Chapter 878 [0875] A Call for Help From Thousands of Miles Away

Overwatch League emissaries who are worried about their situation talk nonsense.

Although the Overwatch League had received news that Noxus was gathering troops to the north and had prepared a lot of cold-proof supplies, in order to prove the seriousness of the situation, after the envoy came to the capital of Demacia, he chose Concealing most of the facts.

They only said that the Noxians were gathering an army, but they never mentioned that they were preparing cold-proof supplies, let alone that the direction of their gathering of battle groups was north.

Although this may lead to strategic misjudgments... the Overwatch League, which is full of worries, can't care so much.

The news from the Overwatch League surprised Lux.

Since the Overwatch League is too far away from Demacia, even though the intelligence team has developed many workstations, she still has no way to verify the authenticity of the news. In this case, Ino, who is in charge of intelligence work, can only go through Xinfukang Businessmen conduct preliminary verification of the Overwatch League's intelligence by investigating and counting market price fluctuations of strategic materials.

According to information from Xinfugang shipping merchants, the prices of many strategic bulk commodities have indeed increased significantly in recent times.

Due to northern trade and Ionia trade, the scale of international trade in Runeland has increased considerably in the past twenty years, and the prices of bulk commodities have also reached a relatively stable level.

In this case, the sudden rise in commodity prices can obviously explain some problems.

Of course, these can only be regarded as circumstantial evidence and are necessary conditions, but not sufficient.

But the problem is, facing the Overwatch League's envoy, Ino can't get very precise information - so, if it can't be falsified, the Big Three still need to hold an internal meeting about the Noxians' actions.

The core content of this internal meeting was not to worry about the expansion of Noxus, but to deduce the impact of Noxus' expansion on Demacia's follow-up actions.

Demacia's current overall strategy is to exert economic influence on the east, while seizing time to digest the new territory of the western Freljord subcontinent.

In addition, military forces must be concentrated to join forces with Avarosa to fight against the void under the Howling Abyss. Coupled with the ongoing internal magic industrialization reform and the split of the magic industry, the entire national machine has once again There was a rumble.

According to Karya, “Finding something to do for yourself is also a very important part of a country.”

However, although Demacia's administrative efficiency is more than a little higher than in the past thanks to a more efficient clerk system, as of now, the entire Demacia is almost fully activated. If you continue to find more things If we do this, the result may be that the entire country will fall into exhaustion and chaos.

Therefore, the three giants in the north know very well that Demacia currently does not have any more power to interfere in more things - if Noxus really wants to "recover lost territory", then let him do it. However, Demacia is not worried about competition from Noxus.

The news brought by the Overwatch League envoy this time is more like a reference, giving the three giants in the north an opportunity to further deduce and think.

Can Demacia solve the problem in the north before Noxus is unified?

If not, with the character and habits of the Noxians, will they take advantage of Demacia's lack of time to provoke or even start a war again?

If they really do this, does Demacia have any effective ways and means to deal with it? Does it require any preparation?

These are questions that the three giants in the north need to think about.

In contrast, it doesn't matter to Demacia whether Noxus is using force for blackmail or is really preparing to annex the Overwatch League.

After all... until Noxus truly returns to its full form, it is unlikely that they will move westward - with the establishment of the Second Silver Republic, the two sides no longer have any borders, and Noxus Human sea power is not enough for him to affect Demacia's northern trade. Things have to be prioritized. Noxus does not pose much of a threat now.

It is very difficult to deduce this kind of political situation. In the fog of war, the three giants in the north cannot make too many definite judgments even if they pool their wisdom.

However, judging from the pace of Noxus' restoration of the empire, it would be impossible for the divided Noxus to unify without spending more than five years - and this is without any support from Demacia. Down.

If material assistance is provided to the Second Silver Republic, Noxus may not be able to fully restore its former imperial posture in ten, twenty, or even thirty to fifty years.

In other words, Demacia's time pressure is not too great.

The Noxians' accelerated pace of regaining their homeland cannot be a key factor affecting Demacia's overall strategy.

With this conclusion drawn, Demacia's attitude towards the Watch League's request for help became clear - Demacia did not have the spare capacity to launch another expedition.

Of course, Lux doesn’t give any support.

The next day, the anxious Overwatch League envoy received a positive official response: Because Demacia and the Overwatch League are too far away, a lot of information cannot be verified, and direct intervention is impossible, so Demacia is willing to act as an intermediary and provide The Overwatch League is a platform for communication with Bilgewater.

If the pressure on the Overwatch Alliance is too great, maybe you can hire the navy of Bilgewater in the form of mercenaries to provide various forms of support from the sea.

In the case of insufficient intelligence and out of reach, Demacia has done its best to do this.

The Overwatch Alliance's envoys will naturally not be satisfied with this result - everyone knows that those guys in Bilgewater are pirates, one is greedier than the other. If they are hired to provide maritime support, who knows how heavy the price will be.

The Overwatch Alliance's envoys came to Demacia for help, not just hoping that the Demacians can come to help with their own dry food out of their "sense of justice" and the need to confront Noxus?

Now it seems that the Demacians are also very cunning!

But even if he is dissatisfied, the envoy himself is a little uneasy. After all, when he asked for help, he deliberately concealed some information. If he persists and this part of the information is known to Demacia, I am afraid that the relationship between the two sides will be in trouble.

Therefore, seeing that Demacia had made its attitude clear, he could only put on an attitude of "Demacia is unwilling to provide any practical benefits, it's really stingy" and left angrily.

Unfortunately, the three giants in the North did not worry about his departure at all - the Overwatch League thought that this was a confrontation between Demacia and Noxus, so they hoped to make profits by relying on their own position.

But in fact, New Demacia has never regarded Noxus as its opponent from the beginning.

For Lux, Noxus is just a link that will be solved in the future plan, nothing more.

After solving the problem of the Overwatch League, Lux's attention returned to the construction of the new city.

In order to select the location of the new city, Lux even went to several alternative locations and personally surveyed and investigated the local environment.

In the end, Demacia decided to build a new city in a three-forked river bay south of Greenfang Peak and 120 miles away from the border.

The mountain spring water on Greenfang Peak converges into streams, and the streams converge into small rivers, which merge into the Yiming River here.

This was once the site of the Greentooth Peak Legion, and the site still vaguely shows the remains of the former Greentooth Peak Legion camp. Later, because the terrain here was too flat and open, it was not conducive to defense. In addition, the Greentooth Peak had sufficient water resources and dangerous terrain, so the Greentooth Peak Legion moved its headquarters to the mountain, and this area was gradually abandoned.

It is for this reason that the land in this area was leveled early, and if a city is built here, there is no need to level the land additionally, and the amount of work can be reduced a lot.

Moreover, since the site is located on the banks of the Yiming River, many building materials can be transported by water.

As the second largest river in terms of runoff on the Valoran continent, the Yiming River, which originates from Nokmochi, also has excellent water resources that are not inferior to Tobysia. Although the Yiming River is not as wide as Tobysia, its water is deeper, and the water flow is not as turbulent as the Tobysia River, so it is still very suitable for water transportation.

Building a city here can make full use of the water transportation advantages of the Yiming River. After the construction of the new city is completed, as long as Demacia gives certain tax advantages, a large number of magic industrial products will continue to gather in the new city, and then expand eastward along the Yiming River to conquer the Principality of Valoran.

In addition to the maritime trade in the North, Demacia will have another vast international market.

With the determination of the address of the new city, the question of the name of the new city was also placed on Lux's desk.

As a typical naming waste, Lux really couldn't come up with any good ideas for a while. She wanted to listen to the opinions of the people, but the survey results showed that the locals liked to call the site of the new city Shuangchahekou.

Shuangchahekou City?

This name is really too bad.

After thinking about it, Lux simply decided to name it Yiming City-the important hub of the Tobysia River is called Tobysia City, so there should be an Yiming City on the Yiming River!

Moreover, as soon as you hear this name, you can understand its characteristics and positioning, and it is also easy to read. The name of Yiming City is really good!

In this way, with the selection of the location and the confirmation of the name, the investment and construction work of Yiming City finally officially started.

According to Kalya's previous thinking, Lux positioned this city as a "commodity distribution center and post-processing city".

Unlike cities such as the three towns of Fucheng and the Demacia Xiongdu that accommodate huge industries, Yiming River is unlikely to be a key magic industrial city for one or two generations.

Therefore, its main task at present should be commodity distribution, as well as the final simple processing and assembly of some commodities.

Lux can be said to be very familiar with this kind of city. Xinfu Port, which is called a port but is actually a city, exists in this way.

Xinfu Port was watched by Lux as it prospered little by little. At the beginning, many of the relevant experiences in building Xinfu Port can be applied to Yiming City.

First of all, the urban management framework of Yiming City, there is no doubt that it must be mainly composed of clerks, and it should be mainly composed of unmarried and childless young people with the most fighting spirit.

The construction of New Port was thanks to the immigrants absorbed by Fosbyro, and this can be imitated by Yiming City.

Not only can we recruit residents from Demacia, but we can also try to recruit people from the Principality of Valoran in the east.

Anyway, there is plenty of land here, and there will be plenty of job opportunities in the future.

In the past, many places where Yiming City was located were military restricted areas, and some places were even designated as military farms. In the Demacia military reform that just started not long ago, a major task was to cancel military farms and the small coffers of local armies.

A large number of military farms were cleared out to serve as the foundation for the construction of Yiming City.

The engineering corps of the Greentooth Peak Legion happily filled in the farmland they had opened up at the foot of the mountain with their own hands - it was not because they didn't feel bad about selling their father's land, but because the military reform of Demacia not only abolished the small coffers, but also greatly improved the treatment of the army.

Military farms also need to be planted by the local legion themselves. Considering that there are few residents in Greentooth Peak, I'm afraid that the people who were responsible for farming here in the past were these unlucky engineers.

In Demacia, being responsible for farming after joining the army is simply a sad story.

With the completion of the land leveling work, the two construction teams of Fosbiero finally arrived in Yiming City. Their main work content was to build a simple construction house in Yiming City first, and equip the most basic living facilities for the construction teams that came here later.

Digging wells, building houses, leveling roads, building docks...

It can only be said that the level of Fosbiero's construction team is amazing. In addition, both construction teams are led by mages. In less than half a month, they completed the construction of a temporary construction area that can accommodate 100,000 people.

After the basic construction area was established, one construction team after another arrived by boat on the Yiming River and began construction.

Among these construction teams, some were hired by the newly established Yiming City government, and some were hired by wealthy merchants in the North. Unlike the new Fugang, which was small in scale at the beginning and slowly expanded later, Yiming City was built with high standards from the beginning. Such an amazing amount of construction cannot be completed by the Yiming City government, which is still just a grass-roots team.

The construction of Yiming City also requires the participation of private forces.

To this end, the newly established Yiming City government specially set up a construction planning team and hired experienced architects at high salaries to be responsible for the planning of the internal area of ​​Yiming City and the approval of various buildings.

At this stage, groups and individuals willing to come to Yiming City to assist in urban construction, as long as they come up with a building plan that meets the standards of Yiming City, pass the subsequent approval, and are willing to undertake some public facilities, will automatically obtain the property rights of the building after it is built, and obtain a series of tax incentives in the early stage of Yiming City.

For a while, various businessmen and groups flocked to Yiming City like a swarm of crucian carp, and the dense building plans almost drowned the newly established construction planning team.

I originally wanted to write a chapter of the extra chapter, but the extra chapter was stuck, which was strange.