Me! Cleaner!.

Chapter 1157 The plan cannot keep up with the changes

Travelling Thrush, Royal Capital, Shipbridge Street.

In the leaden gray sky of winter, pale white snowflakes fluttered down, first gently testing the waters one by one, then arriving in dense clusters, and finally vying with each other, rushing down from the sky in swarms, covering the entire capital with a silvery-white coat.

It actually snowed...

After catching the falling snowflakes, Leon recalled the announcement over the apartment's loudspeaker that morning from the witch who had confidently declared that she had observed the stars last night and predicted it would snow today. Leon, who had just left home, clicked his tongue, feeling a little uneasy.

According to the details that he and Veronica finalized at the gathering of the Twelve Kingdoms, the twelve kingdoms in the present world should gradually break away from their original independent governance and form a relatively broad alliance.

This new form of alliance, while strengthening and streamlining inter-departmental cooperation, should also facilitate internal exchange, with each party contributing its surplus "productivity" in exchange for various resources that were previously difficult to access for all ordinary people.

The greatest significance of the new alliance lies in the significant enhancement of communication between the twelve kingdoms, allowing everyone to gradually become accustomed to this situation and slowly regard the entire world as a whole, with each of the twelve kingdoms as a "component" within it.

The most significant benefit of doing this is that it eliminates many overly "inefficient" production relations.

For example, with the backing of the Bureau of Cleanup guaranteeing that there would be no problem with food, the Northern Kingdom, which experienced snow for half the year, no longer needed to spend a lot of manpower and resources to maintain those farms with pitifully low yields.

A country with fertile soil where a handful of rice can grow into a paddy field can focus on exporting food, shutting down many factories that were forcibly built despite pollution, without worrying about being restricted in foreign trade and lacking industrial products.

This slowly unfolding new alliance, with the strong support of the Cleanup Bureau, provides a relatively stable environment for the Twelve Kingdoms, allowing them to unleash the previously constrained productivity of each kingdom as much as possible before any new products on the level of the Industrial Revolution emerge.

At the very least, that's how it should have been...

After rubbing the snowflakes in his hands and shaking off the still clear melted snow water, Leon couldn't help but sigh with a headache.

During the few months that I had free time and no missions, I helped Veronica to initially establish the alliance of the Twelve Kingdoms. The excellent "productivity" output by each of the Twelve Kingdoms really exceeded my and her expectations.

For example, the Northern Kingdom and the Green Shade Kingdom. According to his and the Travelling Thrush's "think tank" group, these two kingdoms with very distinct characteristics would be quite different. The former would mostly export high-quality meat, oil, and various minerals unique to the North, while the latter should mainly export various high-yield grains.

As expected, both kingdoms fulfilled their assigned tasks within the alliance, producing and exporting resources such as food, meat, and minerals.

But in addition to these predictable things, the two kingdoms also exported a great deal of things they had never expected.

In the large-scale trade between kingdoms, the best-selling item was not the expected high-quality meat, but the snow jackal penis with excellent aphrodisiac effects, which was snapped up by all kingdoms in just four hours.

And this verdant land, with its already rather...open atmosphere, not only exported massive amounts of grain but also sold an enormous quantity of various publications... the kind with questionable content. And because of their higher unit price, their sales volume was even comparable to that of grain sold by the ton. This... could it be that eroticism really is the primary driving force of productivity?
Recalling the trade products that the two kingdoms were vigorously pursuing in terms of their lower bodies, Lyon's lips twitched involuntarily. He decided to strengthen the review process a bit next time. While exchanging goods was a good thing, the more outrageous parts still needed to be regulated to some extent.

Hmm... we also need to keep an eye on the "production capacity" exported by the Kingdom of Shrine Maidens!

After glancing at the long queues outside the newly opened fortune-telling shops on the street, even on snowy days, Leon couldn't help but click his tongue and then turned and walked towards Charles Department Store.

Before the alliance of the twelve kingdoms was truly launched, no one expected that the most exported "productivity" of the Witch Kingdom would not be resources or any special products, but rather various shamans, astrologers, and witches themselves.

After discovering that other kingdoms that had joined the alliance had relaxed their border controls to some extent, many members of various societies who were unable to make a living in the Kingdom of Witches suddenly discovered a new world waiting to be explored.

Praying for blessings, consecrating objects, seeking marriage, ensuring academic success, granting children and blessings, ensuring a safe pregnancy, interpreting fate, changing one's luck, communicating with the deceased, invoking spirits...

These highly competitive businesses, which are usually extremely difficult to secure within the Kingdom of Witches due to the abundance of capable individuals, are considered pure blue ocean markets in the other eleven kingdoms. Apart from a few swindlers and churches being targeted by the Cleansing Bureau, no one can compete with them.

Originally, the half-witted witches, who couldn't get any business in the Kingdom of Witches and were starving, would take a crystal ball, board a pirate ship, and set sail. They could then open a shop on any street in most kingdoms and make a fortune.

Moreover, it's not just these relatively "traditional" businesses. Many members of these various societies from the Kingdom of Witches have even infiltrated many bizarre industries and even official departments of various kingdoms.

For example, the witch who became a weather forecaster this morning used her astrological and weather-telling abilities to deliver a devastating blow to the original weather forecasting department in the capital. The original team of fifty scholars was rendered unemployed by her alone.

While astrological weather prediction is abstract, it is at least somewhat related to the "academic" level and can be considered a technical endeavor, so it doesn't feel as out of place.

But those theosophists who could read minds and guess customers' psychological price range; those curse masters who used curses to mass-produce and painlessly slaughter livestock to avoid affecting the quality of the meat; and those dancers from the Nuo dance society whose dancing had an alluring effect—they were truly decimating everything in their path, almost completely destroying the local industries of each kingdom.

To give an example from my own experience, in the police department where the Cleanup Bureau is located, those officers who were originally in criminal investigation have not been fired yet, but almost all of them have been involuntarily transferred to other positions.

There's no way around it. Those veteran criminal investigators who have honed their skills over decades are completely dumbfounded when they see the bodies of the elderly victim couple suddenly stand up and roar at their son-in-law for pushing them down the mountain. If they don't switch jobs soon, they'll really be out of work.

In addition, it seems that recently a group of priests and totemists have come and approached the Minister of Transportation, saying that totem poles can be installed along all the main roads in the capital.

If anyone's carriage speeds, the totem marker will be able to record that person's scent, and then the priest will use a tracking technique to come and punish them. If they actually manage to make this happen, the traffic police will probably have to start thinking about changing jobs.

This is truly... I thought that after trying to liberate productive forces, we would usher in a great development in science and technology and humanities, but unexpectedly, it has started to rush wildly towards the mystical side...

(End of this chapter)