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Chapter 3750 Settlement

In the battle between Luffy and Usopp, the white Nika and the black Im were originally companions in the same boat, but the crew betrayed them because they were dissatisfied with the captain's decision.

The supersonic battle became more and more intense, and both of them tried their best to defeat each other.

People who are familiar with the Straw Hats cannot understand why Luffy and Usopp are fighting each other. After all, the Luffy they know is a charitable captain who is willing to help the strong and the weak, while the Usopp they know is

Timid, but at critical moments he will definitely stand by Luffy's side, stand on the right side, and will not start a fight with Luffy.

But the fact surprised everyone. Both Usopp and Luffy used their killing moves.

In the high-definition and high-frame rate high-speed camera, the close-ups of the two people's expressions are clearly visible. There is a murderous look in their eyes, and they also used killing moves.

Keya, who was watching the battle, hoped that they would stop fighting, but unfortunately she was thousands of miles away and couldn't help at all.

People thousands of miles away were trying to stop the fight, but the crew members who were close at hand just watched the captain fight, with no intention of helping.

Just watching the captain face a powerful enemy alone.

Joyboy, who came to modern times across eight hundred years, just pondered, feeling that even if the years change, human beings will not change. Everything is the same as before. Although productivity has developed greatly, distribution relations have not changed much.

Of course, the economic center has indeed changed, from the second half of the Grand Line to all directions. But if the sea level rises, the four seas and the islands in the first half will be submerged. If a few islands in the second half can be saved, the economic center will return.

The center of economic development has been changing. In the west, it was the Mediterranean trade circle, to the Eurasian trade line, and then to the ocean trade of the Great Navigation. The trade center moved from Western Rome to Eastern Rome, and the sun never set, to the American Empire.

The trade center in the East was also first located on the west side of the Yellow River, then moved to the east, then returned to the west, and then moved to the southeast.

The economic center on the sea is the trend of shifting from the second half to the first half of the great route, and then to the four seas. The economic center is first based on geographical advantages, and then on technological advantages.

An economic center is naturally rich in goods, rich in life, and can enjoy the blessings of all people. Naturally, people in every place want to be an economic center, but not every place can achieve it.

In short, if the sea level rises, it will be a good thing for some islands, because the economic center will come back. But it will be a bad thing for some islands. After developing for hundreds of years, they will return to before liberation.

This phenomenon does not escape from the endogenous contradiction of distribution. If I have more, you will have less, just like a seesaw, one ebbs and the other ebbs and flows. This was true eight hundred years ago, and it will be true eight hundred years later. It is not because of ecological production.

There are changes due to the improvement of strength.

Joyboy is very distressed. Even if he has the ability to reach the sky, if he wants to build a world where everyone is peaceful, he will end up like Emiya Shirou in "Fate", Senju Hashirama in Naruto, or Avatar.

The first-generation magical power 'Wan' was a waste of power, and he died in the end.

Strength cannot make everyone accept the idea, and of course eloquence is not good either. Only distribution can make everyone accept the same idea. But the problem is that resources are limited and the population is increasing. In the end, distribution means concentration of resources, and the rich will not listen.

Orders, poor people do not obey the rules.

Guan Zhong couldn't solve this problem, Han Feizi didn't solve it, and Joy Boy couldn't solve it. It's just an issue of obligations and rights, just like the Zhou rites at the beginning. Everyone abide by the Zhou rites and enjoy the rights of the nobility.

No problem, it's vast, sparsely populated, and has a lot of undeveloped land.

Even small nobles had enough land and enough income. The Zhou rites stipulated their food, clothing, housing and transportation, what colors to wear, what vessels to use for sacrifices, how many times a year to sacrifice, and what burial objects to have after death.

, all these details have been stipulated. When you have money, these things are naturally no problem and affordable. But the problem is that the population is increasing, the land is becoming more and more fragmented, and the income is getting less and less. What should we do at this time?

?The small nobles can no longer afford the Zhou Li etiquette.

If you can't afford it, then it's against the rules and regulations, you're a barbarian, and you have no rights.

The cost of obligations is becoming more and more expensive, but rights are becoming increasingly difficult to maintain. Even if scholars commit suicide at every turn, they still cannot maintain Zhou rites. In other words, the poor do not abide by the rules. It is not that they are unwilling to abide by the rules, but that they cannot afford to abide by them.

The cost of Zhou Li is over.

And the big nobles made a lot of money from resources such as salt, iron, fishing and hunting, and they danced in the court and were richer than the emperor. Naturally, the inferiors were able to overcome the superiors.

What Joyboy faces is the endogenous contradiction of distribution, that is, the concentration of the means of production, which will eventually lead to a collapse situation in which the rich do not obey orders and the poor do not follow the rules.

This is how the Zhou rites were broken. Because the small nobles had too little land to support the Zhou rites, the Lu State started a first-acre tax. There was no need for the small nobles to perform any more rituals. As long as they paid the tax, they would recognize the privatization of the land. In other words, it had changed.

The scope of obligations of the small nobles changed from Zhou Rites to paying taxes, which also shook the foundation of Zhou Rites.

Of course, if privatization is recognized, it will naturally be possible to buy and sell, and then there will be the stubborn problem of land annexation.

Anyway, when one problem is solved, new problems will arise. Joeyboy deeply realized that his power is useless in the face of distribution relationship. We cannot escape from the game. It is just a strong game of fighting or a game of words.

It's just a weak game of competition.

The relationship between the top and bottom levels of distribution is dynamic. Zhou rites are very suitable at the beginning, but not suitable in the middle and later stages. Because the amount of resources is constantly changing, and the population participating in distribution is also changing. In the eyes of Confucius, the most perfect Zhou rite

Etiquette, as long as everyone fulfills their obligations, the world will be unified. The rich nobles will give money to the small nobles who cannot pay the cost. The small nobles will work hard to produce and then give the money to the big nobles. Isn't this a beautiful cycle?

Unfortunately, it was impossible for the big nobles to pay the cost, because the annual output value of the small nobles could not cover the cost of Zhou Li. Even if the big nobles paid the money, they would not be able to pay the cost.

After all, Zhouli is suitable for large farms. In the later period, all farms are small farms. The more the land is divided, the more fragmented it becomes, and the income is simply not enough.

In this case, the only way to turn the high-cost Zhou rites into a low-cost new system is to consider the first-mu tax as a bold common sense move. Unfortunately, the promotion of this kind of innovation is very slow and will be hindered by many obstacles.

It cannot be promoted in one breath. By the time of Mencius, Mencius still advocated the well-field system and wanted to restore public and private fields.

But the question is, where is the public land? It’s almost all divided.

Shang Yang, who was a contemporary of Mencius, made drastic changes in the Qin State, including Lu's first-acre tax, Chu's system of prefectures and counties, and Wei's military meritorious service. He put all these advanced things in the Qin State and created a farming and warfare system. Qin people

The duty is to cultivate the land and fight, and the right is military merit.

The Qin Dynasty's court had the need to tax the whole country, and only later did the system of weights and measures unify with books, documents, chariots and tracks. It was not that Qin Shihuang slapped his head and said unification, but the system of Qin State at that time had completely abandoned Zhou Li, because taxation gave birth to

met new needs.

Of course, Shang Yang's reform was not perfect, but it did set a precedent for unification. It changed the pattern of obligations and rights, and promoted national taxation. Unlike in the past, where you collected yours, I collected mine, and then based on

Zhou Li then made offerings to the emperor. If the emperor wanted to make money, he could only govern the mountains and seas. He could only make money through the output of mountains, rivers, lakes and seas, and could not collect taxes at all.

By the time of the Han Dynasty, the emperor had only one hand to collect taxes and another to have officialdom and the sea. Once he was rich, he could naturally keep his word, launch foreign wars, and promote agricultural production in barbaric lands.

In order to collect taxes, the need for unified weights and measures with the same books, documents, and carriages has never disappeared.

No matter how powerful Joyboy is, he cannot promote a resource flow system that satisfies everyone. In the past eight hundred years, Yimu has actually done a good job, using the Tianlong people as the boundary, and those who kneel and worship the Tianlong people are his own people, and then continue to

Expand externally and include more islands in the territory.

Issuing Bailey also has a financial advantage, and it has also developed a lot of technology, developed sea floor stone technology, and developed some backward islands.

It’s just that with the development, more and more people are unable to control the means of production and cannot pay the costs of the Tianlong people, so they all go to sea to become pirates and do not abide by the rules. And the rich people also go against the world government, secretly colluding with each other or colluding with the world government.

The local navy colluded, or they secretly funded the pirates for their own small calculations.

The rich Celestial Dragons disobey orders, and the poor ones are reckless and unruly, so the 800-year-old rule established by Im is about to collapse.


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