LOL: Summoner of Goddess Janna

Levi's words resonated a lot at the meeting.

Especially those leaders who are from untouchable backgrounds.

At this moment, they suddenly realized that they had been mentally PUAed by the masters, elders and landlords for a long time. Yes, maintaining equilibrium requires sacrifice. This is the law of nature and it is understandable.

But why are untouchables always sacrificed?

The rich have thousands of hectares of fertile land and tens of thousands of grains, but they tell the poor and untouchables who have no place to stand that the land in Ionia cannot support so many people. In order to maintain balance, you need to make sacrifices.

"That's ridiculous!" The leaders were excited.

After thinking through this logic, everyone completed the necessary pre-mental preparation and psychological construction for land reform in one fell swoop.

They want to redistribute the land in Ionia so that everyone can be a human being with equal status, instead of being a pariah.

"But..." Riven was relatively sober.

She had traveled to Piltover and Zaun and understood the Wind Leader's theory, so she knew that this was just the beginning of the Wind Leader's future work.

After realizing land to the tiller, there will still be many problems that need to be solved by leaders.

For example...

"President Levi." Riven asked: "After the land is divided, if the land is privately owned by Ionia's farmers, will there be another land annexation and big landowners in the future?"

Landed farmers are also small property owners. And among the small property owners, big property owners will continue to emerge. This is the law of the market.

If the free market is allowed to function without restraint, then under the influence of the 80/20 rule, the polarization between rich and poor will happen sooner or later.

"The kind of official farm that the Noxus Empire had."

Noxus has a vast territory and a mixture of civilizations, and the countryside naturally takes on various rich forms:

There are village communities dominated by landlords, territories controlled by nobles, and plantations run by the Ziben family...

At the same time, there are also farms officially run by Noxus.

This kind of farm has a long history in Noxus, originating from the military farming system in the early empire.

Later, as time progressed, officers gradually became local administrators, and military households gradually became farmers.

The land they reclaimed and cultivated also belonged to public land. The ownership of public land belonged to the Noxus Empire, and the output had to be handed over directly to the treasury in a certain proportion and could not be sold freely.

The government-run farms in Noxus sound a bit like the agricultural collectivization enterprises mentioned by Levi.

"But there are big differences between the two." Levi emphasized: "The government-run farms in Noxus are more like a product of an absolutely planned economy led by the Noxian state."

"The agricultural collectivization enterprise we will build will be a collectively owned company that operates independently and is responsible for its own profits and losses under the condition that planning and the market work together."

State-owned farms and collective enterprises are actually a form of collective production organization in the final analysis, they just have different names.

The real difference is -

Are they in a planning environment or a market environment.

If an absolute plan is adopted, then the collective enterprise is, to put it bluntly, a state farm;

If it is in a market environment, then a collective farm that emphasizes independent operation and self-financing is, to put it bluntly, a joint-stock agricultural company owned by collective members.

Every villager is a shareholder of this company. It’s just that the equity cannot be freely transferred or bought and sold.

"Then..." Riven asked a little tangledly: "President Levi, why do you suggest the latter?"

"This requires detailed analysis of specific issues." Levi said.

If he were in a world without demons and faced with such a poor and backward agricultural country, he would definitely choose the collective farm under the plan.

Why? In order to quickly realize the primitive accumulation of seed benzene and earn the "first pot of gold" to start industrialization.

If a backward agricultural country has neither money nor resources, nor the ability to plunder like advanced countries...then it can only tighten its belt and slowly accumulate the first pot of gold.

The planned collective farms were the fastest way to complete primitive accumulation in industrialization.

When you are so poor that you have almost nothing, only collective farms can help you raise a large amount of cheap agricultural products in exchange for expensive imported machinery and equipment; only collective farms can help you quickly gather a large amount of free labor to carry out large-scale infrastructure construction.

On the other hand, in a world without demons——

The degree of industrialization and the level of national defense are often closely related.

If you don't industrialize quickly, you won't have guns or cannons, and you'll have to be passively beaten, letting robbers take away the little money you just saved again and again.

If you don’t want short-term pain, the result will only be long-term pain.

So you have no choice but to bite the bullet and accelerate industrialization and strengthen the economy and national defense.

"But in Runeterra, we have magic and the goddess Janna." Levi said: "Here, our national defense strength and the level of industrialization are not completely linked."

Demacia is not industrialized at all, but its military strength is more than a hundred times that of the Twin Cities.

Therefore, even if Ionia does not build the planned farms in the future, it does not have to worry about the problem of being invaded and bullied due to the slow industrialization process, resulting in a national defense void.

And the most important thing is...

"The most developed industrial country in Rune Land now is ourselves, Zaun."

"In the future, the whole world will be integrated. The boundaries between countries will only gradually blur and disappear under the flag of Janna."

"Under such circumstances, it is certainly impossible for Zaun to rely on its technological hegemony to bully you and take advantage of the Ionians just because Ionia is lagging behind in industrialization."

"We will do our best to support the modernization of Ionia in the future - machinery, equipment, and various advanced industrial products can all be supported at preferential prices close to cost."

This greatly reduces the cost of Ionia's modernization, allowing Ionia to achieve primitive accumulation in a gentler and gentler way.

So Levi chose a collectivized enterprise rather than a planned farm.

"Wait a minute, President Levi..." At this time, Feiya, a businessman, also raised a question.

But what Riwen struggled with before was that the "enterprise" in this collective enterprise was too conservative——

How can there be a market through collectivization?

What Fiya is worried about is that the "collective" in this collective enterprise is too radical——

How can the market be collectivized?

"If everyone works on the land of collective enterprises, will they still have the enthusiasm to work?" Fiya asked concernedly.

"Haha." Levi smiled: "You'll know if you go to Zu'an again."

It is said that state-owned enterprises have rigid systems, but are large private enterprises free from the "big company disease"?

When there are more people, there will be politics and office politics. It doesn’t matter whether your boss is an individual or a citizen. As long as company managers have selfish motives, intrigues and factional struggles are inevitable.

The practice of Leader in Zaun has proved that the state-owned enterprises and joint ventures managed by Leader still have strong vitality even in a market environment where they operate independently and are responsible for their own profits and losses.

Even because leading cadres participate in management, internal personnel friction within the company is completely avoided. Many private companies have doubled their efficiency and grown rapidly after accepting joint ventures.

“Collective enterprises managed by leaders perform no less well in market competition.”

"This will still be true in Ionia and the countryside."

"And, besides..."

There is another very important reason for promoting agricultural collectivization:

“That is to improve agricultural production efficiency.”

Ionia's population has long been saturated. "Thanks" to the "remitting efforts" of the Noxian invaders, the conflict between people and land has only been greatly alleviated in recent years.

But overall, there are still too many people in Ionia.

If the land is divided equally, only one small owner-cultivator with a small land can be divided.

In order to improve the efficiency of agricultural production and develop agricultural production with large farms and large machinery——

Then we can only use collectivization to re-concentrate the land from the hands of these small farmers.

"Mechanized production..." Riwen frowned again, as if she noticed something wrong: "Mr. Li Wei, if we engage in large-scale mechanized production in rural areas, we won't need so many rural labor forces, right?"

An alchemy tractor produced in Zaun can be as efficient as 100 Noxian farmers.

In the future, mechanized production will be carried out in rural Ionia, so where should the excess rural labor be arranged?

Going to work in the city?

"But Ionia cannot be highly industrialized. Even if tourism and service industries are developed, the city cannot accommodate so many employed people, right?" Riven asked worriedly.

"Is this..." Levi was very frank.

He directly spread his hands and said, "Actually, I don't have any solution for the root cause."

Ionia cannot be highly industrialized because of natural conditions.

No matter how particular the leader is about fighting against heaven and earth, he must abide by the law of balance here. Otherwise, excessive demands will be made on natural resources, and Ionia will become unbalanced and full of evil spirits.

Moreover, this "huddle of evil spirits" cannot be completely solved by just asking the goddess to come over and kill the evil spirits.

In fact, those so-called evil spirits are more like... a kind of "chaos corrosion"?

In other words, it is something similar to "nuclear pollution".

The twisted evil spirits will completely pollute this land, making it as dead as the Shadow Island and as barren as Icathia. It will take hundreds of thousands of years to be purified again.

Many lands that the Noxus Empire had ravaged had turned into such evil and desperate situations.

"Therefore, Ionia is destined to be unable to be highly industrialized, and it is destined to be unable to build a super-large industrial city that can accommodate enough rural migrants."

This leader can't solve it either.

So... what to do?

In fact, Li Wei did not build the farms under the plan and allowed and even encouraged the free movement of villagers for this reason——

"Actually... I just want Ionians to move out of Ionia and live elsewhere as much as possible."

Levi previously emphasized that education and transportation in Ionia must be improved.

This is not to allow Ionians to stay comfortably in their hometown, but to give them better conditions and encourage them to find employment and settle elsewhere.

For example, if an Ionian majored in alchemical engineering at the future University of Presidence——

After he graduates, it will be almost impossible for him to find a job in Ionia, and he can only seek opportunities in places such as Zaun.

By this time, if Hexgate technology had developed sufficiently cheaply and conveniently, traveling from Zaun to Ionia would be a matter of time...

Naturally, this Ionian would be very happy to move to Zaan to work and settle down.

Excellent education here is more like a settlement fund to make it easier for Ionians to settle down and live in other places.

Convenient transportation here is more like a straw, in order to suck the employed people who cannot be resettled locally to other big cities.

"In the final analysis, there are too few exploitable resources in Ionia, and there are too many people here."

"If everyone stays here to farm, then everyone will suffer poverty together."

Therefore, the solution given by Li Wei in desperation is:

Run if you can, and if you can, don't stay here to collect.

In this way, those who stay in their hometowns can become "large farmers" engaged in mechanized production, and those who move outside can become urban workers with leader's guaranteed benefits...

It can be said that everyone has a bright future.

"Although this trick treats the symptoms but not the root cause, it is the best solution I can come up with." Levi admitted its shortcomings pessimistically.

But at the same time, he said optimistically: "But there is no need to be discouraged."

"Don't forget, whether it's the goddess Jana or Nagakapoulos, they all tell us that everything changes and the world is constantly developing."

“The problems we can’t solve now may not be unsolvable in the future.”

"As long as our beliefs remain unchanged, our direction does not change, and our pace does not stop, we will surely achieve final victory and let Ionians and people all over the world live a better life!"

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Outside Wuji Village, on the rock.

Li Weikang's passionate voice also reached here and reached Jie and Yi's ears.

"Do you understand what he said?" Jie asked Master Yi beside him thoughtfully.

Master Yi said...

"???" He didn't understand at all.

As a young man from a mountain village who had never been down the mountain in his life and had not even seen much of feudal society, it was really difficult for him to understand the modernization issues mentioned by Li Wei.

"I didn't understand much either." Zed smiled.

"But I understand a little bit." Jie's eyes became extremely deep:

"They, these leaders, have always been thinking and working hard for a better life for the Ionians."

This is something that no previous force in Ionia could do.

Irelia only knew how to fight Noxus, but she didn't know what to do after driving away the Noxians.

The Navoli Brotherhood knew what to do after the war, but they only talked about making "Ionia great again", but never thought about how to make Ionia people, especially the poor peasants and untouchables of Ionia Let’s be great together.

Only leaders.

Only they are thinking about the thousands of people in Ionia, thousands of "natural untouchables" like Jie.

"Yi, I seem..." Jie's expression gradually became firm: "I know what to choose."