LOL: Summoner of Goddess Janna

"This..." Prince Jiawen was stunned for a moment.

He looked at the incomprehensible snack bar owner in front of him and felt inexplicably inconsistent.

Because in Demacia, politics has always been a doctrine that only nobles and elites can have access to.

When his father gave him tutoring lessons, he was very mysterious, as if he was teaching him some incredible dragon-slaying skills for fear of letting others hear him.

But in Zu'an... a snack bar owner who can be seen everywhere on the street can discuss politics with him, a prince, so confidently? Is it too much confidence?

"You..." Jarvan decided to listen to what he said: "Why do you say that Demacia can't learn from Piltover, but can only learn from Zaun in the past?"

"Haha." The snack bar owner asked a little funny: "Guest, haven't you read the book "A Brief Introduction to Janna's Thoughts"?"

"I've seen it," Jiawen said.

"You've seen it and you still can't figure it out? Then you've seen it in vain." The snack bar owner despised the political level of his prince.

"Let me ask you, how did Pi Cheng make his fortune?"

Jiawen thought for a moment. This is just a simple historical record. It is written exactly as it is in the booklet. Of course he can understand it.

"Piltover took the lead in colonizing many city-states on the north coast of Shurima 300 years ago, before the power of the Noxus Empire expanded to the southern continent. It not only plundered a huge amount of wealth and resources, It also opened up vast overseas markets, and finally took the lead in starting the industrial revolution and achieving progress in science and technology and civilization..."

"Yes." The owner of the snack bar spread his hands and told Prince Jiawen: "The real masters achieve primitive accumulation by invading and plundering the wealth of other countries."

"Piltover was able to colonize Shurima back then only because the Noxian Empire had not yet expanded here. What about now?"

Now Noxus has occupied the east and south sides of Valoran, as well as the north shore of Shurima. Demacia's direction of external expansion has long been blocked by their mortal enemies.

"Who can Demacia invade now? Thank God if it is not invaded by Noxus."

"Uh..." Galen and Jiawen were both a little embarrassed.

Jiawen thought about it seriously and then said: "But, does it have to be through invasion and plunder to develop the main body?"

"I remember that Piltover's overseas colony in Shurima was taken away by the Noxus Empire more than 100 years ago."

"In the past 100 years, Piltover has not invaded or plundered foreign countries. Isn't it still a city of civilization and progress?"

He asked this question nonchalantly, but was immediately given a blank look by the snack bar owner:

"Guest, I think you don't understand at all."

"How big is Piltover and how big is Demacia? Piltover is just a small city-state with a population of only about 2 million."

"Leave aside the cornucopia of gifts from the Sun Gate Canal, the technological advantages they accumulated during the Industrial Revolution alone were enough for them to earn a lot of money in the subsequent global trade."

"But you, Demacia, have neither technological nor industrial advantages, but also have tens of millions of poor people to feed. You think that as long as you do business in a disciplined manner, you can develop Demacia without any pain. Get up?"

The snack bar owner's repeated questions made Prince Jiawen speechless.

But the other party's sharp mouth didn't stop there:

"Guest, do you think you can be as rich as Pi City by becoming a master?"

"But you haven't thought clearly. In the past, Zaun was also a zealot master. Even our system was no different from Piltover at the beginning. But why are we so poor?"

"This..." Jiawen was awakened.

Yes, he only saw Pi City's success, but not Zaun's failure.

But in fact, the routes and systems of both are the same. Why is the former so rich and the latter so poor?

"Because the twin cities are essentially one. Zaun is the slums of Piltover and the lower city of Piltover."

"Pi City used that canal to separate their slums and hide the ugly side of the main people."

"For example..."

The snack bar owner looked at the two Demacians in front of him:

"If you only look at the capital of Demacia and don't look at places outside the capital, you will probably think that Demacia is a country where everyone is well-fed and well-fed, right?"

"Well..." Jiawen understood now.

He mistakenly equated Piltover with Demacia, thinking that learning from Piltover City would lead the entire Demacia to wealth.

But in fact, based on the size of both sides, Piltover is more like the capital of Demacia.

Outside the capital, there are rural areas like Za'an, and countless rural serfs who have sold their blood and sweat for the capital.

"Do you know what kind of life the Zuan people lived in the past?" the snack bar owner recalled with emotion.

In fact, his life in old Zaun was pretty good.

In Old Zaun, if you can own your own stall like him, don't have to enter a sweatshop, don't have to sell yourself into slavery, and have an income that can support yourself and your family, you are considered a decent middle-class person.

But this does not mean that the life of the snack bar owner was so easy in the past.

However, as a self-employed person with his own business, he does not need to endure the bone-breaking and marrow-sucking oppression of the alchemy barons like those Zaun workers.

But the problem is that the Alchemy Baron's method of squeezing people is not just about letting people work in the factory.

In Old Zaun, the city was based on streets or communities, and was divided into spheres of influence by the powerful alchemist barons.

All businesses within the sphere of influence are actually controlled by giant companies under the name of the Alchemist Baron.

Residents theoretically have personal and property freedom, but they are required to pay high fees for all their actions.

You have to pay high electricity bills to the company when you use electricity, you can only buy high-priced medicines from the company when you are sick, you have to pay rent to the company for accommodation, you have to buy clean food from the company when you eat, you have to buy clean water from the company when you drink water... you can even take a breath. For non-toxic air, you can only purchase the company’s respirator masks.

The company pays the meager salary to the workers, and then easily uses the goods they produce by selling their own sweat and sweat to take back the capital with profits.

The people of Zaun have worked hard for half their lives and often cannot save a penny. They may also owe a high-interest debt to the company, so they can only sell themselves as slaves, or even sell themselves to alchemy shops and sell themselves to those scientific lunatics who are keen on prosthetic body transformation.

"I could earn a lot of money selling magic marsh frogs, but most of the money I earned was used to pay protection fees to the alchemy barons, and to spend on food, clothing, housing, transportation, and various necessary expenses." The snack bar owner said with emotion. .

"Doing this business is very tiring, but I don't dare to rest for a day."

"Because I know that all it takes is one illness, one accident, or even just one increase in water and food prices by the Alchemist Barons, and my so-called decent life will become unsustainable."

Prince Jiawen listened with great concentration.

He always felt that...he seemed to have seen the snack bar owner's words somewhere before.

Residents have personal and property freedom, but are required to pay high fees for all their actions.

this...

"Isn't this our tenant farmer in Demacia?" Prince Jarvan finally realized where this sense of déjà vu came from.

"Those alchemy barons are like our noble lords in Demacia?"

"That's right!" The snack bar owner nodded in agreement.

The main idea is that it is more advanced than the feudal system.

When the savage growth reaches the level of Zaun, you will find:

Those giant corporations that have completely controlled society and people's livelihood have tacitly turned back into the feudal lords they once defeated.

"That's why I said that Demacia can only learn to be the Zaun of the past."

"You don't have the ability to plunder the outside world like Piltover and Noxus did back then. You can only rely on your own cheap labor to accumulate seeds like Zaun."

"This process will definitely be difficult and painful. But after going through all this pain, when Demacia finally achieved primitive accumulation and had some development results..."

"Because you are too large and have too many people, it is difficult for you to let all Demacians live a life close to that of Mrs. Piltover."

"The most likely possibility is that Xiongdu has become 'Pi City'; and places outside Xiongdu have become 'Zu'an'."

If Demacia can restrain the Zeben Lord at this time, it will undeniably be a huge improvement compared to the poor and backward feudal kingdom of the past.

But if we let the tyrants grow wildly, and Demacia turns into an old Zaun where giant corporations can do whatever they want and be tyrannical, and even let private businessmen take over the political power...

The Demacians who lived in the Seben Era were essentially the same as the Demacians who lived in the Kingdom Era.

"In short, following Piltover can only make some people rich. No matter how good you are, you can't make everyone rich."

"Even if you are really a great man who comes from heaven once in a thousand years and miraculously makes tens of millions of Demacians rich. Then there must be tens of millions of poor people outside Demacia who are still struggling. You suffer.”

"This is the general rule of Ziben's rule, and it's not something you can change."

"Guest, do you understand?"