In the new era, the empire has many problems, social problems, and institutional problems.
This is not a problem unique to empires. Almost all countries currently have many problems. The development of science and technology is so fast that in the blink of an eye, the word country becomes insignificant in the international environment. More and more people cannot keep up with it. Things developed in the past era have begun to become burdensome, but these burdens are the most important things for every country at present.
For the empire, class consolidation is the biggest problem, bar none. As soon as Maggs came to power, he immediately abolished classes. He no longer used clear labels to stamp "class" on everyone's face and divided people into three, six or nine grades. People may not call a homeless man an untouchable, but has the word "untouchable" really disappeared from the hearts of the middle and upper classes in the empire just because people don't say it
Of course not, classes still exist and continue to divide society into three, six or nine classes and people into three, six or nine classes in a more hidden way.
The Federation also has similar problems. In fact, their problems are more serious than the Empire in a strict sense, because from the beginning, there has been a fatal forest law effect in this capitalist society. If you want to grow and become stronger, you must The weak must be devoured. The brutal competitiveness of the free market has allowed many big capitals to stand out. They have become monsters. Whenever there are people or companies that may challenge their qualifications in the future, they will start the annexation process.
Acquisition, or forcing, there is always one suitable for them, either becoming a part of this monster's body, or disappearing in this forest.
What is even more troublesome is that the top leaders of the Federation, especially the Speakers of the United Parliament, are each a consortium, and each represents a huge capital force. They are also doing the same thing. They continue to annex those with potential or those that are growing rapidly. Enterprises and consortiums used to avoid risks, but in the past few years, these tactics have become less common.
Too many young consortiums are expanding rapidly, and they are connected through associations, such as organizations such as the Golden Shield Society. These consortiums work together to fight against the attacks from the behemoths on the top of the tower. Now they have established a firm foothold. , and already has the possibility of trying to attack.
The purpose of the federation to divide the entire government system into two is to prevent the penetration of capital forces into the government. Over the past two hundred years, if it were not for the Speakers of the United Parliament who still had relatively absolute control over the country, the Federation might have been torn apart long ago. The governors of each state are almost the heads of the new conglomerates. They are all locals, own huge industries, and employ more workers. As long as they put forward independent ideas, the people below will support them.
Therefore, in order to cope with this situation, the federal system has become two independent but overlapping systems.
Now these problems don't seem sharp enough, and the contradictions are not fully revealed in front of people's eyes. That's because in this new era, there are business opportunities everywhere and gold everywhere. The large financial groups in the federation focused on economic interests, temporarily avoiding collisions with traditional notification forces, and continued to accumulate strength. This is why the Federation's economy has experienced unprecedented prosperity in these years. Under the surface of these prosperity, it is actually full of contradictions and disagreements.
The old rulers are unwilling to give up their power, and new challengers are eyeing them, ready to fight back at any time and tear them into pieces.
The sudden war against the empire was a reconciliation of conflicts and differences among the major forces in the federation. These conflicts and disputes were temporarily suppressed by exporting war, but this could not solve these problems. It could only Let everyone settle down for now. In recent years, conflicts have heated up again. The federal government and various consortiums have formulated new plans to temporarily suppress the current conflicts by exporting "economic war". The purpose is to make the federal shield a world settlement currency. one.
But what should we do when the problem comes back again
Contradictions have always existed and have been put aside due to various policies and actions. This does not mean that the contradictions have disappeared. During this long period of time, these contradictions have been fermenting quietly. The new capital forces are full of ambition and desire. They will not be willing to be ruled by the so-called "founding family" of the Federation. As long as they have enough strength, they will definitely He will give the most deadly counterattack, knocking these families who have controlled the lifeblood of the federation all their lives to the ground one by one, and then attack their softest parts, tear them into pieces, and turn them into their own nutrients!
This is the problem that the old man and his descendants need to face. It is urgent and deadly. If they fail, they will never get up again, just like they did to those who tried to change the existing situation many years ago, let them disappear forever!
At this point, the Empire is much better than the Federation. Why do you say that
Because no matter how powerful the capital forces in the empire are, they can only influence political trends and policy formulation through political spokesmen. They dare not openly overthrow the cabinet unless they are tired of living. As long as they dare to have such an idea, Magus will dare to send out troops to send them to meet the emperors of the past generations, and he will never show mercy.
Some people say that dictatorship is not a good thing, but sometimes too much freedom is also a bad thing. The empire happens to be in the middle of it. It is really lucky and surprising that it can go through so many years without a large-scale civil war.
There is a lot hidden in the old man's seemingly ordinary words. If that fish is the founding family and the rulers, then those hams are the new conglomerate forces. They have seriously affected the interests of these rulers, and have even In some ways, it overshadows the ruler's light.
It seemed that the two of them were just commenting on a dish, but in fact they had exchanged a lot of things in just one or two sentences.
"Let's talk about those bombs. How can we avoid the danger caused by the explosion without ignoring the effect of the explosion?" The old man asked the butler to take the sashimi with ham. Now that he saw this dish, he suddenly I felt a little irritable. After people reach a certain age, they will become moody like children.
The girl sat on the side eating very elegantly, but her smart eyes kept looking back and forth between Dulin and the old man. She felt that these two guys were discussing some important things in a way that she could not understand.
For her age, the novelty and sense of mission of being involved in something big outweighed everything else.
She wanted to be a part of it too.
(End of chapter)