"What you're going to do involves a lot of people and may not be able to do it, and!", Barr shrugged his shoulders, "if anyone knows about your plans, they will probably do everything they can to get you to carry your plans into the coffin." ”

Maggs smiled, he looked up at the sun in the sky, and looked back at Barr, "If that day comes, I will untie all the restraints on Durin and let him tear apart everyone who stands in his way." ”

"Sometimes I envy him, not only because he is young, he has more time to realize his dreams, but I also envy the presumptuousness of his behavior! If he wants to do it, he will do it, even if he lifts the table, he has to do things well, this is a very terrible force, he has no reverence for this society, for the empire, for the whole world. I guess he must have thought he could beat everything, and that's why he became what we all admired. ”

"I have so many things I want to do, there are so many that I can't count. But I told myself that I couldn't do this because I didn't know what the consequences would be if I did. That's what I can't do, because I can't afford to build after the destruction...... We have too much helplessness, not because we have too little power, but because we have learned to be in awe and learn to restrain our behavior. ”

"Domestic dogs are scared to pee when they see a lion, and wild dogs can open their mouths and bark when they face a lion. ”

"But Durin, he dares to pounce on it and bite the lion!"

"Hopefully, everything will go as smoothly as planned! No one wants this empire to go in an unknown direction, at least for me!"

The expansion of the power of capital is not a problem unique to the Shining Star Empire, the whole Western world is facing such a problem, but there are some places that seem to be handled very well - for example, the Federation, which itself is built on the soil of capital, has transformed the power of capital into a means of management, and they have very skillful skills in using capital to restrain capital. Looking at the top of the Federation, almost all of them are big capitalists.

Either the head of a certain family, or the representative of a certain consortium, they are the first to enjoy the benefits of capital, and then use this power against others. But there is also a drawback here, and that is the class problem.

The Confederation may seem to be more liberal than the Empire, and there seems to be no class problem, but it is not. There was still a class problem in the Commonwealth, and it was even more serious than the social structure in the Empire. When all the power of action and power is equated with money, it means that an even more terrifying interest group has emerged after the solidification of the class. These people, who can be called the top of the Federation, in order to avoid losing their position as much as possible, will find ways to make the most severe counterattack against those challengers.

They have more money, and it is actually very easy to eliminate those challengers, because there is a trick in the capital market called hurting people with their own money, and gambling with the opponent with countless times the financial strength far exceeds that of the opponent, and failing countless times is just a little skin injury for the top management. But if they succeed once, they will let those who challenge them fall into the abyss.

In the long run, the beautiful freedom and the initiative in the hands of ordinary people will become a joke, a big joke. A thoroughly solidified top class produces absolute decay, and they will reject any kind of change, and will stifle all change in order to ensure their own interests. When the Federation is at its peak, it is when they begin to go to ruin, and that day is not far off.

So Maggs wanted to be able to find a way forward for the empire, he didn't need a rigid class, he needed a class full of variables, spurs and dynamics. When the ruler is not able to bring happiness to the people, the people will be civilized and rational to let him step down, not by force.

This was actually a big plan that should have been delayed, and Maggs had clearly realized that he had no means of restraining the expansion of the power of capital, and he had now changed his mind a little, this time by reading a book by a sociologist from the Kingdom of Sellers.

The sociologist simply clarified the essence of capital – the undisguised pursuit of desire. When you have one, you think about having ten, and when you have ten, you want to have more, more than everybody. The expansion of capital is actually the process of releasing human desires themselves, but people transform this instinct into a means that seems simpler and clearer, and then seek to satisfy their desires.

In the book, the sociologist proposes a hypothesis that if social problems are introduced into an infinite cycle, that is, continuous construction and destruction, and that this cycle is controlled by multiple forces, it may be the best means of restraining the power of capital at present.

Every once in a while, the big capitalists will go bankrupt on a large scale, and the money they hold will flow back into the whole society, and the inequality generated in this process of redistribution will create some protruding people, who will become representatives of the new capitalists and stand at the top of society again. Then this cycle goes on and on and on, and when the class at the top of the tower is solidified, it is broken and society makes a choice again.

It may be that at some point in the social class reset in countless years, a real fairness will be born that people are seeking.

All of this is bullshit and the illusion of scholars without going through their heads, but Maggs thinks that this bullshit still has some practical significance, such as a class within the empire that has now begun to solidify, the big conglomerates dominated by aristocratic origins. After hundreds of years of accumulation and precipitation, these forces have more wealth than the collective power of society, and their connections and influence on society have made them have no natural enemies. With the help of the sociologist, Maggs had a less mature idea.

Turn the so-called cycle into a food chain.

A complete food chain like a circle, once one link expands, the previous link will get a huge supply because of the expansion of the next link, and then progressively and finally return to its normal state.

But it's hard to do, it's always just an idea, because everyone knows that a social structure is always a tower, not a circle.

Now what he has to do is to try to complete this masterpiece, first smash the most complex, the most difficult to attack, and the aristocratic capitalists who have almost solidified!

In this process, he needs to face the biggest vested interests, who will defend their own interests and dare to attack those who intend to harm them, including him, the prime minister, and will not be taken seriously by them. So he now needs a man like Doolin, a mad dog, and then show him the way, let him bite all the way, and attract firepower for himself, so that he can hopefully complete his conception of the social structure as much as possible.

As for how to arrange it after Doolin runs out?

God may give him the answer!

On the fifth day of the Odis City Parade, Donald finally appeared in front of the people, standing on the steps of the square outside the town hall, facing the dense crowd of marching citizens, his voice heard by loudspeakers in the cold wind.

"Great Otis City Miracle Makers, I stand here today in front of all of you and have a lot to say. ”

"I know that every Otis person is a peace-loving, life-loving person. We should not and cannot allow our lives to change unpredictably because of the arrangement of a few. I know everything that has happened lately has something to do with me, but I want you to understand the nature of my decision and definitely not to hurt any of you. I want to make everyone's life better, make this place more prosperous, and make the city of Otis more beautiful!"

"But there are some people who would rather drag everyone to hell together, rather than let me bring beauty to everyone. I hope that everyone will be sensible about all this, and in the next few days, I have found a solution, on behalf of the town hall, I will expand the city of Otis!"

"And in the next month, the city hall will provide no less than 150,000 jobs for citizens who have lost their employment environment, and this number will continue to increase......"

In a house across the street from the Town Hall Square, the members of the Otis City merchant group, led by Selem, gathered here, listening to the voices coming from the window, their faces gradually becoming solemn.

Selem sneered at the "little man" in the square in the distance, and he turned to look at the big guy, "Did you hear that? Donald has reached an agreement with the Song Consortium, which will be fully responsible for the second phase of the construction plan in Otis City. They intend to double the size of the city circle......"

This news can be said to be the latest, and after a phone call between Donald and Mr. Capet Sr., the intention of "cooperation" between the two sides was confirmed. For the Capet family, this will not hinder their future development plans, and the original plan to cooperate with the Fatima family to create a special import and export zone continues, and will also make concessions to the Fatima family in the cooperation. Their original plan was to make up at least 35 percent of that plan, and try to get as much as possible.

But with Donald's refuge, they can directly intervene in the operation of Otis City, and the interests of the other side are naturally reduced. They have reached a final agreement with the ladies of the Fatima family, and their proportion of the new special zone will be reduced to no less than 20 percent, and then the main financial and human resources will be used on the side of the city of Otis.

They also took a fancy to the plan to go public, and planned to make a lot of money from it to compensate for the profits they lost in the new special zone.