Chapter 403
2021-01-06
Chapter 403 Breaking the Wheel"Deprive the nobles of privilege, break the wheel of history, and build a world without oppression The kingdom?"
Daenerys replied hesitantly, this is the goal she has been thinking about day and night, yearn for something even in dreams...but even her oneself understands that this is obviously a general goal, not a specific policy.
"Very good." Looking at Queen's expression, Igor understood that her oneself also realized the problem, but it didn't matter, "Your thinking is very clear, let me analyze it: do you think that the bottom layer All the suffering of the people comes from the oppression and persecution of the upper-class nobles and slave-masters. As long as the issue of equality is solved and the Blood Sucking Insect of these societies is eliminated, the people will live a good life. But please reflect on your time in Slaver's Bay and answer my question - in the three major city-states of Slaver's Bay you rule, are the living standards of the residents higher than before you appeared, and if so, by how much?"
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A blush of shame quickly appeared on the face of the little Queen. Fortunately, the light in the room was dim and not very obvious.
Slaver's Bay's bad ruling experience has always been a pain in her heart. Due to her own wrong strategy and inexperience, Astapor and Yunkai are both thrown into chaos or restored by slave-master, Because the war intensified conflicts and consumed resources and other reasons, the lives of the residents became worse. Only Meereen - Littlefinger came under her command when oneself took the city, by following his series of advice and guidelines, while oneself also stayed to rule himself rather than rushing to the next stop All got better.
And even in this case, Meereen did the cold-blooded way of stopping the influx of refugees from the first two cities that brought starvation and plague....
Wait until oneself masters dragon control in Asshai, completely repel foreign armed interference, and even re-subdue Yunkai and Astapor to bring them under the rule, realize the unification of the east coast of Slaver's Bay, and finally stabilize the situation and finish Everything is ready to embark on the road to counter-attack Westeros... She just barely achieved the goal of "returning the life of the residents of the three cities to the original standard" - in Yunkai and Astapor, there are three out of ten residents, and the entire east coast of Slaver's Bay has been depopulated. nearly half of the cases.
And this is obviously not something that can be shown off.
“Not much,” Daenerys replied honestly, but made a slight disguise, “but anyway, at least they are all free now.”
“This is There's no denying that the liberation of Slaver's Bay was a great feat," Igor complimented, holding back his expression. After all - what he has to do now is to fool Daenerys and try to get her to act in the direction of oneself's interests, not to slap her in the face and let the favorability of the just brushed drop a lot," but, in Westeros Beware, Seven Kingdoms have abolished the slave system long ago, everyone is free. Here, if you can't make the people live a better life, everyone will not admit it: you have put them under 'the oppression of the nobles' Liberated, but only shouted: 'Thinking of how good we could have lived under the rule of so-and-so Duke'!"
Daenerys was obviously not disrespectful by this sentence, With a guilty conscience, the more she listened to the words, the more she felt ashamed, the "Queen" arrogant look on her face disappeared, and she completely turned into an open mind to ask for advice: she could hear the confidence in Igor's words, Night's Watch really has a good strategy for realizing the ideal of oneself, and she doesn't mind lowering her profile.
Under the eager gaze of the Queen, Igor did not sell too much, and after a while, the conversation changed: "I will make an unprudent inference - even if you destroy all the nobles in Westeros now , the resources are all divided equally, and you will still be surprised to find that everyone is just full, and there is a little surplus. Once there is a disaster, an unexpectedly long winter or a war, the situation will still be bad. Not to mention, you In order to maintain this kind of fairness and ensure the implementation of oneself's policies, it is necessary to expand the ranks of officials, replacing lords and knights with a bureaucratic system - and such a system is out of production and has no benefits, plus everyone has selfishness , will be driven by the desire of oneself, and once you have power, you will quickly become a new oppressor, and for this you have to form a Supervision Section..."
Daenerys frowned: "You Does it mean that nobles and lords are irreplaceable, and my ideal is just a joke?"
"No, what I want to say is that Your Majesty wants to make the people better, except in the system In addition to the above changes, the more important thing is to make materials and commodities more abundant. Productivity and production relations must develop and progress together, and the world will really become a better place.”
Productivity and production relations, Let's talk about it seriously - not to mention whether Igor has this knowledge reserve, even if he does, he can prepare to spend the night here at Daenerys tonight. Explaining things as clearly as in textbooks and lecture notes is neither necessary nor meaningless in this era. Igor has briefly mentioned these two concepts in the first half of the book on the monarchy, and now I will take it out, as long as A little supplementary explanation will allow the listener to fully understand what he means.
"What Your Majesty thinks of as a 'history-breaking wheel' is essentially a desire to change the way production is distributed. That's not wrong, but you're ignoring one point: No matter how you distribute it, productivity doesn't change If there are so many things that can be distributed, no matter how good institutions and systems are, they will be quickly destroyed by population expansion and accidents. Therefore, the correct approach is to carry out a comprehensive reform of the country to synchronize the productive forces and production relations Development and mutual promotion."
"Of course I want to, but there is so much food growing in the fields, and so many products from the forest and ocean. How can the improvement of 'productivity' be achieved?"
"If you want to talk about this in detail, it would have to be a big book - the most important thing is that this is a book that I can't write." Igor spread his hands, knowing that the other party had already entered Set, now oneself can't drive her away even if she wants to, you can be more casual. He pulled the chair across from Daenerys, poured a glass of warm wine for both oneself and Queen, sat down, took a sip and continued, "But although I can't write it, I'm sure it can be done. .Your Majesty If you have some knowledge about the Night's Watch industry, you will know that this is not only a large production organization, but also the staff of its research institutes, who will also do some... Or a spontaneous experiment. One of them is farming."
"Don't tell me that the employees of the Night's Watch industry eat food that they grow by themselves."
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"Of course it's impossible, but the cooking of the meals is mostly the responsibility of the cafeteria. The cafeteria staff only need to cook two meals a day. There are countless open spaces in the huge factory room to grow some vegetables - not only to pass the time, but also to subsidize the consumption of food raw materials in the canteen. After I learned about this situation, I ordered the research institute to intervene in this amateur activity, by using tools , changing farming methods, trying new fertilizers, and so on in every conceivable way, looking for ways to grow more in the same amount of land."
"Success?"
"The yields vary from field to field, but they're above the Seven Kingdoms average," Igor said. "So, no disrespect—but I have to correct Your Majesty just now: the fields are still It's really not that we can only grow so much grain, but through agricultural reform, we can make it grow more, which is called the progress of productivity."
"How to do it?"
"Well-bred seeds, sturdy and handy tools, scientific and rational farming methods: sowing, irrigation, fertilization, etc... Are you sure you want to hear it now? As far as I know, Dragonstone can't grow food."
"I see." Daenerys has given up thinking, she just wants to read the next chapter... no, listen to the next paragraph, "And then?"
"We've now reached an agreement: Technological progress will lead to productivity development, if you have any doubts, please raise it immediately, if not, we will move on to the next argument.” Igor was very generous in the knowledge Daenerys wanted, because today’s talk is all about it. It is not the trump card and reliance for him to really participate in the game in the future. Even if she has to fight Daenerys one day in the future, she will not be more difficult to deal with because of the things she hears from oneself today... "After the development of productivity, the ones who will benefit the most will be the ones in Seven Kingdoms. Which place?"
"Benefits the most...doesn't everyone benefit?"
"Yes, but now I want Your Majesty you oneself to answer this by thinking The question is, which place will benefit the most?"
This is not for Igor to sell off, he also wants to complete the brainwashing as soon as possible, and let Queen think along the idea of oneself, but this issue is too sensitive , if oneself leads the way, it may lead to some very bad suspicions.
Daenerys was forced to go painfully from "learning mode" to "thinking mode," which thankfully wasn't a hard question to answer.
“Reach, because Reach has the warmest climate, the largest arable land, and the largest population.”
“Yes.” Igor, “but given your current status of Seven Kingdoms I think it is necessary to give you a more detailed account of the specific data ratio: the area of arable land in Reach is twice that of Riverlands in Ranked 2nd, and due to the warm and humid climate, Long Summer can be three crops a year, Its food production is half that of the Seven Kingdoms; the population is not so exaggerated, but it is also larger than the North, Westerlands, Riverlands and Vale combined... This is only official data, how much is hidden, we do not know. You Do you hear that clearly?"
"I have to admit, I really didn't understand that clearly."
"Now, we can finally go back to the concept we introduced earlier: Jiangshan It’s easy to get and hard to treat.” Igor relaxed, the first half is finally over, “The ideal situation is naturally to be the enemy of the entire world, defeat the Seven Kingdoms and control the whole of Westeros, but Your Majesty must not want to spend the rest of his life on wars. Then, the reasonable solution is to compromise: win over some nobles, and then fight against the rest. To recapture Iron Throne, you have to use the power of the big nobles, and to try to break the wheel of history, you have to fight against them - I want to have To achieve your ideal despite resistance, you must have sufficient control over Seven Kingdoms. Assuming that your dragon's battle strength is equivalent to one country, if Your Majesty now needs to win over the three kingdoms and fight against the remaining four kingdoms, what would you choose? ”
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(end of this chapter)