Chapter 2158 The Strong Are Always Strong! (Fourth Update!)
Li Yao's mind turned, and he could already imagine the scene after the end of the period of rapid expansion of the empire. He blurted out: "Thousands of words can be condensed into one sentence. The resources in the universe are limited."
"That's right."
Li Linghai said lightly, "To put it bluntly, since the empire's ability to expand is limited and its territory is limited, the official positions, opportunities, and power to control the wind and rain it can provide are also limited. After all, there can only be one realm master in a vast world." Well, a sect can only have one leader, a fleet can only have one supreme commander, and even a spar mine can only have one mine owner, right?
"This is the core of all contradictions.
"In the first five hundred years, the empire expanded wildly, and those with vested interests have already divided up the positions of world masters, fleet commanders, chapter leaders, suzerains, heads, and even mine owners. !
"In the next five hundred years, the imperial expeditionary forces often searched for decades regardless of the cost, but they couldn't find a great world. Even if they found it, it would be a barren land with no people and resources. What's the use?
"So, even if the immortal cultivators born in the next five hundred years are exceptionally talented, have exquisite bones, dare to fight hard, and have good luck, they will not be able to reach the sky in one step like they were in the first five hundred years."
Li Yao said with a smile: "Isn't a cultivator adhering to 'the weak eat the strong and the strong respect'? Even if the cake can't continue to grow, he can still grab other people's cake!"
Li Linghai also smiled slightly and said: "Do you think that the vested interests that are gradually solidified are dead people, and they will see ambitious latecomers robbing them, but they don't act first?
"If you think about it with a pig's brain, you know, who has a vested interest class who has a lot of cultivation resources, supernatural powers and secrets, and even the Star Sea Fleet, and a fool who has nothing, only awakened his spiritual roots by luck, and stumbled all the way to practice, who has more ways to eat?" Drop the whole cake!
"In short, the vested interests who made a fortune in war in the first five hundred years and seized the 'highlands' in the political, economic, military, and cultural fields of the empire have gradually solidified into tumors, large and small, or formed by family members. In the name of a sect, or in the name of a deep space fleet, no matter what the name is, the essence is the same, it is a monopoly group that is huge enough to swallow the entire world, it is the powerful, the plutocrats, and the oligarchs.
"Since it is a highly centralized monopoly oligarchy, it can naturally formulate all kinds of rules that are beneficial to itself as it pleases, so that all resources can be poured into its bloody mouth in a 'reasonable and legal' way. This is 'the bigger the bigger, the stronger the stronger' The truth is that a rising star without a background is simply incapable of competing with these oligarchs.
"To give the simplest example, let's say that the contribution point system seems to be absolutely fair and everyone has a chance.
"The system of calculating contribution points based on military exploits and exchanging contribution points for cultivation resources, military ranks, official positions, and status seems fair and reasonable, right?
"But no matter how fair and reasonable the system seems, it must be implemented by specific people. If the immortal cultivators who are responsible for implementing the contribution point system are all deeply rooted oligarchs, powerful and wealthy, how can they treat immortal cultivators from poor families? Does everyone treat people equally?
"Under the contribution point system, the evaluation of task difficulty is entirely in the responsibility of organizations like the 'Military Merit Committee' in various Great Thousand Worlds, and these organizations, needless to say, are controlled by oligarchs and nobles, and they can completely help their families For your children, tailor-made some tasks with extremely low difficulty but high contribution points, and notify your children to claim them as soon as possible before they go online, so that your children can get a lot of contributions without risk It's on point, right?
"What's more, when encountering some extremely difficult tasks, they will deliberately attract a large number of humble cultivators with no background to perform them. If it is too high, we need to temporarily increase manpower as an excuse to let our own children join in, and come to the final "residual blood to replenish the sword and harvest heads". Naturally, our own children can easily and get a lot of contribution points.
"So, even under the seemingly fair contribution point system, if you are born in a wealthy family and come from a thousand-year-old family of immortals, you will find some low-difficulty, high-contribution point or very harsh receiving conditions from time to time. You can easily complete the customized tasks without any effort, so as to earn a lot of contribution points, which can be exchanged for the country's large amount of cultivation resources.
"However, if you are a humble immortal cultivator who has nothing to do with you, has no background, works alone, and rushed up after fighting 90% of your life, you will find that most of the tasks are extremely difficult, and the contribution after completion The point is very low, or it contains unexpected risks. In the end, it is others who step on your bloody head to reap a lot of benefits.
"Occasionally, you may also be able to find some missions that seem to be extremely 'cost-effective' on the public mission platform.
"However, these missions are either taken by some powerful son who you don't know in an instant, or there are some additional stringent requirements, such as the eleventh stage of the Qi refining period, and the five-star driving skills in the Greedy Wolf crystal armor training camp. Only certified 'immortal cultivators can receive it. Needless to say, this is a task specially designed for a certain 'second generation of immortals'. You can see it, eat it, stare blankly, and lose your temper.
"Tell me, under such an 'absolutely fair contribution point system', how can immortal cultivators from poor families fight against wealthy immortal cultivators?"
Li Yao sighed and said, "Speaking of which, the low-level immortal cultivators are really suffering."
"Of course it's painful. There are ten thousand ways to justifiably squeeze you out of the 'cake-sharing' circle, but you can't say a word."
Li Linghai said, "Being able to participate in the game of the 'Contribution Point System' is already something else, and what is more important is education.
"Theoretically speaking, the empire advocates fair competition the most. No matter rich, poor or even the children of the original people, they all have the right to accept cultivation. Whoever shows the strongest potential in early education will be the most qualified to receive a lot of natural talents and earthly treasures." The nourishment and guidance of famous teachers, if there is no talent for cultivation, even the descendants of immortal cultivators should ruthlessly abandon them. Only in this way can the optimal allocation of resources be achieved and the goal of promoting the overall development of human civilization be achieved.
"However, this is still 'in theory'.
"The theory is beautiful, but the reality is cruel. May I ask which family of immortal cultivators would be so idiotic as to give all their resources to the talented and potential descendants of the original people, but not give anything away to their own descendants?
"The descendants of the cultivator's family can be nourished by the treasures of heaven, material and earth when they are born. When they are two or three years old, the strong men in the family will cleanse their marrow and cut scriptures and condition their bodies. When they grow up a little, they will start to experience extraordinary skills and unique skills. It is said that most of the original people's children, even the descendants of the humble cultivators, do not have this condition.
"Then, in a series of national-level tests such as the talent test and potential test at the age of five to seven, it is natural that the children of the rich and powerful have a better chance of getting high scores and entering the highest-level Immortal Cultivation Academy. This has not been considered yet, absolutely Most of the national level tests are actually factors controlled by these oligarchs.
"It's still the same sentence, the strong will always be strong, and the big will get bigger. The emergence of oligopoly means that the empire's healthy and reasonable resource allocation methods have disappeared. The interest groups headed by the 'Four Elector Families', If you don't clean the wool of this country and suck the last drop of blood from this country, you will never let it go.
"Of course, with the continuous upgrading of cultivation technology and human body strengthening and transformation technology, the difficulty for the original people of the empire to cultivate to low-level immortal cultivators has been greatly reduced. After strengthening and transformation, there is also a chance to have half or more One-third of the combat power.
"However, the difficulty of upgrading from a low-level immortal cultivator to a high-level immortal cultivator, that is, from refining qi and foundation building to forming alchemy and nascent soul, has increased by more than ten times compared to the previous five hundred years. It can be said that The large-scale ascending channel has been completely blocked.
"Moreover, cultivating immortals is an extremely resource-intensive thing, and the strengthened and transformed 'prosthetics' have greatly increased the demand for logistics supplies, which makes the lower-level immortal cultivators more and more dependent on resources, that is, resource-dependent monopolies. Formed a situation of "have to be attached to interest groups, gritted their teeth and struggled under the rules of the oligarchic game, and opened their eyes wide to be squeezed".
"You can even understand that the high-level cultivators found that the efficiency of directly squeezing the original people is too low, so it is more convenient, more direct and more efficient to let some of the original people become low-level cultivators and then squeeze them. "
Hearing this, Li Yao breathed a sigh of relief, sweating profusely, and said sincerely, "This is very different from... what I heard on the Firefly about the social composition and operation of immortals. "
Li Linghai said: "The Star Sea Republic was destroyed by the empire, so what you have received is naturally the brainwashing education of vilifying and slandering the immortal cultivators. It is not surprising that you have a feeling of hatred for the immortal cultivators due to preconceived ideas.
"What's more, today's empire ruled by these monopoly oligarchy and powerful families is indeed full of smog, demons dancing wildly, wolves in power, and snakes and rats running rampant!
"Above the temple, carrying the three-star blitzkrieg flag and saying 'Long live the cultivators', they are actually a bunch of selfish scum who only think about their own small group and have no regard for the overall situation of the empire and the future of human civilization. Not to mention you, even I hate this bunch of scum to the bone!
"But please believe that a true immortal cultivator should never look like this. At least, the true human empire established by Black Star Emperor Wu Yingqi in the past is definitely not what it is today!" ——
The fourth is in place, ho ho!
I went to the movies again today, hahaha, it was "Let's Wrestle!" recommended by a friend in the book review section a few days ago! Dad", I went to the cinema in the heavy rain.
I can only say that it is really worth watching. The quality is at least comparable to or even better than "Guardians of the Galaxy 2". They are all about "Dad" stories, and they are so tearful.
I hesitated for a long time, whether to say these irrelevant words at the end of the chapter, but it’s so good, I’d better give it a shot, such a good movie is really worth going to the cinema to support!
In particular, the little girl singing is too cute, I can't take it anymore, after watching it, I want to have a daughter, and then "ravage" her like the father in the movie, see her little expression that dares to be angry and dare not speak, hahahaha!
Forced to point out the question, in fact, the two movies recommended in the past two days have quite similarities with the writing. The rhythm of the two movies is very good, and the rhythm is smooth, but no matter how good the rhythm is, in the final analysis, there are still the most sincere feelings. In it, whether it is the fierce battle between the stars, or the struggle of ordinary people in a poor and impoverished small village, the relationship between people is the most important thing. I really hope that Lao Niu can also write about such parents and such feelings. ah!