"Are you really ready to resign?"

"It's not a strange thing, is it? It's not that you don't know my temper, and after being a secret police officer for so long, I've definitely spent all my life's diligence, and I won't be able to do anything more. ”

"Haven't you been on the job for less than a year? Do you feel like you can't do it anymore? It's not good for young people to be lazy and hardworking, and it's not good for your career planning. And, as far as I know, you're doing a pretty good job. ”

As a graduating graduate of the Central Academy of Magic's student council president, a young elite with a degree in philosophy from a national university, a rising star in federal politics, and an outstanding successor to the future of the Academic Alliance, Alantis has always been a person who regards self-discipline and hard work as the norm. In fact, he couldn't listen to Lu Xi's lazy words, so he immediately taught him earnestly.

"Huh? Is it only a year? Why does it always feel like a long time has passed? Lu Xi complained with a tangled face: "Brother Alain, do you know that every time I see you, I feel that you are one step closer to boredom. Well, I still have a bit of a sense of humor when I first met you. Now, look at your serious appearance of worrying about the country and the people, and you are a young version of Master Rassell. ”

Alaanti was slightly stunned, and then smiled: "Well, my dream is to become a character like a teacher, so what you said is a good thing for me." ”

"There's always a feeling that friends are getting farther and farther away from me......"

"Why am I not?" Alantis smiled, but the look in his eyes at Lu Xi was a little complicated.

"When I first met you two years ago, you were completely a tender rookie who couldn't be more tender, even if you put it in your peers, you were just an ordinary magic rookie with mediocre strength. But who would have thought that in just over half a year, you would be able to defeat that prodigal son of the Wirambart family in a duel, and then pass the exam with a score that would make the whole federation look for it. Then, as a secret imperial history, he repeatedly completed extremely dangerous tasks, and in that situation, he held on to Black Man City until reinforcements arrived. I haven't seen you for a year, and your strength should be far superior to mine, right? ”

When Lu Xi first met Arrantis two years ago, he had just broken through the silver rank. And Alan is already at the level of a silver 5th order, an elite battle mage. Two years later, Lu Xi had broken through the golden position and stood at the top of this world's strength pyramid, but Alan's strength had only grown by 1 rank. After all, it still doesn't go beyond the category of ordinary.

A silver 6th rank that is less than thirty years old. In fact, from the point of view of common sense, it is already very good. In addition, as the secretary of the Minister of War, a lot of transactional work will definitely involve most of his energy, and he will not have much time to cultivate at all. To be able to achieve what we are now. In fact, he is worthy of his excellent teacher.

However, the so-called is not afraid of not knowing the goods, but afraid of comparing goods. Compared with the vast number of beings in this world, Arantis is naturally a social elite that everyone admires, but he has such a little brother by his side. The strength is almost visible to the naked eye and is improving day by day. It's only been 2 years since he got the mage qualification, but Alan can't see through the opponent's strength at all, and can only roughly estimate from the detailed report of the battle in Black Mancheng that Lu Xi's strength can even wear 4 stars, but it is only because of his qualifications that he is ranked 2 stars, which can be called shocking.

It would have been fine if it had been that way, but the point was that this genius, who was definitely on a par with his legendary teacher of arcane law, was unmotivated. It's like a guy who is full of lazy muscles, and he just thinks about when he can go back to the countryside to eat and wait for death.

With Arantis's character, he is not jealous of his friend's talent, but with such talent, he is so lazy and squandered his life, which is what makes him unable to see it.

"The gods are so blind. Putting such a talent on you lazy guy is simply a tyrannical thing! Arantis shook his head in disgust.

"Maybe it's because the goddess sister dotes on me too much. This way I can get my work done in the shortest amount of time, and the rest of the time I can hide in the house and sleep until I wake up naturally. ”

"Hey, you guys really dare to say it. For ordinary people like us who work hard. You just made the most vicious speech in history! ”

"That's why I said, Master Rassell still has you. There's really no need to expect much from a nasty guy like me. I can't save the world, and of course, I can't become a big man like him who worries about the country and the people. ”

Arantis wanted to say something, but suddenly found that the carriage suddenly braked sharply and stopped suddenly, but the two people in the car were startled, and the second half of the sentence could only be swallowed in his throat.

"What's going on?" Alain opened the window and asked the driver.

"Young master, you may not be able to go ahead."

"Can't get there?" Lu Xi was also very curious and opened the window and looked ahead.

The road, which can accommodate a large number of horse-drawn carriages running side by side through guò, has been blocked by dense crowds. There were already two carriages stopped in front of Alain, and they should have had to stop due to traffic obstructions, and both the coachman and the owner got out of the carriage and kept jumping and scolding, but there was nothing they could do.

Or rather, these roadblocks simply don't care. Their attention was not at all on the traffic jammed by them, and even when they heard the angry scolding of the car owners dressed as dignitaries, they only glanced at each other with cold eyes, and then ignored them.

Judging from the way they dressed, these people were just ordinary citizens, including the elderly, women, and children, and they were far from the kind of "Diao Min" that the government hated the most, and they didn't seem to be here to make trouble.

Not really.

These people were bustling in front of a large roadside food store, but for some reason, it was already open for business hours, but the food store had not opened, and there were many more customers than in the past. Over time, the crowd slowly gathered in this way, and soon expanded from the front of the store to the road, and then gradually formed a crowd of this size, causing traffic obstructions.

"Hey, that's bad luck, hopefully it won't take long. Let's not keep Master Rassell waiting. "Traffic jam! This is really a scene that has not been seen for a long time, and Lu Xi suddenly felt intimate.

"Blame me too. There are three food stores and two fruit and vegetable stores on this road, and I forgot about that. Alas. I shouldn't have chosen this path back then! Arantis stomped his foot helplessly, but his face was full of chagrin.

"Huh? How do you mean that? ”

"Look at it like this, this crowd won't be able to disperse for a while. Can't you make the teacher wait a long time...... Lu Xi, how about we walk forward? We can talk as we go. ”

"It doesn't matter......" Anyway, it seemed that he was not far from Rassell's mansion. Walking is not a big deal.

It's all known. The vast majority of the Federation's land is floating islands in the sky, and there are only three places on the ground: Gloren Harbor, Wind's Breath Harbor, and Baldia Island, and the small ones are almost negligible.

Not counting the so-called floating islands, which are at most floating boulders, known to the Federation. There are about 1,000 floating islands that can live in people. It may seem like a lot, but if you really add up the area, it's not even as good as a small and medium-sized country on the mainland.

In such a scarce country, it has to feed more than 30 million immigrants of all ethnic groups, and the pressure on agriculture can be imagined.

In fact. More than 60 percent of the Federation's food is imported from the earthly world.

For the Oakland Empire and the Virginia Empire, cutting off their own food exports to the Union would starve more than half of each other's citizens to death within three months, and the regimes would collapse. As for the Federation, if all the floating warships are dispatched, they will definitely be able to scorch more than half of the opponent's cities within three months, even if the opponent has millions of invincible Knights of the Holy Spring and Nord Warriors, they can still only be whipped and sigh.

So. The pattern of the three poles of the world will always be based on the balance between power and power.

"Within a month, four large floating ships of the Federation had been attacked, and all of them were grain carriers between Elichar and Port Gloren. Also, I don't know why. The news actually spread, which made the citizens panic. As for what kind of consequences it brings, no, you have seen it too. Arantis said.

"As a result, the price of food in the capital has skyrocketed as if taking Viagra? Citizens began to rush to buy food. Then the grain merchants can take it for granted that they can hoard food and strange goods...... What does the government eat? Is there no one to take care of it? ”

"Most of Elichar's food wholesalers have the shadow of the gatekeeper aristocracy behind them, and they will not stop them. And it's sure to add fuel to the fire. The food store you just saw is one of them. It is said that the shop is now only open for two hours a day, and each person is limited to two loaves of bread, one silver solan ......"

"A loaf of bread and a silver coin, there is no lower limit to what you can eat."

"And what can the government do if it really wants to intervene? This is free trade and has not violated a single federal law. ”

"Free trade? Hey, it looks like I'm going to have to give you some time to teach you a lesson in the general knowledge of economics. Lu Xi sneered: "In other words, the government that doesn't even have the means of macroeconomic regulation and control is really weak, is there really no problem with such a federation?" ”

"What is macroeconomic control?" Arantite was intrigued by the word that sounded so good.

"It would take at least a thousand words to explain, so I'll talk about it next time. Now we are faced with the problem of food prices in the capital...... In other words, doesn't the government have grain reserves in its hands? As long as you take out some of it and sell it in the market, you can quickly stabilize the price, right? In this way, as long as it is delayed until the next grain ship arrives, won't everything be fine? ”

"The question you mentioned, in fact, the teacher also considered it at the beginning...... However, the use of strategic reserves requires a majority of the ruling council, do you think the Turner faction may support us? Don't forget, the teacher just uprooted a gate valve. Perhaps, even the food crisis in Elichar was a means of revenge. ”

"Huh? In order to cheer up the Cass family, whose whole family has entered, they use the people of the capital as cannon fodder, is this so? ”

"I have always been stingy in judging the faces of the nobles of the gate lords with the greatest malice."

“…… Brother Alain, I haven't seen you for so long, and your anger is really getting higher and higher. ”

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