I became a witch, but I started the industrial revolution

In order to show the absolute obedience of the royal families of various countries to the Queen, the successor to the throne of each country must be personally crowned by the Queen, the armies of each country must nominally accept the unified conscription of the Queen, and the churches of each country must also accept reforms and give up the main seats of church statues.

The country was supervised by the joint representatives of the League of Nations, the monarch was controlled by the queen, and theocracy became a vassal.

Under the triple supervision, it can be said that Medea has reached the pinnacle of the world in terms of power and fame.

For Veronica, even though Medea was her teacher and the closest direct descendant after her relatives, she still felt genuine pressure when she knew she was going to meet this woman.

This is the result of the combined effect of multiple dimensions. Although she is a teacher, they haven't seen each other for many years.

Come to think of it, it's normal. The alliance was established even before she lived longer than she did... It's a bit too much for the citizens of the alliance to call her grandma~

You know what, Medea really treated Veronica like her granddaughter, without any airs or rules to restrain her. Medea was waiting for her at the door, and when she saw her, she took her little hand and walked into the house in the face of her flattered gaze.

There was actually nothing big about asking Veronica to come to her place. It was just to send a signal to the outside world so that Veronica would have an extra layer of protection. She believed that no one would have the courage to threaten her personally.

Of course, we are talking about our own people here.

Veronica also relaxed her tense heart under Medea's gentle comfort.

In fact, she also had many questions that she wanted Medea to answer. There were some things that she really didn't believe that Medea didn't know. In fact, many questions were not problems at all for her.

The Queen is the spiritual totem of the alliance. With just a word, she can drive any powerful official in the alliance out of office, and can also cause any faction to fall apart in an instant, directly depriving the opponent of their alliance attributes at the physical, spiritual and soul levels.

But she didn't do that, or she was very restrained, but then pushed her up...it was very contradictory.

Mitia was not surprised by the other party's idea. She asked back: "What is aristocracy? What is the difference between the nobles of the past and the administrative officials of today?"

Veronica hesitated and said, "The officials eat the imperial rations, but the nobles don't. Or rather, the nobles themselves are actually the ones who distribute the imperial rations, and they have their own officials."

Medea curled her hair and said, "I used to be a noble. Does a noble necessarily possess good means of production to serve her personally? I think I can answer this question. It is true."

"In fact, it was okay for me to raise an army to resist the kingdom's regime before, because the nobles and the kingdom were two separate organizational structures. In the local area, the great nobles were a smaller version of the kingdom. My development direction did not conflict with the kingdom."

"Because I want to expand my sphere of influence, it is irrational to confront the old forces of the kingdom. I should be a pioneer of new means of production and occupy absolute dominance in the field of new means of production."

"If you want to gain something, you must lose something. If you want to obtain the old means of production, you must fight against the old nobles. Usually, this is impossible to fight, so my goal should be to build new means of production. But I chose the most difficult path, which is to take both routes."

“While frantically absorbing brand-new technological industries, brand-new governing theories and ideological programs, the old means of production are being liquidated.”

Seeing the other party's confused look, Mitia smiled and said, "In fact, the principle is universal. Think about it, what do those deposed members of the alliance want to do? What made them come up with such an idea?"

"Of course, to be a noble, like the noble I once was."

"The leap forward in the alliance's productivity, the crazy expansion of infrastructure, and the rapid iteration of computer technology, when all these are brought together, new means of production are waiting to be discovered."

"Every time a new industry or new means of production is born, a new group of nobles will inevitably emerge. These nobles can be officials or businessmen. Their essential purpose is the same, which is to build their own kingdom in this field of means of production."

Veronica's eyes gradually became clearer, and she began to understand Medea's thinking: "You mean that we are the holders of the old means of production now, and those people will continue to emerge due to the continuous discovery of new means of production."

'Because the new industry is a brand new cake, whoever eats the cake first will naturally become bigger, and eventually become a virtual but real vassal state in the field.'

After these people have occupied a certain piece of the pie, they will frantically promote their own confidants or wantonly expand their share of interests. Isn't this what typical border nobles do?

Mitia nodded approvingly: "So our problem has never been how many people we kill, but how to maintain the alliance's spirit of exploration and progress. Killing can temporarily solve the problem, but if the wound is still there, then it will be meaningless even if the knife is blunt, because the temptation is too great."

"If the people who deserve the most when new means of production are created get the lion's share, those who have other intentions will naturally give up that idea. Ambition is usually nurtured step by step.

"Given ambition and enough power, it's only a matter of time before you lose yourself."

"Unfortunately, this is very difficult to achieve for a stable political system. You should have also discovered that the closer the area is to the capital, the better the living conditions are, because materials from all over the world are converging into the capital, and our supply is in excess."

“A life of abundance will allow the core area to form an absolutely stable state, because not breaking the balance is beneficial to everyone, and exploration is an adventure with both wins and losses.”

"This great abundance of materials has nothing to do with our system. As long as a country's core ruling area can reach this level, this problem is something that all political systems must face."

Veronica whispered after hearing this: "My mission is to make this calm lake splash, break this stable and silent atmosphere, and make it come alive..."

Chapter 403: Kill if you want, no worries

"After spending so much time on this, which sentence do you think sounds the most familiar? What backgrounds do most of them come from?"

Veronica recalled the words that the people she had interrogated had repeated the most during this period. She closed her eyes and felt a dull pain in her heart: "I... I am a farmer's child... I am a worker's son."

"I really can't accept what they did. It's the country that gave them so many opportunities, but this is how they give back? I will never put down the knife I raised. Even a dull knife can cut bones."

In Veronica's worldview, without the existence of the alliance, these people are nothing. Where would you get the environment, resources, stable supply of talents, and market to absorb your products?

And those in the administrative system are even more like beasts. A hundred years ago, these people were only fit to be worked like cattle and horses. Even a pair of pants had to be shared by several members of the family. Without the alliance, they would not have been able to reach that position.

They should be most grateful.

Nowadays, people who are greedy for money will spend a huge sum of money, and some even build a wall of money at home.

Sometimes, after a busy day, she would lie in bed and in the dead of night, she would even wonder if they were hopeless and it would be more reasonable for the elites to rule the country.

In her impression, administrative officials whose ancestors came from aristocratic families had hardly made any mistakes in this regard. Some were only brought down by political opponents, but none of them fell for the so-called greed.

"In fact, greed is very normal, even necessary and natural."

Veronica showed disapproval in her eyes and hesitated several times to speak.

The two were walking on the garden path, and a group of playful puppies came out from the flowers and surrounded Medea's calves, and the petal fragments and dirt on their shiny fur all rubbed onto Medea's skirt.

The water-stained debris mixed with the dirt naturally created a stain on the hem of the skirt.

Medea didn't care about this and bent down to pick up the smallest one. The little puppy whined and spun its short tail like a wind wheel. It rubbed its little head against Medea's hand and opened its mouth to take a light bite. Medea patted its head and the dog shrank back aggrievedly.

"What you hear most is 'I'm afraid of being poor'"

Medea teased the puppy: "Our people have not yet completely escaped from the extreme poverty, despair and despair in the past. They are still frightened by it."

“This is not something that can be gotten rid of in one or two generations when life gets better.”

"Their elders, their parents will tell them how difficult life is now and they should be content. This seems to be a good thing, but you and I have to admit that we haven't developed long enough, and haven't developed well enough, so that their parents are still in the shadow of fear."

"The fear will continue, and the children raised in such an environment will be taught by example, some will become stronger but some will become more confused."

"The rich want to be richer because they are afraid of being poor and returning to the kind of life their parents talked about, where the family worked all year round without having a full meal."

"My brothers and sisters are like cicadas on a tree, born in spring and dying in winter. They can't even be given proper names, because they know very few words with their limited knowledge. Only children who survive to adulthood can use this limited resource."

"Power and money can alleviate the deep fear in their cognition that their bloodline will continue to be passed down from generation to generation."

"When a person's heart is empty and lacking, he will always use material things to fill it."

"He would feel insecure without money and power, but these things can't really fill their emptiness. They would consume him desperately to satisfy this black hole that can never be satisfied. It's almost impossible for him to spend a wall of money, but he just wants to take it, even if he can't spend a penny."

“Greed and loss are superficial phenomena. Poverty of soul is the deep-seated factor that causes the iceberg to accumulate. What you can cut off is only the most extreme tip that is exposed above the water.”

Suddenly, Veronica seemed to hear again the words those people were mumbling before they died:

[I feel ashamed of the country’s cultivation, my fellow countrymen, my wife and children.]

When a person is about to die, his words are good. At the last moment, almost no one speaks nonsense when leaving the last words to the world they are about to leave. Most likely, they are the true feelings deep in their hearts.

Whenever we hear this, most people think that if we had known this would happen, we would not have done it in the first place.

But few people are unaffected by their family and social environments. The scenes seen in childhood and the unintentional words and feelings of parents and elders can accompany a person throughout his or her life. This is a subtle cognitive bias.

A happy life is not easy to come by, so we should cherish the good life we ​​have now.

Perhaps everyone in the alliance agrees with this statement, but different people have different understandings of it. Some people are willing to sacrifice their lives to protect this beautiful fruit.

Isn’t the crazy accumulation of wealth and struggle for power also a way of striving?

This is why no matter how hard the blows are, the attacks still come in an endless stream, because there will always be people who will think that the bear in her previous life rotted away bit by bit in this way.

It is actually easy to understand what Medea did. She doesn't care much about internal purges and is rather gentle. The main reason is that these are just superficial appearances.

Just as she said, the iceberg that emerges from the sea is the product of extremes. Once it emerges, it will inevitably be destroyed. Someone else, such as Veronica or someone else, will come to eliminate this sharp edge.

No matter what everyone thinks or argues about, they will all work together to maintain the smooth sailing of the big ship of the alliance. So greed or not is really not important in the overall situation. What we should fear is mediocrity instead.

The biggest advantage of the nobility is that they are rich in heart. They have passed the stage of satisfying their addictions through material things. They can assess the situation more calmly and know what they can touch and what they cannot touch. They can afford failure and have the confidence to bear failure and the courage to face it.

However, deep down in their hearts, most ordinary people cannot accept failure, because in their subconscious mind, the outcome of failure is to return to the difficult days they had before.

There are shadows under the tall buildings and blood and tears in the neon lights. They have no confidence in whether they can get good social security, and they have never seen such a scene.

What Medea did was the best solution.

Allow excess subsidies to be delegated normally, allow poverty alleviation work in each state to be maintained smoothly, and create a favorable environment for people who have escaped poverty to become rich.

Poverty alleviation is not about giving money or materials, or giving a bowl of rice like giving alms to stray cats and dogs, but about providing them with jobs, respect, and social security so that they have a social safety net and do not become helpless in old age.

Let them see that this country accepts and tolerates losers. As long as the prosperity continues from generation to generation, the poverty of the heart can be washed away in the cleansing of time.

This requires the allocation of a huge amount of social resources, as well as an extremely long period of time and the maintenance of confidence by not completely blocking the upward path.

What Veronica and her colleagues have to do is to pick out the termites in this large system that Media has stabilized to keep the channels active, as well as to occupy new means of production and expand more social resources so that society can benefit.

Medea reached out and touched her head. "I want to let you know just to tell you that you don't have to worry about anything else. If you want to kill someone, just kill them. Don't worry about causing any damage."

Chapter 404 God is blind

After sending his family back to his hometown, Lister spent every day in the inspection team and cut off contact with the outside world.

No matter how good the cover-up is, it cannot withstand repeated verification and screening under a magnifying glass. With the cooperation of the armed police force, the files traced back even to 20 years ago.

The inspection team's investigation soon made a breakthrough. The conclusion of a manslaughter case file from 15 years ago was completely unrelated to the case and was full of a lot of technical nonsense. The case was closed very hastily, and the main criminal McGuire was sentenced to 15 years in prison.

The irrelevant point is that this is a file of manslaughter, but a missing person case was merged into it because the deceased and the missing person left the house together.

The main culprit, McGuire, was an engineering blaster who accidentally blew up the deceased Daniel and killed him. However, he could not tell where his companion Alvin was, and there was no evidence to show that he was related to Alvin's disappearance.

The deceased, Daniel, was a quality inspector for construction projects. The other, Alvin, is still missing and his whereabouts are unknown. They had the same occupation.

A common name in the testimonies provided by the families of Daniel and Alvin caught the attention of the inspection team. Both parties repeatedly mentioned the name "Marcos Sharaf".

The other party is Daniel's immediate superior. Together with McGuire and Alvin, the four have a very close relationship and are classmates from the same school.

The files show that the family members said that the missing person Alvin had contact with Marcos before he disappeared, and then he went out and never came back. The next day, the incident of Daniel's death broke out, causing quite a stir in the local area.

However, because the criminals were arrested so quickly, the discussion didn't last long.

Marcos is now the director of the city's key economic development zone, and happens to be one of their targets.

Following this clue, they continued to dig deeper and found that Alvin and Daniel's families had long moved out of the city and their whereabouts were unknown, but this did not pose a problem for them.

While mobilizing interstate identity checks to find the families of the two people, more information was searched for by visiting the elderly neighbors at their original address.

It was from here on that the patrol team leader's phone would ring from time to time. Every time he picked up the phone, one could tell from his tone who it was that this was another local official.

After hanging up the phone, he had a faint smile on his face: "They are anxious, which proves that the direction of our investigation is correct. This District Mayor Marcos must have a big problem."