Chapter 220: A Thousand Thoughts
A new day.
On this day, in the wasteland of Ann Ho Province, a small settlement gradually took shape.
The dragon descended, carrying a bunch of trainees and a big sister with blond hair.
Space was torn apart, and hundreds of high-level vampires emerged from the shadows.
Lu En looked at the desolation around him, and then looked back at the small settlement with only a few dozen houses.
He opened his mouth and said softly:
"The old world is far away from us, and the new world is being born."
"Maybe it's now, maybe it's in the future."
"Maybe it's out of reach, maybe it's close at hand."
"But no matter what the status quo is, change is already on the horizon."
"Now, we are here, and we are no longer under the pressure and threat of any forces."
"Guys, let's get started."
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When I first came here, I wanted to farm, but I didn't have a field for me to plant, not everyone is like a protagonist, and they can have a suitable identity as soon as they appear, loyal subordinates, a territory that happens to be wasted, and an identity that can deter others.
At least he can't, when he first came, some of them were seriously injured and could not move, and they were about to verify his identity, and if something was wrong, they killed his maid and daughter, as well as humans who were hostile to monsters.
At that time, he dared to start farming in that dungeon, then the thunderous blow of the human race would definitely destroy him directly, and the human race would never allow the demon king to mess around on his own borders.
And if you choose to hug the maid's thigh and live a wasted life, most of them will be torn off by Kara and eaten raw, because Carla has been observing that he is not like the pure mind he once was, and I have no memory at the beginning, and if I make a mistake, I will be chewed by this evil dragon, she is not a good stubble.
And when I was in Larante, I dared to say the wrong thing in front of Livia, and it was not difficult for the father-seeking Knight Ji to break his neck, and it was level 8 anyway, and it just so happened that I could barely take out my hand with only Fighting 4 at that time.
After that, he went to the sea area, and began to do things without recovering his strength, contacted Daedalus, reached an agreement with the Sea Clan, and even pretended to be forced in front of the Lord of the Four Seas Abyssal Prison, and if there was a problem at that time, he would definitely be gone.
Then he finally regained his strength, but he faced the gods on the spot, and then he had to go to the imperial capital, and the combat power of the imperial capital alone was level 10, and he made trouble, if he was unlucky...... That really has to be planted there, and if the other party really chooses to do it at all costs, then ...... His chances of survival are almost 0, but don't really think that Madame Gray is a fierce inward, she just weighs the pros and cons, and Lu En really can't beat her.
After working hard for so long, finally, there is a field, and you can start farming, even if this field is unbelievably barren, a blank field, and there is not even a little basic building, but ...... Arita is up.
Lu En almost burst into tears, the knowledge in his head was finally useful, and the ambition he set at the beginning could be realized.
But...... I have to think about the future, what is the future policy?
The situation of the low-level monsters and monster hybrids is miserable, the main problem is that they have neither the opportunity to be educated, nor the assets to obtain this, it is a vicious circle, the weaker the situation, the more difficult the situation, the more weak it will be, this is a thing that there is no way to do.
Monster hybrids and low-level monsters have resisted, but such rebellions are small in scale, very scattered, and have no power, so they can be secretly pacified, suppressed and not mentioned, this used to be the main way to stop the large-scale spread of riots, the empire is now a peaceful scene, this peace can be maintained, because the empire's rule is completely achieved by continuous wars, however, many people do not think that these wars are wars, because they often don't look like wars, Rather, it is the brutal destruction and massacre of defenceless civilians.
In addition to the stronger elves and true dragons, the empire chose a policy of gentleness, showing its deep sincerity and making them its allies, but for the lower level monsters, against the barbarians, against the sea tribe, and even against its own subordinates, the empire has waged a cruel war, and the losers are eaten whole and become the nourishment of the winners, that is, the nobles of the empire, because of this, among the peasants, the army, the workers, and the aliens, the feelings of dissatisfaction, indignation, and resentment are growing day by day.
And the wealth of the imperial aristocracy ranks first in the world, and it creates this wealth not only by the labor of the lower strata of the empire, but mainly by the exploitation of all social strata, relying on the super consortium of the Hall of Radiance, they have great power, dominating almost all the gold in this world, hundreds of billions of gold coins! The exchange of gold is enough to fill an entire city, and this domination, it can be said without exaggeration, has made no land on the entire continent not fall under the clutches of this huge capital group, there is no land that is not entangled in thousands of ropes from trade, the Hall of Glow does business with the Sea Clan, with the dragons, with the elves, and even with the barbarians, and this trade has no bottom line, for example, while the human race is fighting with the Sea Clan, while selling ordnance and equipment and all kinds of luxury goods to the Sea Clan.
For this, Lu En has a deep experience, in his memory, before the Demon King City was being attacked by the coalition forces, there were people from the empire who came to the door, hoping to sell their magic guide city defense equipment and weapon armor, so that the Demon King has a greater chance of winning, it doesn't matter if you can't afford it, they can even provide "low-interest loans".
Today, this capital group has grown considerably, and its activities have gone far beyond the boundaries of certain countries, resulting in a conglomerate of large banks with unprecedented wealth, a worldwide usury creditor, with whom even the barbarians who are at war with them are at war with the human race, and at the same time exchanging the resources of the wilderness for food every year.
Because the war with the Empire made it difficult for the barbarians to grow their population and civilization, unable to farm, unable to settle, they could only fight to the death against the Imperial soldiers, while using natural resources to buy food and household items, such as salt and flour, from the Imperial merchants.
With a sword in one hand and money in the other, this is now the means of the Empire.
All the courts, all the warriors, all the standing armies, all the fleets of the empire are protecting the glittering currency in his hands, which is not only currency, but it represents domination over the world, over everyone.
As long as there are coins issued by the Empire, you can ask anyone to do anything.
If any barbarian thing is not at the mercy of the Imperial coins, if some barbarian peoples are not at the mercy of the Imperial Chamber of Commerce, then the Empire will send the Imperial army to establish culture, order, and civilization there.
This is the Empire.
What does it take to break it all?
Lu En concludes, firstly, that it is not possible to confront the laws of competition for a long time, that the power and money of the empire are much larger, and that it is necessary to conform to all this, rather than blindly resisting, and the result of blind resistance is collapse, and if profits are significantly lower than before, resulting in the proliferation of capital being hindered, then the result is economic depression and regression, and the worker and his boss go bankrupt. Because that's the condition of the workers. If the productive capital increases, his living conditions deteriorate by leaps and bounds, and if the capital decreases or remains the same, he must go bankrupt, which is the natural oppression of the class, so that it cannot be in the same stream, so the first aim must be to bring about the emergence of new machines and new divisions of labour, and the transfer of production from one place to another.
In Britain during the Industrial Revolution, the invention and application of a certain machine often brought about all this, and the machine can be said to be one of the most significant inventions in modern industry - the automatic spinning machine defeated the spinning workers, the assembly line broke the position of the craftsman, until modern industry completely crushed the small producers, proving that the system must be replaced by a new system due to economic development.
And Lu En, who became the spokesperson, leader, and even the embodiment of the new system, was the first priority.
Second, in order to accomplish the above goals, it is necessary to gather the strength of a large number of people at the bottom, how to gather the people? It is impossible to do it by mere benevolence, and now these hundreds of people are almost the limit of what can be achieved by benevolence, and the main reason for this is the existence of the present system, as long as this kind of social organization exists, and at the same time a large number of residents become laborers, the rule of capital has created an equal status and common interests for these people. Therefore, this group of people has formed a class for capital, but it is not yet a class of its own, so it is necessary to re-forge the chains every day, and turn the workers into slaves of the products they produce but are monopolized by the capitalists, and this chain that is repeatedly forged every day is competition, because the modern city gathers a large number of people who do not know each other in one place, and then divides their interests with cruel competition with each other, and is forced to kill each other, all because of the unequal classes on both sides, One side controls all the means of production - the monopolist of land, raw materials, technology, and the other side is the laborer, deprived of ownership of the means of production and has nothing but his own labor power.
The fundamental solution to this is to abolish the competition among the workers in order to compete with the capitalists in one mind, and the existence of the oppressed class is a necessary condition for every society based on class antagonism. Therefore, the emancipation of the oppressed classes necessarily means the establishment of a new society. In order for the oppressed classes to emancipate themselves, it is necessary that the vested productive forces and the existing social relations can no longer coexist. Of all the means of production, the most powerful productive force is the revolutionary class itself. The formation of the revolutionary factor as a class presupposes the existence of all the productive forces that can be produced in the bosom of the old society.
But now, this premise is not true, and Lu En cannot copy the practice of the previous world revolution, which is wrong, because ...... In the original world, it was the broad masses of the people who represented the advanced productive forces of society, but in this world, it was the upper class aristocrats and professionals who represented the advanced productive forces, and the productive forces of the workers were simply worlds apart from them.
Because they have no organization and no strength, they have to endure not only the inevitable encroachment of their employers, but also the arbitrary encroachment of their employers, their standard of living gradually decreases, they learn how to live on less and less wages, so their ugliness naturally decreases to the level that they themselves have learned to achieve, this is an unsolvable vicious circle, the core is because of the world itself, not everyone is equal, and high-level professionals are stronger than ordinary people.
Regarding this, Lu En actually doesn't have a very good solution, everyone is equal, what doesn't exist, people are unequal, for high-level professionals, they and the bottom people can't even be counted as a species.
"In that case...... It is not equality that can stir people's hearts, but equality of opportunity. He thought so.
Nowadays, education is monopolized, and the vast majority of the lower classes are illiterate and aristocratic people who cannot even write their own names, and in fact have a monopoly on the interpretation of culture.
It is very difficult to become a professional, you need talent, you need resources, you need mentors, but this is not a reason why people can't be educated, the road to becoming a professional is there, everyone can go, how far to go is a personal reason, whether you can go or not, to take this step, is the direction that Lu En wants to work towards.
At this point, he even has a conflict with the academics, who teach this knowledge, but not everyone can learn it, and all the high-ranking people, including Madame Gray and Daedalus, don't care about this, the academics...... To tell the truth, it's still an aristocratic faction, not a rich person, where can I afford to read? Even if it is a monster academy, it is only a difficult support, not to mention, they are also the "aristocratic class" among the monster hybrids.
Most of their parents are the servants of Sid's side, like a monster named Hanlock, that is, the so-called "retainers", and these people basically didn't follow Lu En, they all came under the sponsorship of the dean, that is, those colleges with not so good conditions, as for the dean, this is an idealist, Lu En has always admired idealists.
"You can start from this aspect, knowledge sharing, and the path to becoming a professional will become something public, but you can't rush to make it public, otherwise it will definitely cause a backlash from the imperial side."
"Add to that the current situation...... Then, the path to go forward is clear. Lu En analyzed it dozens of times in his mind, and after coming to a conclusion, he closed his eyes peacefully and began to sleep.
Even he had limited energy, and after Ellio was finally established, he felt a little tired.
After he fell asleep, Kara quietly appeared, straightened Luen's hair, and tidied up the messy wooden house, which was still very shabby, after all, it was still a white field.
Stay with him like this...... That's it.
(2-in-1 chapter)