Do big financial groups like practitioners?

This is no coincidence.

On the surface it seems to be a matter of faith, but in fact it is a matter of social system.

"Cultivation" is popular in all consortium countries.

The rulers of large conglomerates monopolize all the wealth of a country. All walks of life of the citizens are under control from birth to death. Due to the development of technology, they do not need much labor force. They only need to maintain a few managers.

But they need a large number of consumers. Where the consumers come from becomes a big problem.

Even if the vast majority of people in the country do not create value, they cannot die. Because only living people can consume, and machines cannot consume.

Even the whole country has to resist too advanced technology for its own benefit. Otherwise, how can humans have money to consume if they don't work? Consumers need jobs, and consortiums need consumers.

The media is also the property of the consortium. Whatever the consortium says, the people believe, and everyone agrees with it.

As for the standard of living...

The people are very poor and rely on consortiums for work and consumption. In a country that is not managed well, drugs are rampant and crime is rampant; in a country that is managed well, drugs are government-run and everyone practices medicine.

It is wrong to pursue worldly desires. A poor and pure life is worthy of praise. It is right to recite sutras without worrying about the world. At most, argue about which sutra to recite.

On the other hand, it doesn't matter if the country is too poor, things can still be sold abroad.

The consortium countries had to rely on agriculture, animal husbandry, and mining due to the shrinking of their industries due to the spread of technology.

Unlike Crescent Space City, they have a world market. Even if domestic consumers cannot afford high-quality rice, wheat, soybeans, meat and milk, they can still export it.

Consortium countries are also rich in philanthropic people who are keen on various charities.

China’s Archangel of Poverty Alleviation travels around the world to take care of children for poor people, and has been highly praised by benevolent people.

After all, the prerequisite for continuous harvesting of leeks is to always have good and healthy leeks. In China, this is equivalent to adding fertilizer to other people’s leek fields.

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When Zhang Chen came back from abroad, the fifteenth day of the first lunar month had passed. When he arrived at the experimental base, when he saw Lan Ze, he asked in confusion:

"Grandpa, why does China treat foreigners so well?"

"What do you mean?"

"For example, life in the desert is really poor, but why should I help them build agricultural development ponds?"

"This..." Lan Ze thought for a while and felt that it was not the right reason to kill religious believers. There was enough to do in the desert. "You, Grandpa Jiang, are good at it."

Comrade Lao Jiang was holding the cat at the side, very leisurely: "Have you studied class struggle?"

"How can helping them become a struggle?" Zhang Chen was even more confused.

"It's very simple. The places you go to build agricultural ponds are new cities owned by the whole people built with the help of China. Desert cities originally need to import a large amount of rice. Do you know where the rice comes from?"

“A country with excess rice?”

"How can rice be truly redundant? Even if people don't eat it, it can still be used to make wine and make industrial raw materials. Deeply processed products are much more valuable than selling rice directly."

"Then where do they import it from?"

“There are some countries on earth that export rice even though their own people are hungry.”

"Ah?" Zhang Chen thought for a moment, "Isn't it the same as the space city? The old city is obviously in such a state of ruin, with no water or food, but it still entertains many tourists in the new city."

"right."

"Then if their rice can't be sold, can the hungry people in the country eat it?"

"Not necessarily. It might be even worse."

"I built a lot of development pools..." Zhang Chen regretted a little.

Lao Jiang comforted him: "At least the people in the places you have been to don't have to worry about eating."

Zhang Chen sighed with relief: "China is so great. But I... still don't understand why we need to build an agricultural pond."

Lan Ze listened to them talking. He remembered that when the old director was still alive, he once said: In the new era, some people are destined to be abandoned forever.

"In order to suppress religion." Grandpa Jiang told Zhang Chen, "Religion is a part of class society. It's just that we never thought before that it can also be used as a weapon by the enemy."

"I don't quite understand."

"If we don't occupy some places, the enemy will occupy them."

"Are you referring to the social system of the desert city?" Zhang Chen tried to say, "If the space city also has a development pool farm, and everyone can have enough to eat, people in the old city will not be vying to work for the cult. Yes.

Is that so?"

"Actually, the space city farm is enough to support more than 100,000 people, and they can still eat well." Lanze interjected. "Later, when the United Fleet took over, wouldn't the supply be enough?"

Lao Jiang continued: "But the caste system has decided that decent food will not be distributed to you poor people. If you have a farm, you will not grow it. You eat soup noodles twice a day, don't you also thank God for the gift? By the way, the cult

The higher-ups also call the people in your old city a garbage population."

"This seems to be what Grandpa Jiang taught me...production relations hinder productivity..."

"I think there will soon be foreigners slandering the development pool." Lanze predicted.

"It doesn't matter, it's not a free gift from China." Lao Jiang was very calm. "If we really want to tear up the contract, wouldn't it be better for our comrades to work harder and negotiate compensation with them slowly?"

What he said made Lan Ze amused.

"Capital" is such a useful tool.

The largest capitalist in the world is actually the Ministry of Civil Affairs of China. The inheritance of the elderly in the country belongs to the Ministry of Civil Affairs.

But the Ministry of Civil Affairs is also responsible for raising children and supporting young people. In order to manage huge assets, this department also creates a large number of employment and development opportunities for each generation of young people.

From a domestic perspective in China, the country can issue currency at will. But money is just a tool used to ensure the circulation of resources. Let some things go where they should go, let some people go where they should go, and build what should be built.

constraints, this is the value of capital.

If capital is in the hands of a few people, technological development to a certain extent will conflict with the interests of these people. Because human beings are naturally selfish, it will ultimately lead to technological regression like consortium countries or space cities.

For example, Lanze has now discovered that the agricultural development pool is very valuable in the country, but the country has to suppress it and slowly enter urban farms to avoid industrial impact. This has greatly delayed him and Northwest Creation's ability to make money.

But if he had to make more money, he should hide the growth pool in the company, sell customized plants one by one, and fully exploit the profits of the previous generation products.

It is really barbaric for the Chinese government to sell new versions of airships to the world through Taifei Group. Although the price is low, the manufacturing process determines the profit margin. Moreover, China has used it in exchange for a lot of minerals.

Mines in the solar system may seem cheap but are actually priceless. They are all strategic resources.

Lan Ze had actually been waiting for Zhang Chen to come back: "My dear grandson, do you miss your partner? Come to heaven with me?"

"I have a criminal record. Grandpa, have you forgotten?"

Okay, I really forgot. Lanze didn't connect the three-month sentence with the criminal record at all.

"Then you can only... I will ask Qian Chen to accompany me then."

In this way, Zhang Chen can be immersed in the scene through his previous experience.

"That's great, Grandpa...but what's the big deal?"

"Your grandma's monument is about to be unveiled. A large museum and memorial hall have been built in the old space city. Your grandma and several uncles and aunts are all in the memorial hall."

"Then my dad...?"

"Mutation carriers cannot go."

"..." Zhang Chen sighed softly.

Mo Mo already knew that he couldn't go. Later in the evening, he came to see his old father for a meal and communicated on the technical progress of several projects in hand.

He has let go of his appearance and doesn't care what he looks like at all. But he has not gained weight again. The reason why he gained weight when he returned to Earth is entirely the result of starving all day in the space city.

Zhang Chen ate with him without saying a word. When he heard the adults talking about grandma's monument again, he couldn't help but say, "Dad, I'll stay with you."

"You kid, what are you doing?" Mo Mo was suddenly moved.

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In the spring of 1982, Crescent Space City set off. It took a few months to slowly move to the vicinity of the Earth's orbit. Autumn has already begun on the Earth.

After a slight adjustment in Taifei's development pool, the space city was dismantled into pieces. Various components were separated from the main body and floated to the earth's orbit based on the initial velocity at the time of separation, waiting for each to return to its owner.

The engines, power plants, and circulation modules drifted away from the space city one after another.

Only a few components are left in place together with the main frame, connected to the reinforcement branches extending from the development pool.

Several sets of plasma engines stretched out from the development pool, gradually slowing down and changing direction. With the help of inertia, they reached the earth's orbit.

The trustee residents of China have evacuated the space city in advance and settled in a space town in lunar orbit.

People who have lived in space cities since childhood have a hard time adapting to the open earth. The town is newly built in China and is similar to Crescent City, except that the internal space is wider.

Because the main residents are more than 40,000 children, it was built like a school. It was divided according to age groups. Children of different ages, mothers and babies, archangels and young children were placed there, as well as some voluntarily transferred from China.

Teachers and school police.

Lan Ze's dozens of grandsons surnamed Zhang arrived in the town and continued to go to school while taking on some simple jobs.

In the school town of China, many shops are run by older children of this age.

The teachers just made some routine arrangements.

Although this town is large, almost half of the children are in kindergarten, and one-third are in kindergarten. There are only a few thousand children over 11 years old, and even fewer over 15 years old are suitable for work.

However, there are more than 3,000 infant mothers, some of whom are only in their teens. Their educational level is limited to religious courses, and they have no livelihood skills. China also arranges for them to attend school. They start with the simplest things and work temporarily.

Nothing to do with them.

Lanze's grandsons are very proud to have jobs.
Chapter completed!