Chapter 694 The bloody Ivy war system!
"Silver Moon Maple Tree..."
Xia Xiu repeated the name in a low voice, raised his hand to gently hold his forehead, and his thoughts could not help but drift to the information related to Silver Moon Maple Tree. .
The Silver Moon Maple tree is not an extraordinary tree. Its leaves glow with a charming silver light under the moonlight. It is one of the symbols of the Moon God recognized by all the worlds.
In the system of myths and legends across the universe, this maple tree is inseparable from the moon, the night sky, and even some gods.
Especially in magic rituals under the moonlight, the Silver Moon Maple tree is indispensable. It seems to have the ability to introduce the mysterious power of the moon into the mortal world.
Not only is this wood beautiful, it is also an ideal material for making magic wands, especially for magicians who wield lunar magic.
It can store the power of moonlight, so that staffs and magic items made from it can produce extremely strong enhancement effects when casting moon magic.
It can also be used to make rune carving materials for night lighting, which has the strange power to guide light in the dark night.
Xia Xiu frowned, countless use cases of Silver Moon Maple flashing through his mind.
This kind of wood is not just a material, it also involves a more complex interdimensional resource economic system.
Silver Moon Maple is one of the abstract exchange woods designated by the [Golden Tree]. During the Ivy War, the abstract value of this wood was recognized by multidimensional forces.
This is not just an exchange of material resources, but also a manifestation of a modified value economy - material and abstract values reach a consensus through conversion between multiple dimensions.
According to the provisions of the "Golden Law", the so-called "1 unit of wood" does not refer to actual physical wood, but a standardized unit generated by the completion pool through an abstraction process.
An easy-to-understand explanation of the above "Golden Law" and the modification value economy of the completion pool can be summarized as:
Concrete → abstract process.
They have four steps in total:
1. Specific collection stage:
Each plane or region is harvested according to actual resource conditions, such as 100 silver trees in a forest. Moon maple trees are collected and processed. This is the concrete form of the resource.
2. Abstraction process:
When these specific resources are given to the completion pool, the completion pool uses the power of the correction value and the rules of the [Golden Tree] to transform these resources into abstract units. Through the standardization of the Golden Law, these 100 trees were requantified into 1 unit of wood.
3. Dependence on correction values:
This abstraction process essentially depends on correction values. In order to convert concrete material resources into abstract units, the completion pool needs to consume a certain amount of modifiers. This makes the modifier not only an important currency for maintaining construction progress, but also the core in resource circulation.
Four. Circulation of abstract units:
Once a resource is abstracted into units, it can be circulated between different planes.
For example, 1 unit of wood can be used as the standard currency in areas such as building materials, magical crafts, etc. in a plane where there is no direct supply. Transactions between planes are carried out through these units without the need to actually transport physical resources.
The "Golden Law" bluntly states:
The completion pool is responsible for converting various material resources into abstract units according to standardized ratios for free trade between planes.
The abstract unit of each type of resource is established based on the standards set by the golden tree, and its operation is driven by the modifier value.
The completion pool system is supervised by the Lord of the Planes, and its abstraction results must comply with the guidelines of the [Golden Tree].
When executing resource abstraction, each resource unit must go through the standard processing of the completion pool to ensure that the abstraction of the resource is consistent with its actual value.
The abstract unit ratio of different resources varies according to their physical properties, rarity, and quality level.
After the resources are converted into abstract units through the completion pool, they are circulated as equivalents in the market in the world.
Take the Silver Moon Maple tree as an example. The average wood yield of each Silver Moon Maple tree is about 50 cubic meters, which includes the comprehensive utilization of the trunk, branches and leaves. After processing and magical amplification, these woods are further compressed and refined into efficient building materials or magic item crafting materials.
Therefore, 1 unit of wood roughly corresponds to 5,000 cubic meters of wood, which is the total wood production of 100 Silver Moon Maple trees.
Note that the 100 Silver Moon Maple trees here refer to ordinary quality wood.
According to the supplementary regulations of the law, the quality of wood is divided into high-quality wood, ordinary wood, and inferior wood, and the exchange rate is set.
Premium wood: defect-free, uniformly textured and beautiful, usually with extremely high strength and durability. This type of wood is used in the manufacture of high-end furniture, mid-to-high-end buildings or high-end magic items, and has great market value.
Ordinary wood: with slight defects or ordinary texture, used for general construction, basic material manufacturing, daily tools and ordinary crafts.
Secondary materials: lower quality, often with more defects, mainly used for industrial raw materials such as pulp, fiberboard, plywood, etc. This wood is in the upstream market and needs further processing before it has market value.
According to the current Eighth Wood Abstract Unit Exchange Standard Details in the "Golden Law", the exchange ratio of various types of wood is set according to its quality grade, tree species and rarity. The exchange ratio of Silver Moon Maple Tree is: < br>
Excellent wood: every 50 Silver Moon Maple trees = 1 wood unit.
Ordinary wood: Every 100 Silver Moon Maple trees = 1 wood unit.
Secondary timber: Every 150 Silver Moon Maple trees = 1 timber unit.
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Xia Xiu lay on his back on the ergonomic chair behind him, his eyes slightly closed, and his whole body seemed to melt into the back of the chair.
At this time, there were countless thin threads constantly entangled in his mind. Every expense and every debt was like a rope, tangled up in his thoughts layer by layer, giving him a headache. It feels clearer.
He gently pressed his temples to relieve the heaviness in his head.
"Although the abstract unit system of the complement pool effectively standardizes the exchange of wood and other resources," Xia Xiu whispered, with helplessness in his voice, and his golden eyes stared into the distance through the ceiling.
"But some planes or companies still rely on the monetary economy, and they have a higher demand for the actual physical form of wood, especially when there is an extreme shortage of certain wood resources."
His side , Secretary-General Pansy Jian stood upright, holding the document with slender fingers, her face still had that calm expression. She nodded slightly, indicating that she understood Xia Xiu's troubles, and then opened the document in her hand. , looked down, a shrewd light flashed in his eyes.
“According to my plane market research report, the lumber market cannot only consider the correction value market, but also includes the impact of the physical market and the currency market.”
Her voice had a hint of A kind of calm and clear rationality:
“For example, in a scarce plane or a high-demand market, the price of a high-quality Silver Moon Maple tree can reach 150 gold coins, especially in those planes that lack the supply of high-grade wood. On the contrary, In resource-rich planes, the price may be as low as about 120 gold coins.”
The Secretary-General continued the report:
“Some forces will increase their efforts to develop the real economy in order to accumulate huge points for the correction value. This strategy can gain resource advantages in the short term, but it will lead to excessive production in certain planes. The phenomenon of relying on the real economy is especially obvious for those planes with scarce resources."
She paused and raised her eyes to look at Xia Xiu, as if waiting for him to digest. Continue after this information.
"Of course," she continued, "Each plane can use its own correction value reserve to directly exchange the correction value for the abstract unit of Silver Moon Maple Tree."
"For example, 1 unit Silver Moon Maple Trees can be purchased with a certain amount of correction value, and the specific ratio is determined by market conditions and resource scarcity. When the correction value contribution of a certain plane increases, its economic strength increases, causing the price of Silver Moon Maple Trees to decrease. Because the plane can directly obtain resources with modifiers, the plane with depleted modifiers will have to rely on gold coins to pay, so the price of wood will naturally increase."
Xia Xiu sat on the back of the chair, with a blue ring on his right index finger, tapping the back of the chair rhythmically, making a weak sound.
The golden eyes shone with an obscure luster, thinking about some complicated calculation.
His expression remained calm, but the turbulent thoughts in his heart were rising and falling like a frenzy, as if invisible wars were quickly being played out in his mind.
"Correction economy and real economy..."
His voice was low, but with a certain elusive calmness, he began to state a secret truth hidden among many planes. ：
"The two cooperated with the Golden Law to construct the Ivy War - a bloody war without smoke, a monster dripping with blood and filth from every pore."
On the surface, everything is calm. Behind the battles lies the struggle for resources, power and the future of the plane.
Although there is no real bloody massacre, the fate of countless planes is being changed or even destroyed in this invisible war.
Xia Xiu opened his eyes and continued: "In this war, two economies will definitely develop - the colonial economy and the pirate-style robbery economy." His tone gradually became cold and cold. Calm, as if describing an inevitable fate.
"The correction value economic system plays a central role in cross-plane transactions. A strong plane that controls the correction value can affect the economic structure of other planes through the control of the correction value."
He paused lightly. , his fingers were still tapping on the back of the chair, his thoughts flowing rapidly.
“For example, the colonial plane deprives the colonized plane of physical resources through the resource replacement and abstraction mechanism of modified values.
Then, these resources are handed over to the completion pool and transformed As correction values or abstract units, they circulate again, eventually forming a chain of exploitation.
Those deprived planes are left with nothing but void, and even the most basic resources may be hollowed out, losing the basis for survival. ”
The fourth sword holder in the Kingdom of Heaven spoke calmly, as if he was describing an established fact, but the ruthlessness contained in it made people shiver down their spines.
Xia Xiu’s eyes turned slightly cold and continued:
“The other economic model is those pirate organizations that make a living by plundering. They target the plane of abundance. Especially those planes that cannot directly use portals for resource transportation due to space instability, spell restrictions or war reasons."
The scene of caravans and transport ships being plundered appeared in his mind. It seemed to echo with the noise of fighting and looting.
He raised his head slightly and continued:
"These caravans or transport ships have to take traditional physical transportation routes, and this provides an opportunity for pirates. They ambush on traffic arteries or remote interdimensional paths to carry out plunder. Not only For gold coins and material wealth, in the correction value economic system, it is equally profitable to rob resources and abstract them into correction values."
"Pirate organizations may use the illegal complementation pool system to rob them. Resources are converted into correction values, and then their economic influence and military strength are further expanded through the correction values."
Xia Xiu's eyes flickered slightly, as if he had seen through the turmoil and battles in countless planes.
He leaned back on the chair, the sound of tapping his fingers gradually stopped, and a depressing atmosphere filled the air.
Behind this seemingly smokeless war, there are countless calculations, exploitation and cruelty hidden.
The modified value economy seems to be the path to the future, but it has also become the abyss into which many planes have sunk.
After hearing Xia Xiu’s analysis, the Secretary-General was silent for a while, his eyes flashed with thought. Then he pulled out a few documents from the folder and said in a calm but thoughtful tone: "What you said These are actually happening every moment."
She gently opened the document in her hand and continued to report:
"For example, the federal government's response to the "Share". The colonization of the Star Wasteland is a typical example. "
She slowly explained: "In order to alleviate the depletion of resources, the Federation decided to colonize the Broken Star Wasteland. On the surface, this plane is deserted and magic is scarce. It is rich in mithril ore, the core material for making advanced magic equipment.”
Her eyes flashed slightly, and she continued:
"The Federation controls the exchange system of correction values, making resource transactions in the Broken Star Wasteland completely dependent on Terra's complement pool. At the same time, the Federation monopolizes the portal system. Only authorized caravans can enter the wasteland, which completely deprives local residents of the opportunity to trade independently."
Xia Xiu's eyes flickered slightly as she described it, and the secretary-general continued:
"Local residents were forced to become miners, mining mithril ore at very low modifier returns. In the end, almost all of the resources in Shatterstar Wasteland went to the Federation, while the residents lived in extreme poverty."
< br>The Secretary-General’s tone was imperceptible and calm, and he described the reality of colonial exploitation very clearly.
The federal colonial strategy is very classic and consists of three steps.
1. Modifier control: By controlling the modifier exchange system of Broken Star Wasteland (subsidizing the construction or even free construction of supplementary pools, but the federation controls the exchange of supplementary pools), the federation forces the plane to rely on Terra's completion pool is used for transactions, making the resource export of Shattered Star Waste completely dependent on Terra's modifier economy.
2. Portal monopoly: The Federation has established a portal system, but has implemented a portal ban on the Broken Star Wasteland. Only teleport caravans with permission from Terra can enter and exit the plane freely, which makes the local area impassable. Other planes trade independently.
3. Labor Exploitation: The residents of Broken Star Wasteland were forced to become miners, mine mithril ore, and sell it to the Federation at extremely low prices. The Federation exploits this labor through low modifier returns and resells the mithril ore to other planes at a high price.
The final result of colonization is that the economy of Broken Star Wasteland is firmly controlled, and almost all exported mithril mineral resources flow to the Federation, while the plane itself is under economic oppression, and residents live in poverty and lose their Autonomy has completely become Edici's remote colonial plane.
Pansy Jane paused and flipped through the next document:
“Look again at the Eldarin Empire’s control of the Green Feather Forest plane—this is a multi-dimensional empire dominated by the elves. '".
"They pursue a strict "modified value economy" plane and try to expand the elven plane country through the rules of modified value to control the world. Their colonial methods are worse than those of the federal government. Nothing less."
"This is their most classic colonial case before"
"The elves of the empire have taken a fancy to a plane full of magical energy - Cuiyu Forest. It is famous for its silvery maple trees. ”
"The Eldarin Empire first controlled the economy of Cuiyu Forest through the completion pool abstraction system, abstracting a large number of Silver Moon Maple trees into correction values. The local Silver Moon Maple trees can only be converted into currency through the empire's completion pool. value, thus making the forest's economy completely dependent on the empire.
What followed was forced logging; the imperial army was stationed in Cuiyu Forest, forcing local residents to harvest Silver Moon Maple trees on a large scale by force, while controlling the regeneration rate of the forest. , giving priority to obtaining high-quality wood. In order to ensure high profits, the Eldarin Empire strictly controls the export quantity of Silver Moon Maple trees, causing the price of Silver Moon Maple trees to continue to rise in the international market.
At the same time. In order to further consolidate its control, the Eldarin Empire instilled elven culture into the residents of the Green Feather Forest, encouraged local residents to worship the 'elven pantheon', and assimilated the cultural traditions of the plane through various systems to weaken their local consciousness."
“Their colonization based on the correction value system was very successful. The Green Feather Forest became an affiliated plane of the Eldarin Empire. Its main economic pillar, the Silver Moon Maple tree resource, was monopolized by the empire, and the local residents lost their It has independent economic capabilities and is completely dependent on the empire’s correction value system.”
Her eyes turned to another document:
"The Iron Alliance is a more crude example. It is a special alliance with humans as the main body and dwarves as the supplement. They colonized the Black Rock Plains plane and through industrialized exploitation, forcibly transformed this agricultural plane into a mining base for heavy industry. .
Large-scale mining followed, and they never considered the plane's ecosystem when collecting minerals. Therefore, even the agricultural self-sufficiency of the original residents was destroyed. The current residents of the Black Rock Plain are completely dependent on what the alliance provides. Synthetic food survives, and all correction values flow to the Iron Alliance. "
The colonial economy between different planes in the Ivy War, from resource control to cultural assimilation, to the plunder of correction values, each plane passes through different methods. way of implementing colonial rule.
By exploiting labor, monopolizing resources, and controlling the economic system, powerful planes can turn colonies into their own sources of wealth, while colonized planes fall into dependence and oppression, losing the ability to develop independently
The Secretary-General was silent for a moment, and then said slowly:
"And the other kind of robbery economy you mentioned - the robbery of pirate groups and other pirate organizations, has actually become the norm under the modified value economic system."
"The Rift Pirate Group is active Illegal organizations in multiple planes have their bases hidden in plane rifts that are difficult to locate. Those rifts are space-time gaps between planes, and ordinary teleportation spells cannot enter at all. Only pirates who master cross-plane spells can be free. Access. "
"Due to the limited portal network in the fertile plane, many caravans have to rely on traditional interdimensional routes. It is on these routes that pirates target those carrying mithril. A caravan of mines, magic potions or high-level magic wood."
She lowered her head and glanced at the file and continued:
"The Rift Pirate Group uses the unpredictability of plane rifts and time and space ambush to attack. Caravans, plunder their goods. They are elusive, and then quickly resell these high-value items on the black market on the surface, and even use illegal complement pools to convert them into modifiers to maintain the operations of the pirate group."
She raised her head and glanced at Xia Xiu, who was silent, and continued: "They continue to accumulate wealth through this method of rapid resale, disrupting the order of cross-dimensional real economic transactions."
Xia Xiu He quickly summarized the thinking logic of rift pirates in his mind
The logic of rift pirate economy: cross-dimensional plunder → quick resale → gain accumulation → armed fleet → continue cross-dimensional plunder.
A very simple and crude looting economy, and it is also very effective.
Of course, this is still one type of robbery economy, and Pansy Jane quickly said another form:
"The Sea of Void is another dangerous place," the Secretary-General opened the next report and explained, "It is full of unstable space cracks and magic storms. Normal portals cannot operate, and caravans can only rely on physical routes. Transporting resources. It is in this environment that the Blackfire Pirates ambush merchant ships from the rich plane to the barren plane."
Her eyes glanced at the document: "These pirates use the magic storm as a cover to hide. At the edge of the Void Sea, they wait for unsuspecting caravans to enter unstable areas and then suddenly attack them. They not only plunder goods, but also establish a complex smuggling network to sell the plundered resources to those in urgent need through secret channels. The plane of resources, making huge profits."
Her tone was slightly cold, "This kind of illegal smuggling not only seriously disrupts the economic order of the Void Sea, but also forces legal caravans to pay for protection. "
Smuggling network, robbery and ransom...
Xia Xiu quickly summarized another logic of robbery.
Behind this Ivy League war is full of invisible exploitation and manipulation.
The Secretary-General slowly put away the documents in his hand and added softly:
“These are just the tip of the iceberg in the Ivy War. Similar things have long been commonplace in the world. . And the real purpose of the war is probably far more complicated than what we see in front of us."
A cold light flashed in the eyes of the fourth sword holder in heaven, and he said in an extremely calm tone:
“The shadow of the Ivy War is destined to shroud countless planes until—the strong one completely controls everything, or everything is destroyed in the flames of war.”
(End of this chapter)