"Be a useful person to society." This sentence is just an encouragement in times of peace, but in this era of material depression, it must be remembered as a life motto.

There wasn't a single dog in the whole city of Hokda, not even a bird as big as a crow. Why? Don't Hokdars have pets? When it wasn't before the war, everyone raised it, but after the war, as long as the dog dared to let it out, it would be snatched away and turned into a pot of meat. Because everyone in society is in a state of hunger, people's moral concepts begin to default to dogs as useless and unneeded things.

To give another example, why can't China take the capitalist road and why other developed countries can take the capitalist road?

The textbook says that in the era of liberal capitalism, Europe, the United States and Japan completed the accumulation of primitive capital, and the Republic of China was already the era of imperialism#ism, and the world became the raw material source and market of these old capitalist countries, and it was impossible to accumulate capital at all.

But in terms of basic human nature, the Chinese capitalists who controlled the capital and land occupied the position of domination and controlled the circulation of goods throughout the country, but they could not bring the country out of the bad scene of industrial self-sufficiency, famine, drought, floods, and military disasters. How incompetent is such a ruling class, useless to society as a whole.

When you are useless and social contradictions erupt, you will be put in the position of abandonment and purge by the public by default. At this time, no persuasion is useless, and the lack of materials can allow the public's resentment to continue to accumulate, and when it accumulates to the top, it will explode in the most violent way. That's the Revolution.

In the early 20th century, a whole generation of capitalists was purged of the historical line where Meng was located, and only after knowing that the capitalists of the 80s of the twentieth century had once again demonstrated their role in the country's economy, they were allowed to continue to exist.

Based on the above logic, Lu An directly rejected the high-paying and easy job offered by Inloka. A certain emotional state Lu An complained: "What kind of international joke? The whole society is almost like a crater, how dare ITM attract hatred like this? I'd have died if I had been shot by a gun. ”

Well, the above complaint is a bit exaggerated, Lu An is not in danger of his life in the face of one or two guns now, but Lu An's fear of being targeted is true. Luan was very timid.

Inloka led Lu An into the hall of the manor and asked helplessly, "Well, then what are you willing to do?" ”

Lu An frowned and asked, "Your family is very rich?" ”

Yingluoka looked at Lu An and smiled and said, "It's very rude to talk about a nobleman directly. "Although Inloka and Luan seem to be indistinguishable from each other, Inloka's surname is that of the Nightflyer, and in the era of swords and sorcery the race was called the Fallen Angels. In other words, Inloka is a standard noble lord bloodline.

However, Lu An ignored Yingluoka's euphemistic prompt, and asked in a more direct tone, "How much influence do you have over this city?" ”

From the rehearsal, Luan already knew that Yingluoka had significant decision-making power over the city. The position of the Inloka family in Diranfens is the equivalent of the Junkers group in Germany.

Inloka paused, "I don't know you yet. ”

Lu An nodded and said, "Yes." Then pay the wages, a total of three cents a piece. I think I can go back. ”

Inloka said, "Can you tell me what you're doing?" I'm puzzled by what you've been doing these days. ”

Lu An said: "You still don't understand what I said. ”

Inloka said, "Say it. ”

Luan: "I want to live a good life in a safe environment, that's all. ”

Inloka said, "What do you mean by security? ”

Luan: "People need me, and they don't think about the kind that makes me absent." ”

Inloka said, "You mean, what you want, I can't provide?" ”

"You can do it, and in this depressed environment, you can only offer me two positions, one is to let me continue my current job, and the second is to hire me to run the city," Luan said. ”

Speaking of which, Lu An was a dagger, and began to ask for rights from Yingluoka in a grand manner. And Inloka stopped. Tsai looked at Lu An carefully, as if he was looking at a monster.

Inloka: "To be honest, I was suspicious of your purpose for coming to me, and now what you asked for surprised me. You don't seem to want money, you don't want power, but the rights you want involve all the possessions in my domain. Well, your claim is beyond my expectations, and I need collateral. ”

Luan looked at Inloka, and in the rehearsal, Luan already knew what the collateral needed for Inloka.

At this time, Yingluoka also looked at Lu An, and a faint smile appeared in the gem's pupils.

Lu An said, "The collateral is mine, right?" ”

Inloka said, "Yes. A magic mark appeared in the palm of his hand. At the same time, he said, "I'm sorry, but what you're asking for is too big. I must need insurance. Of course, we can cooperate more equally. ”

This energy imprint is an energy circuit that can be stuck in some key places in the human body, such as the blood vessels of the heart or the blood vessels of the brain. It is a kind of existence that can control people's life and death.

Luan's demand for something is too valuable, and Inloka is not at ease with Luan. If given a choice, Inloka would like to work with Luan on an equal footing. In this way of cooperation, Inloka provides Luan with money for living, and Luan helps Inloka in some ways.

Then Yingluoka spread out a contract, yes, although the brilliance of the gods in this world has faded, it is still able to show its presence in this world, the most obvious is the contract. Once the contract is signed, a bondage appears in the spiritual realm. Once the contract is broken. Mental hallucinations that do not belong to oneself arise in the consciousness.

Inloka said, "If you insist on choosing the first option, I will give you this assurance while implanting the energy structure in your body. Ingraka pointed to the contract.

Luan is now faced with a choice, to give the handle to someone and be at the mercy of others for the next few years in order to gain the right to meddle in this world. Or maintain the security life you are living now, hiding in a safe corner, and watching this unstable society continue to move forward.

In the end, however, Luan made a choice that seemed somewhat emotional to him. Luan said to Inloka, "Okay, I've signed it, you can implant the energy structure below my head. But only for three years. After three years, if you don't think you've suffered a huge loss of wealth, untie it. In exchange, for three years, you give me the right to run the city. And help me as much as you can. ”

Inloka frowned and looked at Lu An and asked, "Are you really willing to be bound by this layer?" Just in exchange for these worldly rights? ”

"I hate it when someone weighs my worth by my destructive power," Luan said. And," Lu An said with some sighs on his face: "What can you do in this world without cost?" There are so many people in this world's society, and such a complex collection of feelings, how can it be treated with contempt in a worldly way? ”

Inloka slammed a magical structure into Luan's shoulder, but Luan did not resist, and the combination of lines quickly sank into Luan's skin like water dripping into a cloth.

Inloka said: "This magical structure can release an electric current to interfere with the nerves in your left arm, and it can paralyze your left arm. ”

Inloka said, "What do you want to do, I don't know what? Next, I will reserve the right to implant you further as appropriate. ”

Lu An nodded and said, "Thank you." By the way, let's move on to wages? ”

Inloka asked weirdly, "What did you say?" ”

Lu An said: "A mortgage is a mortgage, and wages are wages. You don't worry about what I've done, so you have a mortgage. But what I did was to make a penny. ”

Inloka smiled and said, "I've given you all the right to control your finances. ”

Lu An said: "No, no, those are yours, not mine, this is not" Lu An pointed to his arm and said, "The collateral is still in your hand." ”

Inloka said, "Tell me, how much salary do you want?" ”

Lu An said: "300 yuan a month, and I must be given housing." ”

Inloka patted her head and said, "Well, this is the weirdest government interview I've ever seen. ”

"If it weren't for the sake of a better life, I would never have thought of accepting such a job," Luan said. ”

That night, Luan stayed at Yingluoka's manor, which has an Internet connection, and Luan can also check the information of the entire city.

In general, the whole city is in a state of depression, not poor, and the machines in the factories are still in a state of maintenance. There were also workers, and the mines were in the hands of Inloka, but the whole city was out of money.

The whole city was crushed by the reparations. So much money was siphoned off that the whole city was shut down, the factories had no money to buy raw materials and stopped running, the mines had no money to buy electricity, no money to buy machinery, no money to pay the miners' living expenses. So the operation stopped, and the things in the fields were sold, because there was no money to buy, so the farms could not buy things to produce.

All basic means of production are normal, but there is no currency. Here again confirms one thing, unorganized industrial societies are not fart. And money, the equivalent, is the key prop for the production of all departments of the organization. Without money, the goods produced in each sector cannot be precisely valued in the market.

Money is a ruler, without which it measures the value created by each sector for society, and what each sector produces does not match the entire social system. What is produced in various departments cannot be exchanged for what they want. Production will not be able to start.

On the eve of World War II, Germany's solution to this problem was simple: to create a variety of credible currencies that had no gold or silver collateral, but could measure the value of internal production materials. Let's get our own production system up and running. Others are looking for themselves to repay the money, but they still have no money, and they slowly talk about how to repay the money. However, it does not affect the internal production and operation of the company.

At present, Lu An, the society of Diranfez, really can't stand it, so he needs to meet the needs of the people for agricultural products and daily necessities. Now the people in the city definitely need agricultural products, and the farms also absolutely need the people in the city to provide industrial products. The key to solving the depression is to ensure that the exchange system between the two parties can be operated first.

Now this situation where everyone can produce and everyone is short of money to produce is simply a funny scene in the post-industrial era. And now in this economic era of the gold and silver standard, it seems to be normal. A large amount of indemnity money directly siphoned off the gold and silver equivalents of Diranfez, but did not take away the country's machinery, grain, and factories. At this time, the whole world is in a state of depression, and the international capitalists, who have already received the money, are in no hurry to transport away this physical wealth. Instead, they are waiting for the price of these things to be further reduced in price from Diranfess.