I walk in the past, continue the future

Chapter 74 Game of Thrones

This is the core planet where the thangka manages the Linga sector.

In this era, due to the existence of anti-gravity vehicles, some cities are more three-dimensional.

Xia Lian never thought that he would one day be stuck in traffic jams in the air.

I had no choice but to run to the ground with Mercury.

Because it is an old human colony that has existed for nearly a thousand years, the buildings here are not only tall, but also extremely dense.

Every building is thousands of meters above, and the steel city blocks the sunlight, forming another eternal night on the ground.

So of course, the higher the floor is, the more expensive it is to be able to shine on the sun, so that eternal night has become the place where people at the bottom live. With the anti-gravity vehicle as a means of transportation, some people in the upper class have never even reached it. ground.

They were born at the top, went to school at the top, and did business at the top.

Therefore, few people care about the environment on the ground. It is cold, damp, and full of stench, homeless people and beggars.

The interstellar space is huge, but not everyone is eligible for interstellar travel, and many people may not be able to leave the city where they live in their entire lives.

Their hearts are blocked by a cage called "city", and they can no longer escape from here.

Xia Lian was walking through this bottom layer with Mercury at the moment.

Half an hour ago, they had obtained a spaceship in the New Federation, and then Xia Lian placed a portal on that spaceship, and let Mithril drive the spaceship first to Helios through the wormhole.

Next, he and Mercury will find a way to obtain the information of the Coulomb Force Elimination Field, and then go back through the portal.

In this case, if they are exposed, the new federation will not be able to investigate direct evidence related to the Principality of Helios through the wormhole's passage records.

Buying a boat in the new federation is still very simple. The new federation attaches great importance to personal privacy. Even if it is an official, if you want to check personal property, you need to go through some more complicated procedures.

It is called respecting the safety of personal property, but in fact it should be the law set by those officials to facilitate their corruption.

The positioning should be somewhat similar to the Swiss Bank. Many pirates and worms from other countries will deposit their money in the new federation. The Helios family also has a lot of foreign exchange from the new federation, which can be paid with the genetic code of Xia Lian.

However, it is undeniable that this has also attracted a lot of foreign exchange to the new federation.

"It's really a drought, a drought, a flood, and a flood."

Looking at the homeless and beggars around, Xia Lian said with emotion.

Mercury also nodded and said: "The principality is so short of population to colonize, they have so many people as homeless people."

"The population of interstellar colonies must also have a certain educational foundation." Xia Lian whispered.

"The vast majority of these people probably have no primary education.

Education in the new federation is monopolized by capital, and high tuition fees are a burden even for the middle class.

Even if they can get a bank loan, most people can't pay the high interest after graduation, and they end up with nothing. "

"It's hard to understand." Mercury looked at the people around him and said, "Population should be the most precious resource. When everyone can create their own value, the country will naturally become richer."

Xia Lian said calmly.

"There's nothing incomprehensible, just flip through the sociology books in your head.

There are always some bottom-end things that need to be done by people. In the past when artificial intelligence existed, these things could be handed over to artificial intelligence.

But artificial intelligence does not exist, so people have to come, then these people will naturally become the bottom people, and the class will naturally reappear.

The location at the top of the pyramid is limited, and when a group of people enters the upper level of the pyramid, whether intentionally or not, these people block the way to the upper level.

They don't want others to share their wealth with them.

To put it uglier, if everyone is rich, the rich are not rich. How can they enjoy the superiority of overlooking the bottom?

The interests of the country have nothing to do with them, and naturally they don't care whether the people are rich or not.

The new federation lacks a person and party that can truly represent the interests of the country and the people. "

Mercury tilted her head for some unknown reason, and then she said, "Then why can't the Principality see this?"

"Of course there are classes in the principality."

Xia Lian said without denying it.

"But there are only two classes in the true sense of the principality, one is the people, and the other is the grand duke.

Of course, this is only the case in the Principality of Helios.

This is because my father is willing to exercise the power in his hands, take on the responsibility of the Grand Duke, and make the people prosperous.

Because he understands that as the people get richer, the Helios family will naturally get richer, so he will not allow the rest of the class to exploit Helios' wealth.

But even so, he can't do his best, and similar phenomena still exist where our eyes cannot see.

Although the reason is simple, not all hereditary nobles can understand this. Many nobles are deluded by the appearance of luxury, forget their responsibilities, and focus only on pleasure.

If you go to the planets on the edge of the empire controlled by the petty nobles, you will find that they are not even as good as the new federation.

The advantage of a dictatorial country is that if the person in power has the ability, it will easily make the country better, but if the person in power is incompetent, it is a tragedy for a country.

The extravagant corruption of those in power at the top affects the entire country from top to bottom. "

"Will the Principality do it too?" Quicksilver asked.

"The situation of the duchy is different from the planets of these minor nobles. The territory of the duchy is really too large, and the decree of the grand duke cannot actually quickly radiate the entire duchy.

Governing a planet is actually more similar to a republic. The planet's people's council selects the planet's governor for self-government, but it needs to report the governance, economic growth, etc. to the Grand Duke.

At the same time, once the affairs of the entire principality are involved, the governors of these planets can form the supreme council. These supreme councils have a part of the power comparable to the grand duke and will share some government affairs for the grand duke.

The Grand Duke has the power to remove the Governor, and has a veto power in the Supreme Council, and the Grand Duke has the power to dissolve the Supreme Council at any time.

So if the Grand Duke only focuses on enjoyment and does not do superfluous things, the principality can still maintain a certain stability.

But it is very likely that it will be overseen by the Supreme Council and become a mascot like a constitutional monarchy.

The worst is the kind of incompetent, but unwilling to enjoy the guy, exercising his power to govern the country indiscriminately.

But if this is the case, there will be that old monster who has lived for hundreds of years, the top of the empire, the immortal emperor who will come out to find out.

In general, the reason why such a system has been maintained for so long is actually because of the great emperor. "

There was a glimmer of light in Xia Lian's eyes, "He is the foundation on which the power of the nobles will never collapse, which is why those nobles are willing to support him."

"But he's taking back his power now," said Quicksilver.

Xia Lian shrugged, "Maybe, what exactly he wants to do, no one knows, in this game of power, he is a chess player, and no one is his opponent.

All we have to do is jump out of this chess game to see clearly his purpose. "

(End of this chapter)