Counting the time, the annual regular meeting should be over.

Kara wanted to give Lu En a surprise.

But as soon as the idea came up, she gave up.

Carla felt a little discouraged when she thought that every time he tried this kind of thing before, he always looked calm.

I really hope that next time I give him a surprise, he can pretend to be very surprised and surprised, otherwise he will always look like he has everything under control, which will make Long always feel disappointed.

well.

I was really stunned.

"Wow!" Two little dragons were playing with each other not far away, and there was a row of corpses of killer frogs at their feet.

It's normal for baby dragons to train their predatory instincts. Although these two little dragon cubs can't speak yet, they can already kill people.

Ordinary level 1 humans simply cannot withstand their sharp claws, and if they use their natural magical talents, even trained warriors will have a hard time dealing with them.

The two little ones are competing to see who can kill more killer frogs within the specified time. Carla encourages this kind of competition. It does not hurt each other, can cultivate feelings, is not dangerous, and can also practice skills.

It’s really a suitable sport for children.

The owner thinks this is not good, but from the perspective of a real dragon, this kind of exercise is perfect. It can vent the young dragons' strong energy and prevent them from biting the tip of their mother's tail.

Although I will still bite him before going to bed.

Thinking of this, Kara, who had always been indifferent, couldn't help but smile, and then continued to carve the pendant in her hand.

Use Alchemy 3 and Accessories Crafting 3 to make a pendant at the same time to lay the foundation, and then Lu En will enchant it personally. After wearing it, you can report your location to Lu En and Kara anytime and anywhere. If something happens, Lu En will teleport directly there.

Absolutely safe.

The material is the crystal essence of the Crystal Singer, which Lu En asked for in the past. It is indestructible and has its own force field defense. It takes some effort to break it.

This little effort is for Kara.

"I'm back." Lu En appeared behind Kara.

The first thing he did was not look at Kara, but look at the two young dragons in the distance. They hadn't noticed their father's arrival yet, and the two brothers and sisters were still flying around in the swamp, laughing.

"Why are they allowed to engage in such a bloody game again?" he said with some dissatisfaction.

"They are dragons." Carla replied, saying that when it came to educating children, she had an unprecedented disagreement with Lu En and firmly disagreed with Lu En's ideas.

Lu En wanted his children to receive a strict education, just like when he was a child. It was best to start attending classes at the age of six.

But Kara opposed it with all his strength, hoping to let them grow up freely and learn things at any time, so what's the rush? Isn't Ayuken knowledgeable enough? The dragon has an extremely long life, and these two children have the blood of the king of hell.

Life is even longer than that of a pure-blood dragon, so there is plenty of time to learn.

The two of them haven't decided the winner yet, but after all, Lu En is too busy, and Kara is still taking care of the child, so he can only do it according to her method.

"Oh, forget it." Lu En shook his head and sat down. As he sat, he used his mage's hand to rummage through the pile of documents: "Where is the report from the Empire Care Standards Law this month?"

"Do you have to work today too?" Kara asked, her tone even a little pitiful.

Lu En froze for a moment.

"No, forget it, take a day off." Lu En said, pulling the mage's hand back.

But the next moment, the mage's hand appeared on Kara's abdomen, blocking her move to surprise her.

Looking at Lu En's expression of anticipation, it seemed as if he was saying: "I knew what you wanted to do when you used that tone."

Alas...here it is again.

But... isn't it pretty good?

After a while, let's go see Livia.

But before that...

Kara looked at the child in front of her and suddenly found that Lu En was lost in thought again.

This time she didn't bother him again.

What is Lu En thinking about?

He is repeatedly wondering where the crisis of the empire lies?

It lies in the irreconcilable contradiction between the emerging class and the old class. This can be seen by almost everyone with a discerning eye.

Among them, the most acute conflicts are currency conflicts and land conflicts.

The currency conflict has not broken out yet, because the metal reserves provided by the empire have successfully satisfied the supply side. Although it is not completely satisfied, it has barely suppressed the outbreak.

But when it comes to land, especially food, the crisis is obvious.

Because the empire was so vast and complex, all these different types of socioeconomic structures were intricately intertwined with each other.

The characteristics are here, small producers, large producers, private middlemen, imperial merchants represented by Glorious Hall, landed aristocrats, and asset aristocrats are all mixed up in it.

Let me ask, which elements are dominant? Obviously, in such a country, the one who has an absolute advantage and cannot help but have an advantage is the big bourgeoisie, that is, the landed aristocracy.

However, the current conflict is that small producers, that is, those farmers who mostly sell grain and belong to the natural economy, are beginning to have the ability to invade the market of large producers because of the large number of low-level professionals.

Since the vast majority of cultivators are small producers, there is no doubt that speculators are here and there destroying the shell created by the landed aristocracy, that is, breaking up the grain monopolies, supervised entrepreneurs and merchants, bourgeois cooperative work

, and the main object of speculation is food.

It is in this area that the main struggle is unfolding. If we use the terms of economic categories such as "state capitalism", who is actually engaged in this struggle against whom?

Peasants, that is, small producers, and private capital merchants, that is, small businessmen, came together and began to fight against the landed aristocracy and the imperial merchants.

These small producers who own their own few means of production can be said to resist any state interference, calculation and supervision from the bottom of their hearts. No matter whether the policies given by the state are good or bad, they do not trust them. This is

An indisputable fact.

It is very clear that it can be said that the economic basis of the current speculative activities is the sudden emergence of a particularly large class of small private owners in the empire, and private capitalism with every petty bourgeoisie as its agent.

These small producers are like millions of tentacles of Hydra, entangling individual strata of workers here and there. Speculative activities are replacing the massive monopolies of the landed aristocracy and penetrating into every pore of social and economic life.

All of this is the result of the part of knowledge that was originally spread by Monster Academy and Anluo, which intensified the contradiction between the two classes.

This was Lu En's planned attention from the beginning. In other words, the reason why he could foresee this was because he had long known that the workers' movement promoting the proletarian movement would immediately awaken the liberal bourgeoisie.

It happened from 1895 to 1902 in a far north country in another world.

The next step was for the labor movement to transition into open political struggle and unite the politically awakened liberal bourgeoisie, radical bourgeoisie and various strata of the petty bourgeoisie. This took place from 1901 to 1905.

Therefore, he had already arranged people and started calling on the grassroots small producers and farmers.

They need a program to unite their strength, just like the New Workers' Alliance. They must unite under one idea to have the ability to fight. No matter whether the idea is right or wrong, good or bad, it must be there, otherwise

It's just a plate of loose sand.

Small producers, in the beginning, will definitely stand on the side of the proletarian struggle, because it is impossible for small producers to support the big bourgeoisie that originally persecuted them. Whether it is the landed aristocracy or the bourgeois aristocracy, they have a firm grasp of the social status quo.

Only a small part of the means of production is left for them to compete with each other. If they want to eat more, they must use external forces.

This bunch of idiots who are resisting are external forces.

At the same time, they cannot be trusted. Although they provided support in the early stages of the movement, when the proletarian movement develops into a new stage, the liberal bourgeoisie and small producers will want to compromise through the government.

The only way to stop movement is to backstab previous allies.

Because they are afraid that if the proletarians really succeed, then it will definitely not be the people above who die, but them.

Lu En could foresee this, because he knew what happened in another world. In a certain landlord country in another world, the liberal bourgeoisie directly became a reactionary force after the end of the property movement, and organized themselves to

In order to seize the revolutionary achievements of the proletariat, among the peasants, the entire wealthy peasant class and a large part of the middle peasants also "smartened up", quieted down, and turned to the counter-revolutionary side in order to seize it from the proletariat and the poor peasants who sympathized with the proletariat.

Government and fruits.

The big bourgeoisie is still alive, and its allies behind it have given it a deep stab in the back. There is no doubt that this struggle is almost hopeless for the proletariat fighting alone. They are bound to fail, just like in 1850

Just like the defeat of the German Revolutionary Party in 1871 or the defeat of the French proletariat in 1871.

Not only Lu En could see this outcome, but the upper echelons of the empire could also see it.

The reason is very simple, because in the process of struggle, in order to improve their own strength, everyone will work hard and work harder than usual.

The mere continuous reproduction of the production process here, after a longer or shorter period, will inevitably transform any capital into accumulated capital or capitalized surplus value.

Even if capital is property earned by the capital user himself when it enters the production process, sooner or later it will become a value that is possessed without paying equivalent, becoming the monetary form or other form of embodiment of other people's unpaid labor.

That’s why they let it go and allowed the people below to make trouble, break in, and die, because in the end, the fruits of all these struggles will be picked up by the big bourgeoisie who control society and eaten in front of them.

Make the empire stronger.

But the process in between is very complicated. To convert labor into capital and gestate fruits, it is not enough to simply have the existence of commodity production and commodity circulation.

For this purpose, there must first be the following two parties opposing each other as buyers and sellers: One party is the owner of value or money, the owner of the means of production and living. The other party is the owner of the entity that creates value, which is anything other than labor power.

There is also no owner.

Therefore, the separation of labor products and labor itself, the separation of objective labor conditions and subjective labor force, is the de facto basis or starting point of the production process of the current imperial system.

But what was at first a mere starting point is constantly re-produced and perpetuated as a result of capitalist production itself through the mere continuation of the process, that is, through simple reproduction.

On the one hand, the production process constantly transforms material wealth into capital, into means of value appreciation and consumer goods for the aristocracy. On the other hand, workers constantly exit the production process just as they entered it.

They are the personal source of wealth, but they are deprived of all means of realizing this wealth for themselves. Because before he enters the process, his own labor is alienated from him and is appropriated by the capitalist and merged into capital. Therefore,
To be continued...