From star abyss

Chapter 642 346. Magic Dragon and Mithril (Part 2)

Unlike other races, the dragon race controlled the flames in advance, so they directly skipped the barter stage. They directly entered the era of precious metal currency economy, completely ahead of other species.

The main reason why the Dragon Clan is so obsessed with gold and silver is because the temperature of the Dragon Flame was initially very low, far less than the melting point of iron (1538 degrees Celsius), but the melting point of gold (1063 degrees Celsius) and silver (961.93 degrees Celsius) in nature But it is enough.

With the circulation of wealth, merchants, craftsmen, and other divisions of labor began to appear among the clans. Until a long time in the future, the Dragon Clan would not have any peasant units. In fact, they directly entered the stage of nomads and entered the stage of nomads. The path of the classical commercial kingdom.

There is nothing to say about the rest of the story. The dragon tribe’s innate advantages and environmental factors made them keen on fighting around, collecting wealth, and promoting the flow of commerce after solving the problem of food and clothing. ,

However, after the excess of wealth, the gap between rich and poor also began to appear. Although at first, most dragons enjoyed an equal division of labor, with the war, there will always be disabled, stupid, and dementia dragons.

In order to maintain their survival, some dragons are willing to sell their dragon rights and become slaves. The continuous wars have also reduced other alien races to lower-level slaves and become vassals of the dragons. Among them are some species that are good at farming and management. .

The arrival of slavery caused the original order to collapse.

The war also brought about the death of a group of male dragons, forcing the surviving wealthy male dragons to be eager to pass on their wealth and status to their offspring, so they began to find fixed mates on their own instead of maintaining the uncle-nephew inheritance system.

The matrilineal society collapsed, the Dragon Mother abdicated, and the male Dragon King stepped onto the stage of history. In order to maintain his rule and pass on the blood safely, the Dragon King needed wealth and force. The dragons cooperated with him and began to ennoble them as nobles. You can get some privileges - such as serving as a soldier, obtaining fiefs, and inheriting titles.

So, what is the most expensive thing in the dragon family’s values?

Gold and silver.

This is why, in the dragon system, golden dragons and silver dragons are absolute nobility. Their ancestors have maintained their status as armed nobles since their canonization until today.

The more their wealth increases, the more the dragons cannot get rid of their dependence on precious metals. Their strong bodies and excellent metallurgical craftsmanship allow them to conquer a large amount of land, with endless resources. The hard work of slaves directly liberates their people.

At this moment, their society is not only based on the pursuit of survival, money, and value, but they have begun to pursue more advanced things-such as music, fire art, dance, and hallucinogenic herbs.

Anyone with a little bit of historical perspective should know what they have done when they see the above things.

Yes, it is religious belief.

It stands to reason that once you have reached this point in your view of history, you don’t need to read the subsequent stories. All civilizations are similar.

It is nothing more than the formation of primitive worship, which promoted the development of astronomical divination technology, and then reversed the use of astronomy to navigation (for the Dragon Clan, aeronautics), followed by the rise of the church system, the transition from polytheism to monotheism, and the land was under theocratic rule and handed over to the church. The monarch was dissatisfied and began to reform the system.

Feudalization, divine right of kings, religious reform, theory of evolution, technological explosion, industrial revolution, capitalism, plutocratic state, cosmopolitanization of capital, global enterprises - Narrative No. 11 "United Group"!

This is something that anyone can check. The history of the rise of the Dragon Clan. Under a normal historical perspective, everyone would believe that this was determined by the environment. Only the Dragon Clan civilization can give birth to this possibility, and no other civilization can replicate it.

Because of this, the narrative of Narrative No. 11, "United Group", is a narrative that only belongs to the dragon civilization and their vassals. Environmental determinism effectively shatters the existence of racial superiority theory, allowing the mainstream narrative to stand from a perspective that transcends race. , about the superiority of narrative.

However, "Magic, Dragons and Mithril" goes a step further on the basis of environmental determinism and thinks about grand narratives from another angle.

"Although the narratives of the dragons naturally formed this way, as they developed, another problem also emerged."

That's the Spitfire.

The emergence of the ability to breathe fire freed the dragon's brain, but it also limited the dragon's body to develop in the direction of extraordinary species, so the dragon had to choose to gradually increase its size to accommodate more energy. The body is getting bigger and bigger, making it impossible for the Dragon Clan to make exquisite instruments by themselves. They can only let other races serve them through employment and slavery.

Because of this, the Dragon Clan has embarked on a strange path - instead of developing technology, they have constantly transformed their own language. Through the increase of language, they have attracted the energy of the universe and embarked on the path of magic.

But what if some planets don’t have magical torrents? Then the large amount of energy consumed by breathing fire will be gradually degraded, and the size of the dragons will be reduced step by step. A certain group of subspecies of dragons will become mouse-sized rodents, and then gradually evolve into arboreal animals with elongated limbs. ...and finally got off the tree and landed as a human being.

On the contrary, it will block the space for the development of dragon civilization and make the narrative an unattainable phantom.

Throughout history, we will find that such problems have appeared repeatedly in the development of dragon civilization.

What if the Dragon Clan discovered not gold and silver, but tungsten that was far from meltable? Then their war model will not undergo a qualitative change, metallurgy will not be able to develop, and they will not enter the era of precious metal currency.

What if the planet where dragons live has only one intelligent species: dragons? Then dragons will forever become flying nomads, because they cannot even farm, cannot continue a stable territory, and cannot cope with severe natural disasters.

What if the dragon clan did not choose to unite and cooperate, but lived alone? Then dragons are just strong and intelligent beasts, like monsters in fairy tales.

Even more tragically, if there is an accident such as an asteroid impact, animals such as dragons, which are high in the food chain, will be completely destroyed, and future generations may question that "dragons do not exist."

This is the difference between the book "Magic, Dragons and Mithril" and conventional history books.

"The view of this book is that the universe is chaotic and there has never been any determinism. The essence of grand narratives is statistical miracles piled up by chance and coincidence."

Li Ozi muttered:

"If any one of these factors is removed, the entire dragon civilization will collapse in an instant. Their existence is actually very fragile and cannot withstand any wrong node. In the evolution of millions of years, the losers will be far away. Far more than victors, it’s not that the dragons successfully survived, their experience can definitely be copied, but they have to be careful where they don’t have setbacks.”

Any sophisticated system is nonsense.

In the real Star Abyss, in fact, the top overlords are not that they have won everything, but that they have not lost for the time being.

If they existed for trillions of years, it means they just didn't face that crisis.

In the final analysis, there is one sentence: the essence of all civilization is a grassroots team.