Chapter 252: The Differences of the People of Zuan
The strong wind dispelled the haze and removed the ubiquitous smell of alchemical potions in the air.
Fresh air rushed into the city along with the storm, into every street, every factory, and into everyone's nostrils. As a result, the whole city became brand new.
"This is the fifth environmental protection measure taken by the Wind Leaders," said Amystan. "They completely replace the air in Zaun every day, so that the relatively good quality of air can be maintained until the early morning of the next day."
Swain: “…”
Changing the air in an entire city is not as easy as it sounds.
He looked up at the clean, clear blue sky, and felt the strong storm that blew up along with the singing of the Zaun people. He couldn't help but be shocked: "This wind... was summoned by these ordinary people?"
"Yes." Amystan also smiled helplessly.
Now you know why I ran away, General Swain?
"You should have read in the intelligence that the Wind Leader has a special ability that can concentrate the spiritual power of mortal believers to cast wind magic that only powerful extraordinary people can cast."
“Yeah.” Swain nodded seriously.
He had indeed seen similar intelligence, but the intelligence did not make it clear that these mortals could gather such a powerful force under the banner of the goddess Janna.
The huge magic before him that caused a storm to cover the entire city while he was chatting and laughing was no longer a small spell that an ordinary wizard could control.
And these are just the 2 million-plus people in Zaun... no, the real number should be even less, much less.
After all, it had only been two months since the Windleader conquered Zaun, and it was impossible for all of Zaun to believe in Janna's ideas so quickly.
With less than 2 million people, perhaps only a few hundred thousand people, they could easily stir up a storm that swept the entire city. And this was not necessarily their full strength.
If the millions of mortals in Noxus also believed in Janna, then the storm they would create...
Swain didn't even dare to think about it.
No matter whether it is the most powerful warriors of the empire or those old monsters of the Black Rose, they will probably be easily torn into pieces by this terrifying force, right?
"The only ones who can save Noxus are the millions of mortals armed with Janna's thoughts."
Swain thought again of the conclusion he had drawn from the book "A Brief Account of Janna's Thoughts". This conclusion had only shocked him before, but now it gave him a chill.
While I was lost in thought, the car continued to move forward.
But as it drove on, it suddenly slowed down.
"They're repairing houses and roads ahead," Amystan complained. "This is happening everywhere in Zaun now. It's like a big, messy construction site."
"Yeah." Swain looked out the window and saw that the situation was just as Amistan had said:
The entire block in front of us had half of the road blocked by construction fences and was being renovated and rebuilt;
All the houses and buildings on both sides of the road were demolished into a wasteland by the construction team organized by the leader.
On that huge open space, hundreds of construction machines were working intensively. The roar of excavators and bulldozers was deafening, and heavy trucks spewing alchemical smoke shuttled back and forth, transporting all kinds of building materials and earth.
“Is the whole of Zaun like this now?” Swain asked again with concern.
"Yes." As a neighbor, Amystan is well aware of the changes in Zaun over the past two months: "The Wind Leaders started organizing various large-scale construction projects since the day Zaun became independent, even before they occupied the entire city."
This can be blamed on the previous alchemist baron who was so incompetent. Apart from the factories and the related infrastructure supporting them, he did not leave any urban infrastructure for Zaun.
Zaun used to have power plants, but electricity was always supplied to factories first. If ordinary residents wanted to use electricity, they had to either buy it from the chem-barons at a high price or steal it.
Therefore, those who lead the way have to build a large number of power plants.
Apart from a few roads dedicated to transporting goods from factories to ports, there is not even a decent public road in the entire Zaan.
The leader will have to build roads all over the city.
In the past, Zaan
The leader will have to build a large landfill outside the city to handle the accumulated garbage transferred from the sewer area.
…
In short, there are too many areas that need to be built in Zaun.
Fortunately, the people of Piltover did not like to do hard work such as construction projects in the past, so the work of building roads and houses was outsourced to the people of Zaun.
This gave Zaun a mature construction engineering industry, and also enabled the leader to quickly organize a professional team to undertake large-scale infrastructure tasks after taking over the Zaun regime.
With the help of Janna's divine power, Zaun's engineering efficiency is even more outrageous.
There is no need to work on the demolition. Just let Li Wei come over and a gust of wind will blow away all the houses.
"What a powerful organizational and mobilization capability." This is what Swain still saw.
Carrying out large-scale engineering and projects is not something that any third-rate country can handle.
The empire still does not have such a professional large-scale engineering team and is still using the outdated method of conscripting men for labor.
So much so that when Noxus built a river embankment, it had to send a team of extraordinary warriors to guard it. The fear was that too many serfs working on the construction site would gather together and cause a big chaos of "inciting the whole world to rebel against the Lokshi River".
Of course... As a modern industrial country, Noxus is so poor at carrying out large projects, let alone a country like Demacia that is still in the feudal era.
Every time a big project is undertaken, it is the blood and tears of thousands of laborers.
The leader obviously does not have such a problem.
“Their workers seem... very motivated,” Swain said jokingly.
Because he saw something interesting.
Isn't the construction site outside working in full swing right now?
But Swain happened to see that the notice board at the entrance of the construction site clearly read:
"Project name: Phase I of the Zuan Coast New District Residential Apartments Project."
"Construction unit: Zuan Construction Third Engineering Bureau."
“Working hours: 7:00-11:30 a.m., 14:00-18:00 p.m.”
It's just after 12 o'clock and the lunch break has just begun.
The sun is still shining brightly, but the construction site is already bustling with work.
"This..." This is actually not a big deal in Runeland. Isn't it just working overtime during the break? This is what people do all over the world.
Many places still use slave labor, and they don’t even have the rest time on paper.
But……
Swain was about to say something, but Amystan told him with a subtle expression: "They volunteered."
"Hmm?" Swain was slightly stunned.
"You may not believe it, but those construction workers all worked overtime voluntarily - it is said that the leaders of the engineering bureau did not allow them to work during lunch breaks, but the workers jointly submitted a request to their superiors and fought for overtime work themselves."
Swain: “???”
Voluntary overtime? And the boss can't stop you?
How does this sound so ridiculous?
If you have to say voluntary overtime... then the serfs of Noxus also volunteered to do their labor.
"It's true." Amystan said, "Because these workers know very well that they are now building their own houses."
"After these houses are built, they will be given to them for free. How can they not be enthusiastic in their work?"
This is the highlight .
Because after conducting a survey and statistics throughout Zaun, the leader immediately discovered that the issue of housing improvement for Zaun residents was extremely urgent.
There are more than 2 million people in Zuan, but the average living area per person is only a staggering 4 square meters.
Families like Zeli's, where there are both parents and a house in Zaun, and even a child like her has her own room, are rare in Zaun.
Most Zaun people are completely dependent on the Alchemy Baron's factory for survival. They usually live in large bunk beds provided by the factory, where dozens of people can lie on one bed.
Want a private room? No way.
There are many unemployed workers and orphans living in the gutter. Let alone sleeping in a large dormitory, they can just sleep on a garbage dump that is not too smelly.
A 5-square-meter cottage like the one Levi used to rent in Piltover would be considered a middle-class "mansion" in Zaun.
Now comes the leader.
We can’t let so many Zaun people sleep on garbage dumps and bunk beds anymore, can we?
Therefore, Levi could only learn from the experience of Yumiti and use large-scale prefabricated reinforced concrete technology to build large-scale simple residential buildings in a short period of time.
No matter whether it looks good or not, or whether it is durable or not, at least solve the problem first.
And it's free.
Therefore, at least for now, the people of Zaun will not criticize the plainness of this "Levi Building". They are all looking forward to the completion of these collective apartment projects.
In order to ensure that not only themselves but also all the people in Zuan have houses to live in, the construction workers are like chickens with their blood pumped up, working overtime voluntarily as if they were participating in a labor competition.
“I see…” Swain thought.
He was just curious about why the administrative mobilization efficiency of the Leader was even more terrifying than that of the great Noxian Empire.
Because Zaun is the Zaun of millions of mortals.
But Noxus is an empire of only a few.
In order to carry out large-scale projects, Noxus has to waste a large number of administrative personnel to guard slaves and drive serfs.
There are no slaves or serfs in Zaun. The people of Zaun are their own masters.
At the leader's command, they are willing to work hard without the need for conscription or supervision.
"The only ones who can save Noxus are the millions of mortals armed with Janna's thoughts."
Suddenly, for some reason.
This sentence popped up in Swain's mind again.
