Chapter 2921 Guan Shanhai

Descendants of the Avatar team can become generals, congressmen, and directors, but it is difficult for ordinary people to do so. Ordinary people should aim to get rich. After all, the city is newly built and there are many opportunities.

For example, if you transport cabbage here to sell, you don’t have to worry about the sales. As long as there is a stable supply, you can definitely make money. Because the population is too large, the goods for food, clothing, housing and transportation are all hard currency.

"It’s a pity that the Avatar doesn’t have Guan Shanhai. The final situation is still the parliament, and the finances are all in the hands of the powerful. This is not okay." Duran can’t look left or right. Without culture and income, the city will rely entirely on the reputation of the Avatar. After the death of the Avatar, it will be the self-government of the powerful. It seems prosperous, but the city will be divided by the powerful, and finally it will be a small Gotham City.

Although there is still a security force working for the city, it seems that the violent organs are still retained. But the people in the security force also need to eat. As long as the powerful give money, there is no reason that they can’t be bought. Moreover, the powerful can train their own armed forces in the future and can completely set up their own business.

So An wanted to build a peaceful city, but he had no way to maintain it except to gather people together. An hoped to share his ideals with everyone, hoping that everyone could also work hard for peace, but it was obviously not possible.

"When the city was born, all the efforts of the city were to allow itself to survive. And survival requires material things, even the supernatural power cannot violate this law. He wants peace, and then peace needs material things to exist. This is the limitation of life, and all groups composed of life cannot avoid this problem."

If you want to survive, you must have materials. This is unavoidable. It is the inevitable exchange of materials between life and the world. So if you want peace to last, you must give materials. Then the best choice for supernatural powers is Guan Shanhai, which is to control the economic lifeline of the city, and then open up the selection mechanism of parliamentarians, so that civilians also have the opportunity to participate in the management of the city.

If the city only has taxes and no hard-core industries to show off, then the taxes will be in the hands of the wealthy families in the end, and the city will become a vassal of the wealthy families.

Just like the Zhou emperor in ancient times, the Zhou emperor was indeed very strong at the beginning, but later the Zhou emperor could only borrow money to live, and borrow money from the princes, and he must look at the princes' faces. Those with a bad temper, such as Duke Zhuang of Zheng, directly cut all the wheat of the Zhou Kingdom. Those with a better temper, such as Duke Huan of Qi, respected the king and expelled the barbarians, and on the surface they were respectful to the Zhou emperor.

So it is not possible without money. Without money, you can only rely on others, and then there is no ideal. At that time, even the money for the operation of the Public Security Bureau needs to be paid by the wealthy families, and the city has no autonomy at all.

So there must be state-owned enterprises and official mountains and seas.

Duran said that Shentong really doesn't understand it at all, he is too young.

In fact, it is not only Shentong and Duran who are thinking about the issue of peace, but many other people are also thinking about it. Some people think that if they want peace, it is best to eliminate the four major forces, eliminate Shentong, and in short, eliminate all the old forces, which belongs to anarchism of breaking without building.

Some people think that everything should be unified, and all forces should be unified through war, which is a bit like the idea of ​​military expansion of the Fire Nation. However, the Fire Nation is the Fire Nation first, and those who think of unification hope to create an integrated society.

Others are also thinking about how to make peace last for a long time and how to make everything better. Although they don't have the power of the gods, they can use their brains.

Duran's idea is to control the economy through Guan Shanhai, and then further reduce the cost of peace through culture, so as to achieve a longer period of peace. Of course, Duran also supports those who want armed unification, but the gods will definitely not agree.

As for the proposition of breaking without building, it is meaningless, because if all the old orders are destroyed, a new order must be proposed. The problem is that they can't propose it. They can only destroy and cannot propose a new order. Then humans will naturally form the old order with the magician as the core, and society will only regress and not progress.

"Don't just talk, do something." Jie said that Duran is too good at talking. He has been nagging all this time. What he said makes sense, what is not good without culture, what is not good without economy, but he only talks, why doesn't he take action?

"If I intervene, I will become the owner of the city directly. I am not so idle and have no time to manage the city. I just make suggestions." Duran said that it is enough to make suggestions, and there is no need to manage it personally: "Those who understand will understand, and those who don't understand, I can't do anything. In short, to maintain peace, you must have resources, and you must have an economic foundation. If you want to reduce the cost of maintaining peace, you must have culture. Only culture can make everyone accept the unfairness in the distribution relationship, and can truly help each other and make different social classes trust each other. Without these two, the peace of the Avatar cannot last long. In the end, this city only uses its geographical location to absorb the blood of the whole world. It is just a small Gotham City."

Jay didn't know what Gotham City was. He just told all these words to the Avatar and let him think about it himself. The Avatar is now an adult and is about to marry Katara. His main energy is city construction, and he also hopes to rebuild the Air and Tribe.

Unfortunately, even with universal education, no one can comprehend the art of airbending. Both things are difficult to do, but the Avatar hopes to do them well. The Avatar is also thinking about these words of Duran.

Sokha said that what Duran said was not wrong: "After this period of construction, I also found that the economy must be controlled. I think Duran is right. We must control the mountains and seas and must control certain industries in order to be stable. We can't just rely on those profit-seeking guys."

Shentong was still hesitant and said: "Our goal is to hope that everyone can be peaceful, not to compete with everyone for profit. Once we control the mountains and seas, we will become everyone's enemy, and they will no longer accept our ideas." Shentong was right. The reason why everyone listens to him now is mainly because Shentong is selfless and dedicated, and does not seek benefits at all. He shares the benefits with everyone. But once Shentong controls the mountains and seas, it means robbing everyone's interests.

Why was King Li of Zhou overthrown by the riots of the people? It was not because he controlled public opinion, but because he tried to control the mountains and seas. King Li of Zhou tried to monopolize all the natural resources of the country, not allowing people to go into the mountains to chop wood or go into the water to fish, and finally King Li of Zhou was overthrown.

Later, Guan Zhong also proposed to control the mountains and seas. His ideas were actually similar to those of King Li of Zhou, but the details were different. Guanzi still allowed the people to go into the mountains and seas, but the goods produced by the people were purchased by the Qi government, and then transported and sold by the government. In particular, salt and ironware were all priced by the government, and they were purchased and sold by the government. In this way, the people can still produce and make a living, and they don’t have to worry about market price fluctuations. They are also very happy to accept the state’s pricing.

The state can allocate bulk commodities by reselling and controlling the selling price, not only making money, but also conducting economic warfare with foreign countries.

So the important thing is not to monopolize production, but to monopolize channels and pricing power. This is the strongest point of Guan Zhong’s version of Guan Shanhai.

The supernatural power is obviously only at the level of King Li of Zhou, not at the level of Guan Zhong.