"Rand, Rand. Lady Sarah called out a few times, but received no answer.

So she crept to the door, squinting her eyes and peering through a hidden gap.

In the bedroom of the two, she saw that the man was half-kneeling on the soft bed, his hands clenched into fists, very hard, and the expression on his face was also very nervous, as if he was arguing with others, or even fighting, but it didn't take long for him to seem to be defeated by something, and he hung his hands on his knees in a dejected manner.

Lady Sarah's face was anxious, and she withdrew her feet and walked back as if nothing had happened, but her hands could not help but clasp tightly together, revealing her mood at this moment.

It had been about two days since she noticed that the Rand she had been in the past had changed.

He used to be so infatuated with himself, but now although he slept in the same bed, he disdained her, and even if he still held her in his arms, he was not as gentle as before, and he was as hard as a stone statue.

Even when he snapped, she could feel his heart uneasy.

It frightened her, it scared her, and she couldn't imagine what miserable situation she would be in if she didn't have this man, or if Rand lost interest in her.

But what she can be sure of is that no other woman is competing with her for Rand, because Rand only returns here these days except to go to the company, and spends the night here, and she has also checked Rand's clothes, sniffed them carefully, and there is no fragrance other than herself.

Maybe the man was trying to do something big, or maybe he was facing some important moment, Lady Sarah had comforted herself like this, but the scene she had just seen in the gap made her uncontrollable worry.

If only Rand knew that Lady Sarah was worried. He would explain to her that he was communicating and debating with people through the arcane Skynet.

It's a fact. But that's not the whole story.

There is only one object of his communication and debate these days. It's Mr. Mystery.

From that day he said in front of Rand that Rand's doubts and the suffering of the lower classes were all because there was still exploitation, and it was very serious exploitation, and the exchange between the two became intense.

According to Mr. Mystery's theory, the present form of exploitation is the multiplication caused by the mismatch between the value and price of commodities in the process of manufacturing and circulation, which is taken away by merchants and entrepreneurs by means of inequality.

The two argued for a long time about what determines the value of a commodity, because it has to do with whether the exploitation that Mr. Mystery says is valid.

Mr. Mystic believed that the value of a commodity was determined by labor between the non-commodity state and the commodity state. To put it simply, a rock is useless, but if someone processes and carves it into a stone statue and can enter the trading range, it is a commodity, and the labor involved in the process of changing from a rock to a stone statue determines the value of this stone statue, but in the actual process of commodity circulation, because the merchant hires workers to carve in the form of the prepaid value of the monetized price, if the monetized price fluctuates because of the market situation after circulation, the resulting huge multiplication is taken away by the merchant. It will not be distributed to the maker.

Therefore, if the merchants want to get more multipliers. In addition to finding ways to influence the price at the time of sale by monopoly or other means in order to obtain more multiplication, another way is to use the monopoly of the sales channel to compress the prepaid value in the form of a monetized price paid to the engraver.

In the debate with Mr. Mystery, Rand had to admire that his theoretical logic was quite rigorous, at least at his level, which could not be broken for the time being.

However, if we accept the theory that the value of Mr. Mystery's goods depends on the degree of labor contained in them, such as the time of labor as a specific measure of the degree of labor in the value of goods. Then many of his later observations are logical, as if exploitation really exists, and that merchants are in a state of inequality with their employers, and they make good use of information asymmetry and pre-agreed favorable conditions that can make the monetized value of the advance fluctuate downward, and then sell it at a normal or even abnormal price when it is sold, and in the process it forms the exploitation of the labor of the maker.

On the one hand, Rand is logically difficult to refute his next theory, and on the other hand, he is very reluctant to accept Mr. Mystery's view of exploitation, because if he accepts his theory, then Rand will have too many exploiters, his grandfather, father, and even himself, and the fat family of Hocho can be included in it.

That would lead to the conclusion that he could hardly accept that the miserable condition of the workers, whom he had previously doubted, apprehensed, and sympathized with, was caused by such great merchants as Jimenez and Bernadotte.

Rand desperately retorted, defending Jimenez by pointing out to Mr. Mystic that although it was the goods created by the makers that turned useless rocks into commodities that could be bought and sold, the people who employed them and the merchants did not pay a price in the process of circulation, such as providing tools and places, for example, the workers did not have to bear the impact of the wages they received when the price fluctuated around the value, and if there was a downward fluctuation, the workers could still get the wages in advance, but the merchants had to bear the losses, so it was completely normal for the merchants to participate in the distribution of the multiplication。

However, he was soon corrected by Mr. Mystery, and part of the source came from his social research.

Mr. Mystery thinks that even if the merchant can participate in the distribution of the multiplication part in consideration of the role played by the merchant in the process of circulation, most of the value of the commodity still comes from the labor of the manufacturer, and the risk taken by the capital is exaggerated so much as to distort his share of the shares; , the monopoly and control of manpower, anticipating the price fluctuation of a less risky possible commodity when it is sold, and then subtracting its other fixed inputs according to this price, and finally pursuing the cheapness of manpower, that is, compressing the multiplication part that the worker should get, and the worker gets less. Naturally, the more the merchants get. If the price at the time of the actual sale fluctuates far beyond the less risky range set by the trader. That means they'll get a much more excess of the multiplier, but unfortunately this won't be repaid to workers.

And in order to achieve this, how to exert all efforts to raise the degree of price fluctuations when the real sale, and to compress the share of the workers internally, has become more and more a science, and many examples can be seen in the social survey of Rand, some cunning and some hidden. There are also barbaric ones.

For example, businessmen do not really implement the value part that RAND said is paid in advance to the manufacturer, because in practice, workers always work for a certain period before getting income, and if the businessman goes bankrupt, just before this payment cycle, the worker also faces the risk of his own manpower investment, so the risk is not impossible to pass on, on the contrary, businessmen pay more and more attention to the so-called management. The astonishing organization of the new age is nothing more than the result of the merchants trying to get as much multiplication as they can.

Another example is the story of a co-worker told by Nick to Rand, whose boss falsely accused the co-worker of being careless in manufacturing and no longer paying the month's wages after the goods were overstocked. In turn, he demanded more compensation, and finally dismissed the worker directly.

These examples are sufficient to show that even capital should participate in the distribution of the multiplicative part. But capital will never think that they should take less, and it is impossible to divide it equally, and even no matter how much they take, they still feel that it is not commensurate with their own investment and risk, and they will only try to fight for their own interests, so they must compress the interests of another class.

And this logic and phenomenon is almost a kind of inevitability, but the necessity must be right, or it should not be described as right or wrong, but it should be said that this necessity will also cause greater inevitability, and the greater necessity will also regurgitate them, and even bring greater damage.

Discussions and exchanges like the above, and even heated debates, Rand and Mr. Mystery had many sessions.

Most of the time, Rand was hit by Mr. Mystery's strict logic and the ammunition he provided to him, and many of the examples Mr. Mystery gave came directly from his social investigations.

Rarely, Rand can find the lack of rigor in Mr. Mystery's theory, such as his success in forcing Mr. Mystery to revise the definition of value, deriving a more specific distinction between use value and exchange value.

But, on the whole, Rand had to admit that he couldn't defeat Mr. Mystery's exploitation, but his inner emotions were urging him not to admit it, even if it was a lot of the truth.

Because he came from the family of Jimenez, according to Mr. Mystery, Jimenez was also one of the root causes of the suffering of the lower classes.

Even the things that Rand has always been proud of, the achievements he learned about in the magic school, the pride of his grandfather's participation in the creation, although objectively, to a certain extent, will bring more convenience to everyone than before, but just as the gun can be used for hunting and protecting himself, its appearance, in the mouth of Rand's teacher, is to a certain extent to shorten the distance between ordinary people and transcendentals.

But in fact, more often than not, it is used for massacres and becomes the most direct tool of war.

Such days passed in a hurry, and as the discussion between the two deepened, Rand was shocked by Mr. Mystery's deduction, which he deduced from the exploitation theory that this mode of production and commodity circulation was established, because the exploitation of merchants would sooner or later bring about a crisis, and it was a comprehensive crisis, this crisis was like a person eating, eating all the time, completely ignoring how much he could really eat, and in the end he would vomit if he couldn't eat.

In line with the previous discussion, it is the excessive pursuit of profits by the merchants, and the excessive exploitation will bring them extraordinary wealth accumulation. But they forget that the accumulation of these accumulations, no matter how they use them, is so large that they can only be put into reproduction, otherwise there will be a huge stagnation, and that the overall greed will inevitably lead them to reproduction in order to obtain more profits from exploitation.

However, the reproduced goods cannot be consumed by them alone, which requires more consumers, and those workers who were previously exploited by them should also be cross-consumers after reproduction, that is, you consume my products, and I consume your products.

But let's not forget that their share was exploited by the merchants by various means, so that in the end they could no longer digest the results of reproduction, and the wealth accumulated by the merchants in the early stage could not be multiplied in reproduction. Instead, it may be lost.

Of course. Merchants are by no means the most miserable. The most tragic thing is still the workers, because they will lose their jobs in the first place, and if such a crisis breaks out, if the influence of individual morality is not taken into account, it is divided into two parts: merchants and workers, and the workers are very innocent in the crisis, and some unscrupulous businessmen will try to pass on the consequences of the crisis.

But when that time comes, it will be a total erosion and withering. It's like when the cold comes, the animals can't run and have to endure it.

Rand was shocked and hoped to find a solution, but the two discussed for a long time, and it seemed inevitable that unless the previous discussion was completely untenable.

"Actually, I think there are already signs of this, and it is precisely because of the very likelihood of a crisis that I am so interested in figuring it out. But there are some things that I can't access for the time being, so your investigation is very helpful for my research. Mr. Mystery said.

"Thank you for the compliment. But to be honest, I can't be happy right now. Judging from your deduction, it seems that we are heading towards self-destruction again and again, or rather towards weakness again and again, and then reviving again and again until we can no longer support it, and we are completely destroyed, right?" Rand said wistfully.

"It should be like this in the long run, but you don't have to worry so much, just like the magic research that you are proud of, if there is a very great achievement, there will always be a relieving effect, and then it will fall into such a cycle, unless the system is destroyed, abandoned, and changed. Perhaps when a new system is created, it will perish. Mr. Mystery said.

"Is there any way other than what you just said, hoping for new achievements in magic research that can be alleviated?" Rand said unwillingly.

"You and I have been discussing it for so many days, and we have to admit that there is no fundamental way to change it, because it is like a disease that a child brings out from the womb and will stay with him for the rest of his life until he stops breathing. But if it is only a symptomatic treatment, there are other ways to do it in addition to magic research, such as abandoning a completely laissez-faire policy and looking at the big picture, and the government finding a way to intervene in excessive greed and exploitation. Mr. Mystic paused, "But that's not enough, because for someone who is about to vomit, you have to have a buffer first, so I think if your kingdom really faces an economic crisis that we talked about, then the possibility of war is very high." ”

"War?" Rand didn't expect this to be in Mr. Mystery's prescription.

"Yes, if war breaks out, the backlog of goods can be sold, the merchants can be rejuvenated, the workers will not have to worry about losing their jobs, and everything will be stable. Mr. Mystery said, "As long as we are defeated, we can pass on part of the crisis and buy time to interfere with the things we just mentioned." In the past slave era and feudal era, the victor would also plunder the wealth of the loser, but now if it is defeated, it can create a market for commodities, artificially create cheap human resources, and exploit it more conveniently, and then make up for its own losses through a seemingly fair flow of goods, and alleviate the crisis we just mentioned. ”

Rand was stunned, as with most previous discussions, he didn't want war to break out emotionally, he had fought and lived with Lombana and them on the Emerald Continent for a while, and had seen the cruelty of war, which was the cruelty of death and death.

"Really?" he heard how powerless his voice was.

"I think it will, because it's one of the ways to mitigate the crisis, and I'm sure no one will fail to think of it. Mr. Mystery said.

Rand smiled bitterly and shook his head, "I'm very happy to communicate and discuss with you these days, I have one last question for today, what should I call you?

Mr. Mystery was silent for a moment, and when Rand almost thought that he had quietly disappeared and was a little disappointed, he suddenly heard his answer in his spirit: "Of course you can, but I can't guarantee the time, maybe I can only take the initiative to find you like now, and I can't go beyond this continent." As for my name, you can call me Mr. Cumminnathan. (To be continued.) )

PS: I'm really asking for my own hardships, and my level is not enough, so I have to write it without shouting two slogans.

In addition, I would like to say that our Mr. Cumminnathan is not the protagonist Solomon, nor is he the second traverser.