Chapter 106: Culture

  How to judge whether a city is a powerful one? This question is very profound, so Mo Yan has never thought about such a problem. But Mo Yan knows that the strength of a city does not only lie in its military power, but also in its industrial production capacity. If a city has extremely strong industry, then it can build more weapons and equipment to arm the demons summoned from the wild.

  To produce more products to sell and earn money, then buy raw materials from surrounding areas to continue production, and so on, in order to make oneself stronger. As the Thundercliff founded by Mo Yan, it can be said that it has the most advanced production methods on the Hill Continent, and also has a group of good technical workers. As the dwarves' relatives, the gray dwarves are not weak in the art of steel at all.

  Every day, hundreds of Saltre merchants come to Thunder Bluff, with thousands of gold coins worth of goods being traded. The high-quality products and relatively low prices make Thunder Bluff almost a place where money is made easily. However, if it were just like this, it would not be enough to say that Thunder Bluff is a powerful place.

  As a city built by monsters, Thunder Bluff has a fatal flaw. Apart from those foolish monsters, few Salties or Dwarves have a sense of belonging to Thunder Bluff; they are merely adventurers who come here for the high salaries, and once Thunder Bluff faces real danger, the vast majority of gold diggers will quickly sweep away their property and escape.

  As the lord of Thunder Bluff, Mo'yan was not unaware of such defects. All along, he has been committed to solving these problems. He sells the real estate of Thunder Bluff at a low price and encourages the people of Sault to set up industries in the city, wanting to use interests to bind these people who come to Thunder Bluff with Thunder Bluff together.

  Although such measures also had some effect, but overall it was still very limited. This is the perspective of a city established by demons, and it's not that easy to offset with other means. In this case, Mo Yan had no choice but to think of another way to increase Sarte's sense of identity with Thunder Cliff. And in the end, the method he adopted was culture!

  Why do people live? If this question is to be taken seriously, it may take three days and nights to get to the core, and it's easy to stray into other topics. But Mo Yan thinks that living is about being happy, after all, who likes a life of hardship, and worldly wealth can't be brought into the afterlife.

  So the reason people strive to move forward is so that they can live a carefree life. As a fighting race, the Sault people don't really have any entertaining activities. Ordinary people spend their days working and then going to taverns to drink and chat with acquaintances, while those who are slightly wealthier might watch a monster arena battle.

  This is why Mo Yan and Jones were initially welcomed in Santa Fe by pretending to be a special animal trainer, making a lot of money. These Salt people are really too boring. In such a situation, if there is an entertaining way that can make the public unconsciously recognize Raytheon Cliff, it would be a great method.

  Although Mo Yan may not fully understand the so-called culture, he also roughly understands some things. He hasn't read about how to slaughter pigs but has eaten pork before. In this era of information explosion, people will generally understand something. Moreover, he is facing a group of idle and annoying Sartreans who use today's perspective to view rotten things, Mo Yan believes that it can also be very popular. After all, in the past, casually throwing a few balls and coming up with a chest full of big rocks could earn a pot full of money.

  When Mo Yan decided to develop the tertiary industry in Leifengya, the advantages of Leifengya different from other cities in Ailan became apparent. In Ailan, there was no such thing as a parliament, and everything was decided by Mo Yan alone, as long as the funds in the treasury allowed it, anything Mo Yan wanted to do could be implemented immediately.

  After he confirmed several entertainment facilities, the relevant institutions in the city began to be busy, buying houses in the area selected by Mo Yan as the construction site and carrying out preliminary publicity. Several months ago, most people in the city received a brochure introducing new entertainment, knowing that Leifengya would hold a large-scale event.

  This booklet, personally compiled by Mo Yan, briefly introduces the rules of several activities and some performances called plays. After a period of preparation, when Mo Yan, who had gone to fish scales bay to catch pirates, returned, everything was ready.

  This long-planned cultural rise project has consumed a lot of Thunder Cliff's funds and resources, but the effect is also exceptionally obvious. Several special venues have been built, and the necessary matching equipment is also ready. The huge venue can accommodate at least 10,000 people to watch the game.

  In order to better dispatch and command, all projects are opened separately. The program prepared on the first day is a basketball game. A group of specially selected Sart people were divided into two teams and after special training, they have mastered the rules of basketball, although their playing skills are not good, but other people in the city have never seen better ones either.

  Now, the huge basketball court is filled with many Sartreans and Grey Dwarves who have come to watch the excitement. To hold this new cultural event, almost all factories have been closed, and some free admission tickets were distributed as a benefit, allowing most people in the city to enter the venue.

  "Damn it! I finally know why the dwarves were given a special area. The red-nosed dwarf looked at the broad back in front of him and complained loudly to the Salt people beside him: "Now even if I stand on a chair, I still can't see anything!"

  "What's the use of saying that now." The Sart man took out a wine jug and drank a mouthful, laughing as he looked at the grey dwarf who was bouncing up and down on his chair: "Our seats are in the middle, and all around us are already full of people. You want to get out? It's not that easy. I told you to go over there before, but you insisted on running over here to sit."

  "How do I know you Salter people are still so tall even when sitting down!" The stout dwarf, who was really short-sighted, gave up and sat back on the stool, looking at the wine jug in the Salter's hand and licking his lips, saying: "I'm really out of luck, just yesterday I lost my wine jug, now I don't even have anything to drink."

  "Ah……it's out." The Sault people pretended not to hear the dwarf's request for wine, and looked at the strange arena in the middle, where two teams of Sault people walked out and said: "Is this going to be a duel between the two sides? But it seems that no weapons have been seen, how are they going to compete? What is the use of those patterns drawn on the ground in the arena?"

  The words of the Saulte people made the red-nosed dwarf anxious, and he stood up to continue jumping vigorously to see what was happening in the field. However, his short legs obviously couldn't let him see over the backs of the Saulte people blocking his view. Meanwhile, the Saulte athletes in the field simply got ready and started competing according to the planned schedule.

  The basketball game was a huge success, although most people were still not very familiar with the rules, but they were very interested in such a confrontational activity. Most of the Salterians thought that this kind of competition was very interesting and fun, and before the basketball court was even completed, there were already places like basketball clubs set up, which welcomed a large number of customers after the first game ended.

  And in the following days, Thunder Bluff held American football, soccer and golf events. The first two activities received very good feedback, while golf was evaluated as a "sissy" activity, with many people leaving after watching for ten minutes.

  On the last day of the event, a drama performance also began, including "Thunder Cliff and the Three Musketeers", "Beauty and the Beast" and "Snow White and the Seven Dwarfs". These dramas not only catered to the tastes of most city residents but also promoted Thunder Cliff's theme of caring for its citizens.

  Among them, "Beauty and the Beast" this song praises the desolate story of monsters and Sartre girls, which makes people immediately think of the wedding that was just held recently. Although Mo Yan repeatedly declared that the cow-headed man in it is not himself, but it still lets the citizens of Thunder Cliff enter the seat, and Emily also takes it as a subtle expression of love. In several weeks, she tried her best to avoid Mo Yan, and what she originally wanted to say was completely unknown how to speak out.

  This left Mo Yan somewhat at a loss, he really just wanted to proclaim that monsters and humans could coexist peacefully, even love each other, nothing more. It's like the annual college entrance exam in a certain country, where there are questions about why the author mentioned the old locust tree three times.

  In fact, the author Mo Yan didn't think of that at all! At that time, he was just thinking about going home to eat, but accidentally wrote it three times. There's no special meaning there! This lesson made Mo Yan even more certain that all so-called film critics are masters of nonsense, and they will interpret something as such even if the author didn't mean it that way.

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