although it is not enough to support Fosbyro's water transport trade, there is no pressure at all for small-scale ore washing and drainage!

With the artificial lake as a water source for ore washing and mages participating in ore crushing, Fosbyro will use the most shameless price war to directly defeat and absorb the ore washing and crushing plants in the south, on the one hand to absorb population, and on the other hand to prepare for next year's "victory pursuit"!

The three plans were all supported by the heads of the Chamber of Commerce, the Mining Association, and the Herbalist Guild. The details were also discussed repeatedly by Lux and them, and naturally suited Fosbyro's situation.

Now Lux used the most popular terms to tell the Fosbyro people about their vision, which naturally attracted cheers from the audience!

At this moment, it seemed that everyone saw a bright future waving to themselves!

At the end of the speech, she and the Fosbyro people agreed to meet here again before winter. At that time, she will report to all Fosbyro people, report the results of the spring speech plan this year, and summarize the achievements and changes of Fosbyro in the past year.

Amid the thunderous applause of the Fosbyro people, Lux ended this spring speech. With the artificial lake built quietly last winter, most of the Fosbyro people present had expectations for Count Laxana's promise and the changes in Fosbyro this year.

Although this expectation did not allow them to make too much change on their own initiative, Lux was satisfied with the optimistic view and support in willingness.

Trust was built bit by bit in this way.

Kalya's small class·Northern dialect and metaphor:

Unlike the long and complex sentences that the nobles are keen on, the Fosbyro people prefer short and powerful sentences. On the one hand, this is influenced by the Freljord and belongs to the unique flavor of the northern dialect; on the other hand, it is because speaking in this way is easy to strengthen the mood of the language.

PS.100k/200k, woo woo woo, I have to work hard to update, there is another chapter in the second half of the night.

PSS.EDG ah EDG, you are really amazing, this year's world competition, except for JDG, the three teams really put in the best show effects, I am also convinced.