Blue was very knowledgeable about nature. She had once thought of a mathematical method to calculate the area of any curved surface. She could even use a variable formula to calculate the characteristic curve of demonic power. However, she was a complete stranger to money.
Blue asked,"Why is a guy like you so obsessed with making money?”
"If Lord Nine-Tailed can say that, it means that he absolutely doesn't understand what money is.”
"These are just things that you can't bring with you when you're alive, right?" Blue replied with some disdain.”
Eryan Shuzo also laughed. Lord Nine-Tailed, may I ask why humans are gathered together but demons are scattered?”
Lan hadn't thought about this question yet. It came naturally, just like how no one thought about why the sun rose in the east and set in the west.
Eryan Ezo took another puff of his cigarette and said with a smile,""Humans, demons, and even ordinary animals all have desires. For example, eating, drinking, and defecating, owning a house, and the feeling of self-actualization. These were all desires that were innately imprinted on our bodies and could not be changed.”
Lan agreed.
"But how can I satisfy these desires?”Eryan Shuzo became excited." Animals and monsters are self-reliant. They eat, drink, and use their own food. However, humans were different. Humans satisfied each other's desires, and the people who worked obtained value from it. This kind of value was reflected in the form of currency, specifically money. Lord Nine-Tailed, you see that I have a small fortune. That's because I've fulfilled my desire to obtain something that's equivalent to my fortune.”
"If you only have a small fortune, High Emperor Chongde would probably be considered a pauper."”
Eryan Ezo didn't comment, continuing to smoke.""Lord Nine-Tailed, please don't underestimate this problem. The relationship between desire and value involves a series of extremely complicated social problems. Have you heard of the Peace Ball Fan?"
Lan had heard of it before. It was a specialty of the Handicraft Industry in Kyoto during the Heian period.
"It's great that you've heard of it. To produce a fan, the price of raw materials was assumed to be ten coins. A worker could produce one in two hours, but he worked eight hours a day. A worker's daily wage was 20 yuan. A round fan was sold for 20 yuan. If you are the boss of this shop, how much money do you earn on the surface?”
Lan immediately calculated that the boss could earn 20 yuan a day from this worker.
"Hey, businessmen like this can earn the same amount of money from their workers without doing anything for a day.”Blue somewhat understood what Big Leopard Cat meant.
Eryan Shuzang continued,"What if the boss asked the workers to work overtime for eight hours a day?”
"In that case, you'll earn sixty coins.”Lan said," This is the boss bullying the workers. If this worker wanted to earn 20 yuan, he only needed to work for four hours. The remaining four hours or even twelve hours were all for the boss.”
Perhaps Lan didn't know that her own ideas were hundreds of years ahead of the times.
Eryan Shuzo shook his head and said,"A worker who leaves the boss can't create this kind of value himself." The round fan's craftsmanship was simple. If it was a job that couldn't be completed independently, then this worker really didn't have this value. The value of the boss was reflected in the value system he created and the complete production process. This process was also to gain value. I've also told you before that people obtain their own value by fulfilling the desires of others. So in the end, what the worker fulfilled was the desire of a set of value systems, and this set of value systems satisfied the desires of consumers. The value of the boss depends on the value of this value system. My value is all based on this value system.”
She took a deep breath and continued," In other words, the resources of the entire peaceful period were created by the workers and farmers. The re-distribution of these resources was the business of the bosses and merchants.”
"You just said that merchants and bosses created a value system to involve workers in production. If there was only one system left in the entire society, where the things used for labor and even property were shared, wouldn't there be no businessmen to distribute them and everyone be self-sufficient? If people produce labor according to the plan, the workers should not be bullied by you.”
Eryan Shuzang smiled." Lord Nine-Tailed, please take a look at the value system I operate. My employees are all gaining value here." It was also because of the existence of competition that my value system had to maintain its vitality to deal with all kinds of challenges. But what you said about everyone sharing and setting up a plan, does that fundamentally negate competition? Without competition, the value system would not progress, and the human production model would not progress. Your proposal can make the entire society rich in the short term because everyone can produce. However, in the long run, this would lead to the backwardness of the entire production development due to the backwardness of the value system.”
Lan Yiran didn't give up." But then, the poor will become rich." A boss like you will have the biggest headache.”
Eryan Shuzang said,"Lord Nine-Tailed, it's really impossible for people to increase their value like that." This was because the value system would not improve, and everything would stagnate. In this way, the improvement of productivity could only be counted on the imperial court. However, it was the market that gave birth to the value system. Now that the market was gone, the progress of the value system and the development of productivity lost its true vitality. In the long run, this would be disadvantageous to the boss, and even more disadvantageous to the workers and farmers. Because in this mode, it would always take two hours to produce a round fan. Under the environment where the value system naturally improved, it only took about 20 minutes to produce a round fan of the same quality through a professional assembly line. Under the model that Lord Nine-Tailed mentioned, there was no need for the workers to produce one in twenty minutes on average because your plan had already limited the value of the system they were in, so everyone only needed to complete the task on average.”
"Then how do you think these most ordinary fellows should increase in value?" Blue asked.”
Fujiwa Shizou said," A specialized division of labor can better and faster satisfy the desires of others, and only by fulfilling the desires of others can one obtain the value called 'money'. However, the problem lay in the distribution of value. The workers and farmers needed better conditions to increase their value. These matters required the court to take action. The court made the rich bear heavier taxes and reduced the taxes of the poor. The imperial court should ensure the legitimate rights and interests of every citizen and provide them with opportunities to increase their value. The imperial court was also responsible for the advancement of the entire society, and this was reflected in the increase in the value of every citizen. Everyone was making progress, and this peaceful period would also make great strides forward.”
Lan couldn't help but giggle.”
Eryan Shuzang also laughed,"This is indeed a fool's dream." Those greedy nobles have just transferred money to the capital, causing a strong rate of inflation. I'm still counting on these guys!”
However, she smiled and continued,"Actually, humans are too stupid." They all wanted a safe society with a set of effective rules to restrain people's inappropriate behavior. It was probably because they had this desire that they established an imperial court to deal with these matters. Therefore, the imperial court was meant to serve everyone, not to be high and mighty. Look at these nobles in the peaceful era. They are all greedy and pedantic. They do 30% of their responsibilities but ask for a very cheap price. He was clearly a human, but he did not recognize his own problems. He was really not smart.”
Lan's heart turned cold when she thought of it. When the cat disaster struck nearby, the miserable and helpless disaster victims begged the lazy and extravagant city lord for a little mercy. The poor farmers who were not affected by the disaster were two-thirds of their food taken away by the fat nobles. This was the famous peaceful period of mankind. The greed of the nobles oppressed the commoners, and the commoners barely had enough to eat and drink. A cat disaster could take everything away from them.
Eryan Shuzang continued,"But there is something more interesting, Lord Nine-Tailed. I will not let you be bored." The essence of making a small fortune was to increase one's value, or to increase one's value system. Those who made a lot of money wanted to increase the value of everyone and thus completely increase the wealth of society. The human social system was still not standardized. When they understood it one day, they would establish a court that would allow people to increase their value. And the people who could establish that kind of imperial court were the ones who really made a lot of money. His philosophy was to hide his wealth in the process of everyone's appreciation, so even if he was penniless, he was still rich. I'm just a little leopard, but I still look forward to the day when I can make a lot of money like this guy. This was because only humans could do this. The concept of demons did not have this kind of power.”
After Lan heard this, a warmth appeared in her heart, as warm as the spring sun.
"But why are you telling me this?”Eight Clouds Blue laughed heartily, as if she had eaten a good meal after starving for a long time.
Eryan Ezo took a puff of his cigarette, the tip of his pipe red. She sighed and said," Lord Nine-Tailed is a powerful monster. In the past few years, he has been running around to cooperate with Lord Purple Eight Clouds in establishing Fantasy Village, right? I've heard of people like you. Therefore, I only hope that Lord Nine-Tailed can listen to me. Making a fortune is a very great thing. Therefore, although this is just a mere leopard's dream, I hope Lord Nine-tail will not look down on this matter because of me.”
Lan apologized for his arrogance at the beginning. After saying goodbye to Blue, Eryan Shuzang returned to the room where Emperor Chongde was playing. Lan heard through the paper window that the big tanuki was enjoying itself with High Emperor Chongde. It even told some bland jokes that made the High Emperor laugh.
What an interesting monster, Blue thought. This fellow was even more like a human than a human. Her eloquence, outstanding EQ, and her mind-blowing ideas made it a pity that she wasn't human.
It was also because of the conversation with Eryan Shuzang that Blue, who had originally planned to break into Saixing Temple to kill Yiqing, decided to slow down the pace and deal with this matter tomorrow. Today, he would do something happy first.
Apart from this small bag of gold, Blue also had some silver pieces to spend. She had also called a singer from Eryan's brothel to sing for her pleasure.
After spending the entire afternoon listening to the beautiful voice of the singer, Blue Head felt that life could be so comfortable for the first time.
For dinner, Lan ordered a small plate of roasted pork, miso soup, roasted mushrooms, and a fresh salmon. Unfortunately, there was no more oily tofu, but Lan did not insist.
Lan wanted to earn some money and go to the Go club to gamble. Lan, who had never played Go before, won three games in a row with his unparalleled computing power. However, a few of them seemed to have lost money and fainted from suffocation. They were carried away on stretchers.
Finally, under the gentle moonlight, Lan checked into a quiet hotel and fell asleep peacefully. The indigo night sky was like a distant ocean, washing over the moon that was as bright as an island. The moonlight, which had been washed repeatedly, became brighter and brighter, illuminating the mountains outside the city and the peaceful and quiet city nearby. The faint barking of dogs in the distance made the night even quieter, and the moonlight flowing from the eaves outside the window made the night even deeper.
There seemed to be no hatred here, and there were no scary demons. There was only a sleeping city and a little fox dreaming of returning home.
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