LOL: Summoner of Goddess Jana

Chapter 301 Learning from Leather City Cannot Save Demacia
"This..." Prince Jiawen was taken aback for a moment.

He looked at the owner of the snack bar with an inscrutable face in front of him, and felt inexplicably against the law.

Because in Demacia, politics has always been a doctrine that only nobles and elites can touch.

When his father gave him supplementary lessons, he was very secretive, as if he was teaching some incredible dragon-slaying technique, for fear that others would listen to it.

But in Zaan, a snack shop owner who can be seen everywhere on the street can be so confident in discussing politics with him, the prince?Is it too confident?

"You" Jiawen decided to listen to what he said: "Why do you say that Demacia can't learn Piltover, but can only learn Zaun from the past?"

"Hehe." The owner of the snack shop asked with some amusement: "Guest, haven't you read the book "A Brief Introduction to Janna's Thoughts?"

"I've seen it." Jiawen said.

"You still can't figure it out after seeing it? Then you've seen it for nothing." The owner of the snack bar despised him, the prince's political level.

"I just asked you, how did Piltover get rich?"

Jiawen thought about it.This is just a simple historical record, and it is written in the booklet, of course he can understand it.

"Piltover took the lead in colonizing many city-states on the north coast of Shurima before the Noxus Empire expanded to the southern continent 300 years ago. It plundered a lot of wealth and resources, It also opened up a vast overseas market, and finally took the lead in starting the industrial revolution, realizing the progress of science and technology and civilization.”

"That's right." The owner of the snack bar spread his arms and told Prince Jiawen: "The real Ziben masters realize primitive accumulation by invading and plundering the wealth of other countries."

"Back then, Piltover was able to colonize Shurima because the Noxus Empire hadn't expanded here. What about now?"

Now Noxus has occupied the east and south of Valoran, as well as the north shore of Shurima.The direction of Demacia's external expansion has long been firmly blocked by their deadly enemies.

"Who can you Demacia invade now? Thank God if you don't get invaded by Noxus."

"Um..." Galen and Jarvan were a little embarrassed.

Jiawen thought about it seriously, and then said: "However, does it have to go through aggression and plunder to develop the main character?"

"I remember that Piltover's overseas colony in Shurima was snatched by the Noxus Empire more than 100 years ago."

"Over the past 100 years, Piltover has not invaded or plundered foreign countries. Isn't it still a city of civilization and progress?"

He asked this question nonchalantly, but was immediately stared at by the owner of the snack bar:
"Guest, I think you don't understand at all."

"How big is Piltover, and how big is Demacia? Piltover is just a small city-state with a population of around 200 million."

"Aside from the god-given cornucopia of the Sun Gate Canal, the technological advantages they accumulated during the industrial revolution alone were enough to allow them to earn a lot of money in global trade later on."

"But you, Demacia, don't have the advantages of technology and industry, and you have tens of millions of poor people to feed. You think that as long as you do business properly, you can develop the seed industry without any pain. up?"

The repeated questioning by the owner of the snack bar left Prince Jiawen speechless.

But the other party's sharp mouth did not stop there:

"Guest, do you think that you can be as rich as Piltover by engaging in Ziben masters?"

"But you didn't think about it clearly. In the past, Zaun was also run by scorpions. Even our system was no different from Piltover at the beginning. But why are we so poor?"

"This" Jiawen was awakened.

Yes, he only saw the success of Piltover, but not the failure of Zaun.

But in fact, the lines and systems of both are the same.Why is the former so rich and the latter so poor?

"Because the two cities are essentially one. Zaun is the ghetto of Piltover, the lower city of Piltover."

"Pil City used that canal to separate their slums and hide the ugly side of Master Ziben."

"Make an analogy."

The snack bar owner looked at the two Demacians in front of him:

"If you only look at the Xiongdu of Demacia and don't look at places other than Xiongdu, you probably think that Demacia is a country where everyone has enough food and clothing, right?"

"Hmm..." Jiawen understood now.

He mistakenly equated Piltover with Demacia, thinking that learning Piltover would lead Demacia to become rich.

But in fact, with the size of both sides, Piltover is more like the capital of Demacia.

Besides Xiongdu, there are also countryside like Zaan, and there are countless rural serfs who sell their blood and sweat for Xiongdu.

"Do you know what kind of life the people of Zaun lived in the past?" the snack shop owner recalled with emotion.

In fact, his life in old Zaun was not bad.

In old Zaun, if you can own your own stall like him, you don't need to go into a sweatshop, you don't need to sell yourself as a slave, and your income can support yourself and your family, you are already considered a decent middle-class person.

But this does not mean that the past life of the snack bar owner was so easy.

Yes, as a self-employed person with his own business, he doesn't need to suffer the bone-sucking oppression of the alchemy barons like those Zaun laborers.

But the problem is, the alchemy baron's method of oppressing people is not only to let people enter the factory to work.

In Old Zaun, the city was divided into spheres of influence by the powerful alchemy barons based on streets or communities.

All businesses within the sphere of influence are actually controlled by giant companies under the name of the Alchemy Baron.

Residents theoretically have the freedom of person and property, but they need to pay high fees for all their actions.

You have to pay high electricity bills to the company for electricity use, you can only buy high-priced medicines from the company when you get sick, you have to pay rent from the company for accommodation, you have to buy clean food from the company for meals, and you have to buy clean water from the company for drinking water, and even a breath that is not poisonous Air, can only buy the company's breathing mask.

The company sends the meager salary to the workers, and then easily uses the products produced by their own blood and sweat to take it back with interest.

People in Za'an have worked hard for half their lives, and they often can't save a penny. They may also owe the company a high-interest debt, so they can only sell themselves as slaves, or even sell themselves to gold refineries, and sell themselves to those scientific lunatics who are keen on prosthetic body transformation.

"I made a lot of money selling the devil's marsh frog, but most of the money I earned was used to pay protection fees to the alchemy barons, and to spend on food, clothing, housing, transportation, and various necessary expenses." The snack shop owner said with emotion .

"Doing this business is very tiring, but I dare not rest for a day."

"Because I know that it only takes one illness, one accident, or even just one increase in the price of water and food by the alchemy barons, and my so-called decent life will become unsustainable."

Prince Jiawen listened intently.

He always felt that he seemed to have seen the narration of the owner of the snack bar before.

Residents have the freedom of person and property, but they need to pay high fees for all their actions.

This.
"Isn't this the tenant farmer of our Demacia?" Prince Jarvan finally realized where this sense of déjà vu came from.

"Those alchemy barons are like the noble lords of our Demacia?"

"That's right!" The snack bar owner nodded in agreement.

It is true that the subjugation system is more advanced than the feudal system.

When the seed benzene grows savagely to the point of Zaun, you will find:

Those giant enterprises that have completely controlled the people's livelihood have tacitly changed back to the feudal lords they once defeated.

"That's why I said that Demacia can only learn from the past Zaun."

"You don't have the ability to plunder like Piltover and Noxus back then, so you can only rely on your own cheap labor to accumulate seeds like Zaun."

"This process is bound to be difficult and painful. But after going through all these pains, when Demacia finally realized the primitive accumulation, it has some development results."

"Because your body is too large and the population is too large, it is difficult for you to let all Demacians live a life close to Mrs. Piltover."

"The biggest possibility is: Xiongdu has become a 'Picheng'; and places other than Xiongdu have become 'Zu'an'."

If at this time, Demacia can restrain the mastery of the seed benzene, it is undeniably a huge improvement compared to the poor and backward feudal kingdom in the past.

But if we allow the savage growth of the seedlings to turn Demacia into a giant enterprise that can act recklessly and domineeringly, and even the old Zaun where private businessmen control the political power in turn
Then these Demacians living in the Ziben era are essentially no different from the Demacians living in the Kingdom era.

"In short, learning from Piltover can only make some people rich. No matter how well you do, it is impossible to make everyone rich."

"Even if you are really a great man who descended from heaven once in a thousand years, and miraculously made tens of millions of Demacians rich. Then there must be tens of millions of poor people outside of Demacia who are doing it for you." You suffer."

"This is a general rule of the phenotype, and it's not something you can change."

"Guest, do you understand?"

(End of this chapter)