Forty Millenniums of Cultivation

Queen Shi's astonishing assertion made Li Yiu shook his head for a while: “I'm afraid it can't be so simple to analogize. Although the power of an ordinary person is very weak, it is... 'a lean monkey', but after all, the number of ordinary people is the largest, the accumulation of sand towers, accumulation of more, and not the greatest pressing value? ”

“In theory, yes, but you overlook the fact that so-called 'squeezing’ is also costly. ”

Li Linghaido, "When the management cost greatly exceeds the value that can be squeezed out, such squeezing is inexpensive, as if humans could indeed employ many secrets to make skinny monkeys into fierce and robust biochemical warcraft, but no mining site or army would actually do so, and the cost would be too inexpensive. ”

"After all, humans are not monkeys. The gap between the so-called 'original’ and ‘real' is smaller than expected. I know the empire's myriad cruel and extreme secrets, turning humans into all sorts of deformities and ugliness, even removing human organs, and replacing them with spiritual prosthetics, in order to make ordinary people more suitable for squeezing. Does Her Highness want to deny this? ”

Li Linghai faded: “Do you think this is the so-called ‘squeeze’? ”

"'Isn't it?" said Li Yao. ”

Li Linghaido: “Even if it is for the good of these original people, you should know that the Empire's spiritual energy puppet industry is now highly developed, and can produce a large number of puppets that are not too expensive. If the original people cannot catch up, and do not turn themselves into all kinds of deformities and ugliness, but can work efficiently, they can only defeat in the cruel competition and fall to the end of starvation - not only will they starve themselves, but even their families will not be spared.

“In the history of the empire, there has been no shortage of such examples. Some miners have been benevolent and have not fortified the original miners in the mines in a timely manner, making the mining costs high, unable to adapt to intense commercial competition, eventually bankruptcy collapsed and the whole thing was annexed by others.

“And when people swallow mines like this, they tend to transport large quantities of psychic puppets to replace human miners, and guess what happens to these mechanically replaced human miners?

“Therefore, it is precisely for the survival of these bottom-line original people that the empire's expert scholars have strangled their brains to develop various techniques of human strengthening and mechanical transformation, so that the original people have the ability to compete with the spiritual energy puppets, and even the special abilities that the spiritual energy puppets do not have, until now, to preserve most of the original people's jobs, so that they can at least survive.

“Often, moral norms and philanthropic hearts alone will not solve any real problems. Despite the actual situation, raising the minimum wage and the working environment will lead to a further deterioration of the subsistence of the lowest level of the population - so simple that I do not believe that you, as a god, will not understand. ”

“Of course I understand. ”

Li Yao bit his teeth, “But this is not the reason why you can transform a living person into a steel spider. Everything is‘ degrees’. You, the imperial authorities, are completely irresponsible and completely push the people at the bottom into brutal competition. It is too much! ”

The queen flashed her eyes and took a step back: “Perhaps you are right, the empire does have a great responsibility to the lowest level of the population, but only if - first and foremost - there is a strong central government capable of directly shaping the policies of every great thousand worlds, every resource planet, every family and sect, and if 'decrees do not leave the stars', it is useless to talk about any spirit and ideas.

“All in all, this is not the focus of our discussion today, and the point is that the original is a lean monkey, as opposed to the lower fairy, and the higher fairy, the valves and the nobles, are not very interested in directly oppressing the lowest original.

“On the other hand, the Empire of the Real Humanity has ruled the stars and seas for a thousand years. During the last millennium, Xian Avenue went deep into the hearts and minds. Even the original people deeply believed in the theory of 'weak flesh and strong' and took Xian Avenue as a natural reason.

“In this state of survival, the original people do not complain too much about their fate. Who calls them too weak? If you get used to your weakness, you won't have much luxury, and most of the original people have already agreed to their fate.

“The happiness of mankind, often not dependent on matter, but on the mentality, believe it or not, in many highly developed thousand worlds of the empire, there are very mature and stable rules of social functioning, and a sample survey of the original people there, their happiness index is not low.

“Most original people feel that life is like this, it should be enough to know, compared to the wartime period, ancient repair period, the 30,000 years of demonic rule in the Great Dark Age or under the rule of the Covenant Alliance, the tragic life of displacement and precariousness, their present fate is much better - so the starlight organization has torn for centuries without causing too much wind waves.

“You can of course assume that this is the result of a long brainwashing of the Empire, and I don't want to argue with you, just to tell you a fact.

“The fact is that the original is not the most dissatisfied with the status quo in the Empire, the most desperate class to change destiny - truly the most deeply oppressed, but also the most aware of the fact that he is‘ oppressed ', and enough wisdom, courage and even combat to change the status quo, is the refining period, the foundation period and even part of the nodal period, the middle- and lower-order fairy cultivator!

“Isn't that hard to understand?

“If you are a former man-made miner, the worst ‘squeeze’ you will ever encounter is working in a mine without a sun. Unless you encounter an accident such as a mine explosion, your life can always be saved. Less than a last resort, less people will ask you to go to war. These 'skinny monkeys' are burdensome to go to war with.

“Besides, you don't have much chance of being educated enough to wake you up to your destiny and pain, and often, without pain, you don't have pain, do you?

“But the lower fairy is different.

“The ‘squeeze’ they are going to endure, most likely in a fragmented world, and in nightmares where no monster will appear, could be swallowed up in the belly by the monster for minutes, slowly melted by the acid in the monster's digestive tract for a year and a half, until the last month.

“Yes, there are many small, less formal mining sites in the remote world of the Empire, where job safety is problematic and mine accidents continue - but the death rate of miners is no higher than that of lower fairy repairers on the battlefield.

“On the other hand, even those who have just awakened their spiritual roots and are at the bottom of the first realm of refining gas have enough wisdom to think about their society, their future and their future, and the whole world!

“You know, in the traditional education of the Empire, it is the ‘fairy cultivator' who is the supreme ruler of the country and civilization. All the middle and lower order fairy cultivators have high expectations of themselves. They are filled with bloodthirsty, ambitious minds and full of bellies. Can you expect them to be as faint as the original when they realize that they are merely tools to be squeezed? ”

Li Yao was deeply attracted by what Li Linghai said.

He used to think of fairy repair as a piece of iron, the same interest group, but he never tried to think about it in this way.

Thinking carefully for a moment, he shook his head slowly: “No, the original man-made miners worked to death in a shallow mine, and there was no hope at all, but the empire had an advanced ‘point of contribution' system, called ‘no questions of origin, respect of the strong’, to ensure unimpeded access to the ascent passage?

“Every fairy fixer who kills star beasts in the fragmented world has a chance to get a lot of 'contribution points'. After redeeming the contribution points, it gradually escalates step by step. There is always a chance to become the world's strongest. As for those who die halfway along the way, according to your theory, you have to consider yourself unlucky, but you can't blame Tianyu. ”

Li Linghai laughed: “The system of contribution points, which is called absolute fairness, opens up unhindered upward passage? I don't even believe in this propaganda slogan, do you? ”

Li Yaofei blinked his eyes quickly: “I don't really believe it either, but... please explain it in detail to Her Highness. ”

“Ultimately, it is still a question of making cakes and dividing cakes. At the rising stage, the bigger the cake, the more natural it can be divided, but once the cake reaches its limit, and even slowly shrinks, the division is uneven. ”

Li Linghai sighed in his breath, “The millennium history of the real human empire can actually be divided into two or five hundred years.

“In the first five hundred years, the Empire took over the centre of the star sea, expanding rapidly in all directions, discovering almost every year a new great thousand worlds, winning battles every year, adding new territories, new populations and resources every year, and constantly forming new Crystal Corps and Starfleet, naturally accompanied by a large number of official positions and opportunities.

“At that time, the upward pipeline of middle- and lower-order fairy repairers was truly unobstructed. If you dare to fight, and if you have a little bit of luck, yesterday's nameless generations will have the opportunity to pacify the green cloud and become the famous people of Hehe, under the accumulation of countless resources, to cultivate into the strong of the scolding wind cloud.

“It was the golden age of the Empire's vibrant, aggressive, steaming days, interest groups have not yet solidified, and the class is extremely mobile. Indeed, as you said, middle- and lower-order fairy cultivators are keen to participate in all kinds of wars and earn points of contribution. Even if they die in the most painful way in the fight, they can only blame themselves for their inexperience. They will never resent Tianyu, and they will not blame those high-order fairy cultivators for ‘oppressing’ them.

“But…

“Almost five hundred years ago, the layout of the Real Human Empire was expanded to more than 90 per cent today, reaching the limit of ‘cake’ expansion, and the next 500 years have been completely different. ”