"Ahem, cough, cough"

Dao Yan coughed twice excitedly, but he thought about it for a long time, and keenly found the crux of the problem, so he covered his mouth and asked in a muffled voice.

"If it's just the collapse of an industry because of the time spread, it doesn't seem to bring a time crisis to the whole world?"

Jiang Xinghuo replied affirmatively: "This is indeed the case, but don't forget that in the world of the Time Planning Bureau, there are two important principles, the self-nature of time and the identity of time. ”

"And based on these two principles, two laws are also derived."

Jiang Xinghuo said slowly: "The first law, because time has self-nature, so for the continuation of self-life, in the interaction of time, there is actually an [invisible hand] that is close to 'Tao', that is to say, the world thinks that people's attitude towards time is self-nature, and this self-nature will be manifested as self-interest most of the time. ”

Dao Yan heard the law expounded by Jiang Xinghuo, and after a little thought, he understood.

Time is life, in order to prolong their lives, as long as there is a basic desire to survive, people will choose to work hard to gain time, that is to say, people's self-interest is about equal to self-interest, people go to any time market, the purpose is to get more time through exchange.

This is equivalent to having an "invisible hand" that matches everyone who enters the time market, so that they can make a deal based on the principle of voluntariness as much as possible without harming their own self-interest, and make mutual concessions through negotiation, and then finally reach a deal.

Every moment, every minute, there are countless transactions, under the mediation of this "invisible hand".

This is undoubtedly a law that makes people feel quite wonderful.

In a certain way, it can even be called "almost Tao".

Of course, it is only close, and it is still a little different from the real Tao.

But it is this difference that will make this [invisible hand] turn from a divine palm full of holy light to a claw dripping with blood.

"The second law, because time is the same, no one's time is worth more than others, so everyone knows that directly holding a large amount of time beyond life is a major waste of time itself."

"Excess time, only by investing in the time market, obtaining interest margins, and growing, will it not cause 'waste'." Jiang Xinghuo looked at Dao Yan on the sickbed and said.

Dao Yan rolled his triangular eyes, but with a hint of puzzlement: "It stands to reason that if the second law is the truth in the world of the Time Planning Bureau, then a time-rich person like Li Si will definitely use the time in his hand to make it again, or buy and consume it, and he will not keep too much, except for the necessary life maintenance, but judging from Zhang San's situation, this is not the case?" ”

Jiang Xinghuo understood what Dao Yan meant, if the second law is true, the time market should always maintain equilibrium in a theoretical state.

In other words, Li Si's surplus time is invested in remanufacturing and personal purchase, and remanufacturing will create Zhang San's remuneration time, and the total amount of the time market is balanced.

But in the story of "Time Planning Bureau", whether it is Zhang San, who is short of time, or the "immortal man" who stands at the top, the amount of time he has shows two extremely extreme sides.

This means that something must have gone wrong.

Otherwise, it will not cause more and more items to be remanufactured by Li Si, and Zhang San's time will become less and less, and the time for buying daily items will become more and more embarrassing except for the time to maintain life.

The time market has been accumulating imbalances.

And this imbalance may be the fundamental cause of the "time crisis".

But although Dao Yan could see this, he couldn't figure out which link went wrong.

Because according to the theory of hypothetical deduction, under the control of the invisible hand, everything should reach a perfect state of equilibrium.

Jiang Xinghuo revealed the answer to Dao Yan's question.

"The problem is that the [invisible hand] that is close to the Tao."

"After all." Jiang Xinghuo paused, and then said, "It's not the real Tao yet. ”

It is precisely because it is not the true Tao that it will go wrong, and for the huge time market, the slightest mistake can eventually lead to extremely serious consequences.

Because a little bit of variable, multiplied by the endless number of transactions at every moment, can send things down an irreversible abyss.

Jiang Xinghuo thought for a moment and said, "I'll give you a simple example. ”

"For example, Li Si recruited Zhang San and others to make 1,000 portions of food in one day, and the price of each serving of food was 10 units of time, and Li Si took the time of selling and first paid the 2,000 units of time spent on the raw materials necessary to make food from the farmers, and then paid Zhang San and others 5,000 units of time, and the remaining 3,000 units of time was Li Si's own interest rate difference."

"If the [Invisible Hand] has a perfect effect, then Li Si will take these 3,000 units to continue to remanufacture, and the rest will be squandered to buy the finished products of other people who have abundant time."

"But the reality is."

Jiang Xinghuo changed his words.

"The farmers who make food raw materials, as well as Zhang San and others, have a consumption capacity of 7,000 time units, so they can consume 700 servings of food, but Li Sikong has the consumption power of 3,000 time units, and his expenditure cannot be consumed at the same price."

Why can't we do equivalent consumption?

Dao Yan immediately realized that the next problem may be the root cause of the imbalance in the time market.

"It's because there is still a rule in this world that is secretly poking against the [invisible hand]."

Jiang Xinghuo revealed what the [Invisible Hand] was still short of becoming a true "Tao".

Speaking of which, this is actually quite a strange thing.

It's as if two people are playing with the pen fairy, which should be balanced and forced, but there is one more thing that breaks this equilibrium.

And the extra thing is the most important effect in economics.

"It's called the Marginal Effect."

"It's not something difficult to understand, to put it bluntly, when you're hungry, I bring you a plate of ten steamed buns, and when you eat them, the first, second and even fourth ones are very fragrant, but when you eat the fifth, you're full, and you don't want to eat the remaining buns." Jiang Xinghuo explained to Dao Yan very simply, and understood what it meant to be a diminishing edge effect.

Dao Yan said meaningfully: "That is, in the world of the story. In the time market, even if there are other luxury channels for time-rich people like Li Si, the time in Li Si's hands is still inexhaustible, so there will be a surplus of creation? ”

Jiang Xinghuo nodded his head and said affirmatively: "Exactly, this is a problem that the [Invisible Hand] cannot solve, which is not only the fundamental cause of the outbreak of the time crisis, but also the fundamental conflict that exists in the prison of necessity. ”

At this point, Dao Yan completely understood.

He was enlightened.

The fundamental reason for moving from the prison of certainty to the prison of freedom is that the evil dragon will not only inflate and disintegrate itself, but also this irreversible self-destruction will also give birth to new forces in crisis after crisis.

The more time crises there are, the stronger the new forces become.

In the example just now, the farmers who make the raw materials for food and Zhang San want to buy as many manufactured products as possible to fill their stomachs, they are the ones who lack the time to eat the "fifth bun", and their desire to buy is greater than their purchasing power, but they have too little time to maintain their own lives, so they cannot achieve the diminishing edge effect.

And Li Si's predicament is more than enough than the top, although Li Si can't become an "immortal man", but he doesn't have Zhang San's troubles, he can afford to eat as many buns as he wants, and he can even collect gold buns and put them in the cupboard.

However, due to the autonomy of time, or self-interest, Li Si just threw away all the buns in his hand and poured them into the stinky ditch, and he would not give one to Zhang San.

This temporal self-interest is not only the cause of the appearance of the Invisible Hand, but also the cause of the imbalance of the Invisible Hand.

It can be said that success is also Xiao He, and defeat is also Xiao He.

Therefore, the fundamental conflict between too many manufactured goods and insufficient purchasing power has always existed.

"It's like a curse that erupts on a regular basis."

Dao Yan couldn't help but sigh.

But then, another question emerged from Dao Yan's extremely smart head.

"But if the time crisis breaks out regularly, I'm afraid that the world managed by the Time Planning Bureau will soon collapse in order, right? Slaying dragons in that world, it's that simple? ”

"Of course, slaying dragons is not that simple."

Jiang Xinghuo shook his head slightly: "Evil dragons are also good at spells. ”

"I want to hear about it!"

Dao Yan's eyes lit up.

Although he already knew clearly what the evil dragon was made of, and what was the reason for the dragon's periodic expansion, disintegration, and destruction, the evil dragon was so powerful that it was certainly not easy to defeat.

In other words, dragons, like vampire giant worms, do not sit idly by and watch their demise.

Vampire Giant Worms release paralyzing toxins, and dragons probably have similar spells.

Thinking of this, Dao Yan's eyes looked at the beam of the meditation room like a sick tiger that chose things to devour, where there was a non-existent, weak evil dragon, which had been broken by Dao, and was grinning at Dao Yan in a pretentious manner.

And next, the evil dragon's last hole card will also be revealed to him by Jiang Sheng.

This shows that while dragon slaying is difficult, it is by no means impossible.

Dao Yan squinted his triangular eyes and said silently in his heart.

"I have attained enlightenment, you evil dragon, and I am no longer a demon in my heart."

The evil dragon in Dao Yan's mind that did not exist in reality was looking at the young man in a green shirt in the meditation room with a frightened gaze.

He is a dragon slayer and a dragon rider.

He knew himself better than he did before he even came into existence.

The spell that he was proud of, in front of this young man, was just a little trick that made people laugh.

(End of chapter)