Lord of Arcane

Chapter 1645 The Intention of the Cooperative Classical Mage
Arriving at the cooperative so soon, Xia Duo noticed that there were many pages folded in the "Agricultural Book" on the table. If he combined the book itself and traced his memory, he could even find out which pages the other party folded.

But at this time, when Master Yerevan said this, Xia Duo immediately realized that the master might not know how to cultivate carefully, nor did he not know how to deal with natural disasters, or other problems.

Maybe they just use such an excuse to open the topic, or they want to test his quality as an author beforehand, but what the other party really wants to hear may be the cooperative!
While Xia Duo was surprised in his heart, his thoughts turned extremely fast, and his face remained unchanged. He asked the master: "I wonder what aspect of the cooperative the master wants to know?"

In the "Agricultural Book", he has clarified the organization of cooperatives. If you only ask about the details of cooperatives, you can just read the book.

"Let's talk about why you came up with the organization method of cooperatives first. You must know that private land ownership has long been popular among the people. Now that you have created this kind of cooperative, do you want to take back the land in disguise in this way?"

Master Yerevan's questions were very insightful, and the inner core of this organization was seen almost at a glance.

It is true that if such a cooperative is established in Netheril, even farmers who provide means of production may not be able to enjoy all the benefits after the establishment of the cooperative.

After all, above them, there is another lord watching. Even in Xia Duo's "Agricultural Book", this organizational method was originally taught to the lords to organize farmers to form cooperatives.

The process and result will definitely not be as ideal as Xia Duo expected.

Xia Duo would not be surprised if some lords used the form of cooperatives to take back the land that had already been divided and sold, turning the original landed farmers into landless serfs.

So how to answer this question?
Master Yerevan may really care about ordinary people, and perhaps like most other lords, although he was born as an ordinary person, he thinks that he is no longer a member of ordinary people.

Their care and love may be more out of the classical lord's duties, or it may simply be a kind of hypocrisy used to demonstrate benevolence.

But since this kind of behavior can still be called "goodness", even if it is just hypocrisy, it means that in the perception of most people, or strictly speaking, most spellcasters, I am still a member of ordinary people.

After all, a few high-ranking people failed to break the layer of window paper, or they have not been able to break it until now.

Thinking like this, Xia Duo said slowly: "Actually, the question asked by the master is actually a bit too far away in my opinion.

"For me, I am more concerned about whether ordinary people can have enough harvests to cope with the famine under the current abnormal climate, especially when the current abnormal climate does not know how long it will last.

“The biggest role of the cooperative organization method I proposed is not to increase the output of the field, but to allow many farmers to unite and share the risk of famine.

"Abnormal weather cannot cause all lands to reduce production significantly at the same time. There will always be land that maintains a certain production even under abnormal weather. The cooperative uses the output of this part of the high-yielding land to cover the output of the originally reduced-yielding land."

Of course, in Xia Duo's plan, this is only the first level of intention. He really needs to use this method to allow more ordinary people to survive natural disasters smoothly.

But above this level, he hopes to use this method to improve agricultural production efficiency and generate more surplus population.

As for this part of the surplus population, in addition to turning to other more profitable industries under the planning of the local lord, Xia Duo can also recruit some of them.

After all, Netheril has never lacked lords who treat their subjects as human beings. As long as they find that the population required for the normal operation of their territories has decreased, they will always find ways to reduce these unnecessary burdens in their view.

In addition, when industries other than agriculture develop, new markets may emerge that can afford mass-produced magic items.

The current mass-produced magic items of the Tower of Time are mainly sold to spellcasters. If the purchase group is expanded to a wider range of ordinary people, then for Xia Duo, it will undoubtedly greatly reduce the time for resource accumulation in the early stage.

The key to this, to a large extent, is to find a way to circulate wealth from spellcasters to ordinary people.

It is basically impossible to rely on agriculture alone. After all, spellcasters have the ability to build arcane gardens. Even if they don't eat a bite of the food grown by ordinary people, they will not starve to death.

Only industries other than agriculture, such as Chinese clothing, food, art and other industries that the caster is unwilling to engage in directly, can be consumed by the caster, thus completing the transfer of wealth.

Of course, if it is received in Daxia, Xia Duo will also transfer wealth downwards in the name of the government, such as building new public facilities, opening compulsory education, increasing jobs, and increasing basic wages.

However, there is no need to explain to Master Yerevan about the content related to the future planning of the Great Xia Territory.

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In Xia Duo's view, just mentioning a little "risk sharing" is enough to deal with Master Yerevan, and the actual situation is similar to what he thought.

After hearing such an explanation, Master Yerevan couldn't help admiring, "You are truly a generous and benevolent lord. I can see the figure of my former companion in you."

In the era Yerevan lived in when he was young, becoming a spellcaster would certainly be sought after by everyone, but those spellcasters rarely gained a more transcendent status because of this, but added additional responsibilities.

At that time, spell casters might work with ordinary people during the day, and at night, they had to play the role of vigil.

In their view, magic is just a novelty from elves, or just a tool that can be used to develop.

Although there are reasons why elf magic is not suitable for humans, it at least shows that most spellcasters today have forgotten their original intentions and regard magic as a superior capital.

Thinking of this, Yerevan felt a little sad in his heart, because of his long lifespan, he watched with his own eyes the Nether magic system gradually established and perfected, and the power of magic continued to grow.

It's just that in this process, the spellcasters got a little lost, and they were no longer as simple as they used to be.

Seeing such an empire, Yerevan had an extremely strong premonition in his heart. If this continues, the spellcasters of Netheril may completely separate from ordinary people, and even develop into two completely different races!
If he could still live until then, maybe it would be better to die at this moment, because Netheril like that is no longer his kingdom!
At this moment, Yerevan suddenly asked a digression:

"Lord Xia Duo, why do you care so much about the survival of ordinary people?"

(End of this chapter)