Gold is Justice

"Now that we have figured out why the imperial system appeared, let's think about it, what is the reason for the complete disappearance of the imperial system?"

"Of course, it's because of food. Even, not only food, but also a lot of things including clothes, shoes, wood, mirrors, pots, etc. To be more accurate... that is, if the existence of the emperor itself If it will suppress people to produce more food and produce more goods, then the existence of the emperor itself is doomed to come to an end."

Everyone at the scene held their breath, and even Rummy was staring at Ariel with a puzzled face.

Ariel took another deep breath and announced her answer——

"Perhaps you will think, how could that be? How could the emperor hinder the production of these things?!"

"It's very simple, that is, we can produce food, produce clothes, and produce everything else faster and more efficiently." "The reason why the emperor has absolute control over resources is because we used to produce The amount of resources is too small, if they cannot be deployed according to the emperor's order, it is very likely that they will fall into war with each other again."

"But if we produce enough things, we can allocate them among ourselves, and even continue to produce new materials continuously, then the emperor itself is meaningless to us. I believe I have reached this point , everyone must understand what is going on. Yes, what I said is that we have mastered the elemental machine, a powerful power that is different from magic, and everyone can easily use it by learning basic theoretical knowledge. "

"With the elemental machine, the materials we can produce will become richer and more diverse. This epoch-making power that can be mastered by all of us will provide our lives with many It is a convenience that has never been imagined before. It allows us to achieve a breakthrough that requires the emperor to govern the material balance between the various regions."

Ariel tried to make her thoughts as simple as possible. After all, when thinking about this truth, she thought more and more complicatedly, and the variables in it would become more uncontrollable.But now, as long as people understand such a simple truth, it is enough.

However, for many people headed by Fleisch, such an explanation is obviously not enough.

"No, that's not right at all."

When Ariel's words paused for a while, Fleisher next to him finally couldn't help it, shook his head, and said in a completely distrustful tone——

"Using the element machine can destroy the Blue Bay Empire? You really dare to say such an exaggerated statement!"

He stretched out his hand, pointed to the elemental gun held by the soldier next to him, and said slowly——

"Or, as you said, the power of the elemental machine is indeed very powerful. I also have to admit that the elemental gun developed by using the power of the elemental machine has indeed raised the strength of each of our fighters to a higher level."

"However, don't think that if you defeated the Knights of the Blue Bay Empire once before, you can continue to succeed forever. The design of this elemental machine is not very complicated. Now there are already some templates of elemental guns that have begun to be circulated outside the marginal province. Do you think the empire will design a batch of them like this? At that time, the strength of the imperial army will be even stronger, and in the end, we still have to compete in terms of strength and economic strength between us, don’t we?”

Ariel had expected such a question a long time ago, and of course, she already had her own answer——

"No, the empire...not just the Blue Bay Empire, but even all the empires in this world will never choose to use elemental machines as their main force. They may cast elemental guns, elemental cannons, or use elemental Machines can be converted into more powerful forces. However, they will never allow things like elemental machines to enter the empire and use all their strength to produce materials."

Fleisch raised his neck: "Why? If you say they don't know it, they won't? Why can't they use such a convenient and easy-to-use thing?"

Ariel nodded lightly: "Of course it won't work. Because the appearance of the elemental machine itself is a threat to the emperor's system. Moreover, this threat is a fundamental, irreversible, and subversive one." .Miss Rummy Bilan, although you may feel very indignant listening to what I said now, I feel that I am still talking to you in a very rational way. No matter how much you deny me, I think so all the time.”

Next, Ariel has already started to express the idea in her heart slowly without the rum cheese over there or Fleisch here continuing to ask—

"The elemental machine is a very potential power. Its potential does not lie in how much power it can explode, but in its scope of application. This power source can be designed in many places, so that everything can be industrialized Production. Since the machines don’t get tired and can replace most of the manual labor, this will allow us to be very productive.”

"As the owner of the elemental machine, or, for example, me, the owner of a textile factory, a car factory, and other owners of a furniture factory, or a farmer who owns a large piece of farmland and uses an elemental machine for cultivation, since we can Production of goods produced in the past three, five, or even ten years. Of course, we cannot use all of such large quantities of goods for ourselves. We will definitely trade to earn wealth, and then use the wealth we earn to carry out Production."

"Then, the problem arises. We have so many merchants producing so many goods to be traded, so how do we deal with our trading currency?"

"In the past, the Blue Bay Empire used four currencies of gold, silver, copper and iron for transactions. The empire had the right to mint coins, and the royal family had the final say on how much currency was invested in the empire every year."

"However, the previous coinage required the four metals of gold, silver, copper, and iron. Under the power of the elemental machine, it was impossible for the metals stored by the empire to keep up with the amount of currency we needed. In other words, in this market There should be more currency than goods, and the excess currency can be stored in the royal treasury and put into the market when needed. But now, even if all the currency of the royal family is emptied, it may not be possible to put all the currency on the market All goods are priced one by one."

"Under this situation, the Blue Bay Empire has three ways to deal with it."

"One is to constantly look for new mines to mine precious metals and use them to mint currency."

"Secondly, reduce the composition of all precious metal currencies, and even finally switch to using iron coins, but mark different prices on the iron coins."

"Then the last way, since the price of gold coins can be marked on the least valuable iron coin, why can't the price of gold coins be written on a piece of paper?"

"This is the result of using paper money issued by Pelican City in the border provinces. This result is irreversible. No matter how much the empire wants to maintain the existence of metal currency, under the situation of explosive growth of goods, switching to paper money will It will be an absolutely irreversible process."

"So, now comes the problem."

Ariel raised her hand, and glanced at the faces of Fleisch, Rummy and all the bystanders, like a teacher asking a student a question——

"When us bosses have a lot of goods and a lot of food waiting to be traded, if the empire can exchange these a lot of goods and food in our hands just by printing a piece of paper, what will we bosses do? thoughts?"

Hearing this, Amazake, who had been scolded by Ariel before, lowered her head and thought for a while, and soon, a flustered expression flashed on her face that was originally full of anger.

Seeing her expression, Ariel knew that she had figured it out.Turning to Fleisch next to him, the general finally nodded after frowning for a long time——

"Perhaps if this continues, the empire will definitely confront you factory bosses... This seems to be unchangeable. But the empire will definitely take countermeasures!"

Ariel nodded slightly, and said: "That's right, the empire will definitely take countermeasures. No matter how slow it is, the empire will suddenly find that it seems that we bosses can no longer be convinced just by relying on the printed paper in their hands. Next, the empire will first What we have to do is definitely the ultimate army, and try our best to suppress us bosses. The most important point is to abolish the element machine, prohibit the way that this world can produce so many goods, and let everything go back to the old way. Can rely on the sky for food, everyone can only do some manual work, and the materials produced are extremely scarce in farming life. Because only in this way, the empire can rely on its "benevolence" and the allocation of resources to obtain the legitimacy of maintaining the empire sex."

"However, I believe that anyone who has seen the power of the elemental machine will not want to go back to the previous life of relying on cattle or farming by hand, or return to the life of ten female textile workers who worked hard for a month. Only then can we sew a life of exquisite clothing.”

"Handmade products are backward products, which can only satisfy the hypocrisy of noble lords. Because they always think that only they have, but they don't want all civilians and slaves to have the same things as them. "

"Now, I'll change the topic back. When we bosses feel that instead of letting the empire print money in exchange for our goods, it's better for us bosses to negotiate among ourselves, or barter, or create A currency system came out."

"And when the currency in our hands no longer needs to follow the empire's minting rights, then the empire itself, which has lost its economic support, has no need to exist. All it can do is to rely on the force it still has in its hands to suppress it before it falls. We bosses, and then robbing our goods with worthless waste paper in the name of 'buying'. This situation will continue until we bosses build our own in order not to be robbed army. At that time, the empires of this world will naturally come to an end."

After listening to Ariel's explanation, Fleisch's face really didn't look very good-looking.

This is normal, not only him, but also many citizens around him, everyone has such a look now.

Before that, they might have thought that overthrowing the Blue Bay Empire would be a beautiful dream, and they might even feel that it would be no different from the fall of those empires in history.Or in some people's minds, they have already begun to imagine that in the future, the time for a queen named Ariel Garcia to ascend the throne will come!

Ordinary people may not have the royal family of the Blue Bay Empire in their heads, but I am afraid that no one would have thought that this world will fundamentally no longer have the birth of royal families!

This has never happened before... No, even in the future, is it really possible for this to happen?

"Ridiculous! It's ridiculous!"

At this time, it was the rum cheese who was stopped over there who made a voice of objection.

She continued to point her finger at Ariel, with a stubborn sneer on the corner of her mouth, as if she had found a huge loophole in her theory, unable to conceal the excitement in her heart——

"It's so beautiful, but don't forget that the elemental machine is just a tool after all! Since it is a tool, it only depends on the person who uses it!"

The current eldest princess of the Blue Bay Empire put her hands on her hips, hummed twice and said——

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"According to what you said, our royal family can only watch you guys open factories and conduct trade? It's a joke! Elemental machines can be used by you, of course, by our royal family! You can produce ten Annual production, our royal family can certainly do it! Moreover, my brother, who is now the Emperor of Blue Bay—— Menglang Bilan, is doing exactly this!"

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Since there was no amplifier, Amazake tried to shout as hard as she could.Her status as a member of the royal family meant that she would argue with all her might in this moment.After all, what if the horrible idea of ​​this slave-born woman was allowed to spread and everyone assumed that someday the royal family would disappear?She must maintain the dignity of the Bilan family!

"My brother has sent people several times to invite all the various factories in Pelican City to relocate to the capital, Hanhai City, right? And my brother is also willing to subsidize you designers to continue to develop elemental machines. In other words, the kind of machines you can create The power of a large number of resources, my brother, the Blue Bay royal family can also grasp! The Blue Bay royal family has a lot of supplies and troops, but can deploy these supplies even more, and send everything to those who need it most. Our royal family Isn’t it more effective and convenient to deploy than you merchants trade with each other, intrigue, buy low and sell high, and hoard goods?!”

As for Rummy's screaming, Ariel, after thinking for a moment, beckoned to Coco, who was on the sidelines.After Keke came over, Ariel said a few words, Keke's face was full of doubts immediately, but she still nodded, walked to the rum, took out a loudspeaker from her pocket, and handed it to her.

Rummy: "Why?"

Ke Ke: "Sister President asked me to give it to you. You can speak loudly and convey your thoughts to everyone present, instead of being as hoarse as you are now."

The rum cheese is doubtful.

Because she knew that no matter how much she yelled, the state that many people could not hear her was the most beneficial for Ariel.Because then she can spread her poisonous theory!

But now, she is willing to respond to her objection head-on?Obviously, what she said is precisely the most critical loophole in her theory of the destruction of the empire?

But now he couldn't care about anything else, Amazake put on the loudspeaker, and said what he just said again.

Sure enough, after she finished speaking, people who had just identified with Ariel's theory of the destruction of the empire were also confused now.

In this regard, Ariel just nodded silently, turned to Fleish next to her, and said slowly——

"General Fleischer, why do you think the imperial army pursued you?"

Fleisch was taken aback, and after thinking for a while, he said, "We are rebels, we kill nobles, we rob, how could they not chase and kill us?"

Ariel: "Then the famine has spread to almost the entire empire and killed so many people, why didn't Emperor Lanwan go after the famine?"

At that moment, Fleisch felt as if he had been humiliated, and blushed: "What do you mean? How can we confuse a concept?!"

Ariel nodded: "That's why the imperial army chased you down. It's not because you killed nobles, nor because you robbed, but because in the entire Blue Bay Empire, the Blue Royal Family will never allow an army that is not controlled by you to exist." The controlled army is rampaging in its own territory. Even if your Thunder Army has not killed any nobles since its establishment, and has not carried out any robbery, but just gathered to form an army, the Blue Bay royal family will ask you to disband. If If you refuse to disband, you will immediately find a way to destroy you."

"This is the nature of an imperial country. Everything must be within the control of the royal family. If the royal family has something the best, it cannot allow others to have it. Because that is a threat to the royal family. It is a challenge to the imperial power. And the most intolerable thing for the imperial power is the challenge."

Ariel turned her eyes to the rum cheese in front of her——

"It's like the eldest princess in front of us. She is proud of her royal status and possesses incomparable dignity. The reason why she challenged everyone in Song of Mermaid is, in the final analysis, because Song of Mermaid challenged us. Her dignity as a royal family is also the power of imperial power."

"Now, since the imperial power will never allow another army to exist within its own territory, will the imperial power allow another economic force outside its own control to exist within its own economic scope?"

"I don't think so."

"It is true that Menglang Bilan invited all the factories to build factories in Hanhai City, and I will not doubt his intention to invest in the element machine for further construction. But at the same time, he will also demand the destruction of all the factories except the royal family. All the element machines. From then on, in the entire Blue Bay Empire, only clothes produced by his royal family can be sold, and food certified by his royal family can be eaten. Everything must be controlled under the requirements of the royal family."

After thinking about it for a while, Sweet Wine Cheese asked, "What's the problem? What's the difference between this and the trade in goods by you merchants just now? The only difference is that you merchants can't make money, right?"

Ariel: "There is a difference. In fact, making us businessmen unable to make money is the most trivial problem here."

While Rummy was stunned, Ariel continued to say——

"As I said just now, the elemental machine is an existence that will fundamentally destroy the imperial system. The reason is that the elemental machine itself represents a force that can produce as much as possible."

"The royal family controls the army. Of course, they don't want their army to become lazy and incompetent. If the army wants to win a battle, it must ensure that its army is stronger than the neighboring country and stronger than all the rebel forces in its own territory. That means This means that the army should be trained and polished, instead of being overstaffed and paid for nothing.”

"The same is true for the factories established by the element machines. At present, the element machines are only carried out in some areas centered on the marginal provinces and spread out. In other words, once the emperor completely confiscated all the element machines, Then all the factories set up by Menglang Bilan will not have any competitors."

"Is an elemental machine factory without competitors really effective? Just like an army without competitors, will it become high-spirited and have excellent combat effectiveness?"

"I don't think so. In the knowledge of economics I have learned, there is a saying called 'monopoly'. It means that in a market, if a chamber of commerce occupies an excessively large share, then the Industrial progress would tend to stall."

"Because what a monopoly wants to do most is definitely not to rely on product technological innovation to create more and better things, but will definitely use its monopoly position to do everything possible to suppress other products that do not have a monopoly position."

"To put it more vividly, in the future, the royal family will not allow anyone to set up the same products as the factories opened by the royal family. Since there are no competitors, the quality of the products is meaningless. No matter how bad the products are, people will buy them. It doesn’t matter if the production of food is reduced, anyway, no one will rush to farm. Even if the element car is paralyzed and explodes soon after driving out, if someone dies, that person is unlucky. After all, if you don’t buy it, there is no other place can buy."

"Rumella, maybe you will say that your brother will never allow this to happen. But you have to know that your brother is an emperor, he is not a businessman who needs to compete with others for product sales. He is the only one who can What it does is hand over the factory to the minister or someone else."

"And these people... even if they appoint me to be the manager of the monopoly element factory in the future, the quality of the things will not affect the sales at all. In order to make my wallet a little bigger, in order not to In the case of price cuts to save costs, so as to fill my pockets and embezzle myself, I will definitely reduce the quality of products as much as possible.”

"This is not something that can be solved by choosing a 'good man' to manage it. It is based on the laws of human nature. The monopoly plant belongs to your brother, and your brother's definition of the plant is to strangle other competitors and make some money. He He doesn’t go to check the quality of the products in the factory every day when he has nothing to do. Even if he visits on a whim one day and investigates and punishes the corrupt manager, the next manager he appoints is no matter how conscientious he was at the beginning. , After a long time, he will definitely follow the old path of his predecessor, this is human nature. And under a management system, the last thing you should expect is human nature.”

"So now, all the element factories are monopolized by your brother. It doesn't matter if the things produced are less or broken. Your brother's status is stable. Then, maybe it's not your brother, maybe it will be the next emperor. , will start to think whether there is a need for the element factory to exist? After all, as I said just now, for the emperor, the best era of rule is when everyone’s supplies are relatively scarce, but it will not reach the point where they cannot survive. After all, those who work hard every day to get some food and clothing are the least likely to rebel. On the contrary, those who live a very good material life will start to think about some messy things. And I am one of these people one of."

At that moment, Ariel clapped her hands, let out a long breath, and said——

"In this way, the times will reincarnate again. Once the technology of the elemental machine appears, it will be very difficult to completely eliminate it. And when the royal family starts to set the elemental machine as a monopoly, and the things produced are getting worse and worse , when it becomes more and more expensive, there will be some courageous businessmen, such as me, who will start to pick up the technology of the elemental machine again, build their own factories secretly, and start to produce more than the empire. Better product."

"And after the last failure, this time, the merchants will understand that they must never hand over their elemental machines. We will develop the army, establish alliances, and establish a common front. In other words, we will require the use of Our own element machine products compete with the empire’s element machine products. If the empire’s element machine products cannot compete with us, we will be eliminated. We will earn a lot of money, we will have our own minting rights, and we will not Will submit to the management of the empire."

"When we merchants have more wealth than the empire, is there really a need for such a thing as an empire? What do you think, respected Ms. Cheese Bilan?" Theoretically speaking, What Ariel said was her own idea.Although these ideas have some realistic foundations as their foundations, they are definitely just ideas in general and cannot be taken for granted.

However, she spent a lot of time and patiently figured out these ideas bit by bit.Perhaps there may be many deviations in this, and perhaps there are some factors that I have not considered at all in the process of changing the whole incident, and it is completely impossible to consider factors that will play a decisive role in changing everything, but now For her, this was already the limit she could consider.