377.Chapter 377: The Dwarves
Dwarves are somewhat stronger than humans. Pen Fun Pavilion wWw. biquge。 In many ways, dwarves are better than humans - in mathematics, physics, chemistry, etc. In terms of weapons building, machine building. It is even said that the most widely used railway, train. and the steam ironclad that William is currently working on to make. All of this is inseparable from the dwarves' brains and great assistance.
In terms of society, although the dwarves could not form a strong government, a unified and glorious empire, their interpersonal relationships, social relations, and the dwarves' spirit of mutual help ...... The dwarven kingdom born from this is still a longing for people.
Those nobles and nobles will not talk about it for the time being, but as far as William is concerned, the commoners will definitely prefer the flat social structure of the dwarves, where everyone is equal.
Of course, William also believes that if those guys have the strength and opportunity to climb up, they will forget what a flat society is, what everyone is equal in the shortest possible time. Then they desperately want to climb up, to become a superior man, to become what they spurned, despised, and hated the ruling class.
So, while the ideal social structure of the dwarves was good, William did not think it was suitable for human beings—at least not until their inferior roots were eradicated.
And when will the inferior nature of human beings be eradicated...... This is a question that William decided to ask the Lord of Light after his death.
If you go to hell yourself, forget it......
Well, in the current situation, William feels that there is a high possibility that he will go to hell...... Then the question doesn't make sense.
All in all, William's ideal of human society is hierarchical – but this hierarchy and structure are not fixed. William wanted to shape a competitive society. A society that can give people at the bottom to climb upward, a society that can arouse people's spirit of striving for progress, and can select the best, smartest, and best at managing people through continuous selection and competition, and become a member of the ruling class.
A highly mobile society, a society that is not fixed, a society of fair competition.
In this kind of society, William believes that he should see the middle of the family, the east and west of the river for thirty years, and the poor people who are not bullied. What William doesn't want to see is a step to the sky, class solidification, a thousand-year-old family and monopoly. I don't want to see falling into the ground, vicious competition, intrigue, gangs and tricks......
William knew it was difficult. William also knew what he was up against. Even William knew how miserable his fate would be if he failed. At the very least, the Hereford family was denied as a result.
But William also believed that if he could really build his ideal competitive society, it would be even more meaningful than his other project, that of the Great Brotheric Empire, the Arctic Empire.
But of course, these are all later words, and the most important thing now is still the dwarves here.
Well, what I talked about before is the spirit of luxury of the dwarves - yes, the dwarves also love luxury - of course not like all kinds of elegant jewelry like humans, dress, food, clothing, home furnishings, famous cars, horses, famous women, etc......
The luxury that dwarves like is very simple, very pure - there are only three things that satisfy these short and fat creatures.
Noble metal. Gemstones of all kinds. And spirits.
To put it more simply—spirits—because the first two things dwarves can satisfy themselves. But the matter of winemaking is another thing - not that the dwarves are bad at making wine - in fact, the dwarves are very good at winemaking.
These bastards, who can live up to a thousand years, usually have only five job categories, the first of which are scientists and engineers, great inventors and scholars that humanity needs most. The other is the warrior, the best warrior, comparable to the human Grand Knight, or even more powerful Knight Mentor, or even a more legendary Grand Mentor...... Then there's the dwarven miners, who may have good minds and strong physiques, but they'd rather stay in the mines and deal with all kinds of ores than fight and invent or something.
In fact, it's a bit incorrect to call these guys miners, and the correct one to call them mine owners is because these dwarves are usually the richest in the dwarven world and dwarven society.
The fourth type is the dwarven entertainer - yes, the dwarves also have artists. It's just that their artists neither sculpt nor paint, nor do they write novels, poems, or operas. There are only two kinds of dwarven artists, one of whom carves gold and silver jewelry gestures, and the other who makes the most sophisticated weapons and armor. These dwarven artists who have elevated manufacturing to an artistic level, and each product is a masterpiece that can be passed on to future generations. Anyone would collect a dwarven artist's sword, or a dwarven armor...... Or craft smoothbore guns to take pride.
They are willing to spend money in this regard, and they are even more willing to spend money on decoration.
Well, the last one, is the winemaker - if it were in the human world, then the profession of winemaker would never be comparable to the inventor, mine owner, powerful warrior and artist mentioned above. But in the world of the dwarves it is different - dwarves have different interests, they like to fight, they like to invent, they like to mine, they like to engage in art - but all dwarves have one hobby in common - and that is drinking.
The Dwarven Brewer is arguably the most respected profession in the Dwarven world. First of all, because of the flattening of the dwarf society, because the dwarf society has no class, it has caused the dwarf society to have no division of occupation. Another thing is that the dwarves love and need the most luxury, and that is wine. All lovers are drunkards, and the difference is only in the degree.
Therefore, the dwarven winemaker is the most respected profession in the dwarven world.
But there is a very, very, very important problem here that seriously affects the development of the dwarven brewing industry -- that is, the problem of the food supply rate of the dwarven society.
Dwarven societies did not even reach self-sufficiency in food. The dwarves buy food from other regions on a large scale every year.
Before the rise of the Russian kingdom, the Visigoths were the largest supplier of grain to the dwarves. And after the decline of Visigoth, Russia took this role.
A large number of merchant ships of the Polotsk Voivodeship and the Baltic Seas, a large number of Livonian and Russian merchant ships (originally belonging to Novgorod), all supplied grain to Ritjod -
The decline of the kingdom of Rytjod was a great tragedy for the people of Rytjod themselves. But for other countries along the Polotsk Sea, it was quite a lucky thing.
The destruction of the powerful state of Rytjod has made the only naval power that can suppress the rest of the countries in the Polotsk Sea disappear. At the same time, the dwarves were replaced by a bunch of rich, and very rich bastards who were rich and short of food - important things to say twice - and the delivery of food to the dwarves became an important source of economy for the countries of the Polotsk maritime region.
At some point, some harsh - or bastard rulers would sell to the dwarves what was supposed to be for their people in order to sustain their own finances - just because the dwarves could afford to pay several times, if not a dozen times the normal price.
The grain trade with the dwarves was also one of the important sources of economy for the Russian kingdom.
In this way, in this situation where food productivity is low, and even in many countries, many people cannot afford to eat, dwarves have to consume a lot of food in order to make spirits. If this is in some centralized countries, even if it is collectively dragged out to shoot for a few days, it will not be surprising.
The lack of grain production to provide them with enough raw materials to make wine is also the biggest problem for dwarven winemakers.
This situation was not alleviated until the birth of William and the general agricultural reform in the Russian kingdom, which greatly increased the productivity of grain.
After reserving his country's rations, William naturally had to find the best seller for his remaining grain production capacity.
And the dwarves are the ideal goal in William's heart - first of all, the dwarves can afford to pay money, and even a lot of money.
Second, the dwarves bought grain, not only for their own food, but also for winemaking. In this way, the food is consumed and does not go to other countries, to other people's mouths - and thus the fertility rate and the number of people that have increased because of the increase in food production disappears. William would not have to worry that he would sell so much food, that he would have other potentially hostile countries feed more people, and then build more armies and produce more capacity. Finally turn your head against them.
It's really a good thing for everyone. The dwarves were given more liquor, and William consumed more of the surplus grain capacity, and then received the most money. There is no possibility of a potential rival yet. This is really a great example of win-win cooperation without conscience!
That's it, after hearing that William and they, merchants from Russia, the dwarves behaved elatedly. According to their customary analysis, Russian businessmen usually brought what they needed most.
Grain, then cloth, then lots of frozen hard meat, cream, butter, and soybean oil, all these things that improve life.
Of course, the main thing is food.