Chapter 300: Learn from Zaun or learn from Piltover?

While Lux and Sona were mobilizing the mages, her fellow Demacia countryman in Zaun, Prince Jarvan, was also busy.

These days, Lux has been speaking well of the Leader in his ears, and he has been studying Janna's thoughts in the booklet, hoping to find some way to make Demacia better.

But what you learn from books is always superficial.

Or in other words...even in these few days, Jarvan still couldn't quite understand what the booklet was talking about.

After all, the book only talks about theory, and the examples given are all from the Twin Cities and Noxus.

The book doesn't explain how to make Demacia great again.

So Prince Jarvan decided to travel around Zaun.

He really wanted to see with his own eyes. As the base camp of the Wind Leader, the first city-state in Runeland to put Janna's thoughts into practice -

What is life like for the people of Zaan?

How did they do it?

So, after a simple visit and investigation, it didn’t take long...

"Boss, give me some magic frog sashimi!"

Not long after, Prince Jarvan was at Zaun's food street, eating so much that his face became round.

At this moment, he was sitting in a beautifully decorated snack bar, tasting Zaun's specialty, the legendary "President's Frog", with Garen.

This delicacy, which even President Levi praised highly of, the raw pickled devil's claw frog... no, it's the devil's claw frog sashimi, has now become a name card of Zaun's food industry.

Even Prince Jarvan, who had just arrived in Zaun, came specially to taste it.

He followed the local customs and changed his rune steel armor into a Piltover-style casual shirt. On his left hand was a bag of freshly baked white bread, and in his right hand was a can of Zaun's specialty Coke. He looked like a foreign tourist who had come here to travel.

"Galen, would you like to have one too?" he turned around and asked cheerfully.

"Uh..." Garen, wearing a black suit and with a burly build, sat next to him like a bodyguard.

Seeing that Jarvan, a prince of a country, only cared about eating after coming to Zuan, he couldn't help but advise: "Jarvan, aren't we here to investigate?"

"Yeah." Jarvan paused, his expression quietly becoming solemn.

He came to investigate the achievements of the Wind Leader in Zaun, and he could already get a glimpse of the results of the investigation.

"Garen, do you know how much a loaf of bread like this costs in the Zaun market?"

As he spoke, Jarvan took out a loaf of white bread he had just bought on the roadside from his bag. This bread, made of sugar, eggs, milk and refined flour, was an upper-class dessert that only middle-class families in Demacia could enjoy on a daily basis.

But what about in Zaun?

"One copper ring, just one copper ring!"

"Even the lowest-ranking worker in Zaun can eat such fine white bread at will."

Prince Jarvan clutched the bread and murmured.

"Garen, we have all served in the military and on the front lines. You should have seen what life is like for Demacians outside of the capital... Can we compare with Zaun?"

"..."Galen was silent.

He certainly knew what life was like for the Demacians.

Demacia is a rich feudal agricultural country. But no matter how rich it is, it is just a feudal agricultural country.

"Look at how abundant the food and goods are in Zaun's stores. Meat, fruits, and vegetables are piled high on the shelves, and there is a dazzling array of all kinds of novel furniture and electrical appliances... And these rich commodities that dazzle us nobles are affordable even for the lowest-level workers in Zaun."

"But what about Demacia?" Prince Jarvan paused.

His innocent look seemed to have a deeper look at this moment:

"As I walked along, I kept thinking about Edessa, Velos, and Lissos, cities that are not even that far from the bustling Demacia capital..."

"I still remember those shabby shops, the run-down markets, and the very few goods available. The food stores only had potatoes, sweet potatoes, turnips, moldy sausages, black carrots, and smelly pork... But even these things, the poor citizens could not enjoy as they pleased."

Garen said a lot in one breath.

He had never left Demacia before, and on the first day after arriving in Zaun, he was shocked by the high level of material prosperity of this giant industrial city.

Levi has always opposed the "one city construction theory" and "Zuan priority theory", but like a schizophrenic, he has always used practical actions to support the "temporary leading theory" for this reason.

His goal is to rapidly improve the material life of the people of Zaun and build this place into a beacon of the civilized world.

Because most ordinary people don't have the energy to learn theories or talk about politics, but everyone can distinguish between rich and poor, rich and poor, and instinctively yearn for a better life.

So when outsiders come to Zaun, due to the huge gap in material life, they will feel awe and yearning for this prosperous city, its culture and system (no matter what system it is), and even become extreme converts.

Of course, Prince Jarvan would not convert to Zaun just by eating a copper ring of bread.

But he clearly saw the gap in material life between the two countries, and realized that the situation in Demacia had to change.

So he couldn't help but sigh to his best friend:

"Garen, your sister is right, Demacia needs Janna!"

"After the war is over, I will go back and tell my father to make the Wind Leader Association the state religion and the Wind of Change the patron goddess of the Kingdom of Demacia."

"Uh..." A drop of cold sweat the size of a bean dripped from Garen's forehead, and he almost couldn't maintain his righteous and awe-inspiring face.

"Jiawen, you... don't you think about it more?" he reminded hesitantly.

"My sister, she..." She is simply fooling you, brother!

If you really listened to her and let the rumors get out, your family's rule over Demacia would be completely ruined!

"Ahem..." Of course it's not easy to say these words directly.

Galen had no choice but to remind him implicitly: "My sister may not be right."

"Demacia has its own national conditions. The leader can be successful in Zaun, but it may not be able to achieve such good results in Demacia."

Garen is already working hard to provide support.

But Prince Jarvan simply answered: "No matter how bad the effect is, can it be worse than Demacia right now?"

Galen: “…”

"But... Jarvan, these good things you mentioned were also available in Piltover before!"

"There's no need for us to be so hasty and start learning from the leader right away..."

In desperation, Galen had to give this advice.

If you must give away lives, give away less.

If it really doesn't work, let's learn from Piltover and do some seed benzene. Don't ruin your family business right away.

"Uh..." This advice really worked.

Prince Jarvan was stunned for a moment before realizing that the material prosperity he had just longed for was also present in Piltover in the past.

If learning from Piltover can make the Demacians rich, then it doesn't necessarily mean they have to learn from the Leader.

after all……

It sounds scary when the leader threatens to destroy the nobles.

Although Jarvan disliked those selfish nobles, what he wanted to do now, or what he dared to think of, was to suppress and restrict the nobles, rather than to eliminate them right away.

In any case, he grew up in an aristocratic circle. His brothers and friends were all aristocrats.

Even those political opponents who were privately named by his father and secretly participated in the attempt to undermine the royal power were related to their Light Shield family by blood.

We are all relatives and friends. It would be too ruthless to start shouting for war and killing right away.

In short, Jarvan recognized the ideals of the Leader, but felt that the Leader was too radical and ruthless.

That's why he hesitates now.

Demacia will definitely change, but...

"Should Demacia learn from the Leader, or from the old Piltover?"

Prince Jarvan tapped the table with his fingers and murmured.

Galen stood aside, remaining silent with a subtle expression.

In fact, he knows this problem.

Because the answer is written in the book "A Brief Account of Janna's Thoughts", but he can understand it, but his good brother Jarvan doesn't.

However, Galen was not going to give the correct answer.

Because he didn't know whether telling Jarvan the answer would help him or harm him.

"idiot!"