League of Legends: Chasing Beauty Song

Many buildings in Piltover were equipped with alchemical door lights, and the dancing flames gave the morning air a dry, cold chemical smell. It seemed a waste to turn on the lights so early in the morning. Social status in Piltover was largely determined by the wealth and power a person displayed - the two were mutually reinforcing. Similar practices were everywhere: the cut of fabrics for daily wear, the strong and bright colors of paint, and the various and widely publicized philanthropies.

He saw many couples walking on the street, both husbands and wives fully equipped and decorated with various small and exquisite mechanical prostheses. One woman had an implanted jaw plate on her face and wore a gem-shaped monocle. Her arm was linked with a man wearing a metal glove, and the grid plane reflected a glittering light.

Some hunched men in overalls had a respirator on their backs, and the liquid pools were filled with bubbling green liquid, and atomized steam rose.

This is a daily experience that Matt described to Rorschach. After he finished speaking, he saw Rorschach was in deep thought and added: "You can go and see, there are such scenes everywhere."

Rorschach did not speak, but from Matt's description, Rorschach was able to get a glimpse of the daily life and style of the residents of Piltover - they are keen on wearing all kinds of technological products, and even body modification. This cultural style is actually extremely advanced,

But Rorschach, who has a complete grasp of the history of Blue Star, can see something different from it, that is, this idea is not advanced, but just fits the technological level and other factors of Piltover.

In the steampunk era of Blue Star, people's confidence in emerging technologies is unparalleled. In the 18th and 19th centuries, people were obsessed with exploring and opening up the world. No one would question the negative effects of technology, and no one would worry about the threat of environmental protection and excessive technological development to the survival of mankind itself. Therefore, this style of self-transformation comes from the supreme confidence of mankind in technology: it will change the world, not destroy it. This is one of the reasons for the cultural fashion of Piltover. The second reason is that people's consumption psychology is different, because another major feature of Hextech products is uniqueness.

As for this point, its fundamental source is not just a simple analysis of Piltover's technological level.

"Teacher, you said that the root of all social problems is mostly the problem of productivity and production relations, that is, economic problems. And politics is the concentrated expression of the economy. I don't understand Piltover's political system at all," Matt saw Rorschach pondering for a long time and looking up at him, and immediately added.

"I remember the content about political economy well," Rorschach nodded, and was still a little happy that the student had not forgotten his teachings. He stood up and paced back and forth, and said after a while: "The political structure of Piltover is actually controlled by the powerful oligarchs."

"Powerful oligarchs?" Matt smacked the word, nodded, and said: "Indeed, the real power is those families."

"Piltover is not like a country, but more like a city-state. One city is a country!" Matt then told Rorschach about the operation of the entire government.

Combining the facts Rorschach saw with the intelligence recorded by Matt and the content he expressed, Rorschach found that in theory, Piltover has a "government", an institution similar to a "city hall". The official name of this "city hall" should be: Piltover Police.

However, the reason why it is "theoretically" is that the work of this institution is to maintain public security and carry out public infrastructure construction, but it has no scientific research power, no power to issue decrees, and no power to levy taxes.

Doing the work of the government, but without the sweetness of the government. The real voice of Piltover does not lie in this institution, but in the heads of each family. Indeed, since Piltover still has money to repair street lights, and guards like Catherine do not go out to beg on the streets, it means that the city government has income, but it is obviously not capable of compulsory collection. It is better to call these incomes political donations and donations. After all, if a family is not willing to pay a little money to maintain the infrastructure and public security in the city, it is not only unreasonable, but also targeted by other families.

Its tax revenue can only be reflected in tariffs, and it lacks the right to levy taxes internally, because it is essentially just the external spokesperson of the Piltover dignitaries.

Therefore, the city hall can only be barely regarded as an administrative agency, lacking the ability to govern. For Piltover, the stronger the scientific and technological research and development power of a family and the more trade wealth it has, it means a direct improvement in political discourse power. The political elders of Piltover are the business elders.

And the history of the rise of these business elders all comes from the monopoly of technology, such as the piston of the Midalda family and Camille of the Philos family.

Therefore, the developed technological power of Piltover does not come from a centralized system, but from the hands of different craftsmen, who serve different families and are quite closed to each other. This is reflected in another point of Hextech: the uniqueness of Hextech creations. Most of their components are indeed customized and unique, and the political reasons are here.

For the Piltover family, technological research and development is directly related to their political influence, and technology depends on excellent craftsmen. Therefore, once a craftsman is hired, it is almost lifelong. As a strategic resource of a family, it is strictly protected and the family bears its salary. The emergence of this employment relationship means that a new production relationship has begun to appear on the historical stage, that is, capitalism.

The development of all science and technology is essentially a manifestation of the development of social productivity. And the development of social productivity must be accompanied by the development and change of social system. For Piltover, a place where the main source of economy, or even the entire source of economy, is foreign trade, the analysis of economic system is obviously extremely necessary.

The craftsmen and sailors of the major families in Piltover are all employed by the employers, which is a capitalist personal dependency relationship. Although compared to the FreljordThe relationship between the two countries is more worthy of pride than that between the two countries, such as the Fallen Kingdom, or the military empire of Noxus. However, the hidden dangers behind the pride should not be underestimated.

Rorschach, who has systematically studied capitalism, naturally knows that the development of capitalism on Blue Star is mainly the industrial revolution, and Rorschach also implemented this revolution in Ionia.

The essence of this industrial revolution is actually factory production, which breaks the situation of small peasant economy fighting each other and being self-sufficient, strengthens professional division of labor, and conducts unified production. The essence of industry is two words-mass production.

However, the current situation of Piltover is worrying. Piltover's Hextech technology is more like a work of art than an industry: it is completed by a few craftsmen, unique, and commissioned by different families, resulting in a lack of technical exchanges between each other. Although it is exquisite, it runs counter to standardization and mass production. The people of Piltover drove their carriages and galloped in the opposite direction of industrialization, trying to prove that Valoran is round. (To read the most exciting novels, go to Faloo Novel Network!)

This is a very ridiculous thing, because in essence, Piltover has no industry, only "handicrafts", and Hextech is just a "powerful handicraft product".

For Piltover itself, which has a small population and a small land area, this kind of handicraft technology is indeed enough, but from the perspective of long-term development, it is obviously not a good thing. If Piltover cannot ensure its technological leadership, once it is surpassed by other countries, Piltover's military level will not be able to defend its hometown under the condition of equal technological strength. In fact, Piltover has no military force, only some security forces.

It is difficult to say how strong the Piltover security is. The purpose of the police force is to maintain public order, while the military force is a killing machine. From the positive point of view, this police force has the famous policewoman Catherine and the former Zuan gangster Wei, and even has offshore warships; but from the negative point of view, the police officers are dressed in exaggerated clothes, the training level is unknown, and although the equipment is good, they can still deal with a few thieves, but it is very difficult to say whether their fighting will can withstand the test of war. So from this point of view, Piltover's war strength is basically close to zero.

In fact, there is only one person in Piltover's army, that is Camille Fellowes. However, politics is not a one-man show of heroes, and one person cannot accomplish everything. On the other hand, everyone has class attributes. Camille's class attributes mean that she will only be the defender of the current political ecology of Piltover rather than the reformer. The future of Piltover is still confusing. []

"This is where we should start," Rorschach said to Matt after the analysis: "The situation in each place is different, and the method we choose should also change in time."

"So what do you mean?" Matt asked with a hot light in his eyes.

"Provoke Noxus's threat of war against Piltover, and we will have the opportunity to control the corpses here!".