OBS Chapter 2600 Shangri-La (Part )
Chapter 2600 Shangri-La (Part )
Chapter 2600 Shangri-La (Part )
It’s not that no one really lives like this. At least the places in the town that tourists can see have been restored to a retro style, showing the southern Tibetan style as much as possible, especially the Sherpa culture.
Most people would not hang so many decorations on the doors of their own homes. At most, they would put them out for viewing during festivals, just like putting up couplets during the Spring Festival. But tourists just like to see this, so the Culture and Tourism Bureau requires that the decorations be perfect.
Activities such as beating barley by hand are also popular among tourists and are listed as experience projects. Then there is the Sherpa song and dance culture, which is usually performed during the slack season. However, because of the proof of income from the tourism industry, the slack season is basically all year round, so people dance all the time.
Strange had a good time and thought the town was in good condition, but he did not agree to allow tourists to visit Shambhala. Besides the fact that the three villages were too small to accommodate them, the high altitude of Shambhala was also a problem.
Shambhala is basically located halfway up Mount Everest, nearly 6,000 meters above sea level. The oxygen content is less than half of that on ordinary land. Tourists will definitely come and lie there one by one, and there is no room for developing tourism at all.
Moreover, magic is not something that is very suitable to be publicized. Strange knows that the attitude of the country under his feet towards magic is to tell the people the existence of magic in a realistic way, but not to encourage it or suppress it. As for the talented people who know magic, they mainly adopt the policy of recruiting them, and they also have enough jobs to provide.
However, the magic of Kamar-Taj is completely different from the petty magic of the people. The fact that it can control the weather, resist natural disasters, and keep crops in the best growth state at all times would definitely cause a sensation in the court throughout the dynasties.
There is a big difference between hearing about Shambhala in legend and confirming with one's own eyes that such a place really exists in the world. If the real existence of Shambhala were to become known and cause some impact on the society of a country, Kamar-Taj would not be able to take the blame.
Fortunately, they finally reached a consensus on this issue. Shambhala only needs to undergo minimal transformation to meet the needs of modern daily life. At the same time, a road will be built for the most basic transportation of materials.
In addition, the county chief proposed to build a shuttle station in Kashambhala Taj to allow students to take the shuttle to and from school, so as to avoid the situation where three out of ten people on average fail to cast the teleportation spell correctly, thereby occupying the townspeople's police and medical resources.
Speaking of this, Strange's face turned red. The Ring was not that easy to use, but he decided to make it a basic course, which led to various teleportation accidents not only in the town but also inside Kamar-Taj.
Strange himself doesn't like to use it very much. He is a modern man and can just get on the shuttle and sit there. It's not like casting magic which requires concentration and consumes magic power. The longer the distance, the less accurate the landing point.
Strange agreed to the request and also proposed that he wanted to provide Kamar-Taj with an internet connection.
Unexpectedly, this requirement was the most difficult for the other party. Strange did not see the technical difficulty in it, so he asked a question. As a result, the other party said that he could only connect to the intranet, but not the international network.
After some bargaining, the other party finally stated their purpose. They heard that Kamar-Taj did not have an official language of teaching. If Kamar-Taj agreed to use Chinese as one of the official teaching languages, they could connect two lines to Kamar-Taj.
Strange didn't have a particularly clear idea about this. He roughly knew that the other party wanted to export culture, but in his opinion, language was not the core of magic. There were people from all kinds of countries in Kamar-Taj, so it didn't matter which language was used for teaching.
And finally, the other party put forward the most important request, that Strange should help these three villages make money.
Even if they couldn't catch up with the town at the foot of the mountain, at least they couldn't be that poor. Strange really wanted to argue that they were not poor, but when it came to GDP, Strange knew that the report would be blank.
Then he realized that the county governor and the town mayor probably made this request because they didn't want to be dragged down to the average level.
Strange agreed quite readily, but the implementation was a bit troublesome. Fortunately, he heard that Loki had arrived as soon as he returned to Kamar-Taj. The two of them got together to study for a long time and came up with a simple charter.
They feel that it is not realistic to ask these three villages to change their industries now, and it would be better to give full play to their existing advantages.
What is their advantage? Fame, of course.
The legend of Shambhala is very famous, so famous that even Strange, a Westerner, has heard of it. Everyone knows that this is the purest and most sacred place on the snowy plateau, so it is normal that the things produced here are more expensive, right?
Although tourists are not allowed to come in to visit, they can still take a look from afar with oxygen tanks. As long as they know what it is but not why, the purpose of not being overly exposed can be achieved while still making the place famous.
What to produce is also crucial. It is not realistic for a village at an altitude of six or seven thousand meters to produce snacks and pendants as specialties. It is obvious at a glance that they are wholesale, so we must find something that can only appear here, and that is herbs.
Needless to say, Cordyceps sinensis enjoys an international reputation for its special properties. Tianshan Snow Lotus is relatively famous in the East, as is Snowland Ganoderma.
In fact, Shambhala does not produce these things at all. The herbs they produce have nothing to do with the elixirs that ordinary people consider to be magical medicines. Most of them work because of the magical properties of the herbs.
But Strange doesn't dare to give magic herbs to ordinary people, so he has to really research some elixirs that conform to the public's stereotypes.
The problem is that neither Strange nor Loki knows anything about this. They are not Orientals at all, and they don’t know what kind of gimmick would be the most attractive.
Later, there was a shortage of doctors in New York, so Strange rushed back to provide support. Schiller also became a doctor in the psychology department, and this matter was temporarily put aside.
After a period of time, the shortage of medical resources was basically alleviated. Schiller's graduate students and those psychologists attracted by Nick's interstellar psychology graduated one after another. The shortage of psychologists was alleviated, and Strange finally had the opportunity to ask Schiller.
"So you want me to find someone?" Schiller blew on the tea and said, "Then help you think about what kind of industry can lead the village of Kamateki out of poverty and into prosperity?"
"That's about right." Strange maintained his surgeon's indifference, but still sighed and said, "To be honest, I'm good at fraud, and so is Loki, but if I really have to come up with some real business..."
Schiller saw an anxious look on Strange's face, so he guessed that some of his experiments were not going well. He asked, "Didn't the magic herbs grow well?"
"The effective ones are not famous, and the famous ones are ineffective." Strange said concisely: "Cordyceps sinensis is no different from wild ones, Tianshan Snow Lotus has no medicinal value, and Snow Region Ganoderma Lucidum is just an ordinary woody tissue. I don't know who said they are magical medicines."
"Do you have to stick to these types?"
"These are the best-selling ones. I've done some research." Strange said, "Tourists in the town below always ask if they have cordyceps. Oh, yes, there's also saffron, which is a rare plant that is not affected by magic. We've been experimenting for a long time but haven't been able to make it more effective."
"Can't we just strengthen it? These things are already scarce, as long as we can grow them."
"The problem is that we can't grow it." Strange said, "According to the analysis of the great wizards, only wild medicinal herbs have certain unique ingredients. What we have produced in the laboratory does not have them. In other words, not only is the efficacy not enhanced, but it is completely useless."
"If it was just to make money, then we would just sell it. But Shambhala is an isolated island, and we can't run a company on our own. If we want to sell it, we have to borrow someone else's help. If it's discovered, it won't just be the reputation of Shambhala that will be damaged."
Schiller nodded to show his understanding. In his opinion, what the mayor and the county chief meant was that since you know magic, you should not be stingy and produce some results as quickly as possible so that everything can be discussed in the future.
Considering that this country will sooner or later build a skyway that passes over their heads, Strange feels that he should cooperate. If nothing else, it would be good to be able to increase the Internet speed.
In this case, we definitely cannot sell fake products. Even if the efficacy is not dozens of times that of the original one, it must at least be stronger than the original one, and the output must also be higher than the original one, so that it can be competitive.
Schiller thinks this is also a troublesome matter. China in the Marvel Universe is very powerful. The fact that Mandarin, who possesses the Ten Rings, can be chased like a stray dog, and the famous Sorcerer Supreme and Iron Fist both come from China is a clear example.
Rather than saying that the Marvel editorial department is more inclined to the threat theory, it is better to say that they need a mysterious and powerful Eastern background board, and someone who was once very strong cannot be written about, so they can only talk about it.
Schiller fully understood that Kamar-Taj was unwilling to have a head-on conflict with the big guy next to it. After all, it was occupying someone else's land and using their network, so it was only right for it to do something for them.
Or maybe Ancient One didn't do anything because Strange was one of their own and they shouldn't have different opinions. But Strange was an American after all, and he started building large-scale projects in the Himalayas not long after he arrived, so naturally he wanted to come and test the waters.
Schiller smiled gloatingly and said, "I never thought that our smooth-sailing Mr. Hand of God would also not review for exams and scratch his head in the exam room. Forget it, this is the Yankee."
"Can you please stop making sarcastic remarks?" Strange was quite dissatisfied. He stood up and said, "I knew it was useless to come to you. Aren't you also an American?"
"I'm mixed race."
"Aren't you from the Soviet Union?"
After saying this, Strange wanted to slap himself. Aren't the Soviet Union and the United States still white? Wait, does Schiller have American ancestry?
Strange showed an inquiring expression, and Schiller stood up and said, "It doesn't matter which country I'm from. The key is to do business. You have to find professionals."
"Aren't you a professional?"
"I'm a psychiatrist, not a businessman. You have to go to Tony Stark for this."
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