Doomsday Code

"Tell me your solution to this problem."

Huidun had long been immune to his ups and downs in speaking, so he went straight to the point.

Chen Cheng also smiled knowingly and said:

"Then, Lord Earl, do you still remember the plan I gave you before? After the results appear on it, we need to develop, so we need to rely on one word - borrow.

The current Huidun Territory, including you, is really nothing. Do you know what the biggest and deepest influencing factor that supports the existence of a country's regime is? "

Chen Cheng's words were quite abrupt, and Hui Dun was a little slow to react. He thought Chen Cheng was testing him, and blurted out:

"The biggest and most profound factor that supports a country's regime? Population? Or land? Or the army?"

However, after hearing this, Chen Cheng gave Huidun a meaningful smile and let him understand.

"Okay, stop keeping me in suspense. Am I right in what I said?"

Seeing Chen Cheng like this, Huidun really wanted to strangle him by the neck and force him to speak clearly all at once.

Chen Cheng also knew that he should have a good talk with him.

"The points you just mentioned can be said to be right or wrong. The right part is that they are all necessary factors for forming a country, but the wrong part is that you didn't mention the biggest factor that can bring them together."

"That factor is profit, or wealth."

"Take what you just said as an example. In this era when human trafficking has not yet been abolished, population is part of wealth, as is land. Not to mention that the army is made up of people.

If a civilian is willing to become a citizen of a country, then he will get the benefits given by the country accordingly, such as the country's citizens cannot be sold, and the country's citizens enjoy land ownership.

After he obtains these fundamental security interests, he becomes a supporter of this country. Then, in order to maintain these interests, he can give up part of the benefits of land output in exchange for allowing the country to continue to protect his fundamental interests.

This is the tax collected by the state.

The linkage between the two constitutes a state’s rule over the people it governs.

With people, the taxes they pay, which is the part of the benefits used to protect their interests, can be used by the rulers of the country to recruit soldiers.

The same is true for soldiers and the country. A soldier leaves land production and devotes his life to the country, so the country must guarantee his military pay, posthumous care, and support for his family and descendants.

What connects these points is the interaction between interests.”

After listening to Chen Cheng's analysis, Hui Dun suddenly understood. This was the first time he heard someone explain the relationship between these three in this way.

Although it feels weird, it feels right when you think about it carefully.

Chen Cheng thought that interests were of course the most obvious manifestation, but at a deeper level there were also spiritual bonds such as different values and thoughts.

However, in this world of extraordinary power, it is better to say less about these deep-seated things, and everything should be focused on interests first.

After all, as the old saying goes, money makes the world go round.

And this is not a joke.

Although some people put spiritual beliefs above all else, they are only a minority, and relying on them will not make the entire society function in an orderly manner.

The operation of society depends on the operation of wealth, and wealth is the direct manifestation of interests.

So if Chen Cheng wanted to support Huidun to take the position, he only had the card of interest to play.

Because his background was inherently inferior to that of other princes, he was inherently at a disadvantage politically.

Political weakness can only be recovered from other aspects, and the simplest and most effective way for him now is to use the business methods that Chen Cheng knew from his previous life, and let him use business as a bond of interest to connect a group of people as his own team.

Of course, after you have money, you need to maximize its value, which is to recruit soldiers and improve the overall strength of the territory.

But that’s a story for later. Now Chen Cheng needs to make Huidun accept everything he said.

After all, he is an earl, and these noble lords have a natural discrimination against those businessmen.

Huidun extended this idea and thought about some administrative problems.

It was later discovered that the biggest factor in the emergence of these problems was that some people had inappropriate thoughts for the sake of the interests of these parties, and then broke this set of interest rules.

The laws enacted by the kingdom are also tools to maintain this interest relationship.

When Chen Cheng saw that Huidun had fallen into deep thought, he knew that he had understood what he said.

Chen Cheng continued:

“Based on the above information, we can know that the most fundamental thing that maintains a country is interest, and what maintains the top level of the national pyramid is the power to distribute interests.

So the king is the one who has absolute right to distribute benefits, so he is the king.

And what you are fighting for with those princes is also this power. As long as you have this power, you can be said to be the uncrowned king. "

Huidun became more and more excited as he listened. He had finally found a definite goal to work towards, instead of focusing on that position like before and then being exhausted physically and mentally by the chasm between the two.

"So what does this have to do with these businessmen?"

Huidun asked the key question.

Chen Cheng thought to himself that you finally hit the nail on the head, and all his previous preparations were for this question.

Chen Cheng smiled and said:

“It’s very simple, just like what I just said, the transfer of benefits requires a medium or a certificate, and the most obvious manifestation of this medium or certificate is the currency certified by the state.

The circulation of currency requires the participation of these merchants who travel far and wide.

Since you need to fight for the power to distribute interests, you must have overwhelming interests accordingly, so that there will be a steady stream of small interest groups that will bring their own interests to your merger and acquisition relationship.

The best embodiment of this relationship is the relationship between the king and the nobles and those aristocratic officials.

The king is the biggest interest group. If the nobles want to protect their own interests, they must get close to the huge interest group of the country, otherwise they will only be annexed. "

“And now I think we will soon face pressure from other princes’ interest groups, and to break this pressure we need to find a breakthrough.

And this is just as I said just now, the smallest overall unit of benefit transfer is those businessmen, so they will squeeze us and take advantage of those businessmen, so we have to start with business.

If we want to break the impasse, we need to borrow the power of businessmen, use business to control business, and then rely on our commercial interests to bind the businessmen.

These businessmen can become big businessmen because they have strong people or families behind them. If we bind them with interests, then naturally the people behind them will become our solid allies. "

After Chen Cheng said this, it can be said that he directly painted a big pie for Huidun, a pie that is already within reach.

"I, Moss Wisdom Shield, swear here that as long as you help me ascend the throne, I can fulfill any of your requests."

The throne and a request may seem incompatible, but this depends on the different standpoints of the two people.

For Chen Cheng, what he wants is not gold, silver, treasures, high positions and generous salaries. The biggest obstacle for him in this world is his identity.

The two are actually very similar in this respect.

Before this, he was the sixteenth direct descendant of the extinct Thorn Flower Kingdom. This identity brought him nothing but constant fear and he hid in the mountains and forests as a savage.

But now his identity is a slave. Although he has made some achievements and Miss Finier around him does not despise him, the barrier of identity still exists and his life is still not in his own hands.

Huidun appears to be an earl of a place and has a father who is a king, but in fact he is surrounded by many crises.

Because of his identity, he became a scandal in the royal family, and when the king on the throne passed away, only death would await him.

It can be said that although his life seems to be in his own hands, just like Chen Cheng, it can be taken away at any time.

Chen Cheng looked quietly at Huidun's outstretched hand, and then he chuckled and said:

"The Earl is the Earl. He is really good at finding opportunities. That is the throne, and you bought it with just one request."

After saying this, Chen Cheng and Huidun high-fived each other and swore an oath of alliance.

Although there was no evidence of any magical confinement, the two of them had absolute trust in each other at this time. The reason for this was very simple, both of them wanted to control their own lives.

Compared to those magical contracts that often require the death of those who violate them, both of them believe that this kind of union based on common interests will be more solid and secure.