Li Yao thought quickly and could already imagine the scene after the rapid expansion of the Imperium was over. He blurted out, "In short, the resources in the universe are limited."
"Exactly."
Li Linghai said casually, "To put it more frankly, since the expansion ability of the Imperium is limited and the territory is limited, the positions, opportunities, and power that it can provide are limited, too. A Sector can only have one Sector Master, one sect can only have one leader, one fleet can only have one highest commander, and one crystal mine can only have one owner, right?
"That is the core of all the contradictions.
"In the first five hundred years, when the Imperium was expanding on a large scale, the vested interests had already divided the positions of Sector Master, fleet commander, commander, sect leader, and even mine owner. As the saying goes, every carrot is a pit!
"In the second five hundred years, the expedition army of the Imperium often failed to find a single Sector after decades of exploration without caring about the cost. Even if they did find one, it would only be a desolate, resource-exhausted land. What was the use of it?
"Therefore, the Immortal Cultivators born in the second five hundred years, even if they were gifted, bold, and lucky, could not soar to the sky in one step like they did in the first five hundred years."
Li Yao smiled. "Don't the Immortal Cultivators value the survival of the fittest? Even if the cake cannot grow bigger, they can still steal other people's cake!"
Li Linghai smiled, too. "Do you think that the vested interests that are gradually solidifying are all dead people who will watch the ambitious latecomers steal their cake without taking action first?
"Even a pig's brain will know who is more likely to eat the whole cake, between the vested interests who boast abundant training resources, techniques, secret arts, and even space fleets and the idiots who have nothing and only awakened their spiritual roots by luck and stumbled all the way to their current position!
"All in all, the vested interests who made a fortune in the first five hundred years and occupied the 'highlands' in politics, economy, military, culture, and other fields of the Imperium gradually solidified into tumors large and small in the name of families, sects, or a Deep Sky Fleet. Whatever their names are, they are essentially the same. They are monopolies that are enormous enough to swallow the entire world. They are magnates, magnates, and oligarchs.
"Since the oligarchs are highly centralized monopolists, they can naturally make all kinds of rules that are in their favor and allow all the resources to flow into their bloody mouths' legitimately '. This is the logic of' the bigger the bigger the stronger '. The rising stars without backgrounds are incapable of competing with the oligarchs at all.
"Let me give you the simplest example. Let's talk about the contribution point system that seems absolutely fair and everybody has a chance.
"The system that calculates contribution points based on military credits and exchanges them for training resources and even military ranks and positions seems fair and reasonable, doesn't it?
"However, even the fairest and most reasonable system seems to have to be implemented by specific people. If the Immortal Cultivators responsible for implementing the contribution point system are all from the deep-rooted oligarchs, nobles, and noble families, how can they treat the Immortal Cultivators from humble backgrounds equally?
"Under the contribution point system, the evaluation of the difficulty of the quests is entirely the responsibility of organizations such as the 'Military Merit Committee' in various Sectors. It is needless to say that those organizations are all controlled by the magnates and the magnates. They can absolutely tailor certain quests of low difficulty but high contribution points for the descendants of their families and inform their descendants to claim the quests before they are released. In such a way, their descendants will be entitled to tremendous contribution points without any risk, right?
"Furthermore, when they run into certain quests of high difficulty, they will intentionally attract the Immortal Cultivators from humble backgrounds who do not have any backgrounds to carry out the quests. When the Immortal Cultivators suffer heavy casualties and the targets of the quests are mostly weakened, they will ask their descendants to join the quests with the excuse that more hands are needed because of the difficulty of the quests. Naturally, their descendants will be able to earn tremendous contribution points easily.
"Therefore, even under the seemingly fair contribution point system, if you are a descendant of a noble family that has a history of a thousand years, you will occasionally find quests of low difficulty, high contribution points, or harsh requirements that are tailor-made for you. You will be able to complete the quests easily without any trouble and earn tremendous contribution points, which can be redeemed for the training resources of the country.
"However, if you are an Immortal Cultivator from humble backgrounds who has no connections or background and is fighting on your own at the cost of ninety-nine percent of your life, you will find that most of the quests are extremely difficult, and the contribution points after they are completed are very low. Some of the quests may contain unexpected risks. In the end, other people will be reaping tremendous benefits by stepping on your bloody head.
"Occasionally, you may also find quests that seem to have a high 'cost-performance ratio' on the public quests platforms.
"However, those quests are either accepted by a certain noble descendant that you do not know immediately or have additional harsh requirements. For example, only Immortal Cultivators in the eleventh level of the Refinement Stage and who have been certified in the Greedy Wolf Crystal Suit Training Camp can accept the quests. It is needless to say that those quests are specially designed for a certain 'second-generation deity'. You can see, but you can't eat, and you can't do anything about it.
"Tell me, under such an 'absolutely fair contribution point system', how do the Immortal Cultivators from humble backgrounds compete with the Immortal Cultivators from noble families?"
Li Yao sighed and said, "In such a case, the bottom-level Immortal Cultivators are truly miserable."
"Of course they are miserable. They have ten thousand ways to squeeze you out of the circle of 'cake sharing' justifiably, but you will not be able to say anything about it."
Li Linghai said, "Whether or not you are capable of participating in the game of the 'contribution point system' is already a story for the future. What matters more is education.
"Theoretically speaking, fair competition is what the Imperium advocates most. The descendants of noble families, humble families, and even hominoids all have the right to receive training. Whoever reveals the greatest potential in the early education is most qualified to be nurtured by abundant Heavenly Materials and Earthly Treasures and the tutelage of famous teachers. If they are not talented in training, they should be abandoned mercilessly even if they are the descendants of the Immortal Cultivators. Only in such a way can the optimal allocation of resources be achieved and the overall development of the civilization of mankind be promoted.
"However, it is still just 'theoretically'.
"The theory is beautiful, but the reality is cruel. Which family of Immortal Cultivators would be idiotic enough to offer all their resources to the talented and promising descendants of hominoids but give nothing to their own descendants?
"The descendants of the families of Immortal Cultivators are nurtured by Heavenly Materials and Earthly Treasures the moment they are born. The experts of the family will cleanse their veins and bones and adjust their bodies when they are two or three years old. When they grow a little older, they will begin to get in touch with the marvelous arts. Not just most of the descendants of hominoids, even the descendants of the humble Immortal Cultivators do not have such conditions.
"Then, in the tests of talent, potential, and other national-level tests between the ages of five and seven, it is naturally the descendants of the noble families who are more likely to get high scores and be admitted to the Immortal Cultivators of the highest level. That is not taking into account that most of the national-level tests are actually controlled by the oligarchs.
"Just like I said, the strong will always be strong, and the big will always be bigger. The emergence of oligarchs means that the healthy and reasonable resource allocation methods of the Imperium are gone. The interest groups led by the 'four Kurfürst families' will not stop until they have drained the wool of the country and sucked the last drop of blood of the country.
"Of course, with the continuous upgrading of the training technology and the body strengthening and modification technology, the difficulty for the hominoids of the Imperium to advance into the low-level Immortal Cultivators has been significantly reduced. After the strengthening and modification, it is still possible for them to boast half or one third of the combat ability of the low-level Immortal Cultivators.
"However, it is more than ten times more difficult to advance from the low-level Immortal Cultivators to the high-level Immortal Cultivators from the Refinement Stage and the Building Foundation Stage to the Core Formation Stage and Yuanying in the past five hundred years. It is safe to say that the channels of ascension on a large scale have been completely blocked.
"Also, Immortal Cultivation consumes a lot of resources. The 'prosthetics' who have been strengthened and modified have a much higher demand for logistics supplies, too. As a result, the bottom-level Immortal Cultivators are more and more dependent on resources, or they are the monopolists who rely on resources. They have to cling to the interest groups, grit their teeth, and struggle under the rules of the game of the oligarchs while they are exploited with their eyes wide open.
"You can even understand it as — the high-level Immortal Cultivators have discovered that the efficiency of exploiting the hominoids directly is too low. Therefore, it is more convenient, direct, and efficient to let some of the hominoids turn into low-level Immortal Cultivators before they are exploited."
Li Yao took a long breath in relief after hearing that. Sweating hard, he said sincerely, "This … is too different from what I heard on Firefly about the social structure and operation of the Immortal Cultivators."
"The Star Ocean Republic was destroyed by the Imperium," Li Linghai said. "Naturally, what you received was the brainwashing education that vilified and vilified the Immortal Cultivators. It is not strange that you loathe the Immortal Cultivators because of your preconceived ideas.
"Besides, the Imperium that is governed by the monopolistic oligarchs and the magnates today is indeed a foul place where villains are running amok and rats are running amok!
"In the court, the noble lords who are holding the lightning trident flag and shouting 'long live the Immortal Cultivators' are in fact a bunch of selfish scumbags who only think about their own group and do not care about the big picture of the Imperium or the future of mankind at all. Not just you, even I hate those scumbags to the bone!
"But please believe me. The real Immortal Cultivators should not be like that. At the very least, the Imperium of True Human Beings that Blackstar the Great established in the past was definitely not like what it is today!"
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The fourth update is in place. Ho ho!
Today, I went to watch a movie again. Hahaha, it was the book recommended by a friend in the book review section a few days ago. Dad ', and I went to the cinema in the heavy rain.
I can only say that it was truly worth watching. The quality of the movie was at least as good as' Guardians of the Galaxy 2 ', if not better. Both of them were about' dad ', and both of them were so tear-jerking.
I hesitated for a long time whether or not I should say the irrelevant things at the end of the chapter, but it was so good that I decided to recommend it. Such a great movie was truly worth supporting in the cinema!
In particular, the little girl's singing was so adorable that I couldn't stand it anymore. I really wanted to have a daughter and 'ravage' her like the father in the movie. Hahahaha!
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