Chapter 1142: A Product of the Times
If you use an item to describe the Free Revolution-Life Army, Zhao Wenrui thinks that 'sieve' is very appropriate.
Because he is the kind of hipster who opens the way for the true king, this organization starts with hellish difficulty, and it is nothing if the good or the bad are mixed, and being crazy with sand is a big problem.
As for why this is the case, it has a lot to do with the background of the times.
The lord of Zhongxing, Coremand III, on the surface, seemed to have revived the kingdom, and at the same time transformed from a feudal king into a big capitalist.
But in fact, the big capitalists are just skins, because the conditions are not ripe enough and other reasons, the real purpose of Clemon III is to centralize power.
That is to say, from the age of the kingdom, to the age of the emperor. The set of capital is just a tool for him to collect money and power. Through this tool, the reshuffle of the real land aristocracy has been completed, and the economic lifeline is pinched, so naturally he can shout to the end with a voice, and he dare not obey.
So the prosperity of capital has not come, and the restoration of the kingdom cannot be talked about, after all, it has not collapsed, and some of the shortcomings of the dynasty have also been alleviated with the great display of Clement's strength.
So as far as the bottom layer is concerned, it has been really good for so many years.
But when the grandson of Clemon III came to power, it became a completely different picture.
At that time, the disadvantages of the monster of Clemon released capital appeared. There are also the sequelae caused by the mistakes made, coupled with the hatred caused by the economic plundering of neighbors in the past, which has led to internal and external troubles in the country, especially several bright claw failures, which made the jackals see clearly the weakness of the old male lion, so the incident continued and the turmoil gradually intensified.
In such a situation, the various forces, magnates, gate valves, and vested interests in the country are naturally unwilling to lose what they have, and at the same time they are thinking about whether they can use the troubled waters to touch a few fish and get more.
But on the other hand, they are very confused and do not know what route to take.
Therefore, casting a wide net, investing more, understanding the latest cutting-edge news, and ensuring that their ideas keep up with the times, and not die as ugly as the conservative aristocracy of the time of Clemon III, has become the choice of many people.
Therefore, the 'Free Revolution-Life Army' rushed to it to be trendy enough, and with Marienburg, which was the most open-minded, as its main area of activity, there were people who bet and mixed sand into it.
Betting mainly refers to the support of power money.
The Freedom Revolution-Order Army also did not refuse to come, and many high-ranking officials and nobles were eyebrow-raising behind their backs.
At the same time, it also absorbed a lot of down-and-out aristocrats or something.
After all, most of their ancestors were victims of the capital storm set off by King Crément III, similar to what happened to Kevin King's father.
Although these down-and-out nobles became poor, their family inheritance and hatred were inherited together.
And in this transcendent world, all the nobles of some ages have more or less some secret inheritance.
Kevin King's uncle, Luther King, relied on the family's secret method inheritance as the foundation to break through the world. Otherwise, it's just a fat wild sheep roaming around.
Kevin King's father has no talent, and he also understands the truth of 'carrying a sharp blade and killing from his heart', so he didn't touch the extraordinary at all, and he is a very thoughtful person.
The world is stable, as long as this kind of person is not too lucky, even if he can't be rich and rich, he can be rich and healthy. But in turbulent times, such people are often the most pitiful. After all, no matter how much you have no dispute, you can't stand the jackal in charge.
So people like Kevin King's father died in silence, and some chose to break out, choosing to engage in illegal activities or join various violent organizations.
And even if there is no secret method inheritance, the cultural literacy brought by the aristocratic tutor also makes these down-and-out nobles have the basic conditions to become the leaders of the organization and the manager.
This is a manifestation of the monopoly of knowledge by a few people before modern times, and it is also the last carnival of the aristocracy. In the next 180 years, when capital comes to power in an all-round way, and when it is needed, education for all will take the stage, and the aristocracy's advantages in home and private education will be gone, and the aristocratic class will really decline at that time.
Specific to the Free Revolution-Ordered Army, Franco, who sent the mission, the manager of the treasury of the secret stronghold, and even the middle-aged guide himself, were all from down-and-out aristocratic backgrounds.
Tutors pass on not only knowledge, but also dross.
And the fall is always easy.
Therefore, the feeling that the Free Revolution-Life Army gave Zhao Wenrui was that he didn't learn much at best, and he learned all the bad, and even had a groundbreaking performance.
The main reason is that the upper and middle levels of the organization are all vengeful spirits of the old era, and they are still full of anger when they are bad, rather than real revolutionaries who arm themselves with new ideas.
But in any case, the concept of 'revolution' is very fashionable and the related theories are quite bluffing, so it has attracted many people's attention and started to do it, so that the mixture of wine with water has become mixed with water.
Invaders like Flamingo are not competitors, but a secret cult called the Black Wilderness.
As the saying goes, when the country is about to die, there will be demons. was originally low-key, but now they have also jumped out to make waves. The Black Desolate Esoteric Cult is a typical one.
The cult was the result of an unintentional excavation by a pioneer lord.
I wanted to build a castle and dig the foundation, but I dug up the temple.
It's not human civilization, so if you want to inherit it, you can't do it because of the different cultural systems.
But magic weapons with extraordinary power are valuable and have been preserved.
With the vicissitudes of life, the former pioneer leader has become a legally defensible homeland with many generations of human beings.
Then during the reign of Crément III, the descendants of this lord became one of the victims.
Pawn sellers, including prohibited otherworldly artifacts, can also change hands through the black market. People have eaten the last meal and the next meal, so they don't talk about public morality, don't talk about heritage inheritance, sell!
After the magic weapon changed hands several times, it was finally activated by someone who had the ability. If you can't understand the text, you can directly understand it with your heart.
As a result, I was connected to a god who had been silent for an unknown amount of time.
This ancient god was also a god like the elven forest god at that time.
But it was the era of the Flood and Famine, and from the perspective of human beings in this era, before the forest priesthood, I am afraid that it would be labeled as a dark and wild style.
To put it bluntly, this faction is the dark druid.
Moreover, it is biased towards the cave school, humus school, and carnivorous plant school, which may have a certain relationship with the vegetation characteristics at that time.
Such a faction is incompatible with civilization, after all, it pays attention to the desolation of people and the desolation of the environment. This is not environmental protection, but to make people give up civilization and return to animal nature.
So although it is very effective and the extraordinary technique is also very good, there has been no market for many years.
But when troubled times come, people lack a sense of security and want to seize something to rely on. As for the cost, that's a bit of that later.
As a result, the Black Desolation Secret Sect grew rapidly.
And then they were attracted by the slogan gimmick of the FRY.
The liberal democratic set of the revolutionary army is the program of a proper capitalist system, a rough blueprint, and a more rational management system, higher welfare, big factories, big farms, citizenship, suffrage, and so on.
This hits the pain point of the Black Desolate Esoteric Sect.
Lao Tzu wants to restore the primitive wilderness, and you must intensify the magic industry. You say you're working with us? Who are you going to do if you don't?
But on the other hand, esoteric religions are also made up of people. People have selfishness and their own ideas.
Flamingo is not a brainwashed cult fanatic, but a social person with management ability, organizational ability, command ability, and communication ability.
It's not cultivated by himself, after all, it's not quite in line with his mind, and Flamingo also knows that because of his background, he is already a very good minister, and it is difficult to get one step closer.
He also didn't believe in the doctrine of the Black Desolation Secret Sect, how many bags did he have in his head before he chose to return to the life mode of the cave people on the top of the mountain? It was too anti-social and anti-human.
So he looked for an opportunity to break through his limitations and fly solo.
Of course, after flying solo, it must be better than the current mix, and it can be considered a success.
It's a pity that the divine power of the Black Desolation Secret Sect is delicious and indigestible, so if he wants to leave in style, the prerequisites are quite difficult to complete.
This is an opportunity. After all, it is a special weapons program led by the government, and the investment of manpower and material resources will be guaranteed in the first place. And then there are forces involved in outer space, mostly divine powers.
Only divine power can deal with divine power. Therefore, it is the right choice to seek the divine power of other gods and untie the shackles of his black wilderness. But you need to beware of just coming out of the tiger's den and entering the wolf's den, so the divine power sought is best borrowed without dominating will. Official special weapons seem to fit this concept. Let's go.
As for fake Oliver and fake Angela, the origin is so-so.
Especially the fake Oliver, it is completely an ordinary 'sand' that generally has dates and no dates.
Although Zhao Wenrui did not search for his soul, he basically agreed with the relevant judgment of the guide. Because the fake Oliver made a cognitive mistake when interpreting the role of Oliver, and behaved very unprofessionally.
Oliver is indeed a lively and active sunny boy, but his profession is a typical 'one minute on stage, ten years off stage'.
In juggling, the clown is a very technical character. You need to have a good level of skills, and you have to have a talent for comedy, so that you can easily grasp what to play, and all kinds of ugly things will not really hurt yourself.
Oliver often plays the role of a clown in acrobatic troupes.
How can a person who has grown up in that environment since childhood, can play harlequins, and is proficient in various skills, be a frizzy personality who lacks patience?
People who can't sink their hearts will not practice hard and practice many skills, and they will already specialize in one or two to enjoy applause and glory.
Therefore, the understanding of the fake Oliver's character design is very superficial, and Zhao Wenrui feels that this is not an IQ problem, but a lack of care.
In this way, the demand will not be too high, it is nothing more than omitting the pre-links, directly opening the road of merit promotion, trying to climb quickly through the means of fake Oliver. This kind of operation, which is almost from the beginning of Xinding, is a long-term shadow, and the candidate conditions will be appropriately lowered, not an elite.
Angela is a bit of a professional spy. At least a set of small means, under the premise of sufficient freshness, is still quite effective, with a weak body, successfully escaped in the hands of two professionals who are much stronger than themselves, is the best proof. And the heart is not bad, quite decisive, when the situation is not good, it is not hard to pretend, and it is not bad to bring important information back.
The flamingo's soul-searching interrogation, Angela is from the official and is the real secret investigator.
Well, a group of Li ghosts who are ready to play Li Kui have not yet dressed up, and they have met the real Li Kui.
If it weren't for the coincidence, it was revealed that the fake Oliver and the fake Angela were overly eager for the mission, and when the mission officially started, the real and fake secret investigators would probably cause very interesting events.
As for Ricard, Zhao Wenrui felt that he had the good face of a young man, and he was eager to prove himself and other characteristics, and he even suspected the cruelty and bloodiness of the secret stronghold, which blinded Ricard.
People who are blinded may not only have a mentality, but may also be reckless. It is precisely because of fear that I am anxious to grasp something, such as obtaining the cultivation method after making meritorious service.
This is also a kind of pie that the organization draws when it recruits people. It is especially attractive to young people who are thirsty for knowledge, especially transcendent knowledge, but lack access and at the same time survive illusions.
If you are a down-and-out nobleman or something, you know the hardships and dangers inside, as well as the consumption of time and money, and even the cost of vitality and organs, but you will not eat this set.
Overall, this foursome is also quite interesting. is obviously just cannon fodder, but the background is so complicated, and it is appropriate to say that the Free Revolution-Life Army is a sieve and water mixed with wine.
Interestingly, just like that, the organization hasn't collapsed, or even shown signs of struggling to function.
It can be seen that this is no longer due to cleverness or luck, but can rise to the level of a social phenomenon.
All kinds of people lack a sense of security, and at the same time know the truth that it is easy to fish in troubled waters, so they put their bodies down to find a way out.
It is such a person and such a way of thinking that such a honeycomb state has been stacked to create such a wonderful organization that is very stable. It's just a play of black humor.
It's just that whether it is humor or farce, Zhao Wenrui always has a sense of alienation.
He does not belong to this time, nor to this world. Don't say it's specious, even if it is really the historical facts of his homeland and a foreign country repeating itself, the part of his old branch will always remind him that the truth has long been inhuman.
The key is the disparity brought about by power, not the afterthought of those who are downstream in history.
After all, these things below the god level are already child-like things, and in the face of absolute power, no matter how big the truth is, it will become unreasonable. If you are emotional, distracted by these things, it seems that there is some hypocrisy without illness and moaning, and you don't do your job.
Just like the saying in his hometown, 'If you are worried, you will not worry, and there will be no stones on the green mountains!'
If you are already a social person, don't pretend to be tender and think about how to manage your campus life. Despite his experience, he didn't graduate from junior high school and dropped out of school to enter society. But the past is the past, and it seems that he should think more about how to tear up with the ancient gods now, as for the rest, it is just a prelude and an interlude.
As soon as he thought of this, he inevitably made a play, and then he was not interested.
So when the guide came to enlighten and persuade him, he couldn't re-enter the play and had a sense of impatience when he endured it, and he almost laughed twice because he was related to the Internet jokes of the year.
After such a perfunctory guide, he finally chose to agree, which can be regarded as turning the page.
Of course, he still has the basic work ethic, substituting Kevin King's personality and state, he didn't say anything to death, but said to rest for a night and see, if he figured it out tomorrow and the new teammates were suitable, then he would rather be under house arrest.
As for Angela and the three of them, the guide gave the statement that they were the first in Group A, and the Group B he was about to join was a reserve team, and they might not be needed.
In fact, what kind of temperament Rick Joyce is, what hobbies he has, the organization has mastered it, and it will not be revealed to Kevin King, mainly because Luther King has a request.
Teammates running in, formulating plans, observing and judging, these are all the specific content of grinding, what is the point of skipping them?
The next day, Zhao Wenrui pretended to have a nightmare and couldn't sleep well all night, so that his spirit was slightly sluggish and he had dark circles under his eyes.
However, when he ate in the morning, he showed the young man's competitive spirit and thirst for transcendent knowledge, and asked the guide about the basic reward for completing the task, whether it was possible to redeem the cultivation method, and so on.
The guide is not perfunctory, but the words are very skillful, which is the kind that is easy to cause misunderstanding. So Zhao Wenrui agreed and continued to carry out the task.
In fact, the guide really didn't deliberately shake a little this time, but Kevin King's path was controlled by Luther King behind the scenes, and he would definitely not let his nephew practice the kind of method that has limited improvement, is expensive, or has no way out of the way early.
On the other hand, if you really pay attention to this aspect, there are a lot of pre-steps alone, instead of swallowing the domineering medicine and then gambling on your face. So it doesn't make sense to say anything, or what Kevin King wants, since that's the case, then fool around.
While picking out clothes, a small episode occurred.
Kevin King is not clean, and he is not a pampered person. So he doesn't care too much about wearing old clothes, as long as they are cleaned, not riddled with lice.
But the boots ......
It is very covered, and the national health situation in this era cannot be compared with modern society after all, even citizens in big cities are only bright on the surface, and they hide all kinds of dirt and dirt in secret.
So this is not Kevin's hypocrisy, but the common sense that a person of this age should have. Wearing long-term boots that I don't know who wore them and how many people wore them, who is it if you have rotten feet?
Bob was a little unhappy, after all, he was in charge of things, and Zhao Wenrui's attitude meant that he didn't believe him.
The guide came forward to explain: "The secret investigator is not going to work to coffee and newspapers, and to wait for the car from work, but to run around, active in the front line, and brand new boots are not suitable. I know what you're worried about, I've got a cleaning scroll here, five shillings, and you go back and think about it in the reported activity funding. ”
"Thank you!" Zhao Wenrui paid the money and pretended to use the cleaning scroll again.
In fact, there is no need for him to wronged himself at all, and he skillfully uses time rewind and time passing, whether it is clothes or boots, it can become like the old and the new.
He has basically mastered the law of time, and the time magic of a general nature does not need to consume mysterious elements. But if his soul, and even his body, were to try to travel through time and space, they had to be supported by the mystical element.
Changing into an iron-gray military uniform, with a kick of high boots, the whole person looks tall and energetic.
However, it was not until Peon did he get to wear it, and he was still the freelance journalist named Kevin King in Marynburgh.
In this era, there were already mechanically powered looms, which greatly increased the production of cloth, woolen and other clothing, and the price fell to the point that most ordinary people could consume it, so that the well-dressed people on the street gradually occupied the majority.
In terms of dyeing, although there is no chemistry, the performance of alchemy in this period and this aspect is better than the chemistry of the first industrial revolution on the earth, except that there are some bright colors, involving magic and rare transcendent plants, which belong to the rich.
However, without chemistry, there are no petrochemicals, there are no fibers, and it is difficult to make clothes made of pure cotton and pure sweaters, so the hemp lining was invented, and the craftsmanship of the tailor has a great impact on the final effect of the clothes.
Therefore, it is often only necessary to see whether the clothes a person wears when going out are suitable and upright, and he can have a rough judgment on his economic situation and personal status.
The clothes that Kevin King usually wears are the kind of clothes that have a lot of twists and uneasy details, and the shoes have no shape, even if they are clean, they look shabby.
Fortunately, the ancestors were too broad, and they were not so broad that they had to sacrifice their freedom of marriage for the interests of the family, and marry a woman with a good appearance and good temperament.
The influence of family style and systematic reading have cultivated a good temperament, coupled with the vitality of young people, so they deserve the title of 'little white face'.
Today, the line is all in place.
In addition to the military uniform suit, there is also a set of daily three-piece suits, fine velvet fabric, and the workmanship is relatively exquisite, just because he doesn't have a belly or anything, a standard clothes rack, so even if it is not as good as the tailor-made, it is still a good fit.
dressed up, combed his hair seriously, stood in front of the mirror and posed a few poses, with his relatively harsh eyes, he felt that the person in the mirror looked really good.
"I didn't think this character was handsome before, but now I really have the capital to eat with my face, no wonder the original owner has an affair with a noblewoman......"
After thinking for a moment, he began to adjust his appearance, make several normal expressions in the mirror, and correct the subtle movements of his limbs when walking, sitting and lying down......
In his opinion, this is one of the more important details in role-playing.
After all, some of his own habits will unconsciously substitute into the long-term play.
Body habits, usual demeanor, and micro-expressions when encountering problems, etc. And if you want to play it in place, correct and adjust it from time to time, so that you won't end up acting in your true colors.
By the time he was in the backyard of the opera house, Luther King had already received two reports, one from his cronies and one with an urgent report that had led passers-by through the normal process of the organization.
Luther leaned lazily on the high-backed chair, crossed his fingers with his hands in front of his abdomen, squinted his eyes, and muttered for more than a quarter of an hour before taking a deep breath, sitting up, taking the bell on the table and shaking it three times......