Lord of Arcane

Chapter 2355 The truth of traditional elf society

For Silvat or all the elders' questions, Xia Duo had expected it a long time ago, but he didn't expect that the elders could bear to ask until now.

This shows that the elders trust him, but they don't trust him blindly. Xia Duo is quite satisfied with this.

"Elder Silvat, the question you asked is actually easy to answer in my opinion."

As he said that, Xia Duo cast a spell to create a projection, which was a scene of a wasteland, and he continued to explain to the projection: "Look, elder, this is a wasteland now.

"Suppose there is an elf couple who just acquired this land, how do you think they will manage it?"

"Reclaiming wasteland, planting?" Silvat replied subconsciously.

"can."

Xia Duo nodded, "Of course land reclamation and planting is a way of business, so I will take land reclamation and planting as an example. Assuming they are penniless now, do they need to find a way to borrow a sum of money to start this business project?"

"Although it is not very understandable to have land and no money, it is okay to say so."

"Okay, let's continue. This elf couple found a way to borrow a sum of money. They will use part of it to buy various living materials including food for the next year, and the rest will be invested in this land. From clearing up wasteland and leveling the land to planting the next month’s wheat, all the money was spent.”

"If everything is spent, it means that they didn't borrow much money, and the entire harvest of their land is probably only enough to pay off the debt."

"The elder is right. The reason why I only set up such a piece of land is precisely because they correspond to the original planting state. Planting moon wheat is only enough for the couple to survive."

"Then what should we do?" Silvat asked curiously.

"Elder, you have already answered part of this question just now—they borrowed too little money, which is only enough to develop this batch of land."

Xia Duo said while expanding the projected land tenfold, "Look, elders, now they have borrowed more money and bought more land, but because their own consumption is fixed, the remaining monthly wheat income It will be nine times as much as before.

"Although there is more money to be repaid, the repayment period is not much longer than before, even if the land cost is included."

"I probably understand that as long as the overdraft money is put into production, you don't have to worry about paying it back in the future, is that right?"

"Almost, but much more than that."

Xia Duo continued to change the projection, creating a small village next to the elf couple's farm, and then pointed to the projection and asked Silvat: "What if the food produced by this couple cannot be sold?"

When Silvat heard this, he was stunned, "Yes, what if the food can't be sold? Wouldn't such an overdraft be suicidal?"

"For individuals, this may be a difficult choice of venture capital, but for tribes and countries, it is not difficult to choose."

Later, Xia Duo projected more villages, towns, and more elf couples around this small village, "As long as you plan ahead and fully coordinate the output of each production unit, there will be no situation where you can't sell each other." gone."

"Let me think!"

Silvat seemed to have discovered a new world. He muttered to himself and began to gesticulate with his fingers, but it was different from ordinary gestures and swipes, but with a trace of incomprehensible magical aura.

Xia Duo just watched him think slowly, and after an unknown amount of time, Silvat suddenly yelled, "I understand, I understand everything!"

"What did the elder understand?"

"According to the model shown by the chief, the end result is increasing wealth for all individuals in the society!"

Silvat who said this seems to have discovered some blind spot again, "The wealth of all individuals is constantly increasing? How is this possible?"

Because in his simple cognition, any society will be divided into rich and poor. Could it be said that the wealth of the poor can also continue to increase?If so, will there still be poor people?

Silvat couldn't understand this question, no matter how much he thought about it, he couldn't understand it, so he passed the question to Xia Duo, "Boss, can you answer this question?"

"can!"

Xia Duo gave an affirmative answer without hesitation, and then further explained, "In the model I just demonstrated, there are no poor people, or there are no poor people in the usual sense, because there is no currency at that time, even if the poor , will only be spiritually poor."

"How is it possible?" Silvat screamed, his eyes full of disbelief, "How could there be a world without poor people!"

Just as Xia Duo was about to explain, the other elders couldn't help jumping out. It seemed that although they were absent just now, they were also paying attention to the situation here in their own ways.

"Leader, unless the top keeps sending money, how can there be no poor people? As long as there is a difference between social individuals, it will eventually be reflected in the amount of wealth. For example, smart people can get more through business, and powerful people can be direct through war. Looting, even the weak, as long as they find the right way, they can obtain wealth far exceeding that of ordinary people through various methods."

Seeing that several elders had developed a strong interest in the world without the poor mentioned by him, Xia Duo was inexplicably moved for some reason.

"Several elders, this question is actually not so easy to answer, and I can only briefly introduce my own thoughts."

"Leader, don't have any worries, we will try our best to understand."

"Ah."

Xia Duo thought for a while, and gave the first explanation, "The reason why there are poor people is because the value created by their labor is plundered by others."

"Plundered by others? How to plunder?"

"Not to mention the slaves, everything about them belongs to their masters, not to mention the value created, which is meaningless and plundered by their masters."

There is no doubt that Xia Duo is against slavery, but his ability and consciousness are limited, and he cannot liberate all the slaves outside his territory.

"And the poor in the general sense, such as the druids of Evereska in life and the apprentices of the workshop, they will also be paid for their labor, but do they really get more than what they create? "

"Druids, we can understand that the elves owe them too much, but why are the apprentices in the workshop also plundered? If there is no workshop, where do they go to work, and where do they get money to support their families?" Several elders I am very puzzled by this.

"This is the cunning of predators, not just a workshop, but a whole society's structural plundering of workers.

"Let's assume such a scenario, if the owner of a workshop suddenly disappears, will the workshop continue to exist?"

"Of course, it cannot exist."

Several elders replied almost in unison, "The owner of the workshop has disappeared, how can the workshop still exist."

But after the answer, the elder gave a counterexample with uncertainty, "I remember that there was a case where the owner of the workshop disappeared for several years at Evereska, and the workshop could continue to operate."

(End of this chapter)