Lux's Magic Penetration Rod

Lux's return relieved the worried Zaun people.

More importantly, she brought back the treaty signed with Sarah—next, as long as Zaun can establish a port and build roads in the eastern suburbs, they will become the exclusive distributor of Ionian goods.

This will provide Zaun with valuable jobs and rare foreign exchange.

You know, even if Zaun is no longer the Zaun it once was, after taking care of the Alchemy Baron, it's fine for the Zaun people to produce and sell themselves and ensure basic supply, but if they want to get some specialties from elsewhere, that's really It is as difficult as climbing to heaven.

"Alchemy rune steel" and a few specialties such as Demon Marsh Frogs can exchange Zaun for a certain amount of foreign exchange to buy some things that it cannot produce. However, the output of these things is too limited, and the exchanged foreign exchange can only be used for to purchase the materials Zaun urgently needs.

Improve the living standards of Zaun residents?

Sorry, no money.

As the joint cooperation experiment begins, it is foreseeable that Piltover will rely on its own industrial advantages to impact the Zaun market with cheaper consumer products, influence Zaun culture, and even bribe Zaun people—— Opening up Ionian trade and exchanging foreign exchange through the distribution of Ionian goods to combat the erosion caused by the dumping of consumer goods is currently Zaun's top priority!

Therefore, after having lunch with Ino, Lux immediately convened a high-level meeting of Zaun. The top leaders of all departments in Zaun were required to attend!

At the meeting, Lux briefly introduced the earth-shaking changes that had taken place in Bilgewater - she hid her own part and the demonic part, and only talked about Sarah's rise to power and the agreement between the two parties.

"That's it, we have our first practical ally." Lux summed it up in this sentence, "Of course, I prefer the title of strategic partner to ally."

Everyone in the gathering had different expressions after Lux’s speech, but most of them were excited. It is a recognized fact that Zaun’s supplies are insufficient. After they are full, they will pursue good food, and after they have shelter, they will pursue a better life. This is how human beings It's normal.

Now that there is a "golden trade route", as a distributor, Zaun will still have a clear development direction and work ideas in the next period of time, even if there are not as many infrastructure projects as before, which is good for everyone. A good thing.

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The next day, the headline of Zaun Daily published an article titled "Welcoming a Peaceful Future."

As if to contrast with yesterday's Piltover Daily, this article also talks about the future prospects after the Ionian War, but the content of the outlook is completely different from that of the Piltover people.

Piltover Daily's logic is simple: Peace will bring about a stable business environment, which in turn will promote market prosperity.

However, Zaun Daily pointed out more pointedly that peace will bring a stable business environment to Ionia, thereby promoting any market related to Ionia to enter a stage of prosperity.

In addition, Zaun Daily also pointed out unequivocally that Piltover was a broker who made war fortune before. With the end of the Ionian War, without the previous war dividends, Piltover will It will obviously intensify the internal oppression and so on...

Through the contact window of joint cooperation experiments, this statement quickly spread to Piltover, and was recognized by many people of insight - everyone knew in their hearts that with Hex Technology as the engine of economic development, Well, the market in Piltover is still not booming recently, which speaks for itself.

Many of the data in Zaun's report were investigated by Lux personally and obtained from Shadow Stream. Whether it is detailed or logically rigorous, it far exceeds the bowl of chicken soup mixed with chicken blood in Piltover.

Under such circumstances, Piltover Daily could not be willing to lag behind. As the headline on the third day, their gold medal reporter published an article titled "Piltover, the Fulcrum of Ionian Trade."

Unable to logically refute Zaun Daily's statement, Piltover Daily simply began to brag about itself. On the one hand, it praised Piltover's progressive and contract-oriented business environment, and on the other hand, it listed the shortcomings of various coastal commercial cities.

The port of Mud Town is small, and the locals are all out of prenatal education. It is okay to engage in small-scale trade in Mud Town, but it is completely impossible to become the fulcrum of Ionian trade.

Bilgewater is a pirate city with no future. They prefer plundering to trading. You wouldn't expect pirates to be merchants, right?

The city of Besilico is good in size and location, but unfortunately it is a Noxian city. Although the war is over, Noxus and Ionia are obviously unable to carry out direct trade.

Nashrame is neutral, large enough, and has enough merchants, but any goods that want to reach Nasrame must pass through the Gate of the Sun - in this case, wouldn't it be better to collect and distribute them directly in Pi City?

Although I do not deny the importance of Ionian trade, the act of insisting on emphasizing Piltover's advantages is somewhat arrogant and messy, but it is undeniable that compared to the previous bowl of chicken blood mixed with Chicken soup, the content of this article is indeed beyond criticism.

For Ionian trade, it seems that the best pivot is indeed Piltover.

On the fourth day, Zaun Daily responded again.

You said that other places have all kinds of problems and cannot become the fulcrum of Ionia's trade?

Well, I will explain one by one what each city needs to become the fulcrum of Ionia trade in your mouth.

Mud Town needs professional merchants, and if Mud Town is willing to introduce foreign merchants, they will become strong competitors.

Besilico is already dissatisfied with a series of policies of Noxus, and separatism has become serious recently. If Besilico is willing to raise the flag of rebellion, I believe that the hawks in Ionia will spare no effort to support them to the Noxians. Looking for trouble.

Bilgewater has just experienced a wave of flames, and the new pirate queen intends to put order in order. In this case, even if they themselves cannot bear the responsibility of the trade fulcrum alone, they are still the best transporters, transporting on the sea. In terms of performance, no one can compare with them.

Nashilami is indeed too far away, but with a large number of land trade routes, Nashilami can become a part of the trade in the form of sub-dealers.

Even if Zaun is willing to open a port, it can become a strong competitor through low labor prices, a good business environment and special preferential policies.

On this track, Piltover looks to be in the lead, but that's just the look!

At the end of this article, the author also meaningfully quoted a historical event:

"Piltover has indeed accumulated a lot of wealth brought by the maritime trade of Runeterra, but before the Gate of the Sun was dug out, even if it was just carried on the shoulders, the flow of trade between the Sea of ​​Watch and the Sea of ​​Conquest had never been the same. Not forbidden - the nature of trade has never been specific to a specific dock, port or city."

Kalya’s Little Classroom: The Public Opinion War between Piltover and Zaun:

Since the joint cooperation experiment began, the public opinion war in the Twin Cities has begun - and at this point, both sides seem to be very confident.