Chapter 69: Parts of Violence (Part II)
Therefore, if the rulers want to be as mean as the feudal society in the past, and suppress and slaughter the rebels by force at will, it is not so simple!
Rulers need to take into account all aspects of the composition of their armies, including the interests of their families, relatives, and friends, or else they will happen in modern society.
If it is a closed country with no foreign enemies, the army itself may gradually become corrupt and degenerate, and develop into a militarized aristocratic violent group similar to the Japanese samurai class that oppressed the common people.
The modern complex international community and external political pressures will not allow the ruling class to maintain the strength of its military while suppressing the upward space of the poor.
This will lead other countries to surpass themselves, and eventually even the rulers behind the country will be completely swallowed up by outsiders!
However, contrary to what some people may think, productivity is not the most important factor in determining what system you live in, but it is definitely not the only key factor.
As for whether society will regress again - under the old social repressive system of feudal dictatorship.
Unless the productivity of the future society reaches the point where some "dystopian science fiction authors" fear, the channels for class rise are completely broken again, and the military force is composed of robots to the extent that the perpetrators of violence ~ that is indeed a completely logical speculation.
Because we should not overestimate the discipline of human beings such as capitalists, politicians, and rulers.
As for the game within the social class of the country, this is actually a question of whether to prefer to be friendly to friends or to be kind to domestic slaves. The invasion of our modern Qing feudal ruler, Cixi Lafayette, and the Eight-Nation Alliance has taught our country's future modern visionaries a sobering lesson.
The violent production maintainers of this otherworld are entirely done by wizards and priests, as well as other spell-derivative casters.
This results in civilians being almost completely cut off from their ascent channels unless they are detected to have a good caster talent. Otherwise, they can only passively rely on the limited conscience of the aristocratic class at the bottom, waiting for the choice to be treated mercifully by the wise nobles, or under the rule of a tyrannical king, when the people at the bottom are oppressed and struggling to survive.
As for those "warriors" who seem to be dark horses in social class~
Only with the law of "poor literature and rich martial arts", we can summarize the actual status quo of this class, because 9 out of 9 high-level martial artists are all from noble and wealthy business backgrounds, and only they have enough financial resources to purchase excellent cultivation exercises, natural treasures, and high-level magic equipment to arm themselves. And the warriors from the poor background, they do not have the ability to grasp the actual benefits of self-produced spell equipment and other practical interests like the sorcerer, nor do they have the thighs thicker than the mountain peaks like the gods behind the priests, and in the end they can only rely on the aristocratic group, the bureaucratic group, or the big capitalist group to work hard in exchange for the promotion channels of themselves and their heirs.
When you're in a society like this, everybody will tell you that this is the reality, this is the Darwinian law of the jungle, but they won't tell you more possibilities to rise and change your destiny. It's just because they are either vested interests, or they are already believers in the absolute order who have settled for the status quo, and they are brainwashed by the future reincarnation fruit treasure system of religion, and obediently become two-legged sheep under some kind of "caste system".
But.
Compared with the old society of the past, we should still be grateful that we have been born in a modern capitalist society or a socialist society, at least as the broad masses of the common people have become an important component of the organizational structure and stratification structure of society, and have great influence and appeal on all aspects of society's politics, economy, and culture. In addition to studying and living, you can choose your own life trajectory and future.
It won't be like the people of the Dark Ages, caught in the middle of the water, unable to advance or retreat, and unable to live or die!
Let's not mention that.
In fact, David Lu has already begun to regret it a little! Even some policies of liberalizing slavery and cutting taxes to benefit the people have also regressed a little.
He's been using his already somewhat mature brain a little lately, and he's figured out that the common people don't play much role in his next great otherworldly conquest journey to overthrow the king, and even call it a lonely one. On the contrary, some of the previous policies and democratic words and deeds have greatly offended the surrounding aristocratic power groups. He felt that his business routes were frequently spied on, and the political channels in the kingdom were cut off and alienated one by one, and it was already difficult to leave the territory.
Most of the people who dare to do business with him now are some big foreign capitalists and tycoons who are not afraid of local aristocrats and religious forces, and most of them are local aristocrats who owe usury as a springboard to gradually erode the foreign import and export trade and financial route controllers of foreign countries.
As a young man in his early 20s in modern society, he has a sufficient advanced education in modern socialism, but although this world has the soil of revolution, it is not so easy to rebel against the feudal society with the ultimate violent existence of "true God".
I've done so much for these people and I don't get much in return!
I want to be a wise revolutionary and a monarch, but there are constraints everywhere!
Why! The barbarians of the Karui are coming out of their rotting forests and coming to my territory!
Why......
"Ping Pong is ......!"
The baron, who was eating dinner, stopped thinking in his mind, and suddenly stopped chewing the tender fat lamb with a hideous face, threw the knife and fork in his hand on the plate, tore off the napkin tied around his neck and threw it away, and stopped his hearty dinner eating.
Looking at his gloomy eyes, it was obvious that he was still angry at the meeting just now: "It's ridiculous that these stupid and hateful barbarians dare to threaten me with infectious diseases." It's a big deal that I let everyone go out wearing masks, and recently I have been going out as little as possible, and all places are sprinkled with saturated lime water. Let those two mercenary little wizards be ready to [remove the disease] at any time, and I won't believe that my [SARS] tried-and-tested precautions can still fall off my bottoms. As long as you stay up until the reinforcements arrive, everything will be fine. I just don't know if those distant relatives and neighbors who have received money will really cower in their own territory like the Karui people say, and they will not be saved when they see death?"
Come to think of it.
Lu Dawei suddenly noticed that there was a lace black dress next to him trembling.
Lord Baron turned his head to look, and was catching a glimpse of the delicate personal maid who had just served him to eat, staring at the ground with some fear, not daring to look up at the angry lord, after all, for the commoners of the territory, the tax officer is already a big man who controls the life and death of the people at the bottom, and the baron is the heaven of this territory, and even the law is determined by the lord's word.