The principal's golden hair surrounds his bare head like a bird's nest.

The bare head was still full of highlights, and he waved his dry hands and called Doug, "Come and sit."

Doug walked over obediently and sat opposite the principal.

The principal's full name is Theodore Dwight Woolsey. Judging from his surname, he is from England. The church name "God's Gift" shows the elders' expectations for him. The middle name with the meaning of "gold and white" misses the family ancestors.

Principal Woolsey waited for Doug to sit down and took a folder from the top of his hill-like file peak.

He opened the folder, moistened his fingers with spit, crushed the paper, pushed the reading glasses and said, "I have carefully studied your Monopoly. Doug, are you curious about what my research results are?"

The principal raised his head, and his deep eyes fell on Doug's face through the clear lenses.

Doug said seriously, "Curious."

"Then guess what the result is?" the principal asked.

Doug lowered his head slightly and pondered for a moment, raised his head, and asked, "What is your result? Is it about the game itself or reality?"

"Of course it's reality. I won't waste a lot of time on a mere game." The principal replied.

"If we look at it from a realistic perspective, I think you have agreed with my point of view after investigation. Of course, the model you built may encounter a small problem. I think this small problem will be revealed in the near future." Doug said.

"Yes, I did have problems." The principal admitted frankly, "According to the current situation of each state, it is difficult to establish a monopoly company across states. Especially in the south, which is mainly plantations. Should we build a huge plantation in the south that spans several states?

And now in the public opinion circle, the debate between the south and the north is very hot. If..."

"If a war broke out in the north and the south, and the north won, there would be the soil for the birth of monopoly enterprises." Doug took over the words of Principal Theodore.

"Why do you firmly believe that the Civil War will surely fight? Do you really think that blacks are slaves are important to us? Or do you have any cultural studies?"

The principal continued to ask questions.

"Hisser Principal, whether black people are slaves or not is not important to you or me. I have no research on culture, I only have a little bit of economics.

The economic foundation determines the superstructure.

Today, industrialized cities in the United States, mainly New England, are experiencing an unprecedented depression.

I don’t know if you’ve ever seen it outside. The streets of New Haven are filled with idle people doing nothing.

Are they doing nothing because they are lazy?

No!

They are very hardworking.

But there is no place for them to work.

I read the newspapers for the past six months, and almost everywhere in the New England region, the number of idle men and wanderers is increasing.

What went wrong with this?

This is an economic problem!

What's wrong with the economy?

Is our production capacity insufficient?

We have no market.

The market outside the United States is occupied by the Commonwealth, France and Germany. The quality of our industrial products in the north is not as good as theirs and the strength of our force is not as good as theirs. Therefore, we can only focus on our country and the rich south.

Almost all the industrial products consumed in the South now come from the Commonwealth. Even for food, planters are luxuriously enjoying the best overseas products.

They have strong consumption capacity but do not consume industrial products from the north. This is their sin.

In order to get rid of the crisis, our north will inevitably attack the south and grab the market.

This has nothing to do with culture.

As for black slaves, liberating them is just a justification for our war to seize the market.

What do you think?"

"Does the economic foundation determine the superstructure?" The principal did not comment on Doug's subsequent inference, but became very interested in his opening words. He even took out his iridium pen and wrote this sentence on the paper with complex flower bodies.

He wrote and painted for a while before he raised his head and asked Doug, "Do you think the root of everything can be attributed to the economic foundation? This is too arbitrary."

"Your Excellency, this is not arbitrary." Doug said, standing up, "New England is dominated by industry, so employment is dominated by employment. Although there are also some sporadic black slaves, they only do housework and do not participate in production.

In the south, there are mainly farming for a living, and a large number of black slaves are like livestock. Even when buying and selling, they have to open their mouths and look at their teeth.

Therefore, the north gave birth to the industrial culture of the north and the south gave birth to the slave culture of the south."

"Interesting statement," said Principal Theodore with a smile, "Then why do you think the North will win?"

"Because the industrialization in the north has the ability to make blood. Although the south has money, almost all their industrial products must be imported from the Commonwealth.

As long as the war takes a long enough time, as long as the north does not die suddenly, the savings in the south will always be exhausted. When that day comes, it will be the day when the north will win."

The principal nodded, "Do you think it's monopoly that day? "

"Yes." Doug said confidently.

The principal looked at his appearance and admired him more and more. He said, "I have carefully investigated your background. You came to Yale five years ago. At that time, you were still very young and have been no different from other little vagabonds over the years. I originally thought you were just smart. I didn't expect you to have such a broad vision.

What you said is very similar to what I analyzed.

Doug Clayden!”

The principal shouted seriously.

"exist!"

"I want to accept you as my student, are you willing? You don't have to come to Yale to take classes, you can continue to do what you want. For example, push your Monopoly to the whole world. You can even say that this game is done by you under my guidance. Children, this is good for you."

The principal said earnestly.

Doug heard the principal's words and thoughts flowed through his mind.

Some people seek profit, like Doug.

Someone is looking for a name, like the principal.

For those who pay attention to reputation like Principal Theodore, after his confirmation, he discovered that the game "Monopoly" seemed to be able to "prophecy" the direction of the world, which was inexplicably tempting for him.

He wanted this reputation, but he reluctantly restrained himself.

He wanted to take Doug as his apprentice and take this reputation for himself.

Doug this time is different from last time. He has no reason to refuse, nor is he capable of refuse. He said, "Teacher, I am willing to be your student."

Principal Theodore nodded with a smile, and suddenly sighed, "The world of "Monopoly" is really terrible to think about it carefully."

Before the principal's sigh fell, Doug said, "The future world may not be a world where people cannibalize like "monopoly", there may be another possibility, which is "Prosperity".

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