Lord of Industrialization

"Header! Headed in!"

As the black-and-white football flew over the goal line and crashed into the fishing nets, the Bear Claw tribe of spectators in the stadium's stands let out a thunderous cheer.

Several elders of the Niutou tribe were stomping their feet anxiously. They were already three goals behind and wanted to end the game in person.

Frederick and Peterson's extended family were together. Peterson had two wives and a total of five adult children. Jason was the third oldest. Nelson, who had an arm-wrestling on the boat, was the son of the eldest son. He had just scored a goal on the field. He is the child of the fourth family.

So the family cheered the loudest and most enthusiastically, and the fourth child happily said: "Give him two chicken drumsticks tonight!"

The boss smiled and said, "It's time for you to arrange a marriage for him."

Then the five brothers discussed whether to marry back a girl from the Niutou tribe. This girl will participate in the women's football match later and has a very strong body.

Frederick smiled and listened, thinking that football was the most successful cultural export he had ever created.

He originally came up with football not just because he liked to play it, but because of its important attribute: community attribute.

The relationship between victory and defeat in football is simple and clear. It can be seen at a glance. The confrontation is fierce and entertaining, and it is deeply loved by people.

Compared with other sports, it has another characteristic: there are many people participating in a game.

There are more than ten or twenty players on a team, and behind them are more than ten or twenty families. Add in the players' neighbors, relatives and friends, and the total can be related to dozens or hundreds of families.

Because of this, a team can directly and indirectly connect most families in an area and become the representative of this area.

It was the first farm where Frederick built a greenhouse, and their greenhouse team has become one of the symbols of the farm. The same is true for other farms. Every time there is a game, almost all the people in the farm go to the stadium to watch the game, and for themselves Relatives and friends cheered.

It is precisely with this atmosphere that football has become a link from community farms, to urban areas, and finally to principalities. In the future, it can rise to the national and ethnic levels, and it has become a stage for confrontation between different regions.

This bottom-up cohesion is very powerful, transcending the traditional three-level ruling structure of peasants, landlords, nobles, and royal families in feudal society, and provides a foundation for social change.

The changes in Frederick's territory were essentially a bourgeois revolution. Because he had an overwhelming advantage in strength and prestige in the territory, and relied on external pressure to provide opportunities for reform, this revolution was mild and covert.

But in other places, such as the Vali Earldom on the southern coast of the Inland Sea, the contest between the emerging class and the traditional forces has never stopped.

Frederick not only needed to win over as many friends as possible in terms of financial interests, but also needed to unite more people spiritually. This is why he built Germain Cathedral, the Edelweiss Library and Jean Maria The underlying reasons for taking charge of the Ministry of Culture.

In addition, the bottom-up bond of football culture will be one of the important tools.

The changes brought about by football are difficult to appear outside the Principality of Wesson. It is difficult to see the pastoral pastoral in the landowners' homes from a distance, and the closed and solidified farms up close. It will appear more in cities with relatively wealthy economies and relatively loose political environments, and then become a cohesive emerging force. Class ties.

What Frederick did not expect was that in northern tribes with poor economic conditions but a relatively democratic political environment, football would be accepted and popularized because of its hunting attributes.

However, it seems that local productivity is unlikely to change dramatically in the short term, and football can only serve to unite tribes and serve as exercise and bloodless war.

The fierce competition ended. In the end, the men's team of the Bear Claw Tribe won the game with a score of 6:3 and the women's team 5:1, winning a place to study in the Nature Church.

The day was still very long, and everyone had to continue working. The busiest ones were Larson and his wife, who had to treat more than a dozen injured people who came off the court.

Frederick originally wanted to go fishing for snails in a nearby river with his children, but the Bear Claw Tribe came forward and invited him to attend a drinking party held by the elders of several tribes.

The Bear Claw Tribe has a good port. When he was a pirate, he unexpectedly made a lot of money. He acquired a three-masted sailboat and then became a good man.

The cheapest mode of transportation now is water transportation. The fjord that goes deep into the land is right next to the Bear Claw tribe. Another large river flowing out of the mountain forest is a kilometer or two away on the other side of the tribe. This large river finally formed on the cliff of the fjord. For a waterfall hundreds of meters wide, the only way to reach the sea is through the middleman of the Bear Claw Tribe.

The surrounding tribes are very jealous, but they are just jealous. Last year, there was a tribe who did not follow martial ethics and wanted to sneak attack Peterson and others while they were out at sea. As a result, they were taught how to behave by more than 20 double-barreled shotguns. The population, supplies and hunting grounds of this tribe were destroyed. The surrounding tribes were divided.

It makes sense to have big fists. The Niutou tribe is also quite wealthy. They have a lakeside grassland with more than 2,000 cattle. They used to beat the table with the Bear Claw tribe, but now their voices are much softer.

Not to mention the other small and medium-sized tribes, who spoke politely, for fear that they would not accept the goods from their own tribe.

In today's informal gathering of elders, Elder Michelson, who wore a bear's head from the Ox-head tribe, had the confidence to speak to Frederick, a wealthy man from the south.

"Brother Wesson..."

Michelson and Frederick were familiar friends, but Peterson on the side was not happy.

Peterson glared at Mikaelson and said, "When did you become my brother?"

Michaelson said matter-of-factly: "Brother Wesson's name means they are local. His family raises cattle, and my family also raises cattle. Of course we are brothers."

Frederick was dumbfounded. The names of the men here all had the same pronunciation at the end, and the pronunciation at the end of his own surname happened to be almost the same.

At the same time, many professions here are passed down from father to son. Over time, people in the same profession become more or less related. The question is whether raising cattle is like this, Frederick didn't know.

Peterson was certain that Mikaelson had no such relatives, but his statement, which was tantamount to cheating, sounded very reasonable, and it certainly sounded like that.

Maxon ignored Peterson and continued to say to Frederick: "Brother Wesson, I know you are rich and live in a palace made of amber."

"Can you help me, brother, to buy more of our stuff?"

Frederick thought for a while, there were a lot of good things here.

The most exported thing here is wood. There are many hard and strong trees in the forest. The wood used as the foundation of the "Emperor's Marvel" in Weissenburg City was imported from here.

The furs here are also famous in the south. The most popular ones are mink and fox furs. Good snow bear furs are even more rare. Susan was the only one in Frederick's family who had a winter suit.

There are also a lot of minerals here. There are many iron mines of different sizes, and the ore is of high grade.

Magic crystals abound in places with extreme natural environments. With the popularity of implosion machines and refrigerators, the demand for wind magic crystals and ice magic crystals has greatly increased, and there happens to be a lot of them here.

However, the same problem remains: transportation is inconvenient, coastal areas are easy to access, and good things from inland areas cannot be transported.

The first thing to consider when building a railway here is economic benefits, and only if there are large enough mines. Dozens or hundreds of tribes are not worth it.

Frederick did not directly say whether to buy anything, but thought about it and said, "How about I send more merchant ships here in the future?"

Peterson immediately said: "Adults can build a guild hall and navigation radio station in our tribe."

He is the most open-minded person among the many tribes in this area and sees the world. As usual, Maxson wants to be closer to each other as brothers. He directly uses financial interests to win over Frederick.

Now the Bear Claw Tribe is the economic center of this area. If they strengthen their cooperation with Frederick and purchase a large amount of arms, their future achievements will be unimaginable.

Frederick just said calmly: "I'll have someone come over and take a look."

This time he was invited by the Church of Nature. It would be no problem to coach a football match. It would not be a problem to discover one or two talented young people within the framework of the church sending overseas students. It would also be normal to send a few ships to do business, but it would be normal to leave the church. It would be rude for the framework to take the initiative to establish a stronghold here.

Peterson and Maxson saw Frederick's indifference, and everyone looked at each other.