Chapter 583 Human World

Several people still took a helicopter and flew back to Meng Yingqiu in Blue Sky Lake before dinner. Ketia was already a disciple of Yangyuan Valley, and Manman, the governor of Blue Sky Lake, took advantage of his busy schedule to invite her to dinner and stayed.

A divine mind seal.

From the methods of controlling objects and the art of purifying objects that can be practiced in the third realm, to the various tasks that need to be practiced after the fourth realm, such as the sacrifice of light beads, magnolia swords, bamboo magpies, pure yuan pills, and the matching magnolia

Knife array, bamboo magpie technique...

The most important one is of course the technique of nourishing the essence after breaking through the four realms, which is the foundation of cultivation.

It is impossible to teach or learn these contents in just one day. The best way to teach them is to have a mentor who can give guidance at any time. The inheritance of the heart seal is also an important assistant.

Kedia made a sudden request and formally became Yangyuangu's sect. This was something that many people had not thought of in advance. Yangyuangu also handled the matter quickly and got it done the next day.

When she showed up again on the third day, Ma Taishan could no longer be a security guard.

Mataishan was not hired by Ketiya with money. He couldn't hire such a person even if he wanted to. He volunteered to accompany Ketiya, and Ketiya couldn't refuse at first.

Nowadays, it is no longer appropriate for Mataishan to continue to be a bodyguard, but Kedia does not want to have a stalemate in the relationship. Yangyuangu and Gambistine still have a cooperative relationship, and there is no need for her to fall out with Mataishan.

So Ketiya said that the next trip has nothing to do with the monk's identity. If Mataishan still travels the same way, then he is a personal friend.

Speaking of which, Ma Taishan could have said goodbye if he had some discernment, but he was very good at climbing along the pole and immediately expressed his willingness to continue accompanying Her Royal Highness the Princess to visit the Kingdom of Kilili.

Then Huazhenxing arranged a camel for Matai Mountain.

Although it was an accident to become the disciple of Yangyuan Valley, Kedia's other itinerary had been arranged long ago. After leaving Bikong Lake, she would visit the earliest and currently largest agricultural production base in the Kingdom of Kilili.

It is a large area from Banda City to the western suburbs of Shire City, with Blue Sky Lake Scenic Area in the north, Wage Desert in the south, and the National Park in the west, with Fesuo River, Banshou River, Banda River, Banwei River, etc.

Four rivers pass through it.

The reason why the former Port Feso City and now Shire City can exist is because there is a Feso River that flows continuously all year round. And Banda City can become the most important agricultural production base in Kilili Country because there are three rivers in its territory.

Although the Banshou River, the Banda River, and the Banwei River are three rivers in the middle and lower reaches of the plains, they almost originate in the same valley in the western plateau and flow out from three different passes between the mountains.

Now the upstream Banyuan River Reservoir has been built, with a total installed capacity twice that of the Lofogen Hydropower Station. It is the largest water conservancy project in the Kingdom of Kilili so far. One reservoir has three main dams, leading to three rivers downstream.

Two stepped reservoirs have also been built in the upper reaches of the Feso River, but their scale is relatively small.

After the New Alliance liberated Banda City and before it controlled the entire territory of Kilili Country, it had already launched large-scale farmland water conservancy construction in this area. The overall planning, led by Uncle Mo himself, was not completed until the completion of the Banyuan River Reservoir.

Initially completed.

The originally scattered plantation and farm land was reintegrated, and the scope of the national park was redefined. Farmland water conservancy projects at all levels were built in this area, and today's large-scale agricultural production base has emerged.

It is said that you can take an off-road vehicle to visit these farms, but Feng Zibin arranged a camel team, and everyone rode camels and walked in the wilderness. Although it was the so-called winter, the climate was still very warm, and the fields were green.

Kedia was curious about why she wanted to visit by camel. Feng Zibin smiled and explained that this is actually a newly developed tourism project in the local area. It is popular with many tourists, especially tourists from the East. These camels are also raised by the tourism company.

Ordinary tourists can only ride camels in a relatively safe area for fun. This time when Ketiya came, Feng Zibin specially mobilized a camel team from the tourism company to allow Her Royal Highness the Princess to enjoy the ride.

Ten years ago, Kedia came to Fiso Port for hunting. At that time, there was a convoy following, but the princess herself rode a horse, which was very laborious and expensive. Now the horses have been replaced by dromedary camels, and there are only five of them.

, a standard simple Qingqi ride.

Seven camels, five with people on them, and the other two carrying things, walked through the fields. The farm workers seen along the way waved enthusiastically from a distance, and a farm lunch was arranged in a farm canteen on the way.

Continuing the tour in the afternoon, Mataishan suddenly asked: "Are all large-scale state-owned farms in this area? I heard that Kiriguo has the most cooperation with Dongguo, and many projects are aided by Dongguo. Why didn't they learn from Dongguo's agricultural policy?

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Rothchild: "What was the agricultural policy of the Eastern Kingdom at that time?"

Ma Taishan: "Production is guaranteed to each household. It is a family responsibility system, and each household is assigned a responsibility for the land." At the same time, he explained what he knew about the situation with his spiritual mind, because he grew up in Dongguo.

Cui Wanhe shook his head and said: "We can't learn, and we can't learn."

Ketiya: "Oh, why?"

This would be a long story to explain. Although Dongguo’s agricultural policy at that time, the so-called household responsibility system, was not an advanced form of production organization, it also had quite stringent prerequisites for its implementation. These prerequisites were even only possessed by Dongguo.

On the one hand, there is a traditional agricultural society, a large enough agricultural population, and a decentralized small-scale peasant economy; on the other hand, after land reform and social revolution, collective land ownership has been realized.

But if you want to implement household contracting, there is a more important foundation, which is to assume that all agricultural families have mastered skilled farming techniques, have cultivated mature fields, and have convenient transportation. The most important of them is a complete farmland water conservancy system.

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The Eastern Kingdom has thousands of years of agricultural civilization to lay such a foundation. There has always been a corvee system in ancient times, and a large part of the corvée tasks are the construction and maintenance of water conservancy facilities.

Especially after the founding of New Dongguo, it took several decades to establish a relatively complete farmland water conservancy engineering system.

None of these prerequisites were met in the Kingdom of Kilili, and everything needed to be started from scratch. Therefore, building large-scale state-owned farms to create agricultural production bases, and training and hiring agricultural workers was the most suitable model.

Mataishan asked again: "What about the future? You don't have to implement household quotas, but when the conditions are ripe, can these lands be privately owned, for example, many people can be allocated a piece of land, so that they may be able to manage better."

Hua Zhenxing sighed: "Some things, as long as you take the first step, the trend is irreversible. Doctor Luo, what do you think?"

Rothchild did not answer directly, but said inexplicably: "The best way to annex assets is to develop and encourage finance. Many textbooks say that the function of finance is resource allocation, but they do not say that the purpose of finance is the concentration of capital."

Dr. Luo just said a truth. An event with a certain probability of occurrence, as long as the base is large enough, it will definitely happen, either on this person's head or on another person's head.

For example, natural disasters, accidents, or even an illness that temporarily incapacitates a person's ability to work. Who can guarantee that they will not get sick throughout their lives, or even for generations to come?

Assume that agriculture is developed based on scattered self-cultivators, and the land is privately owned by these self-cultivators. What will happen? Maybe after a natural disaster, some farmers will go bankrupt!

Even if ninety-nine people can survive, and only one person cannot, it is inevitable that this kind of thing will happen. Another result of bankruptcy is the loss of land.

Suppose there is another person, someone like Feng Zibin, who continues to acquire the land of bankrupts. He will gradually own the largest land, which is the most important means of agricultural production.

This is the process of land annexation in the history of many countries.

If you want to avoid this process as much as possible, you may need a social relief system. However, the social relief system is not omnipotent and often fails. When natural disasters and man-made disasters occur, they are often accompanied by disorder, and relief failure is almost inevitable.

There is another reasonable and legal way to speed up this process. The simplest and most effective way is to try to make people continue to increase their debt.

The most common way to increase debt is to buy things you can't afford originally, to bear consumption beyond the current level of wealth accumulation, and to borrow money such as installment mortgages.

The path to debt is not only in the consumption field, but also in the production field, such as providing more advanced production tools, higher-yielding seeds, supporting pesticides and fertilizers...

These things are beyond the ability of the original farmers to purchase. They have not accumulated so much wealth yet, so they must be supplemented with financial tools to allow them to use debt to realize it, and encourage them to use land as collateral for loans.

In this case, almost everything is given financial attributes. If there are natural or man-made disasters, debt defaults will occur on a large scale... In addition, there are more effective means.

The special properties of most agricultural products make them difficult to preserve for a long time and must be sold within a short period of time during the harvest season in order to obtain income to repay maturing debts.

Even for some staple food products with a longer shelf life, there are additional costs for warehousing and they face greater debt pressure.

If we control the supply channels of seeds, fertilizers, and pesticides, and control the sales market of the products, we can complete the entire harvest at the right time, and even deliberately start a war.

For example, it creates price fluctuations in the short term, increases the prices of seeds, fertilizers, pesticides, and energy, and depresses the prices of agricultural products, causing farmers to default on their debts and even lose loan collateral.

In this process, the "Feng Zibin" not only sold the products and received huge interest income, but also eventually took possession of the other party's assets. Such methods can not only target a certain farmer, but can even be used to harvest a country.

A very important reason for the emergence of human civilization is that people have learned to delay gratification and are willing to sow seeds in winter and wait until autumn to harvest.

In the past, many people in the Kingdom of Miles lived in despair because they had no chance to create wealth through hard work. The more they tried to struggle, the more they ushered in deeper despair.

All the emergence of the New Alliance and the New Guilin Country has done is to give people the opportunity to change the world and improve themselves through hard work, thereby gradually completing accumulation.

But the other side of human nature, if you can enjoy it in advance without any effort, how many people can resist this temptation? Mortgage the future without accumulation, this is a new game.

This process is irreversible. Once it starts, the trend will be increasingly strengthened, and eventually the land will be concentrated in the hands of people like Feng Zibin.

What this kind of people want is to monopolize resources and grow whatever is most profitable. If there is no profit from farming agricultural products or the profit does not meet expectations, they will use the land for other purposes.

So what will happen to the refugees who have lost their land? They have once again become a reserve labor resource with varying degrees of availability. There is a modern word called "human mine", which has changed from humans to mines in a certain sense.

This was the case in the Kilili Country back then. Since there was no water conservancy system, the cultivated land suitable for large-scale development was concentrated in areas with natural irrigation conditions and was occupied by major forces, such as the Morrison Plantation.

What are the main crops of the Morrison Plantation? Oil palms and coffee beans are exclusively for the overseas market, and a large amount of pasture is planted in the marginal areas. They have enough wealth to support themselves and their thugs. In times of famine, it is better to continue to occupy resources.

Chance.

If this process happens, the country will probably return to the era of the Morrison Plantation. Do we have to wait for the emergence of the next new alliance to overturn the table and start over again?

The emergence of the new alliance is not an inevitable event! Some people say that history is inevitable. If there is no new alliance, there will be the emergence of similar new organizations and new fronts. This is a misunderstanding of historical materialism.

Because in real history, countless tribes and national civilizations did not wait for redemption, but went extinct due to various reasons. For example, the Kingdom of Shenyin that Hua Zhenxing visited once had an independent civilization there.

Ma Taishan mentioned the example of Dongguo. The household contracting system in Dongguo had existed stably for many years. The fundamental reason was that agricultural land at that time did not become the subject matter of financial products.

Land is only a means of production allocated to farmers. It is a collective property right. Farmers can only use it but cannot sell it.

Many rural families are in debt due to building houses, getting married, medical treatment, etc. Even if the income from farming is very low, even if they increase their income by going to work in the city, they cannot directly sell the contracted land property rights...

Rozchild only spoke half of the words and did not elaborate on the specific process, but the meaning was already obvious. Dr. Luo, who saved lives and injured in Fiso Port, is now a successful elite investor. He is very interested in this kind of investment.

Things couldn't be more clear.

Cui Wanhe didn't want them to dwell on this issue anymore, so he quickly smoothed things over and said, "The situation in Kilili Country is different. The purpose of agricultural development is mainly to ensure people's livelihood and safety."

However, Ma Taishan was still interested in the topic just now and continued to ask: "What about Huanxiang Tebang? As far as I know, all the land there, including various assets, belongs to Huanxiang Industrial.

Huanxiang Industrial only belongs to Lord Feng Zibin, and there are no other shareholders. Is this the concentration of capital that Lord Rothchild just mentioned, and is it the ultimate form?"

This time it was Rozchild who smoothed things over. He quickly waved his hand and said: "It's different, completely different. Lord Feng Zibin didn't take away anything from anyone, but created everything himself."

This sentence seems to be correct. The land Huazhenxing bought in the name of Feng Zibin, including the earliest agricultural reclamation area, was actually uninhabited wasteland. Today, most of the Huanxiang Tebang is still wasteland.

There are only floods in the rainy season, withered grass in the dry season, not a single village, and not a perennial river. All of this is created by Huanxiang Industrial from scratch, not taken from others.

Unexpectedly, Feng Zibin himself shook his head and said: "Mr. House is right, this is the ultimate form of capital concentration.
To be continued...