LOL: Summoner of Goddess Janna

Chapter 215 Who Can Save Noxus? (Down)

Li Wei poured a basin of cold water on Riven.

A military coup will not save Noxus.

Why do you say that?

Because of the military coup, to put it bluntly, it is an internal reshuffle, which is to snatch the cake from the old land aristocrats and distribute it to the new military aristocrats who are dissatisfied with their desires.

It is nothing more than the redistribution of resources so that the new generation of grassroots transcendents can share the benefits.

But what about after the division?

Extraordinary people will continue to be born from the grassroots, asking the empire for the economic status and political power they crave.

It only takes one or two generations, and the land will soon be insufficient again.

And now the new military aristocrats who have seized power from the aristocratic family will become the aristocratic family in the eyes of the next generation of extraordinary people.

The contradictions between grassroots transcendents and the old nobles will quickly accumulate.

At that time, Noxus will have to expand and divert conflicts.

If the external expansion fails and the transfer of contradictions fails, then the empire will have to usher in a new round of ups and downs, a new round of reshuffle.

"This method only alleviates the contradiction, not resolves it."

"If the future coup in Noxus is intense enough, the confrontation between the new military aristocrats and the old land nobility is exhausted enough, and the reshuffle is thorough enough, then Noxus can maintain one or two more generations. Peaceful and stable."

"But the problem is..."

"Can the future coup in Noxus, or the liquidation of the old aristocrats, really be carried out so thoroughly?"

To completely liquidate the old nobles and let these old things spit out all the benefits, the strength of the new military nobles must be strong enough, and the strength of the old nobles must also be weak enough.

The destruction of any old thing begins with its own corruption.

Are the old nobles of Noxus in decline now? Lost, but not completely defeated.

"The Darkwell family, the Kekao family, the Myrdalda family...the old nobles who hold the power of the empire are still very vigorous at this time."

Noxus pays attention to the supremacy of strength and respects the strong.

Even if you are an aristocrat, you have to rely on your strength to maintain your privileges.

The kind of dandy who is usually smeared and achieves nothing can't get along in Noxus at all.

Therefore, those aristocrats who have successfully continued in Noxus to this day are all talented and elite groups, each with considerable strength.

The new military nobles are powerful, but do they really have the ability to completely liquidate these old nobles?

Not to mention...

Li Wei hasn't mentioned in the article yet, the mysterious mage association called "Black Rose" that secretly controls the current Noxus and hides behind the scenes of the empire in a low-key manner.

LeBlanc and Vladimir, the two thousand-year-old monsters, are the true spokespersons for the interests of the old aristocrats.

How could they be easily eliminated by a group of young people?

"Nowadays, the conflict between the old and the new nobles is inevitable, but the strength of the two sides is indistinguishable."

"So I can make a bold prediction—"

Here, Li Wei began to spoil it unreasonably:

"The so-called innovation that will happen in Noxus in the future will definitely be an incomplete struggle."

"The new military aristocracy can't completely eliminate the old aristocrats, and the old aristocrats can't help the powerful new military aristocrats. The two sides must reach some kind of compromise in the struggle."

"I personally think that the most likely form of this coup will be that the new nobles unite with some of the old nobles, and eradicate the other part of the old nobles—"

"The two sides joined forces to eat up a few unpopular old clans to ease the conflict a little."

"In the end, a reconciliation was reached between the old and the new. The old aristocrats transferred most of their power to the new aristocrats, and the two parties took charge of the 'new' Noxus in the form of a joint government."

This analysis made Riven completely stop thinking.

Of course she could read that Noxus would not usher in a new life just because of a coup d'état.

An incomplete coup d'état is nothing more than a stop to a boil.

And even if all the old clans were liquidated and the new nobles came to power, it would still be a change of soup but not medicine. In a few decades, the empire will still collapse.

"Then what should we do?"

This question was obviously beyond Riven's cultural level.

Li Wei tried to give a solution in the article:

"Readers who understand Janna's theory may ask, can a bourgeois revolution be used to resolve contradictions by setting off an industrial revolution in the Noxus Empire?"

The cake is not enough, and I can't grab others'.

Then engage in some benzeneism, develop productivity, and make the cake bigger!

The new military aristocrats can't get fiefs, but can start companies. If you can't be a lord, you can be a business owner.

"If you think that industrialization and phenoism can save Noxus, you are making a mistake without specific analysis of specific issues."

Riven was thinking that this seemed a little tricky, but Li Wei quickly crossed the answer.

If it is in a world without extraordinary power, an agricultural country can resolve internal conflicts through industrialization and the development of benzeneism.

Because the main contradiction in the mortal kingdom is the contradiction between feudal nobles and peasant slaves.

With the development of industrialization, the overflow population is absorbed by factories and enterprises, and the contradictions are naturally alleviated.

Peasants and slaves can support themselves by going to the city to work, and with the ability to survive without relying on the land, the personal attachment relationship between them and the noble landlords will naturally be broken.

They are free and have jobs. Although this job may not be easier than farming, at least they will not starve to death because of overpopulation and no land to farm.

"For the weak Shuangcheng, doing so can indeed ease the conflict."

"But we have analyzed before that the main contradiction faced by Noxus is fundamentally different from that of the Twin Cities."

Industrialization saves mortals, and Noxus doesn't care about mortal lives.

If the population overflows and cannot be fed, it will naturally starve to death.

Anyway, mortals are powerless to do anything other than obediently starve to death.

So it has been 300 years since the industrial revolution started in Shuangcheng, and Noxus and Demacia are still closed to the outside world, always lacking in interest and making slow progress.

Because as the two most powerful extraordinary kingdoms in Runeterra, they don't need industrialization to resolve their conflicts.

Industrialization cannot solve their main contradiction.

"The main contradiction that Noxus faces has always been the contradiction between grassroots transcendents and powerful nobles."

After industrialization and the arrival of subjugationism, the aristocrats are willing to distribute power to grassroots transcendents?

of course not.

Industrialization can make the cake bigger, but if the grassroots transcendents don't grab it, then these cakes will only be divided up by the old nobles.

The Twin Cities are the best example.

Most of the plutocratic families that control Piltover today are aristocratic families that ruled here three hundred years ago.

Later, the newly rising families were either attached to them, or were acquired, annexed, or even physically eliminated by them early on.

And the alchemy barons of Zaun firmly control their territory, like feudal lords, firmly guarding against any grassroots transcendent who may challenge their status.

If you want to gain power and benefits from these old money, you still have to fight by force.

"Because this is a world where extraordinary power exists, and personal strength is the foundation of all assets."

In Runeterra, mortals can indeed get rich.

But what's the use of getting rich? Without strength, money is just a mobile wallet for an extraordinary person.

"Therefore, there is no free market in the true sense here, and there is no fair competition. Only monopoly business-armed groups based on extraordinary power can be born here."

"Whether a Ziben family can grow big, and to what extent it grows, does not depend on the competitiveness of his products, but depends on his personal force and family background."

"So, even if Noxus ushered in the industrial revolution, there will never be a new bourgeoisie—or, the new bourgeoisie can only be born from the old nobles who have both seed accumulation and extraordinary power .”

"And if grassroots transcendents want to get a share of it, they still have to use force to challenge the status of the old nobles."

After talking about it, it came back again.

Even with industrialization and Benzeneism, the contradiction between the old and the new is still irreconcilable.

And counterintuitively:

For the Noxus Empire, the development of industrialization and genocide is not even as good as engaging in feudal military imperialism.

Why?

Because in the feudal military empire, land is the biggest resource.

The newly conquered land is generally directly in the hands of the imperial center, and it can be very clearly awarded to the new military nobles who have done meritorious service, satisfying their desire for political power.

This piece of land belongs to you, and that piece of land belongs to him, and it is clearly divided.

A piece of land can accommodate an upstart and alleviate a conflict.

The distribution of cakes is relatively fair and accurate, and can accommodate those grassroots transcendents who are unwilling to be inferior to the greatest extent.

How to divide the big cake that can be industrialized?

Since it is a benzene doctrine, of course it is distribution according to capital.

As for "capital", how can a grassroots transcendent who started from a poor family compare with a wealthy family?

If the distribution is completely in accordance with the rules of benzeneism, in the end it can only be the winners of the plutocrats and nobles, and the grassroots transcendents will follow behind and eat some leftovers.

"Can they accept this distribution method? Of course not!"

"Industrialization will not only fail to save Noxus, but will instead deepen the conflict between grassroots transcendents and the old aristocrats."

"And those grassroots transcendents who can't get the fief, and if they can get the fief, are worthless, and they are even less likely to compete with the old aristocrats in business, they will only raise the flag against the empire at the first moment."

"That's why both Noxus and Demacia resist industrialization to varying degrees—perhaps because they understand that industrialization will seriously 'devalue' the land, make the landed nobles lose the meaning of existence, and destroy the foundation for the stability and continuation of the empire -"

"That is, the benefit distribution system based on land feudalism."

"..." Riven stared silently for a long time.

She tried her best to understand, but she was even more confused.

Liquidating the powerful will not save Noxus.

Industrialization and zealotism won't save Noxus either.

Is Noxus really hopeless?

"Yes." Levi wrote.

Riven hungrily scrolled down.

Turning to the last page, I saw it read:

"Considering our friendly and cooperative relationship with the Noxus Empire, I won't go into details here."

"Non-interference in other countries' internal affairs is our consistent diplomatic principle of peaceful coexistence..."

Then there's a whole lot of empty talk.