Chapter 2876 Duran's Help
The Records of the Grand Historian says that the world is bustling for profit, and the world is bustling for profit. What determines the way of profit exchange is the distribution method. Society is composed of different classes, different identities, and different professions. The distribution method that prioritizes which side can mobilize the enthusiasm of that side. At the same time, which side will gradually become a stumbling block to development, because the resources are already concentrated in their own hands, and the distribution relationship is also tilted towards themselves, so why should they develop? What is the purpose of development? Maintaining the current situation is the best and the most beneficial.
If you have the most resources but do not develop, then the society will naturally stagnate and fall into a dilemma.
Now the resources and distribution relationship of the Fire Kingdom are undoubtedly biased towards the military industry and the soldiers who expand the territory, so it can maintain a hundred years of expansion. Although the Fire Kingdom has lost, and more than once or twice, the failure did not affect the Fire Kingdom's war engine.
Just like the Qin State after Shang Yang's reform, the Qin State did not always win, and there were times when it lost, but after the reform, the military merits were awarded, and the Qin State could always accumulate strength to start a war again, and the people of the Qin State were willing to start a war.
The prince opposed the military industry and believed that the focus should be on domestic development and that fearless sacrifices should not be made. So he was exiled, but his ideas were supported by many people.
Now the princess wants to compete with her father and the prince for the throne and has to put forward her own story. Duran's suggestion is "benders first", mobilizing the enthusiasm of all benders, and all resources and distribution relations are tilted towards benders, and those wealthy ordinary people are directly exploited. This method is extremism.
In the sequel to "Avatar: The Legend of Korra", extremism is rampant, and the contradiction between benders and ordinary people is sharp. In fact, it is because both sides believe that the distribution method is biased towards each other. The beautiful city where benders and ordinary people live together established by Avatar, but the contradictions faced in the end are very sharp. Of course, the animation finally introduces the gods, diverts the contradictions, and indicates that people should live in harmony with nature. It seems that after living in harmony with nature, the contradiction between benders and ordinary people will be solved.
In fact, it would be fine if a balanced situation of three pillars of the magician, ordinary people, and natural gods could be established. Although the contradiction has not disappeared, it has at least been suppressed. But there is another way to resolve the contradiction, that is, to give the magician an absolute status and not give any preferential treatment to mortals in the distribution relationship. Everything is distributed by the magician, and officials, generals, scientists, and monks are all served by magicians.
At present, although the status of the magician is slightly higher than that of ordinary people, because of the existence of the Avatar, the magician has been suppressed, maintaining the balance between ordinary people and magicians.
Some of the magic is inherited, and those with good talents can use it at birth. There are also some people who can only learn it through learning, and of course there are some people who can't learn it even if they learn it. There are schools in the Fire Nation that popularize and teach fire control, but there are still quite a few people who don't know how to control it.
In short, there are differences between people. The distribution method can be determined by people's occupations, by people's backgrounds, and by people's talents. In short, whoever is favored can mobilize their enthusiasm to a certain extent.
"This is a typical social model. We should study it carefully." The more the scientists in the virtual conference room observed, the more they found that everything on this planet was very typical. The problems they encountered could also be encountered by the people on Earth. More research, and we can learn from others' experience.
"And we can also see how Duran solved the contradictions." In their opinion, Duran must be a member of a great civilization, otherwise it would be impossible for him to master so many technologies, and Duran likes to participate in the development of civilization and provide various "helps".
Scientists know that Duran's "help" is different from the "help" in the general sense. Duran often intensifies contradictions, forcing everyone to face the contradictions instead of escaping them. Even if they fight for the contradictions, Duran will say "it's all the same". I don't know who he learned from.
Of course, he learned from Zhang Beihai. No matter whether it is a contradiction caused by a chain of suspicion or a distribution relationship, even if a war is launched in the end to return to the primitive age, humans will continue to survive. The winner will continue to build order and promote distribution relations, so it doesn't matter what humans become.
Anyway, as long as there is a distribution relationship, war is also a way to resolve contradictions. There is no good or bad method. Any method that can solve the contradiction is a good method.
Scientists can feel Duran's ruthlessness and unreasonableness, but they can't do anything about it. Since they can't do anything about it, they can treat everything that is happening now as a research object.
In the Fire Nation, a father, a son, and a daughter can tell three stories. It can be seen that the distribution relationship of human beings is becoming more and more complicated. From relying on bloodline distribution in the past to multiple distribution methods coexisting now, society is becoming more and more complicated.
Although the princess is only twelve years old, she is more responsible and ambitious than the young supernatural powers of the same age, so she listened to Duran's words, began to go deep into the magicians, win people's hearts, and find like-minded people to slowly develop her "magician supremacy" doctrine.
For any doctrine to develop, it must be practiced and constantly adjusted in the process of practice to finally achieve the goal. After all, there are many types of resources for allocating resources. Even if they are all magicians, each magician needs different resources, and it is impossible to understand without practice.
Some firebenders just want money directly, some firebenders may need production equipment, some may need policy support, and some may want to participate in national management... Only after understanding can they make allocations.
The princess used to live in the palace, but now she has gone out to understand that the world is big and far more complicated than she imagined. The world is not just about fathers, brothers, enemies and subordinates, but also about various other relationships, like enemies but not enemies, like friends but not friends, who can be won over and used, and who can cooperate in the short term, who must be fought for, and who must be defeated...
However, the ambitious princess did not retreat in the face of difficulties, but instead faced the difficulties and successfully established a reputation among some firebenders, because "firebenders are supreme" has always been what many firebenders think in their hearts, but they have never dared to bring it up. After all, many ordinary people are also powerful, and many powerful firebenders have to work for ordinary people.
But if they have the support of the princess, they can directly overthrow the superiors and take the property and status of ordinary people for themselves, and then they can recommend the princess to the position and stabilize those firebenders who have already gained status. In addition, the princess herself is a blue fire bender who is one in a million, and can even control lightning, so if the princess becomes the king, she can establish a country where benders are supreme.
They are only targeting ordinary people, not the existing order of the Fire Nation. They let the princess stabilize the powerful fire benders, and the fire benders below can purge and plunder the wealth of ordinary people.
Why did Duran do this? He has no grudges against ordinary people, he is just doing an experiment on distribution relations to prove the importance of distribution relations in human society. Anyway, he knows that things like bender supremacy will definitely fail in the future, because there are still many ordinary people in the world. Although ordinary people are not as strong as benders, their wisdom is definitely greater than that of benders. Moreover, ordinary people also have martial arts such as acupuncture and swordsmanship. If they really fight, benders may not necessarily win.
So it's just an experiment.