Master of Thermodynamics - Chapter 515
Chapter 513 Eat dry
Before crossing, Renault once saw the following passage on a website called “Hu”:
“There are only two contradictions among human beings, one is class contradiction, and the other is contradiction between ourselves and the enemy. The other contradictions are tools to divert attention, and those who are manipulated by these tools must lack judgment.”
The “other contradictions” in this passage include not only serious topics such as “racial contradictions”, but also nonsense things such as “contradictions between men and women” and “contradictions between husband and wife”.
Especially the latter, in the earth’s online media, countless official accounts and self-media all rely on “deliberately” creating contradictions between men and women to attract traffic, and then make a fortune and harvest all kinds of IQ taxes from ignorant netizens.
“Widowed childcare” and “you must spend money for her if you love her” are the most representative methods.
But is this really a contradiction between men and women?
If you think deeply, you will find that this is not the case.
The fundamental reason for them is actually class contradictions.
More precisely, it is the contradiction between the bourgeoisie and the proletariat.
In the distribution of resources, the small bourgeoisie relies on various means to extract most of the benefits, while the large proletariat has only obtained a small part of the benefits.
In a private ownership society, capital and power naturally have the characteristics of automatic aggregation. Over time, they will concentrate on the crowd at the top of the pyramid.
To describe this phenomenon in terms is the “division of rich and poor.”
The so-called “globalization” is a typical product of this stage.
In order to obtain more benefits, capital will inevitably flow to areas with lower costs, which means that the remuneration of the proletariat will decrease. On the other hand, lower costs mean increased profits, and capital will accelerate its expansion.
As a result, the gap between the rich and the poor has gradually widened.
(PS: Brother Trump opposed globalization and gained support from the bottom, not without reason.)
When the gap between the rich and the poor reaches a certain limit, a huge number of the bottom of society will be in trouble.
At this time, in order to support the family, the man has to work harder, which not only means longer working hours and more overtime, but also means that he has no time to spend with his family.
As a result, the term “widowed childcare” emerged.
Men have a hard time, and women certainly won’t.
Women’s income is generally lower than that of men. In addition, their income growth rate is far less than the growth rate of consumer spending. In order to fill the gap in income and expenditure, they urgently need to “open source”.
As a result, the argument that “to love her is to spend money for her” emerged.
This method of “alienating the relationship between the sexes, exploiting men and seeking benefits for themselves” greatly caters to the needs of women, and will naturally become popular in both the north and the south.
It can be seen that the contradiction between men and women is only the surface, and the class contradiction is the root cause.
It’s just that the tentacles of capital are everywhere. It controls the media and deliberately conceals the root cause by distorting propaganda.
It is a pity that most people lack the ability to think independently and have limited cognitive abilities. They do not understand the root cause. Instead, they are arbitrarily fooled by capital, blaming their plight on the surface.
To use the sentence at the beginning of this chapter, this is the use of “contradictions between men and women” to divert the public’s attention.
From the above analysis, we can also draw a conclusion that the essence of class contradictions is actually a struggle for interests.
The contradiction of interests is the root of all contradictions. The same applies to both the earth and the other world.
Renault is a staunch supporter of this view, so he only looks at the pros and cons, and at the people, he only looks at the power.
When more powerful than bad, he defines the opponent as a “friend”, otherwise, he defines it as an “enemy”.
At this moment, in the garden of the Duke’s castle, facing hundreds of nobles, Renault quietly labelled these guys as “friends” temporarily.
To fight against the black hybrids, it is not enough to rely on Hai Chao to lead the family. He needs the power of these nobles.
Renault looked around and said impassionedly:
“Everyone, the black orcs are the enemies of all mankind. If we want to drive away these beasts and protect our homeland, we must work together against the black bastards…”
“Miss Alietti proposed to gather the power of all the nobles and form an army to drive the black **** out of the Thousand Lake Kingdom…”
“As the lord of the sea tide, I personally decided to invest all the military forces in the territory, including 1,300 soldiers, and there are already a lot of magical equipment…”
“I sincerely hope that everyone can respond to Miss Alietti’s call and actively contribute money and efforts to jointly participate in this counterattack to expel the Black Orcs…”
Hearing Renault’s crown frequently mentioning “Miss Alietti”, everyone had a strange expression of constipation.
When the invitation was first received, everyone really thought it was Arrietty’s proposal, but from the beginning of the exercise until now, no one has seen Miss Arrietty.
At this moment, all coalition forces have begun to be formed. Why haven’t the proponents come forward? How can there be such a game in the world?
All the nobles suddenly realized that the so-called “proponent” is not the beautiful lady who covers the northern border, but the handwriting of the crown.
However, no one in the garden broke this point.
Everyone nodded one after another in agreement, as if this was really Miss Arrietty’s proposal.
This is precisely because of interest.
Renault needs to fight the black orcs, and these nobles also need to fight the black orcs. In the face of “contradictions between the enemy and ours,” it is in each other’s interests to unite.
I think so, no matter how unreasonable Renault’s reasons are, in the eyes of everyone, it is reasonable.
“Regarding the specific share, I personally suggest that, according to the different titles, each territory should send a corresponding number of troops and pay the corresponding share of money at the same time…”
“Each Lord needs to dispatch 20 soldiers and pay 100 Kinnars, and the Baron dispatches 50 soldiers and pay 200 Kinnars, Viscount…”
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“…The Duke dispatched 800 soldiers and paid 3000 Kinnars…”
When Renault said this, everyone looked different, some were calm, some frowned secretly, and more people were pained.
For these nobles, this “military expenditure” is not a small burden, almost three times the special war tax levied by His Majesty the King.
However, no one expressed objection.
The reason is simple. This time, they really saw the hope of victory.
In the past, although the king levied far less taxes than Renault, everyone knew that with the combat power of the kingdom’s army, one would definitely lose more and lose less, and paying taxes would be like throwing money in the water.
It’s different under Renault’s crown.
In previous exercises, everyone witnessed the combat power of the Rose Legion and understood that this is a powerful army worth relying on.
At this time, paying money and paying people is essentially buying your own life, buying your own territory, even if it hurts, you have to pay the money honestly.
Seeing no one objected, Renault nodded in satisfaction and said in an unquestionable tone:
“In addition, the commander of this aristocratic coalition will be personally appointed by me, and the deputy commander will be the Duke Byron. The training, combat, and procurement plans of the army will be determined by the two of us…”
“Gentlemen, do you have any comments?”
Everyone shook their heads uniformly.
This approach is extremely overbearing, and it is a naked black-box operation. Everyone knows that the Duke of Byron is the faithful running dog under Renault’s crown. The affairs of the coalition forces are decided by two people.
Especially the “procurement plan” involved is particularly huge. How much money can an army of 20,000 purchases make?
At least 3-4 million Kinnars!
The behavior under Renault’s crown is nothing more than an announcement that labor and capital have to eat this piece of cake by themselves, and no one should think about it!
Even the Duke Thunderhawk dared not do this kind of clean eating. Duke Castro must consider all aspects of the interests and carefully weigh them.