"Mr. Faust, please enjoy some black tea." The wooden butler formed from tree roots elegantly poured the tea.
Faust seemed quite satisfied with the elegance and etiquette, even though this was just a Tree-man casually molded by Xue Dili.
Taking advantage of this moment, Xue Dili silently took out his phone and searched something.
"How is a comprador power formed?"
Then the artificial idiot briefly pondered, and a vast array of information popped up.
Internally, it manifests as collusion with feudal forces, externally selling sovereignty and interests, implementing monopolistic and parasitic bureaucratic comprador...
Xue Dili: ...
How come the more he listened, the more familiar it sounded, swapping the nouns in Faust's story with warlords, replacing foreign gods with capital and Fusang, substituting Divine Tree with intelligence agency...
It seems like an old acquaintance has come...
