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Chapter 642. 346. Magic Dragon and Mithril
Unlike other races, the dragons have controlled the flames in advance, so they directly skipped the stage of bartering. They directly entered the era of precious metal currency economy, completely ahead of other species.

The reason why dragons are so obsessed with gold and silver is because the temperature of dragon flames was very low at first, far below 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.

Wealth circulated, and merchants, craftsmen, and such divisions of labor began to appear one after another among the clans. Until a long time in the future, the dragon clan did not give birth to farmers' units. They actually entered the stage of nomads directly, stepping into the The road of the classical commercial kingdom.

There is nothing to tell about the following stories. The innate advantages and environmental factors of the dragon clan made them keen on fighting around, collecting wealth, and promoting the circulation of commerce after solving the problem of food and clothing. ,
However, after the excess of wealth, the gap between the rich and the poor also began to appear. Although at the beginning, most dragons enjoyed an equal division of labor, but along with the war, there will always be disabled, stupid, and demented dragons.

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

The arrival of slavery caused the original order to collapse.

And the war brought about the fall of a group of male giant dragons, forcing the surviving wealth male dragons to eagerly pass on their wealth and status to their offspring, so they began to find their own fixed spouses instead of maintaining the inheritance system of uncle and nephew.

The matrilineal society then collapsed, the dragon mother abdicated, and the male dragon king stepped onto the stage of history. In order to maintain his rule and let the blood pass on safely, the dragon king needs to hold wealth and force. Some privileges can be obtained - such as serving as soldiers, obtaining fiefs, and title inheritance.

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

Gold and silver.

This is why, in the system of the Dragon Clan, the Golden Dragon and the Silver Dragon are absolute nobles.Since their ancestors were canonized, they have maintained the status of armed nobles until today.

The more wealth grows, the more dragons can't get rid of their dependence on precious metals. Their strong bodies and excellent metallurgical technology allow them to conquer a large amount of land, with a steady stream of resources. The slaves work hard and directly liberate 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, flame art, dance, and hallucinogenic herbs.

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

That's right, religion.

It stands to reason that when the view of history has reached this point, there is no need to read the subsequent stories, as all civilizations are similar.

It is nothing more than the formation of primitive worship, which promotes the development of astronomical divination technology, and then astronomy is reversely used for navigation (for the dragons, it is aviation), followed by the rise of the church system, the transition from polytheism to monotheism, and the land under theocratic rule, in the hands of the church Convergence, the monarch was dissatisfied and began to reform the system.

Feudalization, divine right of kings, religious reform, evolutionary theory, technological explosion, industrial revolution, capitalism, plutocratic state, globalization of capital, global corporations—narrative No. 11 "United Group"!
This is something anyone can find out. The history of the rise of the Dragon Clan, under a normal historical view, everyone will believe that this is 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 the No. 11 "United Group" is a narrative that belongs only to the dragon civilization and their vassals. Environmental determinism effectively shatters the existence of racial superiority, allowing mainstream narratives 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, thinking about grand narratives from another perspective.

"While the narrative of the dragons took shape as a matter of course, another problem arose as they developed."

That's the fire-breathing.

The emergence of the fire-breathing ability liberated the dragon's brain, but also restricted the dragon's body to develop in the direction of an extraordinary species, so that the dragon had to choose to gradually increase its size to accommodate more energy.The body is getting bigger and bigger, so that the dragons can't make exquisite instruments by themselves, they can only let other races serve them by means of hiring and enslaving.

Because of this, the Dragon Clan embarked on a strange path—they did not develop technology, but constantly improved their own language. Through the increase of language, they attracted the energy of the universe and embarked on the path of magic.

But what if some planets do not have magical torrents?Then the large amount of fire-breathing energy consumption will be gradually degraded, and the size of the dragons will be gradually reduced. A certain group of subspecies of dragons will become rodents the size of mice, and then gradually evolve into arboreal animals with extended limbs. ...Finally, he descended from the tree and landed as an adult.

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 repeatedly appeared in the development of dragon civilization.

What if the Dragon Clan found not gold and silver, but tungsten that was far from melting?Then their war mode will not change qualitatively, and metallurgy will not come from it, let alone step into the era of precious metal currency.

What if the planet where the dragons live has only dragons as an intelligent species?Then dragons will always become flying nomads, because they can't even do farming, can't continue a stable territory, and can't deal with severe natural disasters.

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

Even more tragic, if an asteroid hits or something like that, animals with a high food chain such as dragons will be completely destroyed, and it may be questioned by later generations that 'dragons don't exist'.

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

"The viewpoint of this book is that the universe is chaotic, and there has never been any determinism. The essence of the grand narrative is a statistical miracle piled up by chance and coincidence."

Li Aoz muttered:

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

Any sophisticated system is bullshit.

In the real Star Abyss, those top overlords actually didn't win all of this, but they didn't lose for the time being.

If they've existed for trillions of years, it means they just haven't had that crisis.

In the final analysis, it is just one sentence: the essence of all civilizations is a grassroots team.

(End of this chapter)