Li Yao's mind was spinning, and he could already think of the scene after the rapid expansion of the empire, and blurted out: "Thousands of words can be condensed into one sentence.
The resources in the universe are limited."
"That's right."
Li Linghai said calmly, "To put it bluntly, since the empire's ability to expand is limited and its territory is limited, the official positions, opportunities and power it can provide are also limited.
There can only be one realm master in a vast world. , a sect can only have one leader, a fleet can only have one supreme commander, and even a crystal mine can only have one mine owner, right?
“This is the core of all contradictions.
"In the first five hundred years, the empire expanded wildly, and vested interests had divided up positions such as realm masters, fleet commanders, chapter leaders, suzerains, heads, and even mine owners.
As the saying goes, every carrot is a pit. !
"In the next five hundred years, the Imperial Expeditionary Force will often continue to explore for decades regardless of the cost, but they will not be able to find a vast world.
Even if they find it, it will be a barren land with no human habitation and depleted resources.
What's the use?
"Therefore, even if the immortal cultivators born in the next five hundred years are extremely talented, have excellent bones, dare to fight, and are very lucky, they will not be able to reach the sky in one step like they did in the first five hundred years."
Li Yao smiled and said: "Don't immortal cultivators pay attention to 'the weak eat the strong and the strong are respected'?
Even if the cake cannot continue to grow bigger, he can still grab other people's cakes!"
Li Linghai also smiled slightly and said: "Do you think that the vested interests that have gradually solidified are all dead people, and they will watch the ambitious latecomers start to rob them, but they will not take advantage of them first?
"If you think about it with a pig's brain, you will know that between the vested interests who have a lot of cultivation resources, magical powers and secrets, and even the Star Sea Fleet, and the stupid boy who has nothing, awakens his spiritual roots only by luck, and stumbles all the way to practice, who is more capable of eating it?
Drop the whole cake!
"In short, the vested interests who made huge war fortunes in the first five hundred years and seized the 'high ground' in the empire's political, economic, military, cultural and other fields have gradually solidified into tumors, large and small, or in the name of family In the name of a sect, or in the name of a deep space fleet, no matter what the name is, the essence is the same.
It is a monopoly group large enough to swallow up the entire world, a powerful group, plutocrats and oligarchs.
"Since it is a highly concentrated monopoly, it can naturally formulate various rules that benefit itself at will, so that all resources can flow into its own mouth "reasonably and legally".
This is the saying that 'the big will get bigger, and the strong will balance the strong.'
The truth is that rising stars without background are simply not capable of competing with these oligarchs.
“To give the simplest example, let’s take a contribution point system that seems absolutely fair and gives everyone a chance.
"The system of calculating contribution points based on military merit, and redeeming cultivation resources and even military ranks, official positions and status with contribution points, seems very fair and reasonable, right?
"But no matter how fair and reasonable the system seems to be, it must be implemented by specific people.
If the immortal cultivators responsible for implementing the contribution point system are all deep-rooted oligarchs, powerful people and rich family backgrounds, how can they possibly treat immortal cultivators from poor families?
Treat everyone equally?
"Under the contribution point system, the assessment of task difficulty is entirely the responsibility of organizations such as the 'Combat Merit Committee' in various worlds.
Needless to say, these organizations are all controlled by oligarchs and nobles.
They can completely contribute to their own families.
For your children, tailor-make some tasks with extremely low difficulty but extremely high contribution points, and notify your children to claim them as soon as possible before they are released online.
This way, you can be justified and allow your children to get a lot of contributions without risk.
Clicked, right?
"What's more, when they encounter some extremely difficult tasks, they will deliberately attract a large number of poor cultivators with no background to perform them.
When the poor cultivators suffer heavy casualties and the mission objectives are almost weakened, they will then use the difficulty of the task to If it is too high, we need to temporarily increase manpower as a reason to let our children join in and do a final 'remaining health hit and harvest heads'.
Naturally, our children can easily get a lot of contribution points.
"So, even under the seemingly fair contribution point system, if you are born into a wealthy family and come from a powerful family that has cultivated immortality for thousands of years, from time to time you will find something with low difficulty, high contribution points, or very harsh conditions for receiving it, so I will save it for you.
You can complete the customized tasks effortlessly and easily, thereby earning a lot of contribution points, which can be used to exchange for the country's large amount of cultivation resources.
"But if you are a cultivator from a humble family who has no connections or background and works alone, risking ninety-nine percent of his life before rushing forward, you will find that most tasks are extremely difficult, and the contribution after completion is The point is very low, or it contains unexpected risks.
In the end, others will step on your bloody head to reap a lot of benefits.
“Occasionally, you may be able to find some seemingly ‘cost-effective’ tasks on the public task platform.
"But these tasks are either instantly accepted by some powerful disciple that you don't know, or there are some additional stringent requirements, such as reaching the eleventh level of the Qi Refining Stage and obtaining five-star driving skills at the Greedy Wolf Crystal Armor Training Camp.
Only certified immortal cultivators can receive it.
Needless to say, this is a task specially designed for a certain second-generation immortal.
You can see it, cannot eat it, stare blankly, and have no temper.
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"You said, under such an 'absolutely fair contribution point system', how can a poor cultivator compete with a wealthy cultivator?"
Li Yao sighed and said, "So, it's really painful for the lower-level immortal cultivators."
"Of course it's painful.
There are ten thousand ways to squeeze you out of the 'cake-sharing' circle, but you can't even say a word."
Li Linghai said, "Being able to participate in the game of 'contribution point system' is a thing of the past, but what is more important is education.
"Theoretically speaking, the empire upholds fair competition.
Regardless of whether it is a rich family, a poor family or even a descendant of the original people, all have the right to accept training.
Whoever shows the strongest potential in early education will be the most qualified to receive a large number of heavenly materials and earthly treasures.
Without the nourishment and guidance of famous teachers, if there is no talent for cultivation, even the descendants of immortal cultivators should ruthlessly abandon it in order to achieve the optimal allocation of resources and promote the overall development of human civilization.
“But, this is still just ‘theory’.
"The theory is beautiful, but the reality is cruel.
Which family of immortal cultivators would be so idiotic as to give all their own resources to the talented and potential primitive children, but give nothing to their own children?
"Descendants of a family of immortal cultivators are nourished by heavenly materials and earthly treasures as soon as they are born.
When they are two or three years old, strong men in the family cleanse their marrow, cut their menstrual passages, and condition their bodies.
When they grow up, they begin to learn about extraordinary skills and special arts.
It is said that the vast majority of original people's children, even the descendants of poor cultivators, do not have this condition.
"Then, in a series of national-level tests such as the talent test and potential test for five to seven years old, it is natural that the children of the rich and powerful have a better chance of getting high scores and legitimately entering the highest-level Immortal Cultivation Academy.
This has not been taken into account.
Most national-level testing is actually controlled by these oligarchs.
"As the same saying goes, the strong will always be strong, and the big will get bigger.
The emergence of oligopoly means that the empire's healthy and reasonable resource allocation methods have disappeared.
The interest groups headed by the 'Four Electoral Prince Families', We will never give up until we clean this country's wool and suck out every last drop of its blood.
"Of course, with the continuous upgrading of cultivation technology and human body enhancement and transformation technology, the difficulty for the original people of the empire to cultivate to low-level immortal cultivators has been greatly reduced.
After intensive transformation, there is also a chance to have one-half or more of the low-level immortal cultivators.
One third of the combat effectiveness.
"However, the difficulty of advancing from a low-level immortal cultivator to a high-level immortal cultivator, that is, from refining Qi and building foundations to forming pills and Nascent Soul, has increased more than ten times compared to the previous five hundred years.
It can be said that, The large-scale ascending channel has been completely blocked.
"Moreover, cultivating immortals is an extremely resource-intensive matter.
The demand for logistical supplies of the strengthened and transformed 'cyborgs' has also greatly increased, which makes the lower-level immortal cultivators increasingly dependent on resources, that is, the monopolies who rely on resources.
This creates a situation where they have to rely on interest groups, grit their teeth and struggle under the rules of the oligarchic game, and open their eyes to being squeezed.
"You can even understand that high-level immortal cultivators find that the efficiency of directly squeezing the original people is too low.
Then, it is more convenient, more direct, and more efficient to let some of the original people become low-level immortal cultivators and then squeeze them. " Hearing this, Li Yao breathed a long sigh of relief, feeling like he was sweating profusely, and said sincerely: "This is really different from... what I heard on the Firefly about the social structure and operation of immortal cultivators. " Li Linghai said: "The Republic of Xinghai was destroyed at the hands of the empire.
Naturally, you received brainwashing education that vilified and slandered the immortal cultivators.
It is not surprising that you developed a feeling of hatred towards the immortal cultivators due to your preconceptions.
"What's more, the empire that is ruled by these monopolistic oligarchs and powerful clans today is indeed a mess, with demons dancing around, wolves in power, and snakes and rats running rampant!
"Above the temple, the Dukes of Gungun, carrying the three-star lightning war flag and saying 'Long live the cultivators of immortality', are actually a bunch of selfish scum who only care about their own small group and completely ignore the overall situation of the empire and the future of human civilization.
Not to mention you, even I hate these scum to the core!
"But please believe that a true immortal cultivator should never be like this.
At least, the real human empire established by the Black Star Emperor Wu Yingqi in the past is definitely not what it is today!"
—— The fourth update is in place, ho ho!
I went to see a movie again today, hahaha.
It was "Dangal!"
recommended by a friend in the book review section a few days ago.
Dad", I went to the cinema in the heavy rain.
All I can say is that it is really worth watching.
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The quality is at least as good as or even better than "Guardians of the Galaxy Vol. 2".
They both tell the story of "Dad" and are so tear-jerking.
I hesitated for a long time whether to say these irrelevant words at the end of the chapter, but it is so good that I might as well give it a try.
Such a good film is really worth going to the cinema to support!
In particular, the little girl's singing was so cute that I couldn't stand it.
After watching it, I really wanted to have a daughter, and then "ravage" her like the father in the movie.
Seeing her expression of anger but not speaking, hahahaha!
Let me force you to point out the topic.
In fact, the two movies recommended in the past two days have quite a lot in common with their writing.
Both movies have a great sense of rhythm and flow smoothly.
However, no matter how great the sense of rhythm is, in the final analysis, they still have the most sincere feelings.
In it, whether it is a fierce battle between the stars or the struggles of ordinary people in a poor and impoverished small village, the relationship between people is the most important.
I really hope that Lao Niu can also write about such parents and such feelings. ah!