Chapter 254 Ancient Social Political Economy (2/4)
Outside the house at night, quiet.
The gentle moonlight shrouds the trauma-covered earth.
"Wen Ling, are you sure you want to choose this person?"
"Yes, master. I observed him for three days and felt that this person was pretty good."
"Okay, it seems that there is no problem, but it seems that there is no sincerity when burning incense on Lihuo."
Huang Si had just teleported over, while Wen Ling had been here for three days.
He then understood the specific situation after looking at Wen Ling's memory.
"Indeed, he was only willing to buy the cheapest incense, which was a common person to save money. But did the owner notice that he bought his mother the best roast chicken in the cooked food shop."
"So what, oh by the way, I'll buy one tomorrow, too."
Wen Ling smiled and shook her head.
After chatting with Wen Ling for a while, Huang Si pulled him into the air.
The earth is getting smaller and smaller under your feet.
Soon, the whole village became like a matchbox.
They are still rising.
Wen Ling asked, "Master, are you trying to do this?"
“Where you are a little higher, you will have a better perspective.”
Huang Si answered him.
Wen Ling understands it.
The two stopped in the sky and looked at it from this perspective, they could no longer see the buildings on the ground.
Wen Ling possesses the law of darkness, and darkness cannot hinder his sight. He looks at the vast earth.
From here, looking into the distance, there are layers of mountains and rivers.
The places where humans live together are easy to identify, because the natural geography will show irregular lines, but the humans' residence will depict clear and regular straight lines on the earth.
In the high night sky, under the strong wind, Huang Si spoke:
"You have heard of Pinghe's words before."
Wen Ling nodded, "Well, he is angry at the injustice of the world."
"Speaking of this, Wen Ling, do you know why these people have always been very poor?"
"In the current social productivity, in theory, the food produced by a person can feed more than five people. Why are they still so poor?"
Huang Si suddenly asked.
"The master must have taught me something."
Wen Ling was very smart and immediately discovered that Huang Si was not trying to ask questions, but wanted to say something.
"Well, the reason is actually very simple, because the lives of poor people are full of risks."
"A man, as long as he invests his money in expanding and reproduction, his wealth today will be more than yesterday, day by day until one day he reaches stability, which we call the balance of wealth."
"As long as a person has assets, in theory, he can achieve a balance of wealth little by little."
"But if a person is poor at the beginning, he has no cash to invest, so he cannot make his wealth grow."
"A poor man has a little extra consumption, such as being sick, buying luxury goods like TV, will have less wealth than yesterday, and the less wealth, the harder he will get out of this state, which is called the poverty trap."
"For the rich, he is sick or bought a diamond ring worth tens of thousands of yuan, but it only slows down his wealth growth rate, and he is still in the wealthy class."
"But for the poor, he cannot get sick, and he must avoid extra expenses. Living in this world requires endurance of many desires to successfully save a little money. Once he gets sick, all his previous efforts may be wasted."
“And, the life of the poor is boring.”
"So, rather than saving money and trying to reach the critical point of wealth, the poor are more willing to buy something that is luxurious for him, but can add to the pleasure of life or satisfaction."
“For example, iphone.”
"Some people would even rather sell their kidneys than buy iPhones."
"But once he does this, he will end up in a more miserable situation."
"Compared with the poor, the rich don't have to endure so many desires. They buy a lot of things when they want to buy, and do it when they want to do it, and don't have to think about that much at all."
"The poor are different. On the one hand, the poor have less information than the rich, so that the decisions they make are often irrational. On the other hand, they have stronger desires for luxury goods beyond their ability. Only by restraining all of these desires can the assets accumulate little by little... But if there is a little accident, they will fail."
“That’s why the rich are more likely to succeed than the poor.”
"If a person falls into the poverty trap, it is difficult to get out by relying solely on his own strength."
"Pinghe gave free medical treatment in the village, which actually helped these villagers a lot, allowing them to reduce the chances of becoming more poor."
After Huang Si finished speaking, Wen Ling roughly understood, but he didn't quite understand many of the words.
Wen Ling looked at the village below and asked:
"Then, poor people will be poor. Is this unsolvable?"
"Of course it's not unsolvable."
Huang Si said.
"Otherwise, why did ancient society have uprisings and revolutions? It's just for reshuffle."
He said again:
"But it is not easy for human race to think of an uprising today, which is related to the level of technology. The human race is too strict and advanced military technology is in the hands of the nobles, so it is difficult for civilians to resist."
Wen Ling asked: "Does the human race still have hope of turning the tables?"
"Of course there is, this is how war is used. Every time there is a large war, a large number of upstarts will emerge from the human race. Then again, if it weren't for the Millennium War, the human race's technology would not have developed in such a jumping way, and now it has begun to sail far away."
Wen Ling immediately asked again:
"But the war is about to end. If the Jing Kingdom unifies the world, then will the human race form a stable structure with a stagnant pool of water and the lower class have no room for a turnaround?"
Huang Si did not answer him immediately.
Wen Ling didn't wait for the answer, thought for a while, and said again:
"In this way, the poor are always poor and the rich are always rich, and the rich will bully the poor more and more unscrupulously, just like what we see in this village, where landlords and their subordinates bully farmers."
"Master probably doesn't want to see this happening."
Huang Si nodded.
"In this case, I actually have two solutions in my concept."
"One of them is to imitate the practice of the earth."
"The way to solve the problem of class non-circulation is the imperial examination system. Through a relatively fair system like the imperial examination, we can ensure that the lower-level talents are circulated to the upper level and avoid class rigidity."
"The second is to develop religion."
"The human race has not had a complete and mature religious system so far, only primitive beliefs of gods. If we join religion, add metaphysical thoughts of karma, and then add force beyond the secular world, this situation can be curbed."
“Religion, and extraordinary power, can allow everyone to consider the serious consequences of doing these things before doing evil, rather than doing whatever they want to do just because they do not violate the criminal law.”
He looked at Wen Ling.
"What I ask you to do is the latter."
Wen Ling nodded.
"So that's it... I finally understand the root cause of all the things my master asked me to do."
He saluted.
"Thank you for teaching me."
Wen Ling's thanks for sincerity.
To put it in the words of the earth, among the family members of the Three Realms, Wen Ling's happiness is probably one of the best.
He now does research if he wants to do research, and his life span is unlimited and there are no trivial matters for official positions.
Moreover, he was not thinking about it alone, but teacher Huang Si taught him.
Wen Ling was extremely satisfied with such a life.
After saying this, Huang Si took Wen Ling to Fenhe City and asked him to find a place to live.
Although Wen Ling has five major laws, none of them are as suitable for combat and daily use as Xiaohua.
That is, the water system rules are more useful.
He can't fly now, and he has no core of strength, so he can only live like a mortal.
"Let's go, see you tomorrow."
Wen Ling stood at the entrance of the inn and greeted the host.
Huang Si wrote down the matter of buying roasted chicken on the agenda and teleported away.
Chapter completed!