Chapter 825 [0813] Speech in the Snowstorm

Heavy snow fell.

At first, the snowflakes melted quickly as soon as they fell to the ground. Even though the temperature had dropped for several days, it was still far from the time for snow to accumulate in Xiongdu City.

But as the snow fell heavier and the temperature dropped, the snow finally did not have time to turn into a puddle of mud and was frozen again, becoming turbid and dim ice crystals.

Then, the white snowflakes that continued to fall covered up the dirt, and Xiongdu City seemed to become peaceful and quiet.

The next morning, when Lux was ready to start this year's winter speech, the Grand Plaza was completely covered in white. Everywhere you looked, there were silver snakes dancing on the mountains and wax elephants galloping on the plains. The huge statues on the Grand Plaza were all wearing a heavy white shawl.

But even so, the Grand Plaza was quickly filled with listeners after getting up in the morning. They stepped on the slippery ground and joined the crowd before the heavy snow stopped completely.

However, although for the people of Xiongdu, walking in the snow to listen to the winter speech is indeed a novel experience that has never been experienced before, for Lux, giving a winter speech in the wind and snow is a reserved item in Fosbyro. When she was the Lord of Fosbyro, the spring and winter speeches every year were the most likely to snow. Although she tried her best to avoid giving speeches on snowy days, the weather in the North would obviously not give face easily.

Therefore, both Lux herself and the clerks who maintained order were quite adapted to this kind of windy and snowy environment, and they also had plans that had been tested by facts. Even though the people of Xiongdu were not used to this kind of heavy snow, there was no big trouble around the magnificent square.

Silas and Irelia, who had lined up early, entered the audience very smoothly after receiving a bowl of hot porridge.

Unlike most of the shivering audience, Silas was in a good mental state and was full of energy. Unconsciously, he had adapted to the cold climate.

He looked more and more like a Freljordian.

After a night of meditation, Irelia was in good shape, but even so, she was still no match for Sylas.

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Lux has never liked too much red tape, so even though the snow was still blowing, she still started this year's winter speech on time. After a simple test of the sound amplification effect, she officially started her speech.

The style of the speech was still based on her consistent down-to-earth style, not seeking every word to be pearls, but only seeking to be easy to understand. The first half of the entire speech was her preliminary summary of Demacia's reforms in the past year.

In order to make people understand the content and purpose of the reform, she chose a farmer's family, a merchant's family and a craftsman's family as examples, and described in detail the impact of the reforms in the past year on them.

For the farmer's family, although the agricultural tax has not been reduced, because they are willing to cultivate several crops recommended by the local area, they will receive additional subsidies when buying seeds. During this period, this family encountered the problem of price increases by seed merchants, and after reporting it, they were rewarded with part of the fine.

This family did not choose to try the new fertilizers from the north, so the growth of their crops was not as good as that of their neighbors; because the children in the family went to school, no one went to the fields to pick up the remaining ears of grain after the harvest, and the overall grain yield was slightly lower than in the past.

However, considering that the gluttonous boy did not have to eat at home at noon and in the morning, when calculating the surplus in winter, it seemed that the family had made some money.

Unfortunately, the extra money was not enough to meet all the needs of the family. This year, the merchants in the town had a lot of new things, which contained many things that the family wanted, but in the end, the family decided to choose some cheap outdated fabrics to make new clothes this year, and use the remaining money to buy books - reading can make you a clerk, that is the new generation of nobles!

It must be said that Lux actually has a talent for acting. This part of the content was told by her like a stand-up comedy, and there was even a faint laugh among the crowd.

But soon, these people stopped laughing, because after the stand-up comedy, Lux severely criticized this new aristocratic ideology and emphasized once again that clerks and law guards were not new aristocrats.

Then, she began to talk about the changes in merchant families and craftsman families over the past year.

As for merchants, the market in South Demacia is gradually opening up, but just like the situation of farmers' lack of surplus wealth before, the problem faced by merchants is that the market is not developed enough and the purchasing power of the people is seriously insufficient.

Small merchants have no ability to get involved in the trade of bulk commodities (mainly grain). They came to South Demacia, where the market had just opened, with products from the north, full of hope, but found that the farmers who accounted for the vast majority of the population here had little money at all.

The situation that was full of confidence and hope to make a big splash in the new market did not happen at all. Instead, the various commodities they purchased were unsalable. For this reason, merchants had to visit more villages and towns to clear out the inventory as much as possible.

For businessmen, the market of New Demacia is being fully opened, but the market potential has not yet been fully realized. They can vaguely see a big pie, but it will take some time for this pie to be baked.

As for the last craftsmen, their characteristics of the times are more obvious. Compared with the farmers who have vaguely sensed the social changes and the merchants who are looking forward to social changes, these craftsmen have been pushed to the crossroads of choice by the times.

Therefore, in Lux's story, the craftsmen are set as a family of two brothers. They are both relatively reliable blacksmiths in the town. As a result, this year, the clerk said that the town plans to open a metallurgical factory because the law guardian discovered special minerals in a mountain range not far from the town, which is helpful for metal smelting.

The elder brother thought that he had strong skills and did not need to get involved at all, so he decided to guard his blacksmith shop, forging day and night, and save up a sum of money to prepare for marriage.

The younger brother's mind is more flexible. He took the initiative to join the construction of the metallurgical factory, and used his existing experience to help the law guardian solve some problems in the smelting of rune stone slag, so he became a technician in the metallurgical factory and received special subsidies.

After the factory was built, the elder brother's business was severely squeezed. The quality of the products of the newly established metallurgical factory was not very good, but the price was 70% cheaper than his hand-forged products, which directly led to his business being deserted instantly. If there were no large number of old customers supporting him, let alone continuing to save money, even his daily livelihood would have become a problem.

After the winter, the younger brother took the initiative to find his elder brother, hoping that he could also come to the factory to work together.

But the elder brother had other ideas. He opened his mind and decided to change the blacksmith shop, which mainly forged products, to repair after a simple understanding of the factory's production methods.

The story ended here. Many people who listened to the speech were even a little unsatisfied and wanted to know the subsequent story of the brothers.

For those who are not only here to listen to the story, these three families can be regarded as representatives of the common families in Demacia, and can also be regarded as examples of different choices faced by Demacians in the new situation.

As Lux has always emphasized, Demacia is facing a huge change, which is diverse, multi-dimensional, and multi-faceted, and it involves everyone.

This is not a simple change of dynasty, but a thorough change. The result of missing this wave is to fall behind others.

For Silas, after listening to these stories, his first reaction was that Laxana was talking nonsense.

How can there be so many good things?

Silas has never hesitated to speculate people's hearts with the worst situation. In his opinion, the merchants who raise the price after receiving seed subsidies are the majority, the merchants who come from the north to open up the market should face the joint fraud of the locals after coming to the south, and the small handicraftsmen are abandoned after contributing their secret recipes.

The tide of the times?

Maybe there is, but ordinary people are not worthy of being trendsetters!

Everything Laxana did was just an ordinary pie in the sky. She is the emperor of Demacia and the biggest rentier in this country. How can she really share everything in New Demacia with everyone?

What you say about clerks and law guardians are not new nobles. If they are not, why do you have to emphasize it repeatedly?

It's clearly a guilty conscience!

As for the cheaper food prices, more abundant goods, and more popular education she mentioned, they were just means to appease people's hearts, just like feeding carrots to donkeys, which didn't count!

Thinking of this, Silas suppressed the slight throbbing in his heart, and soon became cold again.

Taking advantage of this gap, he turned to Irelia and whispered to her to help him and help him take a seat first.

He said he needed to leave first to solve a personal problem.

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Irelia was a little stunned when Silas asked for help.

For Silas, the stories told by Lux were nonsense, but for Irelia, these stories were quite familiar.

Just this year, before she arrived in Xiongdu City, she had seen many similar things in Demacia!

It's just that Irelia at that time still had a prejudice against New Demacia, and didn't understand what reform was, so she felt as confused as the person involved in these changes.

However, when Lux used these stories as her stand-up comedy material and added "notes" to them, many of Irelia's doubts were solved.

Especially when Lux began to talk about how the country's overall strategy was to solve these problems, her eyes lit up.

The crop yield is high but the price is not high, and there is no money in the end?

Then carry out planting suitable for the local conditions and open a primary agricultural product processing plant in the local area!

The farmer's children go to school, and there is a labor shortage in the family?

Then improve the level of agricultural production, use agricultural machinery and puppets, and reduce the labor required per unit of land!

In response to the typical problems in these typical stories, Lux came up with her own solutions from the perspective of overall strategy, and proposed an obviously planned plan for the solution time. Through this means, she established a connection between the national goals of New Demacia and the individual needs of the general family, and was able to propose solutions that at least seemed to be effective.

This is something Irelia had never seen before. Although she is not a very traditional Ionian, it is undeniable that when she faces problems, she always subconsciously follows the traditional path.

Now, Lux's speech has given her great inspiration. Perhaps she should try to look at the problem from a different angle, and there may be many unexpected gains!

Then, just as Irelia began to think, Silas asked her to help watch the seats, and Irelia subconsciously nodded and agreed.

However, Irelia was in no mood to think about the seat problem at this moment. She was trying to think about the problems faced by Ionians according to Lux's ideas.

Can she come up with a similar plan?

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Sylas obviously didn't care about Irelia's thinking.

After getting a positive answer, he quickly left his seat, walked in the direction of his memory, and began to try to destroy the defense array.

Soon, he found the location of the first defense array, which was separated by a belt with a very conspicuous sign on it.

"Stay away, danger!"

Outside the line, several people who looked like archers were guarding here, but they looked quite lax, without the vigilance of security personnel, and even stood on tiptoe to look in the direction of the podium.

In this case, Silas pretended to pass by, and after approaching them, he quickly reached out his hand - when his hand brushed over these people, an extremely cold breath instantly wrapped them in it.

Lissandra's power was so overbearing that after contacting this power, several archers showed quite obvious symptoms of stiffness.

Their faces looked pale, as if they were frozen by the low temperature.

At the same time, as Silas took action, the wind and snow that were gradually decreasing suddenly began to increase. The whistling cold wind and flying snowflakes made people squint subconsciously. No one noticed that in the wind and snow, Silas ducked and flexibly got into the cordon.

Taking a deep breath, Silas placed his hands on the defensive magic circle on the ground. Frost spread from his palms and covered the magic circle in an instant.

Then, when Silas stood up and was about to rush to the second magic circle, many people around him looked at the location of the magic circle, and pairs of puzzled eyes quickly locked on Silas.

Damn, are these people so alert?

Such a strong wind and snow can't block their perception?

Silas' body stiffened and quickly stood up and planned to leave.

However, before he left the scene, a team of magic controllers surrounded him in the middle.

"Who are you?" The leading magic controller looked unkind, "Why destroy the sound amplification magic circle?"

Kalya's small class · sound amplification magic circle:

The magic circle is drawn with special ink to achieve the effect of sound fidelity transmission. This is the sound amplification magic circle.

However, for Silas, who knows nothing about magic theory, these magic circles drawn on the ground, which look very important and are guarded by special people, look like defensive magic circles.