Chapter 2589: Shangri-La (End)

It's not that no one really lives like this. At least the parts of the town where tourists can see have been retrofitted, showing Tibetan-Southern style as much as possible, especially reflecting Sherpa culture.

Generally, people don't hang so many decorations on their doors at home. At most, they take them out to see during festivals, just like pasting couplets during the Spring Festival. But since tourists like to see this, the Bureau of Culture and Tourism requires decorations to be perfect.

Activities like hand-beating highland barley are also what tourists like, and they have been listed as experience projects. Then there is Sherpa song and dance culture, which is generally danced during the slack season, but because there is proof of tourism income, it is basically the slack season all year round, so they are all dancing.

Strange played quite happily and felt that the town's situation was good, but he didn't agree with tourists entering Shambhala to visit. Besides the fact that these three villages were too small to receive them, Shambhala's altitude being too high was also a problem.

Shambhala is basically located on the mountainside of Mount Everest, close to an altitude of 6,000 meters. The oxygen content is less than half of ordinary land. Tourists will definitely come one by one, and there is no room for developing tourism at all.

And magic is not a very suitable thing to be publicized. Strange knows that the attitude of the country he is under toward magic is to tell the public the existence of magic realistically, but not to encourage or suppress it. For those with magical abilities, they mainly adopt a recruitment policy, and they also have enough positions to provide.

But the magic Kamar-Taj knows and the small tricks among the people are completely different things. Just the fact that they can regulate the weather, be immune to natural disasters, and keep crops in the best growth state forever is something that would definitely cause a shock in the imperial court in any dynasty.

Hearing about Shambhala in legends and confirming that such a place really exists in the world are completely different things. If the real existence of Shambhala is spread out, what kind of impact it will have on the country's society, Kamar-Taj can't afford this pot.

Fortunately, they finally reached a consensus on this issue. Shambhala will only carry out the minimum necessary transformation to meet the needs of modern daily life, and at the same time, a road will be connected up for the most basic material transportation.

In addition, the county magistrate proposed to establish a flying shuttle station in Kamar-Taj to let students take flying shuttles to and from school, so as not to occupy the police and medical resources of the townspeople because an average of three out of ten students have transmission spell failures.

Mentioning this, Strange also had an old red face. The Sling Ring is not easy to use at all, but it was he who decided to list this as a basic course, leading to various transmission accidents not only in the town but also within Kamar-Taj.

Strange himself doesn't like to use it much. He is a modern person, just sit on the flying shuttle. Unlike casting magic, which requires concentration and consumes magic power, the longer the distance, the less accurate the landing point.

Strange agreed to this request and also proposed that he wanted to connect Kamar-Taj to the internet.

Unexpectedly, the request that made the other party most embarrassed was this one. Strange didn't see the technical difficulty in it, so he asked, and the result was that the other party said that if you want to connect to the internet, you can only connect to the intranet, but you can't connect to the international internet.

After some bargaining, the other party finally stated their purpose. They heard that Kamar-Taj doesn't have an official language for teaching. If Kamar-Taj agrees to use Chinese as one of the official teaching languages, then they can connect two lines for Kamar-Taj.

Strange doesn't have a particularly clear concept about this. He probably knows that the other party wants to export culture, but in his view, language is not the core of magic, and there are people from all countries in Kamar-Taj, so it doesn't matter which language is used for teaching.

And finally, the other party put forward the most important requirement: Strange must help these three villages make money.

Not to mention catching up with the town at the foot of the mountain, at least they can't be so poor. Strange very much wanted to argue that they are actually not poor, but when it comes to GDP, Strange also knows that the report is definitely blank.

Then he understood that this is probably because the county magistrate and town mayor don't want to be pulled down by the average level, so they made this request.

Strange agreed quite readily, but it was a bit troublesome to execute. Fortunately, just after returning to Kamar-Taj, he heard that Loki had come, and the two of them studied for a long time, which could be considered a simple charter.

They felt that it was unrealistic for these three villages to change industries now, so it was better to give full play to their original advantages.

What are their advantages? Of course, it's fame.

Shambhala's legend 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's normal for things produced here to be sold more expensively, right?

Although tourists can't be allowed to come in to visit, it's okay to take an oxygen tank and look from a distance. As long as they know what it is but don't know why, they can achieve the purpose of not being overly exposed and making a name for themselves.

What to produce is also very critical. It is unrealistic for villages at an altitude of six or seven thousand meters to take out snacks and pendants. It is clear at a glance that they are wholesale, so they must find something that can only appear here, which is herbal medicine.

Cordyceps sinensis goes without saying, enjoying a high reputation internationally due to its special properties. Tianshan snow lotus is more famous in the East, and snow ganoderma is the same.

In fact, Shambhala doesn't produce these things at all. The herbal medicines they produce have nothing to do with the spiritual medicine in the eyes of ordinary people, mostly because of the magical properties in the herbal medicines.

But Strange didn't dare to let ordinary people eat magical herbal medicine, so he had to really research some spiritual medicines that fit the public's stereotypes.

The problem is that whether it is Strange or Loki, they are ignorant of this. They are not Easterners at all and don't know what kind of gimmick is most attractive.

Later, New York was short of doctors, and Strange also returned to support urgently, and Schiller also became a doctor in the psychology department, so this matter was temporarily put down.

After a period of time, the situation of medical resources being in short supply was basically alleviated. Schiller's graduate students and the students brought out by the psychologists attracted by Nick with 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, "And then help you think about what kind of industry to engage in to lead the Kamar-Taj village out of poverty and become rich?"

"Something like that." Strange maintained his coldness as a surgeon, but still sighed and said, "To tell you the truth, I'm good at fraud, and Loki is the same, but if I really have to come up with some real industry..."

Schiller saw an emotion called "overwhelmed" on Strange's face, so he guessed that some of his experiments should not be going well. He asked, "Magic herbal medicine didn't grow well?"

"The effective ones have no fame, and the famous ones are ineffective," Strange said concisely. "Cordyceps sinensis is no different from wild ones, Tianshan snow lotus doesn't have any medicinal value, and snow ganoderma is just ordinary woody tissue. I don't know who spread the legend that they are spiritual medicines."

"Do you have to stick to these few?"

"These few sell best, I've investigated," Strange said. "Tourists in the town below ask everyone they see if there is Cordyceps sinensis. Oh, by the way, there is also saffron. It is a rare plant that is not affected by magic. We tested it for a long time and couldn't strengthen its medicinal effect."

"Can't you just not strengthen it? These things are very scarce originally, as long as they can be grown."

"The problem is that they can't be grown," Strange said. "According to the analysis of the Great Mages, only wild medicinal materials have certain unique components. The ones we made in the laboratory don't have them, which means that not only is the medicinal effect not strengthened, but it is useless at all."

"If it's just for money, sell it if you want. But Shambhala is an isolated island and can't set up a company itself. If you want to sell it, you have to borrow other people's hands. If it is found out, what will be smashed is not just Shambhala's signboard."

Schiller nodded to show understanding. In his view, the meaning of the town mayor and county magistrate is actually that since you can use magic, don't be stingy. Take out some results as quickly as possible, and everything will be easy to talk about in the future.

Considering that this country will build a "Sky Road" over their heads sooner or later, Strange feels that he should cooperate. Not to mention anything else, being able to improve the internet speed is also good.

Since this is the case, it definitely can't sell fake goods. Not to mention that the medicinal effect is dozens of times the original, at least it must be stronger than the original, and the output must be higher than the original, so that it has competitiveness.

Schiller feels that this is also a troublesome matter. The China in the Marvel Universe is very powerful. Just look at the Mandarin who possesses the Ten Rings and can be chased like a stray dog, and the famous Sorcerer Supreme and Iron Fist who come from China.

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 particularly strong and can't be written can only be "bb China."

Schiller fully understands that Kamar-Taj is unwilling to have a head-on conflict with the big guy next to it. After all, it is occupying people's land and rubbing people's internet. It is also appropriate to do things.

Or rather, the Ancient One didn't do things because people were originally their own people, and one family didn't talk about two families. But Strange is an American after all. He started large-scale construction on the Himalayas not long after he came, so people naturally want to come over to explore the reality.

Schiller laughed gloatingly and said, "I didn't expect our smooth-sailing Mr. Hand of God to have a time when he didn't review for an exam and scratched his ears and cheeks in the exam room. Forget it, this is an American."

"Can you 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 mixed with the Soviet Union?"

As soon as this was said, Strange wanted to slap himself. Isn't it still a white person mixed with the Soviet Union and the United States? Wait, does Schiller have American ancestry?

Strange revealed an inquisitive expression. Schiller stood up and said, "It doesn't matter which country I'm mixed with. The key is that for business, you have to find a professional."

"Aren't you a professional?"

"I'm a psychologist, not a businessman. You have to go to Tony Stark for this." ===== CHAPTER 2590 =====