Chapter 44: The Ruler of the Empire

CHAPTER XLIV

Humane paradise is indeed a paradise, whether it is what Li Changding felt when he read the novel in his previous life or what he saw and heard after he was born into this world, this is a world that many people dream of!

But after careful study, Li Changding suddenly found that this world is actually just like that, and the various "heaven" characteristics he showed were simply because its technology was much more advanced than in his previous life!

Ocean Farms has solved the food problem, except for some special foods, ordinary food has been cheaper to a limit, and free food is everywhere in the empire, because this food is a drop in the bucket for government finances.

The development of aerospace science and technology has solved the problem of resources, and the solar system has become a solar village. The resources on Mercury, Venus, Mars, and Saturn fell into the hands of human beings on Earth, enough for human beings to use for tens of thousands of years.

The development of robot technology has freed human beings from some heavy and hard work and monotonous and boring work, and all kinds of dirty work are thrown to robots!

The breakthrough of controlled nuclear fusion technology has solved the energy problem, and no one will fight to die in the Middle East for that amount of oil!

Of course, because there was an accident when the technology was not perfect, which caused a major disaster, it was because the people were somewhat resistant to the nuclear fusion power station, so the nuclear fusion power station is located in a special area, which is dedicated to some extremely energy-consuming projects, such as military use, such as plane crossing.

Almost all of the civil electricity comes from solar energy, which is converted into electricity through the solar power station built on Venus, and then converted into radio waves, which are processed by beam energy and converged into microwave beam energy, which is transferred to the earth through the transfer of several space stations for human daily life or factory production.

Li Changding visited the solar power station on the side of Venus when he was a child, and it was magnificent and full of science fiction style, like the relics of the gods.

This kind of scientific and technological development has solved hunger and poverty, so the world seems to be a homogeneous society.

But in Li Changding's view, this society is actually still a capitalist society, a capitalist society with extremely developed science and technology, at most due to the great development of the productive forces to improve welfare, all kinds of exploitation still exist, all kinds of inequality are still the same, in this world, capital is still king, it is a golden society, the empire of this world is like the American imperialism of the previous life, and it is also the ultimate evolution of the American imperialism!

What the? The advent of robots eliminated exploitation? No kidding? Do you think exploitation is the hard work of sweatshops? Aren't the clerical workers who work for the capitalists and often stay up all night planning to be exploited? Aren't the IT men who are jokingly called programming apes the targets of exploitation? Aren't the service workers who stand in front of the stage and provide comfortable services the objects of exploitation?

Exploitation is not only physical, but also intellectual, and the most sophisticated means of exploitation is financial! People who don't have a certain amount of knowledge don't even know that they are being exploited!

The development of science and technology can never solve exploitation, and only the progress of the social system can weaken and eliminate exploitation!

Throughout the history of this humane paradise, the birth of capital is also full of blood, and the road to capital growth is also full of all kinds of bloody sacrifices!

The bourgeoisie of this world began to sprout in the Tang Dynasty, and then developed and grew, fighting against the feudal forces, winning and losing each other, until the Chinese Dynasty, that is, the present dynasty, achieved great development, and finally eliminated the feudal forces that had been entangled with it for hundreds of years.

The reason why there were feudal towns and warlords fighting in the 300 years of the Chinese Dynasty was that the emerging capitalist class and the backward feudal forces had to fight a thorough Armageddon!

Its nature is the same as that of the American Civil War, and on the surface it seems to be a war for the emancipation of slaves, which is really noble! In fact, it was a decisive battle between the industrialized bourgeoisie of the North and the feudal lords of the slave-owning manors of the South! Because the factories of the capitalists need workers, while the lords of the manors tie the population to the fields and do farm work inefficiently!

The first of the warlords of the Chinese dynasty to be eliminated was the feudal landlords, because their backward system determined the outcome long before the war began. Just like the American Civil War, the South was never the opponent of the North, and it was only because of various other factors that the South held out for a short time.

After the bourgeoisie and the feudal forces decided the victory, there was an internal struggle between the bourgeoisie. The capitalists were greedy, especially the capitalists of the empire, because they saw the powerful power of the emperor in feudal society, where almost no one could govern. So they have the ultimate goal - to dominate the world!

So the capitalists each supported a warlord to stand in front of the stage as a spokesman for their interests, and started a great melee between the warlords.

The chaos lasted for a few years and then stopped, because they found that no one could help anyone, and they also found that as the war continued, not only did they not make money, but they kept losing money!

First of all, this war is to be fought by the capitalists, and of course the money will be paid by them, and all kinds of munitions, uniforms, rations, military equipment, including the salaries of soldiers, will all need money. If this money can bring them benefits, they will definitely continue, just like the colonial war overseas, but the strength of the various warlords in the country is similar to each other, and the result is that in order to seize a position, the two sides need to throw tons and tons of arms into it, and batches of dead people are to throw a huge amount of money in the eyes of the capitalists!

That kind of scene is like the European battlefield of the world war in Li Changding's previous life. Several countries fought back and forth, and in the end, although Germany was disabled, they were also greatly injured!

Capitalists are not fools, on the contrary, they are very smart, and they will not do it if they buy and sell at a loss anyway. What's more, everyone is originally a member of the same country, so why do you have to live or die? Except that the consortium that sells arms will be very reluctant.

In the face of reality, the emperor has finally awakened!

In addition, with the civil strife of the Chinese Dynasty, the interests of the empire overseas began to be damaged, the colonies began to be unstable, and the countries of Europe were ready to move on the countries of the Middle East and Africa.

As a result, domestic calls for an end to the civil war grew louder.

Domestic consortium capitalists, look at me, I look at you, since no one can help anyone, and if they continue to fight, they will lose money, and their overseas interests will be damaged, and they will all have one ending when they are calculated - and then the civil war will only hurt others and not benefit themselves, and there will be no other outcome for others except that the interests are damaged and the result is cheaper.

As a result, they decided to cease the war, and with the help of other forces, such as the Temple of the Earth, the consortium changed from confrontation to cooperation, ending the warlord division and changing to a constitutional monarchy.

This time, even the arms dealers agreed, because the loss of overseas interests also included them.

Three hundred years after the establishment of the Hua Dynasty, this warlord melee was dominated and controlled by the capitalists from beginning to end, so the Hua Dynasty could continue, and the Li family could still sit on the dragon chair, otherwise which warlord melee in ancient China would not have ended in a change of dynasty? Want a constitutional monarchy? Make your spring and autumn dreams! It's not bad if you don't get exterminated by the Nine Clans!

Of course, the emperor is still surnamed Li, but he is no longer the original emperor, and even his rights have been deprived of everything, and it is the capitalists who control the entire empire, which is a punishment for the royal family and the protection of the capitalists themselves.

Because the emperor is the natural ally of the feudal forces, or the emperor is the biggest leader of the feudal forces! The reason why the warlord melee began was that the previous emperor and the feudal forces were combined, and the capitalists were almost exhausted through political means, so there was an armed riot, and the warlord melee began!

The Chinese Dynasty was a dynasty in which the bourgeoisie moved from naivety to maturity, and capitalism reached its peak of glory after the establishment of a constitutional monarchy.

However, the capitalists of this world are much more moderate than those of the other world. Of course, the reason is not that they are from China and have been influenced by Chinese culture since childhood. A capitalist has always eaten people and does not spit out bones, no matter where he comes from, what race he is, what color he has had, or what kind of education he has received since childhood.

During the Great Depression, the capitalists preferred to throw away milk rather than use it for the relief of those who were dying of starvation.

Naturally, with the progress of society, in the era in which Li Changding lived, the capitalists beautifully hid their fangs under a veil called "charity". Historically, there have been countless laborers, women, and child laborers who died in the factories of the capitalists.

Compared with the sweatshops in Chinese mainland after the reform and opening up, Europe at that time was full of flesh and blood factories!

Miraculously, the capitalists of this world are simply good people, they build bridges and pave roads, they give relief to the victims, and they do good deeds one by one, never less! Although there have been more than one time in history when there have been brutal and inhumane capitalists who constantly exploit and oppress their laborers, except for a few, the others have finally changed for the better!

Of course, this is not because they have discovered their conscience and changed their ways, but because reality forces them to be a kind and good person and a good capitalist.

Because this is a world with souls, what does it look like when people die? It's not that the people of this world don't know anything, the second-order Yin God can open his spiritual eyes and see ghosts!

After death, the soul is no longer speculation and fantasy, but a real world that can be seen and touched!

For the sake of the afterlife, there are only two paths in front of people's eyes, one is to cultivate oneself and reach at least the fifth order, and the other is to seek refuge from those powers who are at least the sixth order.

The sixth order is the earth immortal and the true god!

The earth immortals basically only care about their own leisure, except for a little mundane fate can be said to ignore everything, only the true god opens his arms, accepts good karma, only needs to be pious, almost responds to requests, including the protection after death.

Of course, the protection of the true God is not something that can be obtained casually, you have to believe in Him!

If you believe in Him, you must obey His rules. Except for a few evil gods, there is no true god who encourages believers to do bad things, but instead persuades their own believers to do more good deeds!

In this case, the capitalists changed their ways for the sake of peace after death, and although the exploitation never disappeared, it never caused any more deaths, and at the same time they spent a lot of money to do good deeds and donate to the temple.

Don't doubt the influence of gods and Buddhas on the rich!

In the previous life, in the world where I didn't know whether there were immortals and demons, there were many rich businessmen and high-ranking officials who took refuge one after another, and it was rumored some time ago that a certain richest man spent 1.5 billion to build a temple?

This is still the case in worlds where there are no gods and Buddhas, let alone in this world where there are true gods?

The upper class is so popular that even a few exceptions will struggle because they are out of step with the collective.

Those capitalists who lack cultivation talent are afraid of life after death, and most of them take refuge in the true God, frantically doing charity and earning merit!

Those capitalists who are gifted with extraordinary talents and who have cultivated to the realm of rapid progress are even more rare in doing evil, because the more profound their cultivation and the clearer their hearts are, the more they will appreciate the impact of karma on themselves, and they will not easily kill when they are idle.

Even if there are some people in the demon path who have no taboos, there will be righteous people who will come out to kill demons! What's more, the empire is in the hands of "good" capitalists, who will not let the challenger appear.

Although the capitalists are forced to become "good", the essence of the bourgeoisie will not change, this is a society in which capital is king, a society of golden power, and the power of money is far above power.

Not long after Li Changding finished calling his grandfather, it was only half an hour before the government responded, and the imperial government sent a negotiation team to negotiate that afternoon.

After some negotiations, the two sides agreed that Li Changding would donate various test materials of jade talisman technology to assist in teaching to the government free of charge, and asked the imperial government not to disclose the relevant information to other third parties, and Li Changding reserved the right to make and use jade talismans.

To this, the Reich Government agreed, but this was conditional. The imperial government will try it in ten schools first, and after a year, it will decide whether to promote it depending on the situation, if it is indeed as Li Changding said, the effect is good, and there are no side effects on ordinary people, then the imperial government will naturally vigorously promote it, if the result is the opposite, the imperial government will not only not promote it, but also prohibit Li Changding from using it among the people of the empire!

The outcome of the negotiations did not seem very friendly to Mr. Li.

After all, the times are advancing, and although capital is still king in this world, the wisdom of the people is gradually opening up, and democracy and the legal system are deeply rooted in the hearts of the people. Although with the power of the Li family, he really has a tough attitude and looks like he will do whatever it takes, of course, he can force the other party to back down, and if he can't do it, he will change the minister of education to come to power, and there has never been a shortage of people in this world who have an eye for money.

But in this way, it is not interesting, after all, Li Changding's purpose is to educate merit, and the effect of bullying the weak may not be good. And doing so is a bit too frustrating, it may touch the bottom line of the imperial government, and the Li family will have to pay a huge price.

At the end of the negotiation, the two sides shook hands politely, and then the person in charge of the other party's negotiation said with a smile: "I don't know what the name of such a rare jade talisman is?" It can't just be called a jade talisman, right? ”

Li Changding was stunned for a moment, thought about it, and said with a smile: "It's better to call it the Concentration God Teachings." "A talisman that helps students concentrate on their education.

-------------------------------------------------------------------------- some conjectures about the Imperial Society of the Main World, there must be many problems in it, after all, I don't even know anything about social science, so everyone can laugh at it. o(∩_∩)o~

In addition, thank you for the reward from the Taoist priest at home.