"It's a really interesting city. ”

Accompanied by the chiefs, Rorschach and Feng strolled the streets of Whitketown.

Take a look at the goods in the shops, glance at the cluttered streetscape, chat with the oddly matched pedestrians, and see how chaotic the unregulated market can be........ Rorschach saw at a glance that there were seven shops selling counterfeit goods, but their business was very good.

"Nike's hook becomes a soup spoon, and Adi becomes Adi King, anyway, the original version of New Tonya City is the same as a magic pirated parallel import...... Our journal "Absolute Truth" can also become "Absolute Truth", and we are fakes when we hear the name. ”

Rorschach flipped through the absolute truth, and was a little surprised that the wastelanders were able to compile their own periodicals to gather news, and where did they gather information from their people who had returned from other cities....... Then he noticed that the contents of the magazine were unusually familiar.

"Poof, isn't this last year's November issue, it's become this year's March issue, and I haven't even changed the layout. Didn't even touch the front page of the homepage, where the information was absolutely true during the promised period?

Rorschach's expression instantly became subtle, a little annoyed but a little subtle pride, after all, he was still a sales champion so far away, but he didn't even have his name.

Complicated feelings, it turns out that as an author, it is this subtle feeling to see the bookstore with its own pirated books.

"Ahem, let's go to the store next door and take a look, it seems that there are magic armor and other magic equipment sold here. ”

Feng saw this book, flipped through it, and the address of the publishing house behind the cover was Jiaocheng, and his expression instantly became subtle, and he hurriedly changed the topic.

Along the way, his expression was more subtle than Rorschach's.

It's like "Absolute Truth", which is a complete reproduction of the book except for the name and the author, and the origin of more than seventy percent of the goods here is Horn City.

In fact, it is quite normal to think about it, with the industrial and manufacturing capabilities of the Seymour people in the wasteland, even if they make pirated books, there is no printing house, excellent labor for typesetting and review, not to mention no access to new magazines.

Other commodities are also like this.,It's basically an imitation of the corner city.、Replica version.,To put it bluntly, it's parallel goods and piracy.,As the lord of the corner city.,Seeing that his city is so brilliant in terms of imitations.,It's still in front of the original owner.,It's also a loss to him to stay.。

There are a wide variety of commodities here, but most of them are still based on daily necessities and small household appliances, such products are in high demand and have a low level of craftsmanship.

And the magic guide equipment store that followed Feng's finger, there was a third-generation tiger rune warrior at the door, which made Rorschach a little interested.

"Is it a copy of the magic armor? Or is it the old equipment that was pulled from other places before? It's unlikely to be copied, but the technical requirements of the third-generation aircraft are not high, and the craftsmanship has long been leaked everywhere....... Huh? Something is wrong. ”

As they got closer, Rorschach couldn't stop laughing and crying.

When I knock it, it makes a plastic sound, and when I touch it, it feels like plastic, so lick it..... Rorschach doesn't know what plastic smells like, and it doesn't look clean, so forget it.

"One-to-one playground toys?Made in Corner City? ”

Rorschach's pure little eyes made Feng unable to bear it anymore.

Excluding these small episodes, the small talk along the way is still very pleasant, after all, the two sides are already inseparable allies.

In fact, after the initial surprise, Rorschach was able to understand all this, this is actually the current social form and industrial chain of the entire Harait Great Wasteland, that is, the industrial chain that is bundled together, so that these big chiefs have to take the initiative to find themselves.

The wasteland is the starting point of everything, providing raw materials, people, and crops to support all life that lives on it.

The entire social structure can be roughly divided into three layers - the people of the wasteland, the people of Jiaocheng, and the people of Xincheng.

The largest number of people are actually the scattered Seymour people of the wasteland, scattered across the wasteland, engaged in a self-supporting life such as hunting and simple agriculture.

But now, things have changed.

They need new supplies, new goods, new lives, and the only barters they can give out are native minerals and game, which is precisely the least valuable in the entire wasteland.

After all, both Horn City and New Winteria City have established farms, animal husbandry, and livestock industries, and the standardized quality and high-standard output of meat and fur produced by large-scale production far exceed that of wasteland hunting, which cannot guarantee stable income.

Perhaps the fur and meat that the hunter had painstakingly tracked for more than ten days (a lot of lost and rotted on the way back) were not as good as the average daily output of a farm worker.

This is especially true in the mining industry, where manual mining is basically equivalent to death, and the people of the wasteland also lack the vision to distinguish "treasures", so they may work hard to blow up half of the mountain to obtain shiny stones, and send them to the new city for identification The result is worthless "glass".

The mining towns of the Ash and Jiaocheng people are all truckloads of trucks pulling out of mines, and the wasteland people are incomparable in transportation and mining.

This can no longer be said to be exploiting the labor power of the wasteland people, because their labor power has no value to be exploited at all, and a large amount of labor is regarded as useless work in this era.

That's it, they still yearn for a better life, this is the nature of intelligent life, it is an uncontrollable instinct, and therefore even on that freight car, Rorschach can also see a lot of wasteland tribesmen who bring "treasures" into the city, but they work hard, and they may not be able to earn back the travel expenses.

Such people, you let them buy the original price of New Tonia City....... That's basically impossible, only the chiefs use the authentic product, and the east and west are not complete.

What should I do if I can't afford to buy the original product?

Where there is demand, there is a market, and the local industry in Jiaocheng was defeated by New Tonia City, but their factories are still operating and expanding, naturally because of this new sales market.

Rorschach noticed that the parallel goods here were unusually cheap, on average less than one-fifth or even one-tenth of the original products, and the people of Horntown took the samples of the Ash people and made downgraded goods and sold them here in exchange for the profits of the wasters.

And even these "bargains" can still empty the foundation of a wasteland family, and Rorschach saw a woman hesitate for a long time with two toothbrushes, and finally replaced all the fur and ore on her back.

Is this fair? Of course it's not fair, but that's the reality, the weak eat the strong, and you think the world is peaceful just because you don't see it.

No qualified leader would find this situation acceptable.

So they're trying to change, and this Whik town is a great achievement.

“....... Was it a merchant before? Isn't that darker?"

"Yes, the price is arbitrary, the type of goods is less and the quality is not good, you can't buy it, and he won't come next time if he buys less. ”

Hearing this, Rorschach nodded, he recalled the time when he first arrived in Corner City, when it was the most prosperous time for merchants and caravans.

With the laying of the railway network, the business is completely declining.

"There are four more towns like this, along the railway network, and we have people from the Horned Elephant Clan to set up shops and stay there, and at least have a platform for fair trade. ”

Times change, often in inconspicuous places.

Before the Ash arrived, the Horn City people had already taken advantage of the Wastelanders in commerce, and now New Winteria City is using the same methods against the Horn Townspeople, and the Horn City people have also intensified their dumping of the Wastelanders.

It's just that such a trade volume is always of little significance.

The total amount is quite a lot, after all, the number of Wasteland Seymours is very considerable, but it is too scattered, and the consumption in the middle is also large, and the Wasteland Seymours who have no wealth cannot contribute much sales.

"Let the people get rich first, and then everyone will get rich together?"

That's what New Winteria City did when it opened its gates and brought in a large number of immigrants.

The immigrants of New Tonia City, who had nothing, exchanged labor for remuneration, bought daily necessities, and had needs, which promoted the industrial chain of the entire New Winteria City, and finally achieved self-circulation.

By this time, Rorschach already knew what the other party was looking for him to do and what he should do.