Despite this arrogance, Ariel behaved very calmly.

A country without an emperor? This was almost unimaginable before.

People are used to having an emperor, nobility, and lords. If there is no emperor, then who will command the army? Who will ensure that a country will not be invaded by foreign countries?

If she had studied economics in depth with her teacher five or six years ago, even Ariel would have been deeply skeptical about it when she graduated.

But with the research in recent years, she really had such an idea... This was not an empty prophecy made by a witch.

"Huh... At that time, no one will want to be an emperor. No, to be more precise, there is no way to be an emperor. When the internal factors and external conditions of the emperor will disappear by themselves, then the emperor itself will have no meaning.

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Ariel still said these words very calmly. In response, Flash slammed the table, sat down in his seat again, raised his legs on the table, and said cheerfully——

"Okay! Then tell me about your ridiculous ideas. I want to see what kind of mentally ill person would want to refuse to be the emperor? If possible, I will definitely wait until the destruction of the Blue Bay Empire in this life.

At the same time, I will also be the one to witness the enthronement of the next new emperor."

Even the sweet cheese over there looked at Fleish with contempt, and then looked at Ariel in the same way, and hummed: "My empire will not collapse so easily. Just rely on you."

It’s even more impossible to say something like that!”

After taking a deep breath, Ariel began to organize her thoughts again.

Although the situation was critical now, she slowed down her thinking and looked at it all from the perspective of a historical observer with a calmer attitude, as if she was staying out of the situation.

After sorting out her thoughts, she slowly exhaled the breath in her chest, and finally spoke out——

"My thoughts are not illusory prophecies, nor are they nonsense. They are thoughts based on the perspective of human nature."

"Since I want to talk about the collapse of the monarchy and the destruction of the Blue Bay Empire, then I have to talk about why we are now the emperor in charge of everything."

"The reason is actually very simple. Because if there is an emperor on a piece of land to give orders, the people in this area can live better and grow more food."

"Just imagine, if there is no emperor in a huge territory, then people in the villages and cities below will definitely fight and bleed for more land. Under such constant conflicts, small cities will always be

In a small city, no one can become bigger and stronger. The labor force that could have been used to cultivate the land and produce food must be put into the fight. Without people to farm the land, the food income will naturally be low. When the food income is low, new problems will arise.

A round of fighting will not stop until a large part of the people die and there is just enough food left to feed those who survive."

"In this case, someone led his own town to eliminate other towns, commanded a large piece of territory, and began to cultivate under this person's order. Since everyone must listen to this person's words, there is a gap between towns.

The fighting and estrangement will naturally be reduced. If there is a food crisis in a certain city, village or town, this person can also order other areas to transport food there, thereby alleviating the pressure of famine."

"In this case, the larger the territory you own, the more resources you can deploy. Once a problem occurs in one place, you can use resources from another place to fill it. In this case, this person is doing it for himself.

If the territory under his rule remains stable, he will naturally expand the territory under his control to the limit that cannot be expanded! Then, this person will be what we call the emperor."

"Now that we understand why the monarchy emerged, let's think about what will lead to the complete disappearance of the monarchy?"

"Of course, it's because of food. Even, it's not just food, but also a lot of things including clothes, shoes, wood, mirrors, jars and so on. To be more precise...that is, if the emperor's existence itself

If it suppresses people from producing more food and goods, then the existence of the emperor itself is destined to come to an end."

Everyone at the scene was holding their breath, even Sweet Cheese was staring at Ariel with confusion on his face.

Ariel took a deep breath again and announced her answer——

"Maybe you are thinking, how could it be? How could the emperor hinder the production of these things?!"

"It's very simple, that is, the speed and efficiency of our production of food, clothing, and everything else has become faster and more convenient."

"The reason why the emperor has absolute control over resources is because the amount of resources we produced in the past was too small. If we cannot allocate them according to the emperor's orders, we are likely to fall into war with each other again."

"But if we produce enough things and we can allocate them among ourselves, and even continue to produce new materials, the emperor himself will be meaningless to us. I believe I have said this.

, 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 that everyone can easily use by learning basic theoretical knowledge.

"

"With the element 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 many things for our lives.

A convenience that was never imagined before. This allows us to achieve a breakthrough in the situation where the emperor is required to govern the material balance between 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 this

A simple truth is enough.

However, for many people led by Fleisch, this explanation is obviously not enough.

"No, this is completely wrong."

When Ariel paused for a moment, Flash next to him finally couldn't help but shook his head and said in a tone of complete distrust——

"You can use elemental machines to destroy the Blue Bay Empire? Do you really dare to say such an exaggerated statement?"

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

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

"However, don't think that you can succeed forever just because you have defeated the Knights of the Blue Bay Empire once before. The design of this elemental machine is not that complicated. There are already some templates of elemental guns that have begun to circulate outside the marginal provinces.

place, don’t you think the empire will design a group according to the same pattern? By that time, the imperial army will be more powerful, and in the end, we will still have to compete with each other for strength and economic strength, right?"

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

"No, the empire...not just the Blue Bay Empire, but even all the empires in the world will never choose to use elemental machines as their main force. They may cast elemental guns, elemental cannons, or

The machine can be modified into a more powerful force. However, they will never allow things like elemental machines to enter the empire and fully produce materials."

Fleish raised his neck: "Why? You said they can't do it just because they can't? Why can't they use such a convenient and easy-to-use thing?"

Ariel nodded slightly: "Of course it won't be used. Because the emergence of the element machine itself is a threat to the emperor's system. Moreover, this threat is fundamental, irreversible, and full of subversion.

Miss Sweet Cheese Blue, although you may feel very angry after hearing what I said now, I feel that I am still talking to you in a very rational way. No matter how you deny me,

That’s what I think.”

Next, there was no need for the mulled cheese over there or Fleish here to continue asking, Ariel had already begun to slowly explain the idea in her mind——

"The elemental machine is a power with great potential. Its potential does not lie in the amount of power it can emit, but in its scope of application. This power source can be designed in many places to allow everything to be industrialized.

Production. Since the machine will not tire and can replace most of the manual work, this will greatly improve our production efficiency."

"As an owner of an element machine, or, for example, me, the owner of a textile factory, a car factory, and other owners of furniture factories, or farmers who own large tracts of farmland using element machines for farming, since we can

Of course, we cannot use all the goods produced in the past three, five, or even ten years. We cannot use such a large amount of goods ourselves. We will definitely have to trade, earn wealth, and then use the earned wealth to carry out further operations.

Production."

"Then the question arises. We have so many merchants producing so many goods for trading, so how do we deal with our trading currency?"

"In the past, the Blue Bay Empire used four currencies: gold, silver, copper and iron for transactions. The empire had the right to mint coins. The amount of currency invested in the empire every year was entirely decided by the royal family."

"However, the previous coinage required four metals: gold, silver, copper and iron. But with the power of the elemental machine, it is impossible for the metals stored by the empire to keep up with the amount of currency we need. In other words, originally in this market

There should be more currency than goods. The excess currency can be stored in the royal treasury and used to put it 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, 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."

"Second, reduce the content of all precious metal currencies, and even eventually convert them all to iron coins, but mark different prices on the iron coins."

"Then the last way, since you can mark the price of gold coins on the least valuable iron coins, why can't you write the price of gold coins on a piece of paper?"

"This is the result of the current use of banknotes issued by Pelican City in the marginal provinces. This result is irreversible. No matter how much the empire wants to maintain the existence of metal currency, under the circumstances of the explosive growth of goods, switching to banknotes will

It will be an absolutely irreversible process."

"Then, now comes the problem."

Ariel raised her hand and glanced around the faces of Flash, Sweet Cheese, and all the bystanders, just like a teacher when asking questions to students——

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

Thoughts?”

Upon hearing this, Sweet Cheese, who had been scolded by Ariel before, lowered her head and thought for a moment. Soon, a panicked expression flashed across her face that was originally full of anger.

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

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

Ariel nodded slightly and said: "Yes, the empire will definitely take countermeasures. No matter how slow it is, the empire will definitely suddenly find that the printed paper in its hand can no longer convince us bosses. Next, the empire will first

What we need to do must be the ultimate army to suppress us bosses as much as possible. The most important point must be to abolish the elemental machine, prohibit the way in which so many goods can be produced in this world, and let everything return to the way it was before.

Being able to 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 can the empire rely on its 'mercy' and allocation of resources to gain the legitimacy to maintain 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 where they could only rely on cattle or manual farming, or go back to the kind of life where ten female textile workers toiled for a month.

Only then can you sew a beautiful piece of clothing.”

"Handmade products are backward products that can only satisfy the hypocrisy of those noble lords who are superior to others. Because they always think that only they own it, but they do not want all civilians and slaves to have the same things as them.

"

"Now, let me change the topic back. When we bosses feel that instead of letting the empire print money in exchange for our goods, it would be better for us bosses to negotiate among ourselves, or barter, or create something among ourselves.
To be continued...