The kitchen was brightly lit, and Sid was busy in it.

It would be better to say that Livia was unwilling to help. The main reason was that after she went in, she always had to renovate the kitchen, which was very troublesome, so Sid wouldn't let her in.

Livia sat in the garden outside with a glass of light fruit wine, enjoying the quiet time without thinking about anything.

Theoretically this is the case.

But while holding the drink, she couldn't clear her mind. She was still thinking about how to proceed, what to argue about, what order to sign, how to execute it, and how many people to kill.

She usually does these things, unlike her father, who thinks about changing everyone and fundamentally cutting off all this, but she can neither think of how to do it nor carry out such a great undertaking.

So she used the method she was good at, which was to kill dissidents and implement the decree that she thought was best for the overall situation. Any opponents would be killed without mercy.

At first, there were some people who did not believe in evil and felt that their position was very important. Later, when the royal city was crowded with people, everyone realized that in fact, no one was irreplaceable to the regent behind the scenes.

She has always been like this, and she was so decisive when it came to the Demon King's City. Killing people was really not something worth worrying about for her. If killing people could accomplish her goal, then she would definitely not waste other thoughts.

You may have tangles in your heart, but you will definitely not hesitate when you do it. You may regret it later, but you will definitely have no distracting thoughts when you do it.

This is Livia. Compared to her father, who is the nominal Demon King, she, the Demon King's only daughter, may be more worthy of the word "Devil".

But soon, she realized this.

I swallowed the wine in my hand and threw this thing away, because the focus of today is not the political struggle, nor is it the slaughter of a few restless careerists, but the clanging kitchen behind me.

Ten years ago, I would have never imagined that we would be here today.

The relationship was established about two years ago, because Hill persisted in coming over to bother her regularly, for about... six years, right?

In the past six years, it is really unspeakable that there is a teleportation array near Star Maple King City. Because of Sid alone, the turnover of this teleportation array has increased by 35% in the past ten years.

I have to say that it’s great to be rich, but poor people don’t even have the chance to pursue Livia.

Yes, it was Sid who was actively pursuing him.

Although it seems that the half-elf eldest lady is the weaker party, Livia is actually more passive. Until now, she has not been able to figure out what happened to bring the relationship to this point.

why?

have no idea.

It happened like this inexplicably.

But it doesn’t matter, it’s pretty good, and this feeling isn’t bad either.

But, I always feel...it's weird.

Sid took the initiative in every aspect, including pursuit, development, and even later in the dormitory.

Livia doesn't care much about this, elves are like this.

As a naturally immortal species, elves are not actually "loyal".

This loyalty refers to elves, not humans.

For humans, having an elf lover is definitely a good thing, because your partner will always be young and beautiful throughout your life, and will accompany you until you die of old age, and finally die for you.

But in fact, after your death, don't expect the elves to keep your filial piety for your whole life. In twenty or thirty years at most, the elves will find new love and get married for the second time. In the long life of the elves, there may be many such marriages.

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Even if the other person is also an immortal species, such as an elf from a village, they will more likely gradually calm down emotionally over a long period of time, and then choose to separate when they get tired of it, and then look for new passions.

The same is true for dragons who are also immortal species. Otherwise, where would there be so many half-dragons and dragon-veined creatures? The concept of love of these immortal species is different from that of short-lived ghosts like humans. They have no concept of "loyalty" at all.

For them, it is natural to get together because of the beginning of love, and it is even more logical to leave because of the end of love.

Who stipulates that we must stay together for life?

In view of this view of love among immortals, elves and dragons usually try... different lovers.

When I say different, I don't mean another person.

Rather, after an elf breaks up with her elf lover, next, she may want to taste a human, or something else.

It is very possible that this difference is not necessarily in species, but in gender... it is also possible.

Livia had never had a lover before, because she had been burdened with hatred all her life. Sid was her first, but she knew the ways of elves very well, so she didn't find it strange.

So be it...it's pretty good anyway.

The power of the Star Maple Kingdom has been accumulated, and father's plan is already being prepared. Just take a good rest before the real war breaks out.

At this time, the kitchen window was opened.

"Hey! I won't let you do it. Come and help me carry it. I haven't been here for two months. Can't you pamper me? Why are you still standing outside?"

"Oh...oh!"

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The emperor no longer looks young.

As the emperor of the empire, he may not die very early, but he will definitely age quickly. The main reason is that he uses his mind too much.

The empire cannot make a person reach level 9. To improve the essence of life, you can only rely on yourself.

Moreover, the empire is not willing to let the emperor live long. A long-lived emperor will only solidify the empire.

Therefore, as far as the empire is concerned, the emperor generally relies on himself and can live as long as he can, and will not deliberately extend his life. There are indeed emperors who can reach level 9 and live for hundreds or thousands of years, and there is no problem.

But the current emperor is no longer good. He is only in his forties, and he is already showing obvious signs of aging.

But it made him even more majestic.

After all, compared to young people, today's posture is more awe-inspiring.

He was in his bedroom, silently thinking about the current form of the empire.

He could see that the current empire was in the midst of changing times.

Such a change may bring new vitality to the empire's old and huge body, as it has done countless times before, or it may cause a serious impact on the empire.

Let’s see how we deal with it.

He clearly knows what the current workers' union represents.

A brand-new production method passed down from Lalante in the Star Maple Kingdom is called the assembly line.

This method was absorbed by many workshops and spread in the empire in a very strange way. At first, workshops with assembly lines as the main production method began to appear in every city, and then they were learned by others, because

Its production efficiency completely overwhelmed the ordinary craftsman system, causing businessmen to become extremely fond of this system.

The assembly line system exhibits two characteristics. The first is its huge leap-forward expansion capability.

The reproduction capacity of the assembly line is too strong. This kind of large-scale industry has technically realized the division of labor in the factory industry that makes the whole person fixedly engaged in certain local operations for life. In the real factory assembly line, this industry uses its terrifying expansion ability.

, turning workers into self-aware accessories of partial machines, and producers' attachment to specialized production departments, causing the multi-faceted nature of workers' original occupations to be destructively destroyed, making them unable to survive and forced to become parts.

The second is its dependence on the market.

The assembly line model leads to the production of the same products like diarrhea, and subsequently causes the market to be flooded with similar products, so when the market shrinks, there will be a state of paralysis.

The assembly line is extremely dependent on the market, including a stable raw material supply market and a stable product sales market. Once there is a problem in one market, it will lead to overproduction, which will then trigger crises and turmoil in the entire society.

But despite these two costs, the industrial potential brought by this production model is commensurate with the crisis it brings, or even higher.

Because this method, coupled with a large number of low-level professionals, brings about too fast reproduction.

too fast.

What is reproduction? That is to say, producers continuously transform part of their products into means of production or factors of new production, replicating themselves in the process of production, that is, reproduction.

When other conditions remain unchanged, the means of production consumed by society in a year, that is, labor means, raw materials and auxiliary materials, can only be replaced by new items of equal quantity in physical form. Can society grow on its original scale?

To reproduce or maintain one's own wealth, these new items are separated from the total annual product and reincorporated into the production process.

According to academic research results, using an assembly line can increase the reproduction speed by a full 1500%, which is a full fifteen times increase!

If we continue to move forward in this way, the emperor can already see the future.

The empire's market will continuously change in the order of these periods: activity, prosperity, overproduction, crisis, stagnation, and revival. This is the inevitable result of that kind of industrial model.

Due to this cyclical change in the industrial cycle, the insecurity and instability that workers encounter in employment and therefore in life will definitely become a normal phenomenon.

Except for periods of prosperity, the emperor can be sure that there is always a fierce struggle between markets to compete for their respective positions in the market, because the market is the hub of this mode of production, as important as the heart.

However, it is obvious that the status of a commodity in the market is directly proportional to the cheapness of the product. The cheaper it is, the more it can occupy the market. Everyone wants cheap products, and in the end, price wars will only begin due to excessive production.

Except there is only one consequence:

That is, the major chambers of commerce are competing to adopt improved magic devices and new production methods that replace labor. Such moments occur every time, and at the same time, wages are forcibly lowered below the value of labor force.

Once this new method spreads rapidly, there will inevitably be fierce competition among various chambers of commerce to see who can provide the cheapest goods.

Such competition will definitely form very bad competition. Everyone will compete to sell at a low price in the market. The consequences will soon be reflected in the chaos of the market, including the sharp drop in the price of labor, that is, wages, and the price reduction of various things. Ultimately,

leading to a crisis.

This was something to consider and the main reason for his hesitation about how to deal with the new class.

But the problem is that this production method also has two benefits.

The first benefit is that during the rising period, it is estimated that this rising period can last for twenty to thirty years. During this period, there will be a benefit that the emperor cannot refuse.
To be continued...