Chapter 2062: Take from the People, Use for the People

Floating City, Planting Area.

In reality, the initial surface area here is far from reaching the surface area of the Floating City, because there is an Outer Protective Layer further outside the Planting Area, and the material carriers for War Spells are located in that region.

Additionally, in Xia Duo's planning, that place will also exist as something akin to a "carrier-based aircraft hangar" and an "ammunition depot."

As for the Planting Area, besides bearing agricultural responsibilities, it can actually also be used as a buffer zone. The further one goes into the interior of the Floating City, the more obvious the importance becomes: they are the Residential Area, Public Zone, Education Zone, Research Zone, and the Central Control Zone at the very center.

The Main Energy Center of the Floating City is the absolute center of the Floating City, but there are four relatively independent Auxiliary Energy Centers in the Education Zone.

Among them, the former mainly supplies the various basic infrastructure of the Floating City, such as the Flight Control System, Repair and Maintenance System, Protection System, and so on.

And those four Auxiliary Energy Centers supply the other consumption of the Floating City's various functional zones, such as the Research Lab, School, Residential Area, Commercial Area, and so on.

It is similar to the distinction between industrial electricity, residential electricity, and commercial electricity in Xia Duo's hometown.

Although in the foreseeable future, Arcane Energy will be very cheap, the process of delivering Arcane Energy into the hands of every user is not necessarily cheap, and charging fees at that time will be a matter of course.

After all, if one wants to maintain the healthy and continuous operation of a system, money is a relatively ideal lubricant; the flow of money signifies the operation of the system.

The more money flow lines there are, in a sense, it also indicates the prosperity of the system.

If there is no charge, then this system lacks a channel for money to gather upward; at least one is insignificant, but this concerns the philosophy of governance. If there is too much of this "free" aspect, then the operation of the system, or rather the civilization, is unhealthy.

By the same token, money gathered at the upper level cannot be left unused forever, otherwise it is a pool of stagnant water; it needs to be transferred to the lower levels in various forms, such as investing in infrastructure construction, lowering loan interest rates, or even direct subsidies, and so on.

A major branch of ancient philosophy from Xia Duo's hometown is related to movement and places more value on harmony. In a sense, this simple philosophy can sometimes better allow people living in the modern era to pierce through the complex Mist and reach the essence of things.

The sages once said, "Governing a large state is like cooking a small fish." In Xia Duo's view, its original intention is not "non-action," but rather advocating for Nature. The so-called "take from the people," naturally requires "use for the people"—what a simple viewpoint.

Applied to the complex modern society, it is still applicable; it is nothing more than the forms of "taking" and "using" having changed and increased compared to ancient times, but the principle remains the same.

In fact, the phrase "take from the people, use for the people" has already exhausted the core philosophy of the kingly way of governing the world.

Politically, power comes from the people, so it needs to represent the interests of the people; militarily, the people's Army naturally fights for the people; and culturally, there is also the saying of people's literature and art.

Xia Duo believes in the power of the people. Although the unawakened masses may not be able to form any power right now, as long as he is given time, he will unearth this incomparable power and use it to transform the world.

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Inside the Planting Area, while Xia Duo was performing the Semi-plane synchronization, he was also chatting with Saville, on and off, about the upcoming development.

Of course, it was impossible for him to talk to Saville about "the vast ocean of people's war" at the current stage; what could be said were basically some concrete medium-to-long-term plans.

For example, popularizing Magic Education within the Daxia Territory and Savile Territory. Xia Duo originally thought that even if Saville did not oppose it, he would not be very willing, but who knew the other party was more open-minded, and even radical, than he had imagined.

"The teacher wanted to do this a long time ago, but now—no, I mean the Seven Towers of that time were no longer the original Seven Towers, and now it's even worse!"

Saville expressed his dissatisfaction with the Seven Towers almost without concealment. Only then did Xia Duo remember that the person before him was actually an "old man" of nearly a hundred years.

According to Xia Duo's understanding, the Netheril of a hundred years ago was still relatively open-minded on issues such as Magic; at least the Nether Scroll was placed in the Arcane Union, and even Commoners had the opportunity to go in and take a look—though whether they could understand it was another matter.

As for the original Seven Towers, Xia Duo did not know much, but he could imagine that what Saville was talking about should be the situation when the Netherese had just abandoned Elven Magic. In order to gain the ability to resist the Elves at the fastest speed, the relevant Knowledge naturally could not be locked in a secret room forever.

At least some of it had to be released to select talented people; otherwise, relying solely on the human Mages of the initial Elven Magic System, how high could the efficiency be!

However, when the Netheril Magic System gradually improved, the pioneers gradually closed the door to the latecomers. Even if it was not completely closed, compared to the beginning, the gap was very obvious.

"By the way, when you passed through that Holy Golden Dragon Empire before, did you notice if there was Magic Education there?"

"Of course I noticed, or rather, it's hard not to notice!"

Speaking of this topic, a reminiscent and complex expression could not help but appear on Saville's face, and then he said in a heavy tone: "In the Holy Golden Dragon Empire, the center of every city is a Magic Academy! Even the vassal races can enter and study there. If it weren't for the fear of being tracked to the Main Plane, I would have wanted to go in and pursue advanced studies at that time!"

"Didn't you say before that the vassal races would be transformed into the Dragon race?" Xia Duo asked again.

"Yes! In our view, this might be an insult, but in the Holy Golden Dragon Empire, this is the supreme glory. Whether it is Elves, humans, or Gnomes and Goblins, all take this as the ultimate goal of their struggle!"

"There are Goblins there too? You didn't tell me that before!"

"Of course there are, but the Goblins there are taller and more burly than the Goblins of the Main Plane, about the same height as humans! And they are also smarter! I have even seen a Goblin Mage who obtained the Dragon Avatar!" Saville said with a sigh.

"Is the Dragon Avatar that supreme glory of transforming into the Dragon race?"

"Yes."

"Then do you think there is a possibility that the Goblins of the Main Plane became so thin and weak because of malnutrition?"

"I don't know about that! However, those Goblins of the Main Plane are indeed hard for me to associate with those great Goblins of the Holy Golden Dragon Empire."

Somehow, the topic of the two's casual chat gradually shifted from the popularization of education to the powerful Holy Golden Dragon Empire in a foreign land. Xia Duo asked Saville many questions, but his impression of the Holy Golden Dragon Empire always felt like it was separated by a thin veil, appearing and disappearing, and he could never see it clearly.

Speaking to the end, Xia Duo suddenly said, "Then Saville, are you willing to stay in the Tower of Time and help me?"

Upon hearing this, Saville was stunned for a moment, then smiled and said, "Aren't I already helping you now?"

"That's true! I was too persistent."