In the troll's current perception, the world is undoubtedly a huge sphere;

The southern half of this sphere is still unknown for the time being due to the obscuration of the southern sea, but the side of the northern hemisphere itself has a relatively clear concept after so many years of exploration.

This land is roughly circular in shape, and its northernmost point extends beyond the extreme north towards the other side of the sphere, and together with a large area of land on this side, it forms the Arctic Ice Sheet, which is eternal day or night for a long part of the year.

On the other side of the ice sheet, adjacent to the ocean, which seems to be in a frozen period forever;

On the other hand, the Black Forest, on the other hand, forms a transition zone formed by different climates, such as ice fields, permafrost forests, permafrost deserts, permafrost forests, grasslands, wastelands, grasslands, arable lands, deserts, arable lands, and many other climates.

In the middle of these transition zones, there are also some extremely abrupt climates and environments;

For example, in the endless desert, there may be a large forest inexplicably;

For example, in the ice-green boreal permafrost forest, there may be a treasure land with a warm and comfortable climate....

And it is the entire "Continent Beyond the Mountains", including these "singularities", that together form what the trolls call the "Northland".

So obviously, "Northland" is a rather inaccurate term, and it is just a definition of a model lake based on the trolls' early notions of location....

If the "Northland" goes further south, you will reach what the trolls call the "Northern Mountains Zone" and the lonely boat sandwiched between the mountains - the Northern Plateau.

The mountains, with their complex topography and the magical beasts that fill them within, make themselves an area that is almost impossible to climb;

The tribes of the Northland will not be willing to look back to the south until they fill all the suitable areas in the north with their own population.

Even the hornhoe species had to go south to survive because they were forced to survive, and even if they were lucky enough to find the weak belt of the mountains north of the northern plateau, they still managed to come here at a huge cost.

If you start from the mountains and go further south, you will finally be in the vast black forest that belongs to the trolls, elves, and western wind wolves....

All in all, the Black Forest is in such an environment with mountains on three sides and sea on the other, and with its climate and environment that are very different from those in the north, it has given birth to biological populations and even civilizations that are completely different from those of the mainland.

Since the understanding of the "Northland" has been further advanced in the early stages of exploration, the Republic has understood that the exploration of this side can no longer be carried out by the "Northern Exploration Division" independently.

The excessively large area and overly complex ethnic distribution will make the Northern Exploration Division a bloated monster, unable to complete the exploration work reasonably at all.

Therefore, in the subsequent work, the Department of External Exploration subdivided the concept of "Northland" again to form four districts of "East, West, North and Central".

Among them, except for the "Central District", which is in charge of the Southern Exploration Division, the rest of the part is handed over to the other three divisions according to their titles.

21 years have passed since the Ministry of External Exploration became independent of the Far Wanderer Force (33 years in the rune calendar);

However, the exploration work has been extremely difficult, and even if the "500-kilometer medium- and long-distance audio communication stations" are used as the core, and an arc-shaped echelon chain of audio transmission extending to different directions has been established, it cannot fill the obstacles caused by the distance.

As a result, the intelligence officers' information return work is very difficult, and they have to deal with all kinds of dangers from civilized races, and always ensure their own concealment....

In order to carry out their work smoothly, the professional correspondents responsible for the transfer of intelligence at the liaison station had to establish the station in a no-man's land where there were few traces of life;

And such an area is either extremely cold, or the air is thin, or there are monsters everywhere..... Almost none of them are fit to survive.

And for the sake of work efficiency, not to

Interrupted by frequent rotations, they also have to stay alone in the site in "years", carrying out boring "voice reception" and "voice delivery" work day after day.

Each of these "backbone sites" can cover an area of 785,000 square kilometers;

The entire Northland, named the "Northern Continent", has a land area of about 470 million square kilometers, and if you want to achieve full coverage, you need to scatter more than 600 base stations.

Of course, because there is an area like the Arctic Ice Sheet, which does not need to lay base stations in the short and medium term, coupled with a reasonable geometric location distribution, the Department of External Exploration "only" used about 120 more than 120 "medium and long-range base stations" to complete the approximate coverage of the civilized area;

Such a scale, coupled with the intelligence agents who are active in the front line, makes the entire civilization of the northern tribes exposed to the eyes of the republic almost all the time.

However, with such a long distance, so many base stations to build, and hundreds of liaison officers and intelligence officers to be put into place, and a minimum rotation period and supply replenishment, you can imagine what a huge project it is.....

Therefore, even the Ministry of Foreign Exploration, with the close cooperation of the other brother departments of the ruling government and the Central School of the Republic, took nearly 13 years to complete it.

The difficulty in setting up a semi-permanent contact point is not only the calculation of a reasonable location;

It may be more about overcoming the dangers encountered along the long journey.

Troll informants need to cover their tracks, obtain food in various unfamiliar environments, and after discovering the appropriate location of the contact point, they need to plant the magic plants they carry that can grow into a bunker.

After that, they had to travel thousands of miles back to the range of voice transmission, and transmit the coordinate information and environmental information of the "bunker" they planted back to the rear.

This is not the end of the story, as long as the "three-year duty period" is not over, they will have to set off again to find more suitable locations to build base stations.

On the headquarters side, after noting down the location of the "bunkers" that have been buried, they will send on-site liaison officers to station, even if those bunkers have not grown enough to shelter from the wind and rain.

Some of these liaison officers are technicians of the former Ministry of Communications, some are retired non-commissioned officers of the Central Standing Army, and students who have graduated from the First Central School.

In addition, from the more and more "prime-age interest classes" that have been added today, there will also be some older trolls who have learned the corresponding skills in each issue.

Of course, most of these trolls who have become intelligence agents and liaison officers are not for any "righteousness", but simply because they can't bear comfort and ordinary hearts;

In fact, if it weren't for their existence, it would have been impossible to accomplish this task with the original employees of the Department of External Exploration....

These soldiers may usher in the glorious award after success, or they may burn themselves with strong acid because of exposure and failure, and the intelligence network they have jointly forged can be said to be full of glory and blood.

And it is such a system that has supported almost all of the trolls' external cognitive ability from the beginning of the creation process, and has the geographical common sense mentioned earlier......

But today, Drow has to use a complicated mood to convey a "dismissal message" born because of a technological breakthrough......

After losing the restriction from the "flesh", the ability to receive infrasound signals from the listening tree at this time has reached a terrifying radius of 2,000 kilometers;

Since then, the entire northern continent only needs to maintain less than 47 transit stations to be able to conduct all-round monitoring in the plane without dead ends;

And this is the result of counting those connected deserts and ice fields.....

Zhuo Erling's face, which has been transformed into an elf, is already beautiful to the extreme, and it is full of tangles at this time;

She knew that what she was about to send out was actually good news, and it wasn't just that

Making the work of the department more efficient will also make the front line much less liaisons and intelligence officers who can take risks at all times.

But now it is about to be abolished, but the results of 21 years of joint efforts with her colleagues, the sacrifice and glory suffered during this period, suddenly become very ridiculous in the face of this advanced technology...

"Well, it's a good thing anyway.... Send it out, and let the front-line intelligence officers and liaison officers come back in batches to get new equipment..."

And when this signal has passed the speed of sound over one contact station after another, and is being sent in all directions, a Northland intelligence agent is either on the front line or at the contact station, and is working hard to carry out his mission.

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The "pain and happiness" of the Department of External Exploration at this time is actually only a part of the impact of technological breakthroughs...

At this time, there are many more government departments, and even civil trolls, who have to change their own ways of doing things in this rapid and fierce technological change.

With the successive and even somewhat blind popularization of totem technology and the resulting assembly line in recent years, a large number of factories no longer need so much labor to maintain their operations.

Previously, whether they were self-employed or hired by the public, many trolls engaged in non-agricultural undertakings suddenly became idle....

In addition to the problem of labor surplus, with the substantial improvement of production efficiency, unsalable products and other problems are also derived;

After a period of gestation, they slammed into the fragile internal market, which has less than 70,000 mouths.

Soon, after a period of seemingly thriving production capacity adjustment, the economic environment of the Republic ushered in a cold winter.....

What followed was a letter of impeachment against the ruling government, and almost in a short time, they filled the tables of the Council of Rune.

The relevant departments must apologize, but after all, the problem encountered this time is really "the first encounter", so it has not reached the point where all resignations are required;

What's more, the so-called "market economy" engaged in by trolls is, to put it bluntly, a kind of enclosure and self-sprouting.....

The republic is not surrounded by strong enemies from the outside, and it is unlikely that there will be any displaced people from within because of this, so there is actually no strong dissatisfaction on the part of the Conservative Yuan.

Moreover, in the face of a famous person with real knives and guns, it is impossible for the banking industry, which has really suffered a lot of losses, to really confiscate their assets, unless they think that their lives are too long.....

The so-called "economy" and the so-called "market" are actually more like a "game of tricks" for the republic, but everyone plays very seriously.....

Therefore, when the ruling government and the Rune Council faced this "economic winter", what they discussed was not "how to save the market";

On the contrary, the topic of discussion is "Is it time to end this game?"

In view of this, those who agree believe that at this stage, only a few "factories owned by the whole people" will be retained to meet all the needs of domestic welfare and foreign economic and trade exchanges, and the rest of the people should devote themselves to learning and practicing....

They feel that the productivity has exceeded the actual needs by too much, so many goods produced can only be piled up in the warehouse to eat ashes, and with the continuous innovation of technology, these old goods may be eliminated at any time.

For example, as a result of this industrial upgrading, many parts that have been accumulated in the past are completely unsuitable now;

In particular, the "plant materials" in it do not have the function of "re-furnace and re-refining", and unless the witch doctors themselves change their specifications to adapt to the new needs of the present, they are waiting to be either discarded or reused after cutting.

The waste caused by this is far greater than the benefit of the "market".

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The opposing side thinks that it is inappropriate, and its view is not entirely "economic issues"....

They believe that the original intention of giving people "productive capacity" is not just to "revitalize the market";

More of this is to allow the people to maintain a certain degree of independence from the authority of the ruling government, or even the Rune Council, so that they do not become appendages of the powerful;

The opposition believes that the people should be the most indispensable and main source of productive forces in society;

If their production capacity is completely stopped and all are changed to factories that are called "public" but in fact inevitably need to be controlled by minorities to carry out production, then the people may become "beggars" in a sense.

Therefore, they believe that the crisis should be overcome as much as possible and the existing "game" should be maintained.

And not only this time, until it really becomes the operating rules of society and has the ability to self-regulate, the support for this fragile game should continue.

Of course, waste is shameful, and oligarchs cannot appear, so how to support and which industries should be supported needs to be further discussed.

Strictly speaking, none of these witch doctors in the Republic run factories, and none of them have an unspeakable interest in this "market game";

Thus, although they took different positions at this time, Nesta believed that the holders of both views, at least for the moment, supported their own views with their own public intentions.

But it is precisely because of this reason that the "choice" has become not so easy....

So, is it time to choose the market? Or should we opt for a public policy that is thoroughly welfare-oriented?

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