After transferring a considerable portion of its interests and reaching cooperation with the Alchemist Association of the Northwest Region, the Northwest Region ushered in a period of peaceful development.
The benefits brought by the additional productivity can bridge social conflicts. The people of the Alchemist Association received a large amount of money and wealth, which was exchanged for many resources needed for practice. More importantly, the money and wealth they received eventually
In fact, it was recycled.
Because Motie also produced a large number of products, and most of these profits were used to purchase their products. In the end, money was used as a tool in the circulation process of goods, and finally everything returned to Motie's hands.
, for Mo Tie, it is actually equivalent to giving nothing.
This is a simple truth. For the political power, money is just an amount on paper. Only the industries that are truly related to the international people's livelihood represent the real wealth of a political power. And it is precisely this part of power that practitioners
They don't pay much attention to it, they only value the cultivation resources that can fall into their hands.
And during this period of peace, Xiaoxiao also grew up rapidly. The meridians in her body were being constructed at a high speed, and with the continuously strengthening perception of fighting spirit, the accuracy of her construction became higher and higher.
The meridians of high-level professionals at the level of hundreds of microns are constructed without any deviation. After projecting the structure of the meridians in her body through the developing device, one can see the extremely regular and neat structure.
As her mentor, Yu Huocai was very impressed by her talent: "Although you are the pioneer of meridian positioning, you have more advantages than I did when constructing your own meridians, but even if I had this
The technology and meridians constructed may not be comparable to yours.
I have to admit that women do have an advantage over men in terms of patience. You can spend several months devoting all your attention to a very boring thing and always maintain enough enthusiasm."
After Xiaoxiao completed the construction of the meridians of high-level professionals, he began to build a meridian calculation system one after another, moving towards the direction of leader-level professionals.
And she herself didn't realize that as a high-level professional of the Sky Knight profession, she could actually be considered a strong person on this continent.
After all, there is a difference between training and actual combat. One of the biggest differences is that live ammunition will not be thrown during flight training. Although Xiaoxiao knows that he can hit the target from an extremely far distance, he does not know what the weapons he throws are.
Such power can cause damage to enemies at any level, so she always feels that her strength is still too weak, and she constantly pursues becoming stronger.
The way to pursue this is to build a meridian calculation system in the body. By virtue of the fact that the slender meridians have semiconductor-like properties, complex and precise structures can be constructed in a three-dimensional environment.
A major advantage of the meridian calculation chip compared to ordinary traditional chips is that it is a three-dimensional structure, which uses space much more efficiently. Although at a microscopic level, these micro-meridians cannot be more precise than the chip, but
In a three-dimensional environment, there are more of them, and the computing power they can bring is at least no lower than the top civilian computing equipment of this era.
Under the influence of the huge computing power, Xiaoxiao initially felt that everything around him was slowing down, and at the same time he also experienced the feeling of countless temptations surrounding him.
The slowing down of subjective time has caused him to become sensitive to everything around him. Even if it is just an ordinary meal, the stimulation of the taste buds by the food on the tip of the tongue can be accurately captured by the brain, allowing him to enjoy a taste experience that is far beyond the reach of ordinary people.
If you don't have enough restraint, even eating may become addictive, not to mention that the human body itself has some switches that activate the brain in indescribable ways.
When the speed of thinking and the acuity of perception are greatly improved, it is normal to become addicted to certain things. Fortunately, during these three years, Xiaoxiao finally managed to survive and gradually adapted to this high-speed environment.
After thinking about it, that temptation no longer exists.
Just like children who are tempted by candy and will do many unreasonable things for candy, adults, even though they also love candy, are already accustomed to this desire and can easily restrain it.
Xiaoxiao's current growth is much greater than the growth from a child to an adult. Looking back at her past self, she can clearly feel her past clumsiness and see many loopholes in her past self's thinking.
She can also deeply realize that if she continues to grow in the future, when she looks at herself now, she will also see many childish behaviors. This mentality allows her to be humble and not be discouraged by the powerful power she has gained.
Arrogant.
"You are now one of the few professionals who are closest to the leader level. You can be called a quasi-leader. Apart from you, there are three people who have achieved this step, and all three of them are without exception.
Great Manufacturer, you are the only Sky Knight who is a combat professional. Haha, although you have not really participated in the war and only received military training and teaching, you are now the greatest pride of our military."
When Yu Huocai looked at the woman in front of him, his eyes couldn't help but reveal envy.
Xiaoxiao himself didn't even realize that he had become a big shot unknowingly. The campus is such an isolated place. There is no fame, fortune or intrigue. This kind of campus life is a little less exciting, but it is the most beautiful place.
Can make people concentrate.
"I... am I really as good as you say?" Xiaoxiao didn't know when his status had become so high, and he was even a little scared because of his current reputation.
"Perhaps soon you will realize how important you are. After all, peace cannot last forever. If we could, we wouldn't need to build an army. If a profession wants to be recognized, it must
Use war to verify your function, and then it may be your time to prove yourself."
Yu Huocai's expression was a little solemn, and his face that had always seemed smiling in the past could not help but feel a bit heavy.
"Why is there a war? Isn't the northwest region of the entire Douqi Continent developing very well? It seems that everyone has a brighter future, so why is there still a war?"
Yu Huancai shook his head: "You haven't left campus yet, and you have been in the closed system of the military, so you don't actually realize that you are actually being squeezed during the rapid development of society.
Let me give you the simplest example. You should know it. Motie is most famous for its large-scale production of elixir technology. This technology has always been known for its low cost, but have you ever understood why technology Will it be cheap?”
Xiaoxiao replied almost without thinking: "Because the production process has been standardized, the alchemist only needs to be responsible for a small part of the most critical work, and the rest can be handed over to others."
Yu Huocai nodded: "Look, this is the problem. Haven't you noticed that there is a huge social contradiction here?
Why can the cost be reduced by giving the work to people other than alchemists? That is naturally because the labor costs of people other than alchemists are low. They work hard in the factory, but only the alchemists can be obtained. One percent may even be less. Do you think this is reasonable?
At the beginning, all this seemed reasonable, and ordinary people would choose to accept it, because at that time our lives were actually as simple as food, clothing, housing, and transportation. As long as these basic needs could be met, most people would have no complaints.
The really expensive cultivation resources in this world are insulated from us. We cannot use them, and we don’t care about the expensive prices of those cultivation resources.
But things are different now. Haven’t you noticed that since the establishment of Motie Mining Company, the gap-like barrier between the economic system of practitioners and the economic system of ordinary people is being torn apart rapidly? At least in the northwest region now , the two economic systems have been completely integrated.
This also means that the prices of the resources that ordinary people need to purchase have increased significantly, and the wages they require have also begun to increase, because the cost of living such as food, clothing, housing and transportation is subtly increasing, and in turn, the value of various spiritual resources is increasing on a large scale. The rapid decline in mass production has transformed it from an existence that they could only encounter but not seek to an existence that they could possibly buy even if they gritted their teeth.
Although such changes will bring a certain amount of pressure to ordinary people's lives, Motie is actively promoting it. You can understand the key here if you imagine it.
If the economic isolation between ordinary people and practitioners is not changed, it will happen that practitioners can use a few cultivation resources at will to exchange for the fruits of countless ordinary people's labor in the market, and the high price of such cultivation resources is essentially It is set by them themselves, it is the price they place on the value of their own labor, rather than the true value of spiritual resources in society."
Xiaoxiao was silent for a long time before she gradually understood the key here, and found that this was actually a serious economic problem. She had never thought about why cultivation resources were so expensive before. She just subconsciously thought that these resources should be that high. After all, magical beasts are difficult to hunt, and precious cultivation resources are often guarded by magical beasts. Only practitioners can obtain these resources, so their value is naturally extremely high.
But now think about this question carefully. At that time, spiritual resources were only useful to practitioners. How could they be sold at such a high price in the market and then easily purchase a large number of goods produced by ordinary people at high prices?
Is this reasonable?
It seems reasonable in terms of the world view of a fantasy world, but if you analyze it from an economic perspective, you will find that the expensiveness of these cultivation resources actually lies in the huge voice of the practitioners. They rely on their own force to
They gained control of the world, gained administrative rights, and gained the right to distribute wealth, and this also gave them the right to price goods in disguise.
They believe that precious things have high value, regardless of whether they are meaningful to ordinary people. On the one hand, such pricing is due to their powerful force, which makes even ordinary people yearn for the extraordinary world.
On the other hand, it is also due to their class instinct. The higher the value of cultivation resources, the more reasonable they have to easily drain away the wealth produced by ordinary people.
But now this reasonable situation is gradually becoming unreasonable. First of all, it is no longer only practitioners who can obtain spiritual resources. Professional warriors who drive mechas are even more efficient in this regard.
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Secondly, in terms of the production of important spiritual resources such as elixirs, the status of alchemists is declining rapidly with the expansion of the assembly line. Ordinary people have not received corresponding benefits in the process of increasing their importance in the production process.
With salary increases, contradictions are actually accumulating rapidly.
Putting aside these main contradictions, the thorny contradiction is also quite sharp. Practitioners have always had the habit of one person getting a chicken or a dog to ascend to heaven. In short, after a person becomes a powerful practitioner, his family, friends and even the entire family need to
Follow the light.
In economic terms, the so-called rise of chickens and dogs to heaven is actually a group of people becoming a supported class who do not produce. They do not work or create wealth, but they can enjoy the wealth created by the labor of others.
There are actually many things like this, including the pharmaceutical refining business that Motie Mining Company gave away. At first, the industry was still relatively clear, but the huge benefits contained in it are still exciting, so some things seem relatively easy.
Management positions are constantly being filled by people from the Alchemist Association, and these people who are filled in also have their own relatives and friends, and they are also placed in relatively easy production positions, and these people
In fact, my ability is not enough, and my job is to fish for three days and dry the net for two days. I was assigned to do it just to carry the iron rice bowl and collect wages.
This group of talents is where the wealth produced by ordinary people goes most. No matter how well the practitioners can eat and clothe themselves, the social resources consumed by individuals are still limited. The real big culprits are these worms, and they are limited by human relationships.
And it is absolutely impossible to remove.
Xiaoxiao thought a lot. After returning to his room, he immediately accelerated the construction of the meridians in his body and began to actively program the system in his body. He switched from the original production and construction mode to a war and destruction mode.
Because she gradually recognized that the war might be coming soon. The social contradictions in the past did not become more acute, but were put on the table. The reason for the outbreak of the war was not that the bottom class were oppressed, but that they had been oppressed for a long time.
The oppressed bottom class finally has the power to resist, and it seems that it is time for the rules on Dou Qi Continent to change.
