Ray of Justice: Pirate's Nightmare

What is the specific definition of a businessman?

Are they capitalists who own the means of production and make a living by employing labor to extract their surplus value?

Or are they non-capitalists who turn this process into a ready-made profit through the conversion of objects or commodities?

What's the difference between the two?

Ling Ye once thought deeply about this issue.

A businessman who transfers item A from place A to place B and sells it at price B earns a profit of B-A. If the cycle is repeated n times, the profit becomes n(B-A). It seems that this business is very profitable. , is actually closely related to B-A and n.

B-A is mainly affected by the price difference. If it is a free market and prices are determined based on supply and demand, then it is inevitable that some people will hoard goods and raise prices, sell high and buy low, and expand the value of B-A as much as possible. Try to lower A as much as possible and raise B as much as possible. Common people will lose and businessmen will make money. Therefore, defining the market as freedom without thinking, allowing businessmen to have too much room for manipulation, will always harm the civilians.

So, what is a reasonable market?

In addition to the fact that B and A cannot be freely determined by the market supply and demand relationship, which gives businessmen too much room to operate, they must be closely connected.

This n includes conceptual costs such as time cost, risk cost, etc. As for labor costs, they are divided into B-A.

The inevitability of the existence of commercial behavior is not discussed much, so the existence of businessmen that makes it possible is not discussed much.

So since businessmen want to exist, they must make them feel profitable. Otherwise, who would be stupid enough to become a businessman? Wouldn't it be better to farm at home?

This balance of benefits is a crucial point.

It requires commercial behavior, but does not allow merchants to gradually turn into capital. It can only be controlled by a third party, allowing merchants to be profitable, but not too shocking.

Ling Ye once talked with Karl about this idea, and Karl also agreed with it.

Businessmen should not be superior to others, and the so-called profit difference between buying and selling should not be a means for businessmen to accumulate huge amounts of wealth. Many businessmen always silence doubters by saying that they should make so much money because they take risks. But in fact, the risks they actually take are not as much as they say.

Therefore, after purging Alabasta's original privileged class represented by capital, Ling Ye's suggestion was to formulate a clear rule, and give a thunderous blow to capital that exploited loopholes in the rules and wanted to restore them, and then repair them by the way. loopholes.

It’s not too late to make up for the situation. Once you wait for the capital to become stronger, it will be too big to lose, and it will be even more troublesome.

"Samina, Bogut, the rest of the work will be on you two. If there is anything that cannot be resolved, be sure to contact us."

"Don't worry, Marshal Ling Ye, everything is going according to plan. If there is something we can't solve, we will have to trouble you to make a decision."

Looking at the two people in front of him who seemed to be exuding endless vitality, Ling Ye nodded with peace of mind.

Almost all matters in Alabasta have been dealt with, leaving only the most troublesome matter of rebuilding business practices. Unfortunately, there are not many people in Alabasta who are knowledgeable about this, so in desperation, Zeng can only be left behind. Samina and Bogut, who had stayed with Karl at the Gallot Law Chamber of Commerce, were in Alabasta to assist Kobra in the subsequent construction of Alabasta.

As for Ling Ye and his party, they returned to the East China Sea as planned to carry out the first revision and first promotion of the Dharma. The scope of promotion is of course the entire East China Sea.

After bidding farewell to Kobra and others, Ling Ye and his group got on the boat back.

"It's really a wonderful time for me."

Standing next to Ling Ye, Fujitora felt something.

Preventing misfortunes from happening is the justice Fujitora insists on. The New Navy's operation in Alabasta simply does not fit well with his concept of justice.

"Haha, Mr. Fujitora, in view of your dedication in Alabasta, on behalf of the new navy, how about I temporarily appoint you as a lieutenant general?"

Regarding Fujitora's position, Ling Ye had already been considering it.

In terms of strength, Fujitora is more than enough to become a general.

But it would be too unfair to others to promote a new navy officer based only on his strength and not on his merits.

"Lieutenant General? Haha, then I have to thank Marshal Ling Ye."

Fujitora has no dissatisfaction with this. If the level of his position will affect the execution of justice, then maybe he will care, but in the new navy, he doesn't seem to have to worry about it.

"Smorg, this trip is worthwhile, right?"

Ling Ye glanced at Smoker next to him.

Smoker took a puff of cigarette and exhaled: "Yes, this trip has allowed me to see many things that I have never noticed before. I am not a pirate, but my behavior is the same as that of a pirate. Some people are even better than pirates." Even worse. Compared to pirates who openly say that they are evil people, I think they are even more harmful."

"Yes, no matter how strong the evil person is on the surface, it is not that scary, because everyone knows he is evil. What is scary is the evil hidden among the good. They not only want to do evil, but also beautify themselves, assimilate others, and make others Some people who had nothing to do with it originally thought they were the same as them, and then became their protective film. As a result, if you want to sanction them later, you have to tear off this protective film first.”

Ling Ye sighed.

No matter where in the world there are people like him.

"Marshal Ling Ye, can your plan to stay in Alabasta succeed?"

Smoker thought for a while and asked again.

"Yes, to borrow a word from Lieutenant General Karl, the current era is the worst era and the best era. People are not exposed to so much, so it is the best time to establish public order and good customs. What is the right time? , there is no standard for what is wrong, which will make people speculate, so that some people will regard the speculated errors as the truth. Especially for some people in high positions, in order to cater to higher positions, speculating ideas has become a necessity for them Skills, and once these people make mistakes, it will have a huge negative impact.

So, rather than leaving people guessing, lay everything out on the table from the get-go.

For example, businessmen can exist and commercial activities can also exist. But if you want to make a lot of money like before, then you can only say sorry, no. Let it become a profession rather than a profession serving its existence. Once anyone wants to exploit the value of others to accumulate wealth, power, etc. for themselves, they will be sanctioned by a third party.

When people generally believe that businessmanship is an ordinary profession rather than an existence that can make quick profits, it will be impossible for businessmen to gain momentum, and capital privileges will no longer exist. "

Cleansing is the first step, and reconstruction is the second step. But before reconstruction, there is an extremely important process, which is to popularize knowledge among the people of Alabasta who have just been cleaned. Understand the nature of merchants and Alabasta's firm policy towards merchants in the future.

"Liberal economy and market economy, did Lieutenant General Karl talk about it in class?"

Ling Ye suddenly thought of this.

Smoker nodded.

Ling Ye smiled and said: "Whether it is a free economy or a market economy, before a third party intervenes, economic activities are mainly affected by market supply and demand. It seems reasonable, right? But the reality is that without the intervention of a third party, It's like handing the knife to the top businessmen. They use the knife to exploit other people and use various means of hoarding and dumping to control the market. While doing whatever they want, they shout not to interfere. This is a free market. This is a free economy.

Perhaps, in the process of economic activities, we can see the prosperous side, but who knows that this is not a flash in the pan?

At least if you look deeper, this prosperity is definitely not as beautiful as it seems on the surface.

And now, what Alabasta is doing is to take back the knife that was given out, and give it to anyone who wants to be presumptuous.

So I say, the plan will work. "

When Smoker heard this, his uneasy heart immediately calmed down.