Chapter 303: Zaun’s “Business Miracle”

These words made Prince Jarvan's blood boil.

He also instinctively yearned for a beautiful world where there was pure friendship between countries and where people could provide selfless assistance to each other just because they were comrades.

"Shared beliefs, pure friendship... this is just like a fairy tale." Prince Jarvan exclaimed: "No wonder Lux admires the Leader so much."

"Cough cough." Garen coughed awkwardly with a big face beside him.

Brother, wake up! If the boundaries between countries gradually disappear, how can your Demacia royal family continue to exist?

He really wanted to remind Jarvan of this.

But Prince Jarvan never thought of this, or rather, he didn't care about his own and his family's interests at all, and was completely immersed in his yearning for the beautiful ideal of being a leader.

So he continued to ask the snack bar owner: "I know how to ease the pain of growth."

"Then how will the leaders solve the problem of how to divide the pie after development?"

"Well..." The snack bar owner thought for a while.

To answer this question, the first thing to introduce is of course the sage politics unique to the leader, which has been mentioned many times before.

"I know this." Prince Jarvan said impatiently.

The God-chosen system of the Wind Leader is the most superior and the most desirable. So long before coming to Zaun, he had already learned about the special features of the Wind Leader's system from Lux's introduction.

What he wanted to know more was the leader's specific governing strategy.

"Haha, don't worry." The snack bar owner introduced: "The system is the foundation of everything."

"It is precisely because the leader's saintly politics ensures the purity of the team that the following things can be realized."

The leader carried out a large-scale public ownership reform in Zuan, and concentrated as much of the means of production that had previously belonged to the Ziben family in the hands of the organization as possible.

And if we regard the organization as a "company", then the saintly politics of the leader ensures that the shareholders of this company will always be all the people of Zaun.

Because of this, the public ownership reform carried out by the leader in Zaun has concentrated the means of production in the hands of all the people in Zuan.

To put it simply, the leader represented the public and snatched the cake from Ziben's family.

This is the first step. Only after we have the cake can we talk about how to divide it.

"There is direct distribution." For example, wages, allowances, social security, and various welfare benefits.

"It is more of an indirect distribution." For example, infrastructure, scientific research investment, industrial investment, improvements in education and medical care, and so on.

The money distributed indirectly will not be directly distributed to everyone, but the benefits it ultimately generates will also benefit all people.

The sage politics of the leader at this time ensures that in the process of indirect distribution, no wealth belonging to the public will be damaged by internal friction due to personal selfishness.

"So that's how it is..." Prince Jarvan became more fascinated as he listened.

He felt that the leader's approach was correct.

But after thinking about it, he realized a problem:

The first step for the leader to divide the cake is to snatch the cake from Ziben’s family.

"Then will the Ziben family be happy?" Prince Jarvan asked with a frown.

This question is naive, but it is exactly what he cares about most.

Because his headache was the nobles in the country - if he wanted to change, he would have to touch their cake and eat it. And Prince Jarvan was unwilling to take an overly radical approach to deal with them.

That's why he asked this seemingly naive question in hesitation.

"Hahaha." The snack bar owner couldn't help but laugh, "Customer, what are you thinking about?"

"Do you think the Ziben family is all about charity, and that they were willing to give up their property when the Leader arrived? Don't be ridiculous... The Leader hurt them and scared them, so they followed and cooperated obediently."

“……”Prince Jarvan fell silent.

Alas... Is it true that Demacia cannot avoid rivers of blood and a brutal civil war?

Is there any way to alleviate this contradiction as much as possible?

He was very conflicted.

At this time, the snack bar owner told him with a smile: "But, speaking of which..."

"After experiencing that 'little unpleasantness' before, those Ziben families are now quite happy to be friends with the Leader."

It sounds counterintuitive that the Ziben family is happy to be friends with leaders.

But this is no joke.

Because Levi believes that the leaders are still far from being able to realize an absolute planned economy. The role of the numerous small production units in society, as the capillaries of the economy, is still irreplaceable.

Therefore, the policy currently adopted by the leaders is still to protect the small property owners.

But if we allow the existence of markets and small property owners, there will always be people who will expand and strengthen their businesses through competition, and small property owners will continue to produce big seed companies.

"Before, an old Noxian man with a pet crow on his shoulder also questioned me about this issue." The snack bar owner recalled: "I told him that the way the leader solves this problem is to adopt transformation and joint venture for large enterprises."

After the joint venture, more than 70% of the enterprise's profits will be used for employee welfare, payment to the national treasury and expansion of reproduction.

Zi Benjia's personal shareholding is reduced to 25%.

If this condition had been put forward in the past, and the wealthy businessmen of Piltover and the alchemist barons of Zaun had heard it, they would have been furious and sent out family spies and gang thugs to fight the Leader to the death.

70%, 70% is still someone else's! All the money was distributed to the workers, and I worked so hard to be a boss, but I only have less than 30% left!

How can this be tolerated?

The Ziben family couldn't tolerate it before.

However, after meeting Goddess Gana... those members of the Ziben family who stood on the side and were not liquidated in time, they could all tolerate it.

"Not only can they tolerate it, they are even happy to do it."

This is where it gets weird.

The conditions for cooperation that Leader gave to the Ziben family were very harsh, and some of the Ziben family even privately called it robbery.

Therefore, these Ziben families tried their best to escape from Shuangcheng at the beginning, thinking of transferring their assets outside Shuangcheng and to the next place where Ziben could parasitize.

But here comes the problem:

In addition to the Twin Cities, how many other places in Runeterra are suitable for these industrial seed benzenes to transfer and parasitize?

Noxus, and...

That's all.

Apart from the Twin Cities, only Noxus in the entire Runeterra has a certain industrial base that can absorb the safe-haven funds fleeing from the Twin Cities.

"But can these Ziben families really move freely to Noxus and continue their good life in Noxus?"

Ziben is borderless, so theoretically, Ziben family is also borderless.

But sometimes, the seed ben family actually has national boundaries.

The most direct question:

If a Piltover citizen wants to invest and build a factory in Noxus, does he have to first establish good relations with the local ruler of Noxus?

Land acquisition, recruitment, factory construction, product production and sales, which one can bypass the help and permission of the local nobles of Noxus?

So, how do you build good relationships and gain their help and permission?

Of course it costs money.

Spend a lot of money.

As for Noxus, they don't have any rules for attracting investment or giving preferential treatment to foreign businessmen.

When foreign businessmen go to Noxus to invest, it's just like multinational corporations going to India - in their eyes, it's a fat sheep delivered to their doorstep.

“Those Piltover merchants who have connections with the Noxian nobles can still barely gain a foothold in Noxus.”

"Those who can't even find connections will be eaten up by the greedy Noxians."

"So the Piltover seed ben family soon realized a problem-"

The reform joint venture organized by Zaun at least left them with 25% of the profits.

And Noxus...they are a bunch of real robbers.

Even if they could barely gain a foothold in Noxus, the tribute they paid to the Noxian nobles would basically be higher than the 75% taken by the Leader.

Then, a scene of black humor appeared:

"Not long after these Zibens fled Shuangcheng, except for some extremely evil villains who were afraid of being held accountable, the rest of the Zibens fled back one after another."

"They took the initiative to hand over their property to the Leader and accepted the transformation and cooperation, hoping to continue their business in Zaun."

"And when these Ziben family members escaped back, they discovered..."

They found that using profits to provide salaries and benefits to employees was not such a difficult thing to accept.

Although this will significantly increase labor costs and reduce product competitiveness.

But now all the companies in Shuangcheng are abiding by the leader’s rules. Everyone’s employment costs have increased, so there is no need to worry about the decline in product competitiveness.

If no one increases labor costs, then there is no need to increase labor costs.

And because of the Twin Cities' absolute technological advantage over the rest of Runeterra, the only ones who can be drawn into the Twin Cities Enterprises are the Twin Cities Enterprises themselves.

Therefore, the Ziben family does not need to worry about facing competitive pressure from outside the two cities for the time being when setting up a joint venture in Zuan.

Then, an even weirder scene appeared:

"Zuan, under the rule of the Wind Leader, has become the region with the best business environment in the entire Runeterra."

"Ziben and Ziben's family are rushing to gather here, even if they need to hand over the control of the enterprise and accept joint ventures after they come."

The snack bar owner said this in a tone that he couldn't help laughing.

"This..." Prince Jarvan's eyes lit up when he heard this.

I see!

It turned out that the policies of the leaders were not as radical and ruthless as he had imagined. They also left some room for moderation towards class enemies like the Ziben family.

Since the Ziben family in the Twin Cities can accept transformation, then the nobles in Demacia may not be unable to do so either.

"We can use the success story of the Twin Cities to convince the nobles of Demacia to give up their territories and privileges and transform into private entrepreneurs."

"Then let them accept the joint transformation of the leader and retain their family business to a certain extent."

"This way, we should be able to avoid bleeding as much as possible, right?"

Prince Jarvan murmured.

"Uh..." A drop of cold sweat the size of a bean seeped out from between Garen's thick eyebrows and big eyes.

Wake up, brother! Listen to what you're talking about?

Just the first step of confiscating the territory will make the nobles fight you to death, right? !

"Um, Jarvan..." Garen couldn't help but remind him.

But the always naive Prince Jarvan's eyes were unusually clear at this moment: "Garen, I know what you are going to say."

"Change has to come at a cost. And I'm working hard to find ways to reduce that cost."

"If this still cannot prevent bloodshed, then..."

Prince Jarvan clenched his fists, as if he was making a difficult decision in his mind.

After a long time, he finally sighed deeply: