People in Terra, governing a weird little country

"Vina, you've been in Longmen for a short time, and you've never been close to the slums. You don't know what it's like there."

Chen described the scene with some melancholy:

"The streets are densely packed with tube-shaped buildings and townhouses with several floors spaced apart. They are dirty and dark. Empty wine bottles are found in almost every stairwell, piled up into a small mountain. Fraudulent advertisements and cards are not picked up and are flying everywhere. Petty thefts are everywhere, and the criminals are generally young. Fights are even more common..."

"It may be hard for you to imagine that just across the street is Longmen, a so-called safe and prosperous metropolis. That kind of scene really makes people feel... disconnected."

Vina pursed her lips. Unlike what Chen thought, she could not only imagine that kind of scene, she had even experienced it herself.

Before she met Ernst, she also survived in the slums of Londinium.

She knew very well what kind of place that was.

Moreover, the dangers of slums are far more than what Chen said, there are real troubles.

"Infected people, there are still quite a number of infected people in the slums. Wei Yanwu pretended that he saw nothing and allowed them to live there. This was considered a kind act, but..."

Chen wanted to say something, but Vina stopped her and shook her head slightly.

Even if she didn't say it, Vina knew what she was thinking.

What else could Chen want? She just wanted fairness.

Unfortunately, is fairness so easy to give? Ernst has expressed his concerns about the issue of Kjerag infected people to Vina more than once.

A drop of ink is enough to pollute a basin of water, not to mention that compared to the prejudiced dye vat of this land, Kjerag is just that insignificant drop of clean water. Once the discriminatory ideas from the outside world are transmitted to Kjerag, even Ernst is not sure that he can perfectly control that trend of thought.

He can only do his best and make preparations early.

Vina cannot provide an answer to the problem of Longmen slums. Even Wei Yanwu, a more experienced politician who knows the local situation better, cannot come up with an idea. How can Vina solve it?

She can only share her thoughts on paper:

"Infected people exist objectively, and we have no way to make them disappear."

Unless you use physical means. But even with physical means, the infected cannot be killed completely. As long as the Originium Industrial System exists, this group will continue to grow.

"But we can... prevent them from becoming a threat. At least, they won't be used and provoked by people with ulterior motives."

"Chen, aren't you the superintendent of the Special Inspection Team? Since Governor Wei has not restricted the scope of your duties, why can't you use this specialness to reflect the special group of people?"

"You mean... let me go to the slums and be a special inspector of the slums?" Chen's eyes lit up. "What a good idea! Indeed, this way, I can get the news and respond as soon as problems occur in the slums!"

"Uh, that's not what I meant." Vina waved her hand, signaling Chen not to get excited.

Special slum inspectors? It sounded like something like that, but Vina thought it probably wouldn't do anything.

To be frank, Chen is just one person. Even if the special inspection team is included, there are only three people. Can three people handle the problems of so many people in the slums?

Besides, it is difficult for an honest official to settle family affairs, and it is even more difficult to settle family affairs in the slums. Given Chen's personality, if he really did this, he would probably be worried to death in a few days. By then, if he didn't accomplish anything good, he would probably be hated by the people in the slums.

A little bit of rice is a favor, a big bit of rice is a grudge, that's how it is.

However, this made Chen a little confused: "So what do you mean?"

"I mean... it's only a temporary solution."

Vina looked a little hesitant, but with the help of Chen's firm gaze, she still spoke,

"You can act as an arbiter of the infected group."

"Arbiter? Isn't that still the same?"

"No, no, the arbitrator's existence is not to solve problems, but to deal with those who create trouble."

"Your position as the leader of the special inspection team means absolute force and authority. You use this position to select a relatively well-known infected person in the slums, help him, back him up, and let him fight."

"If he wins, you will be his helper, the source of his power and his backer. At least he won't betray you. The infected people in the slums will also be able to unite and maintain relative stability."

"If he loses, then switch sides. You are the only one who has the power to freely choose. Help the side that defeats him and repeat the above process."

"If they don't win or lose, or if they win and lose, or lose and win again..."

Vina's eyes flickered, and she seemed a little reluctant, but she insisted,

"Both sides will suffer losses. Once the infected are weakened, the problem will naturally be solved."

Chen Jiujiu was speechless.

Chapter 317: I suggest outsourcing this issue

"I'm not sure if this method can help Chen, but looking at Chen's expression...I guess she probably won't use it."

Vina sighed slightly, seeming to feel a little guilty.

She wasn't complaining to Ernst, she just felt a little disappointed because she didn't help her friend.

Ernst, on the other hand, looked Vina up and down, but still felt uneasy. He quietly sent a message to the great god Yelagund, confirming that the old lion that Vina called her teacher was indeed gone. Then he rubbed his chin in confusion:

Something’s not right. What’s wrong with this kid?

Why do you speak so heroically?

It’s no wonder that Ernst got it wrong. It’s really that the method Vina told Chen was too convincing.

Didn't a country with great moral deficiencies in Ernst's previous life do the same? Relying on its foundation of the sun never sets, it is rampant all over the world. Nine out of ten places are set on fire by it. This method of selecting agents and causing internal friction to gain a foothold may not be the earliest, but it must be the best at it!

The key is that Britain has more than one trick to use. Other tricks include "I rented this land, so it doesn't count as invasion", "I think this land is good, why don't we divide it directly along the longitude and latitude lines", "The British Empire will never surrender until the last blood of the colonies is shed!" and so on.

Although from the current perspective, the former giant spanning Europe, Asia, Africa and the United States has indeed fallen into decline, and the United Kingdom, which is hiding in the British Isles, is now completely controlled by its conjugated father and son. But this depends on who is being compared.

It has fallen into decline, but it has plundered the world for nearly a century, and its foundation is so profound that even after the two world wars, it still has the qualifications to become one of the "Five Permanent Members of the UN Security Council". It also did not prevent people at that time from looking around, and no matter how they ranked the strength of the world's countries, Britain would still be among the top five.

From this perspective, Victoria, the so-called "hegemony over the earth", is actually somewhat unworthy of its name. Compared with the peak of the British Empire, Victoria has no advantages in terms of industrial strength, land area, military strength, cultural aggressiveness, etc.

It can't even cover all the countries on earth.

The UK actually passed it, although it was a bit of a cheat, as the hell-level copies they passed were all super weakened.

The Raging Tide hadn't gotten wild at that time, and was directly defeated by its little brother Canada, which burned down the White House, not to mention that the tower was still there. Napoleon launched the Continental Blockade against Britain, but it still failed in the end. The Iron Tide hadn't gotten strong at that time, and the European military police were beaten by Britain in the Crimean War. As for the Great Wall Watch...

Wear Qing clothes but don't rebel, wear an electric drill with your chrysanthemum, why did this sentence appear? Why did this sentence appear? The only thing we can say is that it is inseparable from the garbage of the late Qing Dynasty.

However, theoretically speaking, these are all matters related to Victoria's isomorph in another world. Although Ernst did not think that Victoria was much more humanized than Dai Ying, but Vina... shouldn't it be like that?

Is there really such a thing as bloodline inheritance? How did you learn this on your own?

Ernst knew that Vina had no ill intentions, and the reason she made this suggestion to Chen was because Chen insisted on asking. However, Vina obviously did not have a clear understanding of Chen's character.

As a very upright and formidable person, she did not break up with Vina immediately after hearing about this method, which means their friendship is still quite solid.

"Did i do something wrong?"

Vina seemed to notice that Ernst had been silent for a long time, and she became uneasy.

"Should I go apologize to Chen now? I just want to help her. If she really goes to the slums all day long, it will be very dangerous."

"Danger? What could be dangerous in Longmen? You know Chen's identity, Wei Yanwu's niece. Who dares to do anything to her?"

Ernst didn't care.

Not to mention that Chen’s identity is so sensitive, that place alone is Longmen!

Ernst compared it horizontally. It was a place equivalent to Shanghai, Hong Kong, and Macau. As the economic center of the entire Great Yan, what kind of trouble could happen there? Would the Yan Dynasty not care?

But Vina shook her head.

The identity of Longmen Governor Wei Yanwu is very complicated, and the Great Yan court...may not really care under normal circumstances.

and.......

"Ernst, we know Chen's identity, but the infected don't."

"Chen is in contact with an infected person?" Ernst's eyes suddenly became sharp.

He felt that when Chen entered the slums, he probably just went there to comfort the needy and walk the streets as a patrolman to maintain law and order. If he had to say something, he was like the old city policemen in the Hong Kong movies he had watched in his previous life. They knew everyone and got along well with everyone. They were like the honest and upright officials in the old city.

But from what Vina said, Chen is deeply involved in the slums.

Infected people are a sensitive topic at all times. According to what Ernst knows, except for Colombia, no country on earth has the so-called "Infected People Tolerance Ordinance", and Yan Country is no exception.

Of course, this does not mean that all countries have the same attitude towards killing all infected people. It’s just that at the official level, infected people are either restricted to living in a special quarantine area or directly driven out of the mobile city, without exception.

The same goes for Yan Country.

The matter of contact with an infected person can be considered a big deal or a small matter. Although she herself has no awareness of it, Chen is indeed a politician, and the behavior of a politician can be infinitely magnified and escalated.

Chen's contact with and help for the infected people in the slums can be said to be [a kind policeman helping neighbors in trouble.], and naturally it can also be interpreted as [dissatisfaction with the current policy of infected people in Da Yan], [Governor Longmen condones his family to privately slander the national policy], [as a public official, knowingly breaking the law, turning a deaf ear to the laws of Da Yan! ].

Didn’t Wei Yanwu do anything about it?

He left so many infected people in the slums, but didn't he come up with a set of rules? Not to mention systematic management, at least he should have ensured that there would not be any safety hazards, right?

This is a person without ulterior motives, who is taking this matter as a trivial matter. If there were, who knows how much trouble he would have caused!

Not to mention, whether Chen's contact with the infected person will be interpreted as a metaphor for Wei Yanwu politically, this behavior itself is a risk!

Risk of contracting oripathy!

Someone in Ernst's family was infected with oripathy, and he knew the pain this disease would bring. Enxia was lucky. First, Enthiotis arranged for her to receive treatment in Colombia, and then Ernst helped her get an appointment with Kal'tsit.

The old lynx is knowledgeable, has good medical skills, and most importantly, has good medical ethics.

As long as the patient is hers, she will never give up. Even if she has to stay awake for three days and three nights to rescue the patient, she will not say a word about her sore eyes.

But even so, the fact that Enxia and his family are rarely together is enough to illustrate the harm of the disease called oripathy.

Not everyone can afford such a long, endless, and expensive hospitalization. Some of the businesses in Rhode Island are also carried out to enable some of the patients they voluntarily treat to bear the medical expenses themselves.

Ernst didn't let Enxia sign up.

Becoming an Operator sounds great, and in the game, being able to go to the island is like a get-out-of-jail-free card. But you still have to go to the battlefield.

She only has this one sister, and she can't bear to let her go.

As long as he could still afford it, Enxia would just be listed as a member. Kelsey also promised that she would never trick Enxia into signing those inexplicable contracts.

Speaking of Rhode Island...

Ernst seemed to have thought of something and waved to Vina:

"Vina, go find Chen again and ask her to come to my place."

"Just tell her that I have a way to help her solve the problem of the infected."

"Really?" Vina was a little incredulous.

Ernst rolled his eyes. “Of course it’s fake.”

He spread his hands and said, "The way to cure the problem of the infected is very simple. We need to develop cheap and effective drugs to cure oripathy, or develop technology to make oripathy harmless. But obviously, we don't have it."

"As for the symptomatic treatment, Vina, although I don't recommend you to mention your suggestion to others in the future, I have to say that your method is very effective."

"However, Chen can neither cure the root cause nor is willing to treat the symptoms, so I can only give her a simpler solution that she can accept."

Vina asked, "What method?"

“Outsourcing.”

Outsourcing is good, outsourcing is wonderful, spend little money and get a big benefit.

Chapter 318 Chen: The business is quite extensive.

Kal'tsit has become accustomed to the fact that Ernst would come to see her once a day on average.

Look, look, it’s better to look for yourself than to go out and collect some weird people. If you let him gather them together again, Kal’tsit really thinks that Kjerag should change his name.

Giant Beast Playground, New Kazdel, Beast Master Habitat, Concentrated Training Camp for Claimants from Various Countries on Earth, Terra Dragon Field...

God knows where this place is, but it can't be called Kjerag.

But this time, Kal'tsit really misunderstood Ernst.

"I really didn't ask you to ask questions. People don't have that many questions to ask in one day."

Looking at Kal'tsit's expression that said, "I don't believe you at all," Ernst felt helpless.

"I'm here to introduce you to the business."

"Business? Prime Minister Ernst can introduce business to me?" Kelsey frowned and asked suspiciously, "Are you planning to hold an international touring exhibition?"

Ernst's smile twitched.