Li Qingyang is indeed a master of cultivation economics. This question stopped Yang Lu on the spot.
Although the level of social activity in the Kyushu cultivation world is only a few tenths of that on Earth, the history of the cultivation world is millions of years old. Why has it been so long that the cultivation world has not developed a highly developed financial theory?
Since both civilizations attach great importance to the study of financial theory, no matter how slow the development of the cultivation society is, the level of development of its financial theory should not be lower than that of the earth!
So Yang Lu asked honestly: "Please give me some advice, Mr. Li!"
Li Qingyang just shook his head and said: "I don't know either... I once asked Governor Lu why cultivators in the Middle Ages could use spirit stones as currency and no financial crisis broke out for hundreds of thousands of years, while the modern spirit stone financial crisis has
There were outbreaks one after another, but President Lu just smiled and said nothing. Obviously he knew the answer, but he was unwilling to tell me."
Lingshi has the properties of consumer goods and is easy to hoard. When the consumption of Lingshi increases for a certain period of time, when cultivators realize that the price of Lingshi has increased, they will start to hoard Lingshi like the wealthy people on earth hoarding Moutai, and the more Lingshi is used
Hoarding will increase prices even more rapidly. If spiritual stones are used as currency, this kind of violent value fluctuation is enough to paralyze any commodity economic system.
But this does not mean that spiritual stones cannot be used as currency.
In ancient China, there was no stable currency system. Not only did most of the private economic activities take place in the form of barter, but sometimes even the army's salary had to rely on farming, salting, and local grain requisitions.
Even if it is an official currency, it will become a tool for cutting leeks after only a few years of strength. Even when Zhang Juzheng's one-whip reform in the Ming Dynasty was implemented, the national finance could not achieve monetary revenue and expenditure.
Strictly speaking, as the lowest support of the financial system, the core function of currency is to improve the operating efficiency of the economic system.
If a carpenter wants to eat fish, he does not need to find a fisherman who has just caught fish and needs wooden furniture. He can make furniture for another person in need in exchange for currency, and then go to the fisherman to buy fish.
In other words, through currency as a medium, producers and consumers no longer need to be accurately matched, thereby increasing the degree of specialization in the social division of labor, and the increase in the degree of specialization in the social division of labor will make civilization more prosperous.
Without a stable monetary environment, it is nothing more than low efficiency of social operation and low level of division of labor, the inability of the commodity economy to develop, ordinary people being cut off by sharp fluctuations in currency values, and serious failure of grassroots social governance.
This level of waste is nothing to the feudal society where waste is everywhere. The so-called small-scale peasant economy is actually due to the lack of division of labor and cooperation in the society, resulting in a family needing to master all the necessary skills to survive at the same time.
However, even the so-called "low-level social equilibrium" of the ancient feudal dynasty will inevitably collapse again and again, and will be overthrown by wars and disasters in troubled times.
But the most bizarre thing about the Kyushu cultivation world in the medieval era is that it has been running continuously for hundreds of thousands of years without any record of a large-scale spiritual stone financial crisis.
This is very outrageous.
You must know that the level of social division of labor in the Jiuzhou cultivation world is not lagging behind at all, and its productivity far exceeds that of the ancient feudal dynasties on earth. Just running a fantasy and majestic mountain fairy city like Tianshu City does not require a cultivator with a big fist.
To achieve this, it must be supported by a professional social division of labor system and a highly developed commodity economic system.
For example, the metal building materials in Tianshu City may come from Luanshi City, the bricks and stones may come from Qingyun City, the food supply may come from Luoxia City, the transportation and circulation may be handled by the Haiya Chamber of Commerce, and urban sanitation is outsourced to the local chamber of commerce, while Tianshu City
The paper products also need suitable currency to be marketed throughout Zhongzhou.
If there is no stable currency system, the entire product supply chain of Tianshu City will collapse in an instant. Even if cultivators have the ability to move mountains and reclaim seas, you cannot expect cultivators to personally burn bricks, clear ashes, plant land, and pick crops.
Shit!
However, according to the historical records of the cultivation world, the Kyushu cultivation world in the medieval era was really such an idyllic world, with majestic fairy cities, secluded sects in the mountains and old forests, and monsters everywhere walking at night with hundreds of ghosts.
Everyone in the den is operating in a steady state. There are no management difficulties or supply chain problems. The Lingshi currency system is also quite stable. I have never heard of such a thing as the Lingshi financial crisis.
In the Kyushu cultivation world in the medieval era, the only social conflict seemed to be killing people and seizing treasures. Apart from fighting, cultivators did not need to study any sociological knowledge at all, and they could still manage the sect in an orderly manner.
Therefore, the question Li Qingyang asked was exactly what Yang Lu was puzzled about.
Comrade Marx told us that developed productive forces must match developed production relations. It is impossible to say that the productivity of the cultivation world has far exceeded that of the earth's feudal dynasties, but the production relations are still the same as those of the ancient feudal dynasties.
In Yang Lu's view, the current production relations in Kyushu's cultivation world are the production relations that can match the actual economic fundamentals of Kyushu. The pastoral and pastoral world of the medieval cultivation world should only exist in some earthly novels.
The setting is simply impossible to operate stably in the real world for hundreds of thousands of years, nor can it support today's prosperous cultivation civilization.
If a civilization could operate so randomly, the earth's civilization would probably have achieved communism long ago.
And now it seems that this question is not unanswered. My time-traveling senior should know the truth, but the question is, why didn't President Lu tell Li Qingyang the truth...
As Yang Lu fell into deep thought, the entire White Jade Pavilion also fell into silence. Seeing that Yang Lu didn't speak, Li Qingyang took the initiative to speak: "Although President Lu didn't tell us the truth, Bo Nanke and other senior practitioners of Xiuzhen Economics have put forward some
Conjecture. According to Senior Bo Nanke, before the second Tiandao crisis, Kyushu Tiandao should be able to automatically adjust the output of Lingshi veins based on the actual demand for spiritual stones in the cultivation world. With the outbreak of the Tiandao crisis 7,000 years ago,
, our Kyushu Tiandao has been irreversibly damaged, causing the automatic adjustment mechanism of spirit stone production to completely fail, which has led to the spiritual stone financial crisis breaking out in the Kyushu cultivation world. "
What theory is this?
Is the Tiandao smart money printing machine theory?
Yang Lu said in disbelief: "Do you think... Senior Bo Nanke's conjecture is possible?"
Li Qingyang shook his head and said: "I once thought this was the real answer. Although it does not explain all the problems, it does explain some of the problems. But I once tested Governor Lu with this conjecture, but Governor Lu's attitude towards this conjecture was different.
He was very disapproving, and I even felt that he wanted to laugh a little bit, but he held it back..."
"This at least eliminates a wrong option!"
"I can only comfort myself in this way. After all, my life has come to an end. No matter how many thoughts I have, I will never have the chance to personally reveal the truth behind the history of Kyushu Cultivation World!"
