Doomsday Code

Chapter 361 The Progress of Capital

Looking at the familiar environment around him, Chen Cheng got off Daha's back and came to the ruined village. Among the waist-high weeds, Chen Cheng saw piles of bones scattered on the ground.

He still remembered the brutal acts of the beasts in the Scorpion Slave Hunting Team, and the scattered skull with holes in it was the first person he shot.

Huidun came to Chen Cheng and saw the white bones on the ground.

There is no need for much explanation, you can tell at a glance that this should be a savage village.

The savage tribes that were able to develop villages here were considered powerful among the savages.

“Is this one of your people?”

Huidun asked curiously.

But Chen Cheng shook his head and nodded.

"I'm not from this tribe, but you, me and them are all the same, we're all human beings."

Huidun was a little stunned by Chen Cheng's words at first. In his previous understanding, this savage was an uncivilized human-shaped livestock.

But today he actually saw a savage site, and from the site, it can be seen that the savages had obviously developed their own village culture.

And judging by the sparse food growing outside, they are no different from ordinary villagers except that they cannot speak the official language.

Seeing Huidun deep in thought, Chen Cheng patted him on the shoulder and said:

“Don’t worry too much. You are not powerful enough to change these things now. I just want you to know that they are just like ordinary people. They can build their own houses to protect themselves from wind and rain, weave clothes to keep warm, and cultivate the land to feed themselves.

But when the time comes to liberate them, I hope you won’t become a stubborn stone.”

At this time, Huidun was no longer the little earl who only cared about his own little piece of land. Naturally, he could understand Chen Cheng's words.

But as Chen Cheng said, the slavery system has existed for who knows how long. If those in power do not think about liberating them, how can they be liberated?

When Huidun asked his question, Chen Cheng smiled meaningfully.

"Do you know why the slaves showed up?"

“The emergence of slavery is fundamentally due to the lack of social productivity.

When private property emerged, powerful individuals and groups would own more land and wealth. In the period when wealth was created by relying on human farming, people were undoubtedly the most valuable resource and wealth, so the system of slavery, a completely personal dependence relationship, was born.

It is very simple to liberate them, that is to vigorously develop productivity, just like the new factories that Huidun City is developing now. The workers in these factories are beginning to transform their labor from pure physical labor to intellectual labor.

People who work at this time need to learn certain knowledge, and this breaks the knowledge barrier.

When this model becomes widespread and develops, people’s desire for money and wealth will become a bottomless pit, but the ordinary manpower to operate and control the wealth-producing machine is limited.”

Chen Cheng stopped talking when he got here, because there was no need for him to say anything more.

Chen Cheng had already told him about the horror of capital, so once capital is formed, they will try their best to overthrow any system that stands in their way.

That’s why there were socially progressive changes such as the overthrow of imperial power and the slave liberation movement.

So, in general, capital is a force that drives social change and progress, but capital must not be rampant. Otherwise, when capital touches the boundaries of the economy, people living in a world of uncontrollable capital will be much more miserable than slaves.

The most typical examples are the two world wars in Chen Cheng’s previous life. The fundamental reason was that capital in the real industry had already touched the limit of wealth, so various contradictions broke out one after another, eventually giving rise to a super war that swept the world.

The device that created equality for all beings later only gave the rulers concerns. What really cleared the smoke of war in the world was the third industrial revolution, during which concepts such as the Internet and AI were proposed.

The Internet has truly achieved global interconnection, and has developed the real economy, which was originally at its limit, into a conceptual economy such as the Internet.

And concepts are boundless, so capital has a new arena for chasing and fighting.

So even after experiencing the biggest financial crisis in history, the world still did not break out into a third world war as it had done in previous decades.

At this time, Huidun also saw the other side of capital. Before the capital that Chen Cheng talked about was a ferocious beast, it also had a gentle and nourishing side.

“So the rise of capital is not a bad thing. It’s just that this beast needs a tamer, rather than letting it run wild.”

While the two were talking, Xiao Dun's men had already collected the skeletons in this small village.

Chen Cheng also did not ask them to separate the corpses of the slave-hunting team members. Even though these slave-hunting team members bullied and trampled on these savages during their lifetime, after their death they were no different from the savages he trampled on at will.

Moreover, Chen Cheng really hoped that there were ghosts and gods in this world so that he could bury them together and let the souls of these scum be punished and repent in front of them.

After burying the corpses, Huidun did not let them enter the village, but instead set up camp outside the village.

He wanted to keep the site.

The sun quickly set behind the mountain, and the sound of armor clattering as the knights patrolled in the night echoed throughout the forest.

And in this dark night, the forest in the distance was already full of danger.

At this time, the Wind Wolves, who had been traveling for a whole day and were falling asleep, were awakened by the murderous intent.

Then, loud wolf howls echoed throughout the forest.

The people hiding in the dark knew that something was wrong after hearing the wolf howls, and the leader immediately drew his sword and led his men to charge out.

Although they were caught off guard by the wolf howling at the last moment, it was already late at night and Huidun and the others had already gone to bed, so they would never react so quickly.

Just when the leader thought that great things could be accomplished, the patrolling knights did not show any panic. They began to form teams in an orderly manner to meet the enemy, as if they had known that the enemy would come.

The leader was just slightly stunned, and then secretly sighed in his heart that these elite knight guards would all be buried here with Huidun today.

But not long after they rushed out, teams of neatly armored knights walked out of the tent, and they were not holding swords, shields and other weapons in their hands.

Instead, each of them was holding a long cylindrical object.

At this moment, the leader saw that these knights were wearing armor properly and did not look panicked at all. He felt something was wrong in his heart.

And when those dozens of mortars fired shells one after another onto their heads, he truly witnessed the power of these cylinders.

Rumble, mortar shells fell like raindrops, and the area of hundreds of meters in front was bombarded by rounds of shells. The leader, who had the strength of the peak gold level, had no time to escape under the baptism of these rounds of artillery fire.

He and the dozens of masters he brought with him, whose strength was at least at the peak of the silver level, were all blown to pieces.